Despite Trump's tirades, available evidence and analysts suggest Amazon has helped mitigate USPS decline, with parcel shipments reaching 5.7B in 2017
SEATTLE — Five times in the last week, President Trump has pointed his Twitter arrows at Amazon over what he insists is a bad deal for the United States Postal Service.
Facebook says Cambridge Analytica may have collected information on as many as 87M people, mostly in US; original reports pegged the number closer to 50M
Mark Zuckerberg Sarah Frier / @sarahfrier : What do you do to protect your own privacy/what do you advise? “I certainly use a lot of apps. yeah I mean, I'm a power user of the Internet.” he advises 2f...
Facebook limits data available from Pages API, Events API, Groups API, and Facebook Login, will now need to approve every app that uses them
Two weeks ago we promised to take a hard look at the information apps can use when you connect them to Facebook as well as other data practices.
Mark Zuckerberg refutes earlier reports, says Facebook will make GDPR controls available globally, notes different markets, laws may require different formats
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Sources: at a private dinner with Trump last night, Oracle CEO criticized the bidding process for a big Pentagon cloud-computing deal as being rigged for Amazon
> http://twitter.com/... Alex Wayne / @aawayne : Trump told Oracle's Catz that he wants the Pentagon's cloud contract to be a fair competition, but didn't indicate he'd get involved. By @JenniferJJaco...
Highlights and audio from Mark Zuckerberg's conference call with reporters on Cambridge Analytica scandal, Boz memo, GDPR, and more
“This is going to be a never-ending battle” said Mark Zuckerberg . He just gave the most candid look yet into his thoughts about Cambridge Analytica …
While Trump attacks Amazon, the company's deals with the government to shift computing services to the cloud are predicted to grow to $2B+ in 2018
The company has won billions of dollars in business to help the government shift computing services from legacy mainframes onto the cloud
Cambridge Analytica denies Facebook's claim that it accessed data on 87M Facebook users, claims it “licensed data for no more than 30M people”
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on April 10 and the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11
Makini Brice / Reuters :
Facebook disables searching for users via email or phone number due to “malicious actors”, says most people could have had their public profile scraped this way
Sara Salinas / CNBC :
Facebook reforms being discussed in Washington: fines for data breaches, political ad policing, liability for objectionable content, and ethics review boards
Julia Angwin / The Atlantic :
Tinder says technical issue preventing some users from accessing its service is now fixed; issue resulted from Facebook's recent privacy changes
but the dating app is fixed now Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo : Tinder Is Down, and Sad, Horny Users Correctly Blame Facebook Tweets: Pernille Tranberg / @pernillet : Sad to see how many dating app use...
Twitter says it suspended 274K accounts for promoting terrorism in last six months of 2017, bringing total to 1.2M since August 2015
It suspended more than 274,000 accounts just in the last six months of 2017. — Twitter suspended more than 1.2 million accounts that were promoting terrorism …
Microsoft pledges to let joint venture partners and customers keep any patents or design rights from their work with the company
Microsoft said its tech customers would own patent rights — Policy designed to clarify ownership rights in new ventures — Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith …
Facebook says it will delete Android users' SMS and call data older than one year and stop collecting “broader information” such as the time of calls
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Instagram shuts down part of its API platform that was scheduled for deprecation on July 31, killing APIs for follower lists, commenting on public content, more
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Microsoft brings Files Restore to all OneDrive customers, letting users restore their entire OneDrive to a point in last 30 days, and adds ransomware detection
Microsoft is bringing more of the OneDrive and Outlook security protection tools it offers its Office 365 business customers to consumers.
Sirin Labs chooses Foxconn subsidiary FIH Mobile to manufacture its blockchain smartphone, called Finney, will ship first units in October to Turkey and Vietnam
The device will make it easier for people to use digital coins — Sirin is competing with a slew of blockchain phone rivals
Microsoft patches critical remote code execution flaw in Malware Protection Engine, the component used in MS apps like Windows Defender and Security Essentials
Yesterday, April 3, Microsoft released an emergency security update via Windows Update that fixes CVE-2018-0986 …
Sony says it sold 17% of its 5.7% stake in Spotify on Tuesday, the day Spotify went public, for $250M+; other big labels are thought to own 4% or less
Ben Sisario / New York Times :
AWS' Amazon SageMaker service now allows developers to experiment with machine learning models locally on personal computers before moving them to the cloud
Amazon Web Services announced today a new way for machine learning developers to build and deploy models through its cloud.
Facebook statistics show data from 3.6M+ users in Asia, ~1M in UK, and 700K+ in Mexico may be among the 87M who had information analyzed by Cambridge Analytica
Tim Burrowes / Mumbrella Asia : See also Mediagazer
MoviePass parent company acquires Moviefone from Oath for $15M; Oath will continue selling Moviefone's digital ad inventory
MoviePass is saying “Hello — and welcome to Moviefone!" — Helios and Matheson Analytics, the majority owner of MoviePass, announced the acquisition of Moviefone from Verizon's Oath subsidiary.
Massachusetts-based 6 River Systems, which makes automated warehouse robots, announces $25M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, bringing total raised to $46.6M
The land grab in the warehouse automation market is intensifying. — After Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) paid $775 million for Kiva Systems in 2012 …
Sources: fewer than expected Spotify shareholders sold stock during listing, potentially driving price up; 5% of potentially available shares traded at open
Initial share supply shortage seen as driving up price briefly — Music-streaming company's trading volume below big tech IPOs
Amazon Key rolls out keyless entry, remote lock and unlock, and guest access to all US users and adds five new compatible smart locks, bringing total to eight
Keyless Entry, Guest Access, and Ability to Monitor and Lock/Unlock Your Door … Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge : Amazon's in-home delivery service now supports eight smart locks Lulu Chang / Digital Tr...
Intel revises roadmap for Spectre patches, now does not plan to patch some older chips including Yorkfield (2007), Bloomfield (2008), Intel Atom “SoFIA” (2015)
Lucian Armasu / Tom's Hardware :
YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam had denounced the platform for age-restricting and demonetizing her videos; her father warned police she might visit YouTube HQ
Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed :
Sarah Lacy unveils Chairman Mom, a $5/month Q&A site with a 3-person team curating 2 questions/day; site requires real names on signup, but Q&A can be anonymous
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
Sources: last year, Ripple offered Gemini $1M to list XRP and told Coinbase it would be willing to lend it more than $100M in XRP to start letting users trade
Bloomberg :
Amazon adds a parent dashboard to its Fire for Kids tablets, letting parents track kids' usage and remotely control devices
Ina Fried / Axios :
Microsoft says it will invest $5B in IoT over the next four years to boost research and the development of products, services, and new programs
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet :
Broadcom completes its legal move back to US, exchanges ordinary shares of Broadcom Ltd. on a one-for-one basis for new shares of common stock of Broadcom Inc.
Eric Platt / Financial Times :
DeepScale, a startup that makes AI perception software for semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles, raises $15M Series A led by Point72 and next47
Technology Startups News :
SalesLoft, which helps firms manage the contact phase of the sales process, raises $50M Series C led by Insight Venture Partners, bringing total raised to $75M
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
The age of trends is over, as social signals like retweets and likes are too easily manipulated by bots, and journalists must learn to identify bots' influence
Nicholas Diakopoulos / Columbia Journalism Review :
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