WhatsApp to test limiting the forwarding of messages to 20 chats globally and 5 chats in India in a bid to stop the spread of fake news
The social messaging service has been blamed for its role in spreading dangerous and inaccurate information. — Facebook-owned WhatsApp is making changes …
Microsoft Q4: $30.1B in revenue, up 17% YoY; operating income up 35% YoY to $10.4B; Intelligent Cloud revenue up 23% YoY to $9.6B and Azure revenue up 89% YoY
Microsoft Cloud Drives Record Fourth Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — July 19, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
DuckDuckGo says that Google confuses customers by redirecting traffic from duck.com domain, which the search giant owns, to google.com
Google controls the duck.com web address, meaning users searching for its rival DuckDuckGo are diverted back to Google — For many people, Google is the internet.
Facebook executives struggle to describe a coherent strategy to deal with misinformation on the site; it's a hodgepodge of “exceptions to the exceptions”
Facebook was once the most nimble company of its generation. The speed at which it adapted to every challenge was legendary.
Cyberattack on Singapore's largest healthcare institution SingHealth steals details of 1.5M patients, including the Prime Minister
Local media say the hack is believed to be state-sponsored — Singapore has been hit by what local media is calling the country's worst ever cyber attack.
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter launch the Data Transfer Project, a data portability platform for users to move data between online service providers
An open-source collaboration for “the future of portability” — Today, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter joined to announce …
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg called Trump to congratulate him after his election victory; Facebook has privately praised Trump campaign's use of its platform
In the days following Donald Trump's election victory over Hillary Clinton, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg placed a secret …
Microsoft Surface revenue jumped 25% YoY this quarter to $1.1B; gaming revenue increased 39% YoY, with Xbox software and services revenue growth of 36% YoY
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Internal documents show Amazon's struggles to fix Prime Day outages as an internal system broke down and engineers scrambled to scavenge hardware
- Amazon wasn't able to handle the traffic surge and failed to secure enough servers to meet the demand on Prime Day, according to expert review of internal documents obtained by CNBC.
Microsoft surpasses $100B in full-year revenue and beats analyst estimates for Q4; Productivity and Businesses revenue rose 13% YoY to $9.7B
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Study: up to 95M Instagram users may be bots, or 9.5% of its total user base, up from 7.9% in 2015
Up to 95 million Instagram users may be bots, according to a new study conducted by research firm Ghost Data for The Information. … Ghost Data reached their conclusion after buying 20,000 bots to anal...
Instagram adds a green status indicator next to online users on Direct inbox and share menus
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge :
San Francisco says it expects to issue permits for its 24-month electric scooter pilot program sometime in August, selecting from 12 applicants
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is still reviewing the 12 applications from companies to operate electric scooters in the city.
Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund is seeking to invest almost $1B in Chinese AI company SenseTime, which has raised more than $1.2B this year
- A deal would be SenseTime's third major funding in past year — SenseTime uses artificial intelligence for facial recognition
Sources: Facebook's plans for a nationwide rollout of WhatsApp payments service in India is being held up by government concerns over storage of user data
- Officials are said to have concerns about where data's stored — The social media giant had geared up for a nationwide launch
HumanEyes unveils Vuze XR, a compact, dual-lens camera that can record 360-degree 2D and 180-degree 3D at 5.7K resolution; coming later this year for ~$400
Daven Mathies / Digital Trends :
Amazon quietly rolls out “Part Finder”, which uses computer vision to let users identify screws, nuts, bolts, and more, for iOS users
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
eBay's Q2 filing shows company paid $573M to acquire ecommerce platform Qoo10 Japan in February, not the $700M rumored at the time of acquisition
EBay is a very distant second behind Amazon when it comes to e-commerce sales in the U.S., but abroad — and in particular in Asia …
As more African governments restrict internet access, activists push back by calling them out, educating users on workarounds, and even hacking government sites
Abdi Latif Dahir / Quartz :
Closed Facebook group for sexual assault survivors with 15K+ members changed admins, was invaded by trolls, and was deleted after members reported the group
Louise Matsakis / Wired : Tweets: @lmatsakis Tweets: Louise Matsakis / @lmatsakis : New: Facebook has advertised groups as safe places for people to share intimate information under their real names....
Autonomous truck startup Embark Trucks raises $30M Series B led by Sequoia Capital, bringing total funding to $47M, to expand its fleet from five to 100
Alan Ohnsman / Forbes :
The privately-owned $300M Hawaiki subsea cable connecting Australia, New Zealand, and the US, with anchor customers including Vodafone and AWS, has gone live
Corinne Reichert / ZDNet :
Baidu-owned online education startup Zuoyebang, which lets students upload homework and find solutions, raises $350M Series D led by Coatue Management
Celia Wan / Crunchbase News :
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