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• Tencent-backed Meituan climbs 5 percent on debut, brightens outlook for HK IPOs

  20-09-2018 13:03
  Meituan Dianpingrose 5 percent on debut in Hong Kong on Thursday, valuing the Chinese online food delivery-to-ticketing services firm at about $55 billion and sending a positive signal to companies lining up to list in the financial hub.
  
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• Facebook and Twitter must comply with EU consumer rules or face sanctions

  20-09-2018 12:24
  Facebookand Twitterface sanctions unless they comply with European consumer rules by the end of the year, the EU said as its regulators continue to their crackdown on U.S. social media giants over privacy concerns.
  
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• Removed from JDK 11, JavaFX 11 arrives as a standalone module

  20-09-2018 12:00
  Developers must now explicitly include JavaFX modules in applications
  
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• Inmarsat and Panasonic partner on in-flight broadband

  20-09-2018 09:57
  British satellite company Inmarsat said it would collaborate with Japan's Panasonic Avionics in providing in-flight broadband for commercial airlines.
  
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• Alarm over government’s encryption bill rush

  20-09-2018 09:44
  The government has introduced its bill to help mitigate the impact of encrypted communications services on police investigations just 10 days after closing a public consultation on an exposure draft of the proposed legislation.
  
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• Cash-flush Rocket Internet lifted by $175 million buyback plan

  20-09-2018 09:39
  German ecommerce company Rocket Internet responded to investor calls to use some of its 2.1 billion euro cash pile on Thursday with a plan to buy back shares worth up to 150 million euros ($175 million), 3.6 percent of its outstanding stock.
  
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• ASIC clamps down on dodgy ICOs and crypto asset funds

  20-09-2018 07:58
  ​The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today revealed it had stepped in to stop five initial coin offerings (ICOs) from raising capital since April.
  
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• VIX: Wall Street 'fear gauge' - manipulated or maligned?

  20-09-2018 07:09
  Cboe Global Marketsis taking several steps, including recruiting artificial intelligence, to put to rest concerns that its VIX volatility index was prone to manipulation and that contributed to a blow-up of some complex volatility products in February.
  
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• Cboe exchange turns to machines to police its 'fear gauge'

  20-09-2018 07:09
  Hard pressed to quash allegations that its popular "fear gauge" is being manipulated, Cboe Global Marketsis turning to artificial intelligence to help put those concerns to rest.
  
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• Two Australian banks among six targeted by fake apps: security firm

  20-09-2018 06:33
  Customers of six banks including two of Australia's largest lenders have had their personal details stolen by fake banking apps on the Google Play store, an internet security firm said.
  
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• CSIRO launches serverless 'search engine for the genome' on Alibaba Cloud

  20-09-2018 04:53
  ​Trials of CRISPR/Cas9 are getting underway around the world. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR associated protein 9, to give it its full name, holds huge promise for tackling cancer, hereditary blindness, AIDS, cystic fibrosis, Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, hepatitis B, Huntington’s disease and even high cholesterol.
  
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• Australian regulator cracks down on misleading digital coin offerings

  20-09-2018 04:38
  Australia's corporate watchdog said on Thursday it was stepping up scrutiny on "misleading" initial coin offerings (ICOs)targeted at retail investors while adding it has already acted against several such proposals.
  
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• Telstra turns drones into ‘cells on wings’ for mobile coverage

  20-09-2018 03:57
  ​A drone equipped with a small mobile base station could be used to provide mobile coverage in the aftermath of natural disasters.
  
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• Facebook expands fake election news fight, but falsehoods still rampant

  20-09-2018 02:38
  Facebook Inc on Wednesday said it would team with two U.S. non-profits to slow the global spread of misinformation that could influence elections, acknowledging that fake news sites were still read by millions.
  
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• First section of INDIGO West cable laid

  20-09-2018 01:39
  The first section new subsea cable that will connect Australia’s west coast to Singapore has landed at Floreat Beach in Perth.
  
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