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Source: Amazon plans to split HQ2 evenly between two cities, a decision driven by the need to recruit enough talent; sources: announcement could come next week — Amazon.com plans to split its second headquarters evenly between two locations rather than picking one city for HQ2 …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPad Pro (2018) review: very powerful with a beautiful screen, but iOS limitations like no USB-C storage support means it is still a poor laptop replacement — The thing about bullet trains is that they're always on rails — Apple introduced the new iPad Pro with a spectacular series …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
iPad Pro (2018) review: the new Pencil is one of Apple's most impressive version 2 devices ever, the new Smart Keyboard is much more stable for lap use — Apple's new tablet shows early signs of maturity — Laptop users have been focused for a very long time on whether the iPad Pro … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Chrome 71, which arrives next month, will block all ads on sites that have persistently shown abusive ads such as fake system messages — Chrome 71 arrives next month — With Chrome 71, Google is stepping up its fight against the internet's abusive ads problem by blocking every ad on a site that persistently shows them.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
As Apple argues unit sales are the wrong way to understand its business, it needs to start reporting the numbers of active customers and the revenue per user — While the saying goes that “No news is good news,” in the case of Apple it turns out that “News about no news is bad news.” From Bloomberg:| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon expands free shipping to all US customers during the holiday season, waiving the $25 minimum spend amount — Amazon has announced its latest plan to coin in on the lucrative Christmas shopping extravaganza: free deliveries for all customers with no minimum spend required.
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Verizon says it will reorganize into three business units from January 1st: Consumer Group, Business Group, and Media Group/Oath — Verizon will have three units—consumer, business and media—and the business division may see the most growth due to telematics, IoT, edge computing and 5G enterprise applications.| Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast: |
After CNN, NBC, and Fox News remove a Trump-endorsed political ad for being racist, Facebook says it violates its ad guidelines and stops its paid distribution — The spot was too controversial for TV. And, now, the biggest social media platform has pulled it too.
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
An expert says Georgia's voter registration site looks poorly secured, but the secretary of state, a candidate for governor, appears to deflect blame to rivals — IN DECEMBER 2016, Georgia secretary of state Brian Kemp accused the Department of Homeland Security of attempting to hack his office's systems …
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Study: Alex Jones' videos are receiving nearly as many views on Facebook as they did before InfoWars' page was banned, with new pages like NewsWars catching on — Infowars is gone from Facebook after a high-profile showdown over the summer between Silicon Valley and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.| Chris Williams / The Register: |
Intel announces Xeon E-2100 CPUs aimed at low-end servers and Cascade Lake AP, a top-end variant of the next gen Xeon Scalable processors, with up to 48 cores — The AP does not stand for ‘AMD P**-off’ — Intel will today talk up two new Xeon processor family members …
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| Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank reports Q2 profits of $6.2B, more than half of which came from Vision Fund investments as Masayoshi Son says fund will continue to invest Saudi money — SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son is starting to see the benefits of his enormous technology investments …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
After closing its CA Technologies purchase, Broadcom sells CA's application security testing platform Veracode to a private equity firm for $950M — CA Technologies bought Veracode in March 2017 for $614 million. — Broadcom is selling CA Technologies' Veracode application security testing platform …
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