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30% Of Android Switchers Turned To Apple This Quarter

This makes it the highest ratio of “switchers” Apple has ever recorded in a single three-month period, reveals Tim Cook at Apple’s quarterly conference. Cook further stated that that the 30 percent applies to customers who upgraded from an Android device, not first-time buyers.

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Xiaomi Under Investigation In China For Using ‘Best’, ‘Most Advanced’ To Describe Its Products

Xiaomi is under probe for allegedly using superlative adjectives for promoting products, which is against the new advertising laws passed by China. Law-enforcement staff found evidences on Xiaomi’s official website that allegedly used phrases like “the best”, “the most advanced”

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Facebook Is Testing Video Profile Pictures, Revamps Mobile Profiles

Facebook is currently testing ‘looping profile videos’ which plays for seven seconds on its Profile pages. The company has also introduced some design changes for mobile profiles like changes in Bio feature, photos, and support for emojis.

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Adblock Plus Will Form Independent Board To Filter ‘Acceptable Ads’

The board will have representatives from online publishers and media companies, marketers, advertising companies and consumers and is expected to be in place during the first half of 2016. New board will have freedom to determine credibility of ads, according to the policies of Ablock Plus.

Google’s Appeal Against ‘right-to-be-forgotten’ Rejected by French Data Regulator

France’s data regulator, Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) had earlier ordered Google to implement Right To Be Forgotten site-wide. The ruling was appealed against by Google and CNIL might fine Google with €300,000, if ban not implemented site-wide.

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Indian-origin investment advisor to be sentenced for committing $9 Million FB Stock Fraud

Gignesh Movalia pleaded guilty before US Magistrate Judge Anthony Porcelli, the Middle District of Florida, to one count of investment advisor fraud. Founder and manager of OM Global Investment Fund, Movalia began soliciting investments in 2011 by touting access to IPO shares of Facebook, and admitted to allegations including using $9 million for “side-pocket” investments.