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   (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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