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• Amazon sales outlook disappoints after record holiday quarter

  31-01-2019 23:35
  Amazon.com Inc on Thursday forecast first-quarter sales below Wall Street estimates as new regulations in India created uncertainty around one of its key growth markets, dimming the online retailer's report of record holiday season profit.
  
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• Amazon removes numerous products from India site as new e-commerce rules bite

  31-01-2019 23:23
  E-commerce rules that went into effect in India on Friday caused widespread disruption for Amazon.com, forcing it to take down an array of items from its India website including Echo speakers, batteries and floor cleaners.
  
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• U.S. charges G Nova of Taiwan with price fixing conspiracy; Netbrands settles

  31-01-2019 23:18
  The U.S. government is pursuing charges against Taiwanese company G Nova Corp and its chief executive over allegations of fixing prices for promotional items marketed on the internet, while a second company, Netbrands Media Corp and two executives agreed to plead guilty.
  
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• U.S. appeals court, House panel to take up net neutrality

  31-01-2019 21:56
  A federal appeals court will hear arguments on Friday over whether the Trump administration acted legally when it repealed landmark net neutrality rules governing internet providers in December 2017.
  
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• Musk not worried about Tesla Model 3 demand, Wall Street thinks otherwise

  31-01-2019 21:03
  Tesla Inc shares fell on Thursday as Wall Street wondered if demand for its mass market Model 3 sedan could be sustained while it tries to make substantial inroads in China.
  
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• Microsoft killing off Internet Explorer 10 early, advises enterprises to upgrade

  31-01-2019 21:00
  Microsoft has told the remaining users of IE10 that it will cut off support years earlier than promised, ending security updates in January 2020.
  
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• Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin signs launch deal with Canada's Telesat

  31-01-2019 20:59
  Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, has signed a deal with Canada's Telesat to launch part of a satellite constellation aimed at providing speedy internet access to governments and businesses globally, the companies said on Thursday.
  
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• Foreign efforts to influence 2018 U.S. elections on Twitter 'limited': company

  31-01-2019 20:55
  Twitter Inc took down nearly 6,000 tweets during last November's U.S. congressional elections, most of which were attempting to suppress the vote through intimidation or sharing false information, the company said on Thursday.
  
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• Facebook removes more accounts tied to Iran

  31-01-2019 20:45
  Facebook Inc said on Thursday it removed pages, groups and accounts tied to Iran for using and coordinating fake accounts.
  
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• South Africa's Vodacom faces protests over call-back service compensation

  31-01-2019 20:41
  A settlement offered by South African mobile telecoms provider Vodacom to a former employee drew tens of protesters on Thursday calling for a better deal.
  
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• ANU creates drought predicting technology with greater accuracy than ever before - Daily Advertiser

  31-01-2019 20:30
  ANU creates drought predicting technology with greater accuracy than ever before  Daily AdvertiserFarmers will benefit from new space technology allowing long term management plans.
  
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• Migrant women are particularly vulnerable to technology-facilitated domestic abuse - The Conversation AU

  31-01-2019 20:11
  Migrant women are particularly vulnerable to technology-facilitated domestic abuse  The Conversation AUMigrant women with temporary visa status are particularly vulnerable when it comes to domestic and family violence. That vulnerability is intensified when you ...
  
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• Watch this super-speedy 3D printer make objects suddenly appear - MIT Technology Review

  31-01-2019 20:00
  Watch this super-speedy 3D printer make objects suddenly appear  MIT Technology ReviewUsing light projected into resin, it creates solid objects all in one go, rather than in layers.
  
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• Amazon takes numerous products off its India website to comply with new rules: sources

  31-01-2019 19:58
  Amazon.com began removing a wide array of products from its India website late on Thursday to comply with the country's new foreign investment curbs that kick in from Feb. 1, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
  
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• ‘Mind reading’ technology poses ethical questions - Financial Times

  31-01-2019 19:25
  ‘Mind reading’ technology poses ethical questions  Financial TimesAdvertisers or employers could exploit individuals' neural signals for own gain.
  
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• Technology education programme unveiled - Royal Gazette

  31-01-2019 19:10
  Technology education programme unveiled  Royal GazetteA technology education programme has been unveiled by the Bermuda Government.It has already attracted interest from 25 Bermudians keen to learn about.
  
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• What is a digital twin? [And how it’s changing IoT, AI and more]

  31-01-2019 19:07
  Digital twins are virtual replicas of physical devices that data scientists and IT pros can use to run simulations before actual devices are built and deployed. They are also changing how technologies such as IoT, AI and analytics are optimized.
  
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• Intel starts slow, steady course away from the PC

  31-01-2019 18:54
  Intel's seventh chief executive is something of a closed book. From what he's said, however, it appears that Bob Swan is choosing to stay the course.
  
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• U.S. wants Western tech to be used instead of Huawei kit

  31-01-2019 18:24
  The United States wants to steer people away from Huawei towards Western products because of its concerns over the security of the Chinese company's technology, the U.S. envoy to the European Union said on Thursday.
  
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• Sprint beats on revenue, loses fewer phone subscribers

  31-01-2019 18:24
  Sprint Corp on Thursday posted third-quarter revenue that beat estimates while the U.S. wireless carrier lost fewer customers than expected even as it cut back on price promotions to improve financials.
  
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• Scubalike technology could suck carbon dioxide from smokestacks - Science Magazine

  31-01-2019 18:20
  Scubalike technology could suck carbon dioxide from smokestacks  Science MagazineThe technology that allows submariners to breathe underwater could someday allow the rest of us to breathe cooler air. Researchers have found a way to suck ...
  
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• Not all Huawei's materials come from China, company says

  31-01-2019 18:06
  Huawei Technologies Co. has a proven reputation on cyberscurity and does not buy all of its materials from China, the company said on Thursday after the U.S. envoy to the European Union sought to warn consumers away from its products.
  
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• Foxconn denies report of display panel production delay in Guangzhou

  31-01-2019 17:28
  Foxconn Technology Group said on Thursday that its display panel project in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou was on schedule after a media report said that the company will delay production.
  
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• Tech lobby takes India to task over plans to police online content

  31-01-2019 17:22
  An Asian internet lobby group, whose members include Alphabet's Google and Facebook, on Thursday criticized India's plans to regulate social media content.
  
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• U.S. envoy to EU: customers should avoid Huawei due to security concerns

  31-01-2019 17:10
  The United States wants to steer people away from Huawei towards Western products, the U.S. envoy to the European Union said on Thursday, adding that there exists a great deal of classified evidence of security breaches by the Chinese telecoms gear provider.
  
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• Deep learning hope and hype - MIT Technology Review

  31-01-2019 17:00
  Deep learning hope and hype  MIT Technology ReviewBoth the progress and the hype around cutting-edge machine learning techniques were on vivid display at the December 2018 NeurIPS Conference in Montreal, ...
  
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• Carbon-capture technology scrubs CO2 from power plants like scuba-diving gear - Phys.org

  31-01-2019 17:00
  Carbon-capture technology scrubs CO2 from power plants like scuba-diving gear  Phys.orgScientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a process that removes CO2 from coal-burning power plant ...
  
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• How the State Bank of India Uses Technology to Drive Growth - Knowledge@Wharton

  31-01-2019 16:56
  How the State Bank of India Uses Technology to Drive Growth  Knowledge@WhartonState Bank of India chairman Rajnish Kumar is working to make his bank a technology innovator.
  
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• Has Comcast bet against technology? - The Economist

  31-01-2019 16:43
  Has Comcast bet against technology?  The EconomistIN FORGING HIS media empire Rupert Murdoch never worried much about whether he was spending too much money. He thought it mattered more what ...
  
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• DRaaS options grow, but no one size fits all

  31-01-2019 16:33
  If enterprises have defined their disaster recovery needs and validated vendor capabilities, DRaaS can make it easier to weather service outages
  
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• Foxconn to delay display panel production in China's Guangzhou: Nikkei

  31-01-2019 16:25
  Foxconn Technology Group will delay most of its planned production in a $9 billion display panel project in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou for a minimum of six months, Nikkei reported https://s.nikkei.com/2CV05P3 on Thursday, citing internal documents obtained by the media outlet.
  
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• Intel makes interim CEO Swan permanent, bucking history of insiders

  31-01-2019 16:21
  Intel Corp made interim Chief Executive Officer Robert Swan's role permanent on Thursday, marking the first time the chipmaker has picked a leader who did not rise through the company ranks.
  
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• U.S., China take the lead in race for artificial intelligence: U.N.

  31-01-2019 16:01
  China and the United States are ahead of the global competition to dominate artificial intelligence (AI), according to a study by the U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published on Thursday.
  
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• Dynatrace announces next-gen AIOps and session replay capability

  31-01-2019 15:35
  Dynatrace has made a series of announcements at its Perform conference in Las Vegas this week, with the focus naturally falling on its AI capabilities.
  
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• Walmart, Amazon scrambling to comply with India's new e-commerce rules

  31-01-2019 15:33
  Walmart Inc-owned Flipkart and Amazon.com Inc's Indian unit are rushing to rejig ownership structures and rework some key vendor relationships, as they seek to comply with new Indian e-commerce curbs without disrupting their businesses.
  
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• Explainer: What are India's new foreign direct investment rules for e-commerce?

  31-01-2019 15:33
  India late last year modified foreign direct investment (FDI) rules for its burgeoning e-commerce sector that has attracted Walmart Inc and Amazon.com Inc, creating new hurdles for both global retail giants.
  
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• Musk not worried about Tesla Model 3 demand, but Wall St. is

  31-01-2019 15:16
  Shares in Tesla Inc fell nearly 4 percent on Thursday as Wall Street analysts following up on its fourth-quarter results questioned underlying demand for its crucial Model 3 sedan and the electric car maker's ability to make inroads in China.
  
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• Facebook shares rise as products back in focus after strong fourth quarter

  31-01-2019 14:45
  After 18 months of distraction defending itself over privacy and its role as a platform for electoral manipulation, Facebook Inc is focusing squarely on products after its strong fourth-quarter results won back investors, who sent its shares up nearly 12 percent on Thursday.
  
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• Sprint loses fewer phone subscribers and beats on revenue

  31-01-2019 14:31
  Sprint Corp on Thursday reported fewer-than-expected losses for phone subscribers who pay a monthly bill on a net basis and beat quarterly revenue estimates, as the U.S. wireless carrier has focused on improving profitability.
  
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• Samsung Electronics forecasts weaker 2019 earnings as chip sales slow

  31-01-2019 13:58
  Samsung Electronics Co Ltd warned of weaker earnings in 2019 as it posted a 29 percent drop in fourth-quarter operating profit on Thursday, hit by a slowdown in demand for memory chips.
  
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• Internet users help Charter beat revenue estimates

  31-01-2019 13:55
  Charter Communications Inc topped quarterly revenueestimates on Thursday, as the cable operator attracted more customers for its internet services, offsetting a drop in video subscribers.
  
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• Tesla CFO leaves as automaker promises profits and cheaper cars

  31-01-2019 13:45
  Tesla Inc's chief financial officer will leave the company as the automaker on Wednesday promised cheaper Model 3 sedans, the launch of Chinese production this year and profits in every quarter in 2019.
  
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• Prosecutors: FT report on Wirecard gave us no reason to launch criminal probe

  31-01-2019 13:00
  A Financial Times report on alleged wrongdoings at German payments company Wirecard gave no reason to launch a criminal probe, German prosecutors said on Thursday, adding they had launched preliminary investigations over potential market manipulation.
  
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• Ride-hailing companies suspend Barcelona services after new regulations

  31-01-2019 12:59
  Ride-hailing companies Uber and Cabify are to suspend their services in Barcelona in response to the regional government's imposition of limits on how they operate in the city.
  
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• China appeals to US to accept its technology progress - ABC News

  31-01-2019 12:53
  China appeals to US to accept its technology progress  ABC NewsChina urged Washington on Thursday to accept its industrial development after U.S. intelligence officials said Beijing steals or copies foreign technology, as the ...
  
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• Alibaba stock rallies on handsome profit beat, optimistic commentary

  31-01-2019 12:38
  E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd reported quarterly profit far above market expectations and played down worries of Chinese economic slowdown and U.S. tariff effects, sending its shares up 6 percent.
  
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• JavaScript overtakes Java as most-known programming language

  31-01-2019 12:00
  HackerRank skills survey finds developers mostly know JavaScript and Java, want to learn Go, Kotlin, and Python
  
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• China's Bytedance staff say bonuses clipped by slowdown, competition

  31-01-2019 11:50
  Beijing Bytedance Technology Co, which owns short-video platform Tik Tok, has cut back holiday bonus payments ahead of the Chinese New Year, according to employees, amid a wider slowdown that has taken a bite out of the country's tech firms.
  
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• French regulator orders Google to take measures on advertising

  31-01-2019 11:04
  France's competition regulator has ordered Google to take measures regarding some of its advertising methods, saying these had hit French firm Amadeus which runs a directory service in France.
  
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• Japan's Nintendo slashes Switch hardware forecast after bumper third quarter

  31-01-2019 10:56
  Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd on Thursday slashed its full-year hardware forecast for the hybrid home-portable Switch console, revising a figure that had been treated with scepticism by investors and added to pressure on its share price.
  
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