Samsung announces Unpacked event on February 25 in Barcelona at 6PM CET during Mobile World Congress, hinting at launch of Galaxy S9 with improved camera
Confirmed: The Galaxy S9 will be all about camera improvements. — Samsung has officially marked the calendar for Feb. 25 as the date …
Sources: Apple is working on a redesigned Books reading app that includes a Reading Now section, a dedicated tab for audio books, and a digital book store
Company working on new digital book reader for iPhones, iPads — iPhone maker hires former Amazon, Barnes & Noble exec for unit
CNN is closing down Beme and Casey Neistat is leaving the company following 2016 acquisition, sources say for $20M+; CNN to continue developing Beme products
CNN acquired Beme in late 2016 with hopes that it would become a major piece of its digital business. Now Neistat's leaving the company.
Nintendo is shutting down its first smartphone game Miitomo on May 9, just a little over two years after initial launch
Miitomo wasn't what anybody expected from Nintendo's first smartphone game. Now it's shutting down. — For years, fans and analysts had anticipated Nintendo's move …
Canalys and Counterpoint say Xiaomi became India's No. 1 smartphone vendor for the first time in Q4 2017 after shipping more smartphones than Samsung
KOLKATA: Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has become the No 1 smartphone brand in the Indian market in the quarter ended December 2017 …
iOS 11.3 and tvOS 11.3 support AirPlay 2 multi-room playback allowing users to stream to multiple Apple TVs, speakers that support AirPlay 2 from an iOS device
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac :
iOS 11.3 enables Advanced Mobile Location, a feature that automatically sends accurate locations of emergency calls and is supported on Android
Apple just announced that the next version of iOS, 11.3, will enable Advanced Mobile Location (AML), which automatically sends your location …
Chrome 64 strengthens pop-up blocker to prevent sites with “abusive experiences” from opening new tabs or windows, adds option to disable audio for whole sites
Support for ResizeObservers … Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : Chrome 64 For Android Released, Will Block Redirecting Website Ads Abner Li / 9to5Google : Chrome 64 rolling out to Mac, Windows, Linux w/ CPU mit...
Sources: Twitter is working on a Snapchat-style tool to more easily share videos and photos on the network, but its design and launch aren't yet finalized
Social network is experimenting with new products to woo users — Company seeks to streamline process of posting photos, videos
LG's mobile division cuts its losses in Q4 2017 to $192.33M, down from $331.37M in Q3, with total sales of $2.77B in Q4 and $10.52B in 2017
LG's smartphone business still continues to lose money at an alarming rate. — The Korean firm cut its losses in its Q4 2017 financial period …
Phil Harrison, a veteran of Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox businesses, has joined Google as vice president and general manager
Phil Harrison, a veteran of Sony's and Microsoft's game console businesses, tweeted today that he has taken a job at Google.
Google now lets users mute reminder ads, expands ad muting to work across devices and on more partner apps and websites
In 2012, we introduced “Mute This Ad” to enable you to block an ad that you don't want to see. The momentum we've seen with this tool is really encouraging.
Twitter says it's now using machine learning to identify the most salient part of an image and crop picture previews accordingly
The machine knows what you want to look at — The lure of machine learning isn't always about big new features; often, what it does best are small tweaks that subtly improve user experience.
California DMV says Apple has expanded its self-driving test fleet to 27 vehicles, up from three in April 2017
Company received first permit from California DMV in April — CEO Tim Cook has said Apple is focusing on autonomous systems — Apple Inc. has expanded …
The rise of AI-assisted tools like FakeApp have made it easy for users with no technical background to create convincing face-swap porn videos
In December, Motherboard discovered a redditor named ‘deepfakes’ quietly enjoying his hobby: Face-swapping celebrity faces onto porn performers' bodies.
New York governor signs executive order requiring ISPs with state contracts to abide by net neutrality rules; Montana signed similar order Monday
Colin Lecher / The Verge :
75% of the top performing IPOs of the last 4 years went public at a valuation less than $1B
It's true. 75% of the top performing IPOs of the last 4 years went public at a valuation less than $1 billion. It's time to make the small cap IPO cool again. Tweets: @plevine , @glennsolomon , @mat...
Investigation finds Pentagon, NASA, FBI, State Dept., other agencies used HP, SAP, Symantec, McAfee software that underwent code reviews by Russian government
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Major global technology providers SAP (SAPG.DE), Symantec (SYMC.O) and McAfee have allowed Russian authorities …
Alphabet announces a new “graduate” from its moonshot program, Chronicle, that uses big data to detect security vulnerabilities, run by a former Symantec COO
Jonathan Vanian / Fortune :
Windows 10 Insiders to get Windows Diagnostic Data Viewer this week, providing an overview of data sent to Microsoft
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake raises $263M Series E at a pre-money valuation of $1.5B
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
Sources: YouTube is asking musicians to sign non-disparagement agreements in exchange for promotional support, has asked other creators to agree to same terms
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg :
US Government Accountability Office says it will investigate fake net neutrality comments made on FCC website before repeal vote, starting in five months
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Snap's VP of Product Tom Conrad leaving in March after 2 years; director of growth Jacob Andreou steps in at executive level, but no new title assigned to him
and formerly @pandoramusic's technology guru—is disappearing from tech. Live long and prosper @tconrad, my friend. http://techcrunch.com/... Tom Dotan / @cityofthetown : Snap has plenty of talent. But...
AT&T CEO pushes for an “Internet Bill of Rights”, a net neutrality law covering ISPs and tech firms, in a series of full-page ads in major newspapers
but why? Eric Johnson / Recode : How Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri finds humor in Trump's chaotic White House Debbie Emery / The Wrap : AT&T Calls for Congress to Pass Net Neutrality Law J...
BuzzFeed identified 1,700+ accounts Twitter censored in specific countries at the request of governments and “trusted flaggers” like NGOs
BuzzFeed : Tweets: @ahval_en and @craigsilverman Tweets: Ahval / @ahval_en : “In Turkey, the president, the courts, and the national telecommunications authority together appear to have created a sta...
Sources: comScore is working with Goldman Sachs to explore strategic options
Next Big Tech to Fear: Lethal, Autonomous Micro-Drones MrWeb : comScore Exploring Possible Company Sale? Andy Medici / Washington, D.C. Business Journal : ComScore hires Goldman Sachs to explore a sal...
Analysis shows 750+ communities across US run community-owned broadband networks in some form; municipal governments and cooperatives have been key to growth
Karl Bode / Motherboard :
Sources: ex-Twitter COO Anthony Noto always aimed to be CEO, quitting to become SoFi CEO after it became clear that Dorsey was there to stay
Selina Wang / Bloomberg :
Vivo X20 Plus UD, the first smartphone with in-display fingerprint sensor and 6.43-inch OLED display, announced in China with preorders set to open today
Serial entrepreneurs Caterina Fake and Jyri Engeström announce Yes VC, a SF-based pre-seed and seed-stage firm that's targeting $50M in capital commitments
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
YouTube says it will invest $5M in its Creators for Change program in 2018, aimed at YouTubers who “counter hate and promote tolerance”
Bipartisan group of senators introduces the Music Modernization Act, mirroring a House bill, to streamline music licensing on services like Spotify, Pandora
Ted Johnson / Variety :
SoundHound has raised $50M at an estimated $1B valuation in November, according to a fundraising document obtained by PitchBook
even though its one-time competitor, Shazam, just got sold for very cheap to Apple at nearly the exact same time. http://www.recode.net/...
Meg Whitman takes CEO role at Jeffrey Katzenberg's new startup that produces short-form content aimed at mobile consumption
surprise! — run a startup producing Hollywood-style mobile-video shorts. “It's a return to my startup roots.” https://www.wsj.com/... by @erichschwartzel pic.twitter.com/SYyvGWOkFY See also Mediagaze...
Belgium-based Showpad, which makes a platform for sales and marketing teams to create “microsites” for pitches, adds $25M to $50M Series C raised last May
PrecisionHawk, which makes an analytics platform for commercial drones and sells drone hardware, raises $75M Series D led by Third Point Ventures
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