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Verizon sees slowdown as it wrestles with Justice Dept. probe

For Verizon, no news is bad news when it comes to customer growth.  After a flurry of promotional activity in 2017, which saw the return of unlimited data plans in a big way, as well as media bundles like free Netflix for T-Mobile subscribers and HBO Go thrown into AT&T wireless plans, US wireless carriers backed down with fewer discounts …

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Facebook data was ‘ineffectual,’ says Cambridge Analytica

Cambridge Analytica says the data it licensed from Global Science Research (GSR), which collected information on millions of Facebook users through a personality quiz app, was “ineffectual,” an evaluation that prompted its decision to not use the data in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.  Voter profiling firm Cambridge Analytica says the Facebook data it obtained was “ineffectual.” Getty Images In …

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