After multiple user reports of video throttling, Verizon admits it is testing a new video optimization system
Verizon Wireless customers this week noticed that Netflix's speed test tool appears to be capped at 10Mbps, raising fears that the carrier is throttling video streaming on its mobile network.
Lyft announces it is opening Level 5 Engineering Center in Palo Alto to develop its own “open self-driving system”
Lyft is betting the future of the road centers on sharing autonomous vehicles. It aims to be at the forefront of that technology with a new self-driving division …
Microsoft using a trademark suit to seize control of domain names like livemicrosoft.net, to cut off Fancy Bear's malware-controlling servers from their victims
A new offensive by Microsoft has been making inroads against the Russian government hackers behind last year's election meddling …
Intel files a public statement with ITC accusing Qualcomm of anticompetitive practices in Qualcomm vs Apple case
Intel says Qualcomm's patent spat with Apple is really about quashing competition from Intel. — Intel has jumped into the fray surrounding the Apple-Qualcomm patent spat …
Microsoft Q4: revenue of $23.3B, up 13% YoY, net income of $6.5B, up 109% YoY; Intelligent Cloud revenue of $7.4B, up 11% YoY; productivity revenue was $8.4B
97% increase Conor Sen / @conorsen : $MSFT has doubled since Satya Nadella became CEO in February, 2014. ~$575bn market cap
Delta SkyMiles customers who are enrolled in CLEAR can now use fingerprint as boarding pass at Reagan Washington National Airport
But only at DCA for now — Customers flying Delta can now board using just their fingerprints at Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) if they wish.
Recent $30M+ hack of Parity wallets shows programmers need to rethink the “move fast and break things” mindset when it comes to blockchain and security
Yesterday, a hacker pulled off the second biggest heist in the history of digital currencies.
China unveils official policy to build a domestic AI industry worth ~$150B by 2030, calling for AI companies and R&D to be at US levels of innovation by 2020
SHANGHAI — If Beijing has its way, the future of artificial intelligence will be made in China.
Microsoft beats estimates with strong cloud performance; Azure sales almost double, and Office 365 app revenue rises 43%
Dina Bass / Bloomberg :
YouTube to shutter Video Editor and photo slideshow tools Sep. 20; Enhancements feature, which lets users trim, blur, and filter uploaded videos, will live on
YouTube has been the biggest video-sharing site out there for many years, but that doesn't mean that everything about it is very good.
Microsoft CFO Amy Hood: for the first time, Microsoft got more revenue from Office 365 subscriptions than from traditional Office software licensing
Shares of Microsoft hit record territory in after-hours trading on Thursday, topping $75 a share, after the software giant's better-than-expected financial results.
Shyp ends Chicago, LA, and New York service, leaves San Francisco Bay Area as its only market, refocuses on small businesses, lays off employees
The company is leaving most of its markets and retooling its service to serve small businesses rather than consumers—tough decisions that it hopes will lead to profitability.
Sources: Y Combinator raising up to $1B for second Continuity fund, which will merge with early-stage investment program, and won't be limited to YC companies
Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator is raising up to $1 billion for a new venture capital fund, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
AngelList co-founder Babak Nivi has also left the board; sources describe an incident leading to a contractor and Nivi signing a nondisparagement agreement
Often used at tech companies, nondisparagement agreements are increasingly included in employment contracts and legal settlements. Tweets: @ktbenner , @sw , @mims , and @juliacarriew Tweets: Katie Ben...
AngelList co-founder Babak Nivi confirms he left the company, says he is going to “work on something new”, calls claims of misconduct untrue
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Tweets: @danprimack and @mikeisaac Tweets: Dan Primack / @danprimack : Not thrilled by @TechCrunch hinting at bad acts by person w/out validating or explaining. Too charg...
YouTube collaborates with Jigsaw to launch Redirect Method, responding to certain keyword searches with videos that discredit extremist recruiting narratives
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Federal Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Milwaukee from enforcing ordinance aimed at forcing AR game makers to seek permits, insurance, and more
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter :
Sources: Swedish e-commerce payments firm Klarna raises around $250M at a $2.5B valuation from private equity firm Permira
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Sources describe efforts by Google and big publishers to combat the ad fraud practice called spoofing on major ad exchanges, via ads.txt initiative
Mike Shields / Business Insider :
Artists, producers, managers on how SoundCloud alienated them with a messy transition to a paid biz model that made little money for the company and artists
‘25 million plays, and zero dollars’ — In December 2012, as part of a major redesign, SoundCloud introduced a feature called the repost. Tweets: @bguthrie and @caseynewton Tweets: Brian Guthrie / @b...
Graphcore raises $30M led by Atomico for its Intelligence Processing Units designed to improve machine-learning processing speeds; first IPUs ship late 2017
Bloomberg :
A look at how Twitch and YouTube gamers helped Discord grow to 9M daily active users, overtaking Slack's 5M daily active users
Kathleen Chaykowski / Forbes : Tweets: @jim_mills Tweets: Jim Mills / @jim_mills : Amazing growth at Discord, with 8.9m DAU (Slack had 5m DAU in Feb'17). Registered users up 4x y/y to 45m. Msgs / day...
Dropbox CTO Aditya Agarwal says he is leaving in August after five years at the company
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch : Facebook: Aditya Agarwal Facebook: Aditya Agarwal : After more than 5 amazing years, I will be leaving Dropbox in mid-August.
Inside D-ID, an Israeli startup that's working to make faces unrecognizable to face recognition technology while remaining true to the original image
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
AI-powered law for startups
Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.