FCC Chairman Ajit Pai outlines plan to roll back Title II net neutrality rules, plans to release full proposal on April 27 for FCC vote on May 18
Vote to begin net neutrality rollback scheduled for May 18. — The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month to start the process …
Google brings neural machine translation to nine Indian languages in Chrome desktop and Google Translate apps, adds support for 22 Indian languages in Gboard
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Sources: Apple in talks to introduce person-to-person payment service, which may be announced later this year, and plans to offer prepaid Visa debit cards
Could the money-transfer service be called Apple Cash, perhaps? — Apple's on-again, off-again flirtation with building its own money-transfer service appears to be back on.
Samsung Electronics says it will not adopt holding company structure, announces share buyback worth $2.03B; Q1 profit up 48% YoY to $8.75B
Strong memory chip earnings propelled tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) to its best quarterly profit in more than 3 years …
Juno terminates drivers' stock program, offers small sum, in some cases less than 10% of what it advertised in recruitment materials, to drivers
Juno always had the best sales pitch. The company started in New York in early 2016, a late entrant to the competitive ride-hailing business …
Amazon launches Echo Look, a $200 “style assistant” camera for taking selfies that works via Alexa commands and is compatible with Amazon's Style Check app
but it hints at Amazon's master plan to rule tech Paul Armstrong / Forbes : Amazon Echo Look Is Fun...Until It Gets Hacked And Leaks Your Nudes Jack Morse / Mashable : Amazon wants to see into your be...
Sources: Didi nears deal to raise $5B+, which would value the company at ~$50B, up from the $34B valuation after its Uber China deal in August 2016
Ride-hailing service plans to raise at least $5 billion — Didi said to raise funds for automated driving expansion
IAB: digital ad revenue grew 22% YoY to $72.5B in 2016, surpassing TV for the first time; idea that Google/Facebook ‘duopoly’ is driving ad growth is incorrect
Digital advertising saw $72.5 billion revenue in 2016, a 22% upswing from the previous year.
Spotify acquires blockchain startup Mediachain to identify and track creative works across the internet
Spotify has acquired Mediachain, the New York-based startup behind an open source peer-to-peer database and protocol for registering, identifying, and tracking creative works across the internet.
Edtech startup EverFi announces it has raised $190M from The Rise Fund, TPG Growth, and existing investors including Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Ev Williams
District-based EverFi Inc. has raised a whopping $190 million in a new funding round, the education technology company announced Wednesday.
Marketing tech company Zeta Global raises $140M at a $1.3B valuation
Zeta Global, the marketing tech company that has recently acquired the likes of eBay's enterprise arm and Acxiom Impact, is preparing for another round of acquisitions and investments in its technolog...
Interview with Jack Dorsey on Twitter's harassment problems, its focus on live video, Donald Trump, and the company's future
Twitter's CEO on the president, the future of the product, and the harassment problem. — It was only 11 years ago that Jack Dorsey first sent a message via …
Luxe ends door-to-door valet service in all cities; CEO confirms launch of new service this summer in “the same vein” as Luxe parking garages announced in March
Luxe started as a company that promised to make parking in busy cities less awful with an app that summoned blue-jacketed …
OverOps raises $30M Series C led by Lightspeed Ventures to help automate finding bugs in code
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
PayPal beats Q1 estimates with $3B revenue, up 17% YoY, net income of $384M, up 5% YoY, and announces $5B share buyback program; stock up 5%+
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
Dropbox is shutting down Hackpad, the collaborative note and wiki service it acquired in 2014, on July 19, and will move its users' files to Paper
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :
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