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    • Source: FTC and Facebook are negotiating a settlement where Facebook must appoint a federally approved privacy official and create a privacy oversight committee (Nancy Scola/Politico)

    Nancy Scola / Politico: Source: FTC and Facebook are negotiating a settlement where Facebook must appoint a federally approved privacy official and create a privacy oversight committee  —  Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are negotiating a possible settlement that would require the company … Source: FTC and Facebook are negotiating a settlement where Facebook

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    • OurPact says Apple's MDM comments are misleading, compares Apple's claims in defense of removing apps that use MDM with quotes from Apple's documentation (OurPact)

    OurPact: OurPact says Apple’s MDM comments are misleading, compares Apple’s claims in defense of removing apps that use MDM with quotes from Apple’s documentation  —  Apple Removed OurPact From the App Store.  Here’s What You Need to Know.  —  On Saturday, April 27th, The New York Times exposed … OurPact says Apple's MDM comments are

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    • Sean Parker-backed Brigade says civic issues service Countable has acquired its IP, deletes "non-essential" user data, open sources voter file matching software (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

    Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Sean Parker-backed Brigade says civic issues service Countable has acquired its IP, deletes “non-essential” user data, open sources voter file matching software  —  Causes grew to a jaw-dropping 200 million users as one of the first 10 Facebook platform apps. Sean Parker-backed Brigade says civic issues service Countable has acquired its

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    • Fitbit reports Q1 revenue of $271.9M, up 9.7% YoY and beating analyst expectations of $259.7M, as smartwatch device sales were up 117% YoY (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

    Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Fitbit reports Q1 revenue of $271.9M, up 9.7% YoY and beating analyst expectations of $259.7M, as smartwatch device sales were up 117% YoY  —  Fitbit’s financial rebound continued in the first quarter, as the company generated $271.9 million in revenue, beating Wall Street expectations of $259.7 million. Fitbit reports Q1 revenue

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    • FCC fixes an error in its broadband deployment data, now says 21.3M Americans were without broadband at the end of 2017, up from the originally reported 19.4M (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

    Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: FCC fixes an error in its broadband deployment data, now says 21.3M Americans were without broadband at the end of 2017, up from the originally reported 19.4M  —  1.9M fewer people have access, not a big enough error to change Pai’s conclusion.  —  The Federal Communications Commission … FCC fixes

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    • Kaspersky Lab profiles Volodya, one of the most prolific Windows exploit developers, who has sold zero-days to criminal gangs and state-backed APTs (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Kaspersky Lab profiles Volodya, one of the most prolific Windows exploit developers, who has sold zero-days to criminal gangs and state-backed APTs  —  Hacker has sold Windows zero-days to the likes of Fancy Bear, FruityArmor, and SandCat.  —  For the past three years … Kaspersky Lab profiles Volodya, one of the

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    • Putin signs bill that intends to give Russia a "sovereign internet" the Kremlin could disconnect from the global web; the bill goes into effect on November 1 (Max Seddon/Financial Times)

    Max Seddon / Financial Times: Putin signs bill that intends to give Russia a “sovereign internet” the Kremlin could disconnect from the global web; the bill goes into effect on November 1  —  Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a law on Wednesday that intends to give the country a “sovereign internet” … Putin signs bill

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    • Analysis: In Q1, for the first time, Amazon's first-party online retail sales of $29.5B were less than half of its overall net sales, which were $59.7B (Nat Levy/GeekWire)

    Nat Levy / GeekWire: Analysis: In Q1, for the first time, Amazon’s first-party online retail sales of $29.5B were less than half of its overall net sales, which were $59.7B  —  For the first time in Amazon’s history, the company’s first-party online retail sales represented less than half of its overall net sales last quarter

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    • Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue of $4.98B, down 4.6% YoY, profit of $663M, up from $330M YoY, but lackluster Q3 guidance due to weak demand for smartphones in China (Ian King/Bloomberg)

    Ian King / Bloomberg: Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue of $4.98B, down 4.6% YoY, profit of $663M, up from $330M YoY, but lackluster Q3 guidance due to weak demand for smartphones in China  —  – CEO points to ongoing soft demand in biggest market for phones  — Apple licensing terms will be ‘consistent’ with program Qualcomm

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