Facebook says that between Sept. 13 and Sept. 25 a photo API bug gave user-approved apps access to photos that were uploaded but never shared by ~6.8M users
Reset the “days since the last Facebook privacy scandal” counter, as a Facebook has just revealed a Photo API bug gave app developers …
SIPC, which insures funds in brokerage accounts, disputes Robinhood's claims that money in newly launched checking and savings accounts is protected by the SIPC
Julie Verhage / Bloomberg :
Sources: T-Mobile and Sprint expect prompt merger approval from CFIUS after SoftBank, Deutsche Telekom agree to consider curbing the use of Huawei's equipment
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp expect their merger to be approved by a U.S. national security panel …
Report: Cloudflare has foreign terrorist organizations as customers, possibly violating US laws; Cloudflare says it works with US to meet legal obligations
At a moment when free speech online and moderation policies are more controversial than ever, Cloudflare is facing accusations …
Robinhood deletes tweets about launching checking and savings accounts, scrubs the page from its website, and now calls the offering a “cash management” program
After a backlash around the marketing of its newest product, Robinhood Financial LLC has rebranded the service …
Report: Facebook renamed Building 8, its hardware skunkworks lab, to Portal after the device launched, moved more experimental projects to Facebook Reality Labs
The hardware group is now focused on Portal and other projects, while far-off ideas are part of Reality Labs
The Cydia Store, an app store for jailbroken iOS devices, is shutting down; its creator says it was losing money and he doesn't want to maintain it
After many years of being available to users as a way to fully customize the operating system, the backbone that handles purchases on Cydia …
Discord says its PC game store will offer a 90/10 revenue split when it opens for all game developers in 2019
The video game industry is witnessing the death of the standard revenue split for distribution platforms. For years, stores like Steam have taken 30 percent of every sale.
GE to spin out its industrial IoT software business into a separate company with $1.2B in revenue, sell 90% of ServiceMax to Silver Lake for an undisclosed sum
By Nigel Fenwick, Vice President, Principal Analyst; Frank Gillett, Vice President, Principal Analyst; Michele Pelino, Principal Analyst; Paul Miller, Senior Analyst
Amazon's Echo Wall Clock, which connects to nearby Echo devices over Bluetooth to track and display timers via LEDs around its rim, is now available for $29.99
After you've set an Alexa timer do you ask, “Alexa, how much time is left on the timer?” several times while it's running?
Propel raises $12.8M Series A from a16z, Kleiner Perkins, Omidyar, others for its Fresh EBT app to check food stamp/SNAP balances and find stores to use them
Propel, maker of the Fresh EBT app for managing food stamps and other benefits, announced today that it has raised $12.8 million in Series A funding.
Profile of MindGeek, which owns 9 of the top 15 porn sites worldwide, has 125M visits per day, and whose bandwidth use exceeds that of Facebook or Amazon
The biggest and perhaps best source of data about what people like to watch on the internet and what they would pay for doesn't come …
Spammers are emailing businesses, schools, and other locations in the US, Canada, and New Zealand, demanding bitcoin as ransom to not detonate a supposed bomb
and a ‘Terrible Strategy’ Francisco Memoria / CryptoGlobe : US Government Advises Bitcoin Bomb Threat Victims to Ignore Ransom, Inform the FBI Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada Blog : Bitcoin Scammers ...
Revolut gets a European banking license via the Bank of Lithuania, which allows it to offer services like current accounts and non-prepaid debit cards across EU
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
In a court filing, Apple argues that China's ban on the sale of some iPhones, which it is appealing, would force it to settle its licensing battle with Qualcomm
Bloomberg :
Italian energy company Saipem was hit by a new variant of the notorious Shamoon disk-wiping malware, which attacked Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco in 2012
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek :
Facebook adds a custom-built browser and support for its Instant Games platform to its Portal devices
Nick Statt / The Verge :
How WhatsApp fuels fake news and violence in India, where a police officer says people can live without oxygen, “but without WhatsApp they will die”
BY THE TIME police arrived in the hamlet of Rainpada on July 1, 2018, the village council office was the scene of a massacre. Tweets: @alfonslopeztena , @tmclaughlin3 , @tmclaughlin3 , @tmclaughlin3 ,...
How LA-based Brud is working to turn CGI-based characters into social media celebrities, like its Miquela, which has 1.5M Instagram followers
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @scottmaustin Tweets: Scott Austin / @scottmaustin : Miquela has 1.5M followers on Instagram. The 19-year-old poses in hip clothes, promotes social causes and releases s...
Sources: private equity firm Thoma Bravo is in early talks to acquire McAfee from TPG and Intel for a “significant premium” on McAfee's 2016 valuation of $4.2B
Alex Sherman / CNBC :
Udacity, which has 10M+ registered users from 160+ countries, says 50,000 students have graduated from its nanodegree programs that cost between $1K and $2.4K
Bernadette Tansey / Xconomy :
How Huawei is pushing China's grand tech ambitions forward with a secretive enterprise unit that is estimated to net $10B+ in revenue this year
a $10bn arm they see doubling every two years. It's now a much more critical arm given the last week! Here's the story. http://www.bloomberg.com/...
A visual review of the biggest tech trends of 2018: sentiment toward Amazon's HQ2 search, the plateau of social media use, Facebook's trust betrayals, and more
Rani Molla / Recode : Tweets: @ranimolla and @ranimolla . Thanks: @ranimolla Tweets: Rani Molla / @ranimolla : Want to know what happened in 2018? I've got charts for that! https://www.recode.net/......
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