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Overview of the ongoing efforts by the US to modernize its spy operations, to contain the damage from the 2014 OPM breach, be more resilient to tracking, more — When hackers began slipping into computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management in the spring of 2014 …
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| Alistair Gray / Financial Times: |
US shoppers are expected to return $100B worth of unwanted goods bought this holiday season; online purchases 3x more likely to be returned than those in stores — US consumers are expected to send back a record $100bn worth of unwanted goods bought between Thanksgiving and Christmas as the rise of ecommerce causes a returns epidemic.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft wins court order to seize 50 domains run by North Korean cyber-espionage group Thallium, the fourth APT Microsoft has combated with this tactic — Microsoft takes control of 50 domains operated by Thallium (APT37), a North Korean cyber-espionage group.
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| Aria Bendix / Business Insider: |
Amazon is set to open a homeless shelter in its Seattle HQ with the capacity to serve 275 people, through an expanded partnership with nonprofit Mary's Place — - Amazon is building a homeless shelter on its Seattle campus. — The shelter will be run by Mary's Place, a nonprofit that has worked with the company for years.
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Report: Indian startups raised a record $14.5B in 2019, up from $10.5B in 2018 and $550M in 2010; Sequoia, Accel, and Tiger Global were the most active VCs — As the decade is coming to an end, it has seen an impressive 25x growth from a tiny $550 million in 2010 to $14.5 billion in 2019 …
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Facebook has quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention drugs, weeks after activists said they could cause a public-health crisis — The ads, first reported by The Washington Post, threatened to create a public health crisis, LGBT groups had said.
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How Amazon has shaped the economy of Campbellsville, KY, where it opened one of its first fulfillment centers and is now the town's largest private employer — In Campbellsville, Ky., the tech giant's influences abound. The profits, not so much. — CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. — In the late 1990s … | Reuters: |
Huawei says India will let it participate in upcoming trials for 5G networks — (Reuters) - The Indian government has allowed Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co to participate in trials for 5G networks, a company spokesman said on Monday. — India's nod to Huawei comes …
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VMware completes its $2.7B acquisition of Pivotal, originally announced in August — VMware is closing the year with a significant new component in its arsenal. Today it announced it has closed the $2.7 billion Pivotal acquisition it originally announced in August.
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| Hannah Frishberg / New York Post: |
Report: in January, YouTube will expand limitations on the data that videos aimed at kids can collect and stop showing personalized ads to underage viewers — Children are worth their weight in data to YouTube creators, who're scrambling to stop the Federal Trade Commission from taking that income away.
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| Abdel Latif Wahba / Bloomberg: |
Egypt approves Uber's $3.1B acquisition of Careem after setting price caps and other measures designed to keep the local market competitive — Egypt signed off on Uber Technologies Inc.'s acquisition of ride-hailing peer Careem Inc. after setting price caps and other measures designed to keep the local market competitive.
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Reuters, Wccftech, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Ahram Online, Egyptian Streets, and EgyptToday. Tweets: @dstallibrass
| Byuu / Medium: |
Chrome's overzealous approach to flagging downloads of newly created software as potential malware is stifling online distribution of indie and free software — Google has an undeniable monopoly on search, and a near-monopoly on web browsing software via Chrome and its forks.
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| Uri Berkovitz / Globes Online: |
In 2019, nine Israeli startups became unicorns, bringing the total unicorns in the country to 20, and 16 startups completed a financing round of $100M or more — Israel now has 20 unicorns, privately-held tech companies worth more than $1 billion. Only the US, China and UK have more unicorns.
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