Sources: Goldman Sachs is in talks with Apple to offer financing to Apple gadget shoppers, using its retail point-of-sale financing arm Marcus
Wall Street firm would lend to shoppers buying expensive Apple gadgets — As Apple Inc.'s AAPL 4.18% investment bank, Goldman Sachs GS 3.85% Group Inc …
Snap reports Q4 revenue of $285.7M, up 72% YoY, as DAUs rise 8.9M to 187M, up 18% YoY; net loss of $350M, up 106% YoY; stock up 30%+
Snap stock is up almost 25 percent Nick Statt / The Verge : Snap stock soars on first ever better-than-expected earnings Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Snap shares skyrocket on first earnings beat with ...
Streaming service ESPN Plus launching next month at $4.99/mo; sources say it won't have ESPN cable channels' content, which still requires ESPN subscription
How much would you pay for sports you weren't watching on TV? — Want to pay for a subscription to ESPN without paying for a subscription to other cable channels?
Microsoft updates its Cortana app for iOS with native iPad support, two years after releasing it for iPhone
Microsoft today updated its Cortana app for iOS with native iPad support. The design looks essentially the same as the iPhone version, but with an interface optimized …
Russian trolls posed as black activists on Tumblr and generated hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders content
Tumblrs run by Russian trolls generated hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders content.
Snapchat is launching a tool to let TV networks pipe snippets of live broadcasts directly into the app, starting this Saturday with NBC's Olympics coverage
Deal could forge closer ties between traditional TV networks and Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc. — Georgia Wells and Benjamin Mullin
Microsoft is offering OneDrive for Business for free to select businesses for the length of their existing contracts with Google/Box/Dropbox, for up to 3 years
Microsoft has a new OneDrive-for-Business compete offer for organizations which currently use some of its rivals' cloud storage services.
SoftBank's technology funds, the $100B Vision Fund and $6B Delta Fund, have already invested ~$40B of their $106B target; Vision Fund has invested in 26 firms
They said it couldn't be done. — Longtime Silicon Valley hands are still aghast that an investing firm can find …
Report: Google is developing a subscription game streaming service codenamed Yeti that could either work with Chromecast or a Google-made console
Besides Android apps and the Play Store, Google's current gaming efforts are particularly centered around video livestreams on YouTube and Daydream VR.
Pornhub says it's banning AI-generated fake porn videos because they're “nonconsensual”, yet such “deepfake” videos are still available via site search results
In its search of a platform that will host fake porn videos of celebrities created with a machine learning algorithm …
Inside the battle among Airbnb investors and executives over whether to remain private or IPO; sources say founders and early employees cashed ~$350M of equity
Investors and executives disagreed over when to take the home-rental company public. The stay-private crowd is winning.
UK government announces labor market reforms to aid gig economy workers, including ensuring holiday and sick pay and raising fines for employer mistreatment
The UK government has announced a package of labor market reforms to respond to changes in working patterns including those driven …
Netgear says it will spin off its Arlo security camera wing into a standalone business by the second half of 2018 and is planning an IPO for Arlo
Netgear announced this afternoon that it plans to spin off its Arlo wing into a standalone business. The networking hardware giant's board …
New York-based Mirror raises $13M from Spark Capital and others for building an at-home mirror-like device that can stream live or on-demand fitness classes
The health club industry generates around $83 billion in revenue globally each year, according to figures from the International Health …
Apple says a “processing error” meant ad spend and install data for Search Ad Basic users was sent to the wrong developers
Apple today apologized after sending incorrect information to some iOS developers using its Search Ads Basic service yesterday.
BitMEX Research looks at the history of Ripple, its company disputes, and says the technology behind its distributed consensus system is essentially centralized
Abstract: In this piece, we briefly look over the history of Ripple and examine various disputes between the founders and partner companies …
Alphabet names Dinesh Jain, former COO of TWC, as CEO of Access, its high-speed internet unit that includes Fiber; Jain is Access' third CEO in under two years
Another new CEO at Access as Alphabet struggles to figure out the future of Google Fiber — Google parent company Alphabet …
Viacom confirms it has acquired online video conference VidCon and will run it as a standalone subsidiary
It's official: Viacom has announced the acquisition VidCon, host of the world's biggest conference dedicated to YouTube and online video. — Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
In Waymo v. Uber trial, former Uber CEO Kalanick testifies he tried to find a way to let Levandowski start a company and still feel like he hired him
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times :
Sources: in Q3 2017, Spotify made €1B in revenue, putting it on track for €4B in full year revenue, up 40% YoY, and had an operating loss between €70M and €90M
Spotify generated a billion euros ($1.2 billion) in revenue in the third quarter of 2017, according to two investors briefed on the numbers.
Apple HomePod review: best-in-class sound for $349 and above, looks great, but Siri only works with Apple Music, bad support for third-party services
I've been testing Apple's new HomePod for the last week … Raymond Wong / Mashable : 10 things you (probably) didn't know about Apple's HomePod Dave Mark / The Loop : HomePod reviews of note. And one n...
Cisco issues new patches for bug affecting its ASA software that allowed for remote code execution and DoS after determining last week's fix insufficient
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek :
US regulators say they lack power over cryptocurrency exchanges, citing ease of price manipulation on unregulated exchanges, view ICOs as securities offerings
the head of the SEC, Jay Clayton, sez. Nathaniel Popper / @nathanielpopper : “Do you have the cryptologists?” - Senator Reed asks the head of the SEC and CFTC
Amazon says it will begin removing lock screen ads on its discounted Prime Exclusive Phone program on February 7 but will reportedly raise phones' prices by $20
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge :
Google begins rolling out ability to book flights and hotels directly from search results
Eric Zimmerman / The Keyword :
Sources: Google to buy 1.2M sq. ft. Chelsea Market building in NYC, where it leases 400K sq. ft. already, for $2B+ in deal expected to close in two months
Mark Maurer / The Real Deal New York :
Car auction firm KAR buys San Francisco-based Stratim, a fleet management software service formerly known as Zirx
Bernadette Tansey / Xconomy :
A pollster Facebook hired in April '17, who quit after 6 months, says his role was to measure Zuckerberg's approval ratings and track speeches amid US tour
Casey Newton / The Verge :
Researcher finds flaw in Hotspot Shield, a VPN with ~500M users, that can reveal a user's WiFi network name, country, and more; fix coming in update next week
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet :
Uber's CISO tells Congress 2016 breach should have been disclosed earlier, company should not have used bug bounty program to negotiate $100K payment to hackers
Dustin Volz / Reuters :
Google brings AR stickers to its Motion Stills app for Android, which does not require ARCore-compatible smartphone or high-end specs
Stephen Shankland / CNET :
Boston-based Lightmatter raises $11M Series A led by Matrix Partners and Spark Capital for its AI-specific photonic chips
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
Data management startup Rubrik acquires Datos IO, which specializes in backing up NoSQL data; deal estimated at $45M+ based on Datos IO's earlier funding
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Apple's Shazam takeover triggers competition review by the European Commission, following request by seven European countries
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Home design platform Houzz acquires IvyMark, which raised ~$3M and offers a platform for interior and home designers; sources say deal is worth $30M-$40M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
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