Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped 22.5M Apple Watch units in 2018, accounting for about half of global smartwatch shipments
Fresh statistics from research firm Strategy Analytics show Apple retained its position as the clear leader in the smartwatch sector, with Apple Watch capturing 51 percent …
FTC settles with Musical.ly, now TikTok, for $5.7M, over the app's violation of US child privacy laws; TikTok's app updates with a new UX for users under 13
A significant FTC ruling issued today will see video app TikTok fined $5.7 million for violating U.S. children's privacy laws …
Motorola confirms it is working on a foldable smartphone; it will likely be a revival of the Razr brand that will launch this summer
By now, it's not much of a secret that Motorola is working on a folding phone of its own: A patent for such a device surfaced late last year …
Amazon launches Amazon Day, a new option that lets Prime members pick a day of the week for delivery
Amazon this morning launched a new delivery option for Prime members that will allow them to control when their orders arrive, Amazon Day. The option lets shoppers pick a day of the week to take deli...
In a letter to a CA agency, Apple confirms that 190 employees, including 124 engineers, will be laid off from its self-driving car division on April 16
Apple will lay off 190 employees in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale in its self-driving car division, the company said.
Amazon announces Project Zero, an invite-only program to let brands autonomously flag and remove counterfeit listings of their products from Amazon
Amazon wants to cut down on fake listings — Amazon announced a new initiative today called Project Zero, a new effort that the online retailer …
Equipment from Cellebrite, popular with law enforcement for hacking into iOS/Android devices, is selling for $100-$1,000 on eBay; new units usually cost $6,000
When eBay merchant Mr. Balaj was looking through a pile of hi-fi junk at an auction in the U.K., he came across an odd-looking device.
Microsoft unveils Azure Sentinel, a new cloud service that allows customers to view and respond to security alerts and threats across corporate networks
Ahead of next week's big RSA security conference, Microsoft plans to introduce a new cloud service Thursday that will help customers manage …
Though Seattle repealed its “head tax”, Amazon says it won't use the 722K sq. ft. in Rainier Square tower it had leased, which would have housed up to 5K staff
The lease was one of the biggest in Seattle history — enough space to hold at least 3,500 employees and perhaps up to 5,000.
Sources: Facebook is working on a crypto coin for sharing on WhatsApp and has held talks with exchanges; Telegram and Signal are working on similar coins
SAN FRANCISCO — Some of the world's biggest internet messaging companies are hoping to succeed where cryptocurrency start-ups have failed …
Dow Jones' watchlist of 2.4M high-risk individuals, including current and former politicians, criminals, and terrorists, was exposed on an unsecured AWS server
A watchlist of risky individuals and corporate entities owned by Dow Jones has been exposed, after a company with access …
RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud survey of enterprises and SMBs: Azure adoption grew from 45% to 52%, reaching 85% of AWS adoption, up from 70% last year
The RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report from Flexera highlights how enterprises are spending more on cloud computing …
Report: both Uber and Lyft plan to give some of their most-active or longest-serving drivers a cash award with an option to put it toward stock in their IPOs
- Uber's plan would give some drivers either a cash bonus or the option to use that money to buy shares at the IPO price, the report says.
Chinese used-car trading platform Chehaoduo Group is raising $1.5B from SoftBank Vision Fund at a $9B+ valuation
- The investment valued Chehaoduo Group at over $9 billion — The startup intends to spend the money on technology and AI — SoftBank Vision Fund is investing $1.5 billion …
Coinhive, an in-browser Monero miner known for cryptojacking, says it will shut down on March 8, citing the crypto crash and a recent Monero hard fork
Coinhive wanted to be an alternative to classic banner ads but it became malware after constant abuse.
Figure, which uses blockchain tech to provide home equity loans, raises $65M; founded over a year ago by ex-SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, Figure has raised $120M total
Figure, a 13-month-old, San Francisco-based company that says it uses blockchain technology to provide home equity loans online …
Interviews with 15 content moderators from YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms on their day-to-day, how the job has affected them personally, and more
Tech platform trust and safety employees are charged with policing the impossible. They open up to Medium's head of trust and safety.
Mozilla releases Common Voice, an open source collection of transcribed voice data comprising 1,400+ hours of samples from 42K contributors in 18 languages
Mozilla wants to make it easier for startups, researchers, and hobbyists to build voice-enabled apps, services, and devices.
Zūm, which enables parents to schedule rides for their kids from fully vetted drivers, raises $40M Series C led by BMW i Ventures
Ride-sharing isn't just for transporting teenagers and adults anymore. Zūm, a ridesharing startup for kids, just raised a $40 million Series C round led …
ClassDojo, a messaging app for teachers and parents to communicate, raises $35M Series C co-led by GSV and SignalFire, source says at a ~$400M valuation
Messaging apps have become the de facto way that many people today keep in regular contact with each other, and that trend has also found its way into the classroom.
Review of Shadow Ghost, a $140 streaming game console made by French startup Blade, which runs a $35/month cloud gaming service that now has ~65,000 subscribers
The Ghost to bring cloud gaming to your TV or laptops Tweets: Shadow / @shadow_usa : For the best Shadow experience in your living room, Shadow Ghost is the perfect way to bring a high-end gaming comp...
Paris-based Mirakl, which provides an API-backed ecommerce marketplace for B2C and B2B verticals, raises $70M Series C led by Bain Capital
Mirakl, a Paris-based software company that develops ecommerce solutions for corporate and retail clients, isn't shy about throwing its weight around …
Fortnite dance emote lawsuits set a precedent for media companies to abuse copyright law further and turn shared culture of dance moves into private property
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
Samsung begins mass production of 512GB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 3.0 chips for smartphones, with speeds of up to 2,100 MB/s
Mariella Moon / Engadget :
FedEx unveils SameDay Bot, an autonomous robot that can travel at 10 mph, plans to use it for deliveries starting with trials in Memphis later this year
James Vincent / The Verge :
Square reports Q4 adjusted revenue of $464M, up 64% YoY, 15M Cash App MAUs in Dec. 2018, up from 7M YoY, issues weak Q1 guidance
Kate Rooney / CNBC :
Ionic Security, which helps companies secure sensitive data stored on enterprise clouds and devices, raises $40M Series E, bringing total raised to $162.4M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
BlackBerry sues Twitter for allegedly infringing six messaging patents; BlackBerry sued Facebook and Snap in 2018, also alleging messaging patent infringement
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters :
Sensor Tower: TikTok passed 1B downloads on Android and iOS, excluding Android installs in China; 663M downloads came in 2018, beating Instagram's 444M
Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider :
Box misses Q4 expectations with $163.7M revenue, up 20% YoY and compared to $164.2M estimated, and issues weak Q1 guidance; stock drops 20%+
Lauren Feiner / CNBC :
FTC announces a new task force to monitor competition in “technology-related sectors” and says that it will look into previous mergers
Trump Turns on China Hawks as Huawei Doubles Down Carla Sinclair / Boing Boing : [UPDATE] Herbal company fined $12.8 million after paying for fake Amazon reviews Cal Jeffrey / TechSpot : FTC creates t...
Fitbit reports Q4 net income of $15.4M on revenue of $571.2M and says it sold 13.9M wearables in 2018, down 9% YoY; stock down 12%+
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
Study of VC-backed deals over the last five years finds that 77.1% of VC-backed founders were white, 1% were black, and 9.2% of startup founders were female
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News :
While Amazon's board has become more diverse, as of January, 44 of 48 execs in Amazon's upper ranks were reportedly men and zero VPs were African-American
Maya Kosoff / OneZero : Tweets: @dlberes , @medium , @cindygallop , @cindygallop , @jeremykonyndyk , and @mvzelenks Tweets: Damon Beres / @dlberes : .@mekosoff drops the hammer on Amazon's mostly whi...
Crowdtangle data: a small number of Facebook Pages created 46% of the top 10,000 posts for or against vaccines, with 20% generated by seven anti-vax Pages
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic :
After Project Veritas posts internal Facebook documents, Facebook says it fired a contractor a year ago who worked with the right-wing sting group on a “stunt”
The Verge :
Facebook policy doc shows it wants up to a 30% cut of Fan Subscriptions, vs Patreon's 5%, and to reserve right to offer free trials with no creator compensation
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
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