Two sources say that after political and community opposition in New York City, Amazon executives have had internal discussions to explore alternatives for HQ2
Amazon.com is reconsidering its plan to bring 25,000 jobs to a new campus in New York City following a wave of opposition from local politicians …
Jeff Bezos publishes letters from National Enquirer owner AMI that he says show threats to publish his nude photos unless he stops probing AMI's reporting
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Amazon launches Amazon Live, a streaming site, and Amazon Live Creator, a free iOS app, for hosts from Amazon and brands to showcase available products
Amazon is taking on QVC with the launch of Amazon Live, which features live-streamed video shows from Amazon talent as well as those from brands …
Facebook acquires computer vision startup GrokStyle, whose tech is used in IKEA's app to let users find furniture similar to that in their photos
Facebook Inc. said it acquired visual shopping and artificial intelligence startup GrokStyle Inc. in a move to bolster the social-media company's own AI work.
Gimlet's Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber on weighing remaining independent and being acquired, the days before the deal, and reach, data, and discoverability
Blumberg and Lieber spoke with Recode's Peter Kafka on the latest episode of Recode Media. — On Friday, Recode broke the news …
DoorDash says it stands behind its pay policy, which uses tips to help cover what it owes delivery drivers, similar to the policy Instacart reversed this week
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Sprint sues AT&T over its “5G Evolution” branding, claims it is false and deceptive advertising that is damaging the reputation of actual 5G
AT&T taken to court by Sprint over misleading 5GE indicator Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech : Sprint Sues AT&T Over Fake 5G Branding Patrick Kulp / Adweek : Sprint Sues AT&T Over ‘Deception’ of 5G Claims Mo...
Spotify's bet on Gimlet and Anchor gives it a foothold into podcasting to apply its listener monetization skills without worrying about sending money to labels
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Google warns about two iOS zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers have been actively exploiting; the vulnerabilities have been fixed in iOS 12.1.4
Update Your iPhone Now Tweets: Ben Hawkes / @benhawkes : CVE-2019-7286 and CVE-2019-7287 in the iOS advisory today (http://support.apple.com/...) were exploited in the wild as 0day. Thomas Brewster / ...
A reporter chronicles what it's like to get by without using or accessing a single product from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft for one week
Reporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting her money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN.
Report: Google pulls government-banned sites from Russian search results, blocking ~70% of sites blacklisted by Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor
The Moscow Times :
Data backup and storage company Carbonite to buy Webroot, a provider of AI-powered cloud security software for networks and endpoint devices, for $618M
Brian Dowling / Xconomy :
Spotify's new Terms of Service, which go into effect on March 1, will give Spotify the authority to immediately terminate accounts that use ad blockers
Dami Lee / The Verge :
Google Fiber to shut down in Louisville on April 15 after an experimental “nanotrenching” technique to deploy fiber in trenches only two inches deep, failed
Jason Hiner / CNET :
Kaspersky Lab's DDoS trends report: number of DDoS attacks dropped 13% YoY in 2018, but the average duration of attacks grew from 95 min in Q1 to 218 min in Q4
Securelist :
Google's policies about inclusion of small publishers in Google News, one of the biggest news platforms on the internet, are opaque and applied at random
There's been a lot of discussion about the future of publishing over the last few years, particularly as Facebook traffic began cratering … Tweets: @ow See also Mediagazer Tweets: Owen Williams / @ow ...
On its 10th anniversary, Waymo CTO talks about its early days as a Google project, plans to expand beyond ride-hailing into other commercial applications, more
A decade ago, about a dozen or so engineers gathered at Google's main Mountain View campus on Charleston Road to work on Project Chauffeur …
JUMP says more than 63,000 people took 625,000 rides on its bikes in San Francisco in the past year and each bike saw an average of seven rides per day
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch :
Everdays, which lets users create and share memorial announcements and build private social networks to commemorate loved ones, raises $12M Series A
Sarah Schmid Stevenson / Xconomy :
Alex Stamos and 19 people who knew him professionally over the course of his career talk about his work at various startups, Yahoo, Facebook, and now, Stanford
Alex Stamos, whose highest degree is a BS in computer science and electrical engineering, delivered his first academic lecture. Tweets: @jason_kint , @mathewi , @mathewi , @readdanwrite , and @k8em0 ....
China is taking early steps to protect consumers' privacy from tech companies, even as it intensifies government surveillance
When Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress last spring, he argued that regulating Facebook's use of personal data would cause the United States …
Facebook says it has 7M+ advertisers and 90M+ small businesses using its products, will soon allow businesses to respond to Instagram messages from Facebook
Anna Hensel / VentureBeat :
Amazon's home security company Ring runs a crime reporting social network called Neighbors where petty crimes are heavily policed and racism is common
Caroline Haskins / Motherboard : Tweets: @vice Tweets: @vice : Neighbors, a social media crime-reporting app owned by Amazon, creates a digital ecosystem in which you are encouraged to assume the wor...
IAC's Vimeo generated $160M in revenue in 2018, up from $103.3M in 2017, as its subscribers grew to 952,000, up 9% YoY
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