Amazon raises monthly Prime subscription fee from $10.99 to $12.99 but keeps the $99 annual membership option unchanged
Amazon is increasing the monthly price option for Prime from $10.99 to $12.99 as it continues to expand the reach and benefits of the popular fast-shipping program.
Western tech companies will increasingly need to compete with Chinese counterparts where employees work very long hours and enjoy few perks
The declaration by Didi, the Chinese ride-hailing company, that delivery business Meituan's decision to launch a rival service would spark …
SEC details concerns over crypto investments, demands answers from fund managers on how mutual funds/ETFs will store, safeguard, and price cryptocurrency assets
(Reuters) - The U.S. securities regulator on Thursday raised alarm about the safety of bitcoin-themed investments …
Sources: Snap laid off about 24 people across 8 teams, mostly in the content unit that curates users' videos; some staff were asked to relocate to Los Angeles
Snapchat parent Snap Inc. laid off roughly two dozen people across 8 different teams on Thursday, people familiar with the matter told Cheddar.
OnePlus says up to 40K customers affected in credit card breach between Nov. 2017 and mid-Jan. 2018, offers one year of free credit monitoring to those affected
After learning that fraudulent charges were appearing on its customers' credit cards, smartphone maker OnePlus disabled support …
Italy's antitrust agency opens probe into allegations that Apple and Samsung used software updates to slow phones and induce customers to buy newer models
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's antitrust body said on Thursday it had opened a probe into allegations that Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics …
Intel's D415 and D435 ready-to-use RealSense depth cameras, which can add 3D vision to any device or machine, now available for preorder for $149 and $145
Intel has released two ready-to-use RealSense depth cameras, the D415 and the D435, that can add 3D capabilities to any device or machine.
Twitch debuts Video Producer that lets creators pre-record, post-produce, rerun videos; brings in four of YouTube's popular gamers to create exclusive content
Four of YouTube's most popular gamers will produce “exclusive” Twitch content. — The Amazon-owned video site Twitch announced it's introducing …
IBM beats with Q4 revenue of $22.5B, up 3.6% YoY, the first YoY rise in 23 quarters, vs. $22.1B expected; $1.1B loss from one-time $5.5B tax overhaul charge
A $5.5 billion charge related to the new U.S. tax law pushes fourth-quarter results into the red
Young Chinese tech entrepreneurs find Silicon Valley unimpressive on their latest annual trip, say moonshot ideas and long development times don't work in China
China's startup founders used to see a pilgrimage to tech's mecca of innovation as a rite. Now, not so much. Tweets: @johnrobb , @natashakhanhk , @bychunhan , @liyuan6 , and @mdudas Tweets: John Robb...
Leaked Snap memo to staff threatens them with termination, financial liability, and even jail time if they leak confidential information about the company
Snap Inc. has a simple message to its employees: leak information and you could be sued or even jailed.
Google and Tencent sign global patent cross-licensing deal covering a range of products and technologies, will team up on developing future technologies
BEIJING (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google has agreed to a patent licensing deal with Tencent Holdings Ltd as it looks for ways to expand …
Interview with Microsoft's Brad Smith and Harry Shum on company's new book, The Future Computed: Artificial Intelligence and its Role in Society
Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer @Microsoft. More about #ArtificialIntelligence's role in society here: http://www.axios.com/... Thanks: @stevecla
Apple says it will fix a flaw that crashes Messages app on iOS upon receipt of a malicious link in an update next week
but a fix is coming Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com : A fix for ChaiOS Messages bug will arrive next week Henry T. Casey / Tom's Guide : Apple Promises Fix for ChaiOS Text Bomb Christian Zibreg /...
US Senate votes 65 to 34 to reauthorize Section 702 FISA surveillance program through 2023; bill now goes to Trump to sign
Uber's $9.3B deal with SoftBank closes; new board member Rajeev Misra says Uber should return focus to US, Europe, Latin America, Australia to become profitable
Filling In What SoftBank's Uber Statement Didn't Say Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill : Ex-Uber CEO nets $1.4B as company closes Softbank deal Denisse Moreno / International Business Times : Travis Kalan...
Researchers find hundreds of gigabytes of files online outlining Lebanon-linked effort to gain passwords and eavesdrop via bogus websites and malicious apps
including Signal and WhatsApp—that allow attackers to take photos, capture audio, and more. Read our joint report with @Lookout on “Dark Caracal” http://www.eff.org/... Abir Ghattas / @abirghattas : P...
Apple redesigns App Store web interface to match design of iOS 11 App Store with larger images, focus on curation and reviews, and more
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16 banks and financial services companies publicly linked to Ripple say they haven't used its XRP token, but some say they use Ripple's systems to move money
In October, a five-year-old company called Ripple boasted that it was one of America's “most valuable start-ups . …
San Francisco-based mobile banking startup Varo Money closes $45M Series B led by Warburg Pincus and TPG-led The Rise Fund
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YouTube's change to Partner Program rules, favoring highly viewed channels, causes backlash among its community, with many smaller channels feeling penalized
Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast :
Instagram updated with optional feature that displays when you were last active, visible by default to users who have talked with you via direct message
here's how Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed : How To Turn Off Instagram's Creepy “Last Active” Feature
BoingBoing and EFF file a motion to dismiss Playboy's lawsuit for a 2016 post that linked to a collection of centerfold pictures on Imgur and YouTube
a charge that, should it be upheld in court, would make it dangerous for anyone to link to anything: http://boingboing.net/... http://twitter.com/... Shauna / @goldengateblond : What are you doing, @P...
FCC keeps broadband speed definition, won't merge mobile with fixed broadband when measuring quality of connections, proposes $500M to expand rural broadband
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Sources: Facebook's lead liaison with Beijing, Wang-Li Moser, resigned in December after a three-year tenure in a fresh setback to its China charm campaign
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Google software engineer Grzegorz Milka says in conference presentation that under 10% of active Gmail users have two-factor authentication enabled
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Spotify partners with eight firms, including Buzzfeed, to launch Spotlight, an initiative offering news and political programming, as it vies for radio revenue
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WhatsApp officially launches its free Android app for businesses in the US, UK, Mexico, Italy, and Indonesia, rolling out globally in the coming weeks
and it's totally free (for now) David Ingram / Reuters : WhatsApp inches closer to revenue plan with accounts for businesses Shubham Agarwal / Technology Personalized : WhatsApp Introduces new Dedicat...
Chinese AI voice assistant developer Rokid raises Series B extension led by Temasek, a round which source says is $100M
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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
As smartphones drop the 3.5mm jack, the headphones market is becoming a fragmented mess; USB-C headphones remain pricey as implementation varies across OEMs
Vlad Savov / The Verge : Tweets: @backlon and @zio_excel Tweets: Dieter Bohn / @backlon : Joke aside though this piece on the fragmented mess that wireless headphones are becoming by @vladsavov is an...
Sources: Mozilla lays off dozens from its Taiwan office, which was working on Gecko and other open-source projects, as it refocuses priorities in Asia
Security vendor WatchGuard Technologies has acquired Percipient Networks to add DNS protection capabilities to its SMB security platform
Oslo-based Kahoot says its quiz app is used by 50%+ of US K-12 students every month, up from 30% in April 2016, and has 70M monthly users, up 75% YoY
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