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Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter launch the Data Transfer Project, a platform enabling users to move data between online service providers — An open-source collaboration for “the future of portability” — Today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter joined to announce …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
WhatsApp to test limiting the forwarding of messages to 20 chats globally and 5 chats in India in a bid to stop the spread of fake news — The social messaging service has been blamed for its role in spreading dangerous and inaccurate information. — Facebook-owned WhatsApp is making changes …
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Facebook executives struggle to describe a coherent strategy to deal with misinformation on the site; it's a hodgepodge of “exceptions to the exceptions” — Facebook was once the most nimble company of its generation. The speed at which it adapted to every challenge was legendary.
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Cyberattack on Singapore's largest healthcare institution SingHealth steals details of 1.5M patients, including the Prime Minister — Local media say the hack is believed to be state-sponsored — Singapore has been hit by what local media is calling the country's worst ever cyber attack.| Anthony Cuthbertson / The Independent: |
DuckDuckGo says that Google confuses customers by redirecting traffic from duck.com domain, which the search giant owns, to google.com — Google controls the duck.com web address, meaning users searching for its rival DuckDuckGo are diverted back to Google — For many people, Google is the internet.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC starts accepting petitions to deny as well as less formal comments on T-Mobile USA/Sprint merger, all of which can be submitted until August 27 — FCC starts public interest review—petitions to deny merger must be in by Aug. 27. — The Federal Communications Commission will accept petitions … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund is seeking to invest almost $1B in Chinese AI company SenseTime, which has raised more than $1.2B this year — - A deal would be SenseTime's third major funding in past year — SenseTime uses artificial intelligence for facial recognition| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco says it expects to issue permits for its 24-month electric scooter pilot program sometime in August, selecting from 12 applicants — The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is still reviewing the 12 applications from companies to operate electric scooters in the city.
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| Scott Porch / Fast Company: |
How Comcast is moving beyond the set top box as it rolls out its Xfinity X1 interface on smart TVs, starting with betas on Roku TV and some Samsung TVs — If you'd like to use the interface on Comcast's Xfinity X1 set-top box—and you should, it's fantastic—but aren't so sure about the box itself, stay tuned.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook's plans for a nationwide rollout of WhatsApp payments service in India is being held up by government concerns over storage of user data — - Officials are said to have concerns about where data's stored — The social media giant had geared up for a nationwide launch
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Lyft says it will enhance its background checks after revelations that an undocumented immigrant who has been charged with serial rape worked as a Lyft driver — Lyft is scrambling to reinforce its background checks after revelations that an undocumented immigrant who has been charged with serial rape had worked as a Lyft driver.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: there were 28.4B app downloads worldwide across iOS and Google Play in Q2, up 15% YoY as consumer spending grew 20% YoY reaching $18.5B — The second quarter of 2018 was another record-breaker for mobile app downloads and revenue. According to a new report this week from App Annie …
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eBay's Q2 filing shows company paid $573M to acquire ecommerce platform Qoo10 Japan in February, not the $700M rumored at the time of acquisition — EBay is a very distant second behind Amazon when it comes to e-commerce sales in the U.S., but abroad — and in particular in Asia … | Microsoft: |
Microsoft Q4: $30.1B in revenue, up 17% YoY; operating income up 35% YoY to $10.4B; Intelligent Cloud revenue up 23% YoY to $9.6B and Azure revenue up 89% YoY — Microsoft Cloud Drives Record Fourth Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — July 19, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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