Alibaba announces Jack Ma will remain executive chairman for a year, and CEO Daniel Zhang will take over as chairman on September 10, 2019
- Alibaba said on Monday that CEO Daniel Zhang will take over as chairman of the board in a year, succeeding current executive chairman Jack Ma.
Trend Micro apps including Dr. Unarchiver, the 12th most popular free app in Mac App Store, found to steal and upload sensitive info including browsing history
When you give an app access to your home directory on macOS, even if it's an app from the Mac App Store, you should think twice about doing it.
Kuo: USB-C on 2018 iPad Pro, Touch ID on 2018 MacBook, EKG and Ceramic Backs on All Apple Watch Series 4 Models, More
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has issued a new research note today, obtained by MacRumors, that outlines several predictions about Apple's upcoming products, including new iPhone …
Profile of Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang, who will succeed Jack Ma as Alibaba's chairman, and is best known for his roles as CEO of Taobao and president of Tmall.com
Among the 86,000 employees who work at Alibaba Group Holding, chief executive Daniel Zhang is not known as Daniel, or Mr. Zhang, or even boss.
NY regulator approves its first stablecoins; the digital currencies, strictly pegged to US dollar on a one-to-one basis, come from Paxos and Winklevoss' Gemini
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's Department of Finiancial Services on Monday approved Gemini Trust Company's …
Researcher, citing a study he co-authored, says that forcing Twitter users to encounter political views they disagree with can increase political polarization
On social media, encountering opposing views can make people become even more wedded to their own. — Mr. Bail is a sociologist.
Sources: Citigroup developed Digital Asset Receipts or DARs, similar to regulated ADRs, but for crypto, where bank holds asset and issues receipt for investor
- Citigroup has created what it's calling a Digital Asset Receipt or DAR, thought to be the most direct way to invest …
Snap's Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan is leaving the company after four years, sources say to start his own investment firm
Earlier today, Snap made some waves when it announced that Imran Khan, its chief strategy officer, was stepping down from his role to pursue other opportunities.
India-based startup Nayasale Retail opens a cashier-free retail store called Watasale in the South Indian city of Kochi, the first Amazon Go-like store in India
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Evaneos, which connects tourists with a list of local travel agencies to book personalized trips, raises $81M Series D led by Partech and Level Equity
Online travel marketplace Evaneos announced it has raised $81 million in venture capital as the Paris-based company seeks to push outside Europe.
Pinterest now has 250M MAUs, saw user growth of 27% and revenue growth of 50% YoY, but sources say its steady approach has frustrated some investors, employees
SAN FRANCISCO — Ben Silbermann does not enjoy being interviewed. He isn't a fan of speaking at tech industry conferences. Tweets: @eringriffith , @kerrymflynn , and @jackiehluo Tweets: Erin Griffith ...
Atrium LTS, Twitch co-founder Justin Kan's legal technology services startup, raises $65M from a16z
Let the computers do the legal busywork so attorneys can focus on complex problem solving for their clients. That's the lucrative idea behind Atrium LTS, Twitch co-founder Justin Kan's …
How WhatsApp's popularity in India has fundamentally changed communication norms, exacerbating misinformation sharing, as many only get news through the app
In July, residents of a rural Indian town saw rumors of child kidnappers on WhatsApp. Then they beat five strangers to death. Tweets: @arunikashyap , @buzzfeedben , @deliprao , @sub8u , @rmac18 , @ri...
How China is trying to catch up with the West in mobile communication technologies as its government makes the 5G a strategic priority for carriers and vendors
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Google Fiber looks like a failure, but it changed the nature of competition in internet infrastructure and accelerated incumbent broadband investments by years
Skydio debuts a dev platform for its self-flying R1 drone, which is now mass-produced and priced at $2K, after R1 “Frontier Edition” debuted for $2,499 in April
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Survey of 1,000+ C-level execs finds the majority view lack of access to software developers as a bigger threat to success than lack of access to capital
Software engineering efficiency … Tweets: Martin Bryant / @martinsfp : No surprise. This is a worldwide problem, affecting companies of all sizes. VCs can provide cash but they can't magic up employee...
California's governor signs a bill that replaces cash bail with an algorithmic system to calculate risk of flight or reoffending from October 2019
Dave Gershgorn / Quartz : Tweets: @davegershgorn and @mediajustice Tweets: Dave Gershgorn / @davegershgorn : California moved to replace cash bail with algorithmic risk assessment last week (followin...
An overview of the two narratives around crypto: crypto as money, and crypto as technology for decentralized control, and how these views differ but can coexist
Erik Torenberg / atrium : Tweets: @nickgrossman Tweets: Nick Grossman / @nickgrossman : Very well said. The truth is, both things are happening. Crypto is *both* money/finance 2.0 and web 3.0. that i...
Profile of LendingTree, which has avoided the pitfalls plaguing the fintech industry through acquisitions and a focus on cash flow
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Interview with Flipboard CEO Mike McCue on fake news, ad products, algorithms, inspiration, and having a strong identity
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Connecticut-based financial software maker SS&C to acquire confidential data-sharing platform Intralinks for $1.5B
Diptendu Lahiri / Reuters :
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