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  Twitter takes action against 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 03:00pm on February 22, 2020

  Twitter said Friday it suspended 70 accounts for spam-like posts supporting Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg, whose campaign has hired hundreds of people to promote...

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  Silicon Valley inventor of ‘cut, copy and paste’ dies

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 09:54pm on February 20, 2020

  Silicon Valley on Wednesday was mourning a pioneering computer scientist whose accomplishments included inventing the widely relied on ‘cut, copy and paste’ command. Bronx-born Lawrence...

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  Amazon wins suspension of $10b ‘JEDI’ contract to Microsoft

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 10:25pm on February 14, 2020

  A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the US military from awarding a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft, after Amazon claimed the process...

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  WhatsApp tops 2b users

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 11:47pm on February 13, 2020

  The Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp said on Wednesday that it now had more than two billion users around the world as it reaffirmed its commitment...

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  Samsung unveils Galaxy Z Flip

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 11:11pm on February 12, 2020

  Samsung on Tuesday unveiled its second folding smartphone, a ‘Z Flip’ handset with a lofty price tag aimed at ‘trendsetters.’ The smartphone flips open, like...

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  Google HR head steps away amid worker activism

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 03:50pm on February 11, 2020

  Google on Monday confirmed that head of human resources Eileen Naughton was stepping away from her job as ‘vice-president of people operations’ at the internet...

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  Walt Disney Co results lifted by ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Frozen’

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 10:51pm on February 05, 2020

  Walt Disney Co on Tuesday delivered better-than-expected results in the past quarter, fueled by box office hits from its latest ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Frozen’ films...

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  Apple unveils revamped map app to challenge Google

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 10:59pm on February 01, 2020

  Apple on Thursday said that it has finished rolling out an overhauled map app in the US in another attempt to challenge Google’s popular smartphone...

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  Apple takes smartphone sales crown from Samsung

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 10:45pm on February 01, 2020

  Apple was the top smartphone seller in the final quarter of last year, seizing the crown from Samsung, according to market trackers. Apple shipped an...

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  Amazon shares surge on strong earnings update

  Agence France-Presse . San Francisco | Updated at 09:57pm on January 31, 2020

  Amazon shares shot higher on Thursday after the internet colossus released quarterly earnings figures for the holiday quarter that trounced market expectations. Profit in the...