Month: December 2018

    • UK Parliament publishes redacted copies of sensitive, internal Facebook documents seized last month from a company suing Facebook (Nate Lanxon/Bloomberg)

    Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: UK Parliament publishes redacted copies of sensitive, internal Facebook documents seized last month from a company suing Facebook  —  – Documents were released by U.K. parliamentary committee  — Lawmaker Collins says publication was lawful in U.K.  —  Internal emails at Facebook Inc. … UK Parliament publishes redacted copies of sensitive, internal

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    • Microsoft refreshes Outlook for iOS with a new design and other subtle changes, available today, with a dark mode coming in a future update (Tom Warren/The Verge)

    Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft refreshes Outlook for iOS with a new design and other subtle changes, available today, with a dark mode coming in a future update  —  A dark mode is coming in a future update  —  Microsoft is launching a new version of its Outlook mobile app for iOS today. Microsoft

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    • Cryptocurrency scammers dupe Singaporeans out of $78,000 in under 3 months

    Singaporeans have lost $78,000 to cryptocurrency investment scams in the last three months, after authorities uncovered a wave of fraudulent marketing campaigns. Cryptocurrency con-artists have duped citizens with phony articles featuring well-known Singaporean personalities to garner credibility, local media reports. The advertisements falsely claim local celebrities earned huge returns on their Bitcoin investments made with

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    Facebook allegedly offered advertisers special access to users' data and activities, according to documents released by British lawmakers

    A key British lawmaker alleged Wednesday that Facebook maintained “whitelisting agreements” that gave select companies preferential access to valuable data on users without their consent, echoing a key claim from an app developer’s lawsuit. Facebook allegedly offered advertisers special access to users' data and activities, according to documents released by British lawmakers Source: Washington Post

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    • Alphabet's Wing business boss James Burgess says it plans to start a trial drone delivery service in Helsinki, Finland, starting in spring 2019 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Alphabet’s Wing business boss James Burgess says it plans to start a trial drone delivery service in Helsinki, Finland, starting in spring 2019  —  Wing, the drone delivery X project that “graduated” into full company status under the Alphabet umbrella this past July, is taking flight in Europe. Alphabet's Wing business

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    • A new crop of productivity and collaboration apps like Quip and Airtable aim to reinvent Office with quick sharing and simple interfaces within a single window (Tony Lystra/GeekWire)

    Tony Lystra / GeekWire: A new crop of productivity and collaboration apps like Quip and Airtable aim to reinvent Office with quick sharing and simple interfaces within a single window  —  Microsoft, more than any other institution on earth, has shaped how we work and how we think about it. A new crop of productivity

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    • Facebook's ranking drops from No. 1 to No. 7 in Glassdoor's 2019 list of best places to work in the US chosen by employees; Google is 8th and Microsoft is 34th (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)

    Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Facebook’s ranking drops from No. 1 to No. 7 in Glassdoor’s 2019 list of best places to work in the US chosen by employees; Google is 8th and Microsoft is 34th  —  Career website Glassdoor today released its 11th annual Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the 100 best companies to

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