YouTube CEO says 1.5B logged-in viewers visit per month, and users spend 1 hour+ per day watching video on mobile devices
I just got off stage after a great conversation with Rhett and Link at VidCon, where we announced a number of exciting new updates.
Sources: Tesla talking to music labels about creating its own streaming service to be bundled with its cars, starting with a Pandora-like offering
Why not work directly with Spotify, Apple and others? Good question. — Put this one in the “You can do that, but why would you want to do that? …
Sling TV expands access of its cloud DVR service to iOS and Windows 10 devices, priced at $5 per month for 50 hours of storage
AirTV also receives updates for the Sling TV user interface … Sling TV confirmed that it has expanded access of its Cloud DVR service to iOS devices, the new Dish AirTV Player, and on Windows 10.
Facebook launches Online Civil Courage Initiative in UK to fight hate speech and extremist content, will train and support charities and anti-terror groups
Firm's Online Civil Courage Initiative, already launched in Germany and France, aims to help charities and NGOs identify and eliminate hate speach
Source: over 1,000 Uber employees sign letter to board demanding that Travis Kalanick return “in an operational role” because he's “critical” to future success
More than one thousand current Uber employees have signed a letter to the company's board of directors …
Samsung Electronics says its has begun mass production of Exynos i T200, its first processor optimized for Internet of Things devices
Samsung Electronics has begun production for its first Internet of Things-optimised Exynos processor. — Samsung Electronics has launched the Exynos i T200 …
Google announces new VR180 video standard, showing half a 360-degree view, and partners with Yi, Lenovo, and LG for new cameras
Google is launching a new, more limited cinematic VR format that it hopes will be almost as accessible as regular YouTube videos.
Google starts removing “confidential, personal medical records of private people” from search results
Google quietly added a new category of information Thursday — Health joins financial data, revenge porn as banned subjects — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has quietly decided …
Google says current laws underpinning digital evidence gathering are outdated, proposes new legal framework for cross-border data handling
Editor's note: This is an abbreviated version of a speech Kent delivered today at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.
A number of female founders allege unwanted sexual advances and harassment by Binary Capital's Justin Caldbeck
“What do you know about a VC named Justin Caldbeck?” — That was the question a (now former) colleague asked last year, at the end of an unrelated conversation.
Sources: Uber hires law firm O'Melveny & Myers to investigate handling of Indian rape victim medical records, with partial focus on whether bribes were involved
Waymo hires ex-Tesla director of hardware engineering, Satish Jeyachandran, to lead its hardware team
Jeyanchandran was Tesla's director of hardware engineering — High-profile hire is latest in Silicon Valley talent war — Waymo has hired Satish Jeyachandran …
Instagram is testing “favorites”, editable lists allowing users to share posts with a limited group of friends
Reinventing the friends list — Instagram has begun testing a way to share posts with a more limited group of friends. Called favorites, the feature attempts … Tweets: @kevinweil and @joshelman Twee...
How Golan Ben-Oni, CIO of US telecom firm IDT Corporation, discovered and is drawing attention to NSA-made DoublePulsar, a more potent sister tool to WannaCry
> Missed by Cylance, McAfee, Microsoft AV...all 128 threat Intel feeds, and 10 that charge half a mill each year. Nada. Nothing. Silence. http://twitter.com/... Chris Bing / @bing_chris : What a momen...
Facebook updates mission statement to “give people power to build community, bring the world closer together”, from “making the world more open and connected”
For anyone still wondering if Mark … Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Facebook changes its mission statement Simon Sharwood / The Register : Facebook gives itself mission to ‘bring the world closer’ by gettin...
Civic says it has raised $33M in digital currency in a public token sale for its blockchain-based identity verification project
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Reddit is rolling out video ads, redesigning its ad-buying platform, and partnering with media agencies to build self-service ad products
Reddit is rolling out video ads and improving its ad-buying platform — CANNES, France - While Snapchat had its Ferris wheel and Google and Facebook …
Department of Homeland Security and Google partner on $1.5M contest for algorithm that identifies concealed items in images captured by body scanners
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Filing: Sean Parker and Klaus Hommels leave Spotify board as ex-Disney COO Thomas Staggs, ex-YouTube exec Shishir Mehrotra, others join ahead of rumored IPO
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Stripe expands into Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg
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