Sources: Amazon is preparing to launch a delivery service for businesses, “Shipping with Amazon”, in Los Angeles in coming weeks with its third-party merchants
The company is preparing to begin the offering in Los Angeles with its ‘third-party merchants’ and then roll it out more broadly
YouTube temporarily suspends ads on Logan Paul's channels citing “recent pattern of behavior”, after multiple controversial posts since the suicide victim video
It's only a temporary suspension though — Has controversial YouTuber Logan Paul changed? It seems YouTube doesn't think so.
Facebook confirms test of “downvote” button on some comments for users to give feedback to company, with options like “Offensive”, “Misleading”, “Off Topic”
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Uber settles Waymo lawsuit, pledges not to use Waymo's trade secrets; Waymo will receive 0.34% stake in Uber worth about $245M
Uber Technologies Inc. settled the high-stakes trade-secret theft lawsuit brought by Waymo, resolving a conflict that already cost the ride-hailing giant …
Nest co-founder, chief product officer Matt Rogers says he's leaving to focus on his venture firm Incite.org but will help with Nest's transition into Google
Nest co-founder Matt Rogers says he's leaving the maker of smart home gadgets. — The move comes a day after Google's parent Alphabet …
Qualcomm's board unanimously rejects Broadcom's revised unsolicited $121B acquisition offer and offers to meet them to address “serious deficiencies in value”
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) ("Qualcomm" or the “Company") today announced that its Board of Directors …
VLC 3.0 launches on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Android TV, Apple TV, Chrome OS, supports hardware decoding for 4K, 8K video, 360-degree video, more
VideoLAN today launched version 3.0 of its media player across all major desktop and mobile platforms: Windows (ARM, x86, x64) …
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue of $2.91B, up 34% YoY or 10% QoQ, net income of $1.1B, up 71% YoY or 33% QoQ, and fiscal 2018 revenue of $9.71B, up 41% YoY
Nvidia used to be synonymous with graphics chips for game machines. But now it is using those same chips to drive artificial intelligence calculations …
Didi and SoftBank will launch ride-hailing service in Japan this year, matching users to existing taxi fleets, starting in Osaka, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Tokyo
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese ride hailing giant Didi Chuxing will set up a venture with SoftBank Group Corp to provide ride-hailing …
Facebook will award $10M in grants to people creating and leading communities, with up to $1M grants for 5 leaders and $50K for 100 more
LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) launched a community leadership program on Friday that will award $10 million in total to more than 100 people …
Google says Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” starting in July 2018 with release of Chrome 68
leaving just a handful of outliers. http://www.zdnet.com/... @pinboard : “A secure web is here to stay,” boasts Google, “unless of course you're using an Android phone” http://security.googleblog.com/...
After using DMCA notice to remove iOS 9 “iBoot” code leak on GitHub, Apple says “the security of our products doesn't depend on the secrecy of our source code”
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Sources: Ant Financial plans to raise up to $5B in fresh equity that could value the online payments giant at $100B+ in what is viewed as pre-IPO fundraising
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Ant Financial Services Group is planning to raise up to $5 billion in fresh equity that could value …
Activision Blizzard reports record Q4 net revenue of $2.043B, record 2017 net revenue of $7.017B, net loss of $584M largely due to charges from new US tax law
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Getty Images signs an image licensing deal with Google, signaling a truce after filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google in the EU in April 2016
Almost two years after filing an antitrust lawsuit against Google, Getty Images announced today that it has signed a licensing deal with the Silicon Valley giant.
Twitter left up hundreds of videos from two Vine accounts connected to the Russian Internet Research Agency until CNN asked about the accounts
Donie O'Sullivan / CNNMoney :
Hired data: on average, white tech workers ask for $130K salary, receive $136K offer; Hispanic and black workers ask for $124K, receive ~$130K offer
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
India's antitrust watchdog fines Google 1.36B rupees, or $21.17M, for search bias and abusing its dominance in search and search advertising markets
Sources: WhatsApp is testing person-to-person payments in India for a limited set of users ahead of expected wider rollout
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Everipedia, a rival to Wikipedia that plans to use tokens to permit editing and reward users, raises $30M from investors including Galaxy Digital
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune :
A district court judge has ruled that Grubhub properly classified a California delivery driver as an independent contractor
not employees—judge rules
Pinterest says there are 600M+ monthly visual searches across its products, up 140% YoY; ability to add Lens images to any text search coming to iOS next week
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat :
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