A look at the internal backlash at Google over its handling of sexual harassment claims, with 1,500+ employees planning to walk out in protest on Thursday
SAN FRANCISCO — Google is struggling to contain a growing internal backlash over its handling of sexual harassment and its workplace culture.
Source: Rich DeVaul, a director at X, Alphabet's moonshot unit, left the company today following reports of sexual harassment, did not receive an exit package
Ina Fried / Axios :
Google walkout organizers share their demands: end pay inequality and forced arbitration, better sexual misconduct reporting, and harassment transparency report
Last week, the New York Times published an article about Google's history of harassment, discrimination, support for abusers …
Google workers from Singapore, Japan, Israel, the UK, Ireland, India, and the US staged a walkout to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment
Groups of Google employees are staging walkouts at offices across the world in protest at how sexual misconduct allegations are handled by the company.
The new MacBook Air, which has muddled Apple's laptop lineup, is now remarkably compelling when compared to both the MacBook and the base 13-inch MacBook Pro
This latest portable does not slot neatly into Apple's existing Mac portable range —the mix of power and price mean we can expect to see other models change or even die.
Sources: Apple held preliminary talks with radio broadcaster iHeartMedia about an equity stake or a marketing partnership to boost its music streaming service
Apple is turning to traditional broadcasting to boost its streaming service, exploring a tie-up with iHeartMedia …
Spotify meets expectations in Q3 with revenue of €1.35B, up 31% YoY, adds 4M premium subscribers for a total of 87M, and reports 191M total MAUs; stock down 6%+
LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Spotify (SPOT.N), the world's most popular paid music streaming service …
Apple's newly unveiled products start at higher price points, with the 2018 Macbook Air 128GB model starting 20% higher, continuing Apple's push into higher ASP
but it only costs $800 Aaron Lee / DigiTimes : Supply chain not upbeat about order prospects for new MacBook Air Christopher Baugh / iPhone in Canada Blog : iPad Pro's Geekbench Scores Show A12X Bioni...
Sonos says it is delaying support for Google Assistant, announced in 2017 and slated for the Sonos One in 2018, until 2019
‘The reality is that we need a bit more time to get the experience right’ — Sonos is delaying support for Google Assistant until 2019, the company announced in a blog post today.
UK government to launch an Android app to let EU citizens apply to remain in UK after Brexit; the app doesn't work on iOS because it can't access the NFC chip
The UK government is preparing to launch a smartphone app to make it as easy as possible for EU citizens to apply to remain …
Flickr says it will no longer require users to sign in with their Yahoo accounts and ends 1TB storage for free accounts, limiting them to 1000 photos or videos
Flickr announced a handful of updates to its platform and business model today — the first major changes since SmugMug acquired …
Recode announces partnership with Vox with a planned relaunch of the site on Vox.com early next year and a shift to broader tech coverage
More of the same and more of the different — So here's the deal — I think I can say with a modicum of humility (hard for me, I know!) …
Graph database startup Neo4j raises $80M Series E led by One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, bringing its total raised to $160M
Neo4j has helped popularize the graph database. Today it was rewarded with an $80 million Series E to bring their products to a wider market …
WhatsApp's VP Chris Daniels confirms WhatsApp will put ads in its Status section, but declined to provide a timeline
Clearing the air on Facebook's monetisation efforts towards WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service's Vice President Chris Daniels on Wednesday said the company is going to put advertisements in its “S...
Apple says its T2 security chip, found in the 2018 Mac laptops, disconnects the device's microphone from the rest of the hardware whenever the lid is closed
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Twitter says it's testing a home screen toggle to switch between latest and top tweets timelines with a small number of iOS users; toggle previously in settings
Twitter is digging one of its most important new features out of its settings and putting it within easy reach.
Xiaomi sends cease and desist letter to Lyft, saying it will pursue legal action if Lyft continues to modify scooters originally manufactured by Xiaomi
Xiaomi, the electric scooter manufacturer that a handful of the shared electric scooter services in the U.S. (like ones from Lyft …
Fitbit posts a net loss of $2.1M in Q3, down from $113.4M a year ago, on revenue of $393.6M, as smartwatches accounted for 49% of company's total revenue
Fitbit is slowly righting its financial ship, courtesy of a successful push into smartwatch category.
Google announces account security updates, including requiring JavaScript be enabled when using a Google sign-in page in order to run a risk assessment
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Google is announcing a slew of new features related to the sign-in process and account usage.
Twitter's spam reporting tool now lets users specify more details, like if the account is fake, using unrelated hashtags, or sharing malicious links
Twitter is adding more nuance to its spam reporting tools, the company announced today. Instead of simply flagging a tweet as posting spam …
Report: the cost to acquire a customer for subscription-based apps is $86.99, down 46.4% YoY, with engagement for subscription-based apps up 32% YoY
Mobile users are embracing the subscription model, with considerable momentum gained from last year, according to the Mobile App Engagement Index produced …
EU to launch a six-month trial of iBorderCtrl, an AI lie detector that looks for “biomarkers of deceit”, at its external borders in Hungary, Latvia, and Greece
How Best to Help San Francisco's Homeless Chris Merriman / Inquirer : EU trials AI to see if UR telling BS when travelling A-B Stephanie Mlot / Geek.com : AI Lie Detector to Screen Travelers at Some E...
Profile of Gab co-founder Andrew Torba days after Gab went offline and its CTO and co-founder Ekrem Buyukkaya quit following “attacks from the American media”
Washington Post :
Uber announces Uber Pro, a new rewards program for high performing drivers, rolling out first in Seattle, Chicago, New Orleans, and Phoenix
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
An outline of various bills and proposals in US Congress related to data privacy and protection that have emerged after the Cambridge Analytica scandal
In April, Mark Zuckerberg was called before the Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees to take responsibility for Cambridge Analytica.
DOJ charges 10 Chinese nationals for conspiring to hack and steal IP and confidential data from US and European companies between Jan. 2010 and May 2015
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Amazon launches the Music Skill API for Alexa, allowing developers to stream songs from online services to Alexa devices and Amazon Echo speakers in the US
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned to appear before an “international grand committee” of Canadian and UK MPs to discuss fake news on November 27
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Ford and Baidu announce a two year partnership to develop self-driving cars with on-road testing slated to start by the end of the year in China
Ryan Browne / CNBC :
iRobot partners with Google and will share spatial data from Roombas to help improve Google's smart home experience by mapping rooms
James Vincent / The Verge :
Amazon says Alexa can now give information about federal and gubernatorial elections and that it is working with AP and Ballotpedia for poll times and results
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat :
Lime pursues car sharing in Seattle, where rentable electric scooters are banned, and says it plans to add electric vehicles as another option to its app “soon”
Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire :
Sources: after canceling Rift 2, a “complete redesign”, Oculus now pursuing a more modest Rift update, possibly called Rift S, to release as early as next year
TechCrunch.Caspar. “Rift 2”.Rift".".. Tweets: Brandon Jones / @tojiro : I'm sure it would disappoint a bunch of fans, but Oculus releasing a version of the Rift with a minor resolution bump that didn...
Line Games, chat app Line's gaming division, raises $110M from Anchor Equity Partners; Anchor acquires 27.5% stake, dilutes Line's holdings to a minority 41.7%
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Researchers examining 135 popular kids apps on Android and iOS find 88% of paid and 100% of free apps often have manipulative and distracting ads
Virginia Hughes / BuzzFeed News :
Social platforms and Silicon Valley Funders operate with sloppy disregard of the consequences of hate speech, unwilling to lose users and hurt their bottom line
Kara Swisher / New York Times : Tweets: @kfile and @nytopinion See also Mediagazer Tweets: @kfile : We reviewed more than 4000 of bombing suspect Cesar Sayok's tweets. We found more than 240 threats ...
Facebook says it will move Workplace by Facebook, its Slack rival, to its own Workplace.com domain in 2019, to appease businesses' fears about data security
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC :
Mark Zuckerberg says sharing is shifting to private chat, where users send 100B messages per day on Facebook's apps, and Stories, used by 1B+ people per day
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
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