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ICANN files for injunction against German domain registrar who said it will stop collecting WHOIS data because of GDPR — Domain name overseer hopes to get clarification about data collection for domain name registrations. — ICANN has filed injunction proceedings against EPAG …
| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
Behind Amazon's approach to identifying factors limiting its growth, and how Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram can benefit from adopting a similar strategy — My first job at Amazon was as the first analyst in strategic planning, the forward-looking counterpart to accounting, which records what already happened.
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| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
With the arrival of GDPR, ad platform vendors like DoubleClick warn publishers about steep EU ad volume declines, at least for the short term — The arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation's enforcement May 25 has hurled the digital media and advertising industries into a tailspin.
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Financial Times, eWeek, The Irish Times, and Digital Trends
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple to give some developers more access to iPhone NFC chip for Apple Pay-like contactless interactions such as opening doors and using transit cards — The Information reports that Apple will be taking a big leap in iOS 12, giving some third-party developers full access … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Vermont starts regulating data brokers, which now have to register in the state, notify about breaches, can be sued if data is misused for e.g. racial profiling — While Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are hogging the spotlight, data brokers that collect your information from hundreds …
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Engadget, Gizmodo, State of Vermont, and Office of the Vermont …
| Josiah Wilmoth / CCN: |
Bitcoin fork Bitcoin Gold suffers 51% attack; attacker with more than half of network's hash rate double spent BTG coins on exchanges and may have stolen $18M — Get exclusive analysis and cryptocurrency insights on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. — The development team behind Bitcoin Gold …
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| Recode: |
Survey: 19% of Amazon professional merchants, third-party sellers who sell 40+ items/month and pay a subscription fee, had $1M+ in sales, up from 10% in 2017 — Nineteen percent of these merchants grossed more than $1 million in sales, up from 10 percent last year.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
FBI and DOJ ask users to restart routers and NAS devices to disrupt VPNFilter malware and help identify infected devices, which Cisco estimates is 500K+ devices — Feds take aim at potent VPNFilter malware allegedly unleashed by Russia. — The FBI is advising users of consumer-grade routers …
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| Reuters: |
In a final ruling, Egypt's court orders regulators to block YouTube for one month over the 2012 “Innocence of Muslims” video that denigrates Prophet Mohammad — CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's top administrative court ruled on Saturday that regulators must block the video file-sharing site YouTube …
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TechSpot, Neowin, RAPPLER, Egyptian Streets, Engadget, and Associated Press
| Rita Liao / Tech in Asia: |
WeChat's 500+ “mini games” together have amassed 457M users, according to QuestMobile report, almost half of the app's 1.04B user base — I saw my mother sitting in the dark one night, her face illuminated by her smartphone's screen. She kept tapping on the device …
Tweets: @mbrennanchina and @serkantoto
| Ana Swanson / New York Times: |
Trump tweets that ZTE will have to pay $1.3B fine, give high-level security guarantees, and change its management and board to have US sanctions lifted — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration told lawmakers it had reached a deal that would keep the Chinese telecom firm ZTE alive …
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Washington Post, BetaNews, Android Authority, Politico, TechCrunch, CNET, Android Police, Neowin, Associated Press, TechnoBuffalo, Seeking Alpha, Engadget, Pocketnow, Gizmodo, Investor's Business Daily, Wall Street Journal, and CNBC
Tweets: @paulkrugman, @chrisvanhollen, @realdonaldtrump, and @damianpaletta
| Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics: |
Analysis: IBM and Oracle are tens of billions behind Amazon, Google, and Microsoft in CAPEX, and grow much slower in cloud infrastructure from a much lower base — In previous installments (2017, 2018) of Follow the CAPEX™ (merch store opening soon!), we've looked at the capital expenditures behind …
Tweets: @jonathansorum, @timsneath, @charlesfitz, @jaypipes, @timoreilly, and @marypcbuk
| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Chinese authorities have prosecuted 98 people for the alleged $2B OneCoin crypto investment scheme that involved up to 2M victims across 20+ provinces in China — Prosecutors in China have charged a final four suspects of almost 100 that were said to be involved in an alleged $2 billion cryptocurrency pyramid scheme.
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