Facebook has had data-sharing partnerships with Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo, and TCL since at least 2010 and will wind down the Huawei deal by the end of the week
Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant …
Sources: Instagram may soon allow posted videos to be up to an hour long, has talked with content creators and publishers about producing long-form videos
Feature to allow videos of up to an hour in length — Instagram, which allows users to post photos and brief glimpses …
Amazon's Echo Look, the $200 “style assistant” camera which was invite-only is now available to all customers in the US
It's the same $199.99 price as during the invite period — Amazon's Echo Look camera, which analyzes your clothing style and makes fashionable recommendations …
Microsoft announces Windows Collaboration Displays platform for Surface Hub-like displays and Windows 10 IoT Core Services with promised updates for next decade
At Computex 2018 in Taipei, Microsoft announced new Internet of Things (IoT) services and enterprise hardware during a keynote address.
AMD announces Threadripper 2, a CPU for desktops with up to 32-cores based on 12nm process, coming later this year
One of the surprises from AMD's first year of the newest x86 Zen architecture was the launch of the Threadripper platform. Despite the mainstream Ryzen processors already taking …
Motorola unveils modular 6.01-inch Moto Z3 Play with Snapdragon 636, 4GB RAM, dual cameras, and a 3,000mAh battery, arriving this summer for $499
Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge — Motorola unveiled its Moto Z3 Play today, giving its battery-friendly smartphone line …
Microsoft had to acquire GitHub to attract developers because it lacks a mobile platform with enough users and its cloud strategy hinges on corporate customers
Yesterday saw three developer-related announcements, two from Apple, and one from Microsoft. The former came as part …
Apple's Live Listen is coming to AirPods with iOS 12 update, allowing iPhones to be used as a directional mic and audio relayed to a user's AirPods
Apple has one hardware-specific feature planned that wasn't announced at Monday's WWDC keynote. In iOS 12, users will be able to use Live Listen …
General Motors says its hands-free Super Cruise driver assistance system is coming to all Cadillacs by 2020
- Cadillac will introduce its advanced driver-assistance system on all its vehicles beginning in 2020. — Currently on the marquee sedan, the CT6, the system allows drivers …
Cloud file storage startup Qumulo raises $93M Series D led by BlackRock Private Equity Partners
The company has now raised over $230 million as it plans to expand further into Europe — Financial trends and news by Steven Loeb — There's a ton of data being created in everything we do now.
Interview with Apple's SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi on porting iOS apps to Mac, how the hardware will remain distinct, and more
NEAR THE END of yesterday's WWDC keynote, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, acknowledged that people …
Circle says it is in preliminary talks to obtain a federal banking license and is pursuing registration as a brokerage and trading venue with the SEC
- Crypto venue says it met with OCC to explore banking functions — Venture is still at least months away from seeking a charter
Amazon announces four pre-tested white box PC form factors manufactured by Wistron, Compal, and Quanta as part of its Alexa for PCs ecosystem
Amazon is making it easier for PC manufacturers to integrate Alexa into PCs. The retailer today announced four new pre-tested …
Sources: GitHub, acquired by Microsoft, also talked with Google about an acquisition; Amazon, Atlassian, and Tencent made acquisition inquiries in recent years
the company was set to book about $300m in revenue this year: http://www.cnbc.com/...
macOS Mojave will officially be the last release to support 32-bit apps
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Uber says it will roll out its on-demand electric bicycle service to Europe, starting in Berlin before the end of the summer
- Berlin to be first city in which bikes can be borrowed — Uber Technologies Inc. announced it would roll out its on-demand electric-bicycle service to Europe …
Rental property site Spotahome raises $40M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins; founded in 2014, Spotahome has about 50K properties listed in 33 European cities
- Silicon Valley VC Kleiner Perkins leads funding for startup — Company offers software for landlords as well as home listings
SAP unveils SAP C/4HANA, a suite of cloud-based business products combining tech from its Hybris, Gigya, and CallidusCloud acquisitions into one CRM platform
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a mature market with a clear market leader in Salesforce.
Source: Uber plans to spend up to $500M on a global marketing campaign this year, as part of an effort to repair the company's image after last year's scandals
Uber plans to spend up to $500 million on a global marketing effort this year, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Sources: ZTE signs preliminary agreement to lift US ban on buying from US suppliers; ZTE to pay $1B fine and have $400M held in escrow for future violations
Karen Freifeld / Reuters :
At WWDC, Apple takes aim at Facebook with new Safari tracking protections, tools to limit app usage, and enhanced social media tools in iMessages and FaceTime
Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal :
Israel-based DNA testing service MyHeritage discloses security breach, says account info for 92M+ users exposed, including email addresses and hashed passwords
Joseph Cox / Motherboard :
Trans YouTuber Chase Ross says YouTube regularly demonetizes his LGBT videos and has run anti-LGBT ads on some; YouTube says sometimes its systems get it wrong
and allowing anti-LGBT ads to run on them http://www.theverge.com/...
UC Berkeley open sources the world's largest autonomous driving dataset containing 100K video sequences across various US locations
Pranav Dar / Analytics Vidhya :
AWS now fully supports Kubernetes with the general release of Amazon EKS, following other cloud vendors, after announcing the service last year at AWS re:Invent
Tom Krazit / GeekWire :
Apple reports that Podcasts now hosts more than 555K active shows, up from 525K in April, and Stuff You Should Know is the first show to pass 500M downloads
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
Researchers disclose Zip Slip, a critical vulnerability that impacts many open source code libraries that handle archived files; thousands of projects affected
Zip Slip is a widespread critical archive extraction …
Europe's top court rules that administrators of fan pages on Facebook are jointly responsible with Facebook for the processing of users' data
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Homeland Security plans to test facial recognition for vehicles' drivers crossing the border into Mexico this August, at the Anzalduas Port of Entry in Texas
through vehicle windshields—as they cross the US/Mexico border http://www.theverge.com/... | @russellbrandom Russell Brandom / @russellbrandom : Scoop: Homeland Security has a new plan for Facial Reco...
Asus announces ZenBook Pro 15 with ScreenPad, a 5.5-inch touchpad with FHD display that can run its own apps; price and availability TBD
Daniel Cooper / Engadget :
Amazon bringing a French version of Alexa and Echo products to France starting next week; Echo and Echo Dot shipping next week, Echo Spot shipping next month
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
Facebook tests Lip Sync Live feature to compete with musical.ly and says users can now upload videos with copyrighted music
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Behind the long-running dispute between Facebook and WhatsApp's founders about monetizing WhatsApp with ads, which led them to leave with $1.3B on the table
shocked!— to find that Facebook wanted to monetize their business after buying it for $22 billion. Fascinating story by @KirstenGrind @dseetharaman http://www.wsj.com/...
Comparison between Google's Digital Wellbeing initiative, announced at I/O, and Apple's Screen Time, which both aim to reduce phone usage
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge :
Sources: Amazon's Grand Challenge team, led by Google Glass creator Babak Parviz, has added 50+ staff since 2014, focused on health efforts like cancer research
Spotify registers with the FCC, a prerequisite to making hardware with wireless capabilities
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
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