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”
Last night, the tech-twitter was lit … Luke Stangel / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Report: Instagram likely to get longtime Facebook exec Adam Mosseri as boss Jon Russell / TechCrunch : Facebook'...
Google says that in Chrome 70, coming mid-October, it will allow users to disable linking Google website and Chrome sign-ins
We recently made a change to simplify the way Chrome handles sign-in. Now, when you sign into any Google website, you're also signed into Chrome with the same account.
Livestream of US Senate hearing on “Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy” with testimony from AT&T, Amazon, Google, Twitter, Apple, and Charter
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation …
Microsoft announces that it is enabling keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One, rolling out first to Xbox Insiders in the coming weeks
Game developers will have to enable the support — Microsoft is enabling keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One.
Kevin Systrom had the CEO title, but Zuckerberg controlled Instagram's destiny, with unwavering focus on building a great business, not simply a great product
Bloomberg Nitasha Tiku / Wired : With Instagram Cofounders Out, It's Facebook All the Way Down Catherine Clifford / CNBC : How a cheap plastic camera on a trip to Italy inspired Instagram, according t...
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton talks about why he gave up $850M to quit Facebook early and his differences with Zuckerberg and Sandberg over monetization
hatsApp cofounder Brian Acton, 46, sits in a cafe of the glitzy Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, California, and the only way you'd guess …
Google Maps for Android and iOS now helps you plan group events by adding places to a shortlist, sharing it via messaging services, and voting on the choices
If you've ever tried to settle on a place to eat, you know how time-consuming it can be. If you're not trying to describe each …
Source: in recent months, Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives had begun preparing for the possibility that the Instagram co-founders would leave
WhatsApp Cofounder, Brian Acton Ought Put His Name To It Shona Ghosh / Business Insider : This 10-year Facebook loyalist is widely tipped to become Instagram's new CEO Karissa Bell / Mashable : Facebo...
Former Facebook content moderator sues the company for allegedly failing to protect her and others as they viewed violent videos and images, says it led to PTSD
In the class action lawsuit, the woman says that thousands of content moderators are subjected to “highly toxic” content as part of the job.
Sources at media outlets say they're seeing little to no ad revenue from Apple News despite huge traffic growth
The world's most valuable company is wooing the media with a human touch and a huge audience. One thing it hasn't delivered: money. — In the years leading up to the 2016 U.S. election …
Circle launches USD Coin (USDC), its dollar-backed stablecoin first announced four months ago, initially available to partner institutions
Four months after first announcing the creation of a dollar-backed stablecoin, cryptocurrency finance firm Circle is releasing it to the world.
Former NSA employee Nghia Hoang Pho sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for taking home classified files that were then allegedly stolen by Russian hackers
A mysterious hacker clan. A controversial Russian cybersecurity specialist. A top-secret developer with sticky fingers.
Coinbase announces a new process to more rapidly list digital assets compliant with local law and will now publicly announce new listings only at or near launch
announced on Tuesday a new policy for adding assets, and it constitutes a major change for America's biggest cryptocurrency brokerage.
One-third of all tokens launched via an ICO in 2017-18 are not listed on any exchanges, despite half completing their funding rounds last year
Despite investors dropping a whopping $12 billion into Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) in the past year, 70 percent of cryptocurrencies outside …
Safari's Siri Suggested Websites feature found promoting conspiracy sites and misinformation; Apple says it removes any inappropriate suggestions when notified
Apple's Safari, one of the internet's most popular web browsers, has been surfacing debunked conspiracies, shock videos …
Facebook says Facebook and Messenger Stories now have a combined 300M DAUs and it will roll out ads to Facebook Stories globally now and Messenger Stories soon
Facebook announced today at a press event in NYC that Stories now has 300 million daily active users across Messenger and Facebook …
Amazon's Alexa fund invests in a $6.7M round for Plant Prefab, a maker of prefabricated homes, that wants to let buyers equip homes with inbuilt voice devices
- Technology giant makes its first investment in a homebuilder — Plant Prefab to let buyers customize homes with voice devices
Instana, an application performance monitoring (APM) service with a focus on modern containerized services, raises $30M Series C led by Meritech Capital
Instana, an application performance monitoring (APM) service with a focus on modern containerized services, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series C funding round.
A close look at USAReally, a pro-Kremlin, pro-Trump site with overt Russian ties and frequent links on the /r/the_donald subreddit as it depicts a declining US
To an untrained eye, USAReally might look like any other fledgling news organization vying for attention in a crowded media landscape. Tweets: @nytimes , @bystevereilly , and @jasonleopold See also Me...
Inside Facebook's attempts to keep its Facebook and Messenger Stories original, including rolling out its Music feature for adding songs as a soundtrack
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Tweets: @joshconstine Tweets: Josh Constine / @joshconstine : Facebook has a secret employees-only app called Blink where it tests the next Boomerangs & SuperZooms. It's ...
More than 75 of the world's biggest banks join the JPMorgan, RBC, and ANZ alliance, which is testing blockchain tech for faster payments among its members
More than 75 of the world's biggest banks are turning to blockchain to fight the threat of new payments rivals in what will be the …
AWS announces that YubiKey can now be used as a multi-factor authentication (MFA) device to sign into the AWS management console
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practice is to require all IAM and root users in your account to sign into the AWS Management Console with multi-factor authentication (MFA).
SurveyMonkey opens at $18.75 per share, well above its $12 IPO pricing, as it increases shares for sale from 13.5M to 15M, raising $180M
Sara Salinas / CNBC :
The News Media Association, which represents British newspapers including The Guardian, has called on the UK govt to levy a tax on tech giants to fund the press
News Media Association says Google and Facebook should fund the journalism from which they profit
Xiaomi-backed smart home product maker Viomi raises ~$103M in its Nasdaq IPO, after pricing its stock on the lower end at $9 per share
Runhua Zhao / TechNode :
Cloudflare enlists Microsoft, Google, Automattic, Backblaze, and other cloud companies in the Bandwidth Alliance, promising cheaper cloud networking costs
With one notable exception, Cloudflare has brought several major cloud and data center companies together in a new industry group called …
Arm unveils the Cortex-A76AE, a dedicated chip design for autonomous vehicles with safety critical features, expects cars using it to hit the roads in 2020
Chris Williams / The Register :
Two years after many voter-registration networks were penetrated by hackers, voting infrastructure in US remains largely unchanged, despite officials' warnings
As the midterms approach, America's electronic voting systems are more vulnerable than ever. Why isn't anyone trying to fix them? Tweets: @kimzetter , @kimzetter , @justinhendrix , @ilvestoomas , @ki...
India's Supreme Court says controversial Aadhaar program, with the world's largest biometric database, is constitutionally valid and does not violate privacy
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News :
Twitter announces a new policy around dehumanizing language and says it will now ask everyone for feedback about its policy changes, starting today
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Monero devs disclose major bug in Monero wallets that would have let attackers maliciously “burn” XMR cryptocurrency; private fix was first pushed to exchanges
David Canellis / The Next Web :
WaPo to expand its Arc publishing platform as a subscriptions tool sold to others, then as an ad network, aiming to own infrastructure in a similar play as AWS
It is increasingly the tech stack of choice for major news publishers. But now Arc wants to be the backbone of your digital advertising and subscriptions, too. Tweets: @niemanlab , @lpolgreen , and @...
Microsoft says its Microsoft Whiteboard collaboration app is out now on iOS and available on the web in preview, two months after launching on Windows 10
Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central :
Cody Wilson quits as director of Defense Distributed, which he founded to distribute blueprints of guns that can be 3D printed, following sexual assault charges
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times :
Amazon says Alexa skill developers can now sell “consumables” such as hints or extra points for games, expanding Alexa's in-app purchase capabilities
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Charles Kuen Kao, a Nobel laureate in physics whose research in the 1960s revolutionized fiber optics, died in Hong Kong on Sunday at 84
Mike Ives / New York Times :
Instagram adds notifications to its web apps and Instagram Lite, which is still in testing
Rose Behar / Android Police :
Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook collectively spent $80B in the last year on physical assets, including specialized manufacturing equipment
Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook—are fast becoming industrial giants https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @BW Tamara Dull / @tamaradull : “Companies that deal in data are some of America...
France says it received 3,767 privacy complaints since GDPR debuted, up 64% YoY, as UK ICO says complaints more than doubled to 6,281 from May 25 to July 3
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Profile of Walmart International CEO Judith McKenna, who is charged with overseeing the retail giant's $16B investment in Flipkart
Beth Kowitt / Fortune : Tweets: @sarahhalzack and @michelletoh235 Tweets: Sarah Halzack / @sarahhalzack : Glad @bethkowitt pulled back the curtain a bit on what Judith McKenna is doing on Walmart's I...
Canadian firm AggregateIQ, linked to the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data scandal, received the first GDPR-related notice in July
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet :
Mobs in India may have received inflammatory messages on WhatsApp, but the mob violence came from long-standing cultural divisions and governmental failures
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic : Tweets: @anxiaostudio and @theatlantic Tweets: An Xiao Mina / @anxiaostudio : “It could be that centering the technology in these cases obscures more important sol...
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