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• Amazon plans new video app for Fire TV users: The Information

  28-08-2018 23:13
  Amazon.com plans to launch an advertising-supported video service for users of its Fire TV streaming devices, news website The Information reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
  
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• Hewlett Packard Enterprise names former Sprint executive Robbiati CFO

  28-08-2018 22:54
  Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Tuesday appointed former Sprint Corp Chief Financial Officer Tarek Robbiati as its new finance head.
  
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• Cloud storage firm Box's revenue beats estimates, shares up

  28-08-2018 22:36
  Box Inc's second-quarter revenue topped Wall Street estimates on Tuesday as the cloud storage provider added more customers.
  
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• Altice, Dish urge U.S. to intervene in T-Mobile-Sprint deal

  28-08-2018 22:26
  U.S. cable and satellite TV providers Altice USA Incand Dish Network Corphave urged U.S. regulators not to approve the planned merger between T-Mobile US Incand Sprint Corpin its current form, according to filings published on Tuesday.
  
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• Tesla wins court case against Ontario government over rebate cancellation

  28-08-2018 21:59
  A Canadian court has ruled in favor of Tesla Inc after the electric carmaker challenged the province of Ontario's wind-down of an electric vehicle rebate.
  
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• Trump warns Google, Facebook, Twitter to be careful

  28-08-2018 21:17
  U.S. President Donald Trump warned Google, Facebook and Twitter to tread carefully on Tuesday after recently accusing internet and social media firms of political bias and censorship, without providing evidence.
  
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• Google ties up with Indian lenders in bid to woo new users

  28-08-2018 20:47
  Alphabet Inc'sGoogle said on Tuesday it is partnering with a handful of Indian banks to bring quick loans to the masses, as it aims to woo tens of millions of new internet users in the country to its digital payments services.
  
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• White House investigating Google after Trump accuses it of bias

  28-08-2018 20:03
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Google's search engine was hiding "fair media" coverage of him and said he would address the situation, taking a swipe at the internet giant without providing evidence or giving details of action he might take.
  
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• Altice files opposition to T-Mobile and Sprint merger

  28-08-2018 19:26
  U.S. cable TV provider Altice USA Inccalled for the communications regulator to intervene in the proposed merger between T-Mobile US Incand Sprint Corp , in a filing dated Monday and published on Tuesday.
  
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• Google responds to Trump, says no political motive in search results

  28-08-2018 19:04
  Google disputed U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that the search engine behemoth was displaying only negative news about the president when searching for his name, saying the company does not favor search results for political purposes.
  
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• Instagram says users can now evaluate authenticity of accounts

  28-08-2018 19:02
  Photo-sharing app Instagram's more than 1 billion users will now be able to evaluate the authenticity of accounts, weeks after parent Facebook Inc rolled out similar measures in a bid to weed out fake accounts on its social media platform.
  
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• US universities roll out Alexa devices to answer students’ questions

  28-08-2018 17:17
  Saint Louis University CIO says that Alexa could be used to boost faculty productivity too.
  
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• University-customized Alexa devices will answer students’ questions

  28-08-2018 17:17
  Saint Louis University CIO says that Alexa could be used to boost faculty productivity too.
  
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• Garvan Institute eyes FPGA boost to genomics research

  28-08-2018 16:01
  The parallel processing capabilities of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are set boost to the efforts of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research as it works to understand the human genome.
  
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• VMware sharpens security focus with vSphere Platinum, ‘adaptive micro-segmentation’

  28-08-2018 15:59
  VMware is expanding its security range with vSphere Platinum - a new version of its virtualization software that has security integrated into the hypervisor and combines vSphere’s native security capabilities with AppDefense, VMware’s data center endpoint security product.
  
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• Crytocurrency storage firm Kingdom Trust obtains insurance through Lloyd's

  28-08-2018 15:06
  Kingdom Trust, a company that stores digital currency for investors, has secured insurance coverage through Lloyd's of Londonto protect against theft and destruction of those assets, the company said on Tuesday.
  
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• Cloud optimizer Spotinst raises $35 million in private funding

  28-08-2018 15:02
  Spotinst, an U.S.-Israeli startup that helps businesses to manage their computer infrastructure across different cloud providers, said it raised $35 million in a private funding round led by Highland Capital, bringing total funds raised to date to $52 million.
  
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• Berkshire Hathaway buys stake in India's Paytm

  28-08-2018 14:52
  Berkshire Hathaway Inchas acquired a 25 billion rupees ($356 million) stake in the parent of digital payments company Paytm, a source said, its first investment in an Indian startup as it moves into the financial payments sector.
  
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• Puls Technologies raises $50 million in private funding led by Temasek

  28-08-2018 14:20
  Puls Technologies, a U.S.-Israeli provider of services to connect consumers with technicians to fix smart technology devices, said on Tuesday it raised $50 million in a private funding round led by Singapore-based investment firm Temasek.
  
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• Swiss watchdog to propose looser anti-money laundering rules for fintechs

  28-08-2018 12:52
  Swiss financial regulator FINMA is planning to loosen anti-money laundering rules for smaller financial technology firms, part of a drive to boost innovation and shore up the country's position as a leading money management hub.
  
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• WeWork's Flatiron School acquires Chicago design school Designation

  28-08-2018 12:12
  WeWork's Flatiron School, the coding boot camp purchased last year by the $40 billion co-working startup, has acquired Designation, a Chicago-based, for-profit design education school, the company told Reuters on Tuesday.
  
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• JDK 12 roadmap: Java 12 gets first targeted feature

  28-08-2018 12:00
  Switch expressions capability would improve coding, allow pattern matching
  
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• Deloitte reports 6 percent rise in full-year revenue in UK, Switzerland

  28-08-2018 11:33
  Deloitte on Tuesday reported a nearly 6 percent increase in full-year revenue in Britain and Switzerland, driven by growth in its audit and risk advisory segment.
  
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• India's top court seeks WhatsApp's response on petition alleging it breaches law

  28-08-2018 10:42
  India's top court has asked WhatsApp to respond to a petition that alleges it breaches certain Indian regulations, creating another headache for the Facebook Inc-owned firm already facing pressure in India over fake news.
  
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• Cubic scores $50 million contract to help tackle Sydney’s congestion

  28-08-2018 08:00
  The New South Wales government claims that Sydney will soon enjoy the “world’s most advanced transport management system” that will use real-time information and predictive technology to reduce congestion.
  
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• Tesla's U-turn puts it back at square one on cash

  28-08-2018 07:03
  Elon Musk's take-private plans for Tesla Inc have evaporated, but the company's looming debt needs remain.
  
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• Domestic and global wholesale drives MNF Group revenue up

  28-08-2018 06:55
  MNF Group has closed the 2018 financial year with a 15 per cent increase in revenue posting $220.7 million.
  
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• NBN Co still planning to roll out 100Mbps-capable fixed wireless devices

  28-08-2018 06:47
  The new default device that will be installed in end-user premises for NBN fixed wireless connections will have a theoretical maximum download speed of up to 100 megabits per second, despite NBN Co cancelling its plans to offer 100Mbps wireless services.
  
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• Toyota to invest $500 million in Uber for self-driving cars

  28-08-2018 06:36
  Toyota Motor Corpwill invest $500 million in Uber Technologies Inc to jointly work on developing self-driving cars, the companies said on Monday, a bid by both to catch up to rivals in the hotly competitive autonomous driving business.
  
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• Facebook fugitive fights U.S. request to extradite him from Ecuador: lawyer

  28-08-2018 04:00
  A New York man charged with trying to defraud Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg is fighting extradition from Ecuador where he was arrested after fleeing before his trial in the United States more than three years ago.
  
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• GlobalFoundries puts 7 nanometre chip research on hold

  28-08-2018 01:27
  GlobalFoundries, the world's second largest contract chipmaker, says it will stop development of the next-generation semiconductor manufacturing technology and instead focus on improving its existing techniques.
  
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• Fidelity's Danoff backs Facebook's response to content, privacy issues

  28-08-2018 01:21
  Facebook Inc'ssecond-biggest outside investor has offered backing for the world's largest social media company as it faces public criticism for what people see on its service and how much user information is shared with third parties.
  
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• Inside Qiskit, IBM's open source quantum computing framework

  28-08-2018 01:11
  Researchers, scientists, academics, hobbyists, businesses - all of these groups are represented in the community of Qiskit, the open source framework based on IBM's quantum computing programme that's opening up access to real quantum computing in the cloud for everyone.
  
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• Tesla, Elon Musk win dismissal of lawsuit over Model 3 production

  28-08-2018 00:56
  A federal judge in San Francisco dismissed a securities fraud lawsuit in which Tesla Incshareholders accused the electric car company and Chief Executive Elon Musk of misleading them about the progress of production of its Model 3 vehicle.
  
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• GlobalFoundries drops out of race to develop next-gen semiconductor technology

  28-08-2018 00:30
  GlobalFoundries, the world's second largest contract chipmaker, said on Monday it would stop development of the next-generation semiconductor manufacturing technology and instead focus on improving its existing techniques.
  
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