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• Ontario to include Tesla in rebate program after court decision

  31-08-2018 23:55
  Ontario will include some Tesla Inc car owners under its rebate plan as the province winds down an incentive program for electric cars, the ministry of transportation said on Friday.
  
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• Senate cancels postal service hearing; Trump's Amazon crusade delayed

  31-08-2018 22:33
  A Senate hearing about reforming the U.S. Postal Service that could have scrutinized what Amazon.com Incand others pay for package delivery has been delayed, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, moving back President Donald Trump's effort to hike the world's largest online retailer's rates.
  
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• Apple expected to unveil new iPhone models on September 12

  31-08-2018 20:42
  Apple Incsaid on Thursday it will host an event on Sept. 12 at the Steve Jobs Theater in the company's Cupertino, California, campus, where it is widely expected to unveil new iPhone models.
  
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• Trade deal with U.S. expected to spur Mexican e-commerce

  31-08-2018 20:00
  Mexico's fledgling e-commerce market could get a lift from a trade agreement with the Trump administration that doubles the value of goods that can be imported tax-free from the United States, online businesses and experts said.
  
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• China's Meituan Dianping sets HK IPO valuation at up to $55 billion: sources

  31-08-2018 19:55
  SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters/IFR) - China's Meituan Dianping, an online food delivery-to-ticketing services platform, has set an indicative price range of HK$60to HK$72 ($7.64-$9.17) per share for its initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong, valuing itself at up to $55 billion, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Meituan, already one of China's most valuable internet firms, could raise as much as $4 billion before the exercise of a "greenshoe" or over-allotment option, wh
  
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• Microsoft tags Windows 10 1809 with the catchy name 'October 2018 Update'

  31-08-2018 19:17
  Microsoft announced the official name for the next major Windows 10 release at the IFA consumer electronics trade show in Berlin.
  
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• Firefox to auto-block ad trackers

  31-08-2018 19:13
  Mozilla’s browser will first target trackers that slow down page loading, then tackle cross-site trackers that follow users around the web.
  
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• Medtech firms get personal with digital twins

  31-08-2018 19:04
  Armed with a mouse and computer screen instead of a scalpel and operating theater, cardiologist Benjamin Meder carefully places the electrodes of a pacemaker in a beating, digital heart.
  
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• Tencent loses $20 billion in value after China attacks myopia with gaming curbs

  31-08-2018 17:58
  Tencent Holdings'market value slumped by around $20 billion on Friday after China intensified a crackdown on online gaming citing rising levels of myopia, heightening regulatory risks for companies in the world's biggest gaming market.
  
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• China to launch nationwide inspections of ride-hailing companies

  31-08-2018 16:36
  China will conduct comprehensive inspections on all ride-hailing service companies, the transport ministry said on Friday, after a driver from dominant firm Didi Chuxing murdered a 20-year-old passenger this month.
  
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• Japan's Renesas says considering buying U.S. chipmaker IDT

  31-08-2018 14:15
  Renesas Electronics Corp is considering buying U.S. chipmaker Integrated Device Technology Inc, the Japanese automotive chipmaker said on Friday, as it beefs up its business in chips for self-driving cars and seeks new growth areas.
  
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• German 5G auction roaming proposal keeps barriers high for new entrants

  31-08-2018 13:22
  German mobile phone operators will not be required to allow national roaming when they roll-out 5G services, the country's network agency said in a document, which could make it harder for new entrants to take on the incumbent providers.
  
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• IoT gets smarter but still needs backend analytics

  31-08-2018 12:00
  Most IoT devices lack the computational power to carry out the level of machine learning necessary in truly smart IoT deployments, but they can act on the lessons machine-learning provides.
  
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• Japanese messaging app operator Line to launch cryptocurrency

  31-08-2018 08:59
  Japan's Line Corp said on Friday it will launch a cryptocurrency in September, as the company tries to build up a wide range of businesses using its popular messaging app as a platform.
  
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• Lyft in talks to hire advisor for 2019 IPO: Bloomberg

  31-08-2018 07:40
  U.S. ride services firm Lyft Inc is in talks with an advisor for a targeted March or April 2019 initial public offering, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
  
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• Trump vows to fight censorship of conservatives by social media firms

  31-08-2018 07:00
  President Donald Trump told a campaign-style rally in Indiana on Thursday that his administration is standing up for free-speech rights, warning that large social media companies could not be allowed to "control what we can and cannot see."
  
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• California looks to adopt Obama-style net neutrality rules

  31-08-2018 05:38
  California lawmakers moved on Thursday toward imposing the nation's strictest net neutrality laws on internet providers, flying in the face of sweeping new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules seen as a win for the companies.
  
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• BlackRock voted to replace Tesla's Musk with independent chairman

  31-08-2018 04:45
  Funds run by BlackRock Inc voted in favor of a recent shareholder proposal that would have required Tesla Inc to replace Elon Musk with an independent chairman.
  
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• Five Eyes to tech industry: Make access to online communications possible, or else

  31-08-2018 04:10
  The attorneys-general and interior ministers of the Five Eyes nations — Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US — have called for ICT service providers “to voluntarily establish lawful access solutions to their products and services that they create or operate in our countries”.
  
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• Republican senator asks FTC to examine Google ads

  31-08-2018 04:03
  U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch on Thursday asked the Federal Trade Commission to rekindle an antitrust investigation of Alphabet Inc's Google, and President Donald Trump vowed to fight what he called political censorship by social media companies.
  
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• Trump tweets are 'messages from some alternative universe': China Daily

  31-08-2018 03:40
  Twitter comments by U.S. President Donald Trump accusing China of hacking former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's email server are an attempt to cast China as a "scapegoat", the official China Daily said in an editorial Friday.
  
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• UK foreign minister attacks Google over 'child abuse content'

  31-08-2018 03:34
  British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt accused Googleon Thursday of abandoning its moral values by failing to remove child abuse content while launching a version of its search engine in China that will block some websites.
  
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• Pia Andrews takes on NSW digital government role

  31-08-2018 03:17
  Pia Andrews, well known for her work in the areas of open government and open source, will return to Australia’s shores to take on a new role with the New South Wales government.
  
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• NBN Co revises revenue projections, cost of completing rollout

  31-08-2018 02:40
  NBN Co is now projecting revenue of $3.9 billion in FY20, down $1 billion from its previous forecasts.
  
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• As Tesla shares fall, Amazon takes over as most shorted U.S. stock

  31-08-2018 02:02
  With Tesla Inc'sshares briefly dipping below the $300 level on Thursday, the electric carmaker ceded its seat as the most shorted U.S. stock to Amazon.com Inc , according to data from financial technology and analytics firm S3 Partners.
  
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