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Sources: US asks allies to avoid Huawei telecommunications equipment, considers financial aid for telecom growth in nations that shun Chinese-made equipment
U.S. worried about potential Chinese meddling in 5G networks, but foreign carriers may balk — The U.S. government has initiated …
Sources: Apple is offering subsidies to network operators in Japan to shore up sales of iPhone XR, after an underwhelming launch of its least expensive phone
Japanese carriers will use subsidies from Apple to discount the cheapest new iPhone, after an underwhelming launch
How Definers brought DC-style political trickery to tech: sources say working for Qualcomm, they promoted Tim Cook as a potential 2020 presidential candidate
SAN FRANCISCO — When Tim Miller, a longtime Republican political operative, moved to the Bay Area last year to set up a public relations shop …
Report: Apple has resumed production of iPhone X due to cuts in XS and XS Max orders and an obligation to buy certain amount of OLED panels from Samsung Display
Jon Porter / The Verge :
In open letter to EU competition chief, price comparison sites say Google has failed to comply with EU ruling that requires it to give equal treatment to others
Price comparison sites have accused Google of failing to comply with an EU ruling demanding it give other shopping services “equal treatment”.
Google adds indoor positioning to Find My Device for Android 9 Pie phones, making it possible to find lost phones in places like malls, airports, and stadiums
Get your lost phone's pinpoint location, provided Google has the right map data. — If you've ever lost your Android phone …
Waycare platform, using predictive analytics, data from connected cars, road cameras, and apps like Waze, helped to reduce crashes by 17% along a Nevada highway
Predictive analytics allow Las Vegas traffic authorities to take preventative action that reduces the risk of collisions.
Amazon workers at warehouses in UK, Germany and Spain, including ~90% at a Madrid depot, stage walkouts on Black Friday to protest unfair working conditions
MADRID (AP) — Some of Amazon's workers in Europe are protesting against what they call unfair work conditions, in a move meant to disrupt operations on Black Friday.
A look at burgeoning industry of influencer marketing, where brands routinely shell out $60K+ for one video review, or $85K+ to publicly disparage a competitor
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For Black Friday, Walmart is relying on in-store operations bolstered by its mobile apps with item finders and Checkout With Me, a new personal checkout option
To better compete with Amazon and other retailers, Walmart is increasingly using technology to improve its in-store experience
Adobe: Thanksgiving day US e-commerce sales hit a record $3.7B, up ~28% YoY, with smartphones driving 54.4% of traffic to sites and 36.7% of all online sales
Thanksgiving, a day when brick-and-mortar stores tend to be closed, has become a big one for online spending, and this year did not disappoint …
Instagram says it is testing new profile layouts that rearrange core elements, except the grid view, in an apparent attempt to reduce focus on follower counts
Dami Lee / The Verge :
Amazon emails an unknown number of customers disclosing a “technical error” that exposed emails and names, but provides few other details
but doesn't disclose details Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Amazon blames ‘technical issue’ for exposing customer names and email addresses Lauren Feiner / CNBC : Amazon exposed customer names and emai...
Facebook says Mark Zuckerberg won't appear before the UK-led grand committee of eight countries on Tuesday, sending the VP of public policy to testify instead
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has declined to testify at a rare joint hearing with lawmakers from seven countries …
Facebook appeals UK regulator's decision to impose maximum £500K fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal, citing lack of evidence that UK users had suffered harm
Google says it will require advertisers to submit documents and receive verification before being able to pay for political ads in the EU, starting in January
Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg :
With only 10% of Swedes using cash this year, down from 40% in 2010, officials are trying to slow its demise as they determine societal costs
but raises a question: why aren't we like this? Sweden is the way the monetary future was supposed to look 1/ http://www.nytimes.com/... Aysha Ridzuan / @ayshardzn : Sweden have taken cashless to anot...
City officials say only half of the jobs Amazon is bringing to New York and Virginia are tech jobs, with administrative jobs like HR comprising the rest
Wall Street Journal :
LinkedIn quietly introduces a new privacy setting that defaults to blocking a user's connections from exporting the user's personal email address
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Tencent partners with Singapore-based gaming and e-commerce company Sea, which has 161M quarterly active users, to publish Tencent's games in Southeast Asia
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post :
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