Source: Motorola Mobility laying off 190 from its Chicago team; Motorola says less than half of Chicago workforce impacted and denies Moto Z cancellation rumors
Motorola has confirmed that it is laying people in its Chicago office off, though it also says “our Moto Z family will continue.”
Sources: Intel is working with advisors to consider options in response to Broadcom's pursuit of Qualcomm, including an acquisition offer for Broadcom
Tech giant working with advisers on evaluating deal and other possible acquisitions — Intel Corp. INTC 2.86% is considering a range …
Google updates Assistant with better media playback, subscriptions for Actions, and lets third-party vendors add custom Assistant commands to their devices
While I typically use my Google Assistant to play music, control my lights and set timers, it's easy to dream about what else could be possible …
Bose shows off glasses with audio-based AR tech and sets up a $50M fund to back a new audio AR platform for wearables
OK, so this is weird, and not what we were expecting when Bose told us it was making a new product announcement at this year's SXSW: It's creating an augmented-reality platform.
Snapchat and Instagram have temporarily removed their integrations with Giphy after users saw a racist GIF as an option to add to images
Snapchat and Instagram have temporarily removed their Giphy GIF sticker features after users saw an extremely racist GIF as an option to add to their images.
Toronto-based financial services firm Purpose Financial to acquire Montreal-based online lender Thinking Capital; sources say price was $200M+
Purpose Financial have announced they acquired Thinking Capital. This move brings the Montreal-based Thinking Capital's leading lending platform to Purpose Financial.
Santa Monica-based Bird, Travis VanderZanden's controversial electric scooter rental startup, raises $100M Series B at $300M valuation; Bird raised $15M in Feb.
Update: Bird confirmed our reporting with an announcement of the close of the round. Index Ventures and Valor Ventures led the funding.
Behind The Great Slate, a Twitter-driven fundraising campaign by Bay Area tech workers for progressive Congressional candidates in poorer, rural districts
Paul Spencer, a Congressional candidate in Little Rock, Arkansas, has never worked at a tech company. He doesn't represent tech industry issues.
UK-based Netsparker, a developer of web application security scanning software used by customers including Microsoft, Samsung, and NASA, raises $40M Series A
Web application security scanner maker Netsparker Ltd. has raised $40 million in funding in a round led by enterprise software venture capital firm Turn/River Capital.
Inside Operation Bayonet, the Dutch police sting and takeover of Hansa, once the largest dark web market in Europe, that netted data on ~420K drug traffickers
FOR ANYONE WHO has watched the last few years of cat-and-mouse games on the dark web's black markets, the pattern is familiar …
Research: major ISPs in Turkey and Egypt are serving redirect links to malware-infected software for users downloading apps from vendors like Opera and Avast
Chris Bing / Cyberscoop :
Waymo is piloting self-driving trucks on highways in Atlanta region for carrying cargo bound for Google's data centers starting next week
Tencent leads $461.6M Series B in Chinese livestreaming platform Huya, owned by social network YY, and invests $630M in Chinese game streaming platform Douyu
Timmy Shen / TechNode :
Consolidated lawsuits challenging net neutrality repeal will be heard by US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, US panel on multidistrict litigation says
David Shepardson / Reuters :
Facebook gets exclusive rights to stream 25 MLB afternoon games, making MLB first league to air season games solely on Facebook; sources say price ~$30M-$35M
you won't be able to watch them anywhere else on TV or online: https://www.recode.net/... Jessica Lessin / @jessicalessin : It's stunning how little money this is for Facebook. http://www.bloomberg.co...
Bitcoin and ICOs are in 1999-like bubble; they'll crash but will produce the next Google and Facebook and all the great and scary things the internet gave us
The true believers won't stop until they've remade the world. Some of it will be thrilling. Some of it will keep us up at night. Tweets: @waldojaquith , @ahmed , @ameliasbrain , @riskreversal , @fin...
Qualcomm names independent director Jeffrey Henderson as non-executive chairman, replacing executive chairman Paul Jacobs, who will stay on the board
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Facebook is testing Facebook Camera AR experiences via tracking markers on posters of two films, will add tracker-based AR capabilities to AR Studio in April
Facebook's augmented reality camera is evolving beyond selfie masks and randomly placed 3D objects to using location markers …
Facebook strikes a licensing deal with Warner Music, the last major label holdout, to use Warner's music in videos and messages on Facebook
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Facebook's Onavo has removed Bolt App Lock from Google Play after criticism of app's data collection practices, says it was “a small, brief test”
Dell Cameron / Gizmodo :
Palantir and Raytheon win a decade-long $876M army contract; Palantir won a lawsuit over the army's bidding practices before the contract was awarded
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg :
Profile of Know Your Meme, a website and video series that has been documenting viral online content and internet meme culture for over ten years
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Verge : Tweets: @kait_tiffany , @claire_mcnear , and @mikerugnetta Tweets: Kaitlyn Tiffany / @kait_tiffany : i love love the gorgeous pics by my hero, @Holowaty and the lil meme...
After mob violence, Sri Lanka ordered ISPs to temporarily block access to Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Viber for “spreading hate speeches and amplifying them”
New York Times :
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