Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to start manufacturing its AR headset between Q4 2019 and Q2 2020; the headset will rely on iPhone for rendering and connectivity
Apple talks about augmented reality at any opportunity it gets, but so far its fierce ambition has only materialized to consumers as ARKit apps on the iPhone and iPad.
Google says the Chrome zero-day it patched last week was used with a zero-day impacting Windows 7 32-bit systems and that Microsoft said it's working on a fix
On Wednesday, February 27th, we reported two 0-day vulnerabilities — previously publicly-unknown vulnerabilities …
Sen. Warren proposes tech regulation, including breaking up big tech and rolling back acquisitions at Amazon, Google, and Facebook, as part of her 2020 bid
Team WarrenBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing — Twenty-five years ago, Facebook, Google, and Amazon didn't exist.
Researchers find unprotected database owned by an email validation company with 150 GB of plaintext marketing data, including 763M unique email addresses
Last week, security researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered an unprotected, publicly accessible MongoDB database containing …
A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking
My focus for the last couple of years has been understanding and addressing the biggest challenges facing Facebook. This means taking positions on important issues concerning the future of the intern...
Twitter adds new options to its reporting process for tweets that contain personal information, allowing users to specify what type of info was shared
New options will let users flag the specific type of personal information that is being reported — Twitter is adding new options …
Sony launches PS4 Remote Play app for iOS, four and a half years after it first landed on Android and three years after it arrived on PC and Mac
The latest update to the PlayStation 4 operating system has a feature that some users have craved since 2014.
Microsoft rolls out new Skype for Web with HD video calling, built-in call recording, and redesigned notifications
Hate installing Skype? Good news: Microsoft's revamping the messaging app's browser-based client with a slew of new features. The Seattle company today announced the rollout …
Spotify, Google, Pandora, and Amazon have filed to appeal a copyright ruling that increases payouts to songwriters by 44%; sources: Apple not planning to appeal
Amazon is filing a separate appeal against the ruling, which would increase writer rates by nearly 50%.
Report: the goal of Chinese state-run social media influence campaigns is to promote an idealized view of China rather than sow discord among the US public
Recorded Future analyzed data from several Western social media platforms from October 1, 2018 through February 22 …
Turnitin, a developer of AI software that checks for plagiarism, will be acquired by media conglomerate Advance Publications, reportedly for nearly $1.75B
A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry.
A senior Facebook source says the company has no plans to enter China, after Zuckerberg says Facebook won't build data centers in countries that violate privacy
Since Patched—Let Hackers See Who Facebook Messenger Users Were Chatting With, Researcher Says Alex Hern / The Guardian : Mark Zuckerberg's privacy blogpost: what he did and didn't say Chris Nuttall /...
Facebook will curb vaccine misinformation by reducing the ranking of anti-vaccine Pages and groups, halting recommendations for those pages, rejecting ads, more
and dumber—Facebook announces crackdown Louise Matsakis / Wired : Facebook Will Crack Down on Anti-Vaccine Content Michael Allison / MSPoweruser : Facebook decides to quarantine anti vaxxers Napier Lo...
Airbnb says it is acquiring discount hotel booking app HotelTonight for an undisclosed sum; HotelTonight was valued at $463M in a March 2017 funding round
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A profile of Via, a New York ride-hailing company that pays drivers more than Uber and Lyft, aims to be eco-friendly, and tries to “strengthen public transit”
Via pays its drivers more than any other company, focuses on environmentally friendly practices, and wants to decrease traffic congestion. Tweets: @anrao and @viavan_lon Tweets: Ankita Rao / @anrao : ...
London-based PolyAI, which develops “conversational AI agents” for use in customer support contact centers, raises $12M Series A led by Point72 Ventures
PolyAI, a London startup founded by experts in the field of “conversational AI” — including CEO Nikola Mrkšić …
Okta, a provider of identity management services for enterprises, plans to acquire Seattle-based workflow automation startup Azuqua for $52.5M in cash
Robert Hackett / Fortune :
Sensor Tower: Pokémon GO has earned nearly $2.45B and had ~550M downloads since its July 2016 launch; the six Pokémon mobile games have earned ~$2.5B combined
Brittany Vincent / Variety :
Amazon has abruptly stopped buying products from thousands of wholesale vendors and is encouraging them to instead sell direct to customers on its marketplace
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg :
Huawei sues the US government, challenging a law that bans federal agencies from buying the company's products
Social investing and trading platform eToro, which operates in 140+ countries, launches a crypto trading platform and wallet service in 30 US states
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Facebook says it has removed 23 Pages, 74 accounts, 5 Groups, and 35 Instagram accounts that were part of a UK-based, domestic-focused misinformation network
Bird plans to roll out Bird Platform, which outsources its scooter-sharing business to aspiring entrepreneurs, to New Zealand, Canada, and Latin America
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
Report: in 2018, 889K+ users were attacked with banking Trojans, up ~16% YoY, while Android banking malware attacked ~1.8M users, up 300%+ YoY
Kaspersky Lab / Securelist :
A look at Amazon's lobbying efforts in DC, where it spent $14.2M last year, a record for the company, up from its previous high mark of $12.8M in 2017
and was second only to Google the number of issues it tried to influence http://bloomberg.com/... http://twitter.com/...
SoftBank launches the Innovation Fund, starting with a $2B commitment to invest in Latin American tech startups in e-commerce, fintech, healthcare, and more
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
An overview of Amazon's media strategies, which include partnering with channels, expanding sports rights, and connecting content to products it sells
Alex Sherman / CNBC :
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.