Apple announces a special event on March 25 at the Steve Jobs Theater where it is expected to announce a streaming video service and a news subscription service
The rumors were true: Apple will hold its next special event on March 25th at Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California.
Senator Warren's proposal would create massive new problems, have significant unintended consequences, and not address the issues she is concerned about
Senator Elizabeth Warren deserves credit: I have been writing about antitrust, particularly in the context of Aggregation Theory …
Facebook pulled ads from Sen. Warren's campaign calling for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants, citing policy violations, but is now restoring them
Facebook removed several ads placed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren's presidential campaign that called for the breakup of Facebook and other tech giants.
Spotify Premium now includes a free subscription to Hulu's ad-supported plan; offer available to new and existing users in the US until June 10
This is the best deal in music streaming — Spotify Premium now includes a free subscription to Hulu's ad-supported plan.
Mozilla's free encrypted file sharing service Firefox Send is now available to all Firefox users and has its own Send Android app in beta
Mozilla has made privacy Firefox's calling card, while lambasting companies it believes don't meet the bar on security.
Lawsuit claims Amit Singhal, a former Google and Uber exec, was offered a $45M exit package after resigning from Google following a sexual assault accusation
Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo :
Lawsuit claims Larry Page personally approved a $150M stock grant to Andy Rubin without getting board approval, despite sexual harassment allegations
- Company co-founder bypassed board, revised investor suit says — Tech giant accused of covering up executive sexual misconduct
F5 Networks, which offers cloud and security application services, to acquire rival NGINX, which powers some of the busiest websites in the world, for $670M
F5 Networks says it is acquiring NGINX, one of the most popular web servers on the internet today, for $670 million.
Researchers find a severe flaw in the new Swiss online voting system, slated to roll out this year, which they say would allow someone to alter votes undetected
Researchers have found a severe issue in the new Swiss internet voting system that they say would let someone alter votes undetected.
The Bay Area is no longer the best place to start tech companies, as rising housing costs push workers to join established companies with market salaries
California is hard to beat. There are richer places with worse weather, there are (a few) nicer climates with worse economies …
Amazon drops the price of Eero bundles by $100 and pledges to keep Eero's network data private, as its acquisition of the company officially closes
Eero will be run independently inside Amazon — Amazon's deal to acquire mesh Wi-Fi router company Eero has officially closed …
Investing app Stash raises $65M Series E, partners with Green Dot to debut banking and “stock-back” rewards, which go to users spending money from Stash account
Stash, the fintech startup and app that aims to introduce new people to the world of investing …
Facebook's VP of public policy and France's technology minister talk about Facebook's ongoing cooperation with the French government in fighting hate speech
PARIS — When French President Emmanuel Macron decided to combat hate speech online he turned to the very person many blame for its rapid spread … Tweets: @mathewi , @katherinemiller , @standwithus , a...
A look at the emergence of Atlanta as the nation's black tech capital, where about 25% of tech workers were reported to be African American in 2016
ATLANTA — Over an iPad and a cup of tea, Marcus Blackwell Jr. is talking up his mobile app that uses music to help kids learn math. Tweets: @jguynn , @carnage4life , @nmsanchez , @usatoday , @geoffdun...
Source: Amazon will no longer tell third-party sellers that they can't sell the same goods for a lower price on another site
David McCabe / Axios :
Intel and a consortium including Google and Microsoft debut CXL, a new open standard for faster interconnect between datacenter CPUs and accelerator chips
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Web performance and security company Cloudflare raises $150M round led by Franklin Templeton ahead of a rumored IPO
Cloudflare, a web performance and security platform, has raised $150 million in a round of funding led by Franklin Templeton. — Founded in 2009, Cloudflare offers a range …
twttr, Twitter's beta app to test new ideas, is launching today for some English and Japanese users on iOS, starting with a new design that color-codes replies
Twitter has announced the rollout … Mikael Thalen / The Daily Dot : Twitter rolls out prototype app ‘twttr’ to let users test new features Michael Allison / MSPoweruser : Twitter launches a new app to...
Nvidia to buy Mellanox Technologies, which makes chips and other hardware for data center servers, for $6.9B
a rich multiple the result of a bidding war with Intel and Xilinx. But once again, what are they really buying? Jeremy Eder / @jeremyeder : This makes a ton of sense to me. We've been working extensiv...
OpenAI creates a new “capped-profit” company called OpenAI LP which will raise outside investments but will have a capped return
OpenAI LP — which will raise outside money but have a capped return.http://openai.com/... http://twitter.com/...
PayPal to invest $750M and Dragoneer $100M in MercadoLibre, an e-commerce marketplace and financial services powerhouse based in Argentina
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Researchers find Box enterprise cloud storage accounts leaking sensitive data like prices for donated body parts and backdoor passwords to city waterworks
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Source: Waymo is seeking financing from outside investors such as the German automaker Volkswagen
Amir Efrati / The Information :
YouTube Stories and ARCore now offer an Augmented Faces API which lets users add Snapchat-like AR effects to short video clips
Shelby Brown / CNET :
More than 200 publishing and music organizations, including Reuters and the Press Association, call for adoption of the new EU copyright directive
Freddy Mayhew / Press Gazette :
Facebook has launched a new funding program for Facebook Watch shows pairing publishers and creators, starting with 12 publishers including BuzzFeed, Condé Nast
Sahil Patel / Digiday :
Nielsen data on US Facebook users from August 2016 to October 2018 shows a 10% decline in usage per person YoY across all age brackets
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post :
Amazon's Alexa platform, which has 80,000 skills, has yet to have a breakout hit; interviews with developers show Amazon pays up to $5,000/month for a skill
Matt Day / Bloomberg : Tweets: @mattmday Tweets: Matt Day / @mattmday : Amazon's Alexa has 80,000 apps, from Spotify to trivia and phone finders. But is any one of them a transformative, you-must-buy...
Source: a16z to open a San Francisco office later this year, but won't close its Sand Hill Road offices and doesn't plan to rent an entire building
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
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