10 things in tech you need to know today (FB)

Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday.

1. Microsoft is in talks to buy GitHub, a popular platform for software developers worth around $2 billion. The talks have come as GitHub, a popular platform for software developers, has struggled to hire a new CEO.

2. Facebook had data-sharing agreements with at least 60 device makers, including Apple, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft, many of which still exist. Without explicit consent, device makers were allowed to access data of users' friends, even after Facebook said it would not share such information.

3. Sandy Parakilas, the former Facebook employee who helped blow the whistle on Cambridge Analytica, has said he won't stop pressuring the company until it ensures the integrity of elections. Parakilas is due to appear in Brussels before European lawmakers on Monday.

4. Apple is considering launching a new mobile ad network, according to The Wall Street Journal. The ad network would allow developers to promote their apps in other apps.

5. Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan has said ride-hailing app Uber is finished in Turkey, following pressure from Istanbul taxi drivers who said it was providing an illegal service and called for it to be banned. He said: "This thing called Uber emerged. That business is finished. That does not exist anymore."

6. UK chancellor Philip Hammond told Business Insider that global governments might need to rethink competition regulation and tax regimes to stop big tech firms becoming monopolies. Hammond was visiting Silicon Valley to visit tech firms.

7. There's a big risk that people are giving away sensitive DNA information to insecure websites. McClatchy DC found sites owned by Ancestry had been hacked, and that the company is handing over people's anonymised data to a research firm owned by Google.

8. Nordic countries are opposing EU proposals for a digital tax. Finance ministers for Sweden, Denmark and Finland said it could damage Europe's economy.

9. Alibaba unveiled a driverless delivery robot. The robot could act as a delivery courier or coffee vendor, according to the company.

10. Former SoftBank executive Nikesh Arora has become CEO of Palo Alto Networks.  Arora had also previously served as chief business officer at Alphabet Inc's Google.

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