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Canalys: Vivo overtakes Samsung in Q1 2020 to take second place in Indian smartphone sales with 19.9% market share; Xiaomi still leads with 30.6% market share (Canalys)

Canalys: Canalys: Vivo overtakes Samsung in Q1 2020 to take second place in Indian smartphone sales with 19.9% market share; Xiaomi still leads with 30.6% market share  —  Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) – Friday, 24 April 2020 Canalys: Vivo overtakes Samsung in Q1 2020 to take second place in

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WhatsApp says there has been a 70% reduction in the number of highly forwarded messages sent after its new forwarding limit was enforced (Neha Alawadhi/Business Standard)

Neha Alawadhi / Business Standard: WhatsApp says there has been a 70% reduction in the number of highly forwarded messages sent after its new forwarding limit was enforced  —  Earlier this month, WhatsApp limited the number of times a frequently forwarded message can be sent further to only one chat at a time WhatsApp says

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Security firm ZecOps: iOS Mail app's old, unpatched bugs have been exploited against a US Fortune 500 firm, a Japanese telco exec, a journalist in Europe, more (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Security firm ZecOps: iOS Mail app’s old, unpatched bugs have been exploited against a US Fortune 500 firm, a Japanese telco exec, a journalist in Europe, more  —  Hacks that can play out without any user interaction may be more common than we realize, in part because they’re so difficult

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Profile of Ryan Petersen, CEO of freight logistics startup Flexport which raised $1.3B to date and is helping fight COVID-19 by fundraising and delivering PPE (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Profile of Ryan Petersen, CEO of freight logistics startup Flexport which raised $1.3B to date and is helping fight COVID-19 by fundraising and delivering PPE  —  He’s stepped up to lead the war against COVID-19  —  “I didn’t know what the term ‘freight forwarder’ meant until a year into starting the

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Afraid of losing rankings in Amazon search, some suppliers are redirecting a "lion's share" of their products to Amazon, and whatever is left to other retailers (Renee Dudley/ProPublica)

Renee Dudley / ProPublica: Afraid of losing rankings in Amazon search, some suppliers are redirecting a “lion’s share” of their products to Amazon, and whatever is left to other retailers  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Afraid of

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