Microsoft says it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5B; Nat Friedman, the founder of Xamarin, to be the new CEO of Github
Microsoft is acquiring GitHub. After reports emerged that the software giant was in talks to acquire GitHub, Microsoft is making it official today.
Facebook gave 60+ device makers, including Apple, Amazon, and Samsung, deeper access to users' personal info than previously known, through private APIs
The company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections.
Asus announces 6" ROG phone with a 90Hz display, a 2.96GHz Snapdragon 845 chip, and gaming accessories including an attachable fan; price and availability TBD
This is the latest, zaniest attempt at making gaming phones happen — Asus is starting off Computex 2018 on a high-spec note with the announcement of its ROG Phone.
Facebook says device-integrated APIs allowed vendors to recreate Facebook-like experiences, were governed by strict contracts, and are being faded out
The New York Times has today written a long piece about our device-integrated APIs — software we launched 10 years ago to help get Facebook onto mobile devices.
Nvidia launches Isaac robot platform with Jetson Xavier robot processor that it says delivers 30 trillion+ operations per second, for $1,300
Nvidia launched its Nvidia Isaac robot platform today to power the next generation of autonomous machines, bringing artificial intelligence capabilities …
New G Suite features unveiled, including interoperability between Hangouts Meet and other video conferencing systems like select Skype, Cisco, Polycom products
The new feature is one of multiple G Suite updates Google announced, improving interoperability with third-party enterprise tools.
PlayVS, a startup that provides an esports platform and league for high schools, raises $15M Series A led by New Enterprise Associates
PlayVS, the startup building esports infrastructure at the high school level, has today announced the close of a $15 million Series A funding round.
Ticketfly's breach exposed 26M+ email addresses of users, along with home and billing addresses as well as phone numbers, analysis of leaked data shows
The data breach of the ticket and event company Ticketfly exposed the email addresses and other personal data of more than 26 million people …
Some funds founded by Nathan Myhrvold, which raised ~$3B to invest mostly in patents, had negative IRR of 15% to 24% in last decade; many key people have left
Forbes Staff Following the money trail — The other fund, Invention Development Fund, has posted an IRR of -24.7%. Tweets: @mgsiegler , @deaneckles , @wilbanks , @fredbenenson , and @kennwhite Tweets...
Some political ads slipped or bypassed Facebook's new restrictions for disclosure and authorization in California's Fourth Congressional District primary
SAN FRANCISCO — Regina Bateson had just finished an Easter egg hunt with her children on April 1 when her phone started buzzing. See also Mediagazer
TransferWise to partner with BPCE Groupe, France's second largest bank with ~15M customers, to integrate its API within the bank's mobile apps from early 2019
TransferWise might be best known for its international money transfer app, but the European fintech unicorn has always had ambitions …
Federal judge approves class action status for Illinois residents that claim Facebook has violated the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act
The last time we discussed Illinois' Biometric Information Pirvacy Act, a 2008 law that gives citizens in the state rights governing …
Overview of insights from Code Conference 2018 interviewees, many of whom treated the opportunity as a platform to apologize
A collection of quotes, one-liners (and apologies) that were interesting, insightful, thought-provoking from #CODECON. — The annual Code Conference continues … Tweets: @riskreversal and @stevesi Twe...
Vermont will pay up to $10K over 2 years to those who move there to work remotely for an out-of-state employer, to cover relocation and work-related expenses
here's how to do it Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : Every depopulated state or city should do this. We subsidize corporate relocations all the time. It's insane we don't do the same for remote work...
Profile of Verificado 2018, a fact checking service for Mexico's elections, where WhatsApp users send in information to verify and receive individual replies
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Nokia completes the sale of its digital health unit to Withings co-founder Eric Carreel, who plans to relaunch it as a Paris-based startup by the year's end
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Finance ministers of Sweden, Denmark, and Finland oppose the tax on the EU revenues of big tech companies proposed by European Commission
Francesco Guarascio / Reuters :
Delivering exclusive or early-access podcasts is expensive, labor-intensive, or leaky as dominant platforms by Apple and Google don't support paywalling content
Max Willens / Digiday : Tweets: @sarahrheawerner and @digiday Tweets: Sarah Rhea Werner / @sarahrheawerner : “In theory, premium #podcasts should be a great tool for publishers that want to retain an...
A look at the mechanics of Bigo Live, a live streaming app from China, which is popular in South East Asia and claims 40M+ downloads in India, 200M+ worldwide
Akash Senapaty / FactorDaily : Tweets: @eamonncarey Tweets: @eamonncarey : This is one of the most interesting product teardowns I've read in a very long time. http://factordaily.com/...
No-fees mobile bank Chime raises $70M Series C led by Menlo Ventures, valuing its business at ~$500M, says it adds over 100,000 new bank accounts per month
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German court throws out ICANN's lawsuit against EPAG, a Tucows-owned registrar that stopped collecting WHOIS data because of GDPR
Glyn Moody / Techdirt :
As iQiyi reaches 61M paying subscribers and 527M MAUs, CEO says it wants to be the Disney, rather than Netflix, of China
Meng Jing / South China Morning Post : Tweets: @scmp_news Tweets: @scmp_news : 'China's Netflix' wants to build Disney-scale entertainment empire http://www.scmp.com/...
Profile of Alex Zhou, who built his US-based e-commerce site Yamibuy into a $100M business by serving the untapped Chinese migrant community
Zen Soo / South China Morning Post : Tweets: @scmp_news , @shanghaiist , and @jrichlive Tweets: @scmp_news : How a taste for soy inspired a Chinese graduate to build US$100 million e-commerce busines...
Beijing-based ForwardX Robotics, maker of a fully autonomous suitcase that follows its owner, raises a $10M Series A
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat : Tweets: @ruskin147 . Thanks: @francisybea Tweets: Rory Cellan-Jones / @ruskin147 : The single daftest thing I saw at CES and if it doesn't have removable batteries it ma...
Fiat Chrysler's five year plan: level 3 autonomy coming to most models by 2021, car sharing and in-car purchases for movie tickets, parking, and more in 2019
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As DNA testing sites like Ancestry.com amass the most sensitive data of millions of people, fears abound about data breaches and changing Terms of Service
Stuart Leavenworth / McClatchy Washington Bureau : Tweets: @mcclatchydc and @sleavenworth Tweets: @mcclatchydc : Have you been following our DNA for Sale series by @sleavenworth, detailing the state ...
Gartner: 384M smartphones sold to end users in Q1, up 1.3% YoY, as market returns to growth; Xiaomi, up 124% YoY, sees the most growth among the top 5 vendors
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Tweets: @abarrabarr Tweets: Allison Barr / @abarrabarr : .@xiaomi is starting to rapidly expand in India and other countries, so they will be an interesting one to watch. ht...
CEO of Ground X, Kakao's blockchain subsidiary, talks about dapps, ICOs, and how he plans to bring decentralization to Korea's dominant mobile messaging service
German court rules that country's intelligence service BND can spy on the traffic flowing through Frankfurt's De-Cix, world's largest internet exchange point
David Meyer / ZDNet : Tweets: @zackwhittaker Tweets: Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker : Not so secret now though, eh? http://www.techmeme.com/...
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