Facebook confirms Spotify, Netflix, Dropbox, and RBC had read/write/delete access for messaging integrations, says it was experimental and ended three years ago
In the past day, we've been accused of disclosing people's private messages to partners without their knowledge.
Apple says some 2018 iPad Pros ship with a very slight bend in the aluminum chassis due to their manufacturing process but doesn't consider it to be a defect
Apple has confirmed to The Verge that some of its 2018 iPad Pros are shipping with a very slight bend in the aluminum chassis.
Report: some apps using Facebook's SDK, like Grindr and Bible+, send user info to Facebook, including location, where users click, and how long the app is used
Facebook provided developers with tools to build Facebook-compatible apps like Tinder, Grindr and Pregnancy+.
Facebook's stock closed down 7% on Wednesday following a New York Times story and a lawsuit from the District of Columbia's AG
Lost faith in Facebook after data leakages … Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed News : 6 Times When “Opting Out” Doesn't Actually Stop Data Collection Alex Sherman / CNBC : Facebook's biggest problem is that I ...
Amazon gives a German Alexa user, who requested his personal data under GDPR, access to 1,700 audio files of another user; Amazon says it was due to human error
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A user of Amazon's (AMZN.O) Alexa voice assistant in Germany got access to more than a thousand recordings …
Apple says it will stop selling iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 in its 15 retail stores across Germany after Qualcomm was granted an injunction by a Munich court
- Last week, a Chinese court ordered an injunction against Apple over an alleged patent violation filed by chipmaker Qualcomm.
Uber says it will bring its self-driving cars back on the road on Thursday in Pittsburgh, nine months after a fatal crash
Uber took its self-driving cars off the road last March, after a fatal accident, the first known pedestrian death caused by a vehicle in full autonomous mode.
Corel, which makes products like CorelDraw and WordPerfect, says it is acquiring virtualization company Parallels for an undisclosed sum
Popular virtualization software company Parallels has been acquired by Corel. The creative software veteran who has produced Corel Draw and Painter Pro …
DOJ charges two alleged members of China's state sponsored hacking unit APT10 with stealing data from at least 45 US tech companies and government agencies
- They are accused of stealing information from at least 45 U.S. tech companies and government agencies.
Sources: T-Mobile is delaying the launch of its TV service, which was planned for this year, after the project proved more complex than expected
- Carrier has been touting project as a way to disrupt cable TV — Delay comes at awkward time for Sprint deal's regulatory push
UK's Gatwick airport was shut down on Wednesday and Thursday after drones were seen flying over the runway; about 760 flights were due to fly on Thursday
Tens of thousands of passengers have been disrupted by drones flying over one of the UK's busiest airports.
Microsoft releases out-of-band security update for Internet Explorer that fixes a remote code execution vulnerability allowing attackers to hijack computers
Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update that fixes an actively exploited vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
Sources: US, UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, and Germany to issue an unprecedented mass condemnation and impose sanctions on China for IP theft and cyberattacks
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US Treasury sanctions more Russian hackers, including nine GRU members and several entities related to Project Lakhta, saying they interfered in US elections
The US Department of the Treasury has issued new sanctions against Russian nationals who allegedly attempted to interfere with US elections.
Autodesk buys BuildingConnected, which helps builders find and hire qualified contractors for construction projects, for $275M
Autodesk's construction software business is getting its second acquisition-fueled jolt of the past few weeks. The company announced on Thursday …
Indian food delivery service Swiggy raises $1B round led by Naspers, sources say at a $3.3B valuation; Swiggy was valued at $1.3B in June and $700M in February
With the current round, Swiggy has seen its valuation swell by close to 5 times this year. The company was valued at $1.3 billion …
Flexible car ownership marketplace Fair.com raises $385M Series B led by SoftBank and says it leases cars to over 20,000 users
California startup Fair.com is aiming to turn the car market on its head by providing price-friendly, easy options for people to lease vehicles instead of buying them …
Sources: blockchain incubator ConsenSys, which helps ~36 startups, will spin some of them off; source speculates layoffs will be between 600 and 700
As many as 50 to 60 percent of the company's employees could be let go — Layoffs are coming to ConsenSys, the Ethereum-focused startup incubator …
Microsoft debuts new test build of Windows 10 with a simplified Start layout, new Office launcher and hub for recent docs, kaomoji support, and more
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Cinven acquires One.com, one of Europe's biggest hosting providers with ~1.5M customers, from private equity firm Accel-KKR for an undisclosed sum
One of the biggest providers of domain names and web hosting in Europe is changing hands today. One.com, which has around 1.5 million customers mainly across …
Online lender Clearbanc says it has raised another $50M from Upper90, after raising $70M a month ago
Clearbanc is disrupting startup funding by providing companies cash to buy ads in exchange for a revenue share so they don't have to sell as much equity to venture capitalists.
Snap launches Lens Challenges, which let users take part in themed challenges like those popular on TikTok
Julia Alexander / The Verge :
SoftBank Corp, the telecom unit of SoftBank Group, raised ~$23.5B in Japan's biggest-ever IPO but closed down 14.53% in its first day of trading
Kelly Olsen / CNBC :
The AG for the District of Columbia files lawsuit against Facebook over allowing Cambridge Analytica access to users' information
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Sources: Pinterest is planning an IPO that could come at a $12B+ valuation as soon as April 2019; the company is on track for $700M+ revenue in 2018, up 50% YoY
Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal :
Beijing-based smart lock maker YunDing has raised $87M Series D led by Baidu Ventures, five months after raising ~$39.1M Series C
Juliet Shwe Gaung / DealStreetAsia :
NASA discovered a data breach in October involving employee info, including Social Security numbers; scope of breach and number of impacted employees unclear
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
As Coinbase prepares to increase the number of digital assets supported, it recently moved $5B worth of crypto to a new storage model
Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk :
District court judge rules in BuzzFeed's favor, citing the fair report privilege, in lawsuit from tech executive named in infamous dossier tying Trump to Russia
Ashley Cullins / Hollywood Reporter : Tweets: @buzzfeedben and @marshallyoum See also Mediagazer Tweets: Ben Smith / @buzzfeedben : My statement: pic.twitter.com/apt7j3BToX Kyu Ho Youm / @marshallyou...
Google repeatedly pushes the web in a proprietary direction to improve its services on Chrome, making Microsoft's adoption of Chromium a loss for the open web
Peter Bright / Ars Technica :
Facebook open sources its DeepFocus VR research, which aims to create ultra-realistic visuals for eye-tracking headsets
including its code and the data set we used to train it—so the wider VR community can accelerate their research. http://twitter.com/... @fb_engineering : Facebook Reality Labs has built DeepFocus, a n...
Google says it is now using mobile-first indexing for over half of web pages shown in search results globally
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Sources detail SoftBank Vision Fund investors' concerns, driven by Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, about Masayoshi Son's plan to acquire a majority stake in WeWork
Wall Street Journal :
Dealogic data: 38 tech and internet companies valued at $1B+ had an IPO in 2018, the most since 2000
Corrie Driebusch / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jessefelder and @skupor Tweets: Jesse Felder / @jessefelder : In 2018, to little fanfare, 38 tech and internet companies valued at $1 billion or more...
Cambridge Mobile Telematics, which develops a platform for measuring driving performance, raises $500M from SoftBank's Vision Fund
Jeff Engel / Xconomy :
Sprout Social, a social media monitoring, marketing, and analytics service with 25,000 business customers, has raised $40.5M Series D at a valuation of ~$800M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
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