Chinese state media, which recently criticized Apple for illegal apps in the China App Store, says Apple has removed 25,000 apps
Apple offers more than 1.8 million apps in China — BEIJING—Under fire from Chinese state media, Apple Inc. AAPL 2.00% said it removed illegal gambling apps …
Fitbit unveils $150 Charge 3 Core with a touchscreen, water resistance, expanded notifications, and $170 Special Edition with Fitbit Pay, available from October
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Source: EU is drafting regulations to impose fines on social media platforms if they do not remove material flagged as terrorist content within an hour
Brussels plans to force companies including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to identify and delete online terrorist propaganda and extremist violence or face the threat of fines.
Microsoft will launch Minecraft: Education Edition on the iPad in September; company says the school version now has 35M licensees in 115 countries
Just in time for back-to-school, “Minecraft: Education Edition” is coming to Apple's iPad. And also for the first time …
Jack Dorsey tries to explain why Twitter ignored rules violations by Infowars for so long, says company waited for others to report violations before acting
Two weeks ago, Apple, Facebook, YouTube and others kicked the harassing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars site off their services.
Tech did not create the gig economy, which has been growing since the 1970s; services like Uber and TaskRabbit just took advantage of and intensified the trend
The insecure nature of work is a result of decisions by corporations and policymakers. — Mr. Hyman is an economic historian. Tweets: @nytopinion , @stevecase , @colmkear , @ankehassel , and @nytopin...
Karma, a food-ordering app for buying and selling surplus food from 1,500+ food outlets in London and Sweden, raises $12M Series A led by Kinnevik
Around one third of the food produced each year — 1.3 billion tons of it — is either lost or wasted, according to data from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.
Department of Housing and Urban Development files a complaint against Facebook, says company's ad targeting tools enabled Fair Housing Act violations
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Arm unveiled its CPU IP roadmap through 2020 for chips that it hopes will successfully compete with Intel Core CPUs in laptops
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LA-based AuditBoard, a risk and compliance cloud software provider for large businesses, raises $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures
Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, the two founders of AuditBoard, a Los Angeles-based provider of a risk and compliance software service for large businesses, grew up middle school friends in Cerritos, Calif.
How Detroit shunned overtures from Chauffeur, a secret project inside Google that eventually became Waymo, before embracing self-driving cars
America's car industry dismissed the potential of autonomous driving for years as tech companies plunged ahead. Now Detroit is racing to catch up. Tweets: @wsj Tweets: The Wall Street / @wsj : A form...
Farfetch, the UK-based marketplace for high-end fashion and luxury goods, files for IPO on NYSE and says it had ~1M active consumers as of last year
Farfetch, the UK-based marketplace for high-end fashion and other luxury goods, has confirmed its plans to go public. Tweets: @ingridlunden . Thanks: @ingridlunden Tweets: Ingrid / @ingridlunden : I'm...
A profile of Beijing Inspiry Technology Co., which makes 70% of the point-of-sale scanners used for QR code based mobile payments in China
Beijing Inspiry Technology Co. is among companies cashing in on the shift to smartphone-based mobile payments in China
Review of 20+ IPO filings from Chinese tech companies in the past two years shows outsized influence of Alibaba and Tencent investments on companies' prospects
In their IPO filings, rising companies are warning investors that the tech giants' deals can feel like a trap. Tweets: @shiraovide Tweets: Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : Holy crap: “Together, Tencent and...
How Google is improving accessibility by developing a standardized process for new products and UI elements rather than relying on grassroots advocacy
Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC : Tweets: @garyjk64 Tweets: Gary Kearney / @garyjk64 : Microsoft have been leading the inclusion movement Google are a long way behind. How Google has stepped up its efforts to...
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