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During a hearing SCOTUS justices appeared open to letting Apple App Store antitrust lawsuit proceed; the plaintiffs have backing from 30 state attorneys general — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared open to letting a lawsuit proceed against Apple Inc …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook disbands its widely publicized “War Room”, says it wasn't a permanent solution, touts Strategic Response Team as its way to handle future crises — COO oversaw social-media company's meteoric rise, but her leadership is being questioned now
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hacker gains access to the repo of Event-Stream, a JS library with 2M+ weekly downloads on npm.org, to inject BitPay's wallet apps with code that steals funds — Users of BitPay's Copay desktop and mobile wallet apps are affected. An update has been released earlier today that doesn't contain the malicious code.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
The best Cyber Monday 2018 deals on phones, fitness trackers, smart speakers, streaming devices, and more, from Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Amazon, and others — Cyber Monday is here, and so are the deals — Black Friday may be over, but the deals are still going strong.
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| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Investigation: 8 apps with a total of 2B+ downloads from Google Play, including 7 from Cheetah mobile, exploit user permissions in an ongoing ad fraud scheme — Eight apps with a total of more than 2 billion downloads in the Google Play store have been exploiting user permissions as part … | Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal docs: Venmo had operating loss of ~$40M in Q1 2018, 40% bigger than expected, largely due to fraud that led the company to reduce website functionality — A spike in fraudulent activity earlier this year led to higher losses than the payments company had expected
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| Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
Airbnb says it has hired Dave Stephenson, VP and CFO of Amazon's Worldwide Consumer Organization, as its CFO, ahead of a potential IPO in 2019 — - Stephenson spent 17 years as Amazon, most recently as VP and CFO of Amazon's Worldwide Consumer Organization, responsible for all global website sales.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Securitize, which helps companies issue asset-backed security tokens, raises $12.75 Series A from investors including Coinbase Ventures and Ripple's Xpring fund — Coinbase, the $8 billion crypto exchange giant, is one of a bevy of big name crypto investors backing a project aimed …
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CoinDesk, SiliconANGLE, Crowdfund Insider, CryptoNinjas, and The Block
| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Facebook's YouTube competitor Watch is pivoting to older audiences as teens tune out and the company pares down the number of shows it purchases — - Facebook's Watch, a hub for shows and premium video content, was intended to be its big competitor to YouTube.| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts RoboMaker, a cloud-based service to let coders develop, test, and deploy their robotics applications using the open source Robot Operating System — Amazon's kicking off Re:Invent week with the launch of AWS RoboMaker. The cloud-based service utilizes the widely deployed … | Ava Kofman / The Intercept: |
AC Global Risk, a startup that touts Apple, Facebook, Palantir, and Google as clients, claims it can assess one's “risk level” via a 10 minute yes/no voice Q&A — Is it possible to tell whether someone is a criminal just from looking at their face or listening to the sound of their voice?
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The Mac Observer, Boing Boing, 9to5Mac, and Fortune
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Logitech says it has ended talks to acquire Plantronics; Logitech was rumored to have offered $2.2B to buy the maker of headsets and other communication devices — (Reuters) - Logitech International SA (LOGN.S), a Swiss manufacturer of keyboards and webcams, has ended discussions to acquire Plantronics Inc …
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