Microsoft begins next phase of Project Natick by submerging a data center off Scotland's coast, where it is designed to work without maintenance for five years
Microsoft kicked off the second phase of its experimental underwater data center project Wednesday, submerging …
Amazon announces Fire TV Cube, an Alexa-powered set-top box, available to preorder today and shipping June 21 for $119.99
It's been almost four years since Amazon first introduced the Echo smart speaker and its virtual assistant Alexa. It's also been just over four years since …
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says US has struck a deal with ZTE, including a $1B penalty and a US-chosen compliance team to be embedded at ZTE
- Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the U.S. has struck a deal with Chinese telecom giant ZTE to end crippling American sanctions.
Amazon buys rights to exclusively livestream 20 Premier League football matches per season for three seasons starting from 2019
US online retailer will exclusively livestream 20 matches per season from 2019 — Amazon has broken Sky and BT's stranglehold on Premier League football …
TCL announces BlackBerry Key2 with 4.5-inch display, keyboard with customizable shortcut key, Snapdragon 660, and two 12MP rear cameras for $649
Chinese electronics company TCL today announced the BlackBerry Key2, priced at $649 USD, $829 CAD, €649, and £579.
Valve to allow all games on Steam unless they are “illegal” or “trolling”, is building tools to give users more control over what content they see on the store
After a few weeks of controversy — which included a pulled game about school shootings and confusion …
Cisco: Russian-tied VPNFilter malware targets far more routers and is more powerful than first reported, can attack connected PCs, downgrade HTTPS connections
Malware tied to Russia can attack connected computers and downgrade HTTPS. — Two weeks ago, officials in the private …
Lyft redesigns its app for the first time in three years to emphasize shared rides and public transport, available to everyone by the end of June
‘This is to put shared rides front and center’ — Lyft's app for riders is getting a fresh new look, with a greater emphasis put on shared rides and public transportation.
Apple rebrands iTunes Connect to App Store Connect and releases a new iOS app to help the process of uploading, submitting, and managing applications
Apple today has officially announced the rebrand of iTunes Connect. As we speculated earlier this week, Apple confirmed on its developer blog …
Coinbase says it is acquiring securities dealer Keystone Capital in an effort to expand into the coin offerings market, pending regulatory approval
Cryptocurrency business plans to use Keystone assets to move into fast-growing market for coin offerings — Coinbase, one of the leading …
Sources: Instagram to launch Snapchat Discover-style video hub with scripted shows, music videos, and more; announcement tentatively slated for June 20
Instagram is preparing to unveil a home for longer-form video — a YouTube competitor and its take on Snapchat Discover.
Government survey finds internet use among US households with incomes below $25K per year increased to 62% in 2017, up from 57% in 2015
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet use by Americans increased in 2017, fueled by a rise among people with lower incomes, a government report viewed on Wednesday by Reuters found.
Interview with Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot on his belief that the next generation of consoles will be the last as game streaming renders them obsolete
Some believe that the dedicated game console is an increasing hindrance to the growth of the gaming population and the works created for them.
Israeli medical imaging startup Zebra Medical Vision, which creates AI-based tools for radiologists, raises $30M Series C led by health tech fund aMoon Ventures
Zebra Medical Vision, an Israeli medical imaging startup that uses machine and deep learning to build tools for radiologists …
Sources: US lawmakers are scrutinizing Google's Android partnership with Huawei and plan to publicly criticize Google for it
Silicon Valley giant drawn into Washington's escalating digital cold war with Beijing — Members of Congress have begun scrutinizing Google's relationship …
Ride-hailing service Gett raises $80M led by existing investor VW at a ~$1.4B valuation, says it will be profitable by Q1 of next year
While Uber is growing its business with a net loss on its balance sheet, a smaller rival has confirmed a round of funding, and projects that it will be profitable by Q1 of next year.
UK bank TSB faces renewed scrutiny from MPs after fallout from a botched IT upgrade hit 1.9M customers, 2,200 of whom saw fraudulent account access attempts
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Starship Technologies, which develops autonomous delivery robots that work in a two-mile radius, raises $25M, bringing total raised to $42M
Starship Technologies today announced the closure of a $25 million funding round to expand and deploy its fleet of robots designed to carry out deliveries.
SoftBank to sell 51% of the China operations of UK chip designer Arm Holdings to a local group of investors for $775M, while retaining the remainder
Mayumi Negishi / Wall Street Journal :
Comcast's Xfinity landline phone service experienced widespread outages across the US on Wednesday; Comcast says service is restored for most customers
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Sonos debuts Beam, a $399 compact soundbar coming later this year with five-microphone array and Alexa integration; Google Assistant, Airplay 2 support planned
Best Overall Best Value Best Small … Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com : Sonos unveils Beam smart sound bar, confirms AirPlay 2 and Siri coming to its speakers in July Chris Davies / SlashGear : Th...
Apple will add a Movement Disorder API to ResearchKit to give Apple Watches running watchOS 5 the ability to passively monitor for Parkinson's disease symptoms
ResearchKit is an open source software framework … Mallory Locklear / Engadget : Apple Watch can now be used to monitor Parkinson's symptoms
Evernote spins off Yinxiang Biji, its Chinese unit launched in 2012, as an independent company in which it will be a minority shareholder
Here's a unique approach to Western companies doing business in China. Today, Evernote — the U.S. note-making service — span out its China-based unit …
SAP makes its SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain service generally available; the service is built on top of SAP HANA, supports Hyperledger Fabric and MultiChain
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Sources: Fidelity has been working on a digital asset exchange for about a year; internal job posting also hints at plans for a cryptocurrency custody service
Frank Chaparro / Business Insider :
Sources: Indonesian ride-hailing company Go-Jek has been offered $1B+ in new funding from existing investors to continue overseas expansion
- Investors including Tencent, Warburg offer additional capital — Funds could accelerate ride-hailing firm's overseas expansion
Google releases Android P Beta 2, with final APIs and 157 new emoji, including red hair, a llama, and two new gender-neutral designs
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Google to pause election ads in Washington to comply with law requiring real-time disclosure of detailed ad info in response to public records requests
Todd Bishop / GeekWire :
YouTube suspended some prominent gambling channels starting last week, citing community guidelines violations; some accounts have been reinstated after appeals
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic :
Bigo, a Singapore-based company behind the livestreaming app Bigo Live, raises $272M Series D, led by Chinese livestreaming platform YY
Terence Lee / Tech in Asia :
SEC chief says agency won't bend securities laws to cater to cryptocurrencies or ICOs and reaffirms that tokens used in ICO fundraising are securities
Kate Rooney / CNBC :
Facebook partners with seven news orgs, including ABC News, CNN, and Fox News, to roll out a series of news shows on Facebook Watch this summer
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Paul Jacobs, former Qualcomm CEO launches a new startup called XCOM to tackle issues with 5G, as he still tries to raise money for a Qualcomm acquisition
Alex Sherman / CNBC :
Order-ahead meal app Ritual, which lets others add to a food order for a more social ordering experience, raises $70M Series C led by Georgian Partners
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch :
Facebook testing Marketplace ads in the US that let users promote their listings in the News Feed
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
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