Amazon announces it's acquiring mesh WiFi company eero to make it easier for customers to set up and connect their smart home devices
Amazon announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire eero, a company that offers products and services for high-performing, reliable, and simple home WiFi
South Korea's Supreme Court upholds Korean FTC's antitrust charges, ordering Qualcomm to pay $180M+
As Qualcomm fights the Federal Trade Commission on antitrust charges in the US, it has just lost a case against another FTC: the Fair Trade Commission in Korea.
Longtime Apple employee and iPhone exec Frank Casanova named as Apple's first head of product marketing for AR
- Company is betting on augmented reality as major initiative — Apple veteran Casanova helped market the iPhone via carriers — Apple Inc. assigned a longtime iPhone executive …
LinkedIn debuts LinkedIn Live, a new live video broadcast service, as an invite-only beta in the US
LinkedIn — the social network for the working world with close to 600 million users globally — says that video is the fastest-growing format on its platform alongside original written work, shared new...
Trump signs American AI Initiative executive order that will prioritize federal funding for AI, create resources for AI researchers, establish standards, more
Artificial intelligence may have been invented in the United States, but other nations, including China, Canada, and France …
Amazon's acquisition of eero is met with concerns over data privacy and that the independent company was absorbed by a tech giant with its own ecosystem
Consternation, concern, and exhaustion — Amazon sure does love surprises. The original Echo came as a bolt out of the blue …
As search interest in AirPods grew 500% YoY during the 2018 holiday season, they are becoming a cultural phenomenon with memes, videos, and tweets
Apple has a hit on its hands, or maybe we should say in its ears. AirPods have become the second best-selling Apple product out of the gate of all time.
Research details an AI system that diagnosed common medical conditions in childhood with high accuracy after analyzing records of nearly 600K Chinese patients
Each year, millions of Americans walk out of a doctor's office with a misdiagnosis. Physicians try to be systematic …
Sensor Tower: US iPhone users spent $79 on average on apps last year, up 36% from $58 in 2017 and up from $33 in 2015
Apple's push to get developers to build subscription-based apps is now having a notable impact on App Store revenues. According to a new report from Sensor Tower due …
Study: by the start of 2019, over 26M consumers have added their DNA to four leading commercial ancestry and health databases, primarily AncestryDNA
The genetic genie is out of the bottle. And it's not going back. — As many people purchased consumer DNA tests in 2018 …
Q&A with Roger McNamee, former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and author of Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe, on Silicon Valley's abuse of user trust
McNamee was an adviser to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and helped recruit Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, but now he's speaking out against the social giant. Tweets: @recode Tweets: @recode : “You know,...
Paris-based mobile-only car rental startup Virtuo raises €20M Series B from Iris Capital, Balderton Capital, and Raise Ventures, plans UK and EU expansion
Virtuo, the Paris-headquartered car rentals startup, has raised €20 million in Series B funding.
Google Fi SIM cards for calls and texts are now available at 500+ Best Buy stores for $9.99 each, with a $10 credit toward service within a week of activation
See all customer reviews Write a review Stephen Hall / 9to5Google : Google Fi SIM cards are now available at more than 500 Best Buy stores Ryan Whitwam / Android Police : No need to wait for Google Fi...
Sony Interactive Entertainment names Jim Ryan president and CEO, taking over from John Kodera, who will become deputy president, as the two swap roles
Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat :
Axonius, which helps businesses track and secure their connected devices, raises $13M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners
As hackers get smarter and the magnitude of their damage expands, a growing number of cybersecurity firms are trying to persuade legacy companies to rethink their security strategy.
Apple says it has partnered with the US Department of Veterans and will soon let veterans access their digital health records through iPhone's Health app
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac :
Hands-on with AR navigation on Google Maps that the company is testing with Local Guides, a group of power users helping Google improve its Maps experience
and wrote about how the way we navigate the world is changing in big ways http://www.wsj.com/... http://twitter.com/... Neil Mehta / @neil_mehta : Using the phone camera to superimpose #AR based walki...
Mode, a collaborative analytics platform focused on empowering data scientists, raises $23M Series C, says 600 orgs now use it, including Twitch, Lyft, Shopify
Mode, a five-year-old collaborative analytics platform based in San Francisco, has raised $23 million in Series C funding led by Valor Equity Partners.
Profile of Goldman Sachs partner Tammy Kiely, who helped Qualcomm navigate Broadcom's hostile takeover attempt and has worked on other big semiconductor deals
- Tammy Kiely, a partner at Goldman Sachs, made a name for herself in the esoteric but politically charged world of semiconductors. Tweets: @goldmansachs Tweets: Goldman Sachs / @goldmansachs : “I gre...
IDC: 142.3M smartphones were shipped in India in 2018, up 14.5% YoY; China's Transsion grew 75.9% to 6.4M units and Xiaomi grew 58.6% to 41M
Inside Israeli private intelligence company Psy-Group, which provided clients influence campaigns on social media using avatars, before shuttering in Feb. 2018
Inside a plot to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race. — One evening in 2016 … Tweets: @ronanfarrow , @anneapplebaum , @carolecadwalla , @kylegriffin1 , and @aaschapiro Tw...
IDC: Apple's Q4 smartphone shipments in China fell 19.9% YoY and Xiaomi's fell 34.9%, but Huawei's shipments grew 23.3%
South China Morning Post :
Apple and Google's mobile app stores host Absher, an app from the Saudi government to help men in the country track and dictate where women can travel
Bill Bostock / Business Insider :
YouTube creators say scammers are extorting channels using copyright strike threats; problems persist due to YouTube's focus on the accused, not the accuser
Shoshana Wodinsky / The Verge :
Autonomous vehicle startup Nuro says it has raised $940M from SoftBank's Vision Fund, valuing the company at $2.7B
Jobvite, a recruiting software provider, announces a $200M+ investment it will use to buy three companies focusing on different parts of the recruitment process
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Singapore-based online fashion marketplace Zilingo raises $226M from Sequoia, Temasek, and others to fund expansion abroad; sources: startup is valued at $970M
from Singapore's Economic Development Board https://techcrunch.com/...
Source: DoorDash is raising ~$500M at a valuation of over $6B
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal :
AIStorm, which makes specialized sensor chips that detect events or changes in their environments, raises $13.2M Series A led by Egis Technology Inc.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Uber releases Ludwig, an open source AI toolbox built on top of TensorFlow that allows users to train and test AI models without having to write code
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Goldman Sachs, Point72, others invest $44M in business credit startup Nav, which offers easy credit report viewing and a marketplace for financial products
A look at the challenges of online grocery shopping in US, where 22% of apparel sales and 30% of electronics sales happen online versus just 3% of grocery sales
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic : Tweets: @alexhern Tweets: Alex Hern / @alexhern : My own theory about why US online grocery shopping sucks is that US *offline* grocery shopping sucks in ways that have...
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