$QCOM Qualcomm Loses Bid to Stall $664,000 Daily Fines in EU Battle

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2. Qualcomm Loses Bid to Stall $664,000 Daily Fines in EU Battle

3. Major tech firms urge U.S. to retain net neutrality rules

1. UAE behind cyberattack that led to Qatar boycott after incendiary false quotes appeared online, U.S. officials say

A spokesman for the Qatari Embassy in Washington responded by drawing attention to a statement by that attorney general Ali Bin Fetais who said late last month that has evidence that certain iPhones originating from countries laying siege to Qatar were used in the.

Separately the United States warned Qatar to keep a tighter rein on wealthy individuals there who surreptitiously funded Islamist terror groups a charge that Washington has also made in the past against the Saudis and other gulf countries.

When the group released a list of demands for Qatar including shutting down Al Jazeera and expelling a number of people deemed terrorists the State Department suggested that they were unreasonable and that the terrorism funding issue was a smokescreen for regional grievances that should be resolved through mediation and negotiation.

2. Publishers drop Snpachat: “This is how little we use [it] — I don’t know the number of followers of [the accounts]”

Today parent company Snap is facing questions about user growth and retention with all the moves Instagram is making to copy features as its declining stock price shows.

Hearst and other publishers that have channels in Discover section are still committed to the app considering it an important way to reach young audiences in a carefully curated environment and make money from their journalism.

Since November Instagram has let creators link out to external sites granting a longtime wish of publishers and giving it a leg up on Snapchat which followed with a similar feature on July.

3. Most interesting thing about WashPo story that UAE hacked Qatar news agency is that NSA is monitoring UAE govt comms

A spokesman for the Qatari Embassy in Washington responded by drawing attention to a statement by that attorney general Ali Bin Fetais who said late last month that has evidence that certain iPhones originating from countries laying siege to Qatar were used in the.

Separately the United States warned Qatar to keep a tighter rein on wealthy individuals there who surreptitiously funded Islamist terror groups a charge that Washington has also made in the past against the Saudis and other gulf countries.

When the group released a list of demands for Qatar including shutting down Al Jazeera and expelling a number of people deemed terrorists the State Department suggested that they were unreasonable and that the terrorism funding issue was a smokescreen for regional grievances that should be resolved through mediation and negotiation.

4. Things that make you go ‘hmmmm…’. Essential marketing vice president leaves after seven months

EssentialBrian Wallace profile on Essential the startup helmed by Android creator Andy Rubin has lost one of its top executives just over a month after it announced its first major product.

Andy Fouché who is listed as the company head of communications on its website left recently as well he told Business Insider in an email last month.

Rubin also teased at the Wired Business Conference in June that he like to launch some sort of connected car product but did provide any details beyond that.

5. Wow: cyberwar backstory to Qatar-Saudi/UAE feud

A spokesman for the Qatari Embassy in Washington responded by drawing attention to a statement by that attorney general Ali Bin Fetais who said late last month that has evidence that certain iPhones originating from countries laying siege to Qatar were used in the.

Separately the United States warned Qatar to keep a tighter rein on wealthy individuals there who surreptitiously funded Islamist terror groups a charge that Washington has also made in the past against the Saudis and other gulf countries.

When the group released a list of demands for Qatar including shutting down Al Jazeera and expelling a number of people deemed terrorists the State Department suggested that they were unreasonable and that the terrorism funding issue was a smokescreen for regional grievances that should be resolved through mediation and negotiation.

6. Bitcoin Is Having a Civil War

The community has bitterly argued whether the cryptocurrency should evolve to appeal to mainstream corporations and become more attractive to traditional capital or fortify its position as a libertarian beacon whether it should act more as an asset like gold or as a payment system.

The unprecedented level of endorsement is partly prompted by anxiety of bitcoin losing its dominant status to ethereum a newer cryptocurrency whose popularity has soared thanks to its ability to run smart contracts and its more approach.

suggest a hard fork happen significantly faster than even the most minor of changes in recent history is irresponsible and dangerous said Matt Corallo a Core contributor and former of Blockstream which is among companies that stand to benefit from SegWit.

7. “Like Spotify, the Kindle app is on any platform, so it doesn’t stop you switching devices.”

That mean that these services are exactly commodities each builds its own recommendation tools some experiment with routes to market with mobile operators for example and some try exclusive early access to new pop songs.

Prime has become a third pillar to business next to logistics and the ecommerce platform and Amazon is always looking for ways to add more perceived value to it preferably with no marginal cost TV content that it owns outright is exactly that.

A recurring story in the past was for a leading tech company to go to Hollywood announce its intention to buy lots of stuff and then turn pale at the first rate card it was shown and say really expensive.

8. Looking forward to Alexa on U11 but the release process is a mess. Edge Sense update with broken support, now update not supporting UK yet.