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Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Facebook redesigns business Pages as their feed reach declines, to emphasize utility related to the particular company and will begin suggesting “related pages”   —  An unescapable fact of Facebook's ubiquity is that as more Pages and people compete for limited News Feed attention …

Sara Salinas / CNBC : YouTube removes the Alex Jones Channel for violating community guidelines, after he circumvented a suspension by live streaming on other channels   —  YouTube has removed Alex Jones' page, following bans earlier today from Apple and Facebook.  —  Google had previously declined to comment …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Mixpanel report: Facebook is now a major mobile browser in the US, with 10%+ market share in many states, while Safari leads with ~58%   —  Most of the data around web browser market share puts Google Chrome or Safari at the top - with their percentage of the market varying by platform and region.

Wall Street Journal : Sources: Facebook has asked large US banks to share customers' detailed financial info, so it can add financial services features, like showing account balances   —  Facebook has asked large U.S. banks to share detailed financial information about customers as it seeks to boost user engagement

Wall Street Journal : Sources: to add new financial services including showing account balances, Facebook has asked large US banks to share customers' detailed financial info   —  Facebook has asked large U.S. banks to share detailed financial information about customers as it seeks to boost user engagement

Bloomberg : Sources: Apple hopes to grow sales in India by opening stores starting next year, improving apps and services aimed at Indians, and offering better retail deals   —  Samsung, Xiaomi, and other rivals are stomping the company in India, where it ranks 11th.  —  In Bengaluru's busy Madiwala neighborhood …

China is rising in many ways — the economy, consumer spending and technology — but still many of its population looks overseas, and particularly to the West, for cues on lifestyle and health. That’s a theme that’s being seized by LemonBox , a China-U.S. startup that lets Chinese consumers buy U.S. health products at affordable prices. Indeed, the recent scare around Chinese vaccinations, which saw faulty inoculations given to babies and toddlers in a number of provinces , has only fueled demand for overseas health products which LemonBox founder Derek Weng discovered himself when his father was diagnosed as having high blood sugar levels. Weng, then working in the U.S. for Walmart, was able to look up and buy the right medicine pills for his father and bring them back to China himself. He realized, however, that others are not so fortunate. After polling friends and family, he set up an experimental WeChat app in 2016 that dispensed health information such as articles and information. Within a year, it had racked up 30,000 subscribers and given him the confidence to jump into the business fully.

Michael Sainato / The Guardian : Investigation finds some Amazon warehouse staff across the US feel mistreated by the company after workplace accidents left them unable to work   —  Vickie Shannon Allen, 49, started working at Amazon as a counter in a fulfillment warehouse at Haslet, Texas, in May 2017.

Washington Post : By taking six weeks to ban pages very similar to Twitter accounts publicly linked to IRA, Facebook shows it still struggles to deal with bad actors effectively   —  SAN FRANCISCO — At least three groups that Facebook banned this week for spreading disinformation shared similar names and traits …

India might be the next country to insist that internet companies store users' data inside its borders. Reuters has learned that a government cloud policy panel wants locally-generated data (including info about Indians) to be stored on servers withi...

Adam Fisher / New York Magazine : Former employees reflect on the rise and fall of General Magic, which spun out of Apple in 1990 with much of the original Mac team to build a PDA-like device   —  Chances are that you've never heard of General Magic, but in Silicon Valley the company is the stuff of legend.

Data sovereignty is on the rise across the world. Laws and regulations increasingly require that citizen data be stored in local data centers, and often restricts movement of that data outside of a country’s borders. The European Union’s GDPR policy is one example , although it’s relatively porous. China’s relatively new cloud computing law is much more strict, and forced Apple to turn over its Chinese-citizen iCloud data to local providers and Amazon to sell off data center assets in the country . Now, it appears that India will join this policy movement. According to Aditya Kalra in Reuters , an influential cloud policy panel has recommended that India mandate data localization in the country, for investigative and national security reasons, in a draft report set to be released later this year. That panel is headed by well-known local entrepreneur Kris Gopalakrishnan , who founded Infosys, the IT giant. That report would match other policy statements from the Indian political establishment in recent months . The government’s draft National Digital Communications Policy this year said that data sovereignty is a top mission for the country. The report called for the government by 2022 to “Establish a comprehensive data protection regime for digital communications that safeguards the privacy, autonomy and choice of individuals and facilitates India’s effective participation in the global digital economy.” It’s that last line that is increasingly the objective of governments around the world. While privacy and security are certainly top priorities, governments now recognize that the economics of data are going to be crucial for future innovation and growth. Maintaining local control of data — through whatever means necessary — ensures that cloud providers and other services have to spend locally, even in a global digital economy. India is both a crucial and an ironic manifestation of this pattern. It is crucial because of the size of its economy: public cloud revenues in the country are expected to hit $2.5 billion this year , according to Gartner’s estimates, an annual growth rate of 37.5%.

Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa . More posts by this contributor Sokowatch closes $2 million seed round to modernize Africa’s B2B retail Update: EV startups Alta, Energica, and Zero could reboot the motorcycle industry You’ll soon be able to get your battery running and head out on the highway on a variety of  Harley Davidson  EVs. That according to news the Milwaukee based motorcycle manufacture will offer “an exciting portfolio of two-wheeled electric vehicles” in the near future, including a possible e-scooter and bicycle. These EVs are an addition to Harley Davidson’s first production LiveWire e-moto—  announced earlier this year  and set hit showroom floors by August 2019. So what new tech will Harley add to its predominantly chrome and steel internal combustion stable? “A broader range of electric models that are light, nimble and ready to tackle the urban landscape…available by 2022,” was the description an HD spokesperson gave TechCrunch. Harley Davidson plans to make five production EVs in total, two by 2022, according to the spokesperson and  an interview  by Chief Operating Officer Michelle Kumbier. Harley isn’t ready to “take the full cover off” yet the spokesperson said, but did share some indicative concept photos of one lightweight electric motorcycle, an e-scooter, and an e-bicycle.” Harley’s EV development started with the  2014 Project LiveWire  concept motorcycle, which will become its full-sized electric LiveWire motorcycle by next year. The electric news came as part of a new growth plan  announced by CEO Matthew Levatich  to expand HD’s lineup of lighter motorcycles—including several  new gas bikes —and push more aggressively into emerging markets such as India and China. Levatich placed “enabling E.V. technology” squarely in Harley Davidson’s priorities. He said HD looked to “to create new riders” meet them where they are “in the cities” and give them “a cool product…that is much more twist-and-go”—a reference to  electric motorcycles’ no clutch, no gears design that also makes them easier to ride. Harley’s revised focus comes as prevailing trends have brought financial pains to many big motorcycle makers, including Harley Davidson. Since the recession, America’s motorcycle sector has been in the doldrums

Part-comic, part-disturbing, this online spectacle is just another event underlining the India government's disdain for any meaningful dialogue on issues of data security.

As more and more people use their mobile devices for everyday computing tasks, it makes sense that there would be more attacks. The latest phishing attempt, discovered over at Ars Technica, involves a false webpage that initiates a call on your iPhon...