Donald Trump criticizes social media companies for allegedly “discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices”, says “we won't let that happen”
President Donald Trump on Saturday took to Twitter to allege social media companies are discriminating …
Reports indicate Sergey Brin only recently learned about Dragonfly, Google's censored search project for China, which may be further along than execs claim
On Thursday afternoon, a critical meeting at Google was derailed by a handful of tweets. Employees who had been pressing top executives …
After Valve registered Steam.tv domain today, the site is now live as a game streaming website currently only showing its annual Dota 2 international tournament
Over the past couple hours, we've seen a smattering of reports that PC gaming giant Valve had registered a new domain name: Steam.tv.
Source: Amazon is working on a DVR that will record live TV, wirelessly connect to Fire TV boxes, and stream the video to smartphones
- Box would record live TV and stream that video to smartphones — Device competes with offerings from TiVo, Dish's Slingbox
Amazon updates Alexa with skill to show last recorded event from Ring, Arlo, August, and Cloud Cam security cameras in the US and releases skill API
As of today, Amazon Alexa devices with displays can play video stream recaps from select smart home cameras, Amazon announced.
Sensor Tower: 6M users installed third party Twitter apps on mobile between 2014 and 2018; there were 560M official Twitter app installs during that period
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Federal judge in San Francisco orders a man accused of hacking Electronic Arts to post his $750K bail in Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency
High-tech criminal charges call for high-tech bail in Silicon Valley. — A man charged with hacking the Redwood City video game company Electronic Arts …
Sources: Facebook is contesting DOJ's demand to make end-to-end encrypted Messenger voice conversations available for wiretapping in a case against MS-13 gang
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. government is trying to force Facebook Inc (FB.O) to break the encryption in its popular Messenger app …
Sources: as Google considers return to China, Sundar Pichai talks about potential positive impact, while Sergey Brin, who led 2010 pullout, now sounds neutral
Mozilla, another progressive U.S. internet player, ceded moral high ground to stay in China — Google executives admitted …
Twitter's actions to limit third-party apps illustrate the company's indecisiveness, which sources say stems from Jack Dorsey's cautious leadership style
What the Alex Jones controversy and its move to limit third-party apps have in common — Why does Twitter move so slowly?
JD.com announces the launch of its blockchain-as-a-service platform alongside its first live blockchain app that tracks invoices for China's Pacific Insurance
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has launched a blockchain-as-a-service platform alongside its first app - one that digitally …
Walmart says it has completed its $16B acquisition of Flipkart
Flipkart's existing management team led by CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy will continue to lead the business
How President Xi Jinping plans to turn China into a “cyber-superpower” that will dominate the web through domestic regulations, innovation, and foreign policy
For almost five decades, the United States has guided the growth of the Internet. From its origins as a small Pentagon program …
Tencent says PUBG Mobile, a scaled-down version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, crossed 100M downloads less than 4 months after its release on iOS and Android
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DOJ opposes Facebook's efforts to dismiss fair housing groups' lawsuit claiming discriminatory ad targeting, says Communications Decency Act doesn't apply
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German startup Deposit Solutions, which lets bank customers get better rates from other banks for their deposits, raises $100M at $500M valuation
Peter Thiel-backed Deposit Solutions raises $100 million from PE house Vitruvian Partners https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
Sources: UK-based digital bank Monzo is raising $150M in its latest funding round, which is expected to value the bank as high as $1.5B
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Psychology researchers claim bots might be responsible for uptick in low-quality data in recent surveys they conducted via Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @withfries2 Tweets: @wired : Mechanical Turk survey data is used in thousands of studies a year. If the platform has developed the bot problem some researc...
Twitch says some downloadable archives of a discontinued Messages feature included private messages of other users
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China-based CooTek, developer of TouchPal keyboard and other apps, files for NYSE IPO, says it has 132M DAUs, up 75% YoY, and $37.3M in revenues, up 239% YoY
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale … Tweets: David Elman / @_davidelman : Shanghai-based mobile internet company CooTek, developer of @TouchPal, files for @NYSE #IPO as CTK. $100M place...
Internet infrastructure companies like web hosts, registrars, and CDNs were right to largely remain neutral in Infowars-like debates, civil rights experts say
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JD.com reports Q2 revenues of $17.3B, up 31.2% YoY, but posts $334.4M loss, nearly double analysts' expectations
Facebook faces continuing calls for regulation of microtargeted ads in US and Europe after probes of Internet Research Agency and Cambridge Analytica data use
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