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• Brave browser begins controversial ad repeal-and-replace tests

  25-06-2018 23:03
  The browser maker is now serving replacement ads to as many as 1,000 volunteers who agreed to help test out the company's plans.
  
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• HealthEngine under fire from privacy organisations

  25-06-2018 22:30
  Online doctor booking service HealthEngine has been condemned in a joint statement by Future Wise, Australian Privacy Foundation and Electronic Frontiers Australia.
  
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• Australia backs Vanuatu’s CERT

  25-06-2018 04:10
  Australia put $400,000 towards supporting Vanuatu’s newly launched Computer Emergency Response Team as well as helping the Pacific nation’s work developing cyber policy and legislation.
  
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• U.S. plans limits on Chinese investment in U.S. technology firms

  25-06-2018 03:36
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department is crafting rules that would block firms with at least 25 percent Chinese ownership from buying U.S. companies in "industrially significant" technologies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
  
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• US may limit Chinese investment in US tech firms

  25-06-2018 03:21
  The U.S. Treasury Department is crafting rules that would block firms with at least 25 percent Chinese ownership from buying U.S. companies involved in "industrially significant technology," the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
  
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• China's Meituan-Dianping files for Hong Kong IPO

  25-06-2018 03:20
  (Reuters) - China's Meituan-Dianping, an online food delivery-to-ticketing services platform, filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Monday.
  
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• How BP drives automation at scale across supply and trading business

  25-06-2018 03:16
  Oil and gas firm BP is embracing automation and machine learning to run what it calls 'intelligent operations' and maximise business value in its supply and trading division, which accounts for 3,000 employees across 28 countries.
  
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• Oracle is changing how it reports cloud revenues — what's it hiding?

  25-06-2018 03:13
  Oracle is changing the way it reports its all-important cloud figures every quarter. Where the database vendor used to report two cloud revenue segments: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) as one and then a combined figure for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) as another, smaller, figure, now it is reporting just one figure.
  
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• Deutsche Bank tech chief to join CBA as CIO

  25-06-2018 01:56
  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has appointed Pascal Boillat to the role of group chief information officer.
  
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• Deutsche Bank tech chief to join CBA as chief information officer

  25-06-2018 01:56
  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has appointed Pascal Boillat to the role of group chief information officer.
  
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• Labor policy could see NBN face fines for failures

  25-06-2018 01:29
  A Labor government will establish an NBN Service Guarantee that will potentially see households and small businesses compensated if problems aren’t resolved within specified timeframes.
  
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• Uber battles to keep London license in court appeal

  25-06-2018 01:18
  LONDON (Reuters) - Uber [UBER.UL] goes to court on Monday to overturn a decision stripping it of its license in London after being ruled unfit to run a taxi service in its most important European market.
  
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