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Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse

[ad_1] Facebook might have another Cambridge Analytica on its hands. In a late Friday news dump, Facebook revealed that today it filed a lawsuit alleging South Korean analytics firm Rankwave abused its developer platform’s data, and has refused to cooperate with a mandatory compliance audit and request to delete the ...

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India’s most popular services are becoming super apps

[ad_1] Truecaller, an app that helps users screen strangers and robocallers, will soon allow users in India, its largest market, to borrow up to a few hundred dollars. The crediting option will be the fourth feature the nine-year-old app adds to its service in the last two years. So far ...

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Smartphone shipments hit a five-year low in North America

[ad_1] More dismal news from the smartphone number crunchers. New figures out of Canalys put the North American smartphone market at five-year low for the first quarter of 2019. That’s…bad. But also, in line with what we’ve been seeing globally. The market has stagnated, and while manufacturers aren’t in full-on ...

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Google finally releases an affordable phone worth buying

[ad_1] Pixel 3a Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends The Google Pixel 3a is the biggest bargain I’ve seen in years. Here’s a phone that offers up nearly everything that’s good about the Pixel 3 for half the price. Google has compromised in all the right places, switching to plastic in an already fairly ...

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Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it

[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg: “The future is private.” Sundar Pichai: “The present is private.” While both CEOs made protecting user data a central theme of their conference keynotes this month, Facebook’s product updates were mostly vague vaporware while Google’s were either ready to ship or ready to demo. The contrast highlights ...

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