Jeff Bezos says Prime has 100M+ members worldwide in his annual shareholder letter, the first time Prime membership numbers have been shared by Amazon
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has released his latest annual shareholder letter. — In the letter, Bezos stressed the importance of having high standards in running a business.
Moto's new budget handsets: €250 G6 with dual cameras and USB-C, bigger €300 G6 Plus, €200 G6 Play with larger battery, €150 E5, €170 E5 Plus, and E5 Play
For smartphone fans who enjoy a good spoiler, we started the year off with a pretty substantial one …
Facebook says it will change ToS in May for 1.5B users outside EU; US, Canada to be governed by US instead of Ireland ToS, limiting GDPR impact to 400M users
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people's online data went into effect tomorrow …
Sources: Intel to shut down its New Devices Group, which was formed in 2013 and made fitness trackers and smart glasses
Intel's long-failing foray into wearables and augmented reality is officially dead. — The chip giant's new devices group will shut down, according to people familiar with the situation.
Netflix launches 30-second preview videos shown in vertical slideshow format, available now on iOS and coming soon to Android
One of the best ways to know if you'll like a new series or movie is to watch a quick trailer. Today, we are excited to introduce mobile previews …
Sources: Qualcomm is cutting ~1,500 jobs, mostly in California, in an effort to cut costs by $1B; the company employs 34K people globally
Company to reduce California workforce by about 1,500 — Management acting in response to shareholder pressure — Qualcomm Inc. has begun cutting …
Amazon introduces Alexa Blueprints that let anyone create custom Alexa skills and responses without coding
Amazon this morning is introducing “Alexa Blueprints,” a new way for any Alexa owner to create their own customized Alexa skills or responses, without needing to know how to code.
TaskRabbit's app and website are back online after security breach, CEO says certain personally identifiable information may have been compromised
TaskRabbit, the handyman-for-hire app, is back online after being intentionally taken down on Monday following an apparent data breach.
Facebook is building a team to design its own AI chips, according to job listings and sources, joining a trend among tech giants to lower reliance on chipmakers
Social network could use semiconductors for consumer devices — Move follows Apple's chip efforts, early work by Google
Oculus begins rolling out GDPR-compliant changes including a user-facing Privacy Center, updated ToS, and new Code of Conduct for users
While Facebook is still struggling to regain user trust following a data fiasco that ultimately brought Zuckerberg to testify in front of Congress …
Interview with Jeff Wilke, who runs Amazon's worldwide consumer division and has been Bezos' right-hand man for 18 years, on its usage of USPS and more
Retail chief Jeff Wilke talks about the company's AI ambitions and downplays Trump concerns. — Donald Trump has hammered Amazon.com … Tweets: @dats Tweets: Siraj Datoo / @dats : If you've ever wonde...
An investigation of data-mining company Palantir, cofounded by Peter Thiel, which works with government agencies and law enforcement to help track US citizens
Peter Thiel's data-mining company is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens. The scary thing? Palantir is desperate for new customers.
Google Pay, formerly Android Pay, passes 100M installs on the Google Play Store
Nowadays, several phone manufacturers have their own payment services. There's Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, the upcoming LG Pay, and of course, Google Pay. After experiencing two rebrands and retaining …
Researchers: 3rd-party JavaScript trackers embedded on sites using Login With Facebook can grab Facebook user data; abusive scripts found on 434 of top 1M sites
Facebook confirms to TechCrunch that it's investigating a security research report that shows Facebook user data can be grabbed …
Google's Area 120 incubator launches Grasshopper, a learn-to-code mobile app for beginners, with an initial curriculum teaching JavaScript
Google's internal incubator, Area 120, is today releasing its next creation: a learn-to-code mobile app for beginners called Grasshopper.
Android does a better job of corralling notifications than iOS by prioritizing, grouping, and letting users jump directly to that app's notification settings
Because they aren't going away — Everybody hates smartphone notifications. They're interruptive, distracting, annoying, and increasingly less valuable.
Lyft announces “multimillion-dollar” initiative to invest in environmental projects as it hopes to offset 1M+ metric tons of carbon in the first year
The plan is to offset over a million metric tons of carbon — Lyft announced a multimillion-dollar investment to become …
Sources: cryptocurrency firms and VCs, including a16z and Union Square Ventures, are lobbying SEC to seek exemption from federal oversight of cryptocurrencies
Andreessen Horowitz and other venture-capital backers of digital-currency firms argue against regulation
Profile of “Terms of Service; Didn't Read”, launched in 2012, which crowdsources summaries of ToS and then rates them
MOST PEOPLE SPEND very little time thinking about the terms of service that govern life online. The agreement appears in a flash, we affirm that …
Filing with Russia's EEC database shows several unreleased iPhone models; previous filings of suspected Apple products appeared 1-2 months before official debut
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Nest says it will donate 1M smart thermostats to low- and moderate-income Americans over the next five years, as part of its new Power Project initiative
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Google pulls five Chrome Web Store extensions posing as ad blockers that had scripts enabling them to hijack browsers; extensions had 20M+ users combined
Kate Conger / Gizmodo :
London-based BenevolentAI, which is developing AI tech for drug discovery and more, announces $115M funding round at a $2.1B post-money valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
The world's tech giants are betting big on India as more people go online and e-commerce grows, but low incomes and patchy connectivity remain major challenges
The world's largest internet companies are betting big on the nation of 1.3 billion, where challenges are as big as the opportunities Tweets: @wsj Tweets: The Wall Street / @wsj : India for the first ...
Alibaba says it's investing $320M+ in a “digital hub” in Thailand as it seeks to tap into Chinese customers' appetite for Thai goods and tourism
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Interview with Susan Fowler, who exposed Uber's toxic workplace culture, on her new mission: ending forced arbitration for all workers, starting in California
companies like Uber — to cover up illegal behavior.” http://www.recode.net/... Susan Fowler / @susanthesquark : I'm not going to stop until forced arbitration is no longer allowed Johana Bhuiyan / @jm...
SF-based crypto exchange Kraken won't respond to NY AG's inquiry because it already got “the hell out of New York” after 2015 BitLicense regulations, says CEO
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New Jersey-based Basis, which aims to develop a “stable coin” that stays valued at ~$1 by altering supply, raises $133M from a16z, GV, Bain Capital, and others
but on what basis? Salil Deshpande : Basis: a Price-stable Cryptocurrency with an Algorithmic Central Bank Evelyn Cheng / CNBC : A billionaire hedge-fund manager and the Fed chair runner-up are invest...
Study using new data from US immigration services shows big US tech companies obtained more H-1B visas in 2017 than 2016, with Amazon topping list at 2,515
Stef W. Kight / Axios :
RapidSOS, whose platform links IoT devices to first responders, raises $16M in round with participation from Microsoft Ventures, total raised now $30M+
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Reddit and Hootsuite data says the platform has 330M MAUs in April, up 30% in the last six months from 250M in November 2017, on par with Twitter
Simon Kemp / The Next Web :
Eightfold.ai, an AI-based talent acquisition and management platform, raises $24M Series B led by Lightspeed and Foundation Capital
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
Sources: Netflix plans to spend ~$1B on original productions in Europe this year, more than double what it spent last year, across multiple languages
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times :
Tala, which provides mobile-first financial services in emerging markets, raises $65M led by Revolution Growth with participation from Lowercase Capital, others
Tala, a global leader in mobile … Tweets: @revolution : We're thrilled to announce our investment in @TalaMobile! “We see Tala as a company building the future of #finance,” says @SteveCase. Here's ho...
Silicon Valley's tech industry appears increasingly out of touch with reality, the latest example being Facebook's response to recent scandals, as IQ trumps EQ
that's what makes SV SV. I think the difference is the scale of impact has grown considerably: http://500ish.com/... M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler : Since no one seemed to pick up on the punny aspect of m...
Stripe launches Radar for Fraud Teams, a premium service that's an extension of its free AI-powered anti-fraud service, which has also been updated
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