Google CEO Sundar Pichai to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on December 5 regarding claims the company is biased against conservatives
Google chief executive Sundar Pichai is set to testify to Congress in December, facing off against lawmakers for the first time at a hearing …
Google rebrands Project Fi to Google Fi and adds support for iPhones and the “majority” of Android devices
Looks like the MVNO is here to stay — Three years after it first launched, Google is making its cell service a little more official today.
The DOJ indicts eight men on charges related to a global ad fraud scheme discovered with the help of about 15 tech companies, including Google and White Ops
In August 2017, the FBI organized a secret meeting of digital advertising and cybersecurity experts in a secure room in a Manhattan federal building.
Ex-Facebook staffer Mark Luckie posts 2,500-word memo detailing Facebook's “black people problem”, originally shared internally before his last day in November
In a 2,500 word internal memo released publicly this morning, former Facebook employee Mark S. Luckie delivered …
DOJ indicts two Iranian nationals for creating and deploying the SamSam ransomware, which caused $30M in losses and had 200+ victims
U.S. federal prosectors have indicted two Iranian nationals for creating and deploying the notorious SamSam ransomware. — Faramarz Shahi Savandi, 34 …
Google says Fast Pair, its Bluetooth pairing spec, now pairs Bluetooth accessories across devices sharing a Google account and will support Chromebooks in 2019
Earlier this month, Google released a Fast Pair Validator app on the Play Store to help Bluetooth manufacturers support Android's seamless Bluetooth pairing solution.
Starting next year, YouTube says its original content will be free and supported by ads, instead of being behind a premium paywall
YouTube has concluded that its investments in original programming should have a home on the free, ad-supported side — not just tucked behind a paywall.
LG puts Brian Kwon, head of its hugely profitable home entertainment business, in charge of its struggling smartphone division
Mission impossible: a new executive at LG is charged with fixing the company's long-time loss-making smartphone division following a leadership change.
Amazon says it's starting to sell text analysis software to mine medical records for info that doctors and hospitals can use to improve treatment and cut costs
The move is the latest by a technology company to tap the health care market — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .01% is starting …
Steemit, a social network that rewards users with its own cryptocurrency, says it's laying off nearly 70% of its team, after its currency declined 96%
Steemit, the company behind a blogging website that uses the Steem blockchain and cryptocurrency to reward publishers and curators …
AWS introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, AWS Graviton Processor, and claims 45% lower costs for some workloads
The little ecommerce company has been beavering away. Tweets: James Wang / @jwangark : 6/ Vertical integration strikes again—Amazon launches its own custom ARM server CPUs for AWS. Every cloud vendor ...
Facebook is launching its “Today In” local news section in 400 US cities, after beginning testing it in January
Facebook has a new area of its app it will have to police for fake news and biased sensationalism. Facebook is launching “Today In”, its local news aggregator …
Waymo hires Deborah Hersman, who was chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board in the Obama administration, as its first chief safety officer
- Waymo has hired Deborah Hersman, who served as chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board in the Obama administration, to be its chief safety officer.
AWS debuts AWS Ground Station, a cloud service for satellite operators, says it will construct new ground-based facilities to allow high data speeds from space
Space is hard, and getting data to and from orbiting satellites can be even harder. Amazon Web Services just launched …
Tether reopens account verification for new customers and allows redemption of fiat currency, after suspending its wallet service in Nov. 2017 following hack
Tether Ltd., the controversial issuer of the tether stablecoin (USDT), which aims for parity with the U.S. dollar …
Nintendo says consumers spent $250M on its consoles from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday in the US, led by the Switch
U.S. shoppers provided a nice boost to Nintendo's balance sheet last weekend. — The gaming giant reported Wednesday that consumers spent $250 million on Nintendo products from Thanksgiving to Cyber ...
Source: Corel, the Canadian developer of apps like CorelDraw and WordPerfect, is acquiring virtualization specialist Parallels in deal expected to close in Dec.
Some consolidation is afoot in the world of business software. TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources that Parallels …
Facebook and Twitter revoke most of babysitter rating service Predictim's access to user data following report on how it scans social media to generate ratings
Facebook and Twitter are taking action against an automated babysitter-rating system reported on last week by The Washington Post …
Oriente, which wants to provide mobile-first banking in Southeast Asia, raises $105M Series A from some of the region's richest families
AD. Remove this ad space by subscribing. Support independent journalism. — Southeast Asia's 600 million-strong market is one of the most rapidly growing in the world.
Philippines-based Voyager, telecom PLDT's new fintech business, says it raised $215M, with $175M coming from Tencent and KKR
One of the year's largest fintech investments in Southeast Asia has closed after Philippines-based Voyager announced it raised $215 million.
Source: Imran Khan, former chief strategy officer at Snap, raises $17.5M for his new e-commerce startup led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Imran Khan, former chief strategy officer at Snap Inc., has raised $17.5 million for his new e-commerce startup, according to a source familiar with the deal.
Some experts say the US economy has become less dynamic as smaller companies shift away from IPOs, choosing buyouts and VC money instead, especially in tech
Ryan Smith spent years planning to sell shares of his software company, Qualtrics, on the stock market, meeting with bankers … Tweets: @nytimesbusiness Tweets: @nytimesbusiness : Small and midsize com...
Filing: Mike Novogratz's merchant bank Galaxy Digital reports $136M loss for the first nine months of 2018, due to losses on Ether, Bitcoin, and XRP
The bad year for traders at Mike Novogratz's cryptocurrency merchant bank got even worse in the third quarter — and that was before the market fell out of bed this month.
YouTube support page suggests annotations, which appeared as translucent overlays on videos, will go away in Jan. 2019, after the editor tool closed in 2017
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Pixel Slate review: nice hardware, including great speakers, but its Chrome OS software is riddled with bugs, and Android app integration still needs work
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Topica, a Vietnam-based startup offering online English classes, raises $50M Series D, the largest ever investment in a Southeast Asian online education company
VietNam News :
Google has blocked gender-based pronouns from its AI-driven text suggestion feature called Smart Compose, after preventing bias proved too difficult
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Canadian travel tech firm Plusgrade, which helps airlines sell unused inventory, raises C$200M from Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec at C$600M+ valuation
Barbara Shecter / Financial Post :
Salesforce reports Q3 earnings of $3.39B, up 26% YoY, vs. $3.36B est., and Sales Cloud revenue of $1.02B, up 11% YoY; stock up 4%+
@Benioff via @JimCramer, @MadMoneyOnCNBC https://cnb.cx/2QmxPNR Larry Dignan / @ldignan : Salesforce Co-CEO @KeithBlock: “In Q3, a number of deals generating more than $1 million was up 46% over last ...
Uber fined ~$1.17M by British and Dutch authorities for a 2016 data breach and cover-up that exposed the personal details of 2.7M British and 174K Dutch users
Elizabeth Schulze / CNBC :
Hacker gains access to the repo of Event-Stream, a JS library with 2M+ weekly downloads on npm, to inject BitPay's wallet apps with code that steals funds
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Amazon says Alexa can be used to donate selected toys to children, in partnership with Toys for Tots, the first time it's been possible to donate items on Alexa
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Mozilla's revenue rose 8% to $562M in 2017, boosted by an expanded Google-Firefox deal for default search, but Firefox MAUs dipped YoY from 300M to 277M
The State of Mozilla 2017 is our annual report. The Mozilla Blog : State of Mozilla 2017: Annual Report Thanks: @rogerwcheng
Australia-based Deputy, whose employee management platform makes scheduling for hourly workers easier, raises $81M Series B led by IVP
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International Medical Devices Database launches to track faulty medical devices worldwide, includes information on 70K recalls and safety alerts in 11 countries
Emilia Díaz-Struck / ICIJ : Tweets: @marinawalkerg , @sashachavkin , and @shirafu Tweets: Marina Walker / @marinawalkerg : Emilia Diaz-Struck led a team of data analysts and coders who extracted mean...
Microsoft's multi-factor authentication service goes down for the second week in a row, causing problems for a number of Office 365 and Azure users
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet :
Amazon says Cyber Monday was the biggest shopping day in its history, topping Prime Day's 100M+ products sold, with the new Echo Dot as the best seller
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Bird debuts Bird Platform, which sells scooters to entrepreneurs, who can add their brand and rent them out, using Bird's chargers and mechanics for a 20% cut
Kate Clark / TechCrunch :
Red Hat announces it has acquired early-stage startup NooBaa, a Tel Aviv-based hybrid cloud data management service, amid Red Hat's own acquisition by IBM
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