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Sources: analysis shows a message from Saudi Crown Prince MbS' WhatsApp account to Jeff Bezos in 2018 included file “highly” likely to have hacked Bezos' phone — Exclusive: investigation suggests Washington Post owner was targeted five months before murder of Jamal Khashoggi
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
GM's Cruise unveils Origin, its first driverless vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, says it will share more info about its production plans in the future — The Origin is the GM subsidiary's first attempt to build an fully autonomous car from the ground up
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: the new low-cost iPhone, which looks like iPhone 8 and has a 4.7" screen, will enter production in February and may be announced as early as March — - New model will look similar to 2017's iPhone 8 with Touch ID — Apple expected to launch the 4.7-inch phone as early as March
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Netflix Q4 revenue grew 31% YoY to $5.467B and net income rose to $587M, surpassing 100M paid memberships outside the US; global paid net additions totaled 8.8M — Fellow shareholders, We had a strong finish to 2019, with Q4 revenue growing 31% year over year, bringing full year 2019 revenue …
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Uncertainty grows for Chinese workers in Silicon Valley after trade war tensions, the Huawei controversy, and cases of Chinese accused of stealing trade secrets — The first time that 35-year-old Zhang Lelin, a software engineer from China, felt uncomfortable in Silicon Valley was last year …
Tweets: @jorge_guajardo, @marahvistendahl, and @yuanfenyang
| Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups: |
French SaaS startup LumApps, which provides a cloud-based enterprise communication platform, raises €63.1M Series C led by Goldman Sachs — French SaaS startup LumApps, a provider of cloud-based enterprise communication solutions, has today announced a €63.1 million Series C funding round …
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Analysis of 11,430 Play Store apps in 2019 found that 14.2% used a privacy policy with contradicting statements about user data collection practices — An analysis of 11,430 Play Store apps found that 14.2% used a privacy policy with contradicting statements about user data collection practices.| The Information: |
Sources: Quibi's CEO Meg Whitman, in an internal meeting, compared reporters' friendly rapport with their sources to how sexual predators groom their targets — Quibi CEO Meg Whitman lashed out against the media at an “all-hands” staff meeting last Thursday, drawing an analogy between reporters … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Sysdig, which offers tools to secure container environments, raises $70M Series E led by Insight Venture Partners, bringing its total raised to $206M — Container security startup Sysdig Inc. said today it has bagged a hefty $70 million in a round of funding that brings its total capital raised to $206 million.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Placer.ai, which offers location and foot traffic analytics for the retail industry, raises $12M Series A led by JBV Capital — Placer.ai, a startup that analyzes location and foot traffic analytics for retailers and other businesses, announced today that it has closed a $12 million Series …
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Behind the scenes at Rotten Tomatoes, whose Tomatometer is run by 12 “curators” who read just about every review from a pool of about 4,500 approved critics — Humans, not algorithms, determine those ubiquitous scores. Good ingredients, imperfect recipe.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Federal court reverses $10.1M judgment against Nintendo in case involving the Wii remote, calling iLife Technologies' patent for motion sensing tech “abstract” — Judge says 1999 patent idea was too “abstract” to be protected in the first place. — Remember the Nintendo Wii?
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