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Sources: the CIA secretly owned the leading supplier of encryption systems worldwide and could easily read allies' and adversaries' communications for decades — For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
US judge rules in favor of T-Mobile-Sprint merger; shares of Sprint up 64% in premarket trading — - A U.S. District judge ruled in favor of Sprint's $26 billion deal to merge with T-Mobile. — The ruling clears one of the final hurdles for the deal, which still can't close until …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Snapchat is launching a new set of tools and custom content around mental health and wellness, to be rolled out in the next few months — Snapchat is launching a new set of tools and custom content around mental health and wellness, sources tell Axios.
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| 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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| Danielle Abril / Fortune: |
Google's HR head, Eileen Naughton, to step down from her role amid rising employee anger over Google's handling of sexual harassment claims and staff protests — Google's head of human resources, Eileen Naughton, will step down later this year amid rising tensions between the company's top executives and rank and file employees.
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| Nick Bastone / The Information: |
Source: Alphabet quietly moved Jigsaw, a tech incubator that makes tools to curb online misinformation, back under Google last month — Another arm of Alphabet, the holding company for Google and a collection of other businesses, has gone away. — Within the past month … | Eric Geller / Politico: |
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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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 … | Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
On Monday, Bloomberg's campaign asked hundreds of tech leaders over a conference call to refer their most talented staff to its election operation in New York — Mike Bloomberg is building a massive political operation, staffed in part by Silicon Valley. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Nielsen: streaming makes up 19% of US TV watching, with Netflix comprising 31% of streaming on TVs, followed by 21% on YouTube, 12% on Hulu, and 8% on Amazon — Netflix is big and it's getting bigger. And we're not just watching it on our phones and tablets: That dominance translates … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple joins the FIDO Alliance, an open industry association which promotes the U2F authentication standard and helps reduce the over-reliance on passwords — Apple has joined the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance, an open industry association whose mission is to develop …
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Sirius XM invests $75M in SoundCloud in exchange for a minority stake and two seats on the board — The audio entertainment giant puts money into the open audio platform. — Audio entertainment giant SiriusXM Holdings said Tuesday it has invested $75 million in open audio platform SoundCloud … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
MWC bans visitors from China's Hubei province and will require those who have been to China prove they were outside the country for 14 days before the event — A couple of weeks out, Mobile World Congress organizer, the GSMA, has issued some fairly sweeping safeguards over growing concerns around the coronavirus.
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