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• Chilean telecoms firm GTD to install undersea fiber optic cable

  12-09-2018 23:18
  Chilean telecommunications company GTD said on Wednesday it will install an undersea cable along more than 2,174 miles (3,500 km) of Pacific coastline to improve connectivity with its operations in Colombia and Peru.
  
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• Oracle forges a Java microservices framework

  12-09-2018 23:00
  The Helidon framework supports the MicroProfile technology and is intended to make it easier to develop microservices
  
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• Apple Watch Series 4 unveil

  12-09-2018 22:04
  The Apple Watch Series 4 was unveiled at an event in Cupertino on September 12, 2018.
  
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• Apple iPhone XS, XS Max unveil

  12-09-2018 22:02
  Apple's iPhone XS, XS Max were unveiled at an event in Cupertino on September 12, 2018
  
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• Apple iPhone XR unveil

  12-09-2018 22:00
  Apple's iPhone XR was unveiled at an event in Cupertino on September 12, 2018.
  
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• Volvo shows off self-driving, electric truck with no cab

  12-09-2018 21:56
  Sweden's Volvo, the world's second-biggest truck maker, presented a new self-driving electric truck on Wednesday, which it said should help respond to the boom in ecommerce and a shortage of freight drivers.
  
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• Tesla investor says SEC asked it about 'funding secured' tweet

  12-09-2018 21:53
  Tesla Inc'sbiggest institutional investor said on Wednesday it was questioned by U.S. securities regulators about Elon Musk's now-abandoned plans to take the electric carmaker private and that the chief executive needed help running the company.
  
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• Everything Apple announced at its September 12 'Gather Round' event

  12-09-2018 21:53
  Apple announced three new iPhones with a new A12 Bionic processor along with release dates for iOS 12 and macOS Mojave.
  
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• Google to invest $140 million to expand data center in Chile

  12-09-2018 20:29
  Google will invest $140 million to expand the tech giant's sole data center in Latin America, a development Chile's president hailed on Wednesday as proof of the country's enthusiastic participation in "the fourth industrial revolution."
  
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• Online firms to risk EU fine if extremist posts linger

  12-09-2018 19:16
  The European Union's chief executive on Wednesday proposed hefty fines on Google, Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms if they fail to remove extremist content within one hour.
  
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• Amazon, Apple, others to testify before U.S. Senate on data privacy September 26

  12-09-2018 19:11
  Six major Web companies and internet-service providers, including AT&T Inc, Twitter Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google, will detail their consumer data privacy practices to a U.S. Senate panel on Sept. 26, according to a congressional statement on Wednesday.
  
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• Mozilla co-founder's Brave files adtech complaint against Google

  12-09-2018 18:27
  Brave, a privacy-focused web browser set up by Silicon Valley engineering guru Brendan Eich, filed privacy complaints in Britain and Ireland that could become a test case against search company Google and other digital advertising firms.
  
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• EU lawmakers back publishers over tech giants on copyright

  12-09-2018 18:23
  European Union lawmakers voted on Wednesday to force Google, Facebook <FB.O > and other technology firms to share more revenues with European media, publishers and other content creators in a shake-up of copyright rules.
  
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• EU lawmakers call for global ban on 'killer robots'

  12-09-2018 16:44
  The European Union took a stance against "killer robots" on Wednesday when the European Parliament passed a resolution calling for an international ban on the development, production and use of weapons that kill without a human deciding to fire.
  
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• Data analytics firm Sisense raises $80 million, to accelerate hiring

  12-09-2018 15:05
  Business intelligence software provider Sisense said on Wednesday it raised $80 million, bringing the total amount invested in the Israeli company to about $200 million.
  
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• Start-ups and young technology companies raise $3.5b in 2017-18 - The Australian Financial Review

  12-09-2018 15:04
  The Australian Financial Review
  Start-ups and young technology companies raise $3.5b in 2017-18
  The Australian Financial Review
  Venture capital, public equity and debt were neck-and-neck in supplying the $3.5 billion that poured into Australian start-ups and scale-ups in 2017-18, according to a study of 736 funding events. Growth-oriented companies less than 10 years old are ...
  
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• The ancient technology pitting 'dinosaurs' against young banking engineers - eFinancialCareers

  12-09-2018 14:11
  eFinancialCareers
  The ancient technology pitting 'dinosaurs' against young banking engineers
  eFinancialCareers
  In 2014, French software engineer Bertrand Besnard referred to COBOL as a “nuisance” and “something everyone wants to get rid of.” He then went on to urge fellow software engineers to learn the programming language that has been on the brink of ...
  
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• Technology is helping make it easier for small businesses to borrow - Business Insider Australia

  12-09-2018 08:07
  Business Insider Australia
  Technology is helping make it easier for small businesses to borrow
  Business Insider Australia
  When an Australian small business needs a loan, what would you guess are the biggest obstacles? If you said getting approved, you're not far off. But a recent survey shows there's a bigger hurdle, one that stops many small business owners in their ...and more »
  
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• AMP’s big bet on bots

  12-09-2018 07:14
  AMP has rolled out what Frank Cammaroto likes to describe as an “ecosystem” of bots that are responsible for receiving, delegating and acting on an increasing proportion of service requests at the ASX-listed financial services firm.
  
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• Smart cities under threat

  12-09-2018 05:15
  The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming businesses around the world, making them safer, more efficient, productive, environmentally friendly and agile.
  
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• 1414 Degrees lists on ASX to further market energy storage technology - Proactive Investors Australia

  12-09-2018 04:17
  Proactive Investors Australia
  1414 Degrees lists on ASX to further market energy storage technology
  Proactive Investors Australia
  1414 Degrees Ltd (ASX:14D) has begun trading on the Australian Securities Exchange today after raising $16.3 million through an initial public offering (IPO). The clean energy storage company's technology stores electricity as thermal energy by heating ...and more »
  
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• Technology Metals Australia generates 99.5% pure vanadium from Gabanintha - Small Caps

  12-09-2018 03:42
  Small Caps
  Technology Metals Australia generates 99.5% pure vanadium from Gabanintha
  Small Caps
  Technology Metals Australia (ASX: TMT) has generated a 99.5% pure vanadium pentoxide product from its Gabanintha vanadium project in Western Australia's mid west. Metallurgical test work on a 60kg composite sample of Gabanintha mineralisation ...
  Technology Metals Australia produces 99.53% purity vanadium in tests of Gabanintha oreProactive Investors Australiaall 8 news articles »
  
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• NBN Co to offer compensation for missed appointments

  12-09-2018 03:08
  NBN Co has agreed to automatically pay a rebate to retail service providers (RSPs) every time it misses an appointment.
  
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• Australia’s ‘big four’ to be initial target for open banking

  12-09-2018 02:14
  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is proposing that only Australia’s big four banks — ANZ, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, NAB and Westpac — will initially be subject to the new open banking regime.
  
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• US securities law can cover cryptocurrencies, judge rules

  12-09-2018 00:44
  US securities law can be used to prosecute fraud cases over cryptocurrency offerings, a New York federal judge has ruled.
  
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