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Child health advocates call for Facebook to shutter Messenger Kids app (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

SEC announces it has obtained a court order to halt and recover the assets of Dallas-based "decentralized bank" AriseBank's ICO, which allegedly raised ~$600M (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC) אסף מגידש

Andrew Ng raises $175M AI fund from Sequoia, Greylock, SoftBank, and others, with its first public investment in Landing.AI, a startup using AI in manufacturing (Kif Leswing/Business Insider) אסף מגידש

Over 100 child advocates, pediatric and medical experts urge Facebook to discontinue Messenger Kids, saying it poses health and development risk to children (Hamza Shaban/Washington Post) אסף מגידש

Mobile and browser testing platform BrowserStack raises $50M Series A from Accel, says it has bootstrapped its way into profitability with 25K+ paying customers (Ron Miller/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase partner to cut employee healthcare costs, will create a company targeting healthcare technology solutions (Jeff Cox/CNBC) אסף מגידש

Sources: Verizon has dropped all plans to sell phones made by Huawei, including the new Mate 10 Pro, after facing pressure from the US government (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Sources: Apple is delaying some planned iOS features, including improvements to core apps, to next year in order to focus on performance and reliability issues (Ina Fried/Axios) אסף מגידש

UK court of appeal rules mass digital surveillance powers under the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act are unlawful (Alan Travis/The Guardian) אסף מגידש

Despite commitments to India, Apple is losing marketshare due to high cost of phones, and core services, like Maps and Siri, not working well locally (Manish Singh/CNBC) אסף מגידש

Sources: Apple to curtail iPhone X production in the first quarter to ~20M handsets, down from ~40M initially planned, due to weak demand (Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Researchers train a drone to autonomously fly through city streets by using data collected by cars and bikes; the method could minimize hardware inside drones (Evan Ackerman/IEEE Spectrum) אסף מגידש

SAP to acquire Callidus Software, provider of cloud-based human resource software and other IT solutions, for $2.4B; the deal is expected to close in Q2 2018 (Charlie Osborne/ZDNet) אסף מגידש