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November 13 2015 - 3:03AM
Dow Jones News
(FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 11/13/15)
Uber to Use Maps
From TomTom in App
Car-hailing service Uber Technologies Inc. has struck a deal
with Dutch navigation company TomTom NV to use digital maps and
traffic data for its smartphone application.
TomTom will provide users of the Uber driver app with digital
maps and traffic data in more than 300 cities around the world, the
Dutch company said Thursday. Financial details of the deal weren't
disclosed.
Uber said the deal with TomTom won't replace traffic information
it currently relies on and that it will continue to use a variety
of different sources for its Uber driver app, including Alphabet
Inc.'s Google mapping technology.
-- Levien de Feijter and Ellen Proper
Spinoffs From H-P
Announce Dividends
The two companies formerly known as Hewlett-Packard Co.
announced quarterly dividend payments on Thursday.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., which concentrates on growth as
it tries to keep step in a corporate-computing market transformed
by the cloud, authorized a cash dividend for the first quarter of
the 2016 fiscal year of 5.5 cents per share.
The second spinoff, HP Inc., which sells PCs and printers,
authorized a dividend of 12.4 cents.
Both dividends are payable Jan. 6, 2016, to shareholders of
record on Dec. 9.
-- Ezequiel Minaya
Nations Ask for More
Facebook User Data
Governments around the globe are asking Facebook Inc. to ban
more posts and to hand over more user data, according to the social
network's latest report on government requests.
During the first six months of 2015, 92 countries asked the
company to restrict 20,568 pieces of content on Facebook,
Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram that they believed violated their
laws. That was more than double the 8,774 requests Facebook
received during the first half of 2014 from 83 countries.
Requests for user-account data also rose 18% to 41,214 in the
same time frame.
On average, Facebook provided some data for about 42.4% of the
requests. The U.S. made 17,577 requests about 26,579 user accounts
in the first half of 2015, according to Facebook. About 80% of U.S.
requests resulted in Facebook providing at least some data.
-- Deepa Seetharaman
Microsoft Launches
Xbox One Update
Microsoft Corp. on Thursday launched a major update to its Xbox
One videogame console, including backward compatibility with games
made for the console's predecessor, the Xbox 360.
So far 104 older titles are now playable on Xbox One -- discs or
digital versions -- including hits such as "Assassin's Creed II,"
"Fallout 3" and "Mass Effect." Microsoft said more games will be
added on a regular basis.
The Xbox One update moves the console's operating system to
Windows 10. That means owners can play games against friends who
are using Window's 10 PCs and tablets, and stream Xbox One games to
those devices.
-- Sarah E. Needleman
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November 13, 2015 02:48 ET (07:48 GMT)
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