Apple says it plans a $350B “direct contribution” to US economy over next five years through repatriating overseas profits, new infrastructure projects, more
does Seattle have room? Anna Hensel / VentureBeat : Relax, Apple's new campus is no Amazon HQ2 Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Apple to pay $38 billion in US taxes on overseas cash Brett Samuels / The...
Intel admits Spectre and Meltdown patches also affect newer Skylake and Kaby Lake chips, with performance impact between 2% and 25%, promises fix next week
Intel has revealed that even its newer CPUs are affected by the frequent reboot problems brought about by the Spectre/Meltdown patches.
Tim Cook says users will be able to turn off battery management feature that reduces iPhone performance in future iOS update
Apple had already said that a future iOS update will give users more insight into the state of their battery. In an interview with ABC News …
Sources: Apple will issue each employee below director level a $2.5K bonus in restricted stock grants, following passage of tax overhaul, over coming months
Company giving bonuses to most global employees in stock units — Bonus program follows Apple pledge to increase U.S. spending
A comprehensive look at Apple's cash reserves, how it uses them, and why it is repatriating its foreign cash to US and paying $38B, or ~15% tax on it
- How much cash does Apple have? — To the nearest million, as of the end of September 2017, Apple's cash and investments totaled $268,895,000,000.
Apple says it expects to make tax repatriation payments of ~$38B and plans to open new US campus later this year that will initially house customer tech support
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Researchers find that COMPAS algorithm, used to determine if a defendant will reoffend, is no better than average person's guess; developer disputes findings
Our most sophisticated crime-predicting algorithms may not be as good as we thought. A study published today in Science Advances takes …
Microsoft promotes Minecraft boss Matt Booty to corporate VP of Microsoft Studios to oversee game development and publishing for console, PC, and mobile
Microsoft has promoted Matt Booty, a leader in the Minecraft games business, as corporate vice president of Microsoft Studios …
Amazon narrows HQ2 search to 20 cities from 238 proposals, 19 in the US and Toronto in Canada, and says it expects to make a decision in 2018
Amazon has selected 20 cities to move to the next phase in its HQ2 selection process, the latest twist in an unprecedented headquarters search that has turned into a national curiosity.
Google to make page speed a factor in mobile search ranking starting in July, says change will only affect pages that “deliver the slowest experience to users”
Google today announced a significant change in how it ranks websites for mobile searches: it will now take page speed …
Major tech lobby urges Trump administration to preserve the H-4 visa program, which allows spouses of H-1B holders with pending green cards to work legally
The Information Technology Industry council, a major tech lobby, will send a letter today to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services calling …
Google's Project Fi now caps data bills at $60, entering the crowded market of “unlimited data” plans, will throttle speeds at 15GB
Google's Project Fi cell service never played the “unlimited data” game that most carriers in the U.S. like to play (and which is never truly unlimited).
A behind the scenes look at Travis Kalanick's fall at Uber: from Susan Fowler's blog post and Waymo's lawsuit to the fight with Benchmark Capital's Bill Gurley
Silicon Valley CEOs are supposed to be sacrosanct. So how did it all go wrong at Uber? — A year ago, before the investor lawsuits …
Bitconnect, which promised ~1% a day return on invested funds, shuts down its platform; value of BCC token plummets, making user investments nearly worthless
Security vendor WatchGuard Technologies has acquired Percipient Networks to add DNS protection capabilities to its SMB security platform
The deal is designed to offer better security solutions for SMBs. — WatchGuard has announced the acquisition of Percipient Networks …
Cryptocurrency hardware wallet maker Ledger raises $75M Series B led by Draper Esprit; the company sold 1M USB dongle wallets that store private keys
Startup makes dongles to store cyptocurrency private keys — Sold 1 million units last year; targeting hedge funds, banks
How Bitconnect, once worth $2.6B+, got so big via promises of daily 1% returns, multi-level marketing schemes, and spamming Google via its own “news” blog posts
After nearly dropping below $9K … Stan Higgins / CoinDesk : BitConnect Investors Left in the Lurch as Token's Price Drops 90% Aaron Mak / Slate : BitConnect, a Bitcoin Exchange Long Accused of Being a...
Ireland's Department of Finance says Apple will pay €13B in back taxes to an escrow account between April and September 2018, following EU court order
Justin McCarthy / RTÉ :
Facebook begins testing Watch Party, a new feature for groups that lets members watch videos simultaneously while continuing to comment and interact
Casey Newton / The Verge :
Profile of Jann Horn, a 22-year-old Zurich-based researcher who helped discover Meltdown and Spectre flaws while working for Google's Project Zero
Bloomberg :
CircleCI, which makes software to automate building and testing code, raises $31M Series C led by Top Tier Capital Partners
Apartment rental marketplace Apartment List raises $50M Series C led by Passport Capital
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Sources: FTC has been investigating Broadcom for anticompetitive customer negotiation tactics for several months; source says probe doesn't include wireless arm
Wall Street Journal :
Ex-Cisco CEO John Chambers announces self-funded VC firm JC2 Ventures, whose portfolio includes drone OS maker Airware and social media management firm Sprinklr
Dan Primack / Axios :
Twitch says its cofounder, Kevin Lin, will step down as COO and be replaced by ex-Pandora COO Sara Clemens
quite the loss for @SlackHQ and a huge gain for Amazon! http://www.geekwire.com/... Amir Shevat / @ashevat : Very excited to be joining @Twitch as the VP of developer experience. Managing developer pr...
Spotify partners with eight firms, including Buzzfeed, to launch Spotlight, an initiative offering news and political programming, as it vies for radio revenue
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg :
Omni, a startup that allows you to store and rent your possessions, raises $25M Series B; Ripple execs invested an undisclosed amount of XRP tokens in the round
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Cryptocurrency values decline sharply, with Bitcoin down 25%+, briefly below $10K, Ethereum down as much as 30%, and Ripple down 40% at one point on Tuesday
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC :
Sources: Go-Jek closes $1.2B round at $3B+ valuation with commitments from Google, Temasek, Meituan; raise started months ago, with Tencent, others investing
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
How changing attitudes of younger generation, government policies and funding, local VCs and successful entrepreneurs are boosting French startup ecosystem
Steve Ranger / TechRepublic : Tweets: @christianhern and @partechventures . Thanks: @steveranger Tweets: Christian Hernandez / @christianhern : Great longish read on all the ingredients being shaken ...
Sources: online polling company SurveyMonkey is preparing to go public later this year, as talks with banks accelerate; firm was valued at $2B in 2014
Trump Deserves ‘Fair Share’ of Credit for Apple Moves Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal : SurveyMonkey may finally make its Wall Street debut this year Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat :...
Facebook says it will open a standalone investigation into potential Russian meddling in UK's EU referendum on its platform, after pressure from UK politicians
Apple opens Siri feature that plays a podcast from news orgs when asked for the news to all users in US, UK, and Australia with iOS 11.2 or later
Qualcomm says EU and South Korean regulators cleared its $39B acquisition of NXP Semiconductors after Qualcomm agreed to changes to assuage competition fears
Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal :
Google support page says a fix for Google Cast protocol bug that causes temporary WiFi outages on many routers will roll out tomorrow via Google Play update
Chinese on-demand electric vehicle sharing company Caocao Zhuanche raises $156M Series A from undisclosed investors at a $1.6B+ valuation
Yimian Wu / China Money Network :
Toronto-based collaborative writing platform Wattpad raises $51M at an estimated ~$398M post-money valuation to expand its tech platform
Cybersecurity and threat mitigation firm Anomali, formerly known as ThreatStream, raises $40M Series D from GV, Telstra, and others
Thomas Siebel's big data analysis startup C3 IoT raises $100M from TPG Growth, following a $70M Series D in September 2016; C3 was valued at $1.4B in March 2017
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