Source: Spotify in advanced talks to acquire popular podcast producer Gimlet for $200M+; Gimlet would be Spotify's first purchase of an original content maker
Spotify wants to break out of the music streaming business. Gimlet, the company behind shows like Crimetown and Reply All, can help.
As NYC's driver minimum wage law goes into effect, Uber increases its prices and Lyft sues NYC's Taxi and Limousine Commission and says prices will increase
New York (CNN Business)Uber and Lyft customers will have to pay more for their rides as a result of the first-of-its-kind driver minimum wage law in New York City.
Huawei's Mobile World Congress invite hints that the company will show off a foldable 5G smartphone on February 24
Whether gimmicky or great, foldable devices will get their time in the spotlight this year — Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is traditionally the year's biggest show …
Snopes pulls out of Facebook partnership, says Facebook's closed, manual fact-checking entry system is too labor intensive and fails to benefit the whole web
Snopes is no longer debunking misinformation in partnership with Facebook. In a statement published Friday …
Court filing: QuadrigaCX founder's widow says the crypto exchange can't access most of coins worth $137M in cold wallets to which only the founder had the keys
Troubled Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX owes its customers $190 million and cannot access most of the funds, according to a court filing obtained by CoinDesk.
In day one of arguments, the FCC faced tough questions from a three-judge panel on its definition of broadband and potential issues for public safety agencies
The Federal Communications Commission faced sharp questioning from a trio of appellate court judges Friday as the agency sought …
Report: Bill Stasior no longer in charge of Siri as team's strategy shifts from minor updates to long-term research as part new Apple AI chief's restructuring
Apple executive Bill Stasior, who has led the Siri team since joining the company in 2012, has been removed as head of the project …
DNA testing firm FamilyTreeDNA is working with the FBI and allowing agents to search its 1M+ DNA profiles, raising user concerns about data privacy
Family Tree DNA, one of the largest private genetic testing companies whose home-testing kits enable people to trace their ancestry and locate relatives …
Google's internal 2018 employee satisfaction survey: 74% of staffers “positive” that the top exec team can effectively lead in the future, down from 92% in 2017
GOOGLE IS A data-obsessed company, but the recent cascade of employee activism can be hard to quantify.
Apple restores Google's internal iOS apps after certificate misuse punishment
and it made a powerful point Scott Rosenberg / Axios : Tech giants are the new gatekeepers Wall Street Journal : Apple Exerts Power as Privacy Protector Enrique Dans / Forbes : Google Vs. Facebook: Si...
Google bans 29 apps downloaded 4.3M+ times from the Play Store after researchers discovered they were being used to perform malicious acts like serve scam ads
The 29 apps concealed their malice and were hard for many infected users to uninstall. — Google has banned dozens …
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
and thrilled at the price. http://slate.com/... http://twitter.com/... Rob Price / @robaeprice : Internally, Facebook is dancing round whether Facebook Research broke Apple's rules, saying that's “App...
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.
With 100M devices sold, Alexa has achieved some level of product-market fit, but Amazon is still looking for Alexa's strategic place within its business
Amazon's Alexa has been a huge, impressive and unexpected achievement. Amazon created a category from scratch and left both the AI leader Google …
Days after saying it is reconsidering plans for a Wisconsin plant, Foxconn now says the plan is back on after its Chairman's “personal conversation” with Trump
Josh Dzieza / The Verge :
AP says it is “not currently doing fact-checking work for Facebook”, after Snopes said it also stopped; both leave possiblity for future collaboration open
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch : Tweets: @db and @daveleebbc See also Mediagazer Tweets: @db : There's just two left fact-checking in the US: @Factcheckdotorg & @Politifact. How long before they leave t...
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
Todd Haselton / CNBC :
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
and a big one is in India Jon Russell / TechCrunch : Amazon and Flipkart pull 100,000s of products to comply with new Indian law John Adams / PaymentsSource : How politics are carving up the global pa...
MediaRadar: YouTube 2018 ad revenue rose 11% YoY, as Geico and Samsung accounted for 11.5% of revenue and media and entertainment companies brought in 30%+
YouTube ad revenues increased 11 percent year-over-year in 2018, according to MediaRadar. — YouTube saw a 51 percent ad renewal …
Sources: Alphabet's Verily is looking for partners to co-develop shoes with embedded sensors to track the wearer's movement, weight, and detect falls
Christina Farr / CNBC :
The central banks of Saudi Arabia and UAE launch a trial project for a cryptocurrency called Aber, to facilitate financial settlements between the two countries
Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk :
DeepSolar Project, using machine learning and 1B+ satellite images, claims it found 1.47M solar installations in the US, much more than commonly cited estimates
Meghan Brown / ENGINEERING.com :
Rekognition's only known law enforcement client does not use “confidence threshold”, undermining Amazon's defense against research showing the software's bias
Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo :
Instacart says it will roll out a $3 batch minimum fee for drivers over the coming days after Instacart inadvertently paid a driver 80 cents for a delivery run
Sean Captain / Fast Company : Tweets: @mbaram , @techworkersco , and @seancaptain Tweets: Marcus Baram / @mbaram : SCOOP by @seancaptain: Reeling from algorithm glitch, Instacart institutes $3 minimu...
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