Facebook is clamping down on “engagement bait”, posts that ask people for Likes or shares, by demoting them in the News Feed
Facebook has identified a new kind of spam: Engagement baiting. — Facebook is cracking down on a new type of clickbait: Posts that ask people to …
Twitter starts enforcing new policies on violence and hateful conduct both on platform and off it, but changes don't apply to military or government entities
Policies now extend to hateful imagery and to conduct both on platform and off — Twitter says it will now begin enforcing …
Twitter suspends Britain First leader who was retweeted by Trump, amid enforcement of new policies that's led to a purge of accounts affiliated with hate groups
- Twitter has begun purging xenophobic, racist, and other accounts affiliated with hate groups and hate speech on- or offline.
Inside the investigation led by the FBI to identify key perpetrators behind the Mirai Botnet, which was created initially to DDoS Minecraft servers
THE MOST DRAMATIC cybersecurity story of 2016 came to a quiet conclusion Friday in an Anchorage courtroom, as three young American computer …
France files complaint against Amazon seeking a fine of €10M for abusing its dominant position with some suppliers
PARIS (Reuters) - The French government has filed a complaint with the Paris Commerce Court against e-commerce company Amazon for abusing its dominant position with some suppliers …
Opera Software rebrands to Otello Corporation after selling its browser business to a group of Chinese investors in 2016
Reuters is reporting that Opera Software ASA — the Norwegian company best known for its web browser — is rebranding to Otello Corporation.
How a Koch brothers-backed campaign against KentuckyWired, a public-private project to build statewide fiber network, energized Louisville to back the project
THE THREE REPUBLICAN commissioners now in power at the FCC voted this week to erase the agency's legal authority … Tweets: @nxthompson , @wired , @greglangdon , @stevedittmore , and @mattcalcara Tweet...
The number of AmazonBasics products available on Amazon.com grew from about 250 products in June 2013 to over 1,500 products now, according to Internet Archive
Amazon launched a house brand, called AmazonBasics, in 2009. It was originally a way for Amazon to sell low-cost …
ICO fundraising topped $4B in 2017, up from $225M in 2016, according to Autonomous Research
Some regulators say ICOs should be regulated like securities — HONG KONG—Money raised from initial coin offerings has surged past $4 billion for the first time, even as regulators world-wide …
Casa Systems, maker of cable, wireless, and optical network gear and software, closed up 11% on Friday, after raising $78M in a downsized IPO
Andover, Massachusetts-based Casa Systems had a tough time pulling off its IPO this week. — The broadband solutions company wanted to debut Thursday …
Reddit updates its Android and iOS apps with support for real-time comments, chat, mod tools, and more
Reddit today is giving its mobile apps a major upgrade - the first since their launch last year, when the company decided to take back control over the official Reddit experience on mobile …
Interview with the “founding father of virtual reality”, Jaron Lanier, on Silicon Valley culture, VR, #MeToo backlash, AI, and the future
Widely recognized as a founding father of virtual reality, Jaron Lanier has been hugely influential in shaping the technology of today. Tweets: @trengriffin . Thanks: @lexnfx Tweets: Tren Griffin / @t...
Splice, a startup that sells digital tools and music samples to musicians, raises $35M Series B led by DFJ Growth
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Tencent, JD.com announce they are investing in Chinese discount online retailer Vipshop: Tencent investing $604M for a 7% stake, JD.com investing $259M for 5.5%
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Oracle agrees to buy Aconex, an Australian project management cloud software provider for construction projects, for $1.2B
Profiles of three current and one former volunteer moderator of KnowYourMeme, a Brooklyn-based website explaining the internet's inside jokes
Jonah Engel Bromwich / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesbusiness and @nytstyles Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : The website KnowYourMeme is a mostly reliable, crowdsourced translator of the internet's ins...
Behind Fitbit's gradual pivot toward personal medical devices via its b2b arm, Health Solutions, as revenue declines and competition from Apple Watch rises
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A man in New York allegedly stole $1.8M worth of ether cryptocurrency, kidnapping victim, forcing him to give up his digital wallet, then transferring the funds
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Baidu and China Life Insurance Co. launch a $2.12B investment fund to back companies in mobile internet, AI, fintech, and other advanced technology sectors
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Sources: Tencent Music plans IPO in 2018, is expected to raise $1B+, valued at $10B
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg : Tweets: @mdudas Tweets: Mike Dudas / @mdudas : Congrats to Tencent Music, but wake me up when one of these Chinese behemoths can create a successful business in the West...
Source: Amazon in advanced talks to acquire Sqrrl, a startup that analyzes big data to detect cybersecurity threats; Sqrrl has raised nearly $30M in VC funding
How Amazon's decentralized operating structure and small, independent teams that use common internal systems, are integral to the company's unending scalability
Benedict Evans : Tweets: @grady_booch , @bwertz , @jamescham , @grady_booch , and @roundtrip Tweets: Grady Booch / @grady_booch : “ Amazon buys TV shows to get you to buy toilet paper.” @BenedictEvan...
Profile of Bill Gurley, whose VC firm Benchmark scored huge wins in 2017 from Snap and Stitch Fix IPOs amid scandals at Uber, where Benchmark holds ~$8B stock
Ari Levy / CNBC : Tweets: @levynews Tweets: Ari Levy / @levynews : He “knew a storm was going to take place” and the rest of the world had no idea what was coming. http://www.cnbc.com/...
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