KGI: iPhone X manufacturing bottlenecks largely resolved with Foxconn producing 450K-550K units per day compared to 50K-150K 1-2 months ago
Steady improvements in iPhone X supplies that have seen shipping estimates fall to 1-2 weeks are due to better-than-expected improvements …
Analysis of FCC net neutrality comments finds over 1M pro-repeal were likely faked and 99% of organic comments were in favor of keeping rules
I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the results were disturbing.
Net neutrality supporters have strong legal arguments to overturn Ajit Pai's proposed rules repeal in court
Back in 2005, a small phone company based in North Carolina named Madison River began preventing its subscribers from making phone calls using the internet application Vonage.
Imgur confirms hackers stole 1.7M email addresses and passwords hashed with SHA-256 algorithm in 2014 hack
The hackers stole email addresses and passwords. — Imgur, one of the world's most visited websites, has confirmed a hack dating back to 2014. — The company confirmed to ZDNet …
Adobe: Thanksgiving day e-commerce sales were $2.87B, up 18.3% YoY, with 46% of all traffic to sites coming from smartphones
Black Friday, the day after a quiet Thanksgiving Thursday, traditionally has been thought of as the start of the holiday sales season, but the rise of e-commerce …
Pokémon Go developer Niantic raises ~$200M Series B led by Spark Capital with participation from Founders Fund, Meritech, Javelin Venture Capital, and others
Series B led by Spark Capital is secured as company prepares to release a ‘Harry Potter’ title
City of Munich decides to switch fully over to Windows 10 after running mostly on Linux for over a decade
Windows 10 will be rolled out to about 29,000 PCs at the city council, a major shift for an authority that has been running Linux for more than a decade.
Adobe: US Black Friday online sales were $5.03B, up 16.9% YoY, with 54.3% of all site visits and 36.9% of purchases made on mobile devices
The final figures for Black Friday online sales are in, and it's another record-breaking day e-commerce in the U.S. Adobe says that shoppers spent $5.03 billion online …
Yandex, Russia's main search engine, now mostly uses state licensed sources for news after law made big news aggregators responsible for content they link to
Google said it would demote Russia Today and Sputnik, but the Russian government has tried to control what news appears on Yandex for years.
Workers at Amazon's main distribution hub in Italy and at six German distribution centers strike on Black Friday over pay disputes
Best Buy has its Black Friday deals, and we've done … Rick Broida / CNET : These are the Monoprice Black Friday deals Jessica Dolcourt / CNET : Best Black Friday 2017 deals for phones Justin Jaffe / C...
Facebook confirms it's testing a Snapchat-like streak feature in Messenger that shows how many consecutive days users have been chatting with friends
Karissa Bell / Mashable :
How Alexa was trained for India, a multilingual country, to master local accents and common words in Indian languages using multiple people's voice recordings
She is modern, speaks fluent English, helps you book a cab, finds recipes for cooking, plays your favourite music, and gets charmed by Shah Rukh Khan, her favourite actor. Tweets: @sounakmitra and @bg...
AltSchool, which raised $175M from Mark Zuckerberg, Founders Fund, and a16z to reimagine primary education, is closing over half its schools and losing students
- A new kind of school crafted by the minds and wallets of Silicon Valley influencers is struggling to keep parents happy and students in seats.
Rovio shares fell 20%+ on Thursday, below its September IPO price, as Angry Birds maker's customer acquisition costs increased 4X YoY to $26.3M, hurting profits
Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg :
UK authorities change advertising rules for ISPs, requiring that stated speeds are achieved by 50% of users at peak times, up from 10%
Jane Wakefield / BBC :
Snapchat debuts new ad formats allowing advertisers to post Promoted Stories in Stories tab and AR Trial Ads for placing interactive objects in a camera view
Asos and HBO trial new Snapchat promoted stories … Rebecca Stewart / The Drum : Asos and HBO first to experiment with Snapchat's branded Stories offering Garett Sloane / Ad Age : Snapchat Spends Black...
Interview with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on his family's immigration from Iran amid 1978 revolution, his time at IAC, and when he first felt like an American
There's truth in the stereotype that immigrants often get handed jobs others would avoid like the plague.
Yandex and Uber receive approval from national antitrust regulator to merge their ride sharing businesses in Russia; merger expected to close in January 2018
Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg :
A look at Explainable AI, an emerging research discipline to make decision-making of machine learning systems more transparent and understandable to humans
Cliff Kuang / New York Times : Tweets: @stevenschmatz , @rolandparis , and @sub8u Tweets: @stevenschmatz : “In 2018, the European Union will begin enforcing a law requiring that any decision made by ...
Dow Jones VentureSource: 516 new US venture funds raised since 2013, with 133 in 2016 and 87 so far in 2017; firms raised $44B in 2016, most since dot-com crash
Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal :
In China's bike-share-driven sharing economy, companies, investors, and the government see a potential windfall from customer data produced by every transaction
Brook Larmer / New York Times : Tweets: @nytmag , @rightlegpegged , and @mattsheehan88 Tweets: NYT / @nytmag : “As China defines it, even Amazon would be part of the sharing economy.” http://www.nyti...
Uber faces investigations by 5 US state AGs and at least 3 potential class actions, and has been contacted by FTC over recently disclosed hack and $100K ransom
Hamza Shaban / Washington Post :
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.