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Sources: Facebook is developing a stablecoin for money transfers on WhatsApp, focusing first on the remittances market in India — - First focus will be on remittance market in India, people say — Social network is still working out its blockchain strategy
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Blind, an anonymous community chat app used by staff at Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and more, left one database server exposed from Nov. 1 to Dec. 19 — One of the company's servers was exposed without a password for weeks. — Thousands of people trusted Blind, an app-based …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says AI chief John Giannandrea, who joined from Google in April, has been promoted to its executive team as SVP of Machine Learning and AI Strategy — Apple today announced John Giannandrea, who handles machine learning and AI for the company, has been promoted to the Apple's executive team …
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Sources: Reid Hoffman funded $100K project that secretly tested disinformation tactics against Roy Moore on Facebook and Twitter during the Alabama Senate race — As Russia's online election machinations came to light last year, a group of Democratic tech experts decided to try … | Loup Ventures: |
Voice assistant test involving 800 commands shows Google Assistant answered 88% correctly, Siri got 75% right, Alexa got 73%, and Cortana got 63% — We recently tested four smart speakers by asking Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana 800 questions each.| Reuters: |
Sources: state-sponsored Chinese hackers breached networks of HPE and IBM, then used access to hack into their clients' computers in campaign called Cloudhopper — - Hackers working on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security breached the networks of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co and IBM …
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Indian government downplays order that seemingly authorizes ten government agencies to monitor, intercept, and decrypt data on all computers in the country — India's Ministry of Home Affairs, a federal government authority that controls the country's internal security …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
NGO report finds WhatsApp groups spreading child pornography; WhatsApp says it recently banned 130K accounts for violating policies against child exploitation — Facebook fails to provide enough moderators — WhatsApp chat groups are being used to spread illegal child pornography, cloaked by the app's end-to-end encryption.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Delivery Hero sells its operations in its home market Germany, including the Lieferheld, Pizza.de and foodora brands, to Dutch rival Takeaway.com for €930M — One more big consolidation play is underway in the highly competitive European food delivery business, amid more pressure from newer players like Uber Eats and Deliveroo.
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China is resuming video game approvals after a nine-month freeze; China's gaming industry expected to have its slowest growth this year in at least a decade — - Amid the regulatory hiatus, China's gaming industry suffered its slowest growth in at least a decade
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iflix, a Netflix-like streaming service targeting emerging markets, is selling its Africa business to concentrate on Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines — Iflix, the emerging market Netflix competitor that's backed by Sky, is leaving Africa to double down on its business in Asia.| Randy Nelson / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Sensor Tower: Apple's App Store had 164 publishers earn their first $1M in 2018, up ~15% YoY, nearly double the 88 on Google Play, which was up 24% YoY — Apple has long led its primary rival in the app economy in terms of monetization on its App Store, consistently generating close to twice …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Apple says it will stop selling iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 in its 15 retail stores across Germany after Qualcomm was granted an injunction by a Munich court — - Last week, a Chinese court ordered an injunction against Apple over an alleged patent violation filed by chipmaker Qualcomm.
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