Dave McClure apologizes for inappropriate advances towards multiple women, says Christine Tsai and 500 Startups senior management were unaware until recently
By now you may have heard I f**ked up, and people are calling me a creep. — While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person …
Christine Tsai says she is now CEO of 500 Startups after Dave McClure was found to have behaved inappropriately with women
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UK's data protection watchdog rules that Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS failed to comply with data protection law
The UK's data protection watchdog has ruled that a deal between DeepMind and an NHS trust “failed to comply with data protection law.”
Source: Alibaba will introduce an Amazon Echo-like device for Chinese consumers as soon as next week
Chinese e-commerce major Alibaba plans to introduce a digital personal assistant similar to Amazon.com's Echo device in coming days.
US lifts laptop ban at Abu Dhabi International Airport, one of the 10 Middle East airports where DHS banned laptops in cabins of US-bound planes in March
It didn't hurt that there was already a U.S. Customs pre-clearance facility at Abu Dhabi Airport. This could be the first step …
Trump voter-fraud panel's data request made to all states is a gold mine for hackers, say infosec experts; 20+ states refuse, including Mississippi and Virginia
Cybersecurity specialists are warning that President Donald Trump's voter-fraud commission may unintentionally expose voter data …
Study: TechCrunch Disrupt videos show VCs focus more on potential gains when interviewing male founders, more on losses in interviews with female entrepreneurs
There is an enormous gender gap in venture capital funding in the United States. Female entrepreneurs receive only about 2% …
Tumblr's uncertain future demonstrates the difficulty of monetizing internet culture, as do the fortunes of Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, and even YouTube
Earlier this month, Verizon completed its acquisition of Yahoo, incorporating the internet-portal pioneer's slate of brands under a new umbrella corporation named, ominously, Oath.
Profile of Tencent and its President Martin Lau as it plans to expand outside China, where it dominates user attention on smartphones by offering many services
The WeChat app has almost a billion users, and many of them use it all day. So why isn't the company everywhere by now?
US privacy suit alleging Facebook tracked logged out users is dismissed; judge ruled users failed to show economic harm or a reasonable expectation of privacy
A U.S. judge has dismissed nationwide litigation accusing Facebook Inc (FB.O) of tracking users' internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website.
Images of Microsoft's scrapped Surface Mini leak, showing a felt-like exterior and kickstand
even owners of Surface devices Mark Hachman / PCWorld : HP Spectre x2 review: It beats the Surface Pro on value, if not performance Ewan Spence / Forbes : Microsoft's Smart Decision To Cancel Its Surf...
Inside Yelp's six-year campaign to get antitrust regulators to sanction Google for displaying info from its own properties above competitors in search results
Jeremy Stoppelman, chief executive of Yelp, the local search and reviewing site, would like this article to be focused on his company's growth …
Nike-Amazon deal shows how even the major brands now must sell on Amazon, or risk losing the grip on pricing and distribution to third party resellers
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How Code.org, which has raised $60M from Google and others, is influencing education, with help from a broader push by firms like Apple and Microsoft
At a White House gathering of tech titans last week, Timothy D. Cook, the chief executive of Apple, delivered a blunt message to President Trump …
Facebook is challenging a gag order from a DC court, which prevented it from notifying users about search warrants for their accounts
Tech companies and civil liberties groups are backing up Facebook in its challenge to a court order that bars Facebook from notifying users about warrants for their information.
Gaming firm Razer seeks to raise over $600M in Hong Kong IPO
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Block.one sets record with $185M ICO over a 5 day period for its EOS token, says its blockchain platform can process millions of transactions/second fee-free
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Profile of Chaos Computer Club, a ~5,500-strong German hacker group founded in 1981, working on election information security, promoting hacking best practices
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Sweden's KRY raises €20M Series A led by Accel for its video-based doctor consultations service
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Researchers discover major vulnerabilities at multiple wind farms, requiring just a Raspberry Pi and on-site access to halt operation and return false readings
Andy Greenberg / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @sub8u Tweets: @wired : “A simple tumbler lock was all that stood between us and the wind farm control network.” http://www.wired.com/... Subrahmanyam KVJ ...
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