Source: Apple's planned game subscription service for iOS will only include paid titles, not freemium ones, and will pay developers based on user play time
- Devices take a back seat to video, news, gaming subscriptions — Company tries biggest strategy change since the iPhone in 2007
What to expect from Apple on March 25: a paid news service, a video service with original content, a content hub in the TV app, a credit card, and no hardware
now we'll finally find out Apple's plan Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge : ‘I finally cracked it’: An abridged history of Apple's TV efforts over the years Jason Singh / PiunikaWeb : Daily Apple News: Air...
A look at an early version of Microsoft's new Chromium-powered Edge browser
This could be your new default browser on Windows — Microsoft is rebuilding its Edge browser on Chromium. The software maker has been testing versions of this browser internally at Microsoft …
Pinterest had 250M MAUs in 2018, two thirds of them female; avg. US user generated $9.04, up 47% YoY, while avg. international user generated $0.25, up 22% YoY
Pinterest revealed a trove of data about its more than 250 million monthly active users in an IPO filing on Friday (March 22).
Report: Apple will charge $9.99/mo each for subscriptions to HBO, Showtime, and Starz, monetize its own content; premium news service will cost $9.99/mo
For the first time, Apple will present its Services vision to the public at tomorrow's March 25 event. Source: Wall Street Journal .
A Redmonk study, combining GitHub and Stack Overflow data, finds TypeScript, Kotlin, and Julia usage is up, while Go, R, Scala, Clojure, Groovy usage is down
This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by IBM. From Java to Node.js, IBM remains at the forefront of open source innovation.
LA to limit scooter companies that don't share GPS data with the city to 30-day permit and 3K scooter fleet, while those that do can have fleets of up to 10.5K
Los Angeles is pumping the brakes on scooter companies that won't tell it what part of the city you're wheeling around.
Popular people-tracking app Family Locator left real-time location data of more than 238,000 users exposed online for weeks via an unprotected database server
A popular family tracking app was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks after the developer left a server exposed without a password.
DHS watchdog report says FEMA exposed personal info of ~2.3M US disaster survivors, including some personal addresses and banking info, to a federal contractor
and that 1.8 million people had both their banking information and addresses revealed. FEMA says no evidence it was misused. OIG identity theft risk is high http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... http://t...
In-depth profile of Maksym Igor Popov, an infamous Ukrainian hacker whose stated goal was to create conflict and cyberwar between nations using disinformation
Years before the Russian-operated persona Guccifer 2.0 appeared on the internet to claim they were a hacktivist responsible for the DNC breach … Tweets: @ryp__ Tweets: Robert Young Pelton / @ryp__ : R...
Toy brands increasingly develop packaging and prepare surprises so that toy unboxing, popular among kids on YouTube, will look good on camera
and it's changed the way kids play. http://www.vox.com/... Meredith Haggerty / @manymanywords : First up, toy unboxing videos are changing the very toys that get made — from YouTuber collabs to packag...
Sources: Uber to announce the $3.1B acquisition of Dubai-based Careem soon, paying $1.4B in cash and $1.7B in convertible notes at a price of $55 per Uber share
Uber Technologies Inc. is set to announce a $3.1 billion cash-and-share deal to acquire its Dubai-based rival Careem Networks FZ … Tweets: @umarsaif and @thisisaby Tweets: Umar Saif / @umarsaif : If t...
New York-based Jitjatjo, an on-demand staffing marketplace that matches service and hospitality businesses with temp workers, announces $11M Series A
It's not easy finding quality workers in a pinch, particularly if you're in the service and hospitality industry.
Iterable, a startup that helps companies build marketing campaigns, raises $50M Series C to expand cross-channel marketing platform
Iterable, a startup that helps companies build complex marketing campaigns across channels to reduce churn and increase usage, announced a $50 million Series C round today.
An overview of Japan's startup ecosystem, which ranked sixth globally in venture funding in 2017, as interest in deep tech startups ramps up
Editor's note: this insightful guest post was penned by Norihiko Isawa, a strategy consultant at the Tokyo Office of Roland Berger. Tweets: @misssaxbys Tweets: Eleanor Warnock / @misssaxbys : Good rou...
Mozilla announces a new version of Firefox for iOS that has been optimized for iPad with support for split screen and keyboard shortcuts
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Alibaba, Tencent, Suning, and several Chinese carmakers have set up a ~$1.5B joint venture to invest in a ride-hailing company focusing on new energy vehicles
A look at the battle between hacking tool vendors such as NSO Group and UAE-based DarkMatter as they compete for business from authoritarian governments
the world's new mercenaries Insightful read by my friend @ronenbergman New Age of Warfare: How Internet Mercenaries Do Battle for Authoritarian Governments http://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : A new ...
A profile of Citizen, a crime tracking app that notifies users in NYC, SF Bay Area, Baltimore, and LA when a crime or a major incident is reported near them
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A profile of PC4R, a crowdfunded charity that is helping refugees request funds for their pay-as-you-go mobile accounts via a Facebook group with 60K+ members
Alissa Greenberg / Pacific Standard : Tweets: @pacificstand , @pacificstand , @tentorg , and @ted_scheinman Tweets: Pacific / @pacificstand : “He was able to call his mother in Sudan for the first ti...
In its lawsuit over JEDI contract, Oracle claims an Amazon staffer who had a stint at Pentagon, and is now at AWS, shaped the $10B contract in Amazon's favor
New York Times : Tweets: @thomaskaplan , @carter_pe , @economictimes , @defensebaron , @nytimesatwar , @economictimes , and @nytimes Tweets: Thomas Kaplan / @thomaskaplan : The founder of a start-up ...
Inside the rivalry between Southeast Asia's Grab and Go-Jek, the ride-hailing services evolving to provide everything from groceries to mortgages
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