Sources: dark web market AlphaBay shut down by law enforcement in US, Canada, and Thailand; one alleged operator found hanged in Thailand prison after arrest
Site allegedly sold counterfeit credit cards, illegal drugs — An online marketplace that sold illegal goods on the so-called Dark Web …
Facebook tests a built-in animated GIF creator in the camera section of its iOS app, which lets you add GIFs to your Facebook story or post them on your profile
No matter if you pronounce it Gif or Jif, I think we call all get behind the addition of a new GIF mode in the Facebook camera.
Google Play Music's New Release Radio, previously an exclusive for Samsung users, now available to all; station is based on users' listening history
Google has officially announced New Release Radio, a station on Google Play Music that provides users with a daily selection of new songs …
Microsoft promises improvements after backlash over Skype's Snapchat-esque redesign on Android and iOS, to restore native sharing and the status icon
Ever since Microsoft radically redesigned Skype to look more like Snapchat, the video chatting app's rating has plummeted to an average of just 1 star in some regions.
Tezos blockchain project raises $232M worth of bitcoin and ether in largest ICO to date
The Tezos blockchain project has completed its initial coin offering, or ICO, bringing in a record-smashing $232m-worth of bitcoin and ether. — At close, Tezos had netted 65,536 BTC …
BetterWorks and CEO sued by ex-employee for alleged sexually suggestive assault
Beatrice Kim is suing her former employer, BetterWorks, and its CEO Kris Duggan for allegedly assaulting her in a sexual manner during a company retreat. The lawsuit also implicates the performance m...
Sources: Benchmark, other Uber shareholders have discussed selling some shares to SoftBank; Benchmark initiated the effort to sell stock before the CEO's ouster
Uber Technologies Inc. shareholders and its board, led by early backer Benchmark, have discussed selling some of their shares …
OpenGov, a small startup partly owned by the Kushner family through Thrive Capital, got a seat alongside tech giants at White House roundtable in June
Venture-capital firm run by Kushner's brother partly owns OpenGov, whose CEO last month attended summit with Donald Trump, leaders of Apple, Amazon, Microsoft
Warner Music Group acquires core assets of concert discovery platform Songkick, including website and app, but not ticketing functions
Warner Music Group has acquired many of the core assets of concert discovery platform Songkick, including its website and app, along with the trademark.
The Australian government proposes a new cybersecurity law, modeled after UK's Investigatory Powers Act, to force tech companies to decrypt messages
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Free legal chatbot service DoNotPay expands to cover 50 US states and the UK, handles 1,000 legal issues covering consumer and workplace rights
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Source: Snap had acquisition talks with AdRoll, which is borderline profitable and on pace for $300M 2017 revenue; Snap actively looking at other ad tech firms
Snapchat is shopping for ad tech companies to help bolster its appeal to marketers, a process that led the company …
In letter to Sen. Wyden, border patrol says it lacks authority to search travelers' cloud services at border but can search devices' local data without consent
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AT&T announces its streaming service DirecTV Now will get cloud DVR, parental controls, and other features starting this fall
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US tech firms censoring products in India to avoid offending socially conservative users, receiving bad PR, and controversy, but alienating some liberals
For a Bollywood movie, Gaurav Dhingra's Angry Indian Goddesses was decidedly un-Bollywood. There were no song-and-dance sequences … Tweets: @pranavdixit , @pranavdixit , @pranavdixit , and @gitagovin...
Mike George, Amazon VP who oversaw Alexa and Echo, is retiring after nearly two decades with the company; he will be replaced by Tom Taylor, SVP Amazon Payments
developers could be listening Brandy Betz / Seeking Alpha : GeekWire: Amazon SVP of Alexa and Echo retires Barb Darrow / Fortune : Amazon Echo Exec Retires After Nearly 20 Years Chantel McGee / CNBC :...
Micro-investing app Stash raises $40M Series C led by Coatue Management, source says at $240M valuation
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Facebook adds Explore Feed under More menu in app, as it keeps testing a second customized feed from sources people haven't followed yet
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Hotel industry groups, union leaders funding effort to purge suspicious Airbnb rental listings in NYC, Washington DC, and LA via a group called Share Better
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Chinese computer vision startup SenseTime completes multi-stage Series B after raising a total of $410M, says it is now valued at $1.47B
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up SenseTime has completed a US$410 million series B round, in what the company calls the largest private financing …
Home interior design AR app Hutch raises $10M Series A led by Zillow
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China's limits on map data hinder self-driving efforts of foreign car makers in the world's largest auto market
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsj Tweets: @wsj : Citing national security concerns, China limits the amount of mapping that can be done by foreign companies http://www.wsj.com/...
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