Sheryl Sandberg says allegations that she and Zuckerberg hid info about Russian interference are untrue, claims she didn't know Facebook hired Definers
and that it might be toxic Michael Posner / Forbes : Confronting Facebook's Growing Pains Rob Price / Business Insider : Facebook employees react to the latest scandals: ‘Why does our company suck at ...
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SEC settles with Paragon Coin and CarrierEQ, which agree to start filing audited financial reports and refund investors of 2017 ICOs who want their money back
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Alphabet's Verily says it's pausing its glucose-sensing contact lens project because, after four years of study, lenses didn't gauge blood sugar levels reliably
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eMarketer forecast: Walmart to overtake Apple as No. 3 US online retailer by the end of 2018, after capturing 4.0% of all online retail spending, up 39.4% YoY
Big-box retailer has one of the fastest-growing online businesses — Heading into the fiercely competitive holiday shopping season …
Report: Facebook notified some Instagram users that a now fixed bug in its data download tool sent their passwords in plaintext in a URL that the users received
According to The Information, Instagram has suffered a serious security leak of its own that could've exposed user's passwords.
Facebook's board says it pushed Zuckerberg and Sandberg to respond to Russian interference faster and calls NYT report “grossly unfair”
The Spreading Gloom Over the Technology Sector Brian Deagon / Investor's Business Daily : Facebook Stock Hits 21-Month Low After New York Times Article Blowup Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times : Facebo...
Google says Diane Greene will step down as Google Cloud CEO in early 2019, will be replaced by Oracle's former president of product development Thomas Kurian
Diane Greene, who was hired three years ago to build Google's cloud-computing business, is being replaced in that job by former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian.
Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 10 Mail app; Microsoft says it's an experimental feature never intended to be tested broadly and is being turned off
Update: Microsoft's head of communications claimed on Twitter that ads on the Mail app were “never intended” to be tested broadly …
Sources: Microsoft to release a disc-less Xbox in 2019 that will cost $200 or less, will let users trade in discs for digital game downloads
In the wake of the news that Sony will not be attending E3 next year, Microsoft's hardware plans for 2019 will likely be a huge win for the brand and for gamers.
Amazon will now allow AWS account owners to set the default access setting for all of their account's S3 buckets as non-public to prevent accidental data leaks
New settings will prevent accidental S3 bucket leaks —if customers take the time to apply them.
YouTube quietly began showing ad-supported free feature-length movies in October, giving users access to around 100 titles including “The Terminator”
Streaming on a small screen near you: blockbuster fare like ‘Rocky’ and ‘Terminator’ — Last month, YouTube quietly began …
A look at the incentives cities offered to Amazon in their HQ2 bids, including an exclusive airport lounge, relocation expenses for employees, and more
Amazon's competitive search for a location for its second headquarters — dubbed HQ2 — inspired a fierce bidding war.
An in-depth look at how misinformation and incendiary images on Facebook are spreading in Nigeria, where police say they contributed to a dozen recent killings
Nigerian police say false information on Facebook is killing people — Nigerian police say false information and incendiary images … Tweets: @toluogunlesi and @kevinroose Tweets: Tolu Ogunlesi / @tol...
Verizon's My Numbers app lets users add up to four additional numbers with separate voicemail and text messaging boxes on a single phone for $15/mo per number
iPhone Screenshots Brenda Stolyar / Digital Trends : Use multiple phone numbers on one device with Verizon's ‘My Numbers’ app Ryan Whitwam / Android Police : Verizon ‘My Numbers’ lets you have multipl...
A look at the progress of Ford's autonomous driving tech and how one of its cars navigated a complex environment and challenging scenarios in a test ride
And Where We Stand Today Joann Muller / Axios : Autonomous Vehicles could be huge for small businesses Mariella Moon / Engadget : Ford's future includes self-driving deliveries and taxi services Ford ...
How podcasts, whose audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion, became a seductive mode of storytelling that can sometimes be manipulative
In our frenetic age, audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion. But this intimacy can become manipulative. Tweets: @devindra Tweets: Devindra Hardawar / @devindra : Oh no they're o...
Pirate Studios raises $20M for its self-service music studios that offer recording, live streaming, and cloud software that handles mixing and mastering
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Microsoft is now accepting 64-bit ARM apps for the Microsoft Store, updates Visual Studio to support recompiling Win32 apps to run natively on ARM devices
Liam Tung / ZDNet :
Microsoft says HockeyApp, the beta-testing service for app developers it acquired in 2014, will fully transition to Visual Studio App Center on Nov. 16, 2019
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Canaan, a maker of bitcoin mining hardware, let its application for a Hong Kong IPO to raise at least $400M lapse
BlackBerry to acquire cybersecurity firm Cylance, which provides an AI-based advanced threat detection platform, for $1.4B in cash
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Thailand's proposed new law will grant government power to spy on internet traffic, order the removal of content, and seize computers without judicial oversight
Patpicha Tanakasempipat / Reuters : Tweets: @reuters Tweets: @reuters : Thai proposal for all-powerful cyber agency alarms civil liberties advocates, internet companies and business groups http://www...
Amazon announces Wake-on-Lan Controller, which enables Alexa to switch on devices over Wi-Fi or ethernet when they can not be woken up via the cloud
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Israel-based AdaSky raises $20M from South Korean automotive components manufacturer Sungwoo Hitech for its far-infrared thermal cameras used in autonomous cars
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Amazon is stealthily launching numerous brands on Amazon, from Amazon-owned and Amazon-exclusive to Amazon-affiliated, a classic retailer strategy
John Herrman / New York Times :
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