UK whitepaper proposes “code of best practice” for how internet platforms should deal with harmful content, suggests expanding liability to tech company execs
Internet sites could be fined or blocked if they fail to tackle “online harms” such as terrorist propaganda and child abuse, under government plans.
Sonos and Ikea unveil a $179 Symfonisk table lamp and a $99 bookshelf speaker, both of which can be controlled with Sonos' app, shipping in August
The lamp speaker and a bookshelf speaker are coming in August — Sonos and Ikea have fully unveiled the pair of speakers that the two companies have collaborated on for years.
Pinterest sets IPO price range at $15-$17 per share, valuing it at $11.3B at the top of the range, below its last valuation of $12.3B when it raised privately
After dropping its IPO filing two weeks ago, today Pinterest, the social media platform where people can discover and share ideas …
Microsoft changes the default removal policy for external storage like USB thumb drives in Windows 10 from “Better performance” to “Quick removal”
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Viber launches Viber Local Number, a new $4.99/month subscription service to give users a phone number that anyone can call or text, in the US, UK, and Canada
Viber, the chat and messaging app acquired by Japanese ecommerce titan Rakuten for $900 million five years ago …
Sources: Monzo is close to raising £100M from Y Combinator, which would give the UK-based digital bank a pre-money valuation of £2B, up from £1B in October
Just 5 months after announcing £85 million in Series E funding, Monzo is already gearing up to raise additional funding …
Microsoft makes developer and “canary” builds of its Chromium-based Edge browser available today for Windows 10 64-bit, says builds for macOS “coming soon”
Microsoft today released the first Edge build based on Google's Chromium open source project, the same browser that Google's Chrome is based on.
Facebook and Google have placed op-eds and dozens of paid “native ad” articles across major publications, amid other media efforts, to steer future regulations
Three years on from the US election, tech firms are seeking rules that won't hit their profits
Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012 which says it has 12,000 customers, raises $150M Series B from Summit Partners
Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012, went about building its email marketing business the old fashioned way.
2U, which provides online degree programs for top US universities, acquires Trilogy Education, which creates tech bootcamp programs for higher ed, for $750M
As more universities turn to offering online degrees to expand their student bodies by way of cyberspace, one of the pioneers …
With Snap Kit, Snap moves on from being a “Camera company” and becomes a camera platform, enabling developers to embed, not copy, its best features
Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg's army of clones. For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried …
Upstart, a peer-to-peer lending platform which uses AI to make credit decisions and to eliminate fraud, raises $50M Series D, bringing the total raised to $160M
Upstart, a startup founded by ex-Googlers that uses AI to identify who should get a loan and of what size, said today it has raised $50 million.
Microsoft partners with HackerOne, says its bug bounty program awarded $2M+ in 2018, now pays bounties faster, and has increased max rewards from $15K to $50K
Dropbox pays out $319,300 in bug bounties for a HackerOne event in Singapore that focused on the file sharing service and its subsidiary HelloSign
Cloud storage vendor forks out $319,300 in a one-day bug bounty programme that galvanised 45 HackerOne members in Singapore …
Ruhnn, a Chinese startup enabling influencers to sell via e-commerce, raised $125M in its IPO Wednesday after listing on Nasdaq, but shares fell 20%+ by Friday
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
Bitglass, which allows organizations to extend their security policies beyond their own data centers, raises $70M Series D led by Quadrille Capital
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion gather “alternative” credit data like rental payments to expand credit to more people, but it may hurt those same people, too
Steven Melendez / Fast Company : Tweets: @pasternack Tweets: Alex P. / @pasternack : 2 years after the Equifax breach, the giant credit bureaus are increasingly mining whole new mountains of your *al...
Survey: fewer than 50% of US adults expect Google to collect data on users' activities on its platforms or apps, track personal browsing for ad targeting, more
Jason Kint / Nieman Lab : Tweets: @eff and @niemanlab See also Mediagazer Tweets: @eff : According to @NiemanLab, “nearly two out of three consumers don't expect Google to track them across non-Googl...
Profile of Tencent's Keen Lab which exposed a number of flaws in Tesla Autopilot over the years, most recently by using stickers on lane markings
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post :
Q&A with France's new digital minister Cédric O on regulating big tech, moderating content through a neutral central repository, tech industry in France, more
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch : Tweets: @romaindillet and @techcrunch Tweets: Romain Dillet / @romaindillet : A tiny little scoop. I got the first interview of France's new digital minister @cedric_o. A...
How Waze is working with Transport for London through its Connected Citizens program, which has 900 partners, to launch the city's new Ultra Low Emission Zone
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat : Tweets: @medicalquack , @lbonesini , and @tombamonte Tweets: @medicalquack : LOL! I keep hearing on the LA news what a hassle this app has created pushing volume traffic d...
Automotive company Lear acquires connected-car software maker Xevo, which runs an in-car e-commerce platform called Xevo Market, for $320M
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
Hands on with Android Q Beta 2: deep dive into an early version of Bubbles multitasking UI, a look at the changes to notifications and gesture navigation, more
one more thing to learn/implement for minimal savings, plus you can never have the full app there so they are always missing something. (bubbles ≠ multitasking).
Cybersecurity startup deepwatch raises $23M Series A to fuel expansion and R&D, says it's grown to 130 employees and over 100 customers
Katie Fustich / Built In Colorado :
Researchers: Chinese HR-focused companies have leaked over 590M resumes, many with non-public personal details, via exposed databases in the last 3 months
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
VSCO sues photo editing app PicsArt alleging false advertising and violations of its ToS, claims PicsArt reverse engineered 19 filters from VSCO
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
How fraud-detection services like Sift and SecureAuth use thousands of signals and opaque algorithms to generate user-trustworthiness scores
Why ‘Move Fast and Break Things’ Is Out Tweets: Ellen Timmer / @ellen_timmer : When you're logging in to a Starbucks account, booking an Airbnb or making a reservation on OpenTable, loads of informati...
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