Facebook announces “Why am I seeing this post?”, a feature to help users better understand and control what is seen from friends, Pages, and Groups in News Feed
News Feed is always personalized to you — and starting today you'll have even more information and control over your experience.
Gmail launches email scheduling and brings Smart Compose to all Android phones with subject suggestions and personalized greetings
Despite Google's long-standing love affair with April Fools' fakery, fifteen years ago today the internet giant was deadly serious when it launched what would become one of its biggest products: Gmail...
Mark Zuckerberg, in a conversation with Axel Springer CEO, floats a “news tab to surface more high quality news”, says Facebook could pay publishers
The Facebook CEO floated a “news tab to surface more high-quality news,” and said he's willing to write checks to support it.
Mark Zuckerberg calls for global regulations in four areas: policing harmful content, election integrity, a GDPR-like privacy framework, and data portability
but some experts are questioning his motives Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run : Mark Zuckerberg: ‘I Believe We Need a More Active Role for Governments and Regulators’ David McCabe / Axios : Zuckerberg start...
Cloudflare says users can now sign up for its mobile-only VPN service Warp through its 1.1.1.1 app, says it has plans to offer a faster, paid version of Warp
VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS (VPNs) can help protect your internet traffic from prying eyes. VPN services route your email …
Airbnb confirms it has invested in Indian hotel startup Oyo; an industry source says the investment was between $150M and $200M
Airbnb is continuing to widen its focus beyond ‘unconventional’ hotels as it gets ready for a much-anticipated IPO. Following its acquisition of HotelTonight last month …
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says Fortnite's Creative mode, where players build together instead of battling, has attracted 100M players since its December launch
- Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says that the company has big plans for “Fortnite,” which it sees “evolving beyond being a game.”
Researchers tricked Tesla Autopilot into steering into the oncoming traffic lane by using stickers on the lane markings; Tesla says it has now patched the flaw
Researchers from Tencent Keen Security Lab have published a report detailing their successful attacks on Tesla firmware … Tweets: @dan_rowinski , @davezatz , and @nash076 Tweets: @dan_rowinski : This ...
Xealth, a platform for health service providers to manage non-drug prescriptions like health apps, wheelchairs, or insulin monitors, raises $11M Series A
Is there big market for prescriptions beyond drugs? Several investors with deep experience in health are betting on it …
Jeff Bezos' security chief says his investigation concluded with high confidence that Saudi Arabia “had access to Bezos' phone, and gained private information”
These are not April Fool items. Bobby Hellard / IT PRO : Jeff Bezos allegedly hacked by Saudi Arabia Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Security consultant claims Jeff Bezos' phone was hacked by Saudi Arab...
Group-IB describes a new Android malware, Gustuff, capable of phishing credentials and automating bank transactions for 100+ banks and 32 virtual currency apps
A new strain of malicious software affecting Android devices is capable of phishing credentials and automating bank transactions …
Zuckerberg's op-ed on regulations rings somewhat hollow because Facebook can already make plenty of improvements in the areas mentioned without government help
It's been a busy day for Facebook exec op-eds. Earlier this morning, Sheryl Sandberg broke the site's silence around the Christchurch massacre …
One week with Apple News+: it is great value for those who enjoy reading magazines but its design and news delivery mechanisms are messy and inconsistent
There's a lot to evaluate about Apple's new News Plus subscription service, including if it's a good deal for the media business … Tweets: @dcseifert Tweets: Dan Seifert / @dcseifert : .@nickstatt spe...
With Apple TV+, Apple enters a video streaming market with five different, but overlapping, categories and players like Netflix, Roku, AT&T, Hulu, and Google
In the U.S., Silicon Valley and media titans are competing in categories from subscription entertainment to hardware to online-TV bundles
Profile of Venezuela Hasta Los Tuétanos, a channel on the walkie-talkie like app Zello, that Venezuelans turn to in search for food, medical supplies, and truth
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired : Tweets: @zello and @zello Tweets: @zello : Since January 23, when opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself the rightful president of Venezuela, downloads of Zello insid...
People.cn, an arm of China's “People's Daily” paper, expands its AI-powered content scrubbing business for apps like Toutiao, hiring more human censors
BEIJING (Reuters) - People.cn, the online unit of China's influential People's Daily, is boosting its numbers … Tweets: @schuldensuehner Tweets: Holger Zschaepitz / @schuldensuehner : Censorship pays:...
Rakuten's stake in Lyft is now worth $2.46B, GM's $1.46B, Fidelity's $1.45B, a16z's $1.18B, Alphabet's $924M, Logan Green's $655M, and John Zimmer's $452M
Alison Griswold / Quartz :
Care.com, the largest site in the US for finding caregivers, scrubbed ~46,594 or ~72% of day-care centers claiming to have a state license, after a WSJ inquiry
Andrew Liptak / The Verge :
DappRadar: only 28% of active dapp users were on Ethereum blockchain as of January, losing major ground to Tron and EOS, which now leads with 48% of dapp users
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg : Tweets: @lrettig and @brendanblumer Tweets: Lane Rettig / @lrettig : I disagree strongly with most of the claims in this article. The figures on dappradar don't even begin t...
Equifax and FICO launch Data Decision Cloud, combining data behind their consumer credit scores for a new offering for financial companies and marketers
not “teaming up to sell consumer data” http://www.wsj.com/... @wsj : How much do credit firms know about you? A lot, often including your income, bank account balance and whether you paid your cellpho...
Poland fines Bisnode ~€220K for GDPR violations, while the data broker says contacting people for whom they only have a home address may cost it €8M+ in postage
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Tweets: @privasense Tweets: Jeroen Terstegge / @privasense : Polish DPA: “Inform data subjects about scraped data for commercial use”. My 2cts: The court(s) will use a ‘c...
A profile of payment card services startup Marqeta, which according to a source has doubled its revenue every year since 2016, reaching close to $150M in 2018
Jeff Kauflin / Forbes : Tweets: @lendacademy and @forbes Tweets: Peter Renton / @lendacademy : Great profile of @Marqeta and how Jason Gardner and his team have built a 21st century payments processo...
Proxy, a startup that is building a mobile identity layer on top of Bluetooth LE for keyless entry and more, raises $13.6M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Tweets: @joshconstine Tweets: Josh Constine / @joshconstine : What if Bluetooth could not just auto-unlock doors, but also sign you in to teleconferences, pay for transit...
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