Twitter to let users mute specific words including other usernames from the timeline, not just from notifications, and mute accounts without profile photos
Most importantly, Twitter is speeding up its pace of taking action against harassment. — Twitter is announcing a few new anti-harassment features today:
YouTube debuts YouTube TV, a $35/month service including broadcast networks, about 30 cable channels, cloud DVR with unlimited storage, personal recommendations
Meet YouTube TV. — YouTube used to be the place you could watch almost anything you wanted, for free.
Sources: Snap has worked on a drone, but it is unclear if or when the product would be available to consumers
Snap has long been known as the maker of Snapchat, an app that sends disappearing messages, photographs and videos. But over the past few years, the company has repositioned itself as a modern-day ca...
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Hybrid system merges an amazing portable experience with a middling TV console. — Since the release of the Game Boy in 1989 …
Nvidia unveils its top of the line GTX 1080 Ti, available next week for $699, with 11GB of GDDR5X memory, claims it is faster than the $1,200 Titan X
Last year we called NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080 “the upgrade you've been waiting for,” and now PC gamers have another high-end graphics card to drool over.
Facebook brings suicide prevention tools to Live video and Messenger, begins using AI to spot suicidal users
Facebook has begun using artificial intelligence to identify members that may be at risk of killing themselves. — The social network has developed algorithms that spot warning signs …
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick says he's seeking “leadership help” in note apologizing for how he treated a driver in leaked video
Kalanick responded to a video that surfaced today of him yelling at an Uber driver. — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has issued yet another apology …
Dashcam video showing Uber CEO Travis Kalanick lecture “bankrupt” driver about “responsibility” emerges at difficult moment for the company
The President ended his first address to Congress … Colin Dwyer / NPR : After Video Of Dispute With Driver, Uber CEO Says He Needs To ‘Grow Up’ Maya Kosoff / Vanity Fair : Uber C.E.O Admits He Needs H...
Amazon says AWS S3 servers in Northern Virginia are now operating normally after earlier outage, which impaired sites including Quora, Trello, IFTTT, and Imgur
An outage of Amazon Web Services' Simple Storage Service (S3) impacted sites across the internet Tuesday.
A look at YouTube's strategy to entice young cordcutters to pay for TV with YouTube TV, which focuses on including live sports to make up for gaps in lineup
Felix Gillette / Bloomberg :
Google quietly launches Meet, a new video conferencing tool designed for HD video meetings
Google has quietly launched a new video conferencing application called Meet by Google Hangouts, which is designed for HD video meetings. The web and mobile application appears to be the latest addit...
Sources: Snap has explored selling 360 cameras as a future product, but it's not certain it will launch them
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Palo Alto Networks misses expectations with Q2 revenue of $423M and a loss of $60.6M, up from $57.3M last year; stock down about 18% after hours
A disappointing second quarter report sent shares of Palo Alto Networks down by as much as 18 percent Tuesday in after-hours trading.
Yelp acquires restaurant waiting list tech startup Nowait in a $40M all-cash deal; Pittsburgh-based Nowait had raised around $22M in total
Yelp has acquired restaurant technology startup Nowait in an all-cash deal valued at $40 million. — Founded out of Pittsburgh in 2010 …
Amazon cuts affiliate revenue in some categories and eliminates volume pricing in favor of a flat rate of commission
Amazon is a powerful partner, but as book publishers have learned, it can also be a fickle one. — When digital advertising rates are falling and e-commerce is rising …
Google is developing tools to help mobile carriers build better networks, announces partnerships with India's Bharti Airtel and South Korea's SK Telecom
If you didn't think that Google was into everything before, wait until it's providing the infrastructure for your mobile network.
Berlin-based ResearchGate, a social network for scientists with 12M users, raises $52.6M from Goldman Sachs, Bill Gates, Benchmark Capital, and others
Mark Scott / New York Times :
Palo Alto Networks acquires LightCyber for $105M, adds behavioral attack detection capabilities
Sarah Kuranda / CRN :
Microsoft, Intel, JP Morgan, Reuters, UBS, and others form the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance to integrate Ethereum blockchain into enterprise products
Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Robert Hackett / Fortune : Big Business Giants From Microsoft to J.P. Morgan Are Getting Behind Ethereum Anna Irrera / Reuters : JPMorgan, Microsoft, BP, UBS, Credit Suisse,...
Chinese bike-sharing service Ofo raises $450M Series D round at a $1B+ valuation from DST, Didi Chuxing, and others
and yet a new unicorn http://www.bloomberg.com/...
Development of Xiaomi's Pinecone Surge S1 chip, debuting today, was aided by an undisclosed amount of Chinese government funding
Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal :
Google adds its Keep note taking app to the G Suite portfolio of services and integrates it into Docs' interface via a side panel
in the form of Keep/Docs integration: http://venturebeat.com/...
Salesforce beats expectations with Q4 revenue of $2.29B, up 27% YoY, but posts lower than expected Q1 revenue guidance of $2.34B to $2.35B
Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC :
Lux Capital, which has invested in Zoox, AirMap, and drone and AI firms, announces new $400M fund to back science and tech startups, mostly at Series A stage
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Pinterest forms Labs research group under chief scientist Jure Leskovec, which comprises of existing employees but will eventually include fulltime researchers
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :
Google updates Play Store algorithm so that games get promoted based on continued user engagement instead of installs
The world of startups is an incredibly harsh … Nicole Lee / Engadget : It's the start of the 2017 Game Developers Conference and … Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : Google Play Store Will Now Show App Sales And...
Filing shows Samsung paid around $215M for virtual assistant startup Viv Labs, which has generated a loss of around $3.08M since the acquisition
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :
Nearly three years after debuting, GMail's end-to-end encryption project gets handed over to open source devs and may never formally launch as a Google product
Andy Greenberg / Wired :
Tyto Lidar, a firm specializing in sensor tech acquired by Otto in 2016 along with a Lidar scanner patent, could be a factor in Uber's defense in Waymo battle
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