A look at how Jeff Bezos and Amazon's participation in the public sphere grew alongside the company, Bezos' other investments, and his personal wealth
Jeff Bezos is the world's richest person and can afford virtually any luxury. But obscurity is no longer among them. Tweets: @benioff and @nickwingfield Tweets: Marc Benioff / @benioff : Amazon retai...
Jeff Bezos says he and his wife will give $33M in scholarship money to DACA students
A day after Trump rejected a deal to preserve DACA, Jeff Bezos said he would make a major charitable donation to support DREAMers. — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Friday that he would give $33 mil...
Microsoft's Andrew Shuman says firm is playing the long game with Cortana after Amazon and Google overshadowed Cortana smart home and SDK announcements at CES
LAS VEGAS — Lost in the shuffle of Amazon and Google's digital assistant showdown this week at CES is another tech giant's virtual brain: Microsoft's Cortana.
Disney cites conflicts of interest with Facebook, Twitter as reason for Sandberg, Dorsey not seeking board re-election; Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz joining Feb. 1
Disney cites difficulty avoiding conflicts of interest — Smith, Matschullat also leaving because of age, term limits
Shenzen judge rules Samsung infringed on one of Huawei's wireless communications patents and must stop selling products using infringing technology in China
Back in 2016, Huawei sued Samsung for allegedly violating several of its patents. Lawsuits were filed in both California and China …
How the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities stayed secret for 7 months but were eventually revealed after rumors and suspicious Linux kernel patches surfaced
How an industry-breaking bug stayed secret for seven months — and then leaked out — When Graz University …
SCOTUS to review 1992 Quill decision that states can collect sales tax only if retailer has physical presence in the state; Quill is used in taxing online sales
South Dakota says 1992 ban on many tax collections is obsolete — States could have collected $13 billion more in 2017: GAO
Apple says email to users with Apple IDs outside of China informing them that their iCloud data would be moved to a Chinese company's servers was sent in error
Apple says that an email sent to users with Apple IDs with locations not set to China that their iCloud data was being moved …
How the fallout from Uber's disclosure of its $100K payment to a hacker who stole consumer data exposes legal ambiguity with tech companies' bug bounty programs
SAN FRANCISCO — “Hello Joe,” read the November 2016 email from someone identifying himself as “John Doughs.”
NPR and Edison Research survey: 16% of Americans own a smart speaker today, up 128% YoY; 30% of owners say smart speakers are replacing time spent with TV
One in six Americans now own a smart speaker, according to new research out this week from NPR and Edison Research - a figure that's up 128 percent from January, 2017.
Sources: Chinese e-commerce startup Meicai, which helps farmers sell vegetables to restaurants, has raised $450M Series E at $2.8B valuation
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In an email to users, Google says it is deprecating Chrome Supervised Users, its parental controls feature for Chrome, starting this week
Google is preparing to launch a new set of parental control features for users of its Chrome browser. The announcement was made in an email sent …
Paytm, Google, others see India's low rate of digital payments as an opportunity after the value of digital wallet transactions rose 64% from Dec. '16-Dec. '17
ALIGARH, India — Signs and banners for Paytm, India's biggest digital payments service, festoon Pooran Singh's cellphone shop … Tweets: @hitoishichakma , @vindugoel , @vindugoel , @stevelohr , and @ny...
Facebook's News Feed changes are good for media industry in the long term; journalism engineered to be picked by an algorithm is not journalism, it's marketing
and less news from journalists Alexandra Burlacu / Tech Times : Facebook News Feed To Feature Less News And Public Content, More Posts From Friends And Family Farhad Manjoo / New York Times : The Diff...
Sources: online bulk-order wholesaler Boxed has received acquisition interest of up to $500M from Kroger and some other major retailers
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Sensor Tower data shows 83% of App Store reviews are critical of Snapchat's redesign in countries where the redesign is widely available
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Facebook signs licensing deals with Global Music Rights, HFA/Rumblefish, and Kobalt, allowing users post music and music videos on Facebook, Instagram, Oculus
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Source: Verizon is working on a new OTT video content service based on Oath content and a connected home product to manage smart devices
TechCrunch :
Ex-Google engineer claims senior Google execs pressured him to stop discussing pro-diversity initiatives on company forums, which motivated him to quit
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First Alert, maker of safety products like fire and smoke alarms, buys WiFi system maker Luma; Luma has raised $22M in VC funding from Accel, Amazon, others
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Baidu launches Baidu Trust blockchain-as-a-service, says tech has contributed to China's first asset-backed securities exchange products using blockchain
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Profile of Roku and its founder Anthony Wood, looking at the company's early days, how Roku plans to compete with its rivals, and more
Janko Roettgers / Variety : Tweets: @bgurley and @adamnash Tweets: Bill Gurley / @bgurley : If you think being an entrepreneur is a thankless grind, you need to read this great profile of Anthony Woo...
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