Instagram's co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have resigned and plan to leave the company in the coming weeks
SAN FRANCISCO — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of the photo-sharing app Instagram, have resigned and plan to leave the company in the coming weeks …
Kevin Systrom's statement on his and Mike Krieger's departure from Instagram says they plan to take time off “to explore our curiosity and creativity again”
Mike and I are grateful for the last eight years at Instagram and six years with the Facebook team.
Qualcomm accuses Apple of allegedly stealing source code and chip secrets and giving them to Intel for improving the performance of Intel chips in iPhones
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Sundar Pichai to meet with GOP lawmakers in private meeting Friday to discuss privacy, Google's work with China, and alleged bias in search results
Friday's talks to occur amid concerns on Capitol Hill about privacy, China business and allegations of bias against conservatives
Twitter announces a new policy around dehumanizing language and says it will now ask everyone for feedback about its policy changes, starting today
Twitter says it's going to change the way it creates rules regarding the use of its service to also now include community feedback.
Sources say Instagram's co-founders are leaving after growing tensions with Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's leadership over autonomy and product direction
Facebook promised Instagram autonomy, but reduced it over time leading to today's bombshell revelation.
UK-based Snyk, which helps companies detect security vulnerabilities in open source code, raises $22M Series B led by Accel, source says at $100M valuation
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Snapchat partners with TurboVote to put links to register in users' profile pages and partners with some pubs on “swipe up” option, says 80% of US users are 18+
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LinkedIn launches Talent Insights, which provides business intelligence reports on companies, talent pools, skills, and more
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Snap begins slow rollout of a new way to search for products on Amazon right from Snapchat, which works by pointing camera at a physical product or barcode
See, snap, sale. In a rare partnership for Amazon, the commerce giant will help Snapchat challenge Instagram and Pinterest for social shopping supremacy.
After working with IBM for over a year on a food safety blockchain solution, Walmart says it's pushing produce suppliers to use blockchain by September 2019
Walmart has been working with IBM on a food safety blockchain solution and today it announced it's requiring that all suppliers …
Google announces several changes to its search product, Google Feed is rebranded as “Discover”, the homepage on mobile will now show a news feed, more
Google Feed is also getting an update, now it's called Discover — Google is announcing changes to its search product today …
Apple releases macOS 10.14 Mojave with Dark Mode, Stacks, security enhancements, a redesigned App Store, Home, Stocks, Voice Memos, and Apple News apps
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat :
macOS Mojave review: filled with minor improvements, Stacks are convenient, App Store redesign is nice, but new apps ported from iOS feel half baked
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
An in-depth review of macOS Mojave, which continues High Sierra's foundational work while bringing some consequential changes to the UI, the desktop, and Finder
Dark Mode and iOS apps make this desert-themed release feel surprisingly verdant. — I ended last year's review of macOS High Sierra …
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Microsoft announces Windows Virtual Desktop, a new Azure-based service that provides a full virtualized multi-user Windows 10 experience
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Kuo: iPhone XS Max far outselling iPhone XS, with 256GB most popular, 512GB is subject to shortages; Apple Watch Series 4 demand is “much better than expected”
In a research note obtained by MacRumors today, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has provided launch-weekend takeaways for the iPhone XS …
Microsoft says Teams is now used by 329,000 organizations, up from 200,000 in March of this year
cohesive search that intelligently helps you find, discover, command, and navigate Amit Chowdhry / Forbes : Microsoft Monday: Announcements At Ignite Event, Skype For Alexa, New Dynamics Business Appl...
Google is reversing part of its ban on cryptocurrency-related ads, plans to allow ads from regulated crypto exchanges in the US and Japan, starting in October
- Google is reversing part of its sweeping ban on cryptocurrency-related advertising and plans to allow regulated crypto exchanges to buy ads in the United States and Japan.
Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo has raised $800M, with commitments for another $200M, in a round led by SoftBank's Vision Fund, sources says at a $5B valuation
Oyo Hotels, an Indian startup for booking reliable rooms in the country's chaotic lodging market, is raising $1 billion …
Interview with Peter Chou, former HTC CEO who worked alongside Google's Andy Rubin on Android's first phone, the G1
The T-Mobile G1 is an iconic device. But with its slide-out full QWERTY keyboard and a thick chin, it isn't an attractive one. — When it debuted a decade ago …
Google launches Android Studio 3.2 with over 20 new features, including new Android App bundle, Emulator Snapshots, and Energy Profiler
Google today launched Android Studio 3.2, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), with over 20 new features …
A look at new Microsoft video conferencing and meeting tech, including a feature, available now, that lets participants blur the background of their location
Microsoft let me sit in on the rehearsal for its futuristic “meetings of the future” demo in Orlando. Here's what I learned.
A look at how startup entrepreneurs still struggle in France, as multiple regulatory regimes and languages and inadequate capital remain hurdles to scaling up
- France spawns a ‘forest of bonsai trees’ but no real giants — Scaling up is still a problem, although progress is being made Tweets: @helenefouquet and @business Tweets: Helene Fouquet / @helenef...
Google revamps search to include new “activity cards”, which will surface users' relevant search history
your search journey — that you may have previously started. http://www.blog.google/... http://twitter.com/... @cnet : Google has some new features for search Activity Card for repeat searches Collecti...
Study: the issuance of dollar-pegged cryptocurrency Tether had no meaningful impact on the price of Bitcoin
Brady Dale / CoinDesk :
SiriusXM to acquire Pandora in a $3.5B all-stock deal
Michael Sheetz / CNBC :
Zoho says its domain registrar, TierraNet, pulled its service offline for a few hours after it received phishing complaints, is now looking for a new registrar
and even messaged me back within 10 minutes of my email earlier today. Credit where credit's due. http://tcrn.ch/2zqrF6j https://twitter.com/... Matthew Garrett / @mjg59 : This advert didn't age supe...
As part of a new strategic partnership with Apple, Salesforce will release a Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS by end of 2018 and redesign its iOS app by early 2019
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Report: Google, Yandex, and other internet companies in Russia are discussing creating a database that details copyright-infringing content for easier removal
Andy / TorrentFreak :
Leaked screenshots suggest Google Pay may soon add support for P2P payments via QR codes, providing another P2P payment option in the main Google Pay app
Doug Lynch / XDA Developers :
New book about online activity in the 2016 US presidential election argues that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive in changing outcome
Jane Mayer / New Yorker :
Analysis: since 2011, 60% of VC funds raised in the US every year have been seed funds; the rate of non-seed funds raised has been stable for the past 15 years
Eric Feng : Tweets: @workmj , @howardlindzon , @shaig , @bznotes , and @cristinagberta Tweets: Michael Jackson / @workmj : “15 years ago, it was about 7 investments made before you got one return. No...
From Amazon Go to AmazonFresh Pickup: a tour of a few locations in Seattle where Amazon tests and experiments with new ideas for retail in the real world
Karen Weise / New York Times : Tweets: @cekent Tweets: Christopher Kent / @cekent : Amazon is collecting license plate information and connecting it to user profiles. http://www.nytimes.com/... http:...
Slack has acquired Astro, a productivity startup that makes tools to surface important information from your emails and calendar
Simone Stolzoff / Quartz :
Amazon says the new 10" Echo Show shipping next month and the first generation Echo Show will support Hulu and Hulu with Live TV
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Waze is now available on Apple CarPlay with iOS 12 and includes features like the ability to use daytime maps during night, change how a car appears on the map
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac :
Source: Amazon has held two rounds of preliminary talks to acquire London-based food-delivery startup Deliveroo, following reports of similar interest from Uber
twice Thanks: @matthfield
Right-wing sites funded by Russia's Internet Research Agency were used to target /r/The_Donald subreddit where the sites' stories were shared thousands of times
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @buzzfeednews and @broderick Tweets: @buzzfeednews : Reddit's largest pro-Trump subreddit, r/The_Donald, appears to have been targeted by Russian propaganda for ye...
Apple has closed its acquisition of music recognition app Shazam and says it will soon become ad-free, in a deal sources say was for $400M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
US Army to award contract for 2,500 AR headsets in Nov. that may eventually be expanded to 100K headsets and $500M; Microsoft and Magic Leap among bidders
Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg : Tweets: @alistairmbarr . Thanks: @joshuabrustein Tweets: Alistair Barr / @alistairmbarr : Magic Leap vying for US Army contract to use augmented reality to “increase let...
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