Samsung's head of mobile says the company will bring new features and tech to its mid-end smartphones first as it changes strategy to attract millennial users
- Samsung plans to overhaul its smartphone strategy at the mid-range price point in order to appeal more to millennials, the company's mobile CEO told CNBC.
Streaming services like Netflix that operate in the EU will need to dedicate 30%+ of their catalogs to local content after new law comes into effect in December
Quotas obligating Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services operating in the European Union to dedicate at least 30% …
Retailers that have learned to match Amazon's ease and instant gratification of e-commerce shopping are flourishing as the pace of store closings has slowed
Malls are being hollowed out. Shops are closing by the thousands. Retailers are going bankrupt. — But it may be too early to declare the death of retail.
Experts say Facebook's public cleanup is pushing toxic content into private Facebook groups, WhatsApp, and Messenger, making it harder to monitor and moderate
Much of the empire built by Alex Jones, the Infowars founder and social media shock jock, vanished this summer when Facebook suspended …
Amazon launches a Hindi website and apps to court India's 500M Hindi speakers
BANGALORE, India — Only 10 percent of India's 1.3 billion people know English. Yet most of the country's e-commerce services have been offered only in English, closing off online shopping to the vast...
How Libya's militias use Facebook as a platform for tactical warfare targeting, illegal weapons trade, propaganda, repression, and disinformation
which begs the question: does FB only start serious content moderation in countries after foreign journalists start asking questions? https://www.nytimes.com/... Justin Lynch / @just1nlynch : When a n...
Amazon shares rose to $2,050.50 in intraday trading, valuing the company at $1T, a month after Apple reached the milestone
Amazon market cap hit $1 trillion on Tuesday, becoming the second publicly traded U.S. company to reach the record valuation after Apple.
A Google staffer hacked the Software House smart locks of Google's Sunnyvale offices last July and says fixing this make of lock means replacing onsite hardware
I cover crime, privacy and security in digital and physical forms. — Last July, in Google's Sunnyvale offices …
Ethereum's blockchain is made publicly available on Google BigQuery, including ETH transfers and transaction costs, after Bitcoin's was added in February
Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies have captured the imagination of technologists, financiers, and economists.
A look at the human cost of Facebook's rise in the Philippines: truth matters less, propaganda is ubiquitous, lives are wrecked, and some have died as a result
In August 2016, a handful of crude images began circulating widely throughout Facebook's Filipino community … Tweets: @daveyalba , @dcurtis , @histoftech , @kevinroose , @cwarzel , @buzzfeednews , @si...
Seattle-based exchange Bittrex delists Bitcoin Gold, as the fallout continues from a 51% attack on the cryptocurrency in May that netted attackers millions
The threat of attack is very real for upstart cryptocurrency projects. Bitcoin Gold, a popular hard fork of Bitcoin …
Auterion, a Swiss startup that offers a drone operating system built on top of the popular P4X open source software, has landed $10M in seed funding
Auterion, a startup that offers a drone operating system built on top of the popular P4X open source software, has landed $10 million in seed funding.
Atlassian buys OpsGenie, an incident management platform for IT service disruptions, for $295M
Company will use $295 million deal, new product to boost efforts to sell programs for IT workers — Atlassian Corp., a maker of programs for coordinating software development … Tweets: @mcannonbrooke...
On-demand services provider Meituan-Dianping outlines its financials in a filing ahead of Hong Kong IPO, shows revenues increased by 161% in 2017
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Buffer co-founder Joel Gascoigne explains why the company spent $3.3M, about half of all its cash, to buy out seven of its sixteen Series A investors
Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million - about half of all the cash we had in the bank - to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors. Tweets: @laurenjcapelin , @monkchips , @dhh , @hunterwalk , ...
Review of Apple-sanctioned Blackmagic eGPU for the Mac: easy set up and use, but it only ships with Radeon Pro 580, a mid-range GPU, with no option to upgrade
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Google releases Content Safety API, an AI-powered tool to identify online child sexual abuse material and reduce human reviewers' exposure to the content
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Short video social app TikTok adds new Reactions feature that allows users to superimpose video reactions to clips they watch
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British P2P lending startup Funding Circle announces plans to IPO on the London Stock Exchange and raise about $387.4M
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
How Amazon has set its sights on the $88B online ad market, as companies like Verizon, AT&T, and Geico ramp up ad buys, despite not selling directly on Amazon
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Interview with Microsoft's cloud EVP Scott Guthrie on streaming, Satya Nadella, and how the company could use Azure to power connected car software
Matt Weinberger / Business Insider : Tweets: @mjasay and @markrussinovich Tweets: Matt Asay / @mjasay : One of the things that most impresses me with @scottgu and Microsoft, generally, is his/its abi...
Udaan, the Indian B2B e-commerce startup led by former Flipkart execs, reportedly raises $225M Series C co-led by DST Global and Lightspeed Venture Partners
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The National Labor Relations Board issues a complaint against Lanetix, a San Francisco software firm that fired 14 engineers after they filed papers to unionize
Nitasha Tiku / Wired : Tweets: @nitashatiku Tweets: Nitasha Tiku / @nitashatiku : white collar engineers almost never unionize. the engineers at startup this startup tried. Ten days later, they were ...
Souche.com, a Chinese used car trading platform and software provider for used car dealers, raises $578M Series F; founder and CEO says at almost $3B valuation
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Ten Reddit moderators talk about the abuse they receive, including death and rape threats, burnout under pressure, and how Reddit fails to tackle the issues
Benjamin Plackett / Engadget :
Swiss startup Avrios has raised $14M to date for an AI-fueled fleet management platform, which is being used by ~700 customers to manage ~700,000 vehicles
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Source: Facebook is likely to generate ~$980M in ad revenue in India in 2018; Google, which has been in the country longer, reached $1B revenues only last year
Chinese regulators have not approved a single new game since March, say they will limit the number of games to be released per year, will try to reduce playtime
Shan Li / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @esportslaw and @saraheneedleman Tweets: Bryce Blum / @esportslaw : Chinese regulators haven't allowed a new game release since March. Tencent: $1.5B in lost s...
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