Source: FTC and Facebook are negotiating a settlement where Facebook must appoint a federally approved privacy official and create a privacy oversight committee
Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are negotiating a possible settlement that would require the company …
Google says it will roll out a new tool that lets users limit how long it keeps location, search, and browsing data to either three or 18 months
Last August, the Associated Press reported that various Google apps store the timestamped locations of the devices on which they're installed.
In its Q2 earnings release, Qualcomm says its settlement with Apple will yield $4.5B-$4.7B in revenue for the next quarter
In its quarterly earnings released today, Qualcomm said it would record $4.5-$4.7 billion revenue in the coming quarter as part of its settlement of a long-running intellectual-property quarrel with A...
Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue of $4.98B, down 4.6% YoY, profit of $663M, up from $330M YoY, but lackluster Q3 guidance due to weak demand for smartphones in China
- CEO points to ongoing soft demand in biggest market for phones — Apple licensing terms will be ‘consistent’ with program
Putin signs bill that intends to give Russia a “sovereign internet” the Kremlin could disconnect from the global web; the bill goes into effect on November 1
Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a law on Wednesday that intends to give the country a “sovereign internet” …
Researchers reverse engineer an app used by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang which connects to a mass surveillance system for tracking Muslim minorities
‘Reverse Engineering’ Police App Reveals Profiling and Monitoring Strategies — Languages — Chinese authorities are using …
Zuckerberg opens F8 reiterating Facebook's new focus on a “privacy-focused communications platform” prioritizing end-to-end encryption and interoperability
get yours and pre-order now on http://oculus.com/ http://twitter.com/... Jason Rubin / @jason_rubin : . @oculus Quest and Rift S now open for pre-orders and shipping on May 21! Gaming in VR is better ...
OurPact says Apple's MDM comments are misleading, compares Apple's claims in defense of removing apps that use MDM with quotes from Apple's documentation
Apple Removed OurPact From the App Store. Here's What You Need to Know. — On Saturday, April 27th, The New York Times exposed …
LG's mobile division continues its slide into irrelevance with Q1 loss of $181M on sales of just $1.34B, down 30% YoY and its lowest in at least eight years
LG was once a stalwart of the smartphone industry — remember its collaboration with Facebook back in the day? — but today the company is swiftly descending into irrelevance.
How Satya Nadella led Microsoft to have more subscribers than Netflix, more cloud computing revenue than Google, and a near-trillion-dollar market cap
The congratulatory texts and tweets started the last week of November. Microsoft had overtaken Apple to become the world's most valuable company …
At F8, Facebook emphasized products and features it aspires to become dominant tomorrow, but despite much talk, didn't actually launch any new privacy features
Zuckerberg gets aspirational — In Facebook's dreams, it's a clean and private place. People spend their time having …
Sources: Huawei plans to enter TV market, launching a 5G-enabled 8K TV as early as this year
Telecom giant deepens push into consumer electronics taking on Samsung and Apple — TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies plans to introduce the world's first 5G television as early as this year …
Facebook launches two new open source AI tools: BoTorch, based on PyTorch, for Bayesian library optimization and Ax, a platform for managing AI experiments
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Flashpoint says April Wipro attack was done by hackers who may have been operating under the radar since '15, have the hallmarks of an advanced, organized group
New details are emerging in the April attack on systems consulting behemoth Wipro, which saw its network hacked and used for mounting attacks on a dozen of its customers.
Behind the fiasco of Star Citizen, a primarily crowdfunded video game that has raised ~$300M and isn't close to full launch after seven years of development
It's October 2018 and 2,000 video game fanatics are jammed into Austin's Long Center for the Performing Arts to get a glimpse of Star Citizen …
Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer and others on AI techniques and progress in identifying image, video, and multi-lingual text content violating Facebook's rules
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg often asserts that AI will substantially cut down on the amount of abuse perpetrated by millions of ill-meaning Facebook users.
FreightHub, which offers transport services for sea, air, and rail freight built on digitized processes, raises $30M Series B led by Rider Global, Maersk Growth
FreightHub, the European digital freight forwarder, has raised $30 million in Series B financing.
Indio raises $20M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from 8VC, for its white-label platform that digitizes insurance applications
Indio Technologies, an insurance technology platform that's setting out to “modernize” the insurance application and renewal process …
CirrusMD, a “chat-first” virtual care provider that connects patients with doctors, raises $15M Series B led by Drive Capital
The global telemedical market, which encompasses tech that facilitates remote medical diagnosis and treatment, is expected to climb …
Spotify launches voice-enabled ads, which encourage the listener to say a command to take action on the ad's content, in a limited test in the US
Spotify is increasing its investment in voice technology, as hinted at earlier this week on the company's earnings call with investors. Tweets: @jordancooper , @cycle_soosai , and @tonyromm Tweets: Jo...
Global smartwatch shipments up 48% YoY in Q1 2019: Apple Watch grew 49% YoY for a 35.8% market share, followed by Samsung's 127% YoY growth for an 11% share
Top nine brands contribute to 75% of the market shipment. Samsung, Fitbit, and Huawei grew exponentially in Q1 2019
Sean Parker-backed Brigade says civic issues service Countable has acquired its IP, deletes “non-essential” user data, open sources voter file matching software
Causes grew to a jaw-dropping 200 million users as one of the first 10 Facebook platform apps.
Judge denies Lyft's petition to overturn New York City's minimum wage rule for ride-hailing drivers
Graham Rapier / Business Insider :
FCC fixes an error in its broadband deployment data, now says 21.3M Americans were without broadband at the end of 2017, up from the originally reported 19.4M
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Google says it is adding Tiles, swipeable widgets with useful information, to Wear OS over the next month
Chris Welch / The Verge :
IDC: 310.8M smartphones were shipped in Q1, down 6.6% YoY; Samsung was the top vendor with 23.1% marketshare, followed by Huawei with 19% and Apple with 11.7%
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Fitbit reports Q1 revenue of $271.9M, up 9.7% YoY and beating analyst expectations of $259.7M, as smartwatch device sales were up 117% YoY
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
Around 20 security experts have united with Securepairs.org to support right-to-repair legislation with expert witnesses at hearings across the US
Louise Matsakis / Wired :
CipherTrace: at least $356M of cryptocurrencies were stolen from exchanges in Q1 2019; cross-border payments from US exchanges are up 46% in past two years
David Canellis / The Next Web :
Google will open Android Automotive OS, the dashboard-centric version of its mobile platform, to third-party developers, starting with media apps at I/O
Chris Davies / SlashGear :
Data management startup Snowflake, valued at $4B, says its CEO Bob Muglia is stepping down after five years, to be replaced by ex-ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman
Marc Vartabedian / Wall Street Journal :
Kaspersky Lab profiles Volodya, one of the most prolific Windows exploit developers, who has sold zero-days to criminal gangs and state-backed APTs
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Golden, a Wikipedia-like “knowledge base” built by artificial and human intelligence focused on emerging tech and startups, raises $5M seed from a16z and others
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Square reports Q1 revenue of $489M, up 59% YoY, but a net loss of $38M, widening from a loss of $24M YoY; stock drops 10%+
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
VideoAmp, which focuses on optimizing cross-platform advertising and whose clients include CBS, AMC, and A+E, raises $70M Series C led by Raine Group
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Google launches CallJoy, a $39/month virtual customer service agent aimed at small US businesses, available now on an invite-only basis
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Analysis: in Q1, for the first time, Amazon's first-party online retail sales of $29.5B were less than half of its overall net sales, which were $59.7B
Depending on how much you shop … Thanks: @toddbishop
Andreessen Horowitz closes a $750M early-stage fund and $2B later-stage fund, bringing its total raised to nearly $10B, as it hits its 10th anniversary
Dan Primack / Axios :
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