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• Slack Technologies builds engineering team to combat outages

  21-03-2018 22:41
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Collaboration software provider Slack Technologies Inc is building a safety engineering team that will develop methods to help reduce the disruptions that have been more frequent on Slack's service than rival systems, the company told Reuters.
  
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• Kaspersky Lab plans Swiss data center to combat spying allegations

  21-03-2018 22:07
  Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab plans to open a data center in Switzerland to address Western government concerns that Russia exploits its anti-virus software to spy on customers, according to internal documents.
  
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• In Canada, driverless cars learn to see in the snow

  21-03-2018 21:08
  STRATFORD, Ontario (Reuters) - A Canadian town known for its annual theater festival is emerging as a hub of "snowtonomous" research, as automakers face demands to produce self-driving cars that can perform in snow and sleet.
  
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• Zuckerberg says Facebook 'made mistakes' on Cambridge Analytica

  21-03-2018 21:04
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook IncChief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that the social media company made mistakes that allowed data about users to end up with the analytics firm Cambridge Analytica and said the company would make changes.
  
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• Starbucks' mobile order push meets resistance from ritual seekers

  21-03-2018 20:51
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp wants more people to use its time-saving mobile ordering app that lets customers buy drinks without waiting in line.
  
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• Cryptocurrency issuers clean up, shun U.S. investors as SEC gets tough

  21-03-2018 20:14
  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tech start-ups that issue digital tokens to raise funds are falling in line with U.S. securities laws or seeking legal ways to skirt them after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it planned to regulate the market.
  
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• Tesla shareholders approve CEO Musk's $2.6 billion compensation plan

  21-03-2018 19:38
  SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON (Reuters) - Tesla Inc shareholders approved a compensation package potentially worth $2.6 billion for Chief Executive Elon Musk on Wednesday in a test of their confidence in the leader of the electric car company.
  
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• EU plans special tax on digital services revenue

  21-03-2018 18:05
  The European Union plans to make cross-border digital service providers pay tax in the countries where they do business, a move that will affect not just Google and Facebook but European companies too.
  
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• Facebook and UK political consultancy sued in data storm

  21-03-2018 17:44
  NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - A U.S. resident has sued Facebook and a British-based political consultancy for obtaining data from millions of the social media site's users without their permission, while an academic at the center of the storm accused both firms of scapegoating him.
  
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• BMW to double self-driving car testing fleet despite U.S. fatality

  21-03-2018 17:17
  MUNICH (Reuters) - BMW will not change its strategy on autonomous vehicle testing despite the death of a pedestrian struck by a self-driving car during tests by ride-hailing firm Uber [UBER.UL], senior executives said on Wednesday.
  
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• Scotland's female leaders tell Twitter: Clamp down on online abuse of women

  21-03-2018 14:46
  EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scotland's three most powerful female politicians have called on Twitter to do more to stop online abuse and harassment of women.
  
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• Tencent to invest more in video, payment after profit beats estimates

  21-03-2018 14:10
  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings will step up investments in areas such as video, payment and artificial intelligence, it said after reporting better than expected quarterly net profit thanks to a string of successful IPOs.
  
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• Academic behind Facebook breach says political influence was exaggerated

  21-03-2018 13:36
  LONDON (Reuters) - The consultancy at the heart of a storm over Facebookdata greatly exaggerated its role in Donald Trump's 2016 U.S. presidential victory and would not have been able to sway an election result, the academic who provided the data said.
  
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• Dropbox raises IPO price range by $2 on strong demand

  21-03-2018 13:31
  (Reuters) - Cloud storage firm Dropbox Inc [DBX.O] on Wednesday raised the price range for its initial public offering by $2 as investors bid strongly for the first big tech IPO this year ahead of final pricing expected on Thursday.
  
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• Designed in California, made in China: how the iPhone skews U.S. trade deficit

  21-03-2018 13:26
  SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump often tweets from his iPhone about pressuring China to address its $375 billion trade surplus with the United States. But a closer look at the Apple smartphone reveals how the headline figure is distorted.
  
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• EU proposes online turnover tax for big tech firms

  21-03-2018 13:25
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed rules on Wednesday to make digital companies pay their fair share of tax, with U.S. tech giants such as Google , Facebookand Amazonset to foot a large chunk of the bill.
  
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• Chinese carmaker BYD close to completing battery recycling plant

  21-03-2018 12:49
  BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD Co will open a battery recycling plant in Shanghai in the second quarter as it looks to reduce raw material costs and help to address battery waste, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
  
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• Nordea says its sustainable funds won't buy more Facebook stock

  21-03-2018 11:38
  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Nordea, the Nordic region's biggest bank, will not let its sustainable funds buy more Facebook shares for the time being, its head of sustainable finance said.
  
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• Tencent fourth-quarter profit nearly doubles, beats estimates on investment gains

  21-03-2018 11:21
  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd posted a near doubling of quarterly net profit that beat expectations, as it deepened monetization of its growing customer traffic and its investments paid off following a string of IPOs last year.
  
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• GitHub’s tool reduces open source software license violations

  21-03-2018 11:00
  Called Licensed, the tool finds license dependencies early in the development life cycle
  
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• Tencent fourth-quarter profit nearly doubles, beats estimates

  21-03-2018 10:27
  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd posted on Wednesday a 98 percent rise in quarterly net profit, beating expectations as it deepens monetization of the growing traffic on its social networks.
  
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• Academic behind Facebook breach says he is a 'scapegoat': BBC

  21-03-2018 10:13
  LONDON (Reuters) - A Cambridge University academic who harvested data on millions of Facebook users said he has been made a scapegoat by the social network and a UK-based political consultancy that is accused of trying to sway public opinion for Donald Trump.
  
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• China smartphone makers join hands on apps, pose threat to WeChat

  21-03-2018 08:10
  HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's biggest smartphone makers are collaborating to promote download-free "fast apps", in a move backed by the government and likely to threaten Tencent Holdings' grip on mobile traffic with its wildly popular WeChat app.
  
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• DTA seeks ‘liveness detection’ software to prevent digital ID fraud

  21-03-2018 07:16
  The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has begun the hunt for a key software component for the government’s digital identity program.
  
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• Exclusive: Kaspersky Lab plans Swiss data center to combat spying allegations - documents

  21-03-2018 06:18
  MOSCOW/TORONTO (Reuters) - Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab plans to open a data center in Switzerland to address Western government concerns that Russia exploits its anti-virus software to spy on customers, according to internal documents seen by Reuters.
  
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• Telstra taps small cells for capacity boost

  21-03-2018 04:19
  Telstra has installed 50 4G-capable small cells in Melbourne’s CBD as part of a national rollout of the technology.
  
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• Expedia's Orbitz says 880,000 payment cards hit in breach

  21-03-2018 03:06
  Orbitz, a subsidiary of online travel agency Expedia, has revealed hackers may have accessed personal information from about 880,000 payment cards.
  
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• ACCC prepares to set auction limits for key 5G spectrum

  21-03-2018 02:20
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has written to industry stakeholders seeking input on allocation limits for the upcoming auction of spectrum in the 3.6GHz band.
  
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• EU to unveil plan to tax turnover of big U.S. tech firms

  21-03-2018 01:38
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will propose rules on Wednesday designed to make digital companies pay their fair share of tax and set to hit U.S. tech giants such as Googleand Facebook .
  
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• ACCC registers rise in NBN-related complaints

  21-03-2018 01:31
  NBN related-complaints to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission rose “significantly” during 2016-17, the watchdog has revealed.
  
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• Arizona says not time to rein in self-driving cars after Uber fatality

  21-03-2018 01:09
  TEMPE, Ariz./DETROIT (Reuters) - Arizona officials said on Tuesday they saw no immediate need to tighten rules on the testing of self-driving cars in the state in reaction to a fatal accident involving an Uber autonomous vehicle that has focused attention on the safety of the new technology.
  
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• Salesforce could buy MuleSoft

  21-03-2018 00:24
  Salesforce.com is in advanced discussions to acquire U.S. software maker MuleSoft, people familiar with the matter claim, as it looks to expand its offerings beyond customer relationship management software.
  
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• Cambridge Analytica CEO claims influence on U.S. election, Facebook questioned

  21-03-2018 00:18
  The suspended chief executive of Cambridge Analytica said in a secretly recorded video broadcast on Tuesday that his UK-based political consultancy's online campaign played a decisive role in U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election victory.
  
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