Microsoft defends its role in the conviction of e-waste recycler Eric Lundgren, says he was counterfeiting Windows software in China and importing it to the US
In the last few days there have been several stories about the sentencing of Eric Lundgren in a case that began in 2012 …
T-Mobile and Sprint agree to a $26.5B merger that values Sprint at $6.62 a share, John Legere will be CEO, Deutsche Telekom will own 42%, SoftBank 27%
T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp. are poised to combine in a $26.5 billion merger, creating a wireless giant to compete against industry leaders …
Eric Lundgren is going to prison for counterfeiting labels, not software; judges may not know the difference, but Microsoft does and still helped prosecute him
In a sickening concession to bad copyright law and Microsoft's bottom line over basic technical truths and common sense …
A look at AMD's 6-year old bet that paid off in the Zen CPU microarchitecture inside the new Ryzen processors, which could pose a real challenge to Intel
There are few gambles in the tech world as big as spending billions to build a new computer processor from scratch.
Sources: Coinbase valued itself at $8B when pitching an equity package during Earn acquisition; investors received cash, management received at least some stock
That's how much it felt it was worth when it set out to acquire Earn. — Coinbase valued itself at about $8 billion …
Source: Apple is working on an AR/VR headset, slated for 2020, with two 8K displays that wirelessly connect to a dedicated box powered by Apple's own 5nm CPU
Shara Tibken / CNET :
In a Q&A after receiving the Axel Springer award for 2018, Jeff Bezos discusses The Washington Post, Trump admin, privacy concerns, and the early days of Amazon
Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Business Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, recently sat down with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos …
Steam Spy now operating in a limited capacity as it switches to a new algorithm after Valve's changes to the Steam Web and Store API
Sergey Galyonkin / Steam Spy :
A first-person account of a virtual dating assistant, called a “Closer”, who is a professional writer that impersonates clients on apps like Tinder
Every morning I wake up to the same routine. I log into the Tinder account of a 45-year-old man from Texas—a client. Tweets: @mattsaccaro , @chloerosewrites , and @lfdodds Tweets: Matt Saccaro / @mat...
As tech-fueled demand raises Seattle house prices, activists wage a data-driven campaign to change zoning to allow more density in single-family neighborhoods
In Seattle's red-hot housing market, a group of millennial techies is using data skills to alter the look, and affordability, of their adopted city.
How Slack has made its US workforce more diverse than other Silicon Valley companies by forgoing a diversity chief and focusing on hiring efforts from the start
Last week, Slack, the company whose popular, plaid-themed messaging app has simplified office communications and introduced custom fox emoji … Facebook: Cindy Gallop . Tweets: @cultureshiftlab , @medi...
Mark Zuckerberg says almost 100M people now access the internet via Internet.org, up from 40M in November 2016
Facebook is getting the developing world online, even as the developed world criticizes its privacy practices. Mark Zuckerberg said today on Facebook's Q1 2018 earnings call that …
A history of the Facebook critique “if you're not paying, you're the product” and why it wrongly paints users as powerless pawns incapable of demanding change
The history of a dangerous idea. — On March 21, at the height of the scandal over Cambridge Analytica's harvesting …
Sources: Huawei has been working on a mobile OS in case it is cut off from Android; it began the work in response to US 2012 investigation into Huawei and ZTE
South China Morning Post :
In the coming weeks, Facebook Fundraisers will eliminate platform fees, which are 4.3% in the US, for personal causes, such as medical needs, vet bills, more
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
Du Xiaoman Financial, Baidu's new financial services arm that uses AI to provide short-term loans and investment services, raises $1.9B led by TPG and Carlyle
Bloomberg :
Q&A with Javier Soltero, Cortana's new product lead, on Microsoft's AI, Alexa, and building the “real” assistive experience, as Cortana speakers hit the shelves
This year has brought a fair number of shakeups at some of the world's biggest tech companies. Tweets: @mmarshall Tweets: Matt Marshall / @mmarshall : Microsoft on Alexa vs Cortana: Amazon doesn't get...
Nintendo's head of Switch Shinya Takahashi on the firm's creative process, approach to hiring new talent, and why older technologies sometimes surprise players
The Guardian : Tweets: @steipete and @lindaliukas Tweets: Peter Steinberger / @steipete : „We like our staff to be as creative as possible - and creative people should not just listen to their bosses...
Facebook now shrinks the size of fact-checked false news stories in News Feed and uses machine learning to help prioritize articles sent to fact-checkers
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Twitter confirms it is now pushing news links tweeted by your network into your home timeline and grouping tweets mentioning the link underneath it
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed :
In a quarterly report filed with the SEC, Facebook warns that it may find more Cambridge Analytica-sized instances of user data misuse
Shaun Nichols / The Register :
How real people are using services like Fuelgram to turn their Instagram accounts into bots in order to game the site's algorithm by trading likes and comments
doctors, lawyers, verified models, fitness coaches, influencers, and more — handing their Instagram account credentials over to third party software services that turn their accounts into bots. http:/...
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