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Capital One announces breach affecting ~106M US and Canadian customers, with most info accessed from credit card applications; FBI has arrested suspected hacker — Capital One, the Virginia-based bank with a popular credit card business, announced Monday that a hacker had accessed …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft acquires BlueTalon, a data privacy and governance startup; BlueTalon had raised about $27.4M, per Crunchbase — Microsoft today announced that it has acquired BlueTalon, a data privacy and governance service that helps enterprises set policies for how their employees can access their data.
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Huawei H1 2019: revenue of $58.26B, up 23.2% YoY; smartphone shipments of 118M, up 24% YoY; Canalys report says Huawei leads in China with 38.2% market share — KEY POINTS — China's Huawei reported a 23.2% year-over-year increase in revenue for the first six months of 2019 despite facing political headwinds.
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Google Project Zero researchers publish details and demo exploit code for five of six “interactionless” iOS security bugs; iOS 12.4 patched all but one of them — The six bugs, if sold on the black market, would have brought in well over $5 million.| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Uber says it laid off ~400 people across 75 offices from its 1,200-person marketing team, as the ride-hailing company tries to streamline its operations — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber said it laid off around 400 people from its marketing team on Monday, as the ride-hailing company tries to cut costs …
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Pixel 4 will come with face unlock and radar-powered Motion Sense features to let you skip songs, snooze alarms, and more by waving your hand over the device — As we shared last month, Pixel 4 is in the works1. Today we're giving you an early look at the technology behind two new features coming …
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Sony Q1: 3.2M PS4s sold, 100M sold since launch in 2014, while smartphone revenue dropped 15% QoQ, with 900K units shipped, less than half of Q1 2018 — Despite flagging sales of late, Sony's PlayStation 4 has sold 100 million units, making it the fastest-selling console to hit that number.
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As identity fraud schemes plague Facebook, the company seems unable or unwilling to address accounts that use others' photos as their own profile pictures — Renee Holland sent her Facebook friend thousands of dollars. She became entwined in a global fraud that the social network …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Workplace collaboration platform Monday.com raises $150M Series D led by Sapphire Ventures, sources say at a $1.9B valuation — Workplace collaboration platforms have become a crucial cornerstone of the modern office: workers' lives are guided by software and what we do on our computers …
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Techstars, a network of startup accelerators and entrepreneur mentoring programs, raises $42M led by SVB Financial Group — Techstars, the worldwide network of startup accelerators and mentoring programs for entrepreneurs, has raised $42 million in a financing round led by SVB Financial Group … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces expanded partnership with VMware, will support VMware Cloud Foundation, which helps enterprises deploy and run hybrid clouds, on Google Cloud — Google today announced a new partnership with VMware that will make it easier for enterprises to run their VMware workloads on Google Cloud.
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LA-based Ordermark, an online delivery management service for restaurants, raises $18M Series B led by Foundry Group — Los Angeles-based Ordermark, the online delivery management service for restaurants founded by the scion of the famous, family-owned Canters Deli, said it has raised $18 million in a new round of funding.| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
Nintendo reports quarterly profit of $252.26M, down 10% YoY, says it sold 2.1M Switch consoles in the quarter, bringing the total installed base to 36.9M units — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese gaming company Nintendo Co Ltd on Tuesday reported a 10% decline in quarterly profit …
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How the West has misinterpreted the scope of China's social credit system, which is currently a patchwork of regional pilots and experimental projects — IN OCTOBER 2018, Vice President Mike Pence paid a visit to the Hudson Institute—a conservative Washington D.C. think tank …
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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers: Wind River's popular VxWorks' real-time operating system for embedded devices has had serious flaws for the past 13 years; patches are available — Almost a dozen serious vulnerabilities have been sitting for the past 13 years in the VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) …
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: Huawei and Google were working together on a Huawei-branded smart speaker slated for September release, but that work ended after Trump's ban in May — China's Huawei and Google were working together on a new Huawei-branded smart speaker right before President Donald Trump restricted Huawei's access … | Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Self-proclaimed “YouTubers Union” and IG Metall, Europe's largest trade union, launch a campaign to voice concerns about video monetization and distribution — The YouTubers Union has joined forces with Europe's largest trade union to fight for a fairer platform. — JÖRG SPRAVE| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Vacation rental platform Vacasa to acquire Wyndham Vacation Rentals for $162M from publicly-traded Wyndham Destinations, adding ~10K to its portfolio of homes — Vacasa is expanding its vacation rental industry footprint in a big way. — The Portland, Ore.-based company … | Corinne Reichert / CNET: |
AT&T wins $984M DOJ contract to move DOJ employees to a new communications platform that includes cybersecurity, cloud services, and access to AT&T's FirstNet — AT&T has won a $984 million, 15-year contract to help upgrade the US Department of Justice's technology systems.
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| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain launches PIT, its first crypto exchange, which is based in London and able to trade up to 26 assets — Bitcoin wallet and blockchain explorer provider Blockchain just launched its first exchange platform. — Blockchain's head of retail products … | Patrick Moorhead / Forbes: |
Qualcomm and Tencent Games announce strategic partnership to create digital entertainment, including Snapdragon-based mobile gaming devices, AR/VR, and 5G games — I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. — Today, Qualcomm announced a sweeping …
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Maryland-based Trinity Cyber raises $23M from Intel and others for its real-time threat mitigation services and hires ex-DHS Advisor Tom Bossert as CSO — Bowie, Maryland-based Trinity Cyber, a cybersecurity startup developing a platform that combines detection with “adversary inference” … Sponsor Posts
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