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Six former employees of eBay charged with leading a cyberstalking campaign against a couple they believed was critical of eBay in an online ecommerce newsletter — BOSTON (CBS) - Six former eBay executives and employees are facing federal charges after they allegedly led a cyberstalking campaign …
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A lawyer for Amazon says Jeff Bezos is willing to testify before a House antitrust investigation, after resisting earlier requests — Lawmakers had requested that he testify as part of their antitrust investigation into the big tech companies. — WASHINGTON — Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive …
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| Matthew Boyle / Bloomberg: |
Walmart partners with Shopify to expand its third-party marketplace, with plans to add 1,200 Shopify sellers this year — - Move is retailer's latest attempt to grow online sales, profit — Walmart will bring 1,200 Shopify sellers to its site this year
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Political advocacy and voter-registration groups are targeting phones of protesters and sending them messages about registering to vote or taking other actions — Voting and advocacy groups track cellphones of participants and send messages; the tactics are ‘deeply spooky yet extremely helpful,’ says one user| Ifeoma Ozoma / @ifeomaozoma: |
[Thread] Former Pinterest public policy exec Ifeoma Ozoma shares stories of her time at the company that call into question its declared solidarity with BLM — I shouldn't have to share this story in the year of our Lord, 2020 - but here we are. I'm an alum of Yale, Google, FB, in the WaPo Tech 202 Network, etc...and recently decided to leave @Pinterest, which just declared ‘solidarity with BLM.’ What a joke. 🙃1/ #BelieveBlackWomen
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WhatsApp says it is rolling out a payments service for its users in Brazil to send and receive money and make purchases from local businesses — WhatsApp said on Monday it has started to roll out a payments service to its users in Brazil in a move that it described was aimed at helping businesses accept digital money.
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| Sirin Kale / The Guardian: |
A look at Shop, Shopify's new app for consumers, which saves stores from having to build their own shopping app and offers personalized product recommendations — It is the second-largest e-commerce platform in the US, yet remains anonymous. Will its new app change all that?
Tweets: @carnage4life
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers find a developer running multiple dating services left 845GB of explicit photos, chats, and more exposed in AWS buckets — 3somes, Gay Daddy Bear, and Herpes Dating are among the nine services that leaked the data of hundreds of thousands of users. — It's painfully common for data to be exposed online.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Intel says its upcoming Tiger Lake mobile CPUs will be the first to use its anti-malware Control-flow Enforcement Technology — Intel says CET can protect against ROP/JOP/COP malware. — Intel has announced today that its experimental CET security feature will be first made available … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft Teams plans support for up to 49 video call participants, matching Zoom, slated for fall, and Teams for Education gets several new features — Microsoft Teams is expanding the number of video call participants shown on the screen from up to nine participants (3×3 grid) to up to 49 participants (7×7 grid).
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches zero-interest financing with Apple Card for iPad, Mac, AirPods, and its other products for six or 12 months — Apple today has officially launched support for financing additional products with Apple Card and 0% interest. The new financing options are available for the Mac lineup …
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| Amanda Meade / The Guardian: |
In response to Australian regulator, Facebook says it will not pay for shared news links and that not having them at all would not significantly impact business — Social media giant rejects ACCC proposal, saying it could cut out news completely without any significant impact on its business
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Norway to pull its contact tracing app, one of the first in Europe, after privacy watchdog's warning that it posed a disproportionate threat to user privacy — One of the first national coronavirus contacts-tracing apps to be launched in Europe is being suspended in Norway …
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