French law requiring companies to give workers a “right to disconnect” from work-related messages after work hours goes into effect on January 1
From 1 January, workers have ‘right to disconnect’ as France seeks to establish agreements that afford work flexibility but avoid burnout
FBI-DHS report fails to make a hard case that Russia tampered with US elections, likely because the agencies want to protect methods for detecting hacks
US issued JAR billed itself as an indictment that would prove Russian involvement. — Talk about disappointments.
Researchers: ID codes printed on boarding passes, luggage tags for ~90% of flights let hackers access travelers' personal info, steal reservations, more
Booking a flight has become a simple process thanks to the Internet, and once you have flights secured you can relax, right?
Bitcoin jumps above $1,000 for first time in three years
Digital currency bitcoin kicked off the new year by jumping above $1,000 for the first time in three years late on Sunday, having outperformed all central-bank-issued currencies with a 125 percent cli...
Twitter's managing director for Greater China, Kathy Chen, leaves after 8 months
Kathy Chen follows others out the door of the social communications company. — Twitter lost yet another top exec with the departure of Kathy Chen, its managing director in Greater China.
Nielsen's 2016 top apps by monthly uniques: Facebook, up 14% YoY to 146M; Messenger, up 28% to 129M; and YouTube, up 20% to 113M; Amazon hits #10, up 43% to 65M
Mobile applications from Facebook and Google dominated the new list of the year's top apps released today by Nielsen.
PitchBook: non-tech firms spent ~$10B acquiring VC-backed US startups in 2016, nearly double the amount from 2015 and the highest total in at least five years
Silicon Valley upstarts are courted by retail, manufacturing companies seeking new growth — In late 2015, a commuter-shuttle …
North Korea's Chinese-made Woolim tablet is an Android device that tracks users and distributes propaganda, can access some pre-approved apps and websites
When you think of North Korea, the first thing that springs to mind is probably not a well-featured tablet PC.
Volvo integrates Skype for Business in its 90 series vehicles
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch :
In 2016 Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, others acknowledged they are not just neutral platforms and began tackling issues like discrimination, harassment, fake news
In early December, Facebook published a blog post summing up the company's breakthroughs and challenges in image and speech recognition.
Review of appeals court decisions from 2016 that benefited software patent holders and set the bar for software patents after Supreme Court's Alice decision
It's harder, but not impossible, for owners of software patents to win cases. — In 2014, the US Supreme Court dealt a major blow to software patents.
Security Without Borders project launches to help journalists and activists with cybersecurity by connecting them with volunteer group of InfoSec professionals
Some hackers have lost their way. Today, countless techies have entered the for-profit cybersecurity business …
UK department store group House of Fraser to invest £35M in Tandem, a British app-only banking startup
Oscar Williams-Grut / Business Insider :
Review of overlooked tech trends in 2016: faster broadband speeds, growth of digital currencies, the success of tech M&A, more
I'm on a flight home to Macon, Georgia, reading Hillbilly Elegy like much of the rest of Silicon Valley. I'm trying to figure out how I misread the American electorate so fundamentally.
A look at Messenger and Instagram features from 2016 that mimic Snapchat, such as Stories and ephemeral messaging, as Facebook tries to curb Snapchat's growth
Kurt Wagner / Recode :
Tencent: WeChat had 768M daily active users in September, up 35% year-over-year
Cyrus Lee / ZDNet :
After years of rejecting the “media company” label, Twitter is hiring Periscope editors, broadcasting news alerts, and airing premium live video
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed :
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