Apple Watch customers in China no longer able to sign up for cellular connection service, analysts say likely due to government concerns over tracking users
BEIJING— Apple Inc. AAPL -0.44% has another headache in China: this time with its latest watch.
Lyft says it has raised $1B, led by Alphabet's CapitalG, at an $11B post-money valuation
Today we're happy to announce CapitalG — Alphabet's growth investment fund — is leading a $1 billion financing round in Lyft. This brings Lyft's post-money valuation to $11 billion.
Nielsen announces it is providing Netflix viewer data to clients, based on audio recognition in 44K homes in US; Netflix disputes accuracy
In the five years since Netflix started streaming original series like the Emmy-winning “House of Cards” and “Master of None,” the shows …
DeepMind's new Go-playing AI wins 90% of time against version of AlphaGo that beat world champ, trained solely by reinforcement learning without human input
The company's latest AlphaGo AI learned superhuman skills by playing itself over and over — Google's AI subsidiary DeepMind …
Sonos One review: better sound than Google Home or original Echo, Alexa integration, works with most music services, but setup process is a bit complicated
When Sonos released the Play:5 speaker in late 2015, the Amazon Echo was still an unproven tech curiosity.
Ex-Clinton campaign adviser Marc E. Elias is helping tech companies, including Facebook and Google, to lobby over regulatory scrutiny related to Russian ads
WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain and two Democratic senators will move on Thursday to force Facebook, Google and other internet companies …
Senators Warner and Klobuchar to introduce bill, cosponsored by McCain, to increase online political ad transparency, bring rules to parity with TV and radio
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Tony Fadell, co-founder and ex-CEO of Nest, launches Future Shape, an investment and advisory firm for startups in agriculture, robotics, transportation, more
Tony Fadell, a co-creator of Apple's iPod and the co-founder and ex-CEO of Nest, has revealed his next project …
Swedish lock giant Assa Abloy, which owns Yale and other brands, acquires smart lock maker August Home, which had raised around $75M
Oct 19, 2017, 11:26 amOct 19, 2017, 3:48 pm — The smart home market continues to heat up, and the legacy giants do not want to get locked out: quite literally.
Report: Google, Citi, and Goldman Sachs among blockchain's biggest investors; $390M was invested in blockchain products in 2016, and $327M so far in 2017
The buzz around blockchain technology is all about its potential to disrupt the status quo. But the truth is Silicon Valley …
Facebook says its general counsel, Colin Stretch, will testify before House Intelligence Committee inquiry into Russian meddling on November 1
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Verizon's Q3 earnings match estimates, with revenue of $31.72B and net addition of 603K postpaid customers
- Adjusted EPS: 98 cents a share, excluding items vs. 98 cents per share expected by a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate — Net adds: 603,000 (486,000 smartphones) …
MongoDB prices IPO above range at $24, may raise up to $220.8M at a valuation of about $1.2B
MongoDB has finished up what is essentially the final step in going public, pricing its IPO at $24and raising $192 million in the process. — The company will debut on the public markets tomorrow …
White House says Trump will nominate Joe Simons, a longtime antitrust lawyer, as head of FTC; nomination must still be confirmed by Senate
Tony Romm / Recode :
Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, and W3C agree to unify cross-browser web documentation under Mozilla's MDN portal, rebranded as MDN Web Docs
Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com :
China's on-demand local services firm Meituan-Dianping raises $4B Series C at a $30B valuation led by Tencent, forms strategic partnership with Priceline Group
Pan Yue / China Money Network :
Samsung unveils 360 Round, a disc-shaped device with 17 2MP cameras and six microphones that can stream 4K VR at 30 FPS
Jon Fingas / Engadget :
A look at Sundar Pichai's challenges as Google struggles with criticism over fake news, sexism in its own ranks, fears of AI, and anti-trust cases in Europe
The sparsely furnished offices of Sundar Pichai stretch across the second floor of the Googleplex in Mountain View …
Facebook officially starts rolling out its discovery-focused “Explore Feed” on desktop and mobile
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Samsung announces Bixby 2.0 update with better voice recognition and more, will bring it to IoT devices, and plans to open it to third-parties in “near future”
Karissa Bell / Mashable :
Apple partners with General Electric to develop industrial mobile apps for managing machinery, factories, and power plants
Alex Webb / Bloomberg :
HP unveils $1,749+ ZBook x2 2-in-1 workstation with 14-inch 4K display, 7th and 8th generation i7, up to 32GB RAM, optimized for Adobe apps, shipping in Dec.
Joe Shields / AnandTech :
Samsung and Google partner to bring ARCore platform to Samsung devices beyond the Galaxy S8
Nick Statt / The Verge :
eBay narrowly beats Q3 estimates with $2.4B revenue, up 9% YoY, as GMV rises 8% YoY to $21.7B; StubHub revenue reaches $275M, up 5% YoY
Gross Merchandise Volume of $21.7 billion
Sources: after spying accusations, Kaspersky's business is struggling, especially in US, where a source says its KGSS subsidiary has been closed for 2+ months
Joseph Cox / The Daily Beast : Tweets: @josephfcox , @josephfcox , and @zackwhittaker Tweets: Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Multiple sources said after Kaspersky software was reportedly used to steal NS...
Interviews reveal how Chinese authorities surveil citizens of its Xinjiang region using AI, iris scanning, and more developed by private firms
Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @mrbcyber , @ibnnabih1 , @connellyal , @alexckaufman , @anxiaostudio , @buzzfeedben , @meghara , @matthewstoller , and @hayesbrown Tweets: Michael Ron Bowling /...
Samsung says $499 Odyssey, the premier Windows Mixed Reality headset, won't be sold in Europe
Tom Warren / The Verge :
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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