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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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A researcher's tip to Capital One about leaked data led to the arrest of ex-Amazon employee Paige Thompson, who prosecutors say boasted online of her exploits — - Former Amazon employee stole data, boasted online, U.S. says — ‘I gotta find somewhere to store it,’ hacker allegedly wrote
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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.
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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
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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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
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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| Scott Scrivens / Android Police: |
Sony and LG still struggled to sell smartphones in Q2 2019, with LG reporting mobile division sales of $1.38B, down 21% YoY — It's that joyous time of the year when we're bombarded with long, boring press releases with lots of numbers on that tell how terrible a company is doing …
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Android Auto's first big refresh since debuting in 2014 is starting to roll out this week, with dark mode by default, a notification tab, app launcher, and more — Less widget-y, more app-like — Five years after Android Auto launched, Google announced the platform's first major refresh at Google I/O earlier this year.| 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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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says Skype for Business Online will be “retired” on July 31, 2021; Skype consumer users will be able to communicate with Teams users starting Q1 2020 — As part of its Skype for Business Online to Teams transition, Microsoft will enable Skype consumer users to communicate …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Identity verification startup Truework raises $12M Series A round led by Sequoia Capital — Truework, a San Francisco-based developer of cloud-hosted identity verification solutions, today announced that it has secured $12 million in a series A round led by Sequoia Capital, bringing its total raised to $15 million.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Attabotics, which hopes to make fulfillment centers more efficient with its robots, raises $25M Series B led by Coatue, Comcast Ventures, Honeywell — Attabotics, a robotics supply chain company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, today announced it has secured $25 million in a series B funding round led …
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Real estate platform Compass raises $370M at a $6.4B valuation, less than a year after raising a $400M Series F at a $4.4B valuation, as it heads toward an IPO — The real estate market regularly goes through ups and downs, but today comes big news for a startup in the space that has built … | Business Wire: |
Apple reports Q3 revenue of $53.8B, up 1% YoY, record Services revenue of $11.5B, up from $10.2B YoY, iPhone revenue of $26B, down from $29.5B YoY; stock up 2%+ — Company Revenue Sets June Quarter Record Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High July 30, 2019 04:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time CUPERTINO …
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Pocket Aces, an India-based studio that uses AI to test show ideas before developing them, strikes a deal with Netflix, raises $14.7M from Sequoia, and others — - Digital studio Pocket Aces' Little Things now streams globally — The Mumbai-based content creator snagged $15 million funding
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| Ana Wolsztajn / Tech.eu: |
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: |
DigitalOcean appoints former SendGrid COO and CFO Yancey Spruill as its new CEO, replacing Mark Templeton, who announced his decision to step down in May — DigitalOcean, the cloud infrastructure service that made a name for itself by focusing on low-cost hosting options in its early days …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Vacation rental platform Vacasa to acquire Wyndham Vacation Rentals for $162M from publicly-traded Wyndham Destinations, adding ~10,000 homes to its portfolio — Vacasa is expanding its vacation rental industry footprint in a big way. — The Portland, Ore.-based company … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
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.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Telegram fixes service after 1,000+ users in Brazil, including politicians, were hacked by stealing one-time passcodes sent to weakly-secured voicemails — Hackers won't be able to hijack accounts using the “voicemail hack” if the account owners enable two-step verification (2SV/2FA).| Zack Seward / CoinDesk: |
Solana raises $20M Series A led by Multicoin Capital for its speed-focused blockchain, which, it says, processes 50K transactions/second on a 200-node testnet — Promising Layer 2 speeds on a Layer 1 platform, Solana has raised a $20 million Series A to build a blockchain meant to operate on the mass scale of the world wide web.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chrome 76 arrives with Flash blocked by default, a new safeguard to prevent Incognito mode detection, PWA improvements, and more — Google today launched Chrome 76 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The release includes Adobe Flash blocked by default, Incognito mode detection disabled … | CoinDesk: |
Coinbase's VP of Engineering Tim Wagner is leaving the exchange after just over a year at the company; two other senior engineering employees are also leaving — Coinbase executive Tim Wagner is leaving the crypto exchange after slightly over a year on the job.Sponsor Posts
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