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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
The Apple Card, issued in partnership with Goldman Sachs, begins a preview rollout to randomly selected US customers today — Wide availability by the end of the month — Apple CEO Tim Cook said the Apple Card would arrive in August on the company's last earnings call, and here it is …
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| Tom McKay / Gizmodo: |
Trump tweets a video of a Lou Dobbs interview with a fired Google engineer, who had proposed a Richard Spencer fundraiser and suggested skinheads rebrand — On Monday morning, President Donald Trump finally took the time to issue a (hollow and thoroughly unconvincing) denunciation …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
DOJ charges Pakistani man with bribing AT&T employees over $1M to install malware on the company's network, in a scheme that unlocked more than 2M devices — DOJ charges Pakistani man with bribing AT&T employees more than $1 million to install malware on the company's network, unlock more than 2 million devices.
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| Adrianne Jeffries / VICE: |
Late last year, Yelp's app quietly started routing restaurant customers' take out and delivery phone calls through Grubhub for tracking and marketing purposes — The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee.
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| Michelle Nichols / Reuters: |
Leaked UN report: North Korea has generated an estimated $2B using widespread and sophisticated cyberattacks to steal from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges — UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programs using …
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Instagram looks to hire a strategic partnerships manager focused on meme accounts, following a series of meme account purges, the latest taking down 142 in July — For nearly three years, 15-year-old Rowan Winch has been building a modern media empire out of his bedroom.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Flipkart revamps its shopping app, adding a video streaming service, Hindi language support, and an audio-visual assistant for first time internet users — India's e-commerce giant Flipkart said on Tuesday that it is revamping its shopping app to add support for Hindi language …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it blocked Russia-linked hacking group Fancy Bear from using compromised IoT devices to breach enterprise networks in April — Microsoft said it detected Strontium (APT28) targeting VoIP phones, printers, and video decoders. — One of Russia's elite state-sponsored hacking groups …
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| Reuters: |
Report: Japan's FTC is investigating Apple over whether it pressured Japanese parts makers and abused its power in violation of antimonopoly rules — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Fair Trade Commission is investigating Apple Inc (AAPL.O) over its pressure on Japanese parts makers and whether …
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| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Klarna, which provides e-commerce payment services for merchants and shoppers, raises $460M at a $5.5B valuation ahead of a potential IPO — Klarna has become the largest private fintech start-up in Europe after a new funding round valued the Swedish payments group at $5.5bn ahead of a potential stock market flotation.| Monica Melton / Forbes: |
Cybereason, an endpoint detection and response platform, raises $200M Series E led by SoftBank at a $900M valuation — Cybereason, a cloud-based cybersecurity company and Forbes 2019 Next Billion-Dollar Startups honoree announced Tuesday $200 million in new funding.| Thomas Kaplan / New York Times: |
Since January, Trump's campaign has posted 2,000+ immigration-focused Facebook ads that use the word “invasion”; report suggests the ads cost $1.25M — Some of President Trump's re-election ads have repeated his inflammatory claims about an “invasion” on the southern border …
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| The Block: |
Cryptocurrency lending startup BlockFi raises $18.3M Series A led by Peter Thiel-backed Valar Ventures, as it eyes new products and markets — BlockFi, the cryptocurrency lending company, has secured an additional $18.3 million in venture capital funding as the firm eyes an international expansion …
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| Politico: |
A look at the 14 US states that used paperless voting machines in 2018, which experts say can easily be hacked, and the slow and uneven efforts to replace them — Paperless voting devices are a gaping weakness in the patchwork U.S. election system, security experts say.
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Maps Mania, Politico, and Politico
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
TickPick, a ticket markeplace which focuses on eliminating hidden fees, raises $40M from PWP Growth Equity, says it will hit $200M in transactions in 2019 — TickPick was founded back in 2011, but it never raised any institutional funding — until now, with the announcement of a $40 million investment from PWP Growth Equity.
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Business Wire and FinSMEs
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Carro, a Singapore-based automotive marketplace and financing startup, closes $90M Series B after $30M extension, acquires Indonesia-based marketplace Jualo — Carro, an automotive marketplace and car financing startup based in Singapore, said it has raised $30 million to extend and close …
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Nikkei Asian Review, ZDNet, FinSMEs, and KrASIA
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Vonage acquires the team and IP of Over.ai, which focuses on conversational AI for enterprises, to build out its speech to text and natural language algorithms — The acquihire will help Vonage build out its natural language and conversational AI algorithms.
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VentureBeat and PR Newswire
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Android Security Bulletin for August 2019 patches QualPwn bugs that could have allowed attackers to compromise devices with Qualcomm chips over a Wi-Fi network — Patches for the QualPwn vulnerabilities have been released earlier today by both Qualcomm and the Android team.
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Threatpost, The Hacker News, 9to5Google, Android Open Source Project, PiunikaWeb, Security Affairs, The Register, Android Open Source Project, Android Police, Android Central, BleepingComputer, Android Central, Droid Life, 9to5Google, and XDA Developers
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