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• Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan name Atul Gawande CEO of healthcare venture

  20-06-2018 23:55
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Well-regarded surgeon and author Atul Gawande, a critic of his industry's medical practices, will lead the new company being formed by Amazon.com Inc, Berkshire Hathaway Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co that aims to cut U.S. employee healthcare costs, the companies said on Wednesday.
  
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• Instagram expands into long videos, will compete with YouTube

  20-06-2018 23:33
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc-ownedsocial network Instagram launched a mobile app on Wednesday dedicated to user-generated videos up to an hour long, intensifying the competition for consumers' time among ad-supported streaming services such as YouTube.
  
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• U.S. lawmakers want Google to reconsider links to China's Huawei

  20-06-2018 22:57
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers asked Alphabet Inc'sGoogle on Wednesday to reconsider its work with Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], which they described as a security threat.
  
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• Trump, U.S. lawmakers meet to discuss 'problematic' measure on China's ZTE

  20-06-2018 22:52
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and a group of Republicans from the Senate and House of Representatives met at the White House on Wednesday to discuss their disagreement over how to penalize Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corp.
  
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• What trade war? FAANGs scale new highs

  20-06-2018 20:53
  (Reuters) - Four of the five so-called FAANG stocks – Facebook, Alphabet, Amazon and Netflix – surged to all-time highs on Wednesday, with only Apple spoiling a perfect scorecard.
  
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• Sesame Workshop to create new children's TV shows for Apple

  20-06-2018 19:34
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apple Inc has ordered multiple live-action and animated series from Emmy award-winning children's television producer Sesame Workshop, a source close to the agreement said on Wednesday.
  
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• Tesla accuses former employee of hacking and transferring data

  20-06-2018 19:00
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Tesla Inc has sued a former employee claiming that hehacked the electric carmaker's trade secrets and transferred large amounts of company data to third parties, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Nevada on Wednesday.
  
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• Teradata sues Germany's SAP, alleging it stole trade secrets

  20-06-2018 18:12
  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - SAP SE , Europe's most valuable technology company, was sued on Wednesday by U.S. company Teradata , which accused it of stealing trade secrets, copyright infringement and anti-trust violations.
  
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• EU Parliament committee votes for tougher EU copyright rules to rein in tech giants

  20-06-2018 13:46
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google , Facebook , Microsoftand other tech giants could face more curbs on their market power after a European Parliament committee voted in favor of tougher copyright rules on Wednesday.
  
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• What is NVMe, and how is it changing enterprise storage?

  20-06-2018 12:00
  Non-Volatile Memory Express, or NVMe, is a protocol for accessing high-speed storage media that’s designed to reduce latency and increase system and application performance. NVMe is optimized for all-flash storage systems, and it’s aimed at enterprise workloads that require low latency and top performance, such as real-time data analytics and high-performance relational databases.
  
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• What is NVMe, and how is it changing enterprise storage

  20-06-2018 12:00
  Non-Volatile Memory Express, or NVMe, is a protocol for accessing high-speed storage media that’s designed to reduce latency and increase system and application performance. NVMe is optimized for all-flash storage systems, and it’s aimed at enterprise workloads that require low latency and top performance, such as real-time data analytics and high-performance relational databases.
  
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• CDN failure compounded Optus' FIFA World Cup woes

  20-06-2018 09:08
  Optus CEO Allen Lew has revealed that the telco has struck an agreement with SBS to have the broadcaster simulcast FIFA World Cup matches until the end of the group stages on 29 June.
  
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• Telstra predicts 5G boost to wireless-only households

  20-06-2018 07:10
  Telstra’s CEO, Andy Penn, says that the telco believes 5G could potentially boost by 10-15 percentage points the proportion of Australian households choosing to go wireless-only. Currently around 15 per cent of homes have no fixed broadband services, the CEO today told a Telstra strategy update briefing.
  
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• Payment via smartphone, smart watch coming to Queensland public transport

  20-06-2018 05:02
  A new ticketing system will allow people to pay for Queensland public transport using their smartphones, credit cards and contactless credit cards, the state government says.
  
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• Audit reveals flaws in key Vic govt ICT transparency measure

  20-06-2018 03:29
  Flawed data is being used to underpin online tool that intended to promote transparency of the delivery of major Victorian government ICT projects.
  
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• Vocus to build subsea cables connecting PNG and Solomon Islands

  20-06-2018 01:35
  The government has awarded Vocus a $136.6 million contract to build the Coral Sea Cable System.
  
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• Telstra to slash at least 8000 jobs, create new ‘InfraCo’ business

  20-06-2018 00:57
  Telstra has unveiled a new strategy — dubbed Telstra2022 — that will see net job losses of 8000, including both employees and contractors, and create a new infrastructure business unit that could potentially be spun out into an independent company.
  
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