Google ‘actively investigating’ reports of Pixel 2 XL screen burn-in
Bad to worse — Over the weekend, people with review units of the Pixel 2 XL began noticing a problem. No, not the already-known issues of muddy color and grainy textures when viewed in low-light, b...
Google rolls out “Pay With Google”, which lets Android users shop faster by using a debit or credit card setup previously on a Google service, like YouTube
As promised, Google is streamlining online purchases made through Android devices by rolling out Pay with Google.
Essential Phone price drops $200 to $499, a few months after its debut; current US customers get online credit toward other Essential purchases
Essential has an offer that's honestly very hard to refuse: The price of the Essential Phone (PH-1, going by technical model number), is now $200 cheaper, so $499 off-contract and unlocked.
Kaspersky offers source code and business operations for review by independent third parties after Russian spying claims
Responding to U.S. government suggestions that its antivirus software has been used for surveillance of customers, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab is launching what it's calling …
Cisco to buy telecommunications software company BroadSoft for ~$1.9B to expand further into software and cloud services
Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to buy BroadSoft Inc. for about $1.9 billion to expand further into software and cloud services. — Cisco will pay $55 a share in cash …
T-Mobile Q3 profit of $550M tops estimates on revenues of $10B; company skips earnings call amid Sprint merger rumors
The “Un-carrier” boasted another strong quarter, but everyone's just wondering when its deal with Sprint will go down. — Outspoken T-Mobile CEO John Legere is playing it low key this time.
LedgerX starts trading first regulator-approved cryptocurrency derivatives in US, clears $1M+ worth of bitcoin swaps and options in the first week
The first regulated cryptocurrency derivative trades have taken place on a U.S. exchange. — In a statement to the press today …
Google says 64% of Chrome traffic on Android is now protected with HTTPS, 75% on Mac, 66% on Windows; 71 of the top 100 websites now use HTTPS by default
Google's push to make the web more secure by flagging sites using insecure HTTP connections appears to be working.
Sources: Snap badly overestimated demand for Spectacles, has hundreds of thousands of unsold units in warehouses, either fully assembled or in parts
Snap badly overestimated demand for its Spectacles and now has hundreds of thousands of unsold units sitting in warehouses … Tweets: @mims , @mattmcgee , @adamsinger , @kantrowitz , @caro , @daniel_ru...
UK regulators order 450+ sites to remove casino games allegedly targeting the under-18 crowd, following an investigation by The Times
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Chinese online lender Qudian raised $900M in US IPO, closed up 22% on its first day of trading on Wednesday
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Marketing activation platform ActionIQ raises $30M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, to give marketers better audience insights for more effective campaigns
The trend of using big data analytics to glean more targeted insights for your business continues to be democratized …
Wattpad's free storytelling and fan fiction app, now with 60M monthly users, adds a $6/month ad-free plan
Wattpad, the company behind a suite of apps for reading and sharing stories - including a fairly popular “chat fiction” app Tap, a rival to Hooked - is today adding its first ever subscription plan fo...
Large VC rounds from SoftBank, others contributed to slowdown in tech IPOs; just 12 VC-backed tech firms have IPOed in US in 2017 vs. 27 in same period in 2014
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (Reuters) - Big cash infusions for startups from an ever-expanding group of financiers, led by SoftBank Group Corp …
Abra raises $16M Series B led by Foxconn for its multi-currency digital wallet app
Bitcoin startup Abra has completed a $16 million Series B led by manufacturing giant Foxconn. — Announced today at the Money2020 conference in Las Vegas, the new capital brings Abra's total funding ...
Automile raises $34M Series B led by Insight Venture Partners for its vehicle fleet tracking and management service
Alex Konrad / Forbes :
Hiya, spun out from Whitepages a year ago, raises $18M Series A for its smart caller ID technology
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Unlike the Internet and smartphones, new technology waves like AI and self-driving cars tend to favor cash-flush data-rich tech incumbents rather than startups
Jon Evans / TechCrunch :
Survey of 1,011 US tech workers: 43% worry about losing their job due to age, 87% say diversity possibly or definitely has a positive impact on performance
Raj Mukherjee / Indeed Blog :
Physical penetration tester and infosec consultant on how she uses social engineering to gain access into high security facilities
and gets paid to do it http://motherboard.vice.com/ ... http://twitter.com/...
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