Sources: Apple laid off 200+ employees this week from Project Titan; Apple acknowledges it has restructured its autonomous systems tech team
- Apple dismissed just over 200 employees from Project Titan this week, its stealthy autonomous vehicle initiative, people familiar with the group told CNBC.
Bing appears to be accessible in China again, as sources say the earlier block was due to an accidental technical error rather than censorship
Internet users in mainland China have begun to report that Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search engine is accessible again after outages in the country persisted for many hours Thursday.
Twitter is testing an “Original Tweeter” tag to make it easier to see who started a thread; test has rolled out to “a small percentage” of iOS and Android users
Twitter is testing a new tag that will make it easier to parse who started a thread.
In a video posted online, Xiaomi teases a working prototype of a phone with a double-folding display and a more symmetrical design than Samsung's foldable phone
China's Xiaomi has become the latest smartphone maker to tease a folding smartphone, dropping the below video clip of its president …
Sources: Sonos is planning to launch wireless, over-ear headphones with the ability to work with multiple digital assistants next year, for $300 or more
- Audio device maker seeks new markets after disappointing IPO — Company targets growing but crowded market that includes Apple
As smartphone makers strive for differentiation in a crowded market, 2019 will see more devices with pop-up cameras, hole-punch displays, and foldable displays
THIS WEEK, CHINESE smartphone-maker Vivo released a video calling out one of the brand's signature innovations from 2018 …
OpenSignal Mobile Networks Experience report: Verizon leads in 4G availability and video experience, but ties with T-Mobile for fastest download speeds
Verizon surges forward in our metrics — For the last two years T-Mobile has been the dominant operator for mobile network experience across …
The Linux Foundation launches the Hyperledger Grid project to let developers create blockchain-based supply chain apps running atop the distributed ledger tech
The Linux Foundation's blockchain initiative - Hyperledger Project - has created a set of developer tools to allow the creation …
Facebook to launch Page Quality tab for admins, showing when content is removed for policy violations and when post distribution is reduced due to fact-checking
We're taking new steps in how we handle Page content that goes against our policies. First, starting tomorrow people who manage …
Verizon Media Group, which owns Yahoo and AOL, plans to cut 7% of its global workforce, according to an email to employees from CEO Guru Gowrappan
Verizon Media Group — formerly known as Oath — is laying off 7 percent of its workforce, a person familiar with the change told CNBC.
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority publishes draft guidelines on cryptoassets and how they fit within the UK's current regulatory framework
The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out proposed guidance for how crypto assets should be regulated in the country.
AWS launches WorkLink, a fully managed service for $5 per month per user, that aims to make accessing mobile intranet sites and web apps easier
If your company uses a VPN and/or a mobile device management service to give you access to its intranet and internal web apps, then you know how annoying those are.
Emails shed light on Amazon's attempts to woo shippers away from FedEx and UPS by forgoing some fees, like residential surcharges, which can be $3.80+/parcel
New seven-day delivery service offers to pick up parcels and bring to residences, without added fuel or weekend surcharges
Spain-based Sherpa.ai, which makes a Spanish language voice assistant, expands Series A by $8.5M to $15M as it passes 5M users
When we think of the AI platforms that are shaping how we use voice to interact with phones, home devices and other services, we tend to think of Amazon's Alexa …
Inside Google's 27-person in-house counterespionage team, the Threat Analysis Group, which tracks 200+ hacker groups, many of which are linked to US adversaries
Google likely has 'the most useful data set available to any private company for tracking state adversaries and intelligence services,' an expert says Tweets: @shanehuntley , @wsj , @bobmcmillan , and...
After Netflix price hikes, Hulu will lower its base, ad-supported subscription plan to $6/mo, down from $8/mo, and hike its Live TV service to $45/mo on Feb. 26
and lowers its own basic on-demand rate Todd Spangler / Variety : Hulu Hikes Price of Live-TV Bundle to $45 Monthly, Drops VOD Plan With Ads to $6 Leticia Miranda / BuzzFeed News : Hulu Drops The Pric...
Wag founders Jonathan and Joshua Viner, who left the dog-walking startup last year, announce $37M funding for their new electric bike-sharing startup Wheels
Wag founders Jonathan and Joshua Viner are leaving dogs behind for bikes. Wheels, the Viner brothers' new electric bike-share startup …
Humio, which provides real-time log analysis for $200+ per month, raises $9M Series A led by Accel and says Bloomberg and Microsoft are clients
Humio, a startup that provides a real-time log analysis service for on-premises and cloud infrastructures, today announced that it has raised a $9 million Series A round led by Accel.
Facebook tightens its policies, says it may now remove networks of fraudulent pages and groups created by people who previously breached its rules
Louise Matsakis / Wired :
Google launches YouTube TV in 95 new US markets, says it now covers 98% of US households
Chris Welch / The Verge :
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
Researcher: 24M+ financial and banking documents, representing tens of thousands of loans and mortgages, were left exposed online by Texas-based firm Ascension
literally millions of documents with names, addresses, and Social Security numbers. Huge props to @MayhemDayOne for finding and reporting it. http://techcrunch.com/...
Amazon Go, now one year old, is sparking cashierless imitators from startups like Mighty AI, and also established companies like Walmart, Kroger, and Microsoft
Mighty AI spent much of its first five years building software that helps self-driving cars recognize real-world objects.
Patreon says it has 3M+ patrons, up by 1M+ in 2018, who support 100K+ creators; the company will pay creators $500M in 2019, reach $1B paid since launch in 2013
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Research firm says China had 713 VC deals in Q4, down 25% YoY, worth $18.3B total, down 12% YoY, amid cooling valuations and tighter hiring for tech startups
- The number of venture capital deals in China dropped 25 per cent year on year to 713 in the fourth quarter
Microsoft now offers NewsGuard, a plug-in that guides users on which news websites can be trusted, as an option on mobile versions of its Edge browser
Jim Waterson / The Guardian :
Cision, a public relations software company, has agreed to buy AI-powered analytics company TrendKite for $225M as it continues to invest in software automation
Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg :
Source: SoftBank is investing $100M in Globality, a marketplace for large companies to find and manage service providers, at a ~$1B valuation
Tomio Geron / Wall Street Journal :
Andela, which trains and places African programmers to work remotely for US companies, raises $100M Series D from Al Gore's Generation Investment Management
Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg :
Federal prosecutors and US court in Seattle agree to publish info on warrantless surveillance requests, will disclose case numbers and crime being investigated
Aaron Mackey / Electronic Frontier Foundation :
Next Trucking, a California-based logistics platform matching carriers with shippers, raises $97M Series C led by Brookfield, with Sequoia, others participating
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Anchorage, which holds and safeguards crypto assets for institutions, comes out of stealth after raising $17M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
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 Dave Lee / Notes from Silicon Valley : Tech's lobb...
Sequoia India announces Surge, an accelerator focused on fledging startups in India and Southeast Asia, says it will offer selected companies a $1.5M investment
an ally that they take deals to — playing in the early stage space, but Sequoia said it is determined to work with and co-invest with other firms as part of Surge https://techcrunch.com/... Jon Russel...
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
Alex Hern / The Guardian :
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
faster, cleaner, and also makes it easy for us to bring new features to web faster. If you've had the chance to opt-in and use it, how's it working for you? http://twitter.com/... Owen Williams / @ow ...
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