Since October, Apple has signed 12 TV projects, nine of them “straight-to-series”; sources say the company aims to roll them out between March and summer 2019
Known for its bold designs and its big marketing campaigns, Apple relishes its status as a dominant force in the corporate world.
Fitbit Versa review: 4 day battery life in a flat, lightweight design with hints of Apple Watch but with poor notification support, and swapping the bands sucks
The Versa is better than Fitbit's earlier smartwatches, but it still has issues — Fitbit needs a win.
Facebook stock plunges 5%+ after FTC confirms it has an open non-public probe into the company's privacy practices
The FTC confirmed Monday it's investigating Facebook and its data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. — Shares of Facebook fell following the report.
Uber CEO says they spent $700M in Southeast Asia before deal with Grab; source: Uber feels confident enough in India and Middle East to not retreat from there
As part of the deal, Uber will get a 27.5 percent stake in the company and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will join the Grab board.
By claiming that Facebook was not aware of a widespread misuse of user data by outside developers, Mark Zuckerberg sends a message that he thinks we are idiots
Facebook's troublesome and troubling ambition... Enrique Dans : Facebook: from naivety to stupidity Kinsey Grant / TheStreet : It's Dumb to Think Mark Zuckerberg Isn't Facebook's Biggest Risk Right No...
How every Facebook app in 2010 collected users' personal data, what devs could do with it, and why Facebook can't close the Pandora's box it opened a decade ago
For a spell during 2010 and 2011, I was a virtual rancher of clickable cattle on Facebook. — It feels like a long time ago.
Grab to acquire all of Uber's operations in Southeast Asia, including UberEats; Uber gets 27.5% stake in Grab, and Uber CEO will join Grab's board
Grab to buy ride-sharing, food delivery businesses in region — Uber gets 27.5% stake in rival, CEO to join Grab's board
New complicated privacy and transparency regulations might be a mere speed bump for Facebook but an insurmountable burden for startups
You know what tech startups hate? Complicated legal compliance. The problem is, Facebook isn't a startup any more, but its competitors are.
Leader of hacker gang known as Carbanak, who used malware attacks to steal €1B+ from banks and ATMs, caught in Spain
For the past five years, a gang of hackers known as Carbanak has been targeting banks around the world, stealing well over $1 billion in total.
Spotify issues guidance for 2018: subs 96M, up 36% YoY, revenue $6.9B, up 30% YoY, gross margins 25%, up from 21%, operating losses $409M, down from $500M
Ahead of its IPO, the streaming service is offering its first-ever guidance: Revenue, subs and margins will be up, operating losses will go down.
Inside the fight between the Facebook-Google duopoly and Madison Avenue as advertisers get nervous about the Facebook fallout and push aggressively for changes
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal :
Facebook is rolling out its feature showing more stories from local news sources in News Feed, available in US since January, globally to all countries
Wikimedia says Google has contributed $1M+ this year with Apple, Facebook, Microsoft donating ~$50K in matching gifts; corporations account for ~4% of donations
YouTube's plan to combat conspiracy videos with information sourced from Wikipedia got push back from a number of different quarters …
Sources: SoftBank is investigating who was behind the smear campaign that called for the ouster of its top execs Nikesh Arora and Alok Sama
Series of letters to board called for removal of Nikesh Arora and Alok Sama; ‘sabotage’ effort also involved media leaks, complaint to SEC
Twitter says it will ban cryptocurrency advertising on its platform, including ads for ICOs, token sales, and crypto-wallet services
LONDON (Reuters) - Twitter is to ban cryptocurrency advertising, joining Facebook and Google in a clampdown on the industry over the risk of giving publicity …
Israel-based social trading and multi-asset brokerage startup eToro raises $100M, source says at $800M valuation, for expansion and R&D in blockchain
Yasmin Yablonko / Globes Online :
Video streaming promised cheap, tailored viewing, but customers still pay for content they don't watch as more services launch with exclusive content
98.54 USD — Like to binge-watch TV? There's an app for that. And another. And another. And another. Tweets: @pavanrajam and @pavanrajam See also Mediagazer Tweets: Pavan Rajam / @pavanrajam : Th...
A survey of 1000 college students with student loan debt found that 21.2% of them have used financial aid money to buy cryptocurrency
Drew Cloud / The Student Loan Report :
How Sequoia, Accel, and Y Combinator ended up with their current stakes in Dropbox; source: YC sold about 50% of its holdings around the time of the Series B
Y Combinator sold about half of its Dropbox position a few years ago — Sequoia made it a priority to cut Accel into the Series A https://www.recode.net/... pic.twitter.com/1yYw4cxrld
Owner of AlbumJams and ShareBeast, which were shuttered by FBI and DOJ, sentenced to 5 years in prison and $643K in restitution and forfeiture after guilty plea
Andy / TorrentFreak :
The fact that Bitcoin's blockchain had illicit images was well known, and the liability dangers of mere presence of hidden, text encoded images, are overblown
Jerry Brito / Coin Center :
Sources: Kaspersky's Slingshot malware report exposed counterterrorism cyber-espionage operation led by US Joint Special Operations Command
known inside the unit as ‘special reconnaissance’...Most of these operations would usually combine elements of [HUMINT] & [SIGINT] in order to catch terrorists.” http://twitter.com/... Molly McKew / @...
A look at what happens when algorithms used to automate health assessments in Arkansas start cutting essential state-sponsored home care for disabled patients
Colin Lecher / The Verge : Tweets: @mslopatto , @flyosity , and @hccandrea Tweets: @mslopatto : This is what happens when you put an algorithm in charge of healthcare: people's benefits are cut and n...
Sources: HQ Trivia landed a $3M deal to promote three Warner Bros. movies, starting with Ready Player One, will announce $250K jackpot with sponsorship tie-in
Garett Sloane / Ad Age : Tweets: @ischafer and @nickstatt See also Mediagazer Tweets: Ian Schafer / @ischafer : I'm not a business, model I'm a business model http://twitter.com/... Nick Statt / @nic...
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