Washington becomes first state to enact its own net neutrality protections as its bill is signed into law; 25+ states have introduced net neutrality bills
Internet providers will be required to treat all lawful content the same in Washington state under a landmark net neutrality law that just became official.
Microsoft Surface Pro LTE review: seamless connectivity, light and portable design, and satisfactory battery life, but its 7th gen Intel Core CPU is outdated
The cellular-connected laptop for consumers has arrived — For the past week or so, I've been using a computer to work from a train, at a park, and in a coffee shop.
Netflix update lets parents set custom PINs for individual movies or shows and displays maturity level ratings when hitting play
Netflix today announced that it is updating its parental controls to create more detailed protection for young viewers. The service is also adding clearer maturity level rating labels to its content.
Bumble updates policy to ban firearm images and will use ~5K moderators to remove gun-related content, won't censor images appearing in users' Instagram feeds
A few swipes into the popular dating app Bumble, and the diversity of interests is obvious: Users post photos of themselves swinging …
Reddit on Russian propaganda: hundreds of accounts removed, few Russian ads were seen and are now disallowed, @TEN_GOP tweets amplified by “thousands” on Reddit
Reddit didn't find any Russian ads about the 2016 election, but there was plenty of non-ad content being shared.
Kickstarter, Foursquare, Etsy, Shutterstock, Expa, and Automattic sue FCC over net neutrality rule changes, following other actions from the tech industry
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MoviePass CEO says its app tracks user locations before and after movies, which is not information currently disclosed in the company's privacy policy
Everyone knew the MoviePass deal is too good to be true — and as is so often the case these days, it turns out you're not the customer, you're the product.
Right-wing journalist Peter Schweizer plans to release a documentary on tech companies' role in filtering the news, casting them as censorious and oppressive
Conservatives are zeroing in on a new enemy in the political culture wars: Big Tech. — Arguing that Silicon Valley is stifling …
Google says it provides TensorFlow APIs to US Dept of Defense to help interpret drone footage, is working on policies and safeguards for use of machine learning
Google has partnered with the United States Department of Defense to help the agency develop artificial intelligence …
Analysis finds WordPress powers 30% of the top 10M websites, nearly 10x the market share of its nearest competitor Joomla, which has a 3.1% share
Open source dominates the content management system market — The web-watchers at W3Techs have just noted a milestone: WordPress now accounts for 30 per cent of the world's web sites.
WeWork says it's acquiring SEO and marketing company Conductor to build a “marketing cloud” for enterprise customers
WeWork is acquiring Conductor. — The two businesses might not seem like an obvious fit. Why would a coworking giant buy a company that's best known for search engine optimization?
Google's search app for iOS adds an extension for iMessage in US, a Safari share sheet option to see related content suggestions, and iPad drag and drop support
Google Search is now available within iMessage. In an effort to more deeply integrate Google's search engine on iOS devices …
Crunchbase Report: since January 2017, blockchain related startups worldwide have raised ~$4.5B via ICOs, almost 3.5x the ~$1.3B raised in traditional VC rounds
Recently, we found that, for 2018, the amount of money being raised by blockchain and blockchain-adjacent companies via traditional VC rounds …
Some VCs say travels outside the Bay Area, including to Midwest, have helped them see downsides of Silicon Valley, as SF faces high levels of outward migration
“Oh my god, this is so cute!” — Robin Li, an investor with the San Francisco venture capital firm GGV Capital …
HQ Trivia says it has raised $15M at a $100M post-money valuation, led by Founders Fund, to grow out its engineering team
HQ, the live trivia game-show app, tells Axios that it has raised $15 million in new VC funding at a $100 million post-money valuation.
A look at the tweets of those making money from private accounts with Premo: John Schindler appears to earn $17K/month and Eric Garland $3K/month
I know, because I read them. — Facebook and Twitter have both pledged never to charge users a monthly fee for their basic services …
US interagency security panel, CFIUS, orders Qualcomm to delay its March 6 shareholder meeting, delaying Broadcom's proxy fight for control of Qualcomm's board
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Sources: used car site Vroom, which had raised ~$320M, lays off 25%-50% staff and halts Dallas and Indiana operations
Vroom, an on-demand car buying and selling startup that has raised over $300 million in venture funding, has hit a bump in the road. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed …
Facebook admits error in sending survey that asked how users would handle policy on adults asking kids for sexual images, says child grooming is prohibited
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Microsoft says it will offer a new on-premises Azure service to government clients in mid-2018, a combined offering of Azure Stack and Azure Government
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Romania-based UiPath, which develops AI-based bots that automate mundane enterprise tasks, confirms it raised $153M Series B at $1.1B valuation led by Accel
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Sony, Nikon, Foxconn with startup Scenera form Network of Intelligent Camera Ecosystem, an alliance to develop a proprietary framework for smart cameras
Stephen Shankland / CNET :
Source: Sequoia Capital is seeking to raise $12B+ across seven funds, including $8B for its global growth fund, $2.5B for China, and $675M for Southeast Asia
More than $12 billion in capital is sought across seven new funds — One of Silicon Valley's best-known venture-capital firms … Tweets: @shiraovide and @ychernova Tweets: Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : ...
Tencent to introduce digital contracts that allow parents to reward housework, academic achievement with playing time after Honor of Kings addiction complaints
Alyssa Abkowitz / Wall Street Journal :
PA attorney general files lawsuit against Uber for waiting over 12 months to disclose the data breach from Oct 2016, which affected ~13,500 drivers in the state
Alfred Ng / CNET :
Google is selling US restaurant review guide Zagat, which it bought for $151M in 2011, to restaurant review company The Infatuation for an undisclosed sum
The guidebook was once a go-to source for restaurant recommendations Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land : Google selling Zagat to restaurant recommendations site The Infatuation Adnan Farooqui / Uberg...
Pentagon slashes $1B cloud computing contract awarded to an Amazon partner after facing increased industry criticism including a protest filed by Oracle to GAO
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Microsoft's “boomerang employees”, former employees that return, have risen since Nadella became CEO from ~12% of all hires to 13%-16%, or about 2,200 people
Rachel Lerman / The Seattle Times :
Sources: Indian ride-hailing service Ola is in talks with Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek to raise $500M-$1B at a $6-$7B valuation
Madhav Chanchani / The Economic Times :
Waze's carpooling app for commuters relaunches and now allows people to choose their shared rides, as opposed to being matched blindly
Today, we're excited to share … Carl Velasco / Tech Times : Waze Receives Update That Allows Riders To Select Who They Want To Carpool With Mallory Locklear / Engadget : Waze Carpool users can now cho...
Facebook has been testing a breaking news label for articles, is expanding that beta to 50 more publishers in Latin America, North America, Europe, Australia
and increases shares David Cohen / Adweek : 50+ More Publishers Will Soon Begin Testing Facebook's Breaking News Tag Billy Steele / Engadget : Facebook expands breaking news label to more publishers S...
Amazon India, which is spending billions adapting to a fiercely contested market, now has 150M registered users who can shop for 160M items from 300,000 sellers
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg : Tweets: @rkrishnakumar and @thesignoffive Tweets: Rahul Krishnakumar / @rkrishnakumar : Last paragraph is the best: “Will Amazon's efforts be enough to take on well-financed...
Journalist lost his job as a WSJ foreign correspondent after what was likely a state sponsored hack that led to an investigation of conduct with his sources
Jay Solomon / Columbia Journalism Review : Tweets: @cjr , @nxthompson , @cjr , @nedprice , and @ahmed Tweets: @cjr : “The phone call set off a brutal 48 hours in which I eventually lost my job.” http...
Former Dropbox executive and Index Ventures VC Ilya Fushman joins Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a general partner
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