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Sources: Amazon is working on a domestic robot codenamed Vesta that can navigate inside homes like a driverless car — Prototypes can navigate from room to room like driverless cars — Company hopes to start testing bots in homes later this year — Ten years ago, Amazon introduced …
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| Nour Al Ali / Bloomberg: |
Middle Eastern ride-hailing app Careem says 14M users' names, email addresses, phone numbers, and trip data was stolen in cyberattack; it became aware on Jan 14 — Customers' names, email, phone number and trip data stolen — The platform has over 20 million users, according to website
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In interview Kogan admits he broke Facebook's ToS but his app was within norms, says he worked on 10+ papers with Pete Fleming, now Instagram's head of research — Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic whose app has set off the firestorm about online user data, says he's considering suing Facebook.
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| Jen Wieczner / Fortune: |
Mark Karpelès, the CEO of Mt. Gox until its 2014 bankruptcy, becomes CTO of Denver-based London Trust Media, which owns the popular Private Internet Access VPN — Mark Karpel?s, the CEO who presided over Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox until it went bankrupt in 2014, has had a hard time finding work for the last four years.
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Symantec: hacker group called Orangeworm is targeting equipment in US healthcare, like X-Ray and MRI machines, as well manufacturing, agriculture, IT devices — Forbes Staff I cover crime, privacy and security in digital and physical forms. … Yet another hacker crew has been battering the healthcare industry in recent months.
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| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Apple's acquisition of Shazam faces extended EU probe as antitrust regulators worry that Apple might halt Shazam referrals and use Shazam data to hamper rivals — EU says concerned Apple could use Shazam data to hamper rivals — Probe also looking whether Apple could halt Shazam referrals
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
In pilot program debuting soon, Uber says it will start obscuring the log of rider pickup and drop-off locations given to drivers, instead showing general areas — In a pilot program launching soon, Uber will begin obscuring riders' exact pickup and drop-off locations in the trip history displayed to drivers.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Glowforge finally launches its $2,495 3D laser printer to consumers, after breaking crowdfunding records for the device in October 2015 — Glowforge has raised more investment dollars as the Seattle startup starts selling its 3D laser printer to the general public and continues to fulfill delayed orders from its crowdfunding campaign.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Razer doubles down on Southeast Asia and payments with announcement of deal to acquire MOL Global for $61M, after investing $20M in the company last year — Gaming hardware maker Razer, which went public in a big IPO in Hong Kong last year, is doubling down on payments after it announced …
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Sources: as Tencent Music prepares for a potential H2 2018 IPO, recent private deals have valued the firm at $25B+, double the $12.5B valuation of late 2017 — It would be the fourth-biggest U.S.-listed tech IPO on record — Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China's largest music-streaming company … | Washington Post: |
After Amazon clamped down on paid reviews in 2016, the community dispersed but still flourishes, with most comments on some popular categories still fake — SAN FRANCISCO — On Amazon, customer comments can help a product surge in popularity. The online retail giant says that more than 99 percent …
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| Nicholas Megaw / Financial Times: |
TransferWise becomes first non-bank firm to get direct access to Bank of England's interbank payment systems to process payments without intermediary banks — TransferWise has become the first fintech group to gain direct access to the Bank of England's interbank payment systems …
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