Sources: prototypes of Google's Dragonfly search engine for China link the search app on users' Android devices to their phone numbers
Google built a prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users' searches to their personal phone numbers, thus making it easier …
After running Tezos blockchain network in beta since June, Tezos Foundation will officially launch its protocol on Monday
The “experimental” phase for the Tezos blockchain is over. — On Monday morning, the Tezos Foundation will officially announce that the protocol will no longer be in a beta period …
Twitter now puts live broadcasts started by accounts users follow, including breaking news, personalities, and sports, at the top of their timelines in its app
Twitter will now put live streams and broadcasts started by accounts you follow at the top of your timeline, making it easier to see what they're doing in realtime.
Study: Facebook engagement for sites identified as publishing fake news dropped by 50%+ between 2016 election and July 2018, while shares on Twitter kept rising
Facebook's efforts to reduce misinformation in its news feed since the 2016 election have opened the company to all manner of criticism …
Durable iPhones can result in lower replacement rates but they expand Apple's client base via resales which can then be monetized via accessories and services
I think Lisa Jackson's presentation at the September 2018 iPhone launch event was perhaps the most interesting and most profound.
Apple responds to viral customer complaint about deleting movies from his iTunes library, says it does not delete movies that users have already downloaded
Perhaps you've heard a story that goes like this: — “Apple's ‘buy’ button is a sham, because Apple has the right to remove movies …
New York's regulator sues the US government claiming it usurped state powers by awarding national bank charters to online lenders and payment companies
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state's top banking regulator on Friday sued the federal government to void its decision to award national bank charters …
Amazon confirms it is investigating claims that its employees in US and China accepted bribes for internal data and other confidential info on Amazon merchants
Employees, through intermediaries, are offering internal data to help merchants increase their sales on the website
Esports companies like Blizzard are growing by replicating traditional sports leagues like NBA that are structured around local franchises and fanfare
Jay Goldthwaite had never felt passion for a Boston sports team, no matter how often his neighbors' cheers pierced the walls …
Let's Encrypt has issued 380M+ free TLS certificates on 129M unique domains in three years since launch, making it the largest certificate issuer in the world
Bon anniversaire, Let's Encrypt! — The free-to-use nonprofit was founded in 2014 in part by the Electronic Frontier Foundation …
SurveyMonkey sets IPO range to $9 to $11/share, plans to raise $135M at the midpoint of the range and additional $40M via private placement at $1.3B valuation
SurveyMonkey, which operates a freemium online survey service, announced terms for its IPO on Thursday.
An in-depth review of Android 9 Pie, which comes with a lot of useful user-facing changes and, maybe, improved battery life, but the gestures remain a mess
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Tech companies like Salesforce, now the biggest private employer in San Francisco, are reacting to the city's limits by expanding and hiring faster elsewhere
Politics, economics and real estate could make jobs boom elsewhere — Politics, economics and real estate could make jobs boom elsewhere Tweets: @owenthomas Tweets: Owen Thomas / @owenthomas : Every ...
European website finds that a free app is exposing the exact locations of Grindr's 3.6M+ active users via unauthorized access to Grindr's private API
Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News :
HYP3R, a location-based marketing platform, has raised $17M Series A; HYP3R says it has geofenced ~300K hotels worldwide for extremely accurate location data
Kimberly Collins / ClickZ :
Investigation: North Korean operatives are evading US sanctions and earning millions by using fake identities on services like Github, Slack, and Paypal
Wall Street Journal :
Inside the paid courses where deactivated NYC Uber drivers try to learn how to get back in, while critics say tutors are squeezing yet another fee from drivers
Molly Taft / The Outline :
After receiving “increased level of interest”, DOJ has invited a bipartisan group of 24 state AGs to upcoming meeting on alleged speech stifling by tech firms
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal :
Tencent-backed content aggregator Qutoutiao closes up 128% after raising $84M in its IPO, the biggest first-day increase of a significant US IPO in 2018
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg :
Profile of Procore, a cloud-based platform for the $1T US construction industry that has raised $200M+ and is thinking about IPO after barely surviving in 2008
Alex Konrad / Forbes : Tweets: @forbes . Thanks: @alexrkonrad Tweets: @forbes : Procore, the most popular software in the construction industry, monitored home renovations for Eddie Murphy, Ben Still...
Airware, a drone startup that has raised $118M from Andreessen Horowitz, Google's GV, Kleiner Perkins, and others, is shutting down
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
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