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Chinese court issues a preliminary injunction against Apple for infringing Qualcomm patents, banning sale and import of iPhones 6s to X in China; Apple appeals — A Chinese court has banned the sale of a number of recent iPhone models citing infringement of two Qualcomm patents, the San Diego chipmaker said on Monday.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google to shut down consumer version of Google+ in Apr. 2019 instead of Aug. and retire Google+ APIs within 90 days, after finding API bug impacting ~52.M users — After discovering another security issue potentially impacting 52.5 million users, Google today announced that the consumer version … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram launches a walkie talkie-like voice messaging feature, rolling out globally on Instagram Direct today — You'd think Facebook would be faster at copying itself. Five years after Facebook Messenger took a cue from WhatsApp and Voxer to launch voice messaging …
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| David McCabe / Axios: |
House Judiciary Committee posts Sundar Pichai's prepared testimony, where he talks about leading without political bias, taking users' privacy seriously, more — Google CEO Sundar Pichai will tell lawmakers Tuesday that the company takes user privacy seriously, doesn't bake political bias …
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| Tom McKay / Gizmodo: |
An overview of responses to Jack Dorsey's tone-deaf tweets about a trip to Myanmar that failed to mention the region's genocide, which social media enabled — Jack Dorsey, CEO of social media platform Twitter—the company now emblazoned in the public eye as one of the primary mouthpieces …
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Verizon says 10K+ employees, or about 7% of its workforce, have accepted its voluntary severance packages which were offered to ~44K employees in September — - The program offered eligible employees and managers up to 60 weeks of salary, bonus and benefits, depending on length of service.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
House report finds that Equifax's security practices and policies were subpar and that patching vulnerable systems could have prevented last year's data breach — A House Oversight Committee report out Monday has concluded that Equifax's security practices and policies were sub-par …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A group of ten US tech companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter, have collectively denounced Australia's anti-encryption law — A group of U.S. tech giants, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, have collectively denounced the new so-called “anti-encryption” …
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Google says its For You tab for Google Maps, which gives personalized recommendations, is now rolling out in 40+ countries on iOS and 130+ countries on Android — It's officially the holiday season, which means lots of time spent with friends and family. But all of that together … | New York Times: |
How mobile apps share precise location data with 75+ firms, including advertisers, retailers, and hedge funds, and fail to describe the practice to users — Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it's anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.
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| BBC: |
Huawei debuts Honor View 20 with a 48MP rear camera and Samsung unveils A8s with a 6.4" Infinity-O display, both with a hole-punch camera cutout in the screen — Two smartphone-makers have unveiled handsets featuring a “hole-punch” selfie camera. — The screens of the Samsung A8s …
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| Matthew Hughes / The Next Web: |
Survey of 900 IT companies in US and Europe finds that Microsoft Teams' marketshare grew from 3% in 2016 to 21% in 2018, while Slack grew just 2% to 15% in 2018 — A report from Spiceworks shows that adoption of Microsoft Teams - the Slack rival from Redmond - is growing rapidly and is set …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon begins rolling out features that allow US Alexa users to set location-based routines and reminders, find and call local businesses, check email, and more — Amazon's Alexa is getting a slew of useful new features ahead of the holiday season. The Seattle company announced this morning … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Lens is now rolling out to the Google iOS app with a live viewfinder that lets users tap on objects or text to begin a visual search analysis — Google Lens began widely rolling out to Android in March and got a big update at I/O 2018 with real-time results and smart text selection.| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
GoPro says it will move production of US-bound cameras out of China by summer 2019 due to fear of future tariffs, as US-China trade war escalates — - GoPro says it will move production of U.S.-bound cameras out of China to avoid being caught up in tariffs.
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