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• Facebook bans Myanmar army chief, others in unprecedented move

  27-08-2018 22:59
  Facebooksaid on Monday it was removing several Myanmar military officials from the social media website and an Instagram account to prevent the spread of "hate and misinformation" after reviewing the content.
  
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• Berkshire Hathaway takes stake in India's Paytm

  27-08-2018 21:34
  Berkshire Hathaway Incinvested 25 billion rupees ($356 million) in the Indian company behind digital payments firm Paytm, according to a source with direct knowledge of the deal, in a foray by the conglomerate into India and the financial payments industry.
  
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• Bank of Spain's website hit by cyber attack

  27-08-2018 21:26
  The Bank of Spain's website has been hit since Sunday by a cyber attack which has temporarily disrupted access to the site, a spokesman for the central bank said on Monday.
  
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• Uber to appeal Brazilian judge's ruling that driver should be employee

  27-08-2018 19:08
  Uber said on Monday it would appeal a ruling by a labor court in Brazil in favor of a driver who demanded to be considered an employee of the ride hailing app, whose labor model views drivers as independent contractors.
  
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• Tesla shares dip 3 percent after Musk abandons buyout

  27-08-2018 18:48
  Shares in Tesla Incfell just under 3 percent on Monday after Chief Executive Elon Musk abandoned his plan to take the electric carmaker private, with analysts saying the company needed new blood among senior management to prop up its standing with investors.
  
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• Musk's U-turn on Tesla deal could intensify his legal, regulatory woes

  27-08-2018 18:47
  Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk's decision to abruptly abandon a plan to take his electric carmaker private will not resolve his mounting regulatory and legal woes, and may even make them worse, some securities lawyers said.
  
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• VMware to acquire startup CloudHealth in push to grow cloud offerings

  27-08-2018 18:33
  VMware Inc will acquire CloudHealth Technologies as part of the information technology company's continued push into cloud-based software services, the company announced on Monday.
  
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• Total chief executive drives an electric car, but only on weekends

  27-08-2018 18:23
  The chief executive of French oil and gas giant Total said on Monday that he and his wife drive an electric car - but when it comes to business, he relies on fossil fuels.
  
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• UK's Hunt to visit Myanmar to seek answers on Rohingya killings

  27-08-2018 17:32
  Britain's foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said he would visit Myanmar to seek answers on the "deeply disturbing" treatment of the Rohingya people as revealed in a United Nations report released on Monday.
  
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• Facebook ban on army chief silences Myanmar's military mouthpiece

  27-08-2018 17:24
  Facebook'sannouncement on Monday that it was removing accounts connected to Myanmar's military effectively cuts off the armed forces' main channel of communication with the public.
  
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• Berkshire Hathaway confirms investment in India's Paytm

  27-08-2018 17:10
  Berkshire Hathaway Inc made an investment in India's One97 Communications Ltd, the parent of digital payments firm Paytm, a spokeswoman said on Monday.
  
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• New digital exchange seeks to host Islamic finance startups

  27-08-2018 16:44
  A new digital exchange aims to attract listings from sharia compliant financial technology startups, its chief executive said on Monday, part of a growing number of firms looking to modernize Islamic finance.
  
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• Chinese bitcoin mining rig makers aim to raise billions in HK IPOs

  27-08-2018 16:25
  (Reuters) Three of the world's largest bitcoin mining equipment makers plan to raise billions of dollars with initial public offerings in Hong Kong, even as other companies report plunging demand for the chips needed to make bitcoin.
  
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• Surveillance legislation: Government’s ‘lip service’ on backdoors

  27-08-2018 06:48
  Draft government legislation intended to increase law enforcement organisations’ ability to monitor the use of online communications services pays “some lip service to not creating backdoors”, according to Robin Doherty, a privacy advocate and a security champion at software consultancy ThoughtWorks.
  
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• Turn your human firewall from the weakest link to your biggest asset

  27-08-2018 04:47
  Despite numerous attempts to dethrone email over the past few years, it continues to be the defacto for business communications. It’s fast, convenient, simple to use, cost effective and auditable. Email certainly isn’t going anywhere in a hurry.
  
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• NetComm Wireless leverages experience with NBN FTTC

  27-08-2018 04:15
  ASX-listed NetComm Wireless says its experience with supplying distribution point units (DPUs) for NBN Co’s fibre to the curb (FTTC) rollout is helping it take advantage of overseas opportunities.
  
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• Amaysim grows energy, mobile customers

  27-08-2018 03:07
  Amaysim’s mobile subscribers grew 8 per cent to 1.16 million in the 12 months to 30 June, while its energy and broadband customers grew 16 per cent to 191,000 and 196 per cent to 15,000, respectively.
  
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• VMware on AWS comes to Australia

  27-08-2018 02:00
  VMware has made its cloud based Software Defined Data Centre available on the AWS Sydney region, a year almost to the day since its launch in the US and almost two years after VMware and AWS announced plans to jointly develop the service.
  
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• Dutton is Morrison’s cyber man

  27-08-2018 01:17
  The government no long has a dedicated cyber security minister, with responsibility for information security policy being the domain of the minister of home affairs.
  
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