Apple restores Google's internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment
Apple has blocked Google from distributing its internal-only iOS apps on its corporate network after a TechCrunch investigation found the search giant abusing the certificates.
Facebook says Apple has restored its access to enterprise certificates, bringing internal apps back online
Update: In a leaked memo obtained by Business Insider, Facebook continues to defend its Research app, as well as its decision to distribute it via enterprise certificates. Read the details below.
Inside Facebook, which was seriously disrupted by its dispute with Apple over enterprise certificates, employee anger flares at the Onavo team responsible
SAN FRANCISCO — When Facebook employees woke up on Wednesday morning, many found they could not perform even the most basic work tasks.
Amazon reports Q4 revenue of $72.4B, up 20% YoY, AWS revenue of $7.43B, up 45% YoY, and net income of $3.0B, up 58% YoY
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2018. — Operating cash flow increased 67% to $30.7 billion …
Facebook says it removed 262 Pages, 356 accounts, three groups, and 162 Instagram accounts tied to Iran for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior
Apple shutting down Facebook's internal iOS apps should serve as a reminder of the power Apple holds over the rest of us
and gets personal James Sanders / TechRepublic : Apple revokes Facebook's ability to deploy apps internally amid privacy scandal dispute Gordon Kelly / Forbes : Apple's New iPhones Have An Expensive P...
Twitter says it removed thousands of malicious accounts that originated in Iran, Russia, and Venezuela for spreading disinformation about the 2018 midterms
Twitter revealed Thursday that it had removed thousands of malicious accounts thought to have originated in Iran …
Apple apologizes for Group FaceTime bug, says it's now fixed and a software update will re-enable the feature next week, promises better bug reporting practices
- Apple apologizes for a massive FaceTime bug that let people eavesdrop on others, even if they never answered a FaceTime call.
A breakdown of Facebook's internal memo detailing distribution and onboarding for its Research app, and defending its data collection methods and disclosures
Early this morning, we received agreement from Apple to issue a new enterprise certificate; this has allowed us to produce new builds …
Some Reddit users who installed the Facebook Research VPN say they knew of its extensive data collection, but had little expectation of privacy to begin with
What the going rate for the hyper-invasive program tells us about the evolving understanding of our personal data's value.
400K+ items, making up about a third of Amazon's ~$6B in annual sales in India, may disappear from Amazon India, while it works to meet new compliance rules
NEW DELHI — On Friday, Indian consumers will wake up to an emptier, more expensive version of Amazon's shopping service.
What to expect as oral arguments begin Friday in Mozilla's lawsuit to stop FCC's repeal of net neutrality rules
The FCC will make its case against the rules — Oral arguments will begin tomorrow for one of the most important cases in internet law history.
AWS's Q4 revenue of $7.43B beat analyst estimates of $7.29B; AWS accounted for 58% of Amazon's overall operating income in Q4
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Amazon says it got 850k applications for hourly US jobs in Oct. 2018 after announcing its $15 minimum wage, more than doubling its previous monthly record
Alison Griswold / Quartz :
Extensive review of Intel's Xeon W-3175X CPU, which has 28 cores and costs $2,999: compares favorably to higher-priced CPUs and is priced reasonably
Intel has always ensured that its high-end server platforms, one where multiple CPUs can act as a single system, have the highest core count processors.
Amazon reports Q4 “other” revenue, which is mostly composed of its advertising services, hit $3.39B, up 95% YoY
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Kleiner Perkins says it has raised a $600M fund, its first since the departure of Mary Meeker, focusing on seed, Series A, and Series B financings
“KP used to be a small team doing hands-on company building. We're moving away from being this institution with multiple products …
Alphabet's Loon partners with Canada's Telesat to help manage Telesat's low orbit satellites, as Loon moves away from its goal of bringing internet to billions
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Go-Jek confirms first close of its Series F round, sources say it raised around $920M at $9.5B valuation; Go-Jek is planning to raise $2B total for the round
though new round is sure to increase that significantly. Jon Russell / @jonrussell : Go-Jek's first close is now official — no figures shared, of course, but the company has raised around $920M at $9....
Twilio closes acquisition of email marketing platform SendGrid, says the all-stock deal is now valued at $3B, up from the $2B initially announced in October
Twilio's bid to become the go-to platform for all of a business's external communication needs took a big step ahead today.
Facebook says it was able to uncover the Iranian network thanks to information from Twitter and that the two have been sharing notes sooner than previously
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Intel promotes Robert Swan from interim to permanent CEO, its seventh in 50 years, following the ouster of Brian Krzanich in June 2018
Nintendo reports Q3 profit of ~$1.5B, up 36% YoY, on revenue of $5.6B, up 26% YoY, sells 9.41M Switch consoles, but cuts its fiscal year target from 20M to 17M
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Starting in Denver, Uber adds a public transportation option, including real-time bus and rail info, with plans to expand elsewhere over the coming months
Even If It's Not Uber Patrick Sisson / Curbed : Uber new feature will let you pay transit fares through its app Marrian Zhou / CNET : Uber adds public transportation to its app, starting with Denver N...
The Criterion Collection says it will launch Criterion Channel, a new streaming service, on April 8 in US and Canada for $10.99/month or $99.99/year
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Sources: UK's money transfer company WorldFirst, which is in talks to be acquired by Ant Financial for £700M, will close in the US to avoid US blocking the deal
Financial Times :
Hewlett Packard Enterprise says former CEO Meg Whitman will not stand for re-election to its board
Matt Weinberger / Business Insider :
Twitter says it has suspended three notification spammer apps for repeatedly violating its API rules related to aggressive following and follow churn
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Sources: following Thiel-related controversy and declining private valuations, Palantir is giving employees larger bonuses and improved stock options
er, bonuses will continue at Palantir until morale improves Tweets: Lizette Chapman / @lizette_chapman : Scoop from me: Palantir slashes its own stock price for employees. Raises question (again) arou...
UK's Metro Bank confirms it has faced an SS7 attack intercepting 2FA codes; a telecom lobbying group previously told Congress such an attack is “theoretical”
Metro Bank—that was targeted http://motherboard.vice.com/ ... http://twitter.com/... Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler : You may remember SS7 from such previous Motherboard stories as the “telecom indust...
IDC: 375.4M smartphones shipped in Q4 2018, down 4.9% YoY; Apple shipped an estimated 68.4M iPhones, down 11.5% YoY; Samsung was top vendor with 70.4M shipments
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Google says Cloud Firestore, its serverless NoSQL document database for mobile, web, and IoT apps, is now generally available in 13 regions around the world
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
The Saudi startup behind anonymous commenting app Sarahah, banned by Apple and Google over bullying, launches Enoff, a workplace anonymous feedback app for iOS
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Sources: on-demand storage service Clutter is raising between $200M and $250M in a round led by SoftBank
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
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