Canada's DOJ argues Huawei CFO committed fraud by misrepresenting a Huawei subsidiary as an independent company, tricking US banks into violating Iran sanctions
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The reasons that the United States asked the Canadian authorities to arrest a top executive …
Sources: Uber has confidentially filed for an IPO; filing indicates it could go public as soon as the first quarter of 2019
The filing indicates a public listing could come in early 2019, pitting the ride-hailing service against rival Lyft — Uber Technologies Inc. filed paperwork confidentially …
By putting Edge on Chromium and planning to invest in the engine, Microsoft is showing it is committed to the web as a platform for the future of apps
The move will allow deeper integration of Chromium and Chrome on Windows, which will lead to major improvements in performance and battery life.
Coinbase adds Civic, district0x, Loom Network, and Decentraland to its Coinbase Pro trading platform and is considering 27 other tokens
UPDATE, 12/7/18 18:00 UTC: Four hours after announcing the list, Coinbase Pro said it was launching support for Civic, District0x, Loom Network and Decentraland's tokens.
Facebook bans sexual solicitation including vague suggestive statements, sexualized slang, and using sexual hints such as mentioning sexual preference
Well, well. As we've covered for a while now, FOSTA became law almost entirely because Facebook did an about-face on its position on the law …
Sources: FBI is now investigating fake net neutrality comments on the FCC website and has delivered subpoenas to at least two organizations
People's names and addresses were listed on the FCC's website beside net neutrality comments they didn't make. Now the FBI is interested.
Epic's PC and Mac games store, announced last week, is now live with Epic's own Fortnite and Unreal Tournament, Hades from Supergiant Games, with more to come
It's a busy week for Epic Games . Fresh from pushing out a major season 7 update for Fortnite, so the gaming giant has taken the wraps off its own games store.
Tumblr's initial embrace of pornography helped it grow users, but it has since been phased out following Yahoo acquisition
When censoring sex becomes preferable to acknowledging its existence — About a decade ago, I met up with Tumblr founder David Karp at a SoHo coffee shop.
Google publishes its plans for Mountain View's North Bayshore development which includes 3.12M square feet of offices and up to 8000 residential units
- Google just released its plans for a massive development in its home city of Mountain View, California.
Researchers: 415K+ routers worldwide, majority of them from MikroTik, have been infected with cryptomining malware CoinHive, Omine, and CoinImp
Researchers have discovered over 415,000 routers across the globe have been infected with malware designed to steal their computing power and secretly mine cryptocurrency.
Beddit, the sleep tracking company that Apple acquired in 2017, releases Beddit Sleep Monitor 3.5, a $150 sleep monitor for iOS, available in Apple Stores
Beddit Sleep Monitor — Screenshots Dami Lee / The Verge : Apple releases new Beddit sleep tracker Brittany A. Roston / SlashGear : Apple's Beddit updates sleep tracking system with Sleep Monitor 3.5...
Amazon robots caused bear repellent explosions both in 2018, when one punctured a can and hospitalized dozens, and 2015, when another ran over a can in Texas
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Amazon says Alexa can now better recognize context, such as playing the right song after an inaccurate request or launching a skill without hearing its name
Dami Lee / The Verge :
An analysis of 195 startups with valuations over $1B, using 65 factors like founder background, industry sector, competition, and funding
I Spent 300 Hours Gathering Data On Billion-Dollar Startups and Here's 100 Charts You Shouldn't Miss — About 15 months ago, I embarked on a journey … Tweets: @ediggs , @randfish , @hrushb , and @zdw...
Walmart to acquire the assets of Art.com, an online seller of art and wall decor which, a source says, was recently bringing in $300M in sales annually
did not see that coming. A chance to democratize art? Feels interesting, right even. https://read.bi/2zFU4VF Ari Levy / @levynews : i remember when http://art.com/ was supposed to be the next great IP...
US export controls could slow China's ambitions to mass produce cutting-edge chips because the Chinese chip plants rely on US and other foreign equipment makers
Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, visited a memory chip plant in the city of Wuhan earlier this year. Tweets: @financialtimes and @emilyzfeng Tweets: @financialtimes : China's ambitions to be a leade...
China has set up the Online Games Ethics Committee, which has reviewed a first batch of 20 games and rejected 9 of them, according to the state broadcaster CCTV
Zheping Huang / South China Morning Post :
Google has found three malicious ad network SDKs as part of Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech ad fraud probe; sources: SDKs are from AltaMob, BatMobi, and YeahMobi
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Andy Rubin's Essential has acquired CloudMagic, maker of the Newton email app that the India-based startup shut down in September
Anirban Sen / Livemint :
Sources: Slack has hired Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO, expected in 2019, which it hopes will fetch a valuation of well over $10B
Sources: Apple acquired Platoon, a UK-based startup that uses analytics to source talent like musicians and writers to produce, distribute, and sell their work
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Winklevoss' Gemini exchange says it will add support for Bitcoin Cash on December 10, after receiving approval from NY regulator
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk :
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