Marriott International says 500M records from the guest reservation database of Starwood Hotels were stolen in a massive data breach
Starwood Hotels has confirmed its hotel guest database of about 500 million customers has been stolen in a data breach. — The hotel and resorts giant …
Apple Music will be available on Amazon Echo devices beginning the week of December 17
Apple Music is coming to Echo devices in the coming weeks. — Music has always been one of Alexa's most popular features and today we're excited to announce that Apple Music will be available on Echo...
SEC settles with Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled on charges of promoting ICOs without disclosing payments; Mayweather to pay $600K+ in fees, Khaled to pay $150K+
Pro boxer Floyd Mayweather and music producer DJ Khaled pumped up initial coin offerings without telling investors …
Sources say Sandberg asked Facebook staff to research George Soros's finances, though she denied knowledge of hiring Definers, the firm tasked to research Soros
Sheryl Sandberg asked Facebook's communications staff to research George Soros's financial interests in the wake …
Instagram is launching a “Close Friends” list on iOS and Android to let users share Stories with a limited group of friends
They're Finstagram Stories — No one wants to post silly, racy, or vulnerable Stories if they're worried their boss, parents, and distant acquaintances are watching.
Arlo, Netgear's security camera spinoff, announces its first 4K camera, Arlo Ultra, with HDR and a built-in spotlight, available in Q1 2019 for $399.99
Smart person detection and 911 calling are available at launch — Arlo, the security camera company launched by Netgear …
FBI arrests Jared Rice, Sr., CEO of cryptocurrency platform AriseBank, for defrauding investors out of $4M+ and charges him with securities and wire fraud
The FBI has arrested the CEO of cryptocurrency platform AriseBank after he was indicted over an alleged multi-million dollar scam.
Local reports say Apple has removed 700+ apps, including apps by Sogou and Pinduoduo, from the Chinese App Store for pushing app updates without Apple's review
Apple has removed hundreds of iPhone apps from its App Store in China, in the company's latest crackdown in one of its biggest markets.
Since Satya Nadella became CEO, Microsoft has almost tripled its stock price to a nearly $850B market cap by betting on cloud and retooling its enterprise apps
Just a few years ago, Microsoft was seen as a lumbering has-been of the technology world. — It was big and still quite profitable …
Coinbase Pro says it is adding Zcash to its professional trading platform in the US, UK, European Union, Canada, Singapore, and Australia
Crypto exchange Coinbase Pro is adding privacy coin zcash to its listings. — The platform announced Thursday that customers can transfer zcash …
Eight lawmakers send a third letter questioning Rekognition's accuracy, privacy guards, and police use to Jeff Bezos, who has yet to address mounting criticism
A group of seven House Democrats sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Thursday demanding details about Amazon Rekognition …
DOJ charges ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch with fraud over $11B sale to HP; Lynch faces up to 20 years in prison if he is convicted
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of US fraud charges. — The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed fraud charges …
Intel to start distributing drivers for its graphics chips as Universal Windows Drivers, a single driver package that can run on different device types
Intel this week announced that, starting this month, it will begin distributing drivers for its products as “modern” Universal Windows Drivers (via Neowin).
Alt-right commentator Laura Loomer handcuffed self to Twitter NYC door to protest her ban from the service; NYPD cut cuffs at Loomer's request after a few hours
'They may have banned me from Twitter but now I'm handcuffed to Twitter' — Earlier this afternoon, alt-right Jewish commentator …
The Wayback Machine does not challenge takedown requests and its robot.txt policy not only allows crawling to stop but removes a given site's entire history
On the internet, there are certain institutions we have come to rely on daily to keep truth from becoming nebulous or elastic.
Over 200 car manufactures operating in China, including Tesla, BMW, and Ford, are sending position info and other data to government-backed monitoring centers
SHANGHAI (AP) — When Shan Junhua bought his white Tesla Model X, he knew it was a fast, beautiful car.
Techmeme now publishing paid and free “Leaderboards” showing the most influential reporters around a specific news topic
Today Techmeme has begun publishing Topic Leaderboards, which list the top authors and publications covering 24 topic areas such as cloud computing, autonomous vehicles … Tweets: @tedgioia , @the_spin...
Sources detail the measures Google took to keep Dragonfly under wraps, including shutting out some members of the security and privacy teams from key meetings
pardon my lingo — “big yikes” if true. Yonatan at Google was an effective leader of large engineering projects: known for having both the ear of upper management, and the willingness & desire to liste...
A Nielsen report says US viewers spend nearly 8B hours per month streaming content via connected devices like Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
European Central Bank launches TARGET Instant Payment Settlement system, making it easier for EU banks to compete with PayPal and other global tech giants
Stefano Bernabei / Reuters :
YouTube begins rolling out Stories, which last for seven days on its mobile app and can be viewed by everyone, to accounts with over 10,000 subscribers
and can't — see your Stories Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : YouTube Launches YouTube Stories, Limited to Prominent Creators Only Firstpost : YouTube is rolling out its Snapchat Stories-like ...
Microsoft debuts redesigned icons for its Office suite, alongside other cosmetic changes, and says Outlook Mobile is getting a redesign soon
Tom Warren / The Verge :
GM's President Dan Ammann to become CEO of self-driving car unit Cruise; current Cruise CEO and co-founder Kyle Vogt will stay on as unit president and CTO
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios :
New book outlines Microsoft's product roadmap: new Surface Pro and Laptop, “ambient devices”, and cheaper Xbox One S in 2019; new Surface Book and Hub in 2020
Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase Alan Martin / Inquirer : A modular Surface Studio and AMD-powered Surface Laptops could be coming Tom Warren / The Verge : Microsoft will reportedly release a S...
Memo: the White House plans to host a roundtable on December 6 to discuss innovation with tech executives, including Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, and others
China and U.S. in a Dead Heat for A.I. Roger Fingas / AppleInsider : Apple's Cook so far absent from expected guests at White House tech roundtable PYMNTS.com : Microsoft, Google To Meet With Trump Ad...
Indonesian ride-hailing company Go-Jek launches in Singapore, initially available to the customers of DBS bank, and plans a wider rollout by early 2019
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsj Tweets: @wsj : Less than a year after Uber's exit, Go-Jek is riding into Singapore to challenge Grab http://www.wsj.com/...
Lyft closes its acquisition of bike-rental startup Motivate, says it will invest $100M in NY's Citi Bike, tripling the number of bikes available to 40K by 2023
Kate Clark / TechCrunch :
Vista Equity Partners takes majority stake in Wrike, a work management platform that says it has nearly a $100M run rate, source says at a valuation of ~$800M
Katie Roof / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jordannovet and @katie_roof Tweets: Jordan ‘Jaws’ Novet / @jordannovet : wow. recall that Atlassian paid $425 million for Trello in early 2017 http://twitt...
Tidal is now available on Plex for $9.99/month, the first streaming music service to be fully integrated into Plex
Thomas Ricker / The Verge :
Airbnb's innovation lab Samara announces Backyard, an initiative to design and prototype new ways of building homes, with the first test units public in 2019
Mark Wilson / Fast Company :
Microsoft rolls out a search function, powered by Bing, for SwiftKey on Android in the US, UK, India, France, Canada, and elsewhere
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
South Korea charges nine people and two companies with illegally selling Samsung's bendable OLED screen technology to Chinese rivals
Sam Kim / Bloomberg :
Facebook will exempt ads from eligible news outlets from its political ad archive in the UK, a policy it plans to extend to the US and Brazil pending UK tests
Alex Hern / The Guardian :
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