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• BlackBerry in talks to buy cybersecurity company Cylance: Business Insider

  09-11-2018 22:52
  BlackBerry Ltd is in talks to buy cybersecurity company Cylance Inc for as much as $1.5 billion, Business Insider reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
  
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• Microsoft made $1.3 billion in cash payments in GitHub deal

  09-11-2018 20:23
  Microsoft Corpsaid in a filing late Thursday it had made $1.3 billion in cash payments in connection to its acquisition of coding hosting startup GitHub.
  
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• What is Transport Layer Security (TLS)?

  09-11-2018 18:31
  TLS is a security staple that, despite being more efficient and effective than SSL, has suffered some major breaches, but TLS 1.3 vastly improves both the privacy and performance of secure Web communications.
  
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• Exclusive: Softbank's Saudi-backed Vision Fund to raise $4 billion in debt

  09-11-2018 18:22
  SoftBank'sVision Fund is raising $4 billion in debt to help finance acquisitions and has hired Goldman Sachsand Mizuhoto work on the deal, a presentation seen by Reuters said.
  
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• And now for something completely different: Chinese robot news readers

  09-11-2018 17:55
  Chinese news readers may have some new competition - artificially intelligent robot anchors that can mimic human facial expressions and mannerisms while reading out reports.
  
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• French competition watchdog investigates IT services sector

  09-11-2018 16:31
  Several French IT companies have been searched on suspicion of anti-competitive practices, the country's competition watchdog said on Friday.
  
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• ChargePoint gives Europe equal billing in electric car grid plan

  09-11-2018 16:20
  ChargePoint, which operates one of the world's largest charging station grids for electric vehicles, expects to split a majorexpansion plan equally between Europe and its home market the United States, its chief executive said.
  
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• Taxify aims for 10-fold Africa growth, to overtake Uber in Europe

  09-11-2018 15:48
  Taxify, a European-based rival to Uber and the leading app-based taxi-hailing platform in Africa, expects to grow its African business ten-fold over the next two years while it works to dethrone Uber in Europe, its chief executive told Reuters.
  
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• German snub on EU internet tax would break Franco-German trust: Le Maire

  09-11-2018 12:19
  Germany's failure to back a proposed EU tax on big internet companies would damage trust between France and Germany, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned on Friday.
  
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• Human Services rolls out new digital assistant

  09-11-2018 03:36
  The Department of Human Services has expanded the ranks of its digital assistants.
  
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• Oracle CEO: I go through each day not wanting to get ‘the call’

  09-11-2018 02:08
  Everyone from bedroom hackers to nation states is trying to hack Oracle, its chief executive officer Mark Hurd has told Computerworld.
  
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• SEC, EtherDelta founder settle charges over operating unregistered exchange

  09-11-2018 01:28
  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Thursday it settled charges against Zachary Coburn, the founder of cryptocurrency token trading platform EtherDelta, over operating an unregistered securities exchange.
  
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• Google announces changes to sexual harassment policies following protests

  09-11-2018 00:53
  Google has said it will change the way it handles sexual harassment claims, a week after 20,000 of its workers around the world walked off their jobs to protest its response to such issues.
  
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• VW plans to sell electric Tesla rival for less than $23,000: source

  09-11-2018 00:31
  Volkswagenintends to sell electric cars for less than 20,000 euros ($22,836) and protect German jobs by converting three factories to make Teslarivals, a source familiar with the plans said.
  
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