Sources: Apple is launching AC Wellness, a group of medical clinics for its employees and their families, starting in California this spring
- The company is advertising for doctors, health coaches, and “designers” to create a program to promote healthy behavior.
Google says it received ~2.4M takedown requests from 2014-2017 under EU's right to be forgotten laws and complied with 43% of them
Google has now been complying with the European Union's controversial “right to be forgotten” laws, which the European Court of Justice first ruled applied to search engines in 2014, for three years.
Vero, an ad-free social networking app that first launched in 2015, becomes the top app on the App Store in US as frustration with Instagram's algorithm grows
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Coinbase to comply with court order and send IRS details of ~13,000 users who moved $20K+ through their accounts in a single year between 2013 and 2015
Within 21 days — Coinbase told its customers on Friday that it plans to comply with a court order and hand over about 13,000 customers' data to the IRS within 21 days.
Google releases beta of its open-source Flutter SDK for building iOS and Android apps
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Sources: CFIUS, a US inter-agency panel focused on national security that can stop mergers, is examining Broadcom's bid for Qualcomm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A national security panel that can stop mergers that could harm U.S. security has begun looking at Singapore-based chipmaker Broadcom Ltd's plan …
Craig Wright, who once claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, sued for $10B by estate of deceased business partner Dave Kleiman, for allegedly stealing $5B in bitcoin
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
Big data analytics service Splunk says it will acquire security automation platform Phantom Cyber for $350M in cash and stock; Phantom has raised $22M
Big data-crunching platform Splunk has announced plans to acquire Phantom Cyber Corporation ("Phantom"), a security automation and orchestration platform …
Researchers and tech firms are using digital phenotyping, an emerging field that aims to assess people's health based on their interactions with digital devices
An emerging field, digital phenotyping, tries to assess people's well-being based on their interactions with digital devices.
A look at tech real estate in the Bay Area: Google has 19.9M sq. ft. of office space for 34K+ workers, 38% more than Apple's 14.4M sq. ft. for 25K+ people
Google's parent company, Alphabet, has been adding office space more rapidly than any other tech company in the Bay Area.
Facebook to launch Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, a $3M three-month pilot program to help metro papers boost digital subscription efforts
Facebook Journalism Project will announce today the launch of its Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, a $3 million, three-month pilot program …
Germany's highest court rules that Google is not obligated to ensure websites are free from defamatory content before displaying links to them in search results
Maria Sheahan / Reuters :
Pinterest has hired former Google and Square executive Francoise Brougher as its first COO
Brougher joins as Pinterest is eyeing an IPO. — Pinterest just made an important new hire: The visual search company is bringing on Francoise Brougher, a former executive from both Google and Square...
Sources detail how tech magnate Masayoshi Son invests in companies, often acting quickly and detached from fund's investor committee and Softbank's directors
SoftBank is on a shopping spree, investing billions in firms such as Uber and WeWork, both directly and through an affiliated tech fund Tweets: @davecbenoit , @kushkatakia , @zerohedge , @krisnair , @...
Hacker who stole 37K ETH, then worth ~$7M, during CoinDash's ICO in July by changing wallet address on site, has unexpectedly returned ~30K ETH, now worth ~$26M
Sead Fadilpaši / CryptoNews :
Apple now faces ~60 class action lawsuits over iPhone slowdowns, up from ~30 in mid-January; consolidation of suits likely next month
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors :
Khronos Group is bringing Vulkan API specification, the successor of OpenGL, to macOS and iOS in collaboration with Valve, LunarG, and The Brenwill Workshop
The Khronos Group :
Ford adds Sygic's Driving Assistant, a voice-controlled co-driver that identifies places of interest using Sygic's GPS navigation app, to cars with SYNC 3
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch :
Sources: Cellebrite, popular with governments and law enforcement for hacking into devices, is telling potential clients that it can unlock iOS 11 devices
Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes :
Apple's iOS Security Guide confirms 2016 reports that Google Cloud Platform is one of the third-party services Apple uses to store data for its iCloud services
surprised? Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : It's official: Apple is using Google's cloud storage services to host iCloud data Wayne Williams / BetaNews : Apple iCloud now powered by Google Cloud, not Mi...
Sick people in the US are increasingly using Uber or Lyft to get to the emergency room, instead of an ambulance, exposing drivers to potential legal risks
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed :
Sources: Alphabet's Verily has been talking with insurers about joint bids for contracts that would involve taking on risk for hundreds of thousands of patients
- The company is looking to take on risk for patient populations and sharing in the upside if it can bring down health-care costs, sources tell CNBC. Tweets: @onceupona Tweets: Adrianna McIntyre / @on...
US appeals court rules FTC's lawsuit against AT&T, which alleges the carrier misled unlimited data plan customers, can proceed
Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal :
Q&A with Coinbase VP and general manager Dan Romero on competition, doubling headcount to 500 this year, why it took so long to add Bitcoin SegWit support, more
Becky Peterson / Business Insider :
Fitbit reports Q4 revenue of $570.8M, versus an estimated $588.9M, and 5.4M wearable devices shipped, compared to 6.5M in Q4 2016; stock drops 13%+
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch :
Alphabet correspondence with SEC details how Page treats each business separately and Google's Pichai can make some financial decisions without Page's approval
United States Securities … Tweets: Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : “Within Google, Sundar Pichai is the only executive who reports directly to and maintains regular contact with Larry Page."Good spot from @...
News Media Alliance, a trade group for 2K+ US newspapers, forms PAC to push for a safe harbor exemption to compete against Google and Facebook
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Telecom Infra Project, Facebook's effort to accelerate innovation in rural telecom networks, grows to 500+ members with carriers such as China Unicom and Sprint
Edgar Alvarez / Engadget :
One-time Flickr rival 500px acquired by Visual China Group, the “Getty of China”, which had been one of its strategic investors
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
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