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US DOJ charges four Chinese intelligence officers with hacking Equifax; the breach was disclosed in 2017 and exposed financial records of 150M Americans — Federal prosecutors announced charges Monday against four Chinese intelligence officers for hacking the credit-reporting giant Equifax …
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| Biz Carson / Protocol: |
Direct-to-consumer retailer Brandless shuts down, becoming the first company backed by SoftBank's Vision Fund to do so — Today direct-to-consumer retailer Brandless becomes the first SoftBank Vision Fund-backed startup to close down, as it stops taking orders and halts all business operations.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung shows off the unannounced Galaxy Z Flip in an Oscars ad, ahead of its Unpacked keynote, with small print that says a crease on the main screen is normal — It's not just leaks that let us know what big tech companies plan to announce at their keynotes, increasingly it's the companies themselves.
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Tweets: @reckless, @backlon, and @reneritchie
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Sources detail how popular email apps like Edison, Slice, and Cleanfox scrape users' inboxes, using harvested data to power market research products — The popular Edison email app, which is in the top 100 productivity apps on the Apple app store, scrapes users' email inboxes …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: over 300 Chinese companies, including Xiaomi, Megvii, and Didi Chuxing, are seeking bank loans totaling $8.2B to soften coronavirus' impact — BEIJING (Reuters) - More than 300 Chinese firms including Meituan Dianping (3690.HK), China's largest food delivery company …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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Tweets: @greengart, @keithdyer, @brij, @danielnewmanuv, @reuters, @dinoflore, @robpegoraro, @rdrv3, @greengart, @onlyyoontv, @matthewhughes, @psb_dc, and @frankie_tech
| CNBC: |
Filing: AWS wants to depose Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, ex-Defense Secretary James Mattis, and others after losing out on Pentagon's $10B JEDI contract — - Amazon's cloud computing arm wants to depose President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis …
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Tweets: @perlmangerry, @annierpalmer, @n_srnck, @nedprice, @stevekovach, @amanda_m_macias, @mcwellons, and @carney
| The Information: |
Sources: YouTube is considering a competitor to Amazon and Apple TV channels for accessing premium video subscriptions from other companies — YouTube is sending signals that it wants to become a destination site for every part of the TV universe. — The Google-owned video giant … | Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Overview of TCL's success against Samsung and LG in the US TV market, fueled by thin margins and a complex Roku relationship, as cheap phones become a new focus — After capturing the U.S. television market with aggressively priced Roku TVs, China's TCL wants to replicate that success …
Tweets: @jank0, @jank0, @robpegoraro, @jank0, @onejarednewman, and @pkafka
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
After Amazon removes Nazi and neo-Nazi books, some third-party booksellers say it seems to operate under vague or nonexistent rules regarding prohibited books — The retailer once said it would sell “the good, the bad and the ugly.” Now it has banished objectionable volumes …
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The Hill. Tweets: @oliverdarcy, @davidstreitfeld, @brendannyhan, @jgreenblattadl, @nytimesbooks, and @redlianak
| Wall Street Journal: |
Inside Netflix's aggressive Oscars campaign, spending an estimated $100M+ mainly to promote two films, while other studios usually spend $5M-$20M per film — With lavish parties, huge billboards, and screenings around the world, awards campaigning may never be the same
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Business Insider, CNET, Input, and Silicon Valley Business …
| Bloomberg: |
Profile of YouTube's top kids channel Cocomelon, which has about 2.5B monthly views and an estimated $11.3M in ad revenue, as it expands into merchandise — Jay Jeon is an unassuming mogul. No one takes notice of him as he slips into the corner booth at the Italian steakhouse steps from his Orange County office on a sunny Friday.| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
In a letter to the EU competition commissioner, 34 companies including TripAdvisor and Expedia claim Google unfairly promoted its holiday rental search engine — Google has been accused of unfairly promoting its own holiday rental search engine by more than 30 of its rivals …
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