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(Reuters) - Music streaming service Spotify on Wednesday filed for a direct listing of its shares, laying out financial data for the first time that cheered some analysts but led others to question how it could turn a profit from its growing subscriber base. from Reuters: Technology News http://ift.tt/2F28aBe

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg brought her message about workplace gender equality to a typically male domain on Wednesday, urging attendees at an investor conference to improve mentoring of junior female colleagues. from Reuters: Technology News http://ift.tt/2oJaLJE

(Reuters) - Music streaming service Spotify on Wednesday filed for a direct listing of its shares, taking an unusual path to the U.S. public markets for a large company. from Reuters: Technology News http://ift.tt/2t760i6

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The changes that Facebook Inc is making to its centerpiece News Feed to emphasize friends and family will not have a large impact on the social network's ad business, Chief Financial Officer David Wehner said on Wednesday. from Reuters: Technology News http://ift.tt/2oFE9QD

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc has told a British parliamentary committee that further investigations have found no new evidence that Russia used social media to interfere in the June 2016 referendum in which Britain voted to leave the European Union. from Reuters: Technology News http://ift.tt/2oFegR0

Facebook recently expanded its face recognition features—and you may have opted in without even realizing it. from Security Latest http://ift.tt/2taSNoT

(Reuters) - Music streaming service Spotify on Wednesday became the first major company to file for a direct listing of up to $1 billion with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. from Reuters: Technology News http://ift.tt/2FC53Rz

(Reuters) - Music streaming service Spotify on Wednesday filed for an initial public offering of up to $1 billion with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. from Reuters: Technology News http://ift.tt/2otVZHm

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Marshall Islands will issue its own cryptocurrency that will be circulated as legal tender along with the U.S. dollar, according to one of the remote Pacific republic's top officials. from Reuters: Technology News http://ift.tt/2CNS0cR

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Google competitors have called for further action by European Union antitrust regulators to ensure the Alphabet-owned firm treats rivals offering shopping services equally. from Reuters: Technology News http://ift.tt/2t4nlIE

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google released an update to its internet chat tool Hangouts on Wednesday, aiming to make it suitable in workplaces so the Alphabet Inc unit can compete with business software makers including Microsoft Corp and Slack Technologies Inc. from Reuters: Technology News http://ift.tt/2F0Avfn

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian mobile carrier Aircel Ltd filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, pressured by a high debt pile and mounting losses following a price war triggered by a telecom upstart. from Reuters: Technology News http://ift.tt/2FDTSYx

DUBLIN (Reuters) - WhatsApp has still not brought forward proposals to address EU regulators' concerns over the messaging service's sharing of user data with parent company Facebook, Facebook's European regulator said on Wednesday. from Reuters: Technology News http://ift.tt/2oEJaJz

A type confusion vulnerability exists in Google Chrome. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of objects in memory by the JavaScript engine while compiling code. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to open a malicious web page. from Check Point Update Services Advisories http://ift.tt/2GQSNME

Apple has finally agreed to open a new Chinese data center next month to comply with the country's latest controversial data protection law. Apple will now move the cryptographic keys of its Chinese iCloud users in data centers run by a state-owned company called Cloud Big Data Industrial Development Co, despite concerns from human rights activists. In 2017, China passed a Cybersecurity Law from The Hacker News http://ift.tt/2CsN0Pl