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Source: Twitter has been suspending 1M+ accounts per day in recent months, more than double its rate from October, in its fight against disinformation — SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter has sharply escalated its battle against fake and suspicious accounts, suspending more than one million accounts …
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| Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung forecasts ~$13.2B operating profit in Q2, up 5% YoY but breaking streak of quarterly records, amid reports of weak Galaxy S9 sales — Company expects operating profit of 14.8 trillion South Korean won; end of record-earnings streak — SEOUL—Samsung Electronics estimates …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Sonos files for an IPO; filing reports 19M+ products sold globally and a net loss of $14.2M on revenue of $992.5M in the year ending September 30, 2017 — The popular speaker company has announced plans for an IPO — Sonos officially filed for an initial public offering today …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Chrome and Firefox pull an extension called Stylish that sold to SimilarWeb in 2017, had roughly 2M users, and was found collecting users' web usage histories — The ‘Stylish’ extension has been removed after collecting users web-usage histories for over a year.
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Switzerland's principal stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, says it's developing a blockchain-based platform to tokenize traditional securities — Switzerland's principal stock exchange has announced that it is developing a blockchain-based platform to tokenize traditional securities.
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| Peter Cao / 9to5Mac: |
Hands-on with the iOS 12 Shortcuts beta: the ability to hook into system events is a big upgrade, but it is otherwise similar to the original Workflow app — One of the more exciting things that users are looking forward to in iOS 12 is the new Shortcuts app.
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| Kaitlin Benz / CNET: |
Netflix to end users' ability to post new reviews July 30 and remove existing written reviews mid-August, will keep thumbs up and down system — Soon, it'll be a little harder for you to tell everyone what you thought of Marvel's The Avengers. — Netflix is removing a desktop-only feature …
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| Bloomberg: |
US Court of Appeals for DC Circuit upholds FAA's ability to police hobbyist drone use, overturning a decision from last year that said FAA's system was illegal — - Craft operator had argued U.S. agency exceeded its authority — Ruling sets stage for government to expand drone commerce
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| Liz Moyer / CNBC: |
Winklevoss' Gemini crypto exchange adds Robert Cornish, ex-NYSE CIO, as its first CTO, the latest in a wave of Wall Street executives joining crypto startups — - At NYSE, he was chief information officer, leading the Big Board's technology team as it overhauled electronic trading.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Israeli publication CTech retracts claim of Apple notifying Intel about not using its 5G chips, and Intel says the “5G modem part of the story is inaccurate” — Following yesterday's report from Israeli publication CTech that Apple has decided not to use an Intel 5G modem called …
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iPhone Hacks, The Register, CRN, Tom's Guide, AppleInsider, Petri, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, Inquirer, CTECH, Silicon Republic, ExtremeTech, and Firstpost. Tweets: @calcalistech
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft will now deliver two major Dynamics 365 feature updates a year; IT pros can validate updates in sandbox environment starting with April 2019 update — Microsoft is bringing Dynamics 365 Online in line with Windows 10 and Office 365 by releasing feature updates twice annually in April and October.
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| Claudia Assis / MarketWatch: |
Netgear's Arlo security camera spinoff files for IPO; S-1: 1.9M users, 40% of US consumer connected camera systems market, ~$101M in previous quarter revenue — Arlo Technologies Inc., the security-camera making unit of Netgear Inc. NTGR, +1.70% has filed for a initial public offering, seeking to sell up to $100 million in shares.
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