On Tuesday, Wikipedia Italy set all of its pages to redirect to a statement protesting a July 5 EU Parliament initial vote on changes to copyright law
Last month, members of European Parliament voted to move forward with a sweeping overhaul of the European Union's copyright laws that critics …
The California Supreme Court rules that Yelp can't be forced to remove negative reviews from users, overturning a lower court's decision against the company
Businesses can't sue Yelp to get defamatory reviews removed, California's Supreme Court has ruled.
Amazon expands its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with a second, larger store, also in Seattle, which it says will open in fall 2018
Amazon is expanding its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with another location in the company's backyard, GeekWire has learned.
US provides ZTE temporary authorization through August 1 to continue supporting equipment and consumer devices already deployed
So it can update phones and other equipment — The US Commerce Department has temporarily lifted a portion of the ban on ZTE that all-but shut down the company almost three months ago.
A look at changes WhatsApp can make to curb misinformation after violence in India, including making messages private by default and forwarding only by consent
With over 200 million users in India, WhatsApp has a massive Fake News and misinformation problem.
India's IT ministry asks WhatsApp to curb spread of false messages, saying the service “cannot evade accountability” for misinformation that has led to killings
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Google says Cloud COO Diane Bryant has left the company, less than a year after joining from Intel, where she had been for 32 years
Google Cloud chief operating officer Diane Bryant has left the company after less than a year. — “We are grateful for the contributions she made while at Google …
Sources: Uber and Careem are in preliminary talks to combine their Middle Eastern ride hailing services
- Uber seeks majority stake in Middle Eastern rival, sources say — Careem is raising money at a reported $1.5 billion valuation — Uber Technologies Inc. and Careem Networks FZ …
A Chinese court temporarily bans Micron chip sales in the country, with patent ruling in favor of Taiwanese rival UMC; Micron says no injunction has been served
A Chinese court temporarily banned Micron Technology Inc. chip sales, cutting the U.S. company off from the world's largest …
Facebook's political ads disclosure rules algorithm blocks ads for lawn-mowing, waxing salons, Walmart, and more that use the words “bush” and “Clinton”
Blaine Simons last month paid Facebook to run an ad for his lawn-mowing company, Al Mowit, in Rapid City, South Dakota.
Sources: Amazon plans to send a physical holiday toy catalog to millions of US households this year as it incorporates traditional retailers' strategies
- Move is part of push to gain market share of defunct toy chain — Printed toy guide to be mailed and handed out at Whole Foods
Amid the boom in AI, Silicon Valley's tech giants have taken their talent hunt for engineers and researchers to Cambridge, UK
A boom in artificial intelligence research has drawn the tech industry's biggest companies and their checkbooks to the storied English city. Tweets: @matthausk , @cademetz , @satariano , @nytimes , an...
Maryland-based cyber security company Tenable, which has raised $300M, files for an IPO and says it had $187.7M revenue in 2017, up 53% YoY
Zaid Shoorbajee / Cyberscoop :
App Annie: Clash of Clans, the App Store's most-downloaded game, earned $4B+ from July 2010 to May 2018; Facebook, the most-downloaded app, had 700M downloads
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In trial against Six4Three, Facebook argues it's a publisher with the free speech right to take away access to data but also claims protection under Article 230
In its defense against a former app startup, Facebook is contradicting its long-held claim to be simply a neutral platform
All charges against ex-Vungle CEO Zain Jaffer have been dismissed at the request of San Mateo DA, who said prescribed drugs from multiple doctors were at fault
Israel-based startup ThetaRay raises $30M Series B to grow its AI-powered cybersecurity business, bringing total raised to around $60M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
PayPal sells ~$7.6B in consumer credit receivables to Synchrony, its partner for PayPal branded credit cards, extends exclusive CC partnership until 2028
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Melbourne-based international payments startup Airwallex raises $80M Series B led by Tencent and Sequoia China
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In a filing, Commerce Department recommends that the FCC reject China Mobile's 2011 application to enter the US market, citing national security concerns
Todd Shields / Bloomberg :
Crunchbase report: in Q2, Chinese startups, including Ant Financial, raised 47% of all reported VC dollar volume vs. 35% for North American companies
Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News :
Inside Instagram's master class for marketing executives from fashion and beauty companies, where they learn to sell products on its platform
@KimBhasin https://www.bloomberg.com/... Bogs Abje / @bogscab : Welcome to Instagram College, where the students come from Madewell, Birchbox and Cynthia Rowley https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @bus...
Ex-Microsoft COO Kevin Turner named CEO of Core Scientific, a blockchain and AI startup co-founded by ex-Myspace CTO; SEC filing shows company is raising $40M
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Sources say Google's delay in joining a consortium of ad tech companies has complicated its members' GDPR compliance efforts
Paresh Dave / Reuters : Tweets: @reuters Tweets: @reuters : Google's delayed entry into a consortium of advertising technology companies has spoiled the members' push to comply with a new European pr...
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