Facebook will verify identities and locations of advertisers posting political and issues ads and will also verify identities of admins of large Pages
US seizes classifieds site Backpage.com and related domains, raids founder's home, files 93 counts including money laundering and facilitating prostitution
Backpage.com, the popular classified ads website, went offline Friday after being seized and disabled by the federal government.
Amazon rolls out “Announcements” feature for Alexa, which lets users send a short voice message to every Echo device in the house
Rolling out to customers in the US and Canada today, the new feature lets you send a short voice message to every Echo device under your roof with a single voice command.
Skype unveils Content Creators mode, in preview on Windows 10 and Mac now, to record calls via NDI-compatible multi-user streaming software, out this summer
Here's a little trade secret: podcasters and radio show hosts use Skype a lot. It's helpful for adding remote guests with minimal fuss.
Nasdaq halts trading of Longfin, which soared 2400% after buying a blockchain firm in Dec, as SEC freezes $27M in unauthorized stock sales by CEO and others
- Longfin, a 1-year-old fintech company, is under fire following SEC allegations that its CEO and his associates sold $27 million in restricted company stock.
Preparing for Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony, Facebook hired advisers who are coaching him and are role-playing members of congress in mock hearings
For Facebook, Tuesday is being seen as a kind of dreaded final exam. — That's when Mark Zuckerberg, the company's chief executive …
Intel discontinues Intel Remote Keyboard for iOS and Android after researchers discover keystroke injection vulnerability
Intel said Tuesday it was putting the kibosh on a popular Android and iOS app called Intel Remote Keyboard after researchers discovered that local attackers …
Facebook says it has suspended Canadian data firm AggregateIQ over alleged involvement with SCL and the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal
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Interview with Tim Cook covering US tax reform, the changing job landscape, diversity, DACA, why everyone should learn to code, privacy as a right, free speech
Education, iPhones, privacy and Facebook were all big topics of discussion. — Recode's Kara Swisher and MSNBC's Chris Hayes …
Despite repeated apologies over 14 years from Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook has continued to violate users' privacy, driven primarily by its business model
IN 2003, ONE year before Facebook was founded, a website called Facemash began nonconsensually scraping pictures of students at Harvard …
Twitter delays API change that may disable push notifications and auto-refreshing timelines on third-party clients like Tweetbot, promises 90 days change notice
but they may not be able to offer full functionality in the future once the change goes through. http://www.theverge.com/... John Sheehan / @johnsheehan : If @TwitterDev breaks TweetBot, I'm gone. #Br...
Life in Rongcheng offers inside preview of China's social credit system, which mixes credit scores with monitoring data of citizens, launches nationally in 2020
RONGCHENG, CHINA — Rongcheng was built for the future. Its broad streets and suburban communities were constructed with an eye …
Spotify invites media to press event on April 24 in New York City; offers that popped up inside the app suggest it might announce a music player for cars
Earlier today, Spotify announced it would be sharing news at an April 24th event. It's unclear whether the company is planning …
Source: YouTube releasing new version of YouTube Kids within coming weeks with option to turn off algorithmic video suggestions and only show curated channels
And for Profits? Tom McKay / Gizmodo : YouTube Kids Will Finally Offer a Mode Where Actual Humans Actually Bother to Vet the Videos Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : Upcoming YouTube Kids version may ditch re...
Some Snapchat users are seeing a reverse chronological Stories feed in tabs, which rolls back a notable change from Snapchat's controversial redesign last year
Snapchat has undone its controversial redesign's most significant change in an update to some users today.
The Sri Lankan government and civil society groups say that Facebook has failed for years to monitor and remove accounts inciting ethnic violence in Sri Lanka
DIGANA, Sri Lanka — When the Sri Lankan government temporarily blocked access to Facebook last month amid a wave of violence against Muslims … Tweets: @profgalloway , @miqdaad , @rmac18 , @francis_wad...
Steve Jurvetson, who acrimoniously left DFJ last year, is starting his own fund called Future Ventures, according to the firm's website
Coinbase says it will be adding support for withdrawing funds from some Bitcoin forks across all of its properties, including GDAX, in the coming months
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk :
How South Korea's 20- and 30-year-olds, according to some researchers, fueled the late 2017 cryptocurrency boom, and how they are reacting to the current bust
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Sources: Postmates and DoorDash CEOs have discussed possible merger at least once to better fight competitors; Postmates has also discussed a sale to GrubHub
and Uber Eats gifting massive consumer subsides for market share http://www.recode.net/... Jason Del Rey / @delrey : Scoop: Postmates and DoorDash have discussed a merger to fend off Uber, GrubHub and...
Research: after the surge in cryptocurrency prices in 2017, capital gains tax-related liabilities may reach $25B this tax season in the US
Sources: Coinbase met with SEC to discuss registering as a licensed broker and trading venue, which would let it list tokens for issuers registered with SEC
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal :
Report on Facebook's fact-checking partnerships examines the struggles of tech companies teaming up with news orgs, details distrust and lack of transparency
Mike Ananny / Columbia Journalism Review :
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