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• Secretive US security panel discussing Broadcom's Qualcomm bid, sources say

  27-02-2018 23:18
  A national security panel that can stop mergers that could harm U.S. security has begun looking at Singapore-based chipmaker Broadcom Ltd's plan to take over rival Qualcomm Inc, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
  
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• PayPal settles U.S. charges over alleged Venmo disclosure failure: FTC

  27-02-2018 19:24
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - PayPal Holdings Inc , parent of peer-to-peer payments app Venmo, has settled U.S. charges it failed to give critical disclosures to users regarding privacy and the availability of funds transferred into a Venmo account, the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.
  
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• Google's Clips camera is latest effort to bring AI into home gadgets

  27-02-2018 18:53
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Babies, dogs and artificial intelligence.
  
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• Supreme Court wrestles with Microsoft data privacy fight

  27-02-2018 18:44
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court justices on Tuesday wrestled with Microsoft Corp's dispute with the U.S. Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas, with some signaling support for the government and others urging Congress to pass a law to resolve the issue.
  
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• Pinterest hires former Google executive as its first COO

  27-02-2018 18:11
  (Reuters) - Photo pin-up website Pinterest on Tuesday appointed Francoise Brougher, a former executive at Alphabet Inc, as its first chief operating officer.
  
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• Udacity, with eye to eventual IPO, says revenue more than doubled in 2017

  27-02-2018 18:07
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online education company Udacity, which offers courses in high-tech subjects such as machine learning, said on Tuesday it more than doubled its annual revenue last year and added about 34,000 new students to its online degree programs.
  
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• Ford launches self-driving pilot with delivery partners in Miami

  27-02-2018 17:17
  (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co is taking a different approach from rival General Motors Co in deploying self-driving vehicles, focusing initially on partnering with and operating vehicles for a variety of companies, from Domino's Pizza to Lyft, executives said.
  
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• Moon to get first mobile phone network

  27-02-2018 16:57
  BARCELONA (Reuters) - The moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a project to back the first privately funded moon mission.
  
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• As telcos struggle, Turkcell blazes its own digital trail

  27-02-2018 16:52
  BARCELONA (Reuters) - Growth is so hard to come by in the telecoms sector that Turkcell CEO Kaan Terzioglu pledged to grow a mustache when he took over in 2015 and only shave it off if he met his performance targets.
  
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• Fitbit slumps as new smartwatch fails to excite

  27-02-2018 15:53
  (Reuters) - Fitbit Inc'sshares fell 14 percent in early trading on Tuesday after the company said its newly launched smartwatch was not selling as expected, raising concerns about the company's ability to become profitable again in the near term.
  
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• China's Alibaba seeks to buy food delivery app Ele.me: shareholder

  27-02-2018 15:51
  SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is in talks to buy the food delivery platform Ele.me but no deal is yet in place, a stakeholder in Ele.me said in a filing on Tuesday.
  
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• Angular roadmap: What’s next for Google’s web framework

  27-02-2018 12:00
  The use of open source Bazel, a multilanguage tool for building and testing software, and the Ivy renderer top the planned new features
  
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• Telstra prepares to switch on LTE-B

  27-02-2018 06:46
  Telstra will use LTE-Broadcast to stream footage of AFL games, the telco has announced.
  
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• How APIs can help you fall back in love with your legacy systems

  27-02-2018 04:55
  When U2’s Bono sings, “I can’t live with or without you,” he’s singing about love. But, if he were an IT pro instead of a rock star, he could very well be singing about legacy systems.
  
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• Infinidat ramps up ANZ operations

  27-02-2018 03:20
  Israeli storage company Infinidat — which say it offers a revolutionary and highly cost-effective approach to storage — has named Newcastle-based IT services provider Regional IT and New Zealand IT services company Spectrum as its first customers under a revamped approach to the local market that has seen all its original Australian team, and its distributor, replaced.
  
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• Microsoft email fight reaches US supreme court

  27-02-2018 01:19
  A major privacy rights fight between Microsoft Corp and the Justice Department reaches the US Supreme Court this week, with the justices considering whether US law allows prosecutors to compel technology companies to hand over data stored overseas.
  
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