Colin Kroll, the CEO, co-founder of HQ Trivia and co-founder of Vine, has died at 35; police source says a drug overdose is suspected
Colin Kroll, the CEO and co-founder of HQ Trivia has died of an apparent drug overdose ... TMZ has learned. — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ …
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 :
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 …
Synthace, the developer of Antha OS for automating laboratory processes for biological experiments, raises $25.6M Series B led by Horizons Ventures
U.K.-based startup Synthace wants to automate laboratory processes with a programming language designed for biological experiments, and it's getting the financial backing to do it.
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 …
Intel extends partnership with esports company ESL in $100M deal to provide tech, including high-powered CPUs and 5G, for esports events worldwide through 2021
- Intel and esports company ESL have extended a long-standing partnership, signing a three-year, $100 million deal designed …
A year after FCC's vote to repeal net neutrality rules, there have been no big changes in how ISPs and mobile carriers provide their services
IT'S BEEN ONE year since the Federal Communications Commission voted to gut its net neutrality rules. The good news is that the internet isn't drastically different than it was before.
The recklessness of Uber and Tesla in their development of autonomous cars risks alienating a public already wary of self-driving vehicles
Autonomous vehicles were supposed to make driving safer, and they may yet—some of the more optimistic research indicates self-driving cars could save tens … Tweets: @nigelcameron Tweets: Nigel Cameron...
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
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PlanetScale, a database-as-a-service startup based on tech that helped scale YouTube, emerges from stealth, had raised $3M seed from tech luminaries last April
Database legends emerge with a new startup — When the former CTOs of YouTube, Facebook and Dropbox seed fund a database startup …
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
Hulu is launching a new private programmatic marketplace for advertisers to buy its on-demand and TV inventory; the marketplace won't replace upfront deals
Hulu is further automating advertising on the streaming platform with a new private programmatic marketplace. See also Mediagazer
Report: Cloudflare has foreign terrorist organizations as customers, possibly violating US laws; Cloudflare says it works with US to meet legal obligations
Rhett Jones / Gizmodo :
China-based online consumer lending platform 360 Finance closes flat on its first day of trading in US after raising $51M in its IPO
Peter H. Frank / CapitalWatch :
Data shows GraphQL, a Facebook-developed open source data query language, has seen a sharp rise in adoption among JavaScript developers over the past two years
THE CODE THAT runs the web is a melting pot of programming languages and technologies. JavaScript, the most popular language on the web … Tweets: @geoffql and @wired Tweets: Geoff Schmidt / @geoffql ...
How Jolla's Sailfish has survived as an independent mobile OS by targeting government and enterprise sectors in Russia and China which are wary of Google
Alternative mobile operating systems have come and gone over the years, but only Sailfish has survived the iOS and Android duopoly. Tweets: @saschasegan and @jason_koebler Tweets: @saschasegan : Survi...
Report: Facebook renamed Building 8, its hardware skunkworks lab, to Portal after the device launched, moved more experimental projects to Facebook Reality Labs
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Lucy Peng, an original Alibaba co-founder, steps down as CEO of Lazada after 9 months, will be replaced by Lazada's Executive President Pierre Poignant
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Latticework, which is working on a consumer focused $550 NAS device called Amber and a cloud backup platform, has raised a $13M seed round
It seems nary a week goes by without a breach that compromises millions of personal files. On Monday, Google revealed that it will shut down its social network …
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
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
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”
33 killed in 69 incidents of mob violence between January 2017 and July 2018. http://www.wired.com/... Timothy McLaughlin / @tmclaughlin3 : I stopped by Facebook's office in Delhi, there is no WhatsAp...
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
Then It Burned Out Tweets: Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : General Electric thought it was an impregnable machine. Inside the decline of an American icon. http://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ // Must read. Na...
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