Google launches Password Checkup, a Chrome extension that alerts users to breaches and prompts resets, and Cross Account Protection for apps with Google Sign in
Editor's note: Today is Safer Internet Day, but we'll be talking about it all week with a collection of posts from teams from across Google.
Facebook Messenger now lets you delete messages from everyone's view, for up to 10 minutes after you have sent them
You can now delete messages from everyone's view on Facebook Messenger — Facebook has come out with a feature that lets you delete messages from a conversation after you've sent them …
Alphabet Q4: revenue of $39.3B, up 22% YoY, net income of $8.9B, CPC down 29%, and paid clicks on Google properties up 66% YoY
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - February 4, 2019 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2018.
On Facebook's 15th anniversary, Zuckerberg says it will spend more on safety and security in 2019 than it had revenue at its IPO, pans critics' “negative” focus
Fifteen years ago today, I launched the first version of the Facebook website from my college dorm.
Apple reaches a deal with France to pay backdated taxes, with reports putting the sum at around €500M
PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. technology giant Apple said it had reached a deal with France to pay an undeclared amount of back-dated tax, with French media putting the sum at around 500 million euros ($571 ...
15 influencers, including Jonah Peretti, Ro Khanna, Brooke Binkowski, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Warner, and Kara Swisher, weigh in on Facebook on its 15th birthday
Facebook says it has banned four armed groups in Myanmar and will remove all “related praise, support, and representation”
Facebook is taking action in Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country where the social network has been used to incite racial tension and violence, after it banned four armed groups from its service.
In a filing, Apple says it stores Russian users' data, like names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers, on Russian servers to comply with a local law
- User information limited to customer names and contact details — Apple made similar agreement in China last year for iCloud
Alphabet's traffic acquisition costs hit $7.44B for Q4, up from $6.58B in Q3, and ad revenue grew 20% YoY to $32.6B, amid competition from rivals like Amazon
Sara Salinas / CNBC :
Alphabet's “Other Bets”, which includes Waymo, Verily, Fiber and others, had Q4 revenue of $154M, with operating losses rising to $1.3B, up from $732M in Q3
and why they sent the stock down Fortune : World Bank, Alphabet Results, Tesla and Maxwell: CEO Daily for February 5, 2019 James Hercher / AdExchanger : Google's Expenses Increase As It Makes Its Way ...
Beginning with the upcoming release of Firefox 66, Firefox for Android and desktop will block auto-playing audio and video by default
Isn't it annoying when you click on a link or open a new browser tab and audible video or audio starts playing automatically?
Sources: Facebook to allow unified messaging for businesses so they can access and manage messages from Instagram Direct alongside Facebook Messenger
Facebook is building a unified messaging for businesses feature that will let businesses access and manage Instagram Direct Messages alongside …
Apple's iOS 12.2 beta has a new Motion & Orientation Access toggle in Privacy settings, off by default, that limits gyroscope and accelerometer access in Safari
Last month, Apple released iOS 12.2 in beta with several new features, including the Apple News app in Canada …
TomTom expands its partnership with Microsoft to bring its location data to mapping services across Microsoft including Bing, Cortana, and Windows
Back in 2016, TomTom first announced a partnership with Microsoft to bring enterprise-grade location-based services to Azure, based on TomTom's maps, traffic and navigation software.
A dozen Harvard students and faculty reflect on Facebook's early days, how the platform worked, and how it made them feel as its first users
There was a time when Facebook was small. After all, it only existed in one place on Earth: Harvard University, where Mark Zuckerberg was a sophomore. Tweets: @tayhatmaker and @mimbsy Tweets: Taylor ...
Sources: Facebook hires the team behind Chainspace, a startup building tech for decentralized “smart contracts”, its first blockchain acquisition
Facebook has made its first acquisition in the blockchain space. — The social network has quietly hired the team behind Chainspace …
EDM artist Marshmello held two in-game concerts in Fortnite this weekend, with the first reportedly having 10M+ concurrent players watching
I'm still trying to process just how cool yesterday's live Marshmello concert in Fortnite was, and I found myself wondering just how many people were actually “in attendance,” so to speak.
How a US-based manufacturer of an “indestructible” smartphone screen helped FBI in its Huawei sting after the Chinese giant allegedly tried to steal its secrets
The sample looked like an ordinary piece of glass, 4 inches square and transparent on both sides.
Databricks, which runs an Apache Spark-based data analytics platform, raises $250M Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.75B valuation
Today Databricks is announcing that it has raised $250 million in a Series E funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, a firm which has led three …
Ike, the autonomous trucking startup founded by three veterans of Apple, Google, and Uber ATG, raises $52M Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures
Redpoint Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Basis Set Ventures, and Neo also participated in the round. Bain Capital Ventures partner Ajay Agarwal has joined Ike's board.
Looking at 2017's crypto frenzy through the lens of Carlota Perez's tech life cycles: blockchain is likely in the “gestation” stage and more bubbles are coming
Why another bubble is likely and what the blockchain space should focus on now — In the aftermath … Tweets: @pegasyseng , @consensys , @aridavidpaul , and @ethereumjoseph Tweets: PegaSys / @pegasyse...
Blue Hexagon, a real-time deep learning platform for network threat protection, emerges from stealth with $31M in funding from Benchmark and Altimeter
Nayeem Islam spent nearly 11 years with chipmaker Qualcomm, where he founded its Silicon Valley-based R&D facility …
Filing: Amazon names Rosalind Brewer, Starbucks' COO and board director, to its all-white board, making her its second black director and the first since 2009
Jessica Guynn / USA Today :
US court overturns FCC's attempt to deny tribal residents broadband subsidies, says FCC failed to provide evidence and ignored harm of limiting broadband access
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
UK police seize 60+ devices suspected of being used in attacks by Webstresser, a now-shuttered DDoS service, and plans action against 400+ Webstresser customers
After the death of a British teen, Instagram announces plans to debut “sensitivity screens” to blur images of self-harm unless users click to reveal them
Alex Hern / The Guardian :
Aurora Solar, which wants to use a combination of lidar data and computer vision to design and streamline solar panel installation, raises $20M Series A
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Instant Tethering, launched in 2017 to let Chrome OS easily share a Pixel's cell connection, is coming to dozens of non-Google Chrome OS and Android devices
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
LA-based web app cybersecurity startup Signal Sciences raises $35M Series C led by Leading Edge Capital and says it protects over 10,000 apps
Signal Sciences, an LA-based firm that helps customer secure their web applications, announced a $35 million Series C investment today.
EU report: tech firms are now assessing 89% of flagged content within 24 hours and 72% of such illegal hate speech is removed, up from 40% and 28% in 2016
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Slack says it has submitted a confidential draft filing to go public with the SEC
Lauren Feiner / CNBC :
Google announces Live Transcribe, a near-real time transcriber, and Sound Amplifier; both are Pixel 3 accessibility features and available as apps on Play store
Dieter Bohn / The Verge :
HoloLens co-inventor Avi-Bar-Zeev left Apple in Jan. after joining in Jun. 2016 and working on the company's rumored AR/VR headset expected to launch in 2020
Why You May Be Renting Your Next Kitchen Sink From Ikea Muhammad Jarir Kanji / Neowin : HoloLens inventor Avi Bar-Zeev has left Apple after more than two years Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac : HoloLens creato...
Crypto exchange Kraken acquires British trading startup Crypto Facilities in a deal worth at least $100M, says it is raising $100M from its largest customers
Jeff John Roberts / Fortune :
Periscope says users can now add up to three guests as voice call-ins to a stream, “like a talkshow”, and is working on letting the guests share video
Our broadcasters don't just show you the world … Firstpost : Twitter's Periscope now lets you invite up to three guests to a live broadcast Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Periscope Adds Live...
Amid a relatively weak-looking lineup of games for 2019, Sony reports operating income in games fell 14% YoY to ~$666M for the holiday quarter
Yuji Nakamura / Bloomberg :
Mattermost, a platform that helps teams of software developers collaborate on DevOps, raises $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Despite vast amounts of data being collected across India, the lack of high-quality local datasets is hampering the country's AI researchers and companies
Anand Murali / FactorDaily :
Viber gets group calling, a design refresh, and the ability for users to chat without revealing their phone number to each other
Christian de Looper / Digital Trends :
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