How a hacking group used comments on Britney Spears' Instagram account to hide the location of their malware's command and control servers
Turla uses social media and clever programming techniques to cover its tracks. — A Russian-speaking hacking group that, for years …
Source: Uber board is meeting on Sunday to vote on Holder report recommendations, will also discuss Travis Kalanick temporarily stepping away
Uber Technologies Inc's [UBER.UL] board will discuss Chief Executive Travis Kalanick temporarily stepping away from the embattled ride-hailing firm …
Apple launches Business Chat for iMessage in developer preview; Business Chat currently works with other customer service platforms like Salesforce and Nuance
Apple launched Business Chat for iMessage today in developer preview, company executives said onstage today at WWDC, the company's annual developer conference.
Amazon says it has loaned over $3B to more than 20K small businesses since launching the Amazon Lending program in 2011, $1B+ in the past 12 months
Amazon has been ramping up its small loans business, with the company announcing today that it has loaned more than $1 billion …
Apple's Podcasts app to report to podcasters how many people are listening and where listeners stop or skip, and will enable downloads of full seasons
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How scammers use deceptive security apps and abuse search ads in the App Store to trick users into expensive subscriptions
It's far easier than you think. No luck or perseverance necessary. — At WWDC, Apple reported that they've paid out $70 billion to developers, with 30% of that ($21 billion!) in the last year.
What to expect from Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, and Bethesda at E3 2017
The Electronic Entertainment Expo … Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post : Four things we'll be watching for at E3 2017 Jason Schreier / Kotaku : The E3 2017 Press Conference Schedule Ravi Hiranand / CN...
Apple will finally offer basic analytics for podcasts, enabling podcast creators and advertisers to get significant listener feedback for the first time
Basic analytics are (finally) coming to Apple's podcast app in an upcoming refresh. It's a big deal.
Data shows Xbox Live users spend 19% of their time in Netflix and 7.6% in YouTube; just 1.5% of Xbox One time is spent in backwards compatible Xbox 360 games
Our follow-up to the Steam Gauge series samples statistics from millions of Gamertags. — For three years now …
Silk Road now has numerous successors, mostly Asia-based; AlphaBay, now the leading dark web market, has 21k+ opioid listings, 4,100 for fentanyl, related drugs
Anonymous online sales are surging, and people are dying. Despite dozens of arrests, new merchants — many based in Asia — quickly pop up.
Egypt requested access to Uber's “Heaven” live rider data, preps bill requiring ride-hailing services put servers in Egypt and link customer data to government
CAIRO — As Uber sought this year to expand in Egypt, one of the most competitive ride-sharing markets …
How the philanthropic efforts of tech billionaires like Marc Benioff, Reed Hastings, and Mark Zuckerberg are influencing America's schools
In San Francisco's public schools, Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, is giving middle school principals $100,000 “innovation grants” …
At a Senate hearing, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats backtracked on promise to reveal how many Americans had their communications intercepted by NSA
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Apple's new third-party ad tracker blocker in Safari will further entrench the dominance of Google and Facebook in web advertising
The brutal logic of online advertising — The internet is an ad-tracking machine. It's been true for long enough that we rarely talk about it anymore, but it bears repeating.
As vendors prepare to ship Windows laptops with Qualcomm CPUs, Intel warns x86 emulation is a patent minefield
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As Airbnb works behind the scenes to court commercial users, a look at some hosts with corporate backers and hundreds of listings on the site
With hundreds of listings and major corporate backers, a new breed of Airbnb host is changing the fundamentals of the service. — Of Airbnb's many hosts, Jan stands out.
Luxury consignment startup The RealReal raises $50M, bringing the total raised to $173M, as it builds on online success to expand offline
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22 arrested in China for selling data like names, phone numbers of Apple customers; police say 20 worked for firms selling Apple devices or as Apple contractors
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AR startup Meta sues its former head of optics and his new company DreamWorld, alleging breach of contract and misappropriation of trade secrets
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Isaac Choi, former CEO of defunct job search startup WrkRiot, indicted for allegedly defrauding employees
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How Chinese smartphone makers are gaining global market share with competitive pricing and by offering devices with features targeted to local markets
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @danwwang Tweets: Dan Wang / @danwwang : Shenzhen smartphone makers reach 40% of global market share in Q2. http://www.wsj.com/... Two sim cards, cameras highlight dark ...
Opendoor says Uber's outgoing finance chief Gautam Gupta is joining the real estate startup as COO
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EU antitrust authorities have opened an investigation into Qualcomm's proposed acquisition of NXP Semiconductors
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Postmates acquihires Secret CEO David Byttow's startup Bold; Bold will shut down its enterprise blogging tool, plus the anonymous publishing space IO
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Tweets: @joshconstine and @krogsgard Tweets: Josh Constine / @joshconstine : The guy who took $3M off the table a year before Secret imploded will now lead product for Po...
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