Google is testing Bulletin, an app for allowing local users to submit stories about their communities, as a limited pilot in Nashville, TN and Oakland, CA
Google appears to be testing a new tool for people to report and publish local news stories, called Bulletin.
Dutch media: Dutch intelligence penetrated Russian APT29 Cozy Bear's network, office security camera in 2014, provided info on State Department, DNC hacks to US
Hackers from the Dutch intelligence service AIVD have provided the FBI with crucial information about Russian interference with the American elections.
Sources: Dell's board is meeting later this month to discuss strategic options, including an IPO and buying the rest of VMWare it does not already own
Company's board plans to discuss options later this month — After going private in 2013, firm now seeks growth, cash
Intel reports Q4 revenue of $17.05B, up 4% YoY, vs. $16.34B analyst expectations, net loss of $687M after $5.4B expense due to recent tax overhaul; stock up ~4%
Books a $5.4 billion charge after recent changes in U.S. tax law — Intel Corp. INTC -.46% said it had record fourth-quarter revenue …
Lyft investigating whether staff abused access to customer data after online post claims workers tracked ex-partners, pulled info of celebs including Zuckerberg
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Renders of upcoming Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ leak
EXCLUSIVE: — Having opted against what would have been an uncharacteristic debut at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — in teaser capacity or otherwise — Samsung is now gearing up to...
Walmart and Rakuten partner to launch a new online grocery service in Japan, sell Rakuten-owned Kobo's e-readers, audiobooks, and e-books in US
Walmart today announced a major expansion in terms of its global e-commerce presence: the retailer is entering a strategic partnership with Tokyo-based Rakuten …
Diversity advocates inside Google, including queer and transgender staff, say they are being targeted by a small group of coworkers with doxxing and harassment
FIRED GOOGLE ENGINEER James Damore says he was vilified and harassed for questioning what he calls the company's liberal political orthodoxy …
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says $400M worth of NEM cryptocurrency tokens have been “illicitly” transferred out of the exchange
Coincheck Inc., one of Japan's biggest digital exchanges, said that about $400 million of the NEM cryptocurrency was lost after it was sent …
CEO says Intel plans to release chips that have built-in Meltdown and Spectre protections later this year
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Amazon debuts single sign-on for Fire TV with support for Spectrum, DirecTV, Dish, Optimum, Verizon FiOS, and others; Comcast Xfinity not supported
Amazon joins Apple in offering Single Sign-On, but Roku still doesn't have it — Amazon is eliminating the frustration of having …
App Annie: Google Play downloads topped 19B in Q4 2017, surpassing Apple's App Store by 145%; App Store had $11.5B consumer spend, surpassing Play by 95%
Smartphone adoption in emerging markets just delivered the highest number of app downloads Google Play has ever seen in a quarter.
JD.com founder Richard Liu says the company is in talks to sell 15% of its logistics unit to Tencent, others, as it prepares to launch in Los Angeles in 2018
Tencent and other investors to buy 15% of JD Logistics — Billionaire CEO preparing for a Los Angeles launch this year
China's smartphone market suffered first ever annual decline in 2017 as shipments fell 4% YoY to 459M and 14% QoQ in Q4, but Huawei grew shipments 9% QoQ
Palo Alto, Shanghai, Singapore and Reading (UK) - Thursday, 25 January 2018 — The growth story of the world's largest smartphone market …
Zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood says it will let users trade bitcoin and ether starting in February using its Robinhood Crypto platform
DNC hires Yahoo's former Chief Information Security Officer Bob Lord, who led response to 2013 and 2014 hacks, as its chief security officer
we're excited for you to hit the ground running here at the DNC. http://bit.ly/2E9u0TX Sam Levine / @srl : Lots of people tweeting DNC looks bad for hiring Lord because Yahoo suffered data breaches. T...
Sources: Airbnb will show $100M in cash-flow profitability for the full year in 2017, as it adds Amex ex-CEO Kenneth Chenault to its board and prepares for IPO
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Coinbase partners with Trading Technologies, trading software provider, enabling financial institutions to trade on Coinbase's GDAX cryptocurrency exchange
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San Jose Mayor quits FCC advisory committee on broadband deployment, alleging that it was dealing ISPs “a very favorable hand” of policy recommendations
Apple adds ability to see App Store reviews by most helpful, most favorable, most critical, and most recent in iOS 11.3
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says leaks were painful for Uber but “started a real cultural change” that was ultimately “incredibly positive”
Investigation finds Pentagon, NASA, FBI, State Dept., other agencies used HP, SAP, Symantec, McAfee software that underwent code reviews by Russian government
Jet.com's president Liza Landsman is leaving just 18 months after the $3B Walmart acquisition
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Streamlabs: YouTube Gaming grew streamer base by 343% in 2017 vs 197% for Twitch; Twitch had average of 27K concurrent streamers vs 7K for YouTube Gaming in Q4
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Twitter says it's now using machine learning to identify the most salient part of an image and crop picture previews accordingly
How the new US tax code encourages tech firms to move assets back to the US by cutting taxes on foreign-derived intangible income, like IP, to 13.125% from ~35%
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @gopsenfinance , @davidclowery , @samschech , and @paulhannon29 Tweets: GOP Senate Finance / @gopsenfinance : American companies rich in #IP are looking ...
Uphold, a startup for foreign exchange and international remittances in crypto and fiat currencies, gets $57.5M from Ripple's ex-Chief Risk Officer Greg Kidd
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Delaware judge permanently dismisses Benchmark suit against Travis Kalanick, after all parties agree it should be dismissed
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California DMV says Apple has expanded its self-driving test fleet to 27 vehicles, up from three in April 2017
Sources: Chinese live-video streaming startup Kuaishou is close to raising $1B led by Tencent at an ~$18B valuation and plans to IPO in the second half of 2018
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