Several hours passed before Facebook removed a video of a murder shared on the social network
Facebook took posts down hours later — A Cleveland man is at large after reportedly killing someone and uploading the footage to Facebook. The video appears to show a man identified by police …
Google reaches $7.8M out-of-court settlement in Android antitrust case in Russia, which was originally filed by Yandex
Google has reached a settlement with Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) agency in the antitrust case the Russian search rival Yandex had originally filed …
Leaked documents reveal the hotel industry's plan to combat Airbnb with lobbying, pushing for bills at state level, and funds for anti-Airbnb research
SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, Airbnb underwent a rough regulatory patch. — The short-term rental company became a Federal Trade Commission target …
Instagram now lets you organize bookmarks into private collections
Instagram will make its bookmarking feature more useful, the company announced this morning, with the introduction of “collections.” The new feature will allow users to organize the posts they save i...
China's Ant Financial ups offer for MoneyGram by 36% to $1.2B; MoneyGram board approves deal
Ant Financial raised its agreed offer for MoneyGram International Inc. by 36 percent as the financial-services company controlled by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma tries to top a competing offer.
Actility, Paris-based Sigfox competitor in IoT connectivity space, raises $75M Series D from Bosch, Inmarsat, Foxconn, Orange, and others
Actility taking different tack than French rival Sigfox — Startup raised $75 million to target the industrial sector
AI technique called “generative adversarial networks”, where neural networks are pitted against one another, could lead to unsupervised learning
The day Richard Feynman died, the blackboard in his classroom read: “What I cannot create, I do not understand.” Tweets: @hadip , @ericschmidt , and @googleresearch Tweets: Hadi Partovi / @hadip : The...
How Facebook's shifting priorities and inferior monetization options for Instant Articles are leading some big publishers to abandon the format
Facebook's Instant Articles promised to transform journalism — but now big publishers are fleeing — Inside Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters …
VMware says it is acquiring Wavefront, a cloud monitoring company that had previously raised $63.5M
Virtualization technology firm VMware (VMW) … Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal : VMware scoops up Palo Alto cloud analytics startup a few months after its ‘down round’ Mark Haranas...
Italian court suspends lower court's Uber ban until the conclusion of appeal process; Uber resumes service in Taiwan after making changes required by government
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How Zuckerberg has polished his image to win people over, beginning with greater use of personal FB posts in 2015 and culminating in his current US talking tour
Until recently — , Mark Zuckerberg's most iconic public appearance may have been the image of the young startup founder sweating through … Tweets: @annehelen , @buzzfeednews , @jacobwe , @martinsfp ...
The next Mac Pro should prioritize versatility as aggressive minimalism, among other factors, led to failure of the 2013 Mac Pro
Much of modern Apple's design philosophy is to relentlessly strip down most products to the bare minimum in certain areas as technological progress allows … Tweets: @devindra , @stevesi , @counternoti...
If Ajit Pai moves too fast to roll back net neutrality, he risks a tough court fight; if he goes too slowly, protests could grow as midterm elections near
Moving too fast to kill Obama-era rules risks a court fight, but going too slowly is politically fraught Tweets: @karlbode Tweets: Karl Bode / @karlbode : That's why the smart play is to leave the rul...
How Google, Apple, and Microsoft and their operating systems are faring in their fight for the cheap computer market
The war for cheap computers is about to begin — It feels like a long time since we've had a great big knock-down, drag-out operating system battle.
Pluto VR, co-founded by Popcap Games co-founder John Vechey, raises $13.9M Series A led by Maveron for developing VR communication apps
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A look at the opportunities and challenges facing Uber in India, where rival Ola, weak infrastructure, and under-educated drivers test the company's ambitions
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times : Tweets: @om , @amir , @spignal , @ravichandrans25 , @jessepesta , @jessepesta , @deepakshenoy , and @gopalsathe Tweets: Om Malik / @om : As someone who goes to India ...
Profile of Instagram COO Marne Levine, who is helping the company mature into a full-fledged business by pushing Facebook for resources, expanding partnerships
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @cindygallop Tweets: Cindy Gallop / @cindygallop : When I say to men, hire and promote women into senior leadership because women make s**t happen an...
New Zealand's isolation, plus political upheaval in the US and Europe has made the country a draw for tech talent
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Inside troubled cybersecurity firm Tanium, which was valued at $3.5B in the latest round in 2015, and has had 9 senior executives leave in the past 8 months
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UBS report analyzing 1M+ listings in 127 markets quantifies negative impact of regulations on Airbnb's business; stricter regulations hit NYC, Barcelona hardest
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