Google launches YouTube TV in 95 new US markets, says it now covers 98% of US households
98 percent of US households are covered as of today, with the rest coming soon — YouTube TV is finally nearing nationwide availability. The streaming TV service first launched in February 2017 …
Waymo to invest $13.6M in a factory for level 4 autonomous cars in Michigan, partnering with Magna to install Waymo's self-driving system in cars made by others
(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Waymo self-driving vehicle unit said on Tuesday it plans to build a plant in Michigan to transform vehicles …
Microsoft is automatically installing NewsGuard, a plug-in that guides users on which news websites can be trusted, on mobile versions of its Edge browser
Mail Online rated one out of five for credibility by new feature to fight fake news — Microsoft's internet browser is warning users …
Meizu announces Zero, a smartphone with no ports, physical buttons, or SIM card slot; instead it has eSIM support and 18-watt fast wireless charging
The Meizu Zero is here - the world's first phone without physical buttons, speaker cutout and even without a USB port for conventional wired charging.
US DoL files complaint against Oracle for discrimination against women and people of color, seeks $400M+ for workers who have suffered pay inequities
US labor department accuses company of rampant exclusion of black and Hispanic people in hiring and higher pay for white men
After Netflix price hikes, Hulu will lower the price of its base, ad-supported subscription plan to $5.99/mo, down from the current $7.99/mo, starting Feb. 26
The core service is getting cheaper, but live TV now costs more — Hulu just announced that it will lower the price of its base …
Twitter begins limited rollout of a new web interface with a two-column layout, keyboard shortcuts, a dedicated emoji button, and a revised trends section
Don't be surprised if Twitter looks very different on the web in the near future. The social network has started rolling …
A look at the history of LiveJournal, the early blogging platform that boasted 10M+ accounts at its height but faltered after questionable business decisions
George RR Martin's platform switch reminds us of an early blogging giant greatly changed. — Last April, famed writer …
Candy Ventures acquires AR startup Blippar, which went into administration last month after raising $130M+, and will reform it as a new business with same CEO
- British property tycoon Nick Candy has bought Blippar, the augmented reality startup which collapsed late last year.
The Motion Picture Association of America has added Netflix as a member, the first internet-based service to be added
UPDATED with Netflix officially joining: It's official, Netflix is a member of the MPAA. The Washington, DC-based organization just dropped the following release:
Google will retire classic Hangouts for G Suite customers in October, after its previous announcement that Hangouts would be split into Hangouts Chat, Meet apps
Google announced in March 2017 that it would split Hangouts, its cross-platform messaging service, into two core apps …
Despite Bitcoin's dive, thousands of Georgians have sold cars to buy computers to mine Bitcoin; ~10% of the country's energy output goes into mining Bitcoin
Tax breaks, land deals and cheap energy have spurred cryptocurrency mining in Georgia, which wants to be a digital data leader. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @nytimesbusiness , @nytimesbusiness , and @de...
DHS issues rare “emergency” directive ordering federal agencies to secure credentials for DNS records; sources: six agencies have seen malicious DNS activity
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a rare “emergency” directive ordering federal civilian agencies to secure …
New research details how two widely received spam email campaigns over the past few months were made possible by a previously detailed weakness at GoDaddy.com
Two of the most disruptive and widely-received spam email campaigns over the past few months — including an ongoing sextortion email scam …
Consumer finance journalist Martin Lewis drops his lawsuit against Facebook over scam ads, after the company agrees to donate £3M to set up an anti-scam project
Consumer finance journalist drops action as firm agrees to give £3m to anti-scam project
Anchorage, which holds and safeguards crypto assets for institutions, comes out of stealth after raising $17M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz
I'm not allowed to tell you exactly how Anchorage keeps rich institutions from being robbed of their cryptocurrency, but the off-the-record demo was damn impressive.
Confluent, the company behind open source streaming data project Apache Kafka, raises $125M Series D led by Sequoia Capital, source says at a $2.5B valuation
Open source software has produced a new multi-billion-dollar company - one that has some of Silicon Valley's best-known venture firms jockeying …
Andela, which trains and places African programmers to work remotely for US companies, raises $100M Series D from Al Gore's Generation Investment Management
Outsourcing isn't generally seen as the most high-minded of industries. But when the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative …
Google announces it will contribute an additional $3.1M to Wikimedia and give Wikipedia editors free access to Custom Search API and Cloud Vision API
GOOGLE IS POURING an additional $3.1 million into Wikipedia, bringing its total contribution to the free encyclopedia over the past decade …
Alexa AI scientists describe in a paper a technique that uses millions of unannotated interactions with Amazon's voice assistant to reduce NLP error rate by 8%
Developing an AI system capable of understanding natural language isn't just time-consuming — it's really expensive.
Apple Pay expands to Target, Taco Bell, and other US chains and now covers 74 of the top 100 US merchants
Electric.ai, the NY startup that helps companies automate their IT support services via a chat-based service, has raised $25M Series B round led by GGV
Electric.ai, the NY-based startup that offers chat-based IT support, has announced the close of a $25 million Series B round led by GGV.
Viacom to acquire Pluto TV, a free, ad-supported streaming service, for $340M in cash; Pluto TV to operate as an independent subsidiary when the deal closes
Sara Fischer / Axios :
NPD Group: US video game revenue in 2018 reached a record $43.4B, up 18% YoY, with software earning $35.8B, up 18% YoY, and hardware earning $7.5B, up 15% YoY
Rebekah Valentine / GamesIndustry.biz :
IBM beats with Q4 revenue of $21.76B, down 3% YoY, vs. $21.71B analyst estimate, and full-year cloud revenue of $19.2B, up 12% YoY; stock up 6%+ after hours
stock jumps Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg : IBM Gains as Quarterly Earnings, 2019 Outlook Beat Estimates Mitch Wagner / Light Reading : IBM Had a Very Good Day in the Cloud — Growth in IBM's cloud … W...
Microsoft unveils Microsoft Classroom Pen, optimized for the Surface Go and sold in packs of 20 to schools, and 7 new PCs from Acer, Dell, Lenovo from $189-$320
Tom Warren / The Verge :
In Colorado, over two dozen law enforcement agencies statewide have encrypted their radio communications, making it hard for crime reporters to cover their beat
Colorado journalists on the crime beat are increasingly in the dark. More than two-dozen law enforcement agencies statewide … Tweets: @jonathanwpeters , @hollyzachariah , @awinston , and @mattsebasti...
Q&A with the ACLU's Jon Callas, formerly of Apple, on the need for tech expertise in policymaking, the biggest challenges for the security industry, and more
Apple security expert Jon Callas, who helped build protection for billions of computers and smartphones against criminal hackers … Tweets: @kimzetter , @lorenzofb , and @kimzetter Tweets: Kim Zetter /...
Desktop Metal, a maker of 3D metal printing systems for commercial and industrial use, raises $160M led by a subsidiary of Koch Industries at a ~$1.5B valuation
Dan Primack / Axios :
Google spent $21.2M on US govt lobbying in 2018, up from $18.04M in 2017; Facebook spent $12.62M, up from $11.51M; and Microsoft spent $9.52M, up from $8.5M
Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg Try To Reinvent Web Video Andrew Orr / The Mac Observer : In 2018 Apple Spent $6.6 Million Lobbying the Government Tweets: Jillian D'Onfro / @jillianiles : Google se...
SCOTUS declines to hear case over whether Yelp is responsible for removing defamatory reviews from its site after CA Supreme Court ruled in Yelp's favor in 2018
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
Google says 30M Chromebooks are used in education, up 5M from May 2018, and that 80M people use its G Suite for Education platform
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Food delivery service Munchery says it will end operations effective immediately and will refund any outstanding orders; Munchery had raised $125M+ from VCs
Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle :
How Huawei made steady progress expanding into Europe over many years by spending big, only to have it unravel over security concerns from the US, UK, others
New York Times : Tweets: @joshuakeating , @satariano , and @nytimesbusiness Tweets: Josh Keating / @joshuakeating : Huawei recently helped sponsor the convention of Germany's governing Christian Demo...
Inside Uber's Special Investigations Unit, a 60+ person team handling severe reported incidents, nearly 1,200/week, often leading to stress and emotional trauma
Match Group and the media brand Betches have partnered to launch Ship, an iOS dating app that allows users to help their friends pick out potential dates
Ashley Carman / The Verge :
Japanese early stage incubator Digital Garage teams up with Blockstream to develop blockchain-based financial services in Japan
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Analysis of millions of Glassdoor reviews finds 400+ companies, including SpaceX and Slack, have unusual single-month increases in mostly positive posts
Wall Street Journal :
Source: Zynga founder Mark Pincus is raising up to $700M for a new investment fund that will focus on publicly traded tech firms needing strategic restructuring
Dan Primack / Axios :
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