Month: October 2020

Broadvoice, a VoIP provider for SMBs, has leaked 350M+ customer records, including thousands of voicemail transcripts, many including medical and financial info (Tara Seals/Threatpost)

Tara Seals / Threatpost: Broadvoice, a VoIP provider for SMBs, has leaked 350M+ customer records, including thousands of voicemail transcripts, many including medical and financial info  —  Broadvoice, a well-known VoIP provider that serves small- and medium-sized businesses, has leaked more than 350 million customer records related … Broadvoice, a VoIP provider for SMBs, has

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Pakistan's ban on TikTok isn't about protecting user data from the CCP or geopolitics, it's an attempt to use those issues as a cover for top down censorship (Meher Ahmad/Rest of World)

Meher Ahmad / Rest of World: Pakistan’s ban on TikTok isn’t about protecting user data from the CCP or geopolitics, it’s an attempt to use those issues as a cover for top down censorship  —  Pakistan’s TikTok ban is not like the ones in other countries.  —  In a short video uploaded to TikTok, an

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Uber to invest $50M in SK Telecom's T Map Mobility in South Korea, and $100M in a new ride-hailing joint venture with SK Telecom for a 51% stake (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)

Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: Uber to invest $50M in SK Telecom’s T Map Mobility in South Korea, and $100M in a new ride-hailing joint venture with SK Telecom for a 51% stake  —  – Carrier splitting off its mobility business as Uber invests  — Uber renewing efforts in a country where it’s not had success

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Twitter will now warn users with a prompt before they attempt to retweet or quote tweet a post that has been flagged under the platform's misinformation rules (Andrew Hutchinson/Social Media Today)

Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: Twitter will now warn users with a prompt before they attempt to retweet or quote tweet a post that has been flagged under the platform’s misinformation rules  —  Twitter has added another warning prompt to slow the spread of misinformation, this time alerting users when they go to share

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Sources: Comcast's NBCUniversal and some PE firms approached Disney earlier this year about acquiring Hulu or operating it as a partnership, but were rebuffed (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Comcast’s NBCUniversal and some PE firms approached Disney earlier this year about acquiring Hulu or operating it as a partnership, but were rebuffed  —  Toward the end of 2019, Hulu delivered a proposal to Walt Disney Co., its controlling shareholder, outlining a strategy to expand … Sources: Comcast's NBCUniversal and

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Lindsey Graham says Senate Judiciary Committee plans to vote on whether to subpoena Mark Zuckerberg to testify on anti-conservative bias alongside Jack Dorsey (Politico)

Politico: Lindsey Graham says Senate Judiciary Committee plans to vote on whether to subpoena Mark Zuckerberg to testify on anti-conservative bias alongside Jack Dorsey  —  NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to vote on whether to authorize a subpoena for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg … Lindsey Graham says Senate Judiciary Committee plans

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Sources: Nextdoor is considering going public, through a direct listing or merger with a SPAC, targeting a $4B-$5B valuation; it was last valued at $2.2B in '19 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: Nextdoor is considering going public, through a direct listing or merger with a SPAC, targeting a $4B-$5B valuation; it was last valued at $2.2B in ’19  —  – Social network for neighbors had rebuffed SPACs in the past  — Company was last valued at $2.2 billion in September 2019 Sources: Nextdoor is considering

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