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• Elon Musk buys 72,500 of Tesla shares

  13-06-2018 22:25
  (Reuters) - Tesla IncChief Executive Officer Elon Musk bought 72,500 shares of the company's common stock, a regulatory filing http://bit.ly/2t4K2sY showed on Wednesday.
  
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• Uber hires Facebook's product director as its driver product head

  13-06-2018 22:05
  (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] has hired Facebook Inc product director Daniel Danker as its head of driver product, Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi said in a tweet on Wednesday.
  
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• Cryptocurrency tether used to boost bitcoin prices, study finds

  13-06-2018 21:17
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - There is evidence that tether, a digital currency pegged to the U.S. dollar, may have been used to manipulate the price of bitcoin <BTC=BTSP> and other cryptocurrencies, according to a research paper released by the University of Texas on Wednesday.
  
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• Microsoft previews Office 2019 for Mac

  13-06-2018 12:48
  The beta of Office 2019 for Mac is meant for volume license customers who intend to run the 'perpetual' version of the suite, not Office 365 subscribers.
  
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• Alexa for Business: What it does, how to use it

  13-06-2018 12:18
  Voice-activated virtual assistants are showing up at home, in the car and – increasingly – in the office. Amazon hopes to further that trend by targeting Alexa for Business for the workplace. Here’s what it is and how it works.
  
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• Australia blocks Huawei bid to lay Solomon Islands cables

  13-06-2018 08:17
  Australia has agreed to fund submarine cable and a cyber security centre for the Solomon Islands, forestalling plans by Chinese telecom giant Huawei.
  
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• Renewed scrutiny for Centrelink’s ‘robot-debt’ program

  13-06-2018 06:55
  The Commonwealth Ombudsman has agreed to open a new investigation into Centrelink’s Online Compliance Intervention (OCI), better known as ‘robo-debt’.
  
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• Demystifying the new SAP ERP pricing model

  13-06-2018 01:08
  The issue of indirect access to SAP's underlying enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and the impact it has on licensing has caused no end of headaches for organisations running the popular software over the past couple of years.
  
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• Apple bans cryptocurrency mining apps on iOS to protect mobile users

  13-06-2018 01:02
  Using an iPad or iPhone to mine bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies would be hard to do, as the CPU power available to complete the task would be a drop in the bucket compared to what's needed.
  
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