Microsoft provides a peek at Surface Hub 2: 50.5-inch Teams-powered tablet with a 4K+ display that can rotate into a portrait mode, due in 2019
Remember the Surface Hub? You probably don't. Unlike Microsoft's other PCs — the Surface Pro, Book, Laptop and Studio …
Tim Cook says he urged President Trump to fix the DACA immigration issue in a recent White House meeting, and told him tariffs were the wrong approach to China
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Uber will no longer require mandatory arbitration for individual claims of sexual assault or harassment by riders, drivers, or employees
In a surprise move, Uber said on Tuesday it is changing its long-standing policy of mandatory arbitration to exempt employees, drivers, and riders in cases of sexual harassment and assault.
Coinbase launches Coinbase Custody, a service for safekeeping of cryptocurrencies aimed at Wall Street financial institutions
Another indication that the finance industry and the crypto community could use each other's help. — The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is making …
Facebook releases first content moderation report: 583M fake accounts closed in Q1 2018, action taken on almost 1.5B accounts and 2.5M instances of hate speech
Firm's first quarterly moderation report also shows scale of spam, hate speech and violence — Facebook took moderation action …
Kaspersky Lab says it will relocate some core operations from Russia to Switzerland, after US and UK intelligence agencies expressed concern about interference
Russian antivirus-software company will set up a new data center in Zurich by late 2019 — Russian antivirus-software company …
Amazon says it is disappointed after Seattle passes smaller “head tax” on large companies to build affordable housing, resumes work on Block 18 office building
Updated below with Amazon statement. — The Seattle City Council unanimously passed a smaller version of the controversial …
Google revamps consumer storage plans, now called Google One, adds $3/month tier for 200 GB, drops 2 TB price to $10/month, and adds free product tech support
Google is revamping its consumer storage plans today by adding a new $2.99/month tier for 200 GB of storage and dropping the price …
Investigation: data collected by Facebook quiz myPersonality was shared with researchers over insecure site, leaving 3M+ users' details vulnerable for 4 years
Data from millions of Facebook users who used a popular personality app, including their answers to intimate questionnaires …
Snapchat starts showing unskippable six-second ads in the middle of Shows; ads don't link to longer videos or e-commerce sites like its typical video ad unit
Snapchat viewers are seeing a new type of ad—ones they have to watch. — On Monday, the first forced-view ads …
Online grocery delivery service Good Eggs raises $50M Series C led by Benchmark and aims to expand throughout the West Coast next year
Good Eggs, the food delivery service that promises “absurdly fresh” groceries and meal kits, has raised $50 million in new funding.
WhatsApp refreshes Groups to let admins more easily manage their Groups and users more quickly catch up on missed messages, to better take on Telegram
Facebook just installed its VP of Internet.org as the new head of WhatsApp after its CEO Jan Koum left the company.
At CoinDesk's Consensus crypto conference in NYC, with 100+ sponsors, Lamborghinis cruise the streets and gimmicks include staged protests by mock bankers
John Nouri makes a living renting out exotic cars for weddings, birthdays, bachelorette parties, and now ... Bitcoin conferences?
Twitter says it will use thousands of behavioral signals about accounts, not just content of individual tweets, when filtering search, replies, recommendations
Act like a jerk, and Twitter will start limiting how often your tweets show up. — On Tuesday, Twitter announced a massive change …
Facebook launches Youth Portal, a site to educate teens on how their data is being used and guidelines on how to post
There's probably an important gap in attention being paid at internet companies to young kids that are good targets for parental controls and older ones who are having …
SCOTUS declines to hear “podcasting patent” case Personal Audio v. Electronic Frontier Foundation, handing win to EFF, after the patent was invalidated in 2015
Back in 2015, Personal Audio's claimed patent was invalidated by a federal court.
Australian regulator probes Google's harvesting of data from Android phones, after Oracle claimed Google could be collecting ~1GB of data from devices per month
Australians are reportedly paying their telco providers for the data harvested by tech giant
Offline support for Gmail on web now rolling out with support for search, delete, archive, and compose functions
The new Gmail launched with a slew of new features last month, and Google announced that more were on the way. While Smart Compose may have grabbed all the attention at I/O 2018 this week …
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says ~85% of new spending to go toward original content, plans to have about 1,000 originals total by the end of 2018
Netflix is sharply steering its new content spending toward original projects, with around 85% of new spending going toward original TV shows …
Profile of Arlan Hamilton, founder and CEO of Backstage Capital, a fund which seeds investments in “underestimated” founders: women, people of color, and LGBTQ
In the tale we're sold of Silicon Valley, meritocracy flourishes. Those who grind the hardest, hone the best ideas … Tweets: @bfeld and @duretti Tweets: Brad Feld / @bfeld : The improbable rise of Am...
How WhatsApp is being used to spread misinformation, share fake polls, and exacerbate religious divides ahead of national elections in India
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The trio trying to strengthen data privacy rights with California Consumer Privacy Act: a real estate developer, an ex-CIA analyst, and a finance industry exec
OAKLAND, Calif. — The staging ground for one of the biggest regulatory fights facing the technology industry is far removed …
Singapore-based Carro, an automotive classifieds and financing service, raises $60M Series B co-led by SoftBank Ventures Korea, Insignia Ventures, and B Capital
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Sources: Tesla engineers discussed adding eye tracking and better sensors to Autopilot to help alert drivers, were rejected over tech's ineffectiveness and cost
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal :
Amazon says its board has adopted a “Rooney Rule” to increase board diversity, after its initial opposition sparked employee outrage
Jason Del Rey / Recode :
As SCOTUS kills law that banned gambling on sports in most states, media firms with exposure to sports streaming events, including online betting firms, win big
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
A look at data protectionism and how it impacts global trade, as governments seek localized data and activists fight for privacy
Scania is well used to its vehicles being delayed at border crossings by officious customs officers and laborious paperwork. Tweets: @patrickc and @vitalikbuterin Tweets: Patrick Collison / @patrickc ...
Sensor Tower: Apple's App Store redesign improved browse-driven app downloads to 15%+ of all downloads, up from ~10%; search still primary app discovery method
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Xerox calls off its sale to Japan's Fujifilm after reaching a deal with activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason; Fujifilm disputes Xerox's decision
How Eventbrite, a major ticketing and event management platform, grew its business through many acquisitions, including last year's $200M Ticketfly acquisition
Julia Hartz knows that when you buy companies, you buy people. Founders must be kept, employees embraced and customers comforted.
Ripple announces the Xpring initiative, which aims to incentivize startups, through investments, grants, and incubation, into building an ecosystem around XRP
In the world of blockchain and digital assets … John McMahon / NewsBTC : Ripple Announces Xpring Initiative to Broaden their Ecosystem Bhushan Akolkar / CoinSpeaker : Ripple Launches Venture Capital F...
Advertisers on Facebook are re-examining their ad spend commitments to the platform as average price per ad goes up and ad targeting gets harder after GDPR
Advertisers are more concerned that they are wasting money on Facebook than they are about the platform's privacy lapses. Tweets: @grightford Tweets: Gillian Rightford / @grightford : Overwhelming mes...
How LocationSmart, which has “direct connections” to major US carriers including AT&T and Verizon, sells millions of Americans' real-time phone location data
and there's not much you can do about it. https://zd.net/2IhoSya
Winklevoss' Gemini exchange to add support for Zcash on May 19, along with Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash at a later date, after receiving approval from NY regulator
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French TV giant Canal+ to offer the option of Apple TV 4K, rather than a regular cable box, for a 6€/month fee, following a similar deal Apple made with DirecTV
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat :
Lyft shares its internal market-share numbers for the first time, claims it has 35% of the national ride-sharing market, up from 20% 18 months ago
Deirdre Bosa / CNBC :
Tinder's working on Places, a new location-tracking feature that will highlight where users visited but filter out spots not deemed “social”, screenshots show
Ashley Carman / The Verge :
Uber users can now rate their trip mid-ride with categorized and written feedback, instead of having to wait for the end of the trip
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Sources: Amazon tests display ad offering letting Amazon merchants purchase spots across other sites and apps, amid its move to stop buying Google shopping ads
[report] PYMNTS.com : Amazon To Take Bite Out Of Google's Digital Ad Business Brandy Betz / Seeking Alpha : Amazon planning display ad tool; Criteo -2.5% Tweets: Joe Weisenthal / @thestalwart : Amazo...
Sources: New Enterprise Associates to sell stakes in about 20 startups worth roughly $1B, in response to the slowdown in IPOs
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