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Cisco is buying Duo Security, a vendor of cloud-based two-factor authentication services, for $2.35B in cash — Cisco today announced its intent to buy Ann Arbor, MI-based security firm, Duo Security. Under the terms of agreement, Cisco is paying $2.35 billion in cash and assumed equity awards for Duo.
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Tweets: @marshallk, @duosec, @startupmjackson, @om, and @ekp
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple briefly became the first company to hit a $1T market cap, after its shares reached $207 in intraday trading on Thursday — Apple has officially become the world's only trillion dollar publicly traded company, in terms of market capitalization, which is simply the company's number …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says apps and in-app purchases for macOS and iOS will be removed from its affiliate program on October 1; music, movies, books, and TV will remain — Apple announced in an email to publishers this evening that it is making changes to its iTunes Affiliate Program.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Microsoft Surface Go review: thin and light with a gorgeous display, but its performance is wanting and there's a lack of great Windows tablet apps — The Surface Go is Microsoft's smallest and cheapest tablet yet, with specs that would make hardware nerds laugh.
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Icon found in iOS 12 beta shows an unreleased iPad with thin bezels, no Home button, or notch — We've been expecting an update to the iPad Pro line for later this year. Rumors suggest that the new version will have no home button, Face ID and thinner bezels, following the design trend introduced by Apple with iPhone X.| The Information: |
Sources: Google is developing a news aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country's strict censorship laws — Google is developing a news-aggregation app for use in China that will comply with the country's strict censorship laws, part of a plan to re-enter …
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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
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Tweets: @mattzeitlin, @mattyglesias, @mattyglesias, @mhbergen, @m_methuselah, @peterktodd, and @nitashatiku
| New York Times: |
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos will join Stanford as an adjunct professor when he leaves the company on August 17; Facebook does not plan to appoint a successor — SAN FRANCISCO — When Facebook revealed on Tuesday that it had identified a political influence campaign ahead of the November midterm elections …
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Tweets: @alexstamos, @alexstamos, @alexstamos, and @sarahfrier
| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme introduces ads under stories matching news topics that an advertiser wants to target, letting companies automatically “respond” to news — Today, Techmeme is introducing ads that are automatically placed under stories matching news topics that an advertiser wants to target.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
A federal jury in California orders Apple to pay $145.1M in damages to Canadian intellectual property company WiLan for infringing on two wireless patents — According to a report from Reuters this evening, a federal jury in California has found Apple guilty of infringing on two patents held … | Reuters: |
Apple is speaking with Chinese telecom firms to find ways to reduce spam messages, after state media alleged it was allowing illegal content on its platform — BEIJING (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is speaking with Chinese telecom firms to find ways to reduce spam received through its messaging service … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Earnings statements from Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft show they are as strong as ever; the forces arrayed against them lack substantial impact — You may have heard that the tech giants are on their heels. — Over the last two years, lawmakers and the public around …
Tweets: @rasmus_kleis and @puiwingtam
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Facebook announces playable ads are now available globally in its News Feed, letting users try a game before they install it — Playable ads debuted four years ago as a new way to entice gamers to play mobile games. The ads were interactive, allowing people to try a game out before they downloaded it.
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
As memes become more complex, creators says they usually have to rely on a suite of apps to craft their memes as no single app fully meets their needs — Last year, Alex, a 19-year-old in California who runs a network of Instagram pages dedicated to publishing memes, became so frustrated … | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis data: amount of Bitcoin the 17 largest crypto processing services received has declined from a peak of $412M in September 2017 to $69M in June 2018 — - Chainalysis study shows payment usage peaked in September — Merchants seeing more transactions for bigger-ticket items| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
As Facebook makes changes to its APIs, Twitter announces Tweets and Retweets will no longer automatically cross-post to Facebook — You can no longer automatically cross-post your tweets to Facebook . Twitter announced today that functionality is now coming to an end …
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| Christopher Slowe / Reddit: |
Reddit says a few employees had their work accounts hacked via 2FA SMS intercepts, leading to a few systems being compromised and some user data leaking — TL;DR: A hacker broke into a few of Reddit's systems and managed to access some user data, including some current email addresses …
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Android Authority, The Guardian, Axios, Hacking, Naked Security, Boing Boing, KnowTechie, Inquirer, SecurityWeek, BetaNews, The Hacker News, Softpedia News, SiliconANGLE, Security Affairs, Wired, The Register, Digital Trends, CSO, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, and The Verge. Tweets: @trickfreee
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Spotify has removed some episodes of “The Alex Jones Show” for violating policies around hate speech, but the podcast is still available on the service — The music streaming service has been the target of public outrage for carrying Jones's show.
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USA Today, Washington Post, Variety, HuffPost, BetaNews, KnowTechie, Gizmodo, Mashable, Fortune, The FADER, Business Insider, getrevue.co, Axios, and New York Times
Tweets: @therosshockman and @shannoncoulter
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Grab raises $1B from investors including OppenheimerFunds and Lightspeed, just over a month after raising $1B from Toyota — - OppenheimerFunds, Ping An Capital, Lightspeed joined round — Funding comes after Grab secured $1 billion from Toyota
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Financial Times, Fortune, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, Reuters, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @jonrussell
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