Facebook's outgoing public policy head Elliot Schrage takes responsibility for hiring Definers in a memo, admits company asked Definers to investigate Soros
TechCrunch has attained an internal memo published by Facebook's outgoing head of public policy Elliot Schrage in which he blames himself for hiring PR firm Definers.
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says he will stay on as Facebook's chairman, defends COO Sheryl Sandberg, reiterates Facebook's potential as a force for good
but ousting her alone wouldn't solve its problems Michael Nuñez / Mashable : Facebook admits hiring PR firm to attack billionaire George Soros Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian : Zuckerberg's control o...
Sources: Apple is offering subsidies to network operators in Japan to shore up sales of iPhone XR, after an underwhelming launch of its least expensive phone
Japanese carriers will use subsidies from Apple to discount the cheapest new iPhone, after an underwhelming launch
How Definers brought DC-style political trickery to tech: sources say working for Qualcomm, they promoted Tim Cook as a potential 2020 presidential candidate
SAN FRANCISCO — When Tim Miller, a longtime Republican political operative, moved to the Bay Area last year to set up a public relations shop …
Facebook appeals UK regulator's decision to impose maximum £500K fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal, citing lack of evidence that UK users had suffered harm
Facebook has appealed against a fine imposed on it by the UK's data watchdog after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Instagram says it is testing new profile layouts that rearrange core elements, except the grid view, in an apparent attempt to reduce focus on follower counts
Instagram announced on its press site today that the company is testing out new user profile layouts.
Google says it will require advertisers to submit documents and receive verification before being able to pay for political ads in the EU, starting in January
- Like Facebook, Google to publish info about EU political ads — Changes come ahead of European Union elections in May 2019
Google Duplex via Assistant now rolling out to a small group of US Pixel owners in “select cities” to book restaurant reservations
Google Duplex-powered calls have finally arrived. Sort of. For some people. — A spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat that Duplex …
With only 10% of Swedes using cash this year, down from 40% in 2010, officials are trying to slow its demise as they determine societal costs
Cash is disappearing in the country faster than anyone thought it would. Now, officials are trying to slow its demise as they determine the societal costs.
Amazon resumes shipping to Australia from its US store, less than five months after controversial GST ban; third-party seller stock is not yet eligible
Frank Chung / NEWS.com.au :
Beijing plans to implement a social rating system to judge all of its 22M citizens by the end of 2020, pooling data from several departments
- China capital plans ‘social credit’ system by end of 2020 — Citizens with poor scores will be ‘unable to move’ a step
Amazon emails an unknown number of customers disclosing a “technical error” that exposed emails and names, but provides few other details
but doesn't disclose details Lauren Feiner / CNBC : Amazon exposed customer names and emails in a ‘technical error’ Gareth Corfield / The Register : Technical foul: Amazon suffers data snafu days befo...
LinkedIn quietly introduces a new privacy setting that defaults to blocking a user's connections from exporting the user's personal email address
A win for privacy on LinkedIn could be a big loss for businesses, recruiters, and anyone else expecting to be able to export the email addresses of their connections.
USPS patches API flaw that let anyone with a usps.com account view details of 60M users, over a year after a researcher says he disclosed the vulnerability
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
Bitcoin hit its lowest level in more than a year on Monday, falling under $5,000, with the entire cryptocurrency market cap losing roughly $40B in the past week
THE PRICE OF bitcoin … Oliver Staley / Quartz : It's going to be a miserable Thanksgiving for crypto enthusiasts Aaron Mak / Slate : Why Has Bitcoin's Price Fallen So Sharply This Week? Mitchell Moos ...
Tencent partners with Singapore-based gaming and e-commerce company Sea, which has 161M quarterly active users, to publish Tencent's games in Southeast Asia
Tencent Holdings, China's biggest social media operator and games publisher, has partnered with Singapore-based gaming …
Leaked memo: Foxconn aims to cut $2.9B from expenses in 2019 and eliminate ~10% of non-technical staff, as it faces “a very difficult and competitive year”
and it's the latest warning sign for Apple Sara Salinas / CNBC : Foxconn, Apple's largest supplier, is now wrapped up in iPhone supply chain rumors Matthew Field / Telegraph : iPhone maker Foxconn wil...
For a company that can touch every aspect of our daily lives, Amazon is surprisingly bad at its primary job: running a website that sells stuff
So there I am last week, five minutes into my adult community concert band rehearsal, and my bassoon seat strap BREAKS. Ughhhhh. Tweets: @katienotopoulos , @shiraovide , @alexhern , @jeffspross , and...
Sources detail meeting in India between Twitter's Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde, and others, after photo of Dorsey holding sign criticizing caste system goes viral
#MyTrollOurTroll Barkha Dutt / @bdutt : While I had no knowledge of the poster, Brahminical Patriarchy is a fair & entirely mainstream phrase in the way that we now know the intersectionality of Femin...
BMW says it will begin to offer ride-hailing services in China starting in December, becoming the first global automaker to obtain a license
Workable, a recruiting automation platform that uses AI software to help SMBs in more than 100 countries, raises $50M Series C bringing the total raised to $84M
Robin Wauters / Tech.eu :
Parent of Silvergate Bank files for an IPO, seeking to raise $50M, and says it has 483 crypto clients, up from 114 in September 2017
Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk :
Facebook poaches Kate Patchen, who led the DOJ's antitrust office in San Francisco, to be an associate general counsel of litigation, according to her LinkedIn
Kadhim Shubber / Financial Times :
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