Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook's hardest year, how it has changed the company's future ambitions, and his faith in its mission
“We will dig through this hole, but it will take a few years.” — It's been a tough year for Facebook. The social networking juggernaut found itself engulfed …
Cloudflare debuts 1.1.1.1, a free privacy-first consumer DNS service, which collects as little info as possible and wipes logs daily, retains KPMG as an auditor
Cloudflare's mission is to help build a better Internet. We're excited today to take another step toward that mission …
Report: US households using only over-the-top streaming services nearly tripled since 2013 to 14.1M but still represent just 11% of all TV households
The number of U.S. households using only over-the-top streaming services to access TV programming and movies has nearly tripled over the past five years …
YouTube debuts TrueView for reach, a shorter, skippable ad format, which lets advertisers show ads as short as 6 seconds that can be skipped after 5
YouTube today is introducing a new ad format that will allow viewers to skip even shorter ads. Called “TrueView for reach,” …
As part of HQ2 search, Amazon officials have already visited 10 of 20 finalist cities, which are providing them with data including SAT scores of local students
Finalists for the company's second home base break out bicycles to win over the internet giant — Don't get too fancy.
Alibaba to buy all remaining outstanding shares of Chinese food delivery service Ele.me at a $9.5B valuation
Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group has announced that it will acquire all outstanding shares that it does not already own in online food delivery company Ele.me, in a deal valuing the target company at ...
Payment systems at Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores breached; credit card data of 5M+ customers allegedly stolen
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GDPR in the EU and similar laws in other countries, along with Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, may point to global shift in favor of personal data control
THE HEADLINES ABOUT the trade wars being touched off by President Trump's new tariffs may telegraph plenty of bombast and shots fired …
China unveils pilot program for large firms like Alibaba to list on the mainland via relaxed rules and depository receipts, which could lead to more IPOs there
Pilot to allow some companies listed overseas to issue CDRs — Certain start-ups will be eligible for IPOs on the mainland
Grindr is sharing the HIV status and “last tested” date of users with two other firms, according to an analysis by an outside research firm verified by BuzzFeed
A data analysis conducted by an outside research firm, and independently verified by BuzzFeed News … Tweets: @azeen , @azeen , and @caseynewton Tweets: Azeen Ghorayshi / @azeen : and HIV/AIDS advocate...
Interview with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst about growing the company's core business beyond Linux with cloud computing projects like OpenShift and OpenStack
The Red Hat Linux distribution is turning 25 years old this week. What started as one of the earliest Linux distributions …
How Google, carriers, and startups plan to capitalize on the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum, likely to be freed from US military control this year
A bold plan to open up spectrum could rock the wireless industry and prove a $260 billion win for consumers. Guess-who would also make out all right. Tweets: @kevinctofel and @mhbergen Tweets: Kevin ...
How tech companies are fighting bias in facial recognition software: detecting race, diversifying training data, and disclosing recognition accuracy by group
SOFTWARE ENGINEER HENRY Gan got a surprise last summer when he tested his team's new facial recognition system on coworkers at startup Gfycat.
Report: Netflix is in advanced talks to acquire EuropaCorp, a movie studio co-founded by Luc Besson
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SiFive, which helps companies ship custom chip designs based on the RISC-V architecture, raises $50.6M in venture financing led by Spark Capital and others
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Profile of Spotify's CFO Barry McCarthy as the company prepares for its unusual direct listing on NYSE this Tuesday
Big Data About Taxi Rides Sheds Unique Insights, But With a Privacy Cost Tweets: Parker / @pt : It's odd how little faith bankers have in markets finding the right price for companies without them. ht...
Branch raises $70M Series B from Trinity Ventures, a16z, and others to expand its mobile lending platform that offers loans between $2 and $1000 in Africa
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Tweets: @africatechie and @fareastenders Tweets: Rebecca Enonchong / @africatechie : This young lending startup just secured $70 million to lend $2 at a time in Nigeria, ...
Rural internet and cable providers worry that regulations against Huawei will hurt their margins by forcing them to buy pricier equipment from Western suppliers
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Scotty Labs raises $6M seed round led by Gradient Ventures, Google's early-stage fund focused on AI, for its technology to operate self-driving cars remotely
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.