Amazon says it has canceled plans to build HQ2 in New York City, focusing instead on Northern Virginia and Nashville, following backlash
Amazon on Thursday canceled its plans to build an expansive corporate campus in New York City after facing an unexpectedly fierce backlash from lawmakers …
Sources: the FTC and Facebook are negotiating a record multi-billion dollar fine to settle the agency's investigation into the company's privacy practices
The Federal Trade Commission and Facebook are negotiating over a multi-billion dollar fine that would settle the agency's investigation …
Amazon has made $11.2B in profits in 2018 but will pay no federal income tax and will receive a rebate of $129M due to unspecified tax credits
Amazon, the ubiquitous purveyor of two-day delivery of just about everything, nearly doubled its profits to $11.2 billion in 2018 from $5.6 billion …
Samsung's wearables app reveals new products including Galaxy Buds wireless earbuds, the Galaxy Watch Active smartwatch, and Galaxy Fit and Fit e fitness bands
An update to Samsung's wearables app has inadvertently revealed an entire lineup of new products that are presumably set to be unveiled alongside the Galaxy S10 next week.
Samsung unveils 10.5-inch Galaxy Tab S5e, its lightest and thinnest tablet and the first with Bixby built-in, starting at $399, launching in the second quarter
It's $399 and comes in three “millennial friendly” colors — There isn't a single Android tablet we can currently wholeheartedly recommend …
US Copyright Office has refused a copyright claim for the “Carlton Dance”, a potential blow to performers seeking rights to dance emotes in games like Fortnite
A government examiner also questioned the submission of the actor's performance on ABC's “Dancing With the Stars,” …
OpenAI says it won't release the dataset behind GPT-2, its new text generator algorithm that can write, translate, and summarize text, due to fears of misuse
OpenAI's researchers knew they were on to something when their language modeling program wrote a convincing essay on a topic they disagreed with.
Samsung to open stores in LA, Houston, and Long Island on February 20, the first US retail stores to be operated by the company
Samsung's coming to a mall near you — if you live in California, New York or Texas. — The company on Thursday said it plans to open three Samsung Experience Stores …
Amazon dropping its NYC HQ plans was a win for activists, but some local tech leaders believe it sends a poor message to other companies wanting to invest in NY
“A self-own by the entire NYC ecosystem” — Amazon's decision to drop plans for a New York City headquarters was so abrupt …
After Amazon misread New York's politics, pulling out was a typical Bezos' power play of belligerently confronting opposition he views as unfair or unjust
@Richard_Florida https://twitter.com/... Justin Miller / @justinjm1 : Seattle got tough on Amazon so Bezos looked for new supplicants. https://www.bloomberg.com/... pic.twitter.com/YKci2p2qPR Alex Fi...
HSBC exec says its blockchain project, which processes between 3,500 to 5,000 trades worth $350B a day, has cut foreign exchange trading costs by 25%
LONDON (Reuters) - HSBC has reduced the cost of settling foreign exchange trades by a quarter through its blockchain-based system …
Union leader says Amazon had agreed to a framework of a deal with state and union officials to salvage plans for its NYC HQ a day before its cancelation
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Sources: Facebook keeps a “lookout” list of ex-employees and users who made threats against the company, and sometimes uses its products to track their location
- Facebook maintains a list of individuals that its security guards must “be on lookout” for that is comprised …
Internal docs show Google's Sidewalk Labs plans expansion in Toronto's Port Lands, seeks share of property taxes, development fees in return
Google's futuristic development on the eastern waterfront, Quayside, is only the first step in an expansive and ambitious plan to build new neighbourhoods …
The FCC finalizes a $1.5B auction-based fund for expanding broadband access and the White House releases the American Broadband Initiative (ABI) report
Why fight an oligopoly when you can subsidize it? — The White House and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) …
Nvidia Q4: revenue of $2.21B, down 24% YoY, vs. $2.20B est., gaming revenue of $954M, vs. $1.21B est., and net income of $567M
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
JP Morgan has created JPM Coin, a digital token tied to the US dollar that will be used to instantly settle transactions; trials set to start in a few months
Also mistaken identity, buybacks … Marie Huillet / Cointelegraph : Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Says JPMorgan Coin ‘Misses the Point’ of Crypto John P. Njui / Ethereum World News : 'Bank Coins Still A...
Facebook says it is exploring ways to address anti-vaccine misinformation including reducing or removing it from recommendations and demotion in search results
i.e. those most like to have children potentially in need of vaccinations http://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... Melissa Ryan / @melissaryan : Shame is the only thing that seems to work with Facebook. This...
DriveNets, which builds cloud-based network management tools for carriers, emerges from stealth, raises $110M, source says at a valuation between $300M to $500M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
DigitalOcean launches a managed database service; only supports PostgreSQL for now, will add support for MySQL and Redis later this year
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Canalys: 32% of smartphone shipments in Europe in 2018 were from Chinese vendors; Huawei shipped 13.3M units in Q4 2018, up 55.7% YoY, Xiaomi was up 62%
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Sources: Snap is offering $40K to $50K per episode for original series that premiere on Snapchat, wants 10-12 episodes per series, each up to seven minutes long
Tim Peterson / Digiday : See also Mediagazer
Figma, maker of cloud-based collaborative interface design tools, raises $40M Series C, bringing the total raised to $82.9M at a post-money valuation of $440M
maybe a dumb question but why do people see so much value in design tools: isn't the addressable market tiny; way smaller than the Photoshop market...? Zack Hargett / @zackhargett : Congrats, @figmade...
Pinpoint, which is building a data analytics platform for software engineering, raises $13.5M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Apple says it will resume selling banned iPhone 7 and 8 models in Germany using only chips from Qualcomm, after it had “no choice” but to stop using Intel chips
#Qualcomm-based variants of #iPhone 7 and iPhone 8—exacerbates $QCOM's #antitrust woes http://www.fosspatents.com/... #patents #patent #competition @EU_Competition #dgcomp #eu #intel #qorvo (At least ...
FTC: Americans lost ~$143M to online dating scams in 2018, which was number one in terms of dollar loss when compared to other types of fraud
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times :
JibJab, one of the first companies that let people insert selfies into videos, GIFs and e-cards, has been acquired by Catapult Capital for an undisclosed sum
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Researcher finds what appears to be an unsecured facial recognition database of 2.5M+ Uyghur Muslims in China, with ID card data and near real-time GPS data
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @b_nishanov , @einsteinsattic , @mattburgess1 , and @alfredwkng . Thanks: @campuscodi Tweets: Bakhti Nishanov / @b_nishanov : If you continue to have doubts China is...
Walmart's tech incubator Store No. 8 launches Spatial&, a VR merchandising startup that is partnering with DreamWorks Animation VR at 16 Walmart stores
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Alibaba's Ant Financial buys London-based payments company WorldFirst in a deal that sources say is valued at around $700M
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