Google says it will make arbitration optional for individual sexual harassment claims, provide more info about investigations, expand training, and more
Amazon Wants to Get America Scanning for the Holidays James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : After global walkout, Google rewrites policy on sexual misconduct cases Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Google CEO high...
Disney says its new streaming service will be called Disney+ and will launch in the US in late 2019
- Disney's new streaming service, Disney+, will be a home for its past titles and original series, including new content from the Marvel and Star Wars franchises.
Microsoft says it has fixed an issue deactivating licenses on some Windows 10 Pro machines, says update will be automatically applied over next 24 hours
Microsoft's back-end activation issues which caused a number of Windows users to get false product-activation-error messages seems to be nearly fixed.
Google walkout organizers say Google made progress toward addressing their demands but it must still address systemic racism and discrimination at the company
Last week, 20,000 Google employees and TVCs (Temps, Vendors and Contractors) walked out to protest discrimination, racism …
Apple supplier Finisar, a laser chip maker that received $390M from Apple's Advanced Manufacturing Fund, acquired by optical product company II-VI in $3.2B deal
Optical products company II-VI Incorporated announced on Friday it planned to acquire Finisar, a maker of specialised laser scanners …
Google hires David Feinberg, CEO of health services organization Geisinger, to lead its health initiatives; sources say he will report to AI head Jeff Dean
- Feinberg will work to coordinate health care efforts across many groups, including Google Brain, Nest and Google Fit.
Secret Service warns via internal alert that Informed Delivery, USPS's service to view scans of incoming mail, is being used to commit identity theft and fraud
A year ago, KrebsOnSecurity warned that “Informed Delivery,” a new offering from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) …
Amazon staff meeting transcript: AWS CEO Andy Jassy defends Rekognition, says it's the government's duty to help specify regulations for facial recognition tech
Amazon executives defended the company's controversial facial recognition technology at an all-hands staff meeting on Thursday …
Facebook Portal and Portal+ video chat devices go on sale on Thursday on Portal online store, Amazon, and Best Buy
Megan Wollerton / CNET :
Portal and Portal+ review: they work great for video calls using Facebook Messenger, but as general purpose smart displays, they lag behind the competition
Facebook's video calling device demands lots of trust for little return — It's not often that a new gadget gets announced and I don't immediately want to get my hands on it.
Amazon signs a deal with Apple, will get access to its latest devices and sell them in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, and India
Amazon has signed a deal with Apple to expand the selection of the iPhone maker's products on Amazon worldwide.
Study using Wehe app, which detects net neutrality violations, finds that Sprint is throttling Skype across the US and almost exclusively on Android phones
- Researcher says the behavior seems ‘directly anti-competitive’ — Sprint says it doesn't single out individual content providers
The New York Times is digitizing its 5-7M photo archive using Google AI to recognize text describing the photos and will use Google's storage services
Google's computer brains are helping The New York Times turn a historic archive of more than 5 million photos into digital data that'll appear …
Cisco partners with AWS to provide companies with hybrid cloud solutions for Kubernetes on AWS, available next month
- The collaboration is meant to simplify the deployment of applications on Amazon's cloud or in corporate data centers. — Cisco and other traditional data center companies …
LinkedIn says its e-learning portal LinkedIn Learning now has more than 11,000 enterprise customers, adds interactive Q&A features, and third-party content
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with some 580 million users, took a big step into professional development …
Dropbox reports Q3 revenue of $360.3M, up 26% YoY and beating expectations, says it had 12.3M paid users, up from 10.4M a year ago; stock up 8%+
- Dropbox has been trying to break into the enterprise space, but investors and analysts see that as a big challenge, since its service was originally targeted at consumers.
Sources: Mary Meeker is seeking to raise around $1.25B for her new growth fund
- The famed tech investor Mary Meeker is aiming to raise about $1.25 billion for her new growth fund, multiple sources tell Business Insider. — Meeker, a longtime partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield ...
Interviews with current and former Google staff about its China-related projects reveal tensions between preserving its founding ideals and a desire for growth
CEO Sundar Pichai thinks the search engine should be willing to work with Chinese censors. Will employees go along with the plan?
Medium CEO Ev Williams says he will be raising more money; Medium has raised $132M, has 90M MAUs, and publishes 20K articles per day
- Ev Williams needs more money for Medium, which he says is still not profitable. — Medium has received $132 million from investors so far.
Tesla names board member and Telstra CFO Robyn Denholm as Chairman of the Board, replacing Elon Musk; Denholm to leave Telstra to work as Tesla chair full-time
he'll stay CEO Michael Grothaus / Fast Company : Tesla names Robyn Denholm as its new chairwoman, replacing Elon Musk Zoey Chong / CNET : Tesla appoints Robyn Denholm to replace Elon Musk as chair Sta...
Facebook says it has removed 14M+ pieces of terrorist content this year and median time to take action is less than 2 minutes in Q3 2018
GitHub says it now hosts over 100M repositories and supports 31M developers, who collectively have created over 1.1B contributions
Source code management and developer collaboration platform GitHub today announced users have now created 100 million repositories.
Wall Street is now selling more data like social media sentiment and geospatial mapping, and less analysis as only ~21% of research emails are opened
Research units take different tack to refine information for clients; geospatial mapping for mall trips and Googling interest in ‘Luke Cage’ Tweets: @briantimoney and @charlesraaii Tweets: Brian Timon...
HTC brings Vive Focus, its standalone VR headset available in China, to North America and Europe for $599 with an Advantage service option costing $749
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
Yelp reports Q3 revenue of $241M, missing analyst estimates of $245M, and issues weak Q4 guidance; stock down more than 28%
YouTube finally arrives on the Nintendo Switch, available to download now, following Hulu
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch :
Coinbase says it is adding Brave browser's Basic Attention Token to its retail trading platform, less than a week after listing it on Coinbase Pro
Fossil launches the Sport Smartwatch, which comes in two sizes, six colors, runs Wear OS, and has an integrated heart sensor, available today for $255
Stefan Etienne / The Verge :
IoT security company ForeScout Technologies acquires Netherlands-based industrial security company SecurityMatters for $113M
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet :
Google says Chrome 71, which arrives next month, will warn users about unclear billing charges and subscription signups
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Xiaomi opens its first UK store in London and rolls out the flagship Mi 8 Pro, alongside other products, as it continues its push into Europe
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Bird unveils a new feature called Community Mode, which lets people report badly parked and damaged scooters to the company
Dara Kerr / CNET :
Alipay strikes an eight-year deal with European soccer governing body UEFA allowing Alipay to be accepted at tournaments including Euro 2020 and Euro 2024
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC : Tweets: @antfinancial Tweets: @antfinancial : We are thrilled and looking forward to the @UEFA @Alipay partnership bringing the spirit of football to Alipay, and #digitaltech i...
Check Point: DJI's website and apps had a vulnerability that would have given hackers unfettered access to a drone owner's account, including live video footage
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Google renames its popular Android storage management app Files Go to Files by Google and says it is now used by over 30M people each month
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
SEC filings show that GE has sold 63% of its shares in Pivotal, reducing its stake from 20.8% to 7%, and earning it $173M
Dylan Martin / CRN : Thanks: @dylanljmartin
President of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers says Amazon's AbeBooks has apologized and will not drop booksellers as scheduled on Nov. 30
David Streitfeld / New York Times :
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