Congress releases Facebook's written responses to follow-up questions from Mark Zuckerberg's April testimony; Facebook says it received 2,000+ questions
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered a lot of questions when he testified before Congress in April.
Internal document: Microsoft is planning for the next Xbox console release to arrive in 2020
While Microsoft may have been founded as being a software company, there is no question about it that they are a hardware company too. With the Surface family, the Xbox, and peripherals …
Inside Netflix's original content efforts as it spends $8B this year: “It's 70 percent gut and 30 percent data”, says Ted Sarandos
“What do you think about gas in the tank for the long term?” asks Cindy Holland, Netflix's vice-president of original content.
Facebook says it's rolling out a feature to let users rate e-commerce businesses and may ban or reduce ads for those with poor feedback
New feature lets shoppers share their experiences; negative feedback could lead to bans — Facebook Inc. FB 1.29% is cracking down on e-commerce businesses …
Sources: e-scooter company Bird is seeking to raise ~$200M in new funding at a $2B valuation; just three months ago the startup raised at a $300M valuation
E-scooter company Bird is seeking to raise around $200 million in new funding at a $2 billion valuation, according to multiple sources.
Uber unveils Uber Lite, a low-data app just 5MB in size for developing markets that shows maps only on request, coming to India first
“The next hundreds of millions of riders for us are going to come from outside of the United States", Uber's head of rider experience Peter Deng tells me.
Snapchat unveils Clear Chats, a feature that lets users delete Snapchat messages even after sending them, whether in individual or group chat
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Coinbase announces plans to add support for Ethereum Classic, a fork of the Ethereum token, in the coming months
Coinbase may be one of the most-lauded crypto exchanges, but it supports just four coins right now which is far fewer than most others. That's about to change a little …
Internal document: Microsoft's next HoloLens headset is codenamed Sydney, will be lighter, cheaper, have an improved display, and is slated for Q1 2019
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How the Connecticut State Police trains dogs to sniff out electronics, such as phones, hard drives, and microSD cards, to help out in cybercrime cases
Harley darts into a decrepit room in Connecticut. She's searching for evidence. — There are plenty of potential distractions in the room: Wires hang from the ceiling.
Large funding rounds for Bird and Lime suggest strong economics, which means the potential for building moats for dockless scooter startups are relatively weak
As I understand it, the proper way to open an article about electric scooters is to first state one's priors …
Facebook tells Congress it has launched a design lab, called TTC labs and based in Ireland, to improve the way users are informed about personal data sharing
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How two-thirds of Brazil's population is using WhatsApp to undermine the country's traditional power structures like unions amid economic and political crises
SAO PAULO, Brazil — When Lazaro Rutino needs a break from hauling beef across Brazil in his truck, he swipes on his phone …
Swedish video-based call-a-doctor service Kry raises $66M Series B led by Index Ventures to finance further expansion in Europe
Swedish telehealth startup Kry has closed a $66 million Series B funding round led by Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors Accel, Creandum, and Project A.
Instagram adds shopping tags directly into Stories, so now users can tap a shopping bag icon to learn more about buying a particular item
Instagram's shoppable tags are about to pop up in Stories. The company first started testing the feature back in 2016 with a limited set of 20 partners.
Vietnam's new cybersecurity law raises concerns about restricting free speech, also requires foreign internet companies to store user data locally
Big tech firms including Google, Facebook and Twitter have expressed major concern after Vietnam's government passed a law that promises …
Valve will bring Steam to China with help of Chinese publisher Perfect World; no launch date has been announced
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FBI announces arrest of 74 people, who allegedly hijacked bank transfers using email fraud, and recovery of ~$14M; 29 of the suspects were in Nigeria, 42 in US
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USB Type-C has become a mess of compatibility issues, conflicting proprietary standards, and lacks sufficient consumer information to guide purchasing decisions
6.6K — USB Type-C was billed as the solution for all our future cable needs, unifying power and data delivery with display …
Report: advertisers spent ~$314M on podcast ads in 2017, up 86% YoY from ~$169M in 2016, with 35.7% of spending coming from brand-awareness ads and content
Total spending on podcast ads rose 86% last year, but the format remains relatively niche — Marketers are starting to tune in to the growing appetite for podcasting. Tweets: @marshallk See also Medi...
A look at what happens now that net neutrality rules have been rolled back, including its immediate implications and legal pushback
But It's Not Dead Yet Emily Price / Lifehacker : What Happens Now That Net Neutrality Is ‘Gone’ Sean Captain / Fast Company : Four ways to survive the end of net neutrality today Tony Romm / Houston C...
The Fitbit Ace, a fitness tracker designed for kids, is now available for $100, with motion, step, and sleep trackers, activity reminders, and waterproofing
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Sources: Chinese on-demand services provider Meituan Dianping plans IPO in Hong Kong to raise ~$6B at a $60B valuation, listing as soon as this month
- Company is said to consider selling about 10% stake in IPO — IPO would be another sign of rising Chinese technology might
Snap announces ads for its Snappables AR games, two months after launching the social AR feature; first ads will go live on Thursday
Nearly two months after introducing Snappables, its social AR offering, Snap is now working with companies to create and sell branded versions of Snappables games.
US now has the world's fastest supercomputer, capable of 200 quadrillion calculations per second, called Summit, which cost $200M to develop
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Bozoma Saint John is departing Uber after joining a year ago as chief brand officer to be CMO of entertainment conglomerate Endeavor
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Facebook open sources Sonar, an extensible mobile debugging tool for iOS and Android, previously available only for Facebook engineers
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Industrial systems cybersecurity company Claroty raises $60M Series B led by Singapore's Temasek, bringing total investment to $93M
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Spanish data watchdog begins probe into popular football streaming app that accesses users' smartphone mics and GPS to detect unauthorized broadcasts of matches
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US Treasury sanctions three Russian individuals and five firms, saying they helped Russia conduct cyberattacks, including NotPetya, against US and its allies
Even as Trump was working hard … Alfred Ng / CNET : US announces more sanctions over Russian hacking Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard : Founder of Cybersecurity Company Says His Firm Was Sa...
UK-based Memrise raises $15.5M Series B, says it reached profitability in Q1 this year and that its AI-based language learning app has passed 35M users globally
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Facebook launches a new section called Memories to highlight old content, similar to the On This Day feature but more extensive
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Factory automation equipment maker Rockwell Automation says it's buying an 8.4% stake in CAD software maker PTC for $1B
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Google enters deal with supermarket Carrefour to sell groceries online in France by early 2019 through Home, Assistant, and Google's shopping destination
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How a gigapixel camera developed at Duke for US Navy is being used by China to surveil its citizens, after one of Duke's researchers moved there seeking funding
Wenxin Fan / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @tomlevenson , @donal888 , @xinwenfan , @xinwenfan , and @colinlecher Tweets: Thomas Levenson / @tomlevenson : This is not a unique situation. I talked w. s...
Wish says it hit $1B+ in revenue in 2017, roughly doubling YoY, had 1M+ merchants and 75M MAUs as of April, as it goes after Walmart's value conscious customers
Ben Fox Rubin / CNET : Tweets: @cnetnews . Thanks: @rogerwcheng Tweets: @cnetnews : The startup reveals that it hit over $1 billion in revenue for the first time in 2017 and expects to double that th...
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