Facebook will now select stories and excerpts automatically for Trending topic pages, show topics instead of story descriptions in Trending section
Today, we're making some changes to the Trending feature on Facebook that will make the product more automated and will no longer require people …
White House proposing new federal rules letting foreign entrepreneurs with $345K+ in US funding remain in country for 5 years; no congressional approval needed
The move, which won't require congressional approval, allows people to stay up to five years, provided their startup has significant U.S. investment.
PE firm Apollo Global taking Rackspace private in $4.3B deal, valuing firm at 38% premium over August 3 closing price when first reports about buyout surfaced
Apollo Global, a private-equity firm, has agreed to buy Rackspace in a $4.3 billion deal that would take the cloud-computing company private.
Sources: Apple to use Sony's FeliCa chip, a mobile tap-to-pay standard, in new iPhones in Japan to let users pay for transit with their smartphones
Company planning new iPhone model with Sony's FeliCa chip — Apple in talks with financial insitution for mobile payments
Sources: Spotify retaliates against artists who give exclusives to rivals by excluding tracks from promoted playlists and demoting their songs in search results
Service said to tell labels it may keep tracks off playlists — Apple Music emerges as largest challenge to streaming leader
Spotify calls report that it demotes songs in search due to artists' exclusives with rivals “unequivocally false”
Spotify doesn't like exclusives. But it says it won't bury Frank Ocean and other acts in its search results. — Spotify doesn't like it when big-name acts take their music to Apple or Tidal first.
How a government targeted Ahmed Mansoor, an activist in the UAE, with three zero-day exploits meant to infect his iPhone with sophisticated commercial spyware
Saturday, August 27, 2016 Ewan Spence / Forbes : Apple Loop: iPhone 7 Launch On September 9th ‘Confirmed’, Dangerous iOS Flaws, New iPhone 7 Images Paul Szoldra / Business Insider : Inside ‘Pegasus,’ ...
Researchers uncover zero-day iOS flaws used to try to remotely steal data from activists, likely sold by malware vendor NSO; Apple releases patch with iOS 9.3.5
The software update Apple … Graham Spencer / MacStories : Government Hackers Caught Using Unprecedented iPhone Spy Tool Jeff John Roberts / Fortune : Why You Really Need to Download Apple's Latest Sec...
Sources: Facebook letting go of entire Trending Topics editorial staff, consisting of 15-18 workers contracted through a third party
Facebook will no longer employ humans to write descriptions for items in its Trending section, which attracted controversy over allegations of political bias in May.
Dropbox prompting users to reset passwords that haven't been changed since mid-2012, calls it a preventative move, says no evidence accounts improperly accessed
Dropbox is requiring users who have not changed their passwords since mid-2012 to reset their passwords this afternoon.
Sources: Twitter is working on an anti-harassment tool to let users filter posts using keywords
Abuse has led to depature of several high-profile users — New solution is similar to Instagram's keyword-based filter — Twitter Inc. is working on a keyword-based tool that will let people filter ...
Everything we know about the secretive NSO Group and its founder Omri Lavie, who are behind the latest iPhone hacks
NSO Group employees' lives must seem no different from others in the Israeli tech scene. They turn up every morning at their office in Herzelia, in Tel Aviv's northern district …
Google Wallet introduces feature that lets users automatically transfer funds to their bank accounts, skipping the manual “cash out” process
Google today is stepping up its battle with Venmo, Square Cash and other person-to-person payment applications with an update …
As major tech firms focus on voice assistants, microphone makers face pressure to improve product that hasn't seen much change since 2012
The billion-dollar digital mic industry hasn't seen much improvement since the launch of the iPhone 5. — Subscribe Reprints
China Labor Watch accuses iPhone 7 manufacturer Pegatron of illegally forcing overtime, low wages of $2/hour, urges Apple to invest in improving conditions
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Report: Google Fiber chief Craig Barratt was told by Larry Page to halve staff to 500; Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat interceded to defend business model
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WhatsApp to share phone numbers and analytics data of users with Facebook, two years after it said it had no plans to collect data
WhatsApp is handing over your phone number to Facebook. Seth Fiegerman / CNNMoney : Whatsapp will share your phone number with Facebook William Turton / Gizmodo : WhatsApp Betrays Privacy Stance, Will...
Facebook open sources three computer vision tools that can identify objects within photos: DeepMask, SharpMask, and MultiPathNet
Can a computer distinguish between … Jordan Novet / VentureBeat : Facebook open-sources A.I. software for segmenting objects in images Nicole Lee / Engadget : Facebook opens its advanced AI vision tec...
Sources: European Commission is expected to issue adverse ruling on Ireland's tax breaks for Apple next week
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PitchBook: VCs invested $1.2B+ in marketing tech, compared to around $860M in ad tech firms in 2015, betting on a more predictable revenue model
The distinction between the two sectors is increasingly blurring, but investors say a predictable revenue model is key
Cloud-based IT management startup Apptio files for IPO, shows $129.3M in 2015 revenue, up 21% YoY, $41M loss, up from $32.9M in 2014
John Cook / GeekWire :
Pure Storage beats Q2 expectations as revenues rise almost 93% YoY to $163.2M
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Sources: Twitter's Promoted Sticker ad campaigns have a minimum $500K ad spend, while the company has been lowering minimums on other ad products
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