Sources: Amazon is planning to open dozens of grocery stores, distinct from Whole Foods, in several major US cities
Amazon is planning to open dozens of grocery stores in several major U.S. cities as the retail giant looks to broaden its reach in the food business and touch more aspects of consumers' lives.
Microsoft now lets Microsoft 365 users on Android take a picture of a printed data table and automatically convert it into an editable Excel spreadsheet
Microsoft uses AI to boost Excel features — Microsoft is adding a very useful feature to its Excel mobile apps for iOS and Android.
Amazon removes at least three anti-vaccination documentaries from Prime Video hours after Rep. Schiff sent letter to Bezos regarding anti-vaccine misinformation
Amazon appears to have removed anti-vaccination documentaries from search results on Amazon Prime Video today …
Facebook and Instagram file lawsuit in US federal court against 4 companies and 3 people in China for promoting the sale of fake accounts, likes, and followers
Today, Facebook and Instagram filed a lawsuit in US federal court against four companies and three people based in the People's Republic …
Microsoft to shut down its Microsoft Band and Microsoft Health Dashboard apps and services on May 31, will offer refunds to some active Band users
Microsoft Band apps and services end on May 31st — Microsoft has announced today that it plans to kill off its Microsoft Band …
Chinese government report: travelers in China were blocked 23M times from buying plane or train tickets in 2018 due to their poor “social credit”
BEIJING (AP) — Skipped paying a fine in China? Then forget about buying an airline ticket. — Would-be air travelers …
Leaked Facebook memo describes company's lobbying efforts in 2012 and 2013 against a proposed European data directive which later became GDPR, more
Social network targeted legislators around the world, promising or threatening to withhold investment — Facebook has targeted politicians around …
Microsoft says it will start offering quantum computing via Azure, debuts Microsoft Quantum Network, a network of partners collaborating on quantum innovations
REDMOND, Wash. — Quantum computing may still be in its infancy — but the Microsoft Quantum Network is all grown up …
Lyft S-1: 2018 revenue of $2.2B up 100% YoY, gross bookings of $8.1B from 1B+ rides, loss of $911M, up 32% YoY, 39% market share in the US, up from 22% in 2017
So Are Losses Walter Frick / HBR.org : The Strategy Question at the Center of Lyft's IPO Axios : Lyft files first for IPO in litmus test for the industry Harper Neidig / The Hill : Lyft files to go pu...
Uganda says the number of internet subscribers in the country declined by 2.5M in the three months following the introduction of social media tax last July
The Guardian :
Cities across the US are using legacy software from the '80s built with obsolete programming languages and unfriendly user interfaces
The only place in San Francisco still pricing real estate like it's the 1980s is the city assessor's office. Its property tax system dates back to the dawn of the floppy disk. Tweets: @adamzea and @r...
Samsung Galaxy S10+ review: great display and a versatile camera but the in-screen fingerprint scanner is unreliable and hole-punch design is worse than a notch
Dan Seifert / The Verge :
Developers in Moldova say they reported misinformation and fake news in Moldova to Facebook for three years before the company took action in February
Earlier this month Facebook proudly announced its latest victory over fake news. Ahead of an upcoming parliamentary vote in Moldova … Tweets: @janelytv and @johnpaczkowski Tweets: @janelytv : Think F...
Accenture: global fintech funding more than doubled YoY to $55.3B in 2018, with China accounting for $25.5B, boosted by $14B raised by Ant Financial
Despite escalating tensions between the US and China over trade and technology, Chinese companies accounted for nearly half …
Twitter says in the coming months it will test a Hide Tweet feature that allows users to hide replies to their tweets that others can view through a menu option
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Coinbase's acquisition of Neutrino, co-founded by the key people behind the controversial hacking tools vendor Hacking Team, sparks a #DeleteCoinbase campaign
Jordan Pearson / Motherboard :
Fact-checkers in India, including Facebook's fact-checking partners, say they have faced a deluge of misinformation on the tensions between India and Pakistan
“There's politics, religion, enemy nations, and a surge of nationalism in this situation. It's the perfect storm." Tweets: @cwellmon , @sagared , @bryanrwalsh , @sivavaid , and @amy_keegan . Thanks: ...
eBay will add two directors from activist shareholders Elliott and Starboard to its board, will consider possible sale of StubHub and the Classifieds Group
Bloomberg :
Revolut CFO Peter O'Higgins resigns this week in wake of allegations made against Revolut of allowing money laundering and using dodgy hiring practices
Finextra Research :
Austin-based SpyCloud, which says it has a repository of 32B+ decrypted, compromised credentials and uses it to fight account takeovers, raises $21M Series B
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
ThunderCore raises $50M from Arrington XRP, Pantera, SV Angel, others for its blockchain platform that it claims can be 100X faster than Ethereum and Bitcoin
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Civil to launch its blockchain on March 6 with individual and newsroom memberships and the ability to buy CVL tokens accessible via Civil's website
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Microsoft creates the Clinical Trials Bot, which connects patients and doctors to relevant clinical trials; drugmakers can also use it to find test subjects
often desperately ill ones — to find. So Microsoft built a bot that can connect them to drugmakers and researchers: http://www.bloomberg.com/... C. Michael Gibson MD / @cmichaelgibson : Using Machine ...
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