Pandora matches Spotify and Apple Music with new $14.99/month Premium Family Plan for up to six members
Pandora isn't nearly as popular as it once was, but it still has a fairly sizable userbase. The company has just quietly introduced a new family plan, aptly dubbed 'Premium Family …
Report: Apple to give some developers more access to iPhone NFC chip for Apple Pay-like contactless interactions such as opening doors and using transit cards
The Information reports that Apple will be taking a big leap in iOS 12, giving some third-party developers full access …
ICANN files for injunction against German domain registrar who said it will stop collecting WHOIS data because of GDPR
Domain name overseer hopes to get clarification about data collection for domain name registrations. — ICANN has filed injunction proceedings against EPAG …
Southeast Asian ride-hailing service Grab launches GrabFood, its food delivery business, in Singapore, and plans to expand throughout Southeast Asia soon
Fresh from completing its acquisition of Uber's Southeast Asia business, ride-hailing firm Grab has officially launched its food delivery business — GrabFood — today.
EU governments agree on copyright reform, that needs EU parliament approval, to let news sites charge aggregators for snippets, force upload filters on websites
Update from May 25th 2018, 13:37: Member State governments have today adopted their position on the copyright reform …
Bitcoin fork Bitcoin Gold suffers 51% attack; attacker with more than half of network's hash rate double spent BTG coins on exchanges and may have stolen $18M
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Vermont starts regulating data brokers, which now have to register in the state, notify about breaches, can be sued if data is misused for e.g. racial profiling
While Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are hogging the spotlight, data brokers that collect your information from hundreds …
iQiyi launches its first on-demand physical movie theater in China, with 2 to 10 seat mini-theaters, which users can rent by the hour to watch iQiyi's content
The company plans to build physical cinemas in major cities across China. — Beijing-based streaming-video giant iQiyi …
For long-term viability, Yelp should focus on business models that avoid Google completely, instead of relying on traffic from search and antitrust regulation
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Amazon leads $12M round in Indian online insurance startup Acko, bringing its total raised to $42M, after backing Indian online lender Capital Float earlier
Amazon appears to be restarting its funding efforts in India after Acko, the digital insurance startup in India …
Verizon seems to abandon plans to build its own OTT service as CEO says it wants to partner with an existing OTT service to deliver Oath digital content
CEO says company will partner with an existing player that can integrate digital content from Oath — Verizon has been adamant …
In final ruling, Egypt's court orders regulators to block YouTube for a month over 2012 “Innocence of Muslims” video that allegedly denigrated Prophet Mohammad
Behind Amazon's approach to identifying factors limiting its growth, and how Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram can benefit from adopting a similar strategy
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Chinese authorities have prosecuted 98 people for the alleged $2B OneCoin crypto investment scheme that involved up to 2M victims across 20+ provinces in China
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Baidu says its video streaming service iQiyi saw video uploads increase 20x from 2014 to 2017, but with machine learning, censorship staff only doubled to 500
The rise of artificial intelligence is threatening jobs in many traditional sectors, from truck driving to banking … Tweets: @yuanfenyang Tweets: Yuan Yang / @yuanfenyang : China's online users genera...
Survey: 19% of Amazon professional merchants, third-party sellers who sell 40+ items/month and pay a subscription fee, had $1M+ in sales, up from 10% in 2017
In India, Amazon and Walmart have a formidable rival, the small “kiranas” that offer instant delivery, interest-free credit, and other personalized services
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WeChat's 500+ “mini games” together have amassed 457M users, according to QuestMobile report, almost half of the app's 1.04B user base
Rita Liao / Tech in Asia : Tweets: @mbrennanchina and @serkantoto Tweets: Matthew Brennan / @mbrennanchina : “#WeChat mini games have now amassed nearly 1/2 billion users” (and more importantly are i...
Sources: China to approve Qualcomm-NXP deal in next few days, but with conditions, as regulators fear merged company's dominance in areas like mobile payments
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Interview with nine members of the Facebook team tasked with fighting misinformation on how recent product changes affect the way the News Feed works
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A look at JPMorgan Chase's Quorum, an open source project blurring the lines between private enterprise blockchains and public blockchains like Ethereum, Zcash
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Studios try packaging their media units for TV, film, and shortform video together when offering deals to talent in order to compete with Netflix
Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter : Tweets: @thrmattbelloni and @natjarv See also Mediagazer Tweets: Matthew Belloni / @thrmattbelloni : New @THR: The Netflix Bubble in Hollywood is getting a ...
Analysis: IBM and Oracle are tens of billions behind Amazon, Google, and Microsoft in CAPEX, and grow much slower in cloud infrastructure from a much lower base
Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics : Tweets: @jonathansorum , @timsneath , @charlesfitz , @jaypipes , @timoreilly , and @marypcbuk Tweets: Jonathan Sorum / @jonathansorum : CAPEX is a leading indic...
Investigation reveals US national security panel CFIUS lacks resources to vet all investment and M&A deals that give the Chinese access to cutting-edge US tech
Politico : Tweets: @ebkania and @marcorubio Tweets: Elsa B. Kania / @ebkania : A POLITICO investigation found that CFIUS rarely polices certain avenues that China leverages to access U.S. technologie...
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