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Apple staff memo says it caught 29 leakers, including staff, contractors, and suppliers, in 2017, 12 arrested; memo implies possible legal action for leaks — Company memo says it found 29 ‘leakers’ last year, 12 arrested — CEO Tim Cook pledged to ‘double down’ on secrecy in 2012
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Gmail redesign may include Confidential Mode letting users restrict forwarding, downloading, and printing of emails as well as set expiration date on sent items — New feature gives you control over how emails are used — Gmail on the web is getting a big update in the coming weeks …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
FCC filing from July, made public today, shows gold iPhone X that Apple likely planned to launch but abandoned due to unforeseen production issues — Apple appears to have designed a gold iPhone X, according to documents filed with the United States Federal Communications Commission.
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| Chloe Aiello / CNBC: |
After testing home flipping marketplace for a year, Zillow itself will start buying and selling homes for cash; Zillow shares down 7.3% after announcement — - Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff said the company's existing audience of sellers and buyers uniquely positions it for success as a real estate investor.| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Sources: many Facebook employees pleased with Zuckerberg's congressional testimonies, but some were mystified with his answers about its advertising business — ABOUT TWO HOURS, or 20 percent, into Mark Zuckerberg's marathon testimony before Congress this week, the Facebook CEO …
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Waymo submitted an application to test autonomous cars without safety drivers in California; source says tests will start near its Mountain View headquarters — Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet, this week applied to test cars without drivers on California roads, the Chronicle has learned.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Yahoo Japan to buy 40% stake in local cryptocurrency exchange BitARG, source says for $18.5M to $27.8M — - Yahoo Japan Corp said on Friday it would buy a minority stake in cryptocurrency exchange BitARG Exchange Tokyo. — Yahoo Japan, which is also the country's biggest online auction site … | New York Times: |
As Mark Zuckerberg takes heat for the way Facebook handles personal information of its users, the leaders of other tech companies have kept a low profile — SAN FRANCISCO — Two pages of notes sitting in a binder in front of Mark Zuckerberg during his congressional testimony this week hinted …
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| Sumeet Chatterjee / Reuters: |
Sources: Walmart likely to reach deal to buy ~51% of Flipkart by end of June; Walmart offered $10-$12B, in part for newly issued shares valuing Flipkart at $18B — HONG KONG/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Walmart Inc (WMT.N) is likely to reach a deal to buy a majority stake in Indian e-commerce player Flipkart … | Comcast: |
Comcast plans to include Netflix with its TV bundles starting this month and gives no details about pricing; it will handle Netflix billing for customers — PHILADELPHIA, PA AND LOS GATOS, CA — Comcast and Netflix today announced an expansion of their partnership that will provide Comcast … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Leaked doc describes new Facebook tool that predicts when users may leave a brand for a competitor, enabling advertisers to target and try to keep them — Since the Cambridge Analytica scandal erupted in March, Facebook has been attempting to make a moral stand for your privacy …
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| John Biggs / TechCrunch: |
Vietnamese cryptocurrency company Modern Tech disappears with $660M raised in an ICO for its Pincoin token, pulling off one of the biggest exit scams — A Vietnamese cryptocurrency company Modern Tech launched an ICO for its Pincoin token, raising $660 million from approximately 32,000 people.
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