Google updates Play Store policies, no longer allowing crypto miners, apps that aid the sale of firearms or accessories, apps that primarily serve ads, and more
Google regularly updates its Play Store developer policies; the last time it happened, fake ID apps were banned from being submitted by developers.
Slack to buy HipChat and Stride assets from Atlassian, Atlassian will make equity investment in Slack; HipChat and Stride to shut down in February 2019
Atlassian Corp. is selling its corporate chat software to rival Slack Technologies Inc. and taking a small stake in the startup …
Facebook bans Alex Jones from using his account for the next 30 days after removing four of his videos for violating its community standards
Alex Jones, the founder and star of conspiracy site Infowars, has been suspended by Facebook — and may face harsher consequences.
Amazon announces Q2 revenues of $52.89B vs. $53.41B est., net sales of $52.8B, up 39% YoY, and net income of $2.5B, up from $197M in Q2 2017
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2018. — Operating cash flow increased 22% …
LinkedIn rolling out feature that lets users send voice messages on Android and iOS, receive them on mobile and the web; feature available globally within weeks
Have you ever typed out a long message and thought about how much faster and easier it would be to say it out loud?
Twitter opens down 14% after company reports 1M QoQ decline in monthly active users
- Monthly active users (MAUs): 335 million vs. 338.5 million, according to StreetAccount and FactSet estimate — Twitter shares opened down 14 percent Friday after the company reported a decline in m...
Twitter posts record Q2 profit of $100M, beats estimates on revenue of $711M, up 24% YoY, but monthly users fell by 1M from Q1 to 335M due to increased removals
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) posted record profit on Friday with second quarter revenue that beat financial analysts' estimates …
Facebook closes down 19% after the disappointing user numbers and revenue growth projections, losing almost $120B in market value in a day
And Will Continue Ben Bajarin / Tech.pinions : Facebook's New Growth Narrative Dan Primack / Axios : Facebook's big fall WRAL TechWire : Facebook's bleak Thursday: Stock tumbles 18% as scandals take t...
Google to update event search results to show time, location, ticketing providers and more and add a For You tab with personalized suggestions next week
Upgrades to Google's event search features include time, location, ticketing providers, sharing, saving and much more. — Marketing an event?
New study of nine US cities says services like UberPool are increasing traffic congestion by luring customers who would otherwise have taken transit or walked
The explosive growth of Uber and Lyft has created a new traffic problem for major U.S. cities and ride-sharing options such as UberPool …
How a fake story on a “grudge-settling” site ruined a realtor's reputation and finances over a comment about a news story on Facebook that offended a stranger
Monika Glennon has lived in Huntsville, Alabama, for the last 12 years. Other than a strong Polish accent … Tweets: @felixsalmon Tweets: Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon : It's so, so easy to ruin someone...
Stripe announces Stripe Issuing, a service for companies to quickly create, distribute, and manage their own physical and virtual payment cards using an API
Payments company Stripe is rolling out a new solution that lets businesses create and issue their own credit and debit cards, the company announced on Thursday (July 26).
Norway-based browser maker Opera opens up 19.5% on its first day of trading in US after raising $115M in its IPO
Opera is now a public company. The Norway-based company priced its initial public offering at $12 a share — the company initially expected to price its share in the $10 to $12 price range.
The Facebook stock drop foreshadows a potentially less profitable future as it relies more on video formats like Stories with a lighter ad load than News Feed
These days, everything seems to be going wrong for Facebook. The social networking giant is still reeling from the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal.
Telegram launches Telegram Passport, an authorization method for services requiring real-world identification that encrypts documents end-to-end in the cloud
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In a test conducted by the ACLU, Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition tech erroneously matched 28 members of Congress, 6 of them black, to criminal mugshots
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica :
Amazon Web Services' Q2 revenues were $6.1B, with $1.6B in operating income; Amazon's retail operations earned nearly $47B in revenue and $1.3B+ in net income
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A look at the rise of “flop accounts” on Instagram, which some teens use to discuss hot-button topics and consider as more reliable than traditional media
It's harder and harder to have an honest debate on the internet. Social-media platforms like Twitter, Reddit …
Google Station, Google's public Wi-Fi service, is launching in Nigeria with 6 hotspots in Lagos and 200 planned in 5 cities by the end of 2019
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White House confirms it is working on a consumer privacy policy proposal; sources: WH had 22 meetings with 80 organizations including Facebook, Google, and AT&T
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Sources: Robert Mueller wants to question Donald Trump over tweets about Sessions and Comey as part of an obstruction of justice inquiry
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Intel reports Q2 revenues of $16.96B, up 15% YoY, Client Computing Group revenue of $8.73B, up 6% YoY, and Data Center Group revenue of $5.55B, up 27% YoY
"PC volumes were down 1 percent year over year even as the average selling price for desktop products rose 13 percent, Intel said." https://cnb.cx/2OlQzt1 // mature market with captive demand means hi...
Amazon's “other” sales, which consist primarily of advertising services, hit nearly $2.2B in Q2, up 132%, making it Amazon's fastest-growing segment
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Study: the higher productivity growth of the biggest companies, including Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, results from investment in their own technology
The secret of success for Amazon, Google and Microsoft is how much they invest in their own technology Tweets: @greg_ip , @mims , @calebwatney , @mims , @steven_norton , @mims , and @skupor Tweets: Gr...
Research: Apple shipped 3.5M Watches in Q2, up 30% YoY, but its market share dropped from 43% in Q1 to 34% in Q2 as global smartwatch sales grew to 10M
Chinese social commerce startup Pinduoduo closes at $26.70 on Nasdaq, up more than 40% on its first day of trading, after raising $1.63B in its IPO
and It's More Expensive Than Alibaba, Snap, or Facebook's IPO Reuters : China's Pinduoduo prices U.S. IPO at top of range, raises $1.6 billion: sources Tweets: @forbes : 38-year-old founder of e-comme...
Twitter CEO addresses claims about some Republican leaders not appearing in search auto-suggestions, points to a thread that offers explanation and vows changes
and what it isn't … There's a shadow of a doubt. Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller : Twitter Algorithm Buried Republicans For Something Totally Out Of Their Control Aroon Deep / MediaNama : Twitter deni...
Facebook describes its content review team, their offices, training, says reviewers don't have quotas and all have health care benefits, mental health resources
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Snap launches Snapchat Storytellers, a pilot program to pair brands with 5 of the app's most popular content makers, including Mplatco, Cyrene Q and Shonduras
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Tenable, a provider of subscription-based tools to quantify potential damage from cybersecurity breaches, closes up 31.5% after raising $250M in an IPO
Kate Fazzini / CNBC :
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