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Gist::Google to let G Suite admins select users for the Advanced Protection Program, designed to prevent cyberattacks against high-profile users, in the coming days (Liam Tung/ZDNet)

Liam Tung / ZDNet : Google to let G Suite admins select users for the Advanced Protection Program, designed to prevent cyberattacks against high-profile users, in the coming days   —  You might never need to change your password again if you're part of the G Suite Advanced Protection Program. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Mets keep 'on mission,' stand pat at deadline

After making a splash with the acquisition of Marcus Stroman, the Mets stood pat at the trade deadline, with GM Brodie Van Wagenen describing their thinking as, "we only wanted to consider moves that were going to improve our club and keep us on mission." Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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THE TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY FORECAST BOOK 2019: How to navigate the quickly evolving mobile, communications, and technology space (AMZN, BABA, TCEHY, AAPL, GOOGL, SNAP, TMUS, UPS, S, VZ, ROKU, SSNLF, MSI)

This is a preview of a research report from Business Insider Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service. To learn more about Business Insider Intelligence, click here . 5G is coming, and wireless networks are poised for transformation thanks to its blazing fast connections, near-instantaneous response times, and massive device support. The networks will support over 1.5 billion 5G phones in use worldwide by 2024. Companies across the digital space need to know what this generational shift will do to enable new practices, expand revenue streams, and embed their technology even deeper into consumer’s lives and enterprise workflows. And 5G won’t be acting alone: The development of AI technologies will fuel the rise of autonomous cars and trucks and the growth of smart speakers, all of which are acting alongside one another and ushering in a transformed world. To help navigate this fast-changing landscape, Business Insider Intelligence has forecast the key figures th
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Gist::Qualcomm and Tencent Games announce strategic partnership to create digital entertainment, including Snapdragon-based mobile gaming devices, AR/VR, and 5G games (Patrick Moorhead/Forbes)

Patrick Moorhead / Forbes : Qualcomm and Tencent Games announce strategic partnership to create digital entertainment, including Snapdragon-based mobile gaming devices, AR/VR, and 5G games   —  I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models.  —  Today, Qualcomm announced a sweeping … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Capital One hacked, over 100 million customers affected

Capital One was hacked earlier this month, the company has disclosed. A notice about the data breach is currently being broadcast from the company’s home page . Here’s what we know so far: Capital One believes the breach exposed credit card application data for those who’d applied between 2005 and 2019. The company says this works out to roughly 100 million individuals in the US, and 6 million in Canada. The data leaked potentially includes “names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and self-reported income” of those who’d applied, as well as information like “credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information” Capital One is estimating that roughly 140,000 social security numbers were potentially compromised in the US, as well as 80,000 linked bank account numbers. In Canada, roughly 1 million Social Insurance Numbers were compromised. Transaction data for “a total of 23 days” spread across 2016/2017/20
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Two Sequoia Capital bigwigs once hung out at a coffee shop dressed as 'Toy Story' characters to impress a candidate with a job offer

Jess Lee, a partner at legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sequoia Capital , recounted her experience receiving an offer from the firm in a Bloomberg interview Monday. Lee said that partners Jim Goetz and Roelof Botha met her at a cafe dressed in Toy Story cosplay when they offered her a job. In the Bloomberg interview, Lee, an avid cosplay enthusiast, said the gesture made her feel like she could bring her "whole self" to work. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. To set itself above the rest, Sequoia Capital apparently goes to infinity and beyond. In an interview with Bloomberg , Jess Lee, now a partner at the legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm , recounted exactly how she received her offer. Lee told Bloomberg that Sequoia partners Jim Goetz and Roelof Botha offered to meet her at a cafe in Mountain View. When she showed up, she noticed two cafe patrons were in full Toy Story cosplay as characters Woody and Buzz Lightyea
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Google Cloud has a powerful new friend, as VMware continues to form key partnerships with the major cloud players (GOOG, VMW, AMZN, MSFT)

Google and VMware announced Monday an expanded partnership that would allow businesses to use VMware tools on the tech giant's cloud platform. The deal would expand the reach of both companies at a time more businesses are moving to the cloud, but many are still maintaining networks in private data centers. However, VMware recently inked a similar deal with Microsoft — and has hinted that its true focus is on its longer-running partnership with Amazon Web Services. Click here for more BI Prime stories. Google and VMware are expanding their partnership to make it easier for businesses using their products to set up and run their networks in the cloud. The agreement, which was unveiled Monday, would let businesses using VMware's virtualization and networking tools will be able to do so on Google's cloud platform. The partnership was first reported by Bloomberg on Monday . Google is the third-largest player, after Amazon and Microsoft, in the nearly $100 billion cloud
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Capital One says it was hit with data breach, affecting tens of millions of credit card applications

Capital One says it was hit with a data breach, affecting an estimated 100 million US individuals and approximately 6 million in Canada. Paige A. Thompson, a former software engineer, was arrested Monday by FBI in Seattle. She appeared in court and was charged with a single count of computer fraud and abuse, which carries a sentence of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . Capital One says it was hit with a data breach, affecting an estimated 100 million US individuals and approximately 6 million in Canada, according to a press release published Monday. Here's what was compromised: According the Capital One statement, the largest category of information that was accessed pertained to consumers and small businesses, who applied for credit cards between 2005 and early 2019, which includes personal information from credit card applications, such as names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, ema
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