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Apple removes popular anti-adware app Adware Doctor from the Mac App Store; the app surreptitiously stole and sent users' browsing history to a domain in China — Apple has removed a top Mac app called Adware Doctor, designed to “prevent malware and malicious files from infecting your Mac …
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| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: as Verizon execs remain wary about sharing user data with Oath and ad growth fails to take off, Tim Armstrong weighs leaving as early as October — Tim Armstrong combined Yahoo and AOL but struggled to marry Verizon's wireless customer data with online advertising
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft sends out press invites to an event on October 2 where the refresh of current Surface hardware is likely to be announced — Microsoft is planning to hold a fall press event in New York City next month. The software maker has started sending invites to the media today, asking for a “moment of your time.”
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Huawei includes benchmark detection tool in smartphones so scores don't reflect real performance; in response it says its competitors mislead consumers too — Does anyone remember our articles regarding unscrupulous benchmark behavior back in 2013? At the time we called the industry … | Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
British Airways says an attack on its site and app on Aug. 21-Sept. 5 exposed customers' personal and financial details, believes ~380K “card payments” breached — British Airways revealed on Thursday that hackers managed to lurk in its systems for two weeks, exposing around 380,000 card payments.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Tor launches a mobile Tor browser, now available on Android through the Play store or as a direct download — The Tor Project, the not-for-profit body behind the anonymizing Tor browser that lets you access the internet without being tracked, has launched the first official Tor mobile browser app.
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Eventbrite sets the IPO price range between $19 and $21 per share, to raise $200M at the midpoint of the range at a valuation of about $1.7B — Eventbrite, an online live event ticketing platform, announced terms for its IPO on Friday. — The San Francisco, CA-based company plans …
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Tencent says it will start requiring players to use real names when logging in to Honour of Kings to identify minors playing the game in China — China's largest video game company will restrict the play time of underage players by checking their names against a Beijing database.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Inside the implosion of Social Capital as key partners and execs keep leaving and, sources believe, Chamath Palihapitiya is no longer putting the firm first — Social Capital arrived in Silicon Valley seven years ago with a charismatic co-founder, former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya …
Tweets: @antoniogm, @reformedbroker, @thestalwart, and @amitranjan
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Didi has failed to generate a profit in the six years since its founding, and has spent $1.7B on subsidies and discounts in H1 2018, losing about $585M — - The ride-hailing giant hasn't made a profit in six years — Didi is said to have given out $1.7 billion in subsidies| Kif Leswing / INSIDER: |
Twitter says it's testing a redesign of its desktop site with night mode, data-saving mode, bookmarks, and more; UI looks similar to Twitter on a mobile browser — Twitter is testing a redesign of its desktop website that adds a night mode, data-saving mode, bookmarks, and other new features, the company announced on Thursday.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Branch, a deep-linking startup backed by Andy Rubin's Playground Ventures, is raising $129M Series D at about a $1B valuation — Branch, the deep-linking startup backed by Andy Rubin's Playground Ventures, will enter the unicorn club with an upcoming funding round.| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Report: colleagues who have worked with Eddy Cue say he seems overextended and lacked much interest in Siri from the moment he gained responsibility — A new profile on Apple chief Eddy Cue has been shared online today by The Information, highlighting Cue's history and leadership at the company …
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Twitter permanently suspends Infowars and Alex Jones' accounts, saying they violate “abusive behavior” rules, will suspend other accounts he registers or uses — After weeks of equivocation, Twitter permanently suspended the accounts of Infowars and its founder Alex Jones on Thursday …
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