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    Facebook launches app that will pay users to collect their data

    By Martyn Landi12 June 2019

    Facebook has launched a new app that will pay users to allow the social network to collect data on how people use their device and the apps downloaded to it.

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    Messaging platform Telegram has confirmed it was the target of a cyber attack but said it was aimed at disrupting the service rather than an attempt to steal user data.

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    Naspers’s PayU agreed to buy Turkish digital payments company Iyzico for R2.4-billion in its biggest fintech acquisition yet.

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