Apple revises guidance for its fiscal 2019 Q1 downwards due to weakness in some markets, particularly China
and today. But look how many tech people think PCs are essential and interesting. Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : 5/ There are many examples of mature product lines with significant growth selling into a...
As the law of large numbers catches up with Apple, it faces a rocky but pivotal year where it needs to transition into a services company earlier than planned
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Hackers dump private info of Angela Merkel and hundreds of other German politicians including email addresses, phone numbers, and personal chat transcripts
- Leak includes emails, chat transcripts, photos, phone numbers — Hack is ‘elaborate’ social-engineering attack, IT expert says
Report: for the second year in a row, FCC's Ajit Pai has canceled his CES trip, as the US government shutdown forces furloughs for non-essential FCC employees
It will be the second year in a row that he hasn't attended the conference — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai …
A pullback in spending by Chinese consumers is taking a toll on electronics makers like Apple, e-commerce companies like Alibaba, and other sectors
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Internal memo shows that Huawei demoted two employees and cut their monthly pay for using an iPhone to send New Year greetings from its official Twitter account
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL] has punished two employees for New Year greetings sent …
PepsiCo says it will rollout a fleet of snack-carrying robots called “snackbots” to deliver snacks and beverages on University of the Pacific's campus in CA
Order on the app, pick up around campus — Today, PepsiCo announced that it will be rolling out a fleet …
Los Angeles sues the company behind the Weather Channel app, which is owned by IBM, for slyly using location data for commercial purposes
The Weather Channel app deceptively collected, shared and profited from the location information of millions of American consumers …
Apple and Samsung struggle to adapt to stalling sales as smartphones reach market saturation, plateau technologically, and face unstinting competition in China
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Marriott says a total of 383M records were stolen in its hack, less than the initial estimate of 500M, but 5M+ unencrypted passport numbers were accessed
Hotel chain says fewer total customers were affected than initially feared but analysts warn data could be intelligence trove
Sophia Genetics, developer of AI based SaaS platform for genomic diagnostics, raises $77M Series E, bringing its total raised to $140M
Another sizeable cash injection for big data biotech: Sophia Genetics has announced a $77M Series E funding round, bringing its total raised to $140M since the business was founded back in 2011.
Square hires Blizzard Entertainment's Amrita Ahuja as CFO three months after long-time CFO Sarah Friar exited for the CEO job at Nextdoor
Founder and chief executive Jack Dorsey says Square has poached Amrita Ahuja from Blizzard Entertainment, a division of the gaming company Activision Blizzard …
Verily, the life sciences arm of Alphabet, raises $1B in round led by Silver Lake, says Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat and Silver Lake's Egon Durban are joining board
- Alphabet's Verily is raising $1 billion in a new round led by Silver Lake, and Ruth Porat is joining the board.
How Intel's STORM, its global team of about 12 hackers working to mitigate future security threats, is still cleaning up the mess left by Meltdown and Spectre
A YEAR AGO today, Intel coordinated with a web of academic and independent researchers to disclose a pair of security vulnerabilities with unprecedented impact.
YouTubers popular with kids are promoting a shady gambling site selling “mystery boxes” filled with supposed prizes
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BitTorrent announces its own crypto tokens that users trade to other users for faster downloads
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GM's self-driving unit Cruise partners with DoorDash to test a food delivery service in San Francisco starting in early 2019
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Vuzix opens preorders for its $1,000 Vuzix Blade smart glasses, which have an 8MP camera, a microSD card slot, and are compatible with Alexa
Nicole Lee / Engadget :
Niantic has closed a $190M funding round, according to an SEC filing, bringing total raised to more than $415M
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Microsoft is testing a project codenamed “Bali” that lets users “visualize, manage, control, share, and monetize” data that the company collects about them
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Profile of Transfix, an online freight marketplace for truckers and shippers that has raised $78M and is valued at around $800M
t 12, Drew McElroy was in trucking. His parents ran a freight brokerage operation out of a spare bedroom in Milltown, New Jersey—connecting truck owners … Tweets: @forbes Tweets: @forbes : As a child...
A target of one of the vigilante Facebook groups that hunt and publicly shame sexual predators has hung himself; after inquiry, Facebook suspended some hunters
some with criminal records—are publishing and promoting their own version of “To Catch a Predator.” They catfish “child predators,” luring men to public places where they record their shaming, and pos...
Segway unveils Loomo Delivery, an autonomous delivery robot, and Shared Scooter Model Max, a rugged scooter aimed at scooter-sharing startups
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Judge blocks a new law that requires Airbnb to share hosts' names and addresses with New York City starting next month, until resolution of ongoing litigation
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How big tech platforms like Google, Facebook, and Amazon use exclusionary conduct to acquire and maintain monopoly power and thus possibly violate antitrust law
Sally Hubbard / CNN : Tweets: @romoraleselcoro , @garrytan , @rooseveltinst , and @jason_kint Tweets: Rodrigo Morales Elcoro / @romoraleselcoro : Perspectives: The case for why Big Tech is violating ...
Some tech industry insiders are worried that the export restrictions on AI proposed by the Commerce Department would stunt the industry in the US
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