Google details how Chrome's optional ad blocking, which goes live tomorrow, will work: kind of ads that will trigger it, how Chrome will notify users, more
Chrome's built-in ad blocker will go live tomorrow. It's the first time Google will automatically block some ads in Chrome …
Six US intelligence chiefs, including the heads of the CIA, FBI, and NSA, said that they would not advise citizens to use Huawei and ZTE products or services
- The directors of the CIA, FBI, NSA and several other intelligence agencies express their distrust of Apple-rival Huawei and fellow Chinese telecom company ZTE.
Uber says Q4 net revenue was $2.22B, up 61% YoY, total value of fares was $11B, UberEats is ~10% of its business, and it lost $4.5B on $7.5B sales in 2017
Uber Technologies Inc. had a painful 2017, but the business managed to grow. — Adjusted net revenue last quarter increased 61 percent …
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon X24 LTE modem with support for 2 Gbps speeds, likely to be integrated into its next mobile chips that will power 2019's flagships
Even as the race toward real-world 5G picks up steam, LTE technology as it exists will remain crucial for most of us in the next few years.
Bill Gates says by resisting legitimate oversight, tech giants are at risk of similar government intervention that once plagued Microsoft
In an interview with Axios, Bill Gates warned Apple and other tech giants that they risk the kind of nightmarish government intervention that once plagued his Microsoft if they act arrogantly.
HTC's President of Smartphone and Connected Devices Business Chialin Chang has resigned; no replacement has been announced
The exec has quit due to ‘personal career plan.’ — Not long after letting go of its Pixel team in exchange for some much needed cash from Google, HTC is now also losing its smartphone lead.
Fitbit acquires cloud-based software startup Twine Health, which connects patients with health coaches and doctors and had raised ~$10M according to Crunchbase
Nearly all Twine Health employees will join Fitbit — Fitbit announced today that it has acquired a small …
Apple shareholders meeting recap: wearables business approaching Fortune 300 size, iPhone X has 99% customer satisfaction, Cook “not a fan” of special dividends
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Norwest Venture Partners raises $1.5B fund to invest in consumer, enterprise, and healthcare firms at all stages and promotes Jon Kossow to managing partner
Norwest Venture Partners has closed a $1.5 billion fund, bringing the total under management to $7.5 billion.
Pinterest now lets you archive your boards, rearrange pins and sections, and sort boards, on Android, iOS, and web
Pinterest has announced a slew of new tools designed to help users organize their pins and boards. — First up, a new archiving option lets you file a board away for posterity.
Microsoft launches Microsoft for Startups program with $500M committed over two years for joint sales forces, access to technology and working spaces, more
Over the last few years, Microsoft has launched a number of programs for startups that range from free BizSpark credits for Azure …
Autonomous drone startup Skydio unveils R1, an AI-powered drone that can shoot 4K video, navigate entirely on its own, and flies 16 minutes on a single charge
This drone can be flown without expertise and doesn't even come with a controller — Skydio, an autonomous drone startup based …
Skype update installer found to be susceptible to DLL hijacking, potentially giving system-level privileges; Microsoft says fix will come when app is rewritten
so it won't bother. http://www.zdnet.com/...
Match Group CEO Mandy Ginsberg says Tinder will introduce Bumble-style option that lets women initiate all conversations with matches in future update
New Match Group CEO highlights opt-in for setting, says ‘giving people the choice versus telling people how to engage is the big difference’
Video by Russian activist alleging new link between Russia and Trump campaign is subject of injunction, may lead to blocking of YouTube and Instagram in Russia
US court dismisses suit brought by “patent troll” Blackbird against Cloudflare, invalidating Blackbird's patent, noting abstract ideas are not patentable
Baidu reports Q4 revenues of 23.6B yuan, or $3.62B, up 29% YoY, confirms it has filed preliminary documents for an IPO in the US for its iQiyi video service
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Amazon says it will provide Amazon.com store credit to everyone who paid to remove ads from Prime Exclusive smartphones
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Snapchat begins to roll out analytics tool for its top creators, including time spent viewing Stories, audience demographics and interests, and more
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IDC says Google sold 3.9M Pixel devices in 2017
Online backup service Carbonite to acquire Dell EMC's Mozy, a cloud-based backup service for enterprises, for $145.8M via cash and a $120M revolving credit line
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Google's Area 120 incubator announces Reply, a project that brings Google's Smart Reply feature to other chat apps, initially available only on Android
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Content management company OpenText acquires file-sharing startup Hightail, formerly known as YouSendIt, which has raised ~$92M in funding
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ARM unveils Project Trillium, a new mobile AI chip family, with a ML chip design coming in mid-2018 and an object detection chip design coming in Q1
Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech :
Analysis finds Facebook has financial ties to 7+ members of its 13-person Messenger Kids advisory board used to shape the product, with limited disclosure
Nitasha Tiku / Wired :
Microsoft hires founder of education collaboration platform Chalkup, which will close down in June, will integrate some of its features into Teams for Education
proud it found its new home at @Microsoft. http://twitter.com/...
Injong Rhee, Samsung Electronics' CTO, says he has left the company to lead Google's IoT business under cloud boss Diane Greene
eBay hires data scientist Jan Pedersen from Twitter to head AI efforts and says it will roll out new AR features this year
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Oath CEO Tim Armstrong says programs in Go90, Verizon's free mobile video app, will be redistributed inside Oath outlets like HuffPost, Yahoo Finance
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Open source time series database platform InfluxData raises $35M Series C led by SAP's Sapphire Ventures, says 120K sites and 400 businesses use its platform
Facebook's status update box gets a new Lists feature for making and sharing text lists about anything, rolling out to some users now
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