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• Exclusive: Amazon eyes new warehouse in Brazil e-commerce push - sources

  09-02-2018 23:13
  SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Incis looking to lease a 50,000-square-meter warehouse just outside Sao Paulo, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as it steps up its push into Latin America's biggest retail market, Brazil.
  
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• Buffett's Business Wire now 'stable' after cyber attack

  09-02-2018 21:51
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Business Wire, the corporate news release distributor owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, on Friday said it had fended off a cyber attack designed to disable it, and that its system was now "stable."
  
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• For developers, the focus is deep learning, multiplatform, and coding skills

  09-02-2018 21:50
  Angular, TensorFlow, React, and Electron all have seen large increases in developer activity on GitHub
  
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• Bitcoin may not be worth all the hoopla: N.Y. Fed blog post

  09-02-2018 17:30
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bitcoin and other digital currencies have, so far, not been formidable competition for cash, checks or credit cards as a payment method in the United States and other major economies, according to two economists at New York Federal Reserve.
  
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• Governments eye their own blockchain cryptocurrencies

  09-02-2018 12:11
  This year will see the maturation of blockchain, as 2017's pilot projects turn into 2018's real-world implementations in a variety of industries. That includes governments, some of whom are now testing cryptocurrencies as fiat money.
  
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• Vote now for enterprise Java’s new name

  09-02-2018 12:00
  The Eclipse Foundation wants your help to rename the Java platform
  
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• Doing nicely now, Visual Basic’s popularity could take a hit

  09-02-2018 12:00
  Microsoft's new strategy to end the co-evolution of C# and Visual Basic will make it even less respected by developers
  
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• Macquarie Telecom suffers setback in push to acquire Bulletproof

  09-02-2018 05:45
  Macquarie Telecom has failed in its effort to have the Takeovers Panel force Bulletproof to commission a new independent expert’s report assessing MacTel’s acquisition offer for the cloud services company.
  
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• Australian project to embed human rights in new technology - iTnews

  09-02-2018 05:05 via itnews.com.au
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  Australian project to embed human rights in new technology
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  The Australian Human Rights Commission is undertaking a major effort to ensure human rights are embedded within new technologies. The agency this week said it would look at "innovative ways" to make sure human rights are protected as technology ...
  
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• Digital rights groups call for government to back away from encryption crackdown

  09-02-2018 05:04
  Australian digital rights organisations have called for the data retention scheme to be suspended and for the government to back away from any move to undermine the use of encryption.
  
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• Satellite spy firm seeks ASX listing to help stop boats and secure borders

  09-02-2018 02:36
  A Luxembourg-based satellite company has announced its intention to list on the Australian Securities Exchange, eyeing what it describes as a huge opportunity for its technology to help secure Australia’s coastline.
  
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• Australian copyright law a barrier to innovation, report argues

  09-02-2018 02:12
  Australia’s digital economy could be worth $139 billion by 2020, but realising its full potential requires significant changes to the nation’s intellectual property regime, a new report argues.
  
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• Suncorp ends agreement with business insights platform 9 Spokes

  09-02-2018 00:12
  ​Suncorp has ended its agreement with 9 Spokes, provider of the business insights platform behind its Suncorp Business Toolbox product.
  
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