Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died at age 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen has died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Vulcan Inc. said Monday on behalf of his family. Allen passed away Monday afternoon in Seattle at 65 years old, ...
Huawei unveils Mate 20 Pro with 6.4-inch OLED display, in-display fingerprint sensor, two-way wireless charging, three rear cameras, and 4,200mAh battery
Everything you could want from a phone, and then some — Arriving fashionably late to the 2018 contest for super flagship phones …
Surface Pro 6 review: still the best 2-in-1 PC with the best tablet keyboard, better screen and battery life, but no major design or performance upgrades
Microsoft's Surface Pro 6 is the ideal hybrid tablet. It's a slate that can run all of the Windows apps you need …
Lyft launches All-Access Pass subscription plan for $299 per month for 30 rides costing up to $15 each, for single-passenger trips and carpooling rides
Netflix, but for rides — Lyft's monthly subscription experiment is going national. The ride-hailing company has been tinkering …
Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicly discusses censored Chinese search engine for the first time, says internal tests have been very promising
GOOGLE'S INTERNAL TESTS developing a censored search engine in China have been very promising, CEO Sundar Pichai said on stage on Monday as part of the WIRED 25 Summit.
Amazon unveils waterproof Kindle Paperwhite with higher 300ppi resolution, starting at $129, available for preorder now, shipping November 7
Sometimes you just want to read a book. Or maybe all the books. That's the promise of the Kindle line. Access to thousands of books …
Apple apologizes for the hacking of some Apple IDs in China in phishing scams, says the victims hadn't enabled two-factor authentication
Apple apologized over the hacking of some Chinese accounts in phishing scams, almost a week after it emerged that stolen Apple IDs had been used to swipe customer funds.
Sources: Uber could be valued at $120B in an IPO as soon as early 2019, nearly double its valuation two months ago, according to proposals from banks
Eye-popping offering, which could take place early next year, is nearly double the ride-hailing company's valuation in a fundraising round two months ago
Surface Laptop 2 review: nice design, comfortable keyboard, excellent trackpad, and snappy performance, but no USB-C ports or SD card slot, average battery life
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Gaming chat company Discord says its digital game store, which first launched in Canada back in August, is now launching globally in public beta with 22 titles
Discord's war on Steam (which only started after Steam declared war on Discord) is escalating.
Source: Facebook is building a hybrid video chat/TV set-top box, internally called Ripley, which it plans to announce in Spring 2019
Facebook is developing hardware for the TV, Cheddar has learned. — The world's largest social network is building a camera-equipped device that sits atop …
Facebook weighs a ban on posts linking to hacked material, expands ban on voting-related misinfo; sources: months ago execs weighed banning all political ads
MENLO PARK, Calif. (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) will ban false information about voting requirements and fake reports of violence …
Instacart raises $600M at a $7.6B valuation led by hedge fund D1 Capital Partners
The startup has a fresh $600 million in funding to boot. — As Amazon has ramped up its Whole Foods grocery delivery service to 48 cities across the U.S., a common narrative has followed …
Hands-on with Photoshop CC for the iPad, which Adobe says is the “real Photoshop” and will be available in 2019
An exclusive look at the future of Adobe's biggest app — Adobe really wants you to know that the upcoming Photoshop CC for the iPad, which was announced today …
MIT announces plans to invest $1B toward a new college for AI, so students can develop the tech while studying its implications across disciplines
Every major university is wrestling with how to adapt to the technology wave of artificial intelligence — how to prepare students …
Microsoft to roll out speech-to-text dictation for Word and OneNote on the web over next few weeks with PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook online adding it in 2019
Microsoft first started rolling outs its dictation feature in the Word desktop app earlier this year, and it's now making its way to web versions of Office.
Users say harassment is rampant on Instagram, and some employees say efforts to stem it are not funded well or prioritized
When Brandon Farbstein first joined Instagram in 2014, he was 14 and optimistic. Farbstein was born with a rare form of dwarfism, and he wanted to use … Tweets: @elcush , @taylorlorenz , @taylorloren...
A look at how some top utility apps on the App Store are making millions of dollars by using dark patterns, tricking users into signing up for subscriptions
Subscriptions have turned into a booming business for app developers, accounting for $10.6 billion in consumer spend on the App Store in 2017 …
Profile of former Google and Uber employee Anthony Levandowski on his time at Google with details on Waymo's decision to settle its suit against Uber this year
Silicon Valley was built on job-hopping. But when a leader of Google's self-driving-car unit joined Uber, Google filed suit.
Credit card giants Visa, Mastercard, and Amex, as well as other financial players like Amazon and PayPal flout India's new data localization regulation
MUMBAI, India — When the clock struck midnight in Delhi at the end of Monday, Visa, Mastercard and American Express were suddenly …
Paperspace raises $13M Series A led by Battery Ventures for AI-fueled application development platform
Paperspace wants to help developers build artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with a software/hardware development platform powered by GPus and other powerful chips.
Adobe makes Premiere Rush, its cross-platform video editing app previously in beta, widely available for iOS, Windows, and Mac today, on the Play Store in 2019
http://www.theverge.com/... Dieter Bohn / @backlon : Me: Hey Siri, show me a searing indictment of how iMovie has not kept up Siri: https://www.theverge.com/... Steve Troughton-Smith / @stroughtonsmit...
Twilio announces deal to acquire email marketing platform SendGrid for $2B in stock; Twilio's stock drops 4% after hours while SendGrid's stock jumps 14%+
Twilio just spent $2 billion to buy SendGrid, a company that helps send mass emails. — Here's part of the company's release:
Source: Apple did not acquire music analytics startup Asaii but instead hired its founders to work on Apple Music
On the heels of news of not one but two acquisitions from Apple last week, a report surfaced yesterday that Apple had picked up yet another company, the music analytics startup Asaii …
Syncron, which offers a SaaS to help manufacturers move to a service model, raises $67M led by Summit Partners, source says at a $175M post-money valuation
Syncron, a Stockholm-headquartered company that offers a SaaS to help equipment and other product manufacturers move to a service model …
Survey of 4,581 US adults finds about 66% have heard about social media bots, and most people believe they are used for malicious purposes
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CIRP: Amazon US Prime membership growth slows, up 8% over the past 12 months to 97M, as members spent $1,400/year on average, versus $600 for non-Prime users
- Walmart has tried to blunt the appeal of Prime membership — Prime members still spend heavily, $1,400 per year on average
Singapore's Temasek acquires Israeli cybersecurity company Sygnia, source says for $250M; Syngia will continue to operate independently after the deal
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Fidelity announces a new company called Fidelity Digital Asset Services that will handle cryptocurrency custody and trade execution for institutional investors
and then promptly turn around and give it to Fidelity for safekeeping: http://www.cnbc.com/...
The TSA shares its roadmap to expand use of biometric identification for domestic flights in the coming years, including fingerprinting and facial recognition
Dami Lee / The Verge :
Of 88 YC female founders surveyed, 19 had inappropriate incidents with investors; 15 experienced sexual coercion or quid-pro-quo, 4 had unwanted sexual contact
Y Combinator :
LA-based esports organization Cloud9 raises $50M Series B, following an October 2017 $20M Series A co-led by Founders Fund
Matt Perez / Forbes :
Disney-backed startup Jaunt says it has laid off a significant portion of its staff and will shutter VR projects to focus on AR and volumetric capture tech
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Jeff Bezos says Amazon will keep working with the Department of Defense, says if big tech companies turn their backs, “this country is going to be in trouble”
not in SPITE of it. http://www.wired.com/... @wired : “If big tech companies are going to turn their back on the US Department of Defense, this country is going to be in trouble,” said Amazon CEO @Jef...
German IoT company Smartfrog takes controlling interest in smart home security startup Canary with $25M investment
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SEC filing: Docker has raised $92M of a targeted $192M funding round
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VC firm SignalFire says it uses a data-centric approach to beat others to key deals and hires, as 55 candidates were placed via its platform in six months
and won 44 of 46 head-to-head term sheets — by taking a data-driven approach more like Bridgewater and Uber than other VC firms. http://www.forbes.com/... Thanks: @alexrkonrad
Sources: Robinhood made more than 40 percent of its revenue earlier this year from selling its customers' orders to high-frequency trading firms
Bloomberg :
Malwarebytes: in Q3, detections of cybercriminal activity targeting businesses grew 55% QoQ with trojan attacks up 86%; malicious cryptocurrency mining fell 26%
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat :
Houseparty rolls out Facemail, a way to record and share 15-second video messages within the app, for iOS and Android
Casey Newton / The Verge : Tweets: @joshconstine Tweets: Josh Constine / @joshconstine : A source just told me Houseparty employees are straying because the app lost momentum. Trying to herd a group ...
Chinese supply chain fintech firm Linklogis raises $220M+ Series C led by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, with previous investor Tencent participating
Violet Tang / China Money Network :
Intercom launches Answer Bot, an AI chatbot it claims resolved 29% of customer questions without human intervention and improved response time by 44% in testing
Alex Konrad / Forbes : Tweets: @eoghan and @forbes Tweets: Eoghan McCabe / @eoghan : I spoke with @alexrkonrad about our hopes and dreams for those once-hyped, icky things called “chatbots”, and how ...
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