Apple responds to Spotify's complaint, says Spotify seeks to keep all the benefits of the App Store “without making any contributions to that marketplace”
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Facebook's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and VP of WhatsApp Chris Daniels are leaving the company
Today Mark Zuckerberg shared the following post with employees. — Hey everyone — I want to share some important updates as we organize our company to build out the privacy-focused social platform …
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter struggle to halt the spread of the horrific New Zealand shooting video; one of the shooters livestreamed the attack on Facebook
Hong Kong (CNN Business)Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are struggling to halt the spread of horrific footage that appears to show …
Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles gets suspended jail term for falsifying financial data but is acquitted of bitcoin embezzlement
The high-flying creator of the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange received a suspended jail sentence of 2½ years after a Japanese court Friday found him guilty on charges of data manipulation.
Facebook debuts new AI technology to detect revenge porn shared on Facebook and Instagram and an online resource hub for its victims
When someone's intimate images are shared without their permission it can be devastating. To protect victims, it's long been our policy …
Sources: Chris Cox and Chris Daniels left in part over conflicts with Zuckerberg's plan to integrate Facebook's services into a single privacy-focused platform
SAN FRANCISCO — Two of Facebook's top executives — one regarded as the company's No. 3, and the other the head …
Google Docs grows as a popular secret communication tool for teens as parents and teachers, unaware of its chat feature, assume students are just taking notes
When the kids in Skyler's school want to tell a friend something in class, they don't scrawl a note down on a tiny piece of paper and toss it across the room.
Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees detail the process and the difficulty of moderating Facebook Live
On Friday, at least 49 people were killed in terror attacks in New Zealand. Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees show …
Facebook says all of its services are now operational, attributes the downtime to a “server configuration change”
Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook all appear to be operating normally — Facebook is reporting all services operational after a prolonged outage that impacted all of the company's most popular apps.
Tether drops the claim that it's “always backed 1-to-1 with traditional currency”, now says it's “100% backed by reserves”, emboldening the stablecoin's critics
Tether just updated its website to clarify that each of its USDT tokens, which it used to claim were …
In a test of 250 Android antivirus apps in the Google Play Store, only 80 could detect more than 30% of malware, and only 23 had 100% detection rate
Only 23 Android antivirus apps had a 100 percent detection rate with no false positives. — An organization specialized …
Apple announces WWDC 2019 will be held June 3-7 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose
Apple has officially announced dates and opened registration for its annual developer conference where it will likely unveil iOS 13, macOS 10.15, watchOS 6, and tvOS 13.
Source: Snap plans to announce its gaming platform, which will feature games by outside developers designed for the Snapchat app, at a partner summit on April 4
Snap Inc. plans to announce its long-rumored gaming platform for developers next month, Cheddar has learned.
Researchers find unsecured database of Chinese online shopping giant Gearbest exposing 1.5M+ records, including customer data, orders, and payments
Gearbest, a Chinese online shopping giant, has exposed millions of user profiles and shopping orders, security researchers have found.
Facebook says Will Cathcart will become VP of WhatsApp, Fidji Simo will lead the Facebook app, and Javier Olivan will explore integrating Facebook's products
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Cosmos, a highly anticipated blockchain designed to provide interoperability between other blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum, goes live
Cosmos, a highly anticipated blockchain itself designed to improve the interoperability between any number of other blockchains, has officially released a live software.
Lyft's average revenue of $3.75 per ride is about the same for car trips as for bicycles and scooters, which incur no driver-related costs
What does it say about Lyft's financial viability that each car ride is worth the same as a scooter or bike trip? You decide.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov claims that 3M new users signed up to the service during a 24 hour period which coincides with the period of Facebook outages
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Samsung Notebook 9 Pro review: solid build quality with a sharp display but it has a MacBook Pro-like shallow keyboard and fingerprint scanner is inconsistent
Samsung's latest laptop fixes many of the issues of older models, but does it with zero flair — What do you do if you're …
Analysis: share prices for some of Apple's top suppliers declined 23% YoY on average in 2018, while Apple's share price only fell 5%
As Apple goes, so go its suppliers—but worse. — Share prices for top companies that make parts for Apple products declined far more than Apple's own stock …
Tiger Global says managing partner Lee Fixel, who helped lead investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Spotify, and more, is stepping down
Lee Fixel is stepping down as the managing partner of Tiger Global, where he has helped lead successful investments in such “unicorn” companies as Facebook, Flipkart, LinkedIn and Spotify.
Slack says it has removed 28 accounts for having a “clear affiliation with known hate groups”
Chat competitor Discord has faced similar issues — Workplace chat company Slack said today it's removed 28 accounts for having a “clear affiliation with known hate groups.”
Massachusetts-based health research company TriNetX, which provides clinical data and analytics to researchers, raises $40M, bringing total raised to $102M
TriNetX, a health research company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, today announced that it has raised $40 million …
Garmin targets the high-end watch market with a new Marq line of premium smartwatches priced between $1,500 and $2,500
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Samsung says it has begun mass production of 10nm 12GB LPDDR4X DRAM chip for smartphones, targets 34.1 GBps data transfer rates
Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers :
Valve announces an early beta of Steam Link Anywhere, a Steam Link extension that allows users to connect to their computers and play games from anywhere
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
TPG Capital fires Bill McGlashan, who managed TPG Growth, an investor in Airbnb, Spotify, and Uber, after the DOJ charged him in a college admissions scandal
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Sources: Uber will issue its public S-1 and start its IPO roadshow in April
Adobe reports Q1 revenue of $2.6B, vs. $2.55B estimated by analysts, subscription revenue of $2.3B, and product revenue of $170M
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Facebook starts rolling out a dedicated Facebook Gaming tab with a personalized feed for some users
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Rakuten TV, a video on demand service which has 7M users, expands to 30 new countries in Europe, bringing the total countries served to 42
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Microsoft launches a new cross-platform mobile SDK that allows game developers to add Xbox Live features to iOS or Android games
It'll be interesting to see how well this gets supported compared to the native solutions - https://developer.microsoft.com/ ... (and from a user point of view, on iOS, Game Center barely seems to ex...
Discord says it will now let developers sell their games directly in their Discord server as well as use Discord to run alphas, betas, and early access tests
Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat :
Flight-hailing startup BlackBird, which says it has 700+ pilots who fly passengers between 50 and 500 miles from and within California, raises $10M Series A
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
Google says it removed 2.3B bad ads in 2018, down 28% from 2017 and terminated ~1M bad advertiser accounts, including ~734K publishers and app developers
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Sources: Facebook's data-sharing deals under federal criminal investigation; an NY grand jury subpoenaed at least two device-makers who partnered with Facebook
New York Times :
Amazon has hired more than 150 PhD economists, making it the largest US employer in the field behind institutions like the Federal Reserve
Lydia DePillis / CNN :
HTC's subscription service Viveport Infinity, which gives access to a catalog of 600+ VR apps and games, will launch on April 2nd and cost $13/month or $99/year
Jon Fingas / Engadget :
Twitter appoints a VP of People Experience and Head of Diversity and Inclusion, says its current workforce is now 40.2% female, 4.5% black, and 3.9% Latinx
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