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Sources: Microsoft is being investigated by the DOJ and the SEC over potential bribery and corruption related to software sales in Hungary — Justice Department, SEC investigation follows similar ones into Microsoft business partners in five other countries
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Google says it removed 39 YouTube channels, 6 Blogger blogs, and 13 Google+ users, with help from FireEye, tied to Iranian state media misinformation campaign — Google has uncovered a misinformation attack across several of its properties that it has connected to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting …
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Leaked docs and sources describe Facebook's content moderation apparatus and the logistics of trying to moderate billions of posts a week in 100+ languages — Moderating billions of posts a week in more than a hundred languages has become Facebook's biggest challenge.| NBC News: |
New facial recognition technology at Washington Dulles airport catches man trying to enter the US illegally just three days after the tech started being used — An identification card from the Republic of Congo was found hidden in the man's shoe, officials said.
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| Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed News: |
Leaked email: representatives of the top US tech companies are meeting in SF on Friday to discuss their tactics in preparation for the 2018 midterm elections — Representatives from a host of the biggest US tech companies, including Facebook and Twitter, have scheduled a private meeting …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook hires HP's CMO Antonio Lucio as its CMO, replacing Gary Briggs, who said in January he would step down; Lucio will start on September 4 — Amidst Facebook's biggest branding crisis, It's just hired a veteran CMO formerly of Pepsi and Visa to boost the social network's external image and cross-promote features inside its apps.
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
The SEC says it will review the disapproval orders for nine bitcoin ETF proposals from ProShares, GraniteShares, and Direxion, which have been stayed — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has said it will review the disapproval orders for nine bitcoin ETFs issued on Wednesday.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
23andMe sent an email to developers saying it will disable its API in two weeks; apps will only be able to use the company's generated reports, not the raw data — 23andMe, which provides DNA testing kids for consumers, is telling outside app developers that they'll no longer have access to the company's raw genomic data.| iFixit: |
Magic Leap One teardown shows the six-layer “waveguide” display used for projection and other internals, like 8GB RAM and 128GB storage — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — The Magic Leap One's mixed-reality tech has been so much pie in the sky for so long …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Datally, Google's Android app for data management, updated with “Emergency bank” to save data for emergencies and a “Bedtime mode” to stop overnight data drain — Datally is an app from Google's Next Billion Users initiative for managing data usage in constrained cellular markets around the world.
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The Keyword, Engadget, XDA Developers, SlashGear, Neowin, and Digital Trends
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The World Bank has priced the world's first public bond issued over a blockchain; the bond will be worth $73M and managed by Commonwealth Bank of Australia — SYDNEY (Reuters) - The World Bank has priced the world's first public bond created and managed using only blockchain in a A$100 million …
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ZDNet, World Bank, CCN, Fortune, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Coingeek, CoinSpeaker, and Bitsonline
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
VMware's Q2 results beat estimates with $644M net income, up 58% YoY, and total revenue of $2.17B, up 13% YoY, on cloud services growth and Pivotal investment — The company reported Q2 revenue of $2.17 billion, up 13 percent year over year. — VMware released second quarter financial results … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Alibaba raised $3B from investors, including SoftBank, for a new local services business that combines its own Koubei with food delivery service Ele.me — Alibaba has confirmed that it has raised $3 billion for its new-look local services business after it united its Koubei local services business … | Catherine Cadell / Reuters: |
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