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Alibaba says NYT story on Jack Ma's retirement is wrong; Ma will continue as executive chairman for some time, providing a succession strategy on Monday — Jack Ma, who co-founded the world's largest e-commerce platform, will unveil a succession strategy next week, part of a management plan 10 years … | Li Yuan / New York Times: |
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Apple says it has permanently banned Infowars' app from the App Store — A day after being banned from Twitter, Alex Jones and Infowars have been booted from yet another platform: Apple's popular App Store. As of Friday evening, searches on the App Store for Infowars return no results.
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US GAO releases report on how the 2017 Equifax hack occurred and the steps taken in its aftermath, concluding Equifax left information vulnerable on many fronts — GAO report takes us inside Equifax from March 2017 onward, showing how a few slip-ups led to one of the biggest breaches in US history.| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
A look at how Stockholm became Europe's capital of startup exits, with Spotify's $27B IPO and iZettle's $2.2B acquisition — The exits earlier this year by two of Sweden's biggest startup names would be enough to swell the pride of any regional ecosystem. Spotify's $27 billion IPO …
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How mainstream users searching YouTube for info about Germany's far-right protests get pointed toward extremist and conspiracy videos — CHEMNITZ, Germany — The day after far-right demonstrators took over the streets here, Sören Uhle, a city official who oversees municipal marketing and development …
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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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Democratic AGs from NY, California, Washington, and elsewhere say they have not been invited to DOJ meeting on tech companies allegedly stifling free speech — Democratic attorneys general from key states said they have not yet been invited by the Justice Department to its upcoming review of tech companies … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
House passes a bill that requires White House to create and maintain a database with the names of foreign hackers and cyber-threat groups working against US — US hopes that a name-and-shame strategy would deter foreign nation-state hacking groups to attack US infrastructure as often as now.
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As Trump threatens new regulations for Google, Facebook, and Twitter, experts say legal precedents show algorithms may be protected under the First Amendment — President Trump indicated last week that the White House is looking into regulating Google, Facebook, and Twitter because they are … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Saudi Arabia's Aramco is considering a $1B fund to invest in international tech companies and may open an office in Silicon Valley or elsewhere in US — Saudi Arabia is making efforts to diversify its oil-dependent economy — DUBAI—Saudi Arabia's national oil company is considering …
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EU regulators greenlight Apple's December 2017 acquisition of Shazam — European regulators have given the green light to Apple's December 2017 acquisition of music and image recognition discovery firm Shazam. — Apple Music is the second largest music streaming service in Europe, after Spotify .| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts a new web app called Touring Bird from its internal incubator Area 120, which surfaces and helps book fun activities in 20 top travel destinations — Trip planning: love it or hate it, it's a requisite part of the prep work that goes into every successful vacation.
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