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| Max Weinbach / XDA Developers: |
Leaked photos confirm the name Galaxy S20 for the next Samsung flagship and a large four-camera setup on the back — The next major smartphone launch event for Samsung, Samsung Unpacked 2020 is just a few weeks away. On February 11th, Samsung is expected to unveil the Galaxy S20 trio …
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| Reuters: |
India's competition commission orders antitrust probe against Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart citing exclusive arrangements with mobile phone brands — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's antitrust body has ordered an investigation into alleged competition law violations by Amazon.com Inc …
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| Steven Sinofsky / Learning By Shipping: |
CES 2020 show notes: a look at 12 technologies/categories, the raw materials of the primordial soup of innovation that the show has become over the years — CES continues to be an event where you can see the raw materials of the next big thing far more often than you can see the next big thing.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Study: most cookie consent forms served to EU users violate GDPR's informed consent requirement by using pre-ticked boxes, hiding “reject all” option, and more — Most cookie consent pop-ups served to Internet users in the European Union — ostensibly seeking permission …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Google's healthcare efforts, like Project Nightingale and “Guardian” search tool, which are drawing scrutiny over mass collection of medical records — The company has struck deals that grant it access to troves of patient data; ‘We want to be helpful’
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
epiFi, an India-based neo-banking startup, raises a $13.2M seed round at a $50M valuation led by Sequoia India and Ribbit Capital — Two co-founders of Google Pay in India are building a neo-banking platform in the country — and they have already secured backing from three top VC funds.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
1B+ medical images of patients found online, as hospitals and doctors' offices ignore security and upload X-rays, ultrasounds, and CT scans to unsecured servers — Every day, millions of new medical images containing the personal health information of patients are spilling out onto the internet.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
ToursByLocals, which helps tourists search for and book local guides, raises $33M from Tritium Partners, says it has ~4K guides and 30K tours in 162 countries — The tours and experiences market is projected to be worth $183 billion this year, and today a startup that has made inroads … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
StreamElements: Twitch's “Just Chatting” category for non-gaming streamers was the most popular category for the first time in December with 81M hours watched — After years of ridicule, Just Chatting streamers prove that there's room for gabbing, not just gaming, on the platform.| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Naïo Technologies, a France-based maker of autonomous farming robots, raises $15.5M Series A, as it plans to expand to the US later this year — Naïo Technologies announced that it has raised $15.5 million to help the French startup expand its autonomous farming robots to the United States later this year.| Financial Times: |
How Travelex is trying to recover from Dec. 31 hack, ordering staff to hand over laptops, using WhatsApp to bypass email, as hackers demand $6M for client data — Travelex staff have been told to hand over their laptops as a cyber attack on the company affected its internal network …
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BBC, New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, BBC, Travelex, The Guardian, Financial Times, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, infosecurity-magazine.com, and PYMNTS.com
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| Alfred Liu / Bloomberg: |
Source: ZA Bank, one of eight firms granted a Hong Kong digital banking license, starts a pilot with a 6% rate for deposits, twice above the market rates — - Eight digital banks have been granted licenses in Hong Kong — Transformation comes as city gripped by pro-democracy protest
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