Apple has removed the entire libraries of five of InfoWars' six podcasts from iTunes, saying they violated its hate speech guidelines
Apple has removed the entire library for five of Infowars' six podcasts from its iTunes and Podcast apps, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Facebook bans Infowars and 3 other pages run by Alex Jones for “repeated violations of Community Standards”; Spotify removes all episodes of The Alex Jones Show
Crackdown on US conspiracy theorist for promoting violence and hate speech — Facebook has banned four pages run …
TSMC, after shutting down some chip fabs on Friday due to a computer virus, says it's recovered 80% of the impacted tools and expects a full recovery by Monday
- TSMC expects full recovery Aug. 6 after suffering virus attack — Incident to delay shipments, affect third-quarter revenue
Sources: Apple hopes to grow sales in India by opening stores starting next year, improving apps and services aimed at Indians, and offering better retail deals
Samsung, Xiaomi, and other rivals are stomping the company in India, where it ranks 11th. — In Bengaluru's busy Madiwala neighborhood …
Sources: to add new financial services including showing account balances, Facebook has asked large US banks to share customers' detailed financial info
Facebook has asked large U.S. banks to share detailed financial information about customers as it seeks to boost user engagement
How spy cam porn, now amplified by social media, is starting to reach epidemic levels in South Korea, with 6000+ cases being reported to police each year
I can remember the first time I heard about South Korea's spy cameras. — Just after arriving in Seoul, I was running to the public loo along …
As 20 cities pitch multi-billion incentive packages for Amazon HQ2, secrecy shrouds the terms offered by unelected officials, which are outside reach of FOIA
Jared Evans, a member of the Indianapolis City-County Council, is proud that the city is among 20 finalists for one of the most coveted prizes …
YouTube has terminated the Alex Jones Channel, which has 2.4M+ subscribers, for “violating YouTube's Community Guidelines”
YouTube has removed Alex Jones' page, following bans earlier today from Apple and Facebook. — Google had previously declined to comment … Tweets: @oliverdarcy and @cwarzel Tweets: Oliver Darcy / @ol...
How flagship phone prices have been rising and why higher component costs, R&D, and customer willingness to pay a premium may mean higher prices in the future
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France's BlaBlaCar buys Russian carpooling service BeepCar from mail.ru for an undisclosed sum
BlaBlaCar has made its second acquisition of the year as the French ride-sharing giant announced that it has snapped up Russian carpooling platform Beepcar from Mail.ru. Terms of the deal were not di...
Microsoft says its Movies & TV app on both Xbox and Windows 10 will support Disney's Movies Anywhere service starting this week
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Mike Volpi talks about Index Ventures' investment strategy that led to six $1B+ exits for its startups this year, investments in Europe, fintech, and more
Index Ventures is quietly encroaching into the top tier of American investors. Here are five questions with them.
Mixpanel report: Facebook is now a major mobile browser in the US, with 10%+ market share in many states, while Safari leads with ~58%
Most of the data around web browser market share puts Google Chrome or Safari at the top - with their percentage of the market varying by platform and region.
Sources: UK's GCHQ questioned security of Huawei's equipment in part because it uses US-based Wind River's VxWorks OS, which will stop receiving patches in 2020
Tesla says it's making an AI chip for Autopilot, coming next year, backward compatible with current-gen Tesla vehicles and faster than Nvidia chips being used
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica :
Decentralized token exchange Radar Relay raises $10M Series A led by Blockchain Capital to expand the startup's community team and start new R&D projects
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
Bucking trends of rising nationalism, services like Airbnb and BlaBlaCar still find success across 190+ countries, with total strangers sharing homes and cars
Roger Cohen / New York Times : Tweets: @peterrneumann and @n_srnck Tweets: Peter R. Neumann / @peterrneumann : This is the kind of child-like naivete I would have expected from a columnist in the ear...
Hedera Hashgraph raises $100M via private ICO to build what it claims will be much faster and more secure distributed ledger technology than current blockchains
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
HR startup Namely, which fired its founder and CEO Matt Straz for alleged “inconsistent behavior” this year, hires new CEO Elisa Steele and raises $60M Series E
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
P2P payments app Zelle, backed by big US banks, says 70%+ of transfers are between pairs of customers who have accounts at the same institution
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1 and @sub8u Tweets: Lisa Abramowicz / @lisaabramowicz1 : U.S. person-to-person payments sent online or via mobile phone increased 21% in 2017 from the pr...
Spanish taxi drivers ended a six-day strike after the government agreed to set tough limits, like a 30:1 ratio for licenses issued for taxis vs Uber-like firms
Pablo Rodero / Reuters : Tweets: @nyetanyc Tweets: @nyetanyc : #Madrid #Spain: The govmnt agreed to pass new regulations guaranteeing a cap on licenses for #Uber and similar #ridehail services at a r...
Profile of Jane Sun, CEO of Ctrip, a Nasdaq-listed Chinese online travel firm valued at $23B, on gender inequality and fighting internet platforms like Meituan
South China Morning Post :
Crunchbase: Boston on track to overtake NYC as the second-largest US funding hub in 2018, with total of $5.2B invested so far, 15% higher than for NYC
The Real Big Story From Tesla's Earnings Tweets: Founder Collective / @fcollective : Boston has had a $1B+ tech IPO every year, for the last decade. And many more acquisitions. https://news.crunchbase...
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