Facebook takes down 471 Facebook pages and accounts, as well as 41 Instagram accounts, for coordinated inauthentic behavior originating in Russia
Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.
“Collection #1” database, which claims to contain records of ~773M unique email addresses and 21M passwords, some of them hashed, shows up on the web
THERE ARE BREACHES, and there are megabreaches, and there's Equifax. But a newly revealed trove of leaked data tops …
Tim Cook calls on Congress to pass privacy legislation and on the FTC to create a “data-broker clearinghouse”, enabling users to track and control their data
We all deserve control over our digital lives. That's why we must rein in the data brokers
Sources: DOJ is pursuing a criminal case against Huawei for alleged trade secret theft from US business partners including T-Mobile; indictment is expected soon
Probe involves allegations that Huawei stole robot phone-testing technology from T-Mobile — Federal prosecutors are pursuing …
Mastercard updates policy to end automatic billing after free trials, will require merchants to request user authorization for recurring subscriptions
Plus, merchants will be required to send you monthly updates — Mastercard announced a new policy today for merchants who retain …
Microsoft is planning to decouple Windows search and Cortana in the next major Windows 10 update, expected in April, so typed queries will be handled separately
Windows search is now free to get more powerful — Microsoft is making some big changes to Cortana in Windows 10.
Google to raise prices globally for G Suite on April 2; G Suite Basic will go from $5 to $6, G Suite Business will go from $10 per user per month to $12
The G Suite price increases are the first in a decade. Google argues that the price increases reflect more value. G Suite Enterprise prices unchanged.
Sources: Snap CFO Tim Stone resigned after a dispute with management over pay, going around CEO Evan Spiegel to ask Snap's board for a significant raise
- Stone went around Spiegel to seek pay bump, people say — Executive also sought promotion to Khan's former strategy job
Jeff Bezos announces re:MARS, a public extension of the invite-only MARS conference focused on forward-looking tech, taking place in Las Vegas on June 4 to 7
The event is an extension of Amazon's semi-secret MARS conference, but will include plenty of self-promotion
Amazon Web Services announces AWS Backup, a fully-managed, centralized service for customers to back up their data across AWS services and on-premises
Centralized backup service makes it easier and more cost-effective for customers to automate backups of their data and meet business and regulatory requirements
Microsoft pledges $500M to tackle housing crisis in Seattle: $475M for loans to housing developers over three years and $25M for resident services
The pledge is the largest in the company's 44-year history, and comes as Microsoft and other tech giants that have driven …
Houseparty says the popular mobile game Heads Up will now be available inside its app with “packs” of words costing $0.99 or more
Building an ad-free social network through shared experiences — Houseparty, the group video chat that has carved out a niche among a segment …
Trump signs the OPEN Government Data Act, asking federal agencies to default to making data public when possible and publishing it in a machine-readable format
The federal government produces one hell of a lot of data, but despite desultory lurches towards usability there's little guarantee …
Pew survey of 963 US Facebook users: 74% didn't know the company compiles lists of their interests and traits to target ads; 51% were uncomfortable with this
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Binance launches fiat-to-crypto exchange on the island of Jersey, letting European users trade Bitcoin and Ethereum against the pound and euro
How to Handle Stolen Funds Transferred to Binance Jersey?
Facebook hires former Google AR/VR engineering lead Ryan Cairns to head Portal, as current Portal head Rafa Camargo shifts to leading hardware for AR/VR
Facebook is bringing on the engineering lead for Google's entire AR/VR team to tackle Portal hardware.
Roku says it is removing two Infowars channels on its platform after criticism from users and a rebuke from some Sandy Hook families
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SuperData: revenue from digital games rose to $110.7B in 2018, up 11% YoY, with mobile making $61.6B; the top free-to-play game was Fortnite, earning $2.4B
2018 Digital Games & Interactive Entertainment Industry Year In Review Shabana Arif / IGN : Fortnite Made the Most Annual Revenue of Any Game in History Last Year Evan Selleck / iPhone Hacks : Fortnit...
CEO of Palantir France says the company generated almost $1B in revenue last year; sources say half of the revenue was from corporate clients like Airbus
- Peter Thiel's data startup continues to prepare for IPO — Corporate clients are said to account for half of revenue Tweets: @_colleenmurphy_ Tweets: Colleen Murphy / @_colleenmurphy_ : Peter Thei...
Unity updates ToS so that any third-party software, like Improbable's SpatialOS, can be used with its game engine, following last week's fracas
Nick Summers / Engadget :
Twitter launches the reverse-chronological feed as an option on Android
Dami Lee / The Verge :
Alation, which indexes a company's databases to build a data search catalog, raises $50M Series C led by Sapphire Ventures
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
In an internal post, Sophie Alpert, a Facebook manager who oversaw React, says she quit after being harassed for criticizing Facebook's lack of diversity
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC :
Facebook says it will extend its stricter political ad rules to India, Nigeria, Ukraine, and the EU ahead of upcoming elections in the next few months
Paresh Dave / Reuters :
Spell, a collaborative platform that lets anyone run machine learning experiments, raises $15M Series A led by Eclipse Ventures and Two Sigma Ventures
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch :
Match Group and IAC seek $250M damages in a countersuit against Tinder founder Sean Rad, alleging he copied company files and other proprietary information
Jan Wolfe / Reuters :
Personio, a cloud-based software platform for HR and recruiting, raises $40M Series B led by Index Ventures
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell's X2 Games announces plans to launch 6 new voice-controlled, Alexa-centric games in 2019, the first of which will arrive in March
Ry Crist / CNET : Tweets: @cnet . Thanks: @rycrist Tweets: @cnet : Nolan Bushnell founded Atari, Chuck E. Cheese and was Steve Jobs' boss. Now he's focusing on games for Alexa. http://www.cnet.com/.....
Veeam, which specializes in on-premises backup and recovery software for enterprises, raises $500M led by Insight Venture Partners
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
ScaleFactor, which develops finance software that automates bookkeeping tasks, raises $30M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune : Thanks: @jeffjohnroberts
NYC-based Sonrai Security, which helps companies manage cloud data, raises $18.5M Series A led by Polaris Partners and TenEleven Ventures
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