EU fines Google a record €4.3B (~$5B) in antitrust case for illegal practices regarding Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of Google's search engine
Google has been hit with a record-breaking €4.3 billion ($5 billion) fine by EU regulators for breaking antitrust laws.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says Android has created more choice, not less, and that Google will appeal the EU ruling
If you buy an Android phone, you're choosing one of the world's two most popular mobile platforms—one that has expanded the choice of phones available around the world.
Sources: Walmart is considering launching a subscription streaming video service that would undercut Netflix and Amazon Prime Video on price
Walmart is considering launching a subscription streaming video service to compete with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, people familiar with the situation told The Information.
Sources: Samsung plans to launch a foldable-screen phone, with a 7-inch display that can be folded in half like a wallet, early next year
The phone will feature a roughly 7-inch display that folds in half — SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. is planning to introduce …
A reporter posing as a Dublin Facebook moderator found that pages from far-right groups face looser content standards; Facebook vows to improve its training
A new documentary details how third-party Facebook moderators ignore the company's rules — An investigative journalist …
Google says Nest CEO to exit, sources say after employee revolt; sources: Alphabet tried selling Nest to Amazon; Nest now part of Google's home devices unit
Five months after Nest rejoined Google, the search giant told employees Tuesday that Marwan Fawaz will no longer be CEO of Nest …
Apple's iCloud user data in China is now being stored by a division of state-owned China Telecom
If you're an Apple customer living in China who didn't already opt out of having your iCloud data stored locally, here's a good reason to do so now. That information, the data belonging …
Researcher shows Venmo transactions, which are public under default user settings, reveal details including real names, comments, and dates through a public API
A researcher has analysed millions of public transactions to prove just how much the app reveals about our life and habits
Google says it's building Dunant, a transatlantic cable between US and France, its second private intercontinental cable after Curie, connecting US and Chile
Google today announced a new private subsea cable project. — Expected to be operational by late 2020, the Dunant cable will cross …
Researchers: Trump and his PAC spent $274K on Facebook ads viewed by at least 37M users since early May, making him the biggest political advertiser on the site
SAN FRANCISCO — It's official: President Trump is the single biggest political advertiser on Facebook.
Despite glitches, Amazon sold more than 100M products on Prime Day driving record levels of Prime sign-ups, sales; Fire TV Stick was the most popular purchase
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said online shoppers purchased more than 100 million products worldwide during its Prime Day sale …
Google debuts visual snapshot for Assistant, a Google Now-like feature for proactive suggestions related to your commute, upcoming events, purchases, and more
The evolution of Google Assistant can be traced back to 2012 when Google Now was all the rage.
In a hearing, Facebook, Alphabet, and Twitter tell House Judiciary Committee that they are not discriminating against content for political reasons
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Instagram says it is building a non-SMS two-factor authentication system that works with security apps like Google Authenticator or Duo to thwart SIM hijackers
Hackers can steal your phone number by reassigning it to a different SIM card, use it to reset your passwords …
Consortium backed by AMD, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Oculus, and Valve announces VirtualLink spec for connecting next-gen VR headsets via single USB Type-C cable
While PC VR headsets are fun, no one has especially enjoyed the number of cables required to hook one up.
Twitch streamers describe the sometimes psychologically taxing nature of broadcasting to no one and trying to get noticed to start building an audience
Looking for connections in 2018 — When John Hopstead first descended into the virtual world of Dark Souls in 2013, his mission was to save a decaying world.
Light, which makes a 16-lens camera, raises $121M Series D led by SoftBank's Vision Fund to bring its camera tech to smartphones and self-driving cars
- Light, a Palo Alto-based company that makes a 16-lens camera, just raised a whopping $121 million from investors led by SoftBank's Vision Fund.
UPS tests an Amazon Key-style delivery program in New York using locks made by a startup, Latch; service works with the building, not individual apartment units
UPS has been quietly testing a program that lets the shipping service deliver packages inside multi-unit homes while occupants are out.
Twitter product lead Kayvon Beykpour says the firm is pausing work on fixing its verification policy to focus on more important areas like election integrity
The company will return to the issue over the coming weeks and months — Twitter doesn't presently “have the bandwidth” …
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg about Russia, fake news, Infowars, Myanmar, and why he thinks Facebook shouldn't take down posts that deny Holocaust
Everything was on the table — and after Facebook's wildest year yet, that's a really big table. — Yesterday, I motored my Ford Fiesta …
Interview with nine engineers who worked on Google's Safe Browsing, which now underpins user security in all of Google's major platforms and runs on 3B+ devices
IN THE BEGINNING there was phone phreaking and worms. Then came spam and pop ups. And none of it was good. Tweets: @k8em0 , @google_comms , @mediaphyter , and @selenakyle . Thanks: @aaronjstein Twee...
Cuba begins rolling out mobile internet provided by national telecom firm ETECSA to select users, aims to expand service to all customers by year's end
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EU and Japan reach a deal on seamless user data transfer between European Economic Area and Japan; the deal should come into effect by the end of this year
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Zero2IPO Research: in Q1 2018, private equity and VC funds in China raised less than two-thirds of what they had raised over the same period a year ago
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Giphy, in a partnership with Twitch, launches an extension that lets viewers select GIFs from a curated catalog to appear on-screen during a stream
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Viz.ai, which uses AI to detect early signs of time-sensitive medical conditions like stroke, raises $21M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, with GV participating
Artificial intelligence (AI) health care startup Viz.ai has raised $21 million in a round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins …
Google rebrands Cloud Launcher as GCP Marketplace, adds outside commercial and open source Kubernetes applications
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Slack acquires Missions, a tool that helps automate routine processes and tasks in Slack without needing to write code
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Analysis of Twitter data shows the company suspended at least 58M user accounts in the final three months of 2017
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Interview with Jim Keller, a microprocessor engineer known for his work at AMD and Apple, on his work heading up the Silicon Engineering Group at Intel
Ian Cutress / AnandTech : Tweets: @bitsandchipseng . Thanks: @iancutress Tweets: @bitsandchipseng : As elementary school teacher, I think this sentence is awesome: One thing when I came in is that th...
Facebook announces a new AI lab in Pittsburgh and hires a number of new researchers for Facebook AI Research in Seattle, London, Menlo Park, and Pittsburgh
Andreessen Horowitz names Connie Chan a General Partner, ending the VC firm's no-promotion policy
and scrapped a rule that the firm candidly admits was outdated.” http://www.recode.net/... Andrew Chen / @andrewchen : Super pumped for @conniechan our newest general partner at @a16z! Her insights on...
Google launches Chrome Enterprise Grab and Go, a software suite to help businesses operate a Chromebook loaner program for employees
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HR software-as-a-service company Ultimate Software is acquiring French HR startup PeopleDoc for $300M in cash and stock
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Tinder says it will begin testing Bitmoji integration in Canada and Mexico using the recently launched Snap Kit
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Bytedance says its short video app, known as Douyin in China and Tik Tok elsewhere, has hit 500M global monthly active users
Yingzhi Yang / South China Morning Post :
Amazon's EC2 gets faster processors and new high-memory instances, as well as the ability to run a local version of EC2 inside an AWS Snowball Edge device
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Inside OGUSERS, a forum to trade social media and gaming handles, often stolen via “SIM hijacking” where phone numbers are stolen via carrier's customer service
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard : Tweets: @jason_koebler , @lorenzofb , @briankrebs , @itgirljs , and @jason_koebler Tweets: Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler : Meanwhile, hackers are active...
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