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Verizon Communications said on Thursday it was pausing advertising on Facebook in support of a campaign that called out the social media giant for not doing enough to stop hate speech on its platforms.

Amazon.com has agreed to pay over $1-billion to buy self-driving start-up Zoox, according to a report. It would would expand its reach in autonomous vehicle technology.

Local vendor-neutral cloud infrastructure provider Routed has been listed as one of 10 global providers of VMware’s Disaster Recovery as a Service.

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MTN Group said on Thursday that it has topped 100 million active data customers – technically, 100 million Sims with an active data connection – for the first time.

Naspers affiliate Tencent is buying certain assets of iFlix, a struggling streaming platform with about 25 million users focused in South and Southeast Asia.

Google has adjusted its privacy settings so that it retains less user data in an effort to keep personal information safe.

Google will begin paying select media outlets featured in a yet-to-be released news service later this year, a major business shift for the search engine.

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