WhatsApp cofounder and CEO Jan Koum leaving Facebook; sources say over attempts to weaken WhatsApp's encryption and use its data, and he plans to leave board
SAN FRANCISCO — The billionaire chief executive of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, is planning to leave the company after clashing with its parent …
Amazon launches Prime Book Box, an invite-only subscription service for kids' hardcover books for $23/box sold as part of Prime membership
Along with the higher price that Amazon is introducing to Prime this month, the company is also bringing another first to its membership service: physical books.
T-Mobile and Sprint merger may help them to stop wasting resources on stealing customers from each other and take on the industry goliaths AT&T and Verizon
Should T-Mobile be allowed to join forces with rival Sprint? — T-Mobile is trying to make a huge move: Yesterday …
Private equity firm Permira is buying Cisco's video software business, known as the NDS Group, sources say for ~$1B; Cisco had bought it from Permira for $5B
Cisco bought NDS Group from Permira in 2012 for $5 billion — Cisco is shifting away from tech such as satellite boxes
Trade groups representing 4,000 publishers criticize Google's GDPR policies, say proposal to get consent from EU visitors if Google ads are served “falls short”
The organizations point to Google's requirements that publishers collect consent and assume liability as some of the many issues.
California Supreme Court adopts much stricter standard for classifying workers as contractors and not employees, a ruling that may affect many gig economy firms
Companies that want to classify their workers as contractors and avoid paying them wages and benefits that state law requires …
Filings: Jan Koum's remaining Facebook stock options were not due to fully vest until November, and he may be forfeiting up to $1B if he leaves before May 15
WhatsApp co-founder still has amassed a $10.4 billion fortune — He's said to have clashed with other executives over strategy
Tehran court orders Iranian telecoms to block Telegram, saying the app gave Islamic State “safe ground” and also citing the app's role in recent protests
Tehran court ruling prohibits the messaging platform used to organize protesters — Iran moved to shut …
Twitter announces 30 new or renewed video content deals, details live programming from ESPN, NBCUniversal, Live Nation, Vice News, MLB, and more
Twitter is ready to pump even more premium video into your tweet-stream from a range of new and existing partners — with an emphasis on live-streamed content.
AWS starts blocking domain-fronting, a technique used by services to evade state-level internet blocks, following a similar move by Google's App Engine
A week after Google shut down a method for app developers to skirt internet censorship, Amazon is doing the same.
Suki announces it has raised $20M, led by Venrock, to build an AI-enabled voice assistant for doctors
When trying to figure out what to do after an extensive career at Google, Motorola, and Flipkart, Punit Soni decided to spend a lot of time sitting in doctors' offices to figure out what to do next.
T-Mobile buying Sprint can be explained by its difficulty in competing with bids from AT&T and Verizon for Straight Path and other future spectrum auctions
But a Lot of Questions Remain Rani Molla / Recode : A merged T-Mobile and Sprint will still be smaller than AT&T or Verizon David McCabe / Axios : In a pitch seemingly aligned with Trump admin's rheto...
UK parliament issues ultimatum to Mark Zuckerberg: voluntarily testify before parliament or receive a formal summons to appear next time he lands in UK
The UK parliament has issued an impressive ultimatum to Facebook in a last ditch attempt to get Mark Zuckerberg to take its questions …
To combat cord cutting, Comcast gives some plans free internet speed increases in OR, WA, and Houston but only to subscribers of both internet and TV service
Comcast keeps losing TV subscribers, but it has a new way to fight cord cutting. — As streaming video continues to chip away …
PUBG game developer Bluehole says Chinese police arrested and fined 15 people a total of $5.1M for making and selling cheating programs, some containing trojans
Shabana Arif / IGN :
Danish citizen Salah Salem Saleh Sulaiman first to be convicted under Malaysia's fake news law after posting a YouTube video; Sulaiman to spend a month in jail
Overview of Twitter's video ad business, which brought in $287M+ in Q1 and over half of the company's total revenue since Q4 2017
Kurt Wagner / Recode :
Survey: 70% of US adults say the internet has been good for society, down 6 percentage points from 2014; 25% of those opposed cite time spent with devices
Pew Research Center :
Investigation finds that 103 Uber and 18 Lyft drivers have been accused of sexual assault or abuse over the past four years
US jury convicts former Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain of wire fraud and other crimes related to claims he had inflated the firm's value before its sale to HP
Dan Levine / Reuters :
Samsung announces 128GB/256GB models for Galaxy S9/S9+ to be available from Samsung.com in US, preorders starting May 1, after the flagships launched with 64GB
Joe Maring / Android Central :
Facebook is investigating a report that one of its security engineers may have used privileged access to stalk women online
Joseph Cox / Motherboard :
Tech firms and governments can't be trusted to preserve digital history, which adds importance to the role of archives like the Egyptian 858 and Syrian Archive
We create almost everything on the internet, but we control almost none of it. — Recently, a 7-year-old photo of mine appeared at the top of my Facebook feed. Tweets: @tomgara , @davewiner , @digiph...
Sources: Japan's Financial Services Agency is pressuring cryptocurrency exchanges to stop listing coins favored by criminals, including Monero, Zcash, and Dash
Jake Adelstein / Forbes :
Chinese govt-backed surveillance projects deploy headgear units across industries that detect swings in emotional states of employees by monitoring brainwaves
Stephen Chen / South China Morning Post :
Facebook Analytics app launches for iOS and Android to help businesses track key metrics across their apps, websites, bots, and event source groups
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Fitbit to use Google's new Cloud Healthcare API to make its data available to doctors, letting them regularly monitor devices
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
Charlie Kindel, a Microsoft veteran who joined Amazon five years ago and founded the Alexa Smart Home division, says he's leaving the company to take a break
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
Ex-SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, who resigned after harassment allegations, raises $50M for Figure, which plans to use blockchain tech in approving home-equity loans
Selina Wang / Bloomberg :
Mozilla to launch sponsored story recommendations from Pocket for new tabs with Firefox 60 in the US
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Google and NBC to make 10+ multi-episode VR productions to run alongside NBC's core programming; users can watch on YouTube or in VR on Cardboard, Daydream View
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
SCOTUS to hear Google privacy settlement dispute, potentially ending class action settlements that pay charities and other 3rd parties instead of those affected
Andrew Chung / Reuters :
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