Sources: Amazon is working on a domestic robot codenamed Vesta that can navigate inside homes like a driverless car
Prototypes can navigate from room to room like driverless cars — Company hopes to start testing bots in homes later this year — Ten years ago, Amazon introduced …
In interview Kogan admits he broke Facebook's ToS but his app was within norms, says he worked on 10+ papers with Pete Fleming, now Instagram's head of research
Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic whose app has set off the firestorm about online user data, says he's considering suing Facebook.
Iran's central bank bans the country's banks from dealing in cryptocurrencies over money-laundering concerns, as the country tries to halt a currency crisis
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's central bank has banned the country's banks from dealing in cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin …
TransferWise becomes first non-bank firm to get direct access to Bank of England's interbank payment systems to process payments without intermediary banks
TransferWise has become the first fintech group to gain direct access to the Bank of England's interbank payment systems …
At $7.4B, streaming revenue was 43% of all recorded music revenues in 2017; revenue for artists selling directly via platforms like Bandcamp grew 27.2% YoY
2017 was a stellar year for the recorded music business. Global recorded music revenues reached $17.4 billion in 2017 in trade values …
Data of 14M customers and drivers of Middle Eastern ride-hailing service Careem has been stolen in a cyberattack which company became aware of on January 14
- Careem, the Middle East rival to Uber, had the data of its 14 million customers and drivers stolen in a cyberattack, the company said on Monday.
Glowforge raises $10M in new funding from existing investors Foundry Group and True Ventures and starts selling its $2,495 3D laser printer
Glowforge has raised more investment dollars as the Seattle startup starts selling its 3D laser printer to the general public and continues …
12th District Court of Appeals strikes down Texas law that made disclosing “revenge porn” unlawful, ruling it violates the First Amendment
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Sources: as Tencent Music prepares for a potential H2 2018 IPO, recent private deals have valued the firm at $25B+, double the $12.5B valuation of late 2017
It would be the fourth-biggest U.S.-listed tech IPO on record — Tencent Music Entertainment Group, China's largest music-streaming company …
Gary Gensler, CFTC's head from 2009 to 2014, thinks Ethereum and Ripple's respective currencies may have been issued and traded in violation of securities laws
SAN FRANCISCO — Gary Gensler was one of the top financial regulators in the Obama administration, the finance chief …
Avast outlines how hackers hid a backdoor in its PC cleanup tool CCleaner, which tainted ~2.27M downloads in 2017, as part of a targeted attack on tech firms
IN SEPTEMBER, SECURITY researchers at Cisco Talos and Morphisec made a worst nightmare-type disclosure: the ubiquitous computer … Tweets: @beauwoods Tweets: Beau Woods / @beauwoods : In 2017 acquisiti...
Vodafone exec: company now serves 65M IoT connections, including 14.4M connected vehicles and 5M medical devices, generating~€235M in Q4 2017, up 18.8% YoY
The claim that connectivity is a commodity has existed in the mobile industry for some time and has recently extended itself to the Internet of Things.
Apple's acquisition of Shazam faces extended EU probe as antitrust regulators worry that Apple might halt Shazam referrals and use Shazam data to hamper rivals
EU says concerned Apple could use Shazam data to hamper rivals — Probe also looking whether Apple could halt Shazam referrals
Pear Video, Chinese online platform for short videos, raises $98.2M Series A led by Tencent and Baidu
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Amazon India head Amit Agarwal expects groceries and consumables to be more than half of company's business in the country in the next five years
A look at the E-rate program that's intended to subsidize broadband expansion to rural schools but mired in red tape under FCC, blocking access to 750K students
Issie Lapowsky / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @wired , and @haroldfeld Tweets: @wired : Under the Trump administration, rural schools requesting funding for broadband expansion have faced record delays a...
Google confirms some of its services, including Google Search, Gmail, and Android push notifications, continue to suffer outages in Russia amid Telegram ban
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Profile of CrowdSource Rescue, a service created by two friends during Hurricane Harvey, that helped coordinate thousands of rescues during subsequent disasters
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How Instagram influencers portray themselves as self-made wealthy traders to build up affiliate marketing schemes, often targeting teens
Symeon Brown / The Guardian : Tweets: @randfish , @anabmap , @mattzarb , and @rationalhill Tweets: Rand Fishkin / @randfish : Just like in the early days of SEO, the viral stories about “influencer m...
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