European Parliament approves the Copyright Directive, a controversial law including Article 11, dubbed the “link tax” and Article 13, dubbed the “upload filter”
Article 11 and Article 13 both approved by European politicians — The European Union has given …
Apple launches Apple News+ in US and Canada, a subscription service with news pubs like WSJ and 300+ mags, for $9.99/month and free sharing with family accounts
Vlad Savov / The Verge :
Apple quietly ends the option of funding Apple Pay Cash balances from credit cards, now allows instant transfers from Apple Pay Cash balance to Visa debit cards
Apple has quietly ended the the option of funding Apple Pay Cash balances from a credit card.
Uber to acquire Middle East rival Careem in a $3.1B deal with $1.7B in convertible notes and $1.4B in cash
- Uber's $3.1 billion agreement to buy Careem consists of $1.7 billion in convertible notes and $1.4 billion in cash. — Dubai-based Careem claims more than 30 million registered users …
Apple unveils Apple Card, a Mastercard credit card with 3% cashback on Apple purchases, 2% on Apple Pay transactions; rewards deposited daily to a user's Wallet
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
Report: Apple News+ will surface WSJ stories of general interest; subscribers will have access to 3 days worth of business and financial news in WSJ's archives
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Source: Wall Street Journal .
Apple Card has a rotating security code that is protected by Touch ID or Face ID, helping better prevent credit card fraud
Apple's new credit card has a curious security feature that will make it much more difficult to carry out credit card fraud. — The aptly named Apple Card …
The EU passed the Copyright Directive despite protests and compelling criticism of its central tenets, which will be costly to implement and likely ineffective
Upload filters and link taxes may be well intentioned, but critics say they're going to seriously screw up the open internet.
Apple shared surprisingly few details about TV+, with no price or launch date info, and little to show for its original content aside from bland announcements
Peter Kafka / Recode :
Apple announces Apple TV+, its new ad-free streaming service with original content from Spielberg, JJ Abrams, and others, coming to 100+ countries in the fall
At Apple's March special event, Apple has revealed its much-awaited Apple TV Channels streaming video service to the world …
Facebook removes 2,632 Pages, Groups, and accounts from Iran, Russia, Macedonia, and Kosovo from Facebook and Instagram for “coordinated inauthentic behavior”
Today we removed 2,632 Pages, Groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.
McDonald's is acquiring Dynamic Yield, which uses machine learning to personalize online shopping such as recommending products; source says deal worth $300M+
McDonald's is announcing an agreement to acquire personalization company Dynamic Yield. — The announcement does not include a price …
Huawei unveils 6.47-inch P30 Pro with a quad-camera system and up to 10x lossless zoom, Kirin 980 processor, 8GB RAM, and 4,200mAh battery, starting from €999
Huge battery, absentee bezels, and a promising new quad-camera system — What if you could have it all: super fast performance …
Apple News+ is a fine way to read magazines, but its UX's roots in Texture makes finding content from newspapers and digital news outlets difficult
Few entities have the potential to help improve news production and consumption more than Apple. This falls short of hopes.
Kaspersky: ASUS pushed a malicious backdoor to ~500K Windows machines for at least five months last year, after its live software update tool was compromised
Earlier today, Motherboard published … Lily Hay Newman / Wired : HACK BRIEF: HOW TO CHECK YOUR COMPUTER FOR ASUS UPDATE MALWARE Vibhuti Sharma / Reuters : Asus implements fix for malware attack Kasper...
Spotify has acquired Parcast, a podcasting studio which focuses on stories about true crime, cults, and unsolved mysteries
The podcast studio focuses on stories about true crimes, cults and unsolved mysteries. — Spotify is adding to its podcasting portfolio.
Apple's services event generally made sense, even if most products weren't ready to launch, but many of the ideas are simply borrowed from others
for a price Lance Ulanoff / OneZero : We Still Have a Ton of Questions About Apple's ‘Services’ Pivot Tweets: Nando Kasteleijn / @nandokasteleijn : “Yesterday didn't have many dings, and fair bit of o...
Apple Card, which comes to the US this summer, encourages Apple Pay usage but also offers a physical card that doesn't show card number, CVV, or expiration date
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET : Tweets: @gavinpurcell , @reckless , @trevwall , and @reckless Tweets: Gavin Purcell / @gavinpurcell : applauding for a credit card feels more dystopian than anything else th...
Apple announces Apple TV Channels, an on-demand, ad-free TV service with offline viewing in a new Apple TV app, coming in May to Mac, smart TVs, Roku, Fire TV
Chris Welch / The Verge :
A list of the 241 magazines that are currently available for Apple News+ in the US; 116 use the new Apple News Format, while 125 use traditional PDFs
Federico Viticci / MacStories : Tweets: @viticci , @bzamayo , and @viticci See also Mediagazer Tweets: Federico Viticci / @viticci : I went in and counted all the magazines available in Apple News+ -...
Images hidden in iOS 12.2 offer a first look at Apple's new “Powerbeats Pro” wireless sport earbuds with an AirPods-like case
Last week, a report suggested that Apple is planning to release a “truly wireless” version of Beats Powerbeats headphones next month.
Cryptocurrency mining equipment maker Bitmain's application for an IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange has now officially expired
Cryptocurrency mining equipment maker Bitmain's application for an initial public offering (IPO) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) has officially lapsed …
ASUS confirms its software update tool has been targeted by Advanced Persistent Threat attacks, releases tool to identify “small number” of affected devices
A press release released by ASUS this morning confirms Motherboard's reporting. — Yesterday, Motherboard revealed …
Apple announces an ad-free game subscription service, Apple Arcade, bundling 100+ paid offline-playable iPhone and iPad games, coming this fall, pricing TBD
Apple wants to tilt the balance from ad-laden freemium gaming titles towards upfront gaming experiences that can be downloaded across platforms on iOS and macOS.
Pentagon memo: docs about Google's Project Maven are exempt from disclosure via FOIA inquiries because they constitute “critical infrastructure security” info
In September 2017, Aileen Black wrote an email to her colleagues at Google. Black, who led sales to the U.S. government … Tweets: @samfbiddle , @franticgoat , @openthegov , @samfbiddle , @emilymanna ...
EU shuns US calls to ban Huawei, asking member states to share data on 5G cybersecurity risks and produce measures to tackle them by the end of 2019
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
Samsung issues a rare earnings warning for Q1 due to weak demand for chips and LCD screens used in smartphones, as the broader market slows
Ben Dooley / New York Times :
Apple will commission and fund games that will be exclusive to Apple Arcade, not even appearing as paid individual apps on the iOS App Store
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Israeli-based Innoviz, which makes the InnovizPro and InnovizOne solid state Lidar sensors, raises $132M Series C, bringing the total raised to $214M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Australia-based Airwallex, which lets companies manage cross-border revenue and financing, raises $100M Series C led by DST Global at a $1B+ valuation
now valued at $1B less than 3 years later with some big name investors that include Mastercard, Tencent, Hillhouse, Sequoia China and (leading this new $100M round) DST Global http://techcrunch.com/.....
Vlocity, which develops cloud solutions built on Salesforce's CRM platform, raises $60M Series C co-led by Sutter Hill Ventures and Salesforce Ventures
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
HTC's Vive Focus Plus standalone VR headset, aimed at enterprises, will go on sale for $800 starting April 15 in 25 global markets and will support 19 languages
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Top music labels, including Sony and Warner, sue Charter, alleging it profits from repeat copyright infringers motivated by its advertised high internet speeds
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Second Measure data: out of all US consumer lodging spending last year, Airbnb made up nearly 20%, up ~30% YoY, eclipsing Hilton and its subsidiaries
Rani Molla / Recode : Tweets: @ranimolla . Thanks: @varun_mathur Tweets: Rani Molla / @ranimolla : American consumers spent more on Airbnb than on Hilton last year. Marriott, the world's largest hote...
Google rolling out public event creation to some Google Maps users on Android
Ryne Hager / Android Police :
EA's Sea of Solitude, publishing this year, will join a growing number of video games, mostly from independent creators, that are tackling mental health issues
Laura Parker / New York Times : Tweets: @propublica Tweets: @propublica : Sea of Solitude, which Electronic Arts will publish this year, is among a growing number of video games that are tackling men...
Google launches Realtime Content Insights, a tool to help journalists identify trending news stories that could attract more readers
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Apple releases iOS 12.2 with Apple News+, new Animoji, HomeKit and AirPlay 2 support for some smart TVs, a streamlined Wallet interface, Safari updates, more
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
The history of Medium, told through a timeline of tweets, articles, and Ev Williams' own statements about the site
http://www.niemanlab.org/... @niemanlab : Medium has turned into “an endless thought experiment into what publishing on the internet could look like.” http://www.niemanlab.org/... Laura Hazard Owen / ...
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