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Snopes quits fact-checking partnership with Facebook

Shu Zhang | Reuters Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg meets Founder and Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group Jack Ma (not pictured), at the China Development Forum in Beijing, China, March 19, 2016.  Snopes, a fact-checking organization, announced on Friday its decision to end its partnership with Facebook, which has …

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2018 smartphone shipments worst year ever

Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A customer views an Apple Inc. iPhone 5s at a Reliance Digital store, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd., in New Delhi, India, on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013. Reliance Communications Ltd. is the first Indian carrier to sell Apples iPhone with a service contract. …

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Apple, Facebook make peace on app ban

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify following a break during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee joint hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Apple and Facebook put an end to a short-lived …

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CVS, Cigna fall after Trump administration proposes rule to lower drug prices

Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar listens as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech about lowering prescription drug prices from the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 11, 2018. The Trump administration announced Thursday it plans to target “backdoor rebates” …

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Facebook removes nearly 800 ‘inauthentic’ Iranian pages, accounts

Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify following a break during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee joint hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Facebook on Thursday announced it removed 783 pages, groups …

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Nintendo cuts Switch sales forecast, delays mobile Mario Kart game

Richard Atrero de Guzman | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Japanese gamers buy the new video game Nintendo Switch games console by Nintendo Co. during the first day of sales worldwide in Tokyo, Japan on March 03, 2017. Nintendo is less optimistic about how many of Switch units it will …

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Uber suspends cab service in Spanish city of Barcelona

Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A driver uses an Uber Technologies car service app on a mobile device while driving in Washington, D.C. Uber has suspended its ride-hailing service in the Spanish city of Barcelona. The move, outlined in a blog post on Thursday, is in protest of new …

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Elon Musk says the Tesla Model X is the ‘Faberge egg of cars’

Stephen Lam | Reuters Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk introduces the “falcon wing” door on the Model X electric sports-utility vehicle during a presentation in Fremont, California, on September 29, 2015. Tesla CEO Elon Musk called the company’s Model X luxury utility vehicle a “work of art” that he likened …

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Alphabet, Twitter shares rise after Facebook shows online ad strength

Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call Group | Getty Images Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, and Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO, arrive to testify before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Dirksen Building on the influence of foreign operations on social media on September 5, 2018.

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Facebook US revenue growth outpaces user growth, scandals no effect

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., smiles during a news conference at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. Facebook is still growing in the U.S. despite a number of privacy scandals that have inspired movements to delete the platform. …

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