Brian Acton, who cofounded WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook for $16B, tweeted “It is time. #deletefacebook”
Facebook bought his app for $16 billion — In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp for $16 billion, making its co-founders — Jan Koum and Brian Acton — very wealthy men.
With the storm over user data misuse intensifying into a hurricane, Facebook now faces several vexing questions about its opaque privacy practices
Two weeks ago, Facebook learned that The New York Times, Guardian, and Observer were working on blockbuster stories based on interviews with a man named Christopher Wylie.
Facebook confirms Mark Zuckerberg will speak in the next 24 hours on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after initially being focused on how to fix the problem
#WheresZuck had become a question in the past couple days — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak publicly in the next 24 hours with a …
Facebook has lost nearly $50B in market cap since Friday; 129M+ shares of Facebook stock changed hands on Tuesday, its biggest trading day since 2014
and cut them off James Vincent / The Verge : Academic who collected 50 million Facebook profiles: ‘We thought we were doing something normal’ Wall Street Journal : Facebook's Lax Data Policies Led to ...
Chris Wylie says Breitbart's Steve Bannon approved Cambridge Analytica's 2014 work to collect Facebook data; firm used focus groups to test views on Putin, more
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Cambridge Analytica execs boasted of running “all the digital campaign” for Trump, described its comms tactics to avoid paper trail: Proton Mail, deleting email
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As US lawmakers on both sides of the aisle call for Mark Zuckerberg to testify, he and Sheryl Sandberg remain publicly silent on the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Plus, four other questions … Jonathon Gatehouse / CBC News : Facebook CEO Zuckerberg conspicuously absent as data scandal grows Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic : Where Is Mark Zuckerberg? ResearchBu...
Sources: Apple executive Jimmy Iovine will transition into a consulting role in August and step back from daily involvement with Apple Music
The music executive and Beats co-founder will step back from daily involvement with Apple's streaming-music business
Source: Mark Zuckerberg expected to address Facebook employees about Cambridge Analytica scandal at 1pm ET on Friday during the company's regular Q&A session
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A look at Cambridge Analytica's targeted Facebook ads attacking Hillary Clinton for Mercer-backed Make America Number One PAC, reaping millions of impressions
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The European Commission proposes a 3% tax on EU revenues of companies with global annual revenues of €750M+, like Google, Facebook, and Amazon
The European Commission wants to see big tech firms pay a 3% tax on some of their revenues. This is a major break from the traditional way of calculating tax based on profits.
Sources: Google is buying Lytro, the imaging startup that uses its light field tech in VR, for about $40M; one source describes deal as an “asset sale”
Last week, Google showed off a new app to display immersive photography in virtual reality, and a multi-camera technique for capturing it …
Travis Kalanick becoming CEO of City Storage Systems, which focuses on repurposing real estate, and says his new fund is acquiring a $150M controlling interest
The company was formerly called CloudKitchens and was led by Diego Berdakin, an early Uber investor. — Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has found his new job.
Netflix unveils its own custom typeface, Netflix Sans, to be used globally; brand design lead says it will save millions of dollars per year in licensing costs
Netflix has unveiled a new custom typeface to be used across the streaming platform's brand identity, developed by the in-house design team …
In an era of data breaches, privacy violations, and stolen identities, we need a Digital Protection Agency to clean up leaks, educate the public, and levy fines
It's not just the Cambridge Analytica debacle. Ethics don't scale. — Over and over in the last 20 years we've watched low-cost …
15-year-old hacker exposes vulnerability in popular “tamper-proof” Ledger hardware cryptocurrency wallets that have sold by the millions
Backdoor allows attacker to recover private keys stored on Ledger hardware wallets. — For years, executives at France-based Ledger …
CryptoKitties, a game built on top of the Ethereum blockchain, raises $12M Series A led by a16z and USV, and will be spun out of Axiom Zen game studio
CryptoKitties became a sensation after it debuted in November as a collectible game built on top of a blockchain and the Ethereum cryptocurrency.
Amazon's in-home delivery service app Key adds fingerprint authentication support on Android
Amazon's Key in-home delivery service was announced last October and its cameras and smart door locks became available in November. Since then, Amazon has been able to use Key to place …
Sources and docs detail Kaspersky Lab's plans for a data center in Switzerland, to be completed by early 2020, to handle analysis of files from EU and US users
MOSCOW/TORONTO (Reuters) - Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab plans to open a data center in Switzerland to address Western government concerns …
Facebook Messenger adds admin privileges to group chats, letting admins approve new members, and “joinable links” that can be created by anyone
Despite the growing controversy around the Cambridge Analytica data privacy allegations, Facebook is pushing those concerns …
Snowden docs show the methods NSA tried to track down bitcoin users in 2013, including using privacy software that actually fed information back to the agency
Internet paranoiacs drawn to bitcoin have long indulged fantasies of American spies subverting the booming, controversial digital currency.
Google's global head of music, Lyor Cohen, says YouTube will start putting more ads in between music videos to encourage subscriptions to upcoming music service
It's a cultural change for a company that was built on free — YouTube will increase the number of ads that some users …
Google announces new security features for Google Cloud Platform and G Suite, including new DDoS protections, dashboard, and increased data transparency
The enterprise is one area where Google is committing vast resources in order to gain a foothold in the lucrative market occupied by Amazon and Microsoft.
Google and Facebook were built to destroy publishers, not help; Google's $300M pledge to journalism won't go directly to publications, who need real checks
Guess who's winning? — For argument's sake, let's believe that Google believes its newest efforts to boost publishers …
Microsoft announces Windows Server 2019, the first big update since 2016, with Linux and Kubernetes support
Join the Windows Insider Program and help shape … Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Windows Server 2019 preview available now, full version launching later this year Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News :...
Dropbox increases IPO price range from $16-18 per share to $18-20 per share on strong demand; final pricing expected on Thursday
Qualcomm announces new Snapdragon 845-based VR developer kit with Tobii eye-tracking and HTC Vive Wave support, launching in second quarter of this year
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Pandora to acquire digital audio ad tech company AdsWizz for $145M; at least 50% to be paid in cash, with the remainder payable in cash or stock
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A look at Facebook's 59-acre Willow Village development in Menlo Park, with 1,500 apartments and other amenities, as it follows in Apple and Google's footsteps
In Menlo Park, Calif., Facebook is building a real community and testing the proposition: Do people love tech companies so much they will live inside them? Tweets: @ssstrom , @davethackeray , @william...
Raleigh, NC police used search warrants to gather user data from Google on all mobile devices near a crime scene to identify suspects
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YouTube rolls out a new feature that lets users “go live” directly from the desktop site without encoding software, currently only supported in Chrome
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Amazon, with a market value of $768B, has passed Alphabet's market value of $761.4B, making it the world's second-most valuable company, trails Apple's $889.2B
Ari Levy / CNBC :
The response to privacy abuses in the broadband industry, where there is a lack of oversight and accountability, has been tepid at best compared to social media
Karl Bode / Motherboard :
Salesforce will acquire MuleSoft, a SaaS integration company, for $6.5B, making it Salesforce's largest-ever acquisition
Dan Primack / Axios :
Tencent Q4 profit of ~$3.3B beat estimates on revenue of ~$10.4B, bolstered by mobile game hits like Honour of Kings and a growing ad business
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg :
Facebook develops Fabric Aggregation Layer, a new networking architecture that scales for increased demands on data centers, will donate to Open Compute Project
Tom Krazit / GeekWire :
Online fraud detection startup Sift Science raises $53M Series D led by Stripes Group; its previous investors include Alexis Ohanian, Marc Benioff, Max Levchin
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Alphabet's Jigsaw announces Outline, an open source VPN software that users can host on their own servers and that will run on Windows and Android to start
Andy Greenberg / Wired :
FogHorn, an industrial IoT startup backed by Intel and Honeywell, partners with Google to integrate Google Cloud IoT Core into its edge analytics service
Monica Alleven / FierceWireless :
SEC filings reveal Khosla Ventures is raising up to $1B for its sixth flagship fund and up to $400M for a fund focused on seed-stage deals
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