7-Eleven says that Apple Pay and Google Pay will be accepted at most of its 10,000+ US locations by the end of September
7-Eleven today announced that Apple Pay and Google Pay are accepted at nearly all of its 10,000+ locations across the United States, following a rollout that began in August.
Japan-based Renesas, the second-biggest supplier of chips used in cars, has agreed to buy US-based wireless chip maker Integrated Device Technology for ~$6.7B
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp (6723.T) said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy U.S. peer Integrated …
T-Mobile signs a $3.5B multiyear supplier deal with Ericsson for 5G equipment, following another $3.5B deal T-Mobile signed with Nokia in late July
T-Mobile means business when it comes to 5G. — The nation's third-largest wireless carrier said Tuesday that it has signed a $3.5 billion …
Investigation: hackers have disabled security features of India's Aadhaar enrollment service with a ~$35 software patch, making it possible to create fake IDs
Skilled hackers disabled security features of Aadhaar enrolment software, circulated hack on Whatsapp
Q&A with Chris Dixon on a decentralized internet, bitcoin's block size debate, the Ethereum network, Andreessen Horowitz's crypto fund, future investments, more
Chris Dixon, arguably the most prominent venture capitalist focusing on blockchain, is friggin' tall.
AT&T names Samsung, Ericsson, Nokia as its 5G equipment suppliers, same as all other top US carriers, and expands its list of upcoming 5G markets to 19 cities
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Apple's iPhone event will be live streamed on Twitter for the first time
Apple's iPhone press event will be live streamed on Twitter for the first time, TechCrunch has confirmed. This news backs up an earlier report from last month, which claimed Apple would expand the ab...
On Tuesday, a top EU court will decide if the EU's “right to be forgotten” regulations should apply worldwide and what type of information should be delisted
Europe's top judges are being asked to decide the limits of the “right to be forgotten” — a person's ability to demand …
Alibaba teams up with Mail.ru, MegaFon, and the Russian Direct Investment Fund to launch a joint venture valued at ~$2B focused on gaming, shopping, and more
Alibaba is doubling down on Russia after the Chinese e-commerce giant launched a joint venture with one of the country's leading internet companies.
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 …
Tinder debuts globally its curated Top Picks feature, which groups prospective matches into categories like “foodie”, for Tinder Gold subscribers
Earlier this summer, Tinder began testing a new feature that surfaces a curated list of your best potential matches, called “Top Picks.”
Today's smart home is better described as a remote-controlled home; more data and better interoperability between IoT devices is needed for a truly “smart” home
Today you can have a fully connected home complete with sensors to monitor temperature, humidity, air quality …
Source: Google's location privacy practices are under investigation in Arizona, in probe initiated by the AG a week after a bombshell report about the practice
Google's alleged practice of recording location data about Android device owners even when they believe they have opted … Tweets: @tonyromm Tweets: Tony Romm / @tonyromm : SCOOP: Google's location tra...
Study of US teen internet usage: 81% say they use social media but only 15% say they use Facebook, compared to 68% in 2012, and 89% have their own smartphone
Today's teens prefer texting over in-person communication, use social media multiple times a day, and admit that digital distractions interfere …
Q&A with the co-creator of Anatomy of an AI system artwork that maps three central processes powering an Amazon Echo: material resources, human labor, and data
Welcome to the ‘Anatomy of an AI System’ — That the modern world is a complex place will not have escaped your notice.
Packet, a New York City-based bare metal cloud hosting startup that is taking on rivals like AWS and Azure, raises $25M Series B led by Third Point Ventures
In a world where large hyperscale companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google dominate the public cloud, it would seem foolhardy …
Microsoft announces Azure DevOps, which will succeed Visual Studio Team Services, and Azure DevOps Server, the successor of Team Foundation Server
Microsoft today announced Azure DevOps, the successor of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS, formerly Visual Studio Online) and Azure DevOps Server …
Impossible Aerospace emerges from stealth with $9.4M Series A led by Bessemer and Airbus, unveiling US-1, a $7,500 US-made drone claiming 2-hour flight time
The question that Impossible Aerospace wanted to answer was: “What happens if you take the electric vehicle revolution and apply it to other industries?”
Lightyear, a for-profit subsidiary of Stellar Development Foundation, acquires Chain, a Visa and Citi-backed startup making blockchain tech for finance industry
The for-profit subsidiary of the Stellar Development Foundation has purchased Chain, a venture backed blockchain startup …
Continuous integration and delivery service Azure Pipelines arrives in the GitHub Marketplace and will be free for open source repositories
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VC firm Felicis Ventures says it will earmark 1% of every investment for “founder development”, including therapy sessions, leadership coaching, and more
Startup culture has long conditioned entrepreneurs to project a public image of “crushing it” at all costs.
Opendoor acquires Open Listings, which automates much of the home sales process, in its first acquisition as sources say funding from SoftBank is imminent
Opendoor, a four year-old, San Francisco-based company, has from the outset intended to make it possible to buy and sell residential real estate with a few key strokes.
How several fact-checking sites around the world approach harassment and death threats following partnerships with Facebook to stem misinformation
The PDF file is 299 pages long. It has a table of contents, infographics and a statement of intent. And it has extensive details … Tweets: @antoniogm , @dpfunke , @mat , and @juliacarriew Tweets: An...
Ming-Chi Kuo: USB-C on 2018 iPad Pro, Touch ID on 2018 MacBook, EKG and ceramic backs on all Apple Watch Series 4 models, and more
here's why it matters Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac : Reliable analyst says iPad Pro will have a USB-C port Anmol Sachdeva / Fossbytes : Final Predictions From Kuo: TouchID In Budget MacBook, Delayed iPhone ...
Wildlife trafficking watchdog found 1,500+ listings selling protected animals in Thailand in 2016 on 12 Facebook groups; group memberships doubled by 2018
Mark Zuckerberg's Truth Problem Ali Breland / The Hill : Wildlife group details growing illicit animal trade on Facebook Jennings Brown / Gizmodo : Watchdog Busts Facebook Groups Selling More Than 100...
A look at the rising prevalence of Amazon ads, as report suggests share of Amazon product page views that came from sponsored ads has roughly doubled YoY to 8%
Amazon-sponsored product ads have been around since 2012. But lately, as the company has invested in growing its advertising business, they've become more aggressive. Thanks: @ranimolla
Facebook adds Community Help, its tool for users to provide or request help in the aftermath of natural disasters, to Facebook Lite in 100+ countries
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Amazon says sales from Amazon Business, its business-to-business platform that launched in 2015, hit an annualized rate of $10B globally
- Business-to-business platform launched three years ago — Customers include schools, hospitals and corporations
Sonos reports Q3 revenues of $208.4M, down 6.6% YoY, and a net loss of $27M, a change of 86% YoY, in its first report since its IPO; stock down 19%+
We are excited to share our results … Business Insider : Sonos Shares Fall 13% After First Earnings Since August IPO
OnePlus says its OnePlus 6T flagship will have a fingerprint reader in the display, likely making it the first phone widely available in the US with the feature
Lynn La / CNET :
Snap's Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan is leaving the company after four years, sources say to start his own investment firm
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Wear 3100 Platform for Android smartwatches with a quad-core A7 processor, 4G LTE, and an ultra-low power coprocessor
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
OneDegree, a Hong Kong-based startup letting people buy insurance online, initially for pets, without consulting an agent, raises ~$25.5M Series A
Enoch Yiu / South China Morning Post :
Carnegie Mellon's Andrew Moore to join Google Cloud as new head of AI later this year, as current leader Fei Fei Li returns to Stanford
Tom Krazit / GeekWire :
Apple acquires global rights to two family focused films, the first acquisition by Apple's video division; unclear if they will have theatrical release
Anousha Sakoui / Bloomberg :
Samsung debuts SmartThings tracker with LTE for real-time location tracking, geofencing alerts, more; coming Sept. 14 for $99 with AT&T, $5/mo. after first year
Dami Lee / The Verge :
Facebook to debut new brand-safety measures, so advertisers can see where their in-stream video ads appear, including those in Watch and Instant Articles
Seb Joseph / Digiday :
Mixed reality startup Jaunt acquires Teleporter, a tool for capturing and streaming lifelike AR assets online, and team behind it from Chicago-based Personify
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat :
Intel acquires San Jose-based NetSpeed Systems, which it had invested in previously, for better tools to make system-on-a-chip designs
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Zendesk is acquiring sales force automation platform Base, which has raised more than $50M, for an undisclosed purchase price
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Altaba, Yahoo Japan's second-largest shareholder, is set to raise $4.3B by exiting its stake at 354 yen/share, a discount of ~4.6% to the stock's last close
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