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    • Study using Wehe app, which detects net neutrality violations, finds that Sprint is throttling Skype across the US and almost exclusively on Android phones (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

    Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Study using Wehe app, which detects net neutrality violations, finds that Sprint is throttling Skype across the US and almost exclusively on Android phones  —  – Researcher says the behavior seems ‘directly anti-competitive’  — Sprint says it doesn’t single out individual content providers Study using Wehe app, which detects net neutrality

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    • Wall Street is now selling more data like social media sentiment and geospatial mapping, and less analysis as only ~21% of research emails are opened (Telis Demos/Wall Street Journal)

    Telis Demos / Wall Street Journal: Wall Street is now selling more data like social media sentiment and geospatial mapping, and less analysis as only ~21% of research emails are opened  —  Research units take different tack to refine information for clients; geospatial mapping for mall trips and Googling interest in ‘Luke Cage’ Wall Street

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    • SEC filings show that GE has sold 63% of its shares in Pivotal, reducing its stake from 20.8% to 7%, and earning it $173M (Dylan Martin/CRN)

    Dylan Martin / CRN: SEC filings show that GE has sold 63% of its shares in Pivotal, reducing its stake from 20.8% to 7%, and earning it $173M  —  GE significantly reduces its stake in Dell-backed Pivotal Software, the Platform-as-a-Service developer that helped the conglomerate build its industrial Internet of Things platform. SEC filings show

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    • Microsoft says it has fixed an issue deactivating licenses on some Windows 10 Pro machines, says update will be automatically applied over next 24 hours (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)

    Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft says it has fixed an issue deactivating licenses on some Windows 10 Pro machines, says update will be automatically applied over next 24 hours  —  Microsoft’s back-end activation issues which caused a number of Windows users to get false product-activation-error messages seems to be nearly fixed. Microsoft says it

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    • Dropbox reports Q3 revenue of $360.3M, up 26% YoY and beating expectations, says it had 12.3M paid users, up from 10.4M a year ago; stock up 8%+ after hours (Rosalie Chan/Business Insider)

    Rosalie Chan / Business Insider: Dropbox reports Q3 revenue of $360.3M, up 26% YoY and beating expectations, says it had 12.3M paid users, up from 10.4M a year ago; stock up 8%+ after hours  —  – Dropbox has been trying to break into the enterprise space, but investors and analysts see that as a big

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    • Cisco partners with AWS to provide companies with hybrid cloud solutions for Kubernetes on AWS, available next month (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

    Jordan Novet / CNBC: Cisco partners with AWS to provide companies with hybrid cloud solutions for Kubernetes on AWS, available next month  —  – The collaboration is meant to simplify the deployment of applications on Amazon’s cloud or in corporate data centers.  — Cisco and other traditional data center companies … Cisco partners with AWS

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    • Interviews with current and former Google staff about its China-related projects reveal tensions between preserving its founding ideals and a desire for growth (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

    Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Interviews with current and former Google staff about its China-related projects reveal tensions between preserving its founding ideals and a desire for growth  —  CEO Sundar Pichai thinks the search engine should be willing to work with Chinese censors.  Will employees go along with the plan? Interviews with current and former

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    • Google hires David Feinberg, CEO of health services organization Geisinger, to lead its health initiatives; sources say he will report to AI head Jeff Dean (Christina Farr/CNBC)

    Christina Farr / CNBC: Google hires David Feinberg, CEO of health services organization Geisinger, to lead its health initiatives; sources say he will report to AI head Jeff Dean  —  – Feinberg will work to coordinate health care efforts across many groups, including Google Brain, Nest and Google Fit. Google hires David Feinberg, CEO of

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    • Google walkout organizers say Google made progress toward addressing their demands but it must still address systemic racism and discrimination at the company (Google Walkout For Real Change)

    Google Walkout For Real Change: Google walkout organizers say Google made progress toward addressing their demands but it must still address systemic racism and discrimination at the company  —  Last week, 20,000 Google employees and TVCs (Temps, Vendors and Contractors) walked out to protest discrimination, racism … Google walkout organizers say Google made progress toward

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