UK's review of Huawei's telecommunications equipment finds “significant” security problems but does not call for an outright ban
Adam Satariano / New York Times :
Lyft opens up more than 20% on its first day of trading after raising $2.3B in its IPO, which valued the company at over $20B
- The offering marks the first debut from a heavyweight class of tech companies going public in 2019. — Lyft revealed skyrocketing revenues in its initial IPO prospectus …
Huawei reports ~$8.8B profit in 2018, up 25.1% YoY on revenue of ~$107.13B, up 19.5% YoY, boosted by strong revenue growth of 45.1% YoY in its consumer business
- Huawei reported revenue of 721.2 billion yuan ($107.13 billion) in 2018, a 19.5 percent year-on-year rise.
Coinbase Custody starts offering staking services to institutional clients, starting with Tezos
The Takeaway: — Coinbase Custody is offering staking services to institutional clients, starting with Tezos. — Client assets will remain inside Coinbase's fully insured cold storage at all times, mi...
Microsoft tells business users that Windows 10 1809, also known as the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, is ready for broad deployment
Microsoft finally is telling business users that Windows 10 1809, originally released last fall, is ready for deployment — just a month before Windows 10 1903 may start rolling out.
Russia tells ten major VPN providers including NordVPN, ExpressVPN, TorGuard, IPVanish, Kaspersky, Hola, and OpenVPN, to block sites on the country's blacklist
For the past several years, Russia has continued with its mission to restrict access to content the state finds objectionable.
Facebook says EU advertisers will need authorization to run ads for EU's May elections and ads related to politics and issues must have a “Paid for by” label
Richard Allan / Facebook :
Google pulls “conversion therapy” app after prominent LGBTQ group Human Rights Campaign suspended Google's ranking from its influential Corporate Equality Index
Google is pulling a controversial app that LGBTQ rights groups say engages in a form of conversion therapy …
Facebook launches new Ad Library that now makes all active ads and inactive political ads searchable, opens Ad Library API to all Facebook-verified developers
Now you can search Facebook for how much Trump has spent on ads in the past year, which Pages' ads reference immigration, or what a Page's previous names were.
US Department of Housing and Urban Development files charges against Facebook, saying the company's ad targeting tools enable violations of Fair Housing Act
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
Amazon launches Alexa for Business Blueprints, a set of templates for employees to create and publish private Alexa skills for their organization, in the US
Use Alexa in your place of work? There's cause for minor celebration: today marks the launch of Alexa for Business Blueprints …
More Apple Card details, including that a user can generate virtual card numbers for online non-Apple Pay purchases at any time by tapping a button
One of the most buzzy announcements on Apple's stage this week was Apple Card, its in-house credit card powered by Goldman Sachs and Mastercard.
Daimler Trucks to acquire a majority stake in Torc Robotics, which develops self-driving software, as part of a push to develop Level 4 self-driving trucks
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler Trucks has agreed to buy a majority stake in self-driving truck software maker Torc Robotics as part …
Apple to close Texture on May 28, will offer Texture customers a one-month free trial to Apple News+
A year ago, Apple acquired the digital newsstand app Texture to form the basis of its new subscription-based service, Apple News+, which launched on Monday.
Leaked Facebook emails reveal intense discussion over an anti-Semitic Instagram post by Alex Jones before it was taken down
- Business Insider has seen a lengthy Facebook email chain in which executives discuss Alex Jones' future on Instagram and removing an inflammatory post.
Inmates at two Finland prisons are classifying data to train AI for a startup building a database of companies; some experts have concerns about exploitation
Empowerment or exploitation? — “Prison labor” is usually associated with physical work, but inmates at two prisons in Finland …
Sources: HUD alerted Twitter and Google last year that it is scrutinizing their ad targeting practices for possible housing discrimination
The Trump administration delivered its first sanction of a tech giant Thursday, charging Facebook with housing discrimination in a move that could threaten …
Joel Spolsky announces he will step down as CEO of Stack Overflow and become chairman of the board, says the company booked $70M in revenue last year
Big news! We're looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I'm stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board. Tweets: @anildash , @gerstenzang , @fredwilson , @vboykis , ...
Study: 5.5% of the top 10K HTTPS websites have exploitable TLS flaws subtle enough that the green SSL certificate padlock still appears in up-to-date browsers
WIDESPREAD ADOPTION OF the web encryption scheme HTTPS has added a lot of green padlocks—and corresponding data protection—to the web.
LG says G8 ThinQ, its latest flagship, will be available on April 11 from all major US carriers starting at $820; pre-orders available on March 29
Stefan Etienne / The Verge :
Sources: Grab is considering spinning out its financial services business and is in talks with PayPal and Alibaba's Ant Financial over possible investments
Grab, the $16 billion-valued ride-hailing firm that acquired Uber's Southeast Asia business last year, is in talks with Alibaba's Ant Financial …
Twitter expands dark mode options for iOS users with a pure black Lights Out mode and an Automatic Dark Mode
Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac :
Security researcher charged with computer misuse in the UK after admitting to hacking Microsoft and Nintendo, which estimate the cost of damages at ~$3.8M
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Verizon rolls out a free version of Call Filter, its $3/month spam and robocall protection service
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Filing: Apple's Tim Cook, Qualcomm CEO Steven Mollenkopf, and execs and engineers from both companies to testify in the Apple vs Qualcomm trial starting Apr. 15
Why the Satellite Market Is Getting So Overcrowded Luke Dormehl / Cult of Mac : Tim Cook is ready to testify in Qualcomm trial Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : Apple CEO Tim Cook to testify at Qualcomm ...
Ellevest, a digital investment platform focused on helping women meet their financial goals, raises $33M Series A led by Rethink Impact and PSP Growth
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
FTC has secured $1.5B worth of fines from robocallers through court judgments since 2004 and has collected $121M or 8% of that amount
but collected only $6,790: https://on.wsj.com/2uxXvL6 pic.twitter.com/Z0EMSHHwMT Felix Salmon / @felixsalmon : “That number stands on its own. We're proud of it; we think our enforcement program is pr...
Leaked Apple documents outline a support program for third-party repairs that seems to comply with requirements of right-to-repair bills proposed in 20 states
Jason Koebler / Motherboard :
AirPods with Wireless Charging Case review: excellent wireless performance and reliability with support for Qi charging but using “Hey Siri” can be frustrating
Dan Seifert / The Verge : Tweets: @llsethj Tweets: Seth Weintraub / @llsethj : This frustration isn't exclusive to AirPods http://twitter.com/...
Indian ride-hailing company Ola to launch a car rental service in the coming weeks; sources: Ola will invest more than $500M in the service
Aditi Shrivastava / The Economic Times :
Sensor Tower: worldwide App Store spending will reach $96B by 2023, up 104% from $47B in 2018; Google Play will reach $60B, up 140% from $27B in 2018
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Office Depot and tech support vendor Support.com to pay the FTC $35M for allegedly persuading customers to buy computer repair services using fake malware scans
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Source: Carta, formerly eShares, is close to completing a $300M funding round led by a16z at a ~$1.8B valuation; Carta raised $80M in December
Zoë Bernard / The Information :
Kong, the open source API management platform company previously known as Mashape, raises $43M Series C led by Index Ventures
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Twitter's policy head Vijaya Gadde says it is experimenting with adding a “label” to notable tweets that break its standards explaining why they weren't removed
Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post :
Rela, a popular Chinese lesbian dating app, exposed data on 5M users, including dates of birth, height and weight, and sexual preferences, since June 2018
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
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