Facebook will start testing new ad transparency features in Canada in Nov., in US and elsewhere by summer, including an option to see all ads a page is running
When it comes to advertising on Facebook, people should be able to tell who the advertiser is and see the ads they're running, especially for political ads.
As pre-orders open, Apple says iPhone X screen replacement will cost $279, compared to $169 for iPhone 8 Plus; other out-of-warranty repairs will cost $549
The iPhone X went on sale today, and with it, Apple released some information about the phone's repair pricing — and like the phone itself, it gets expensive.
WhatsApp starts rolling-out feature that lets you delete sent messages within 7 minutes
Message recalls have been rumored on WhatsApp for months now and every couple of weeks, we got a glimpse of the functionality in a beta version but it was always a false alert and never properly worke...
Google will use location, not country code domains, by default for localizing search results; users can still change the country service in settings
google.whatever — You've long been able to get localized search results by visiting Google at different domains — like google.com for the US …
Researchers at Vicarious AI have developed a new brain-inspired AI technique that can solve CAPTCHAs with less training data than other AI techniques
One of the ways computers distinguish humans from robots is with CAPTCHAs — that little box with a weird letter combination at the bottom of your online ticket or other transaction.
Canalys and Counterpoint Research say India overtook US to become world's second largest smartphone market in Q3
NEW DELHI: India has pipped the US to become the world's second-largest smartphone market at the end of the third quarter, according to two research firms …
Survey of US sentiment toward big tech firms including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and others on trust, privacy, news accuracy, more
Illustrations by Garret Beard and William Joel — This year marked a sea change in our attitude toward tech's largest players — and not for the better.
Uber hires PepsiCo's general counsel Tony West as chief legal officer; West served as a third ranking DOJ official between 2012 and 2014
Uber announced Friday that it has hired Tony West, a former Justice Department official and the current general counsel at PepsiCo, as its chief legal officer …
Alphabet Q3: revenue of $27.8B, up 24% YoY, vs. $27.2B expected; net income reaches $6.73B, up from $5.06B YoY; Other Bets made $302M, lost $812M
and it looks a lot like Apple Jaikumar Vijayan / eWeek : Data Analytics, Machine Learning Drive Google's Cloud Growth, CEO Says Matt Rosoff / CNBC : This chart shows how Ruth Porat is exercising disci...
Walmart testing robots in 50+ stores for repetitive jobs like scanning shelves for out-of-stock products, incorrect pricing, and mislabeling
The world's largest retailer has had a well-documented struggle with empty shelves in its stores. — Walmart is testing the use of aisle-roaming robots …
Amazon's “other revenue”, mostly composed of ad sales, grew 58% YoY to $1.12B; net sales from physical stores, reported for the first time, was $1.2B in Q3
Amazon is making good on its promise to eat advertising. — In its third-quarter earnings report today …
How Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled's endorsements helped $30M ICO for Centra debit card token which had shady founders, made-up CEO, false Visa approval claims
Celebrity endorsements are helping start-ups raise big money in so-called initial coin offerings. But it is not always clear what they are selling. Tweets: @modestproposal1 Tweets: Modest Proposal / ...
Israeli cybersecurity company Skybox raises $150M from CVC Capital Partners' Growth Fund and Pantheon, bringing the total raised to $288M
The company, which has its development center in Herzliya, has raised $288 million to date. — Israeli cybersecurity company Skybox Security announced today …
Analysis of ad fraud scheme that generated millions of ad views on Myspace and GateHouse Media video subdomains operated under contract by third parties
Myspace — the iconic social network of the early 2000s — seemed to be experiencing a resurgence this summer when millions of visitors flocked … Tweets: @harrymccracken and @sarahsluis Tweets: Harry Mc...
Amazon has 540K employees after Whole Foods acquisition, nearly 7x that of Google and 4x that of Microsoft, is now the second-largest US employer after Walmart
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says people are watching YouTube on TVs for 100M hours/day, up 70% in the last year
YouTube viewing on actual TV sets is up 70 percent in the last year. — YouTube has been trying to position itself as a TV competitor for years.
Analyst: iPhone 8 and 8 Plus accounted for 16% of all US iPhone sales in the past quarter, compared to 43% for 7 and 7 Plus during the same period last year
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IoT security company ForeScout Technologies prices IPO at $22/share, raising ~$116M at ~$800M valuation, less than its $1B valuation as a private firm in 2016
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Twitter publishes stricter non-consensual nudity rules, says it will launch stricter enforcement on violent groups and hate symbols late November
Alex Heath / Business Insider :
Civil, the blockchain-based system to fund journalism, has raised $5M from ConsenSys and has attracted its first publication, news and politics site Popula
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Apple asks SEC for permission to exclude a shareholder proposal on tying leadership diversity to CEO performance measures
Seung Lee / SiliconBeat :
Alphabet's Waymo Will Test Self-Driving Cars in Snowy Detroit
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg :
Sources: cybersecurity firm Zscaler has confidentially filed for an IPO, plans to go public before the year's end
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