Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says Mark Zuckerberg's influence is staggering and that it is time to break up Facebook
and that's made Facebook dangerous Bloomberg : Facebook Breakup Call From Co-Founder Easier Said Than Done Charlotte Henry / The Mac Observer : Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Says The Company Should...
US DoJ announces a China-based hacking group has been indicted for a series of computer intrusions including the 2015 Anthem hack which affected ~78.8M people
A federal grand jury returned an indictment unsealed today in Indianapolis, Indiana, charging a Chinese national as part …
Chris Hughes' op-ed reflects a consensus among early Facebook executives that the company is too large, too powerful, and too deleterious to society's health
Thanks to everyone who wrote with warm wishes about jury duty. Sadly, I was not called upon to serve my democracy.
Facebook isn't a monopoly in advertising, so breaking it up would be illogical and ineffective; it would also be expensive and discouraging to entrepreneurs
- Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues in an op-ed for The New York Times on Thursday that Facebook should be broken up under antitrust laws.
Uber opens at $42 on its first day of trading after pricing its IPO at $45 and raising $8.1B at a valuation of about $82.4B
Uber began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday at $42 per share, below its IPO price of $45. The stock was down as much as 8% toward the start of trading.
Binance says it is significantly increasing its security, revamping its API, 2FA, and withdrawal validation, hopes to resume withdrawals and deposits next week
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Profile of Garrett Camp, the Uber co-founder who envisioned the idea of private cars for hire with an app and whose stake in Uber is now worth ~$3.7B
Garrett Camp envisioned cities full of private cars for hire with an app. Travis Kalanick took it from there, and they both became wealthy beyond imagination.
Washington AG says Amazon has agreed to require sellers of kids' school supplies and jewelry to provide lab certification that their products are not toxic
AG investigation found some school supplies with more than 80 times legal limit of lead — SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson …
Google is touting an increased focus on privacy and is making privacy settings slightly easier to find, but those settings remain very confusing for users
IT'S GOOGLE'S BIG privacy pivot, according to Google. — On Tuesday, The New York Times ran an op-ed about privacy written …
Smartphone shipments in North America dropped 18% YoY in Q1 to 36.4M units, a five-year low; Apple kept its ~40% market share YoY, shipping 14.6M iPhones
Smartphone shipments in North America plummeted 18% year on year in Q1 2019 to a five-year low of 36.4 million units, down from a record high of 44.4 million in Q1 2018.
Over 274M records with personal identifiable info of Indian citizens exposed by unsecured MongoDB database, in what may be part of a massive scraping operation
On May 1st, I have discovered an unprotected and publicly indexed MongoDB database which contained 275,265,298 records …
Beats Powerbeats Pro review: very comfortable and steady in the ear with great battery life, rich sound, and good bass, but not very discreet outside the gym
Apple's workout headphones are so much more than just a gym accessory — Dr. Dre, the man who boasted about being the first billionaire …
Interview with Google designer Jennifer Daniel on the complicated issues of gender in images as Google plans to release 53 gender ambiguous emoji with Android Q
In 1999, the Japanese wireless communications company NTT Docomo released 176 pictures for people to quickly, efficiently …
Europol announces that the Spanish Civil Guard arrested eight people in Spain who have connections to a $10M+ crypto money laundering ring
Viacom says Pluto TV, its free ad-supported streaming service, has 16M MAU, up from 12M in Jan. when it was acquired, plans to launch in Latin America in 2019
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Researchers say flaws in a popular GPS tracker, used with elderly or kids, can reveal real-time location and remotely activate its microphone, suggest recall
A popular GPS tracker — used as a panic alarm for elderly patients, to monitor kids, and track vehicles — contains security flaws … Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @zackwhittaker Tweets: Zack Whittaker / @...
Lyft is testing longer-term car rentals with a small group of customers in San Francisco
Between offering on-demand rides and peppering cities with electric scooters, Lyft has been pushing hard to minimize the need to actually own a car. Now, the company is exploring yet another …
Sources: India's antitrust watchdog has preliminarily found that Google abused the dominant position of Android and has ordered a full probe in April
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's antitrust watchdog has ordered an investigation into Alphabet Inc's unit Google for allegedly abusing …
Consumer advocacy groups file a complaint with the FTC accusing Amazon's Echo Dot Kids of collecting children's data without parental consent
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ArchiveSocial, which provides social media archiving software to government agencies, raises a $53M growth equity investment from Level Equity
Dustin Haisler / Government Technology :
Nike's new app, Nike Fit, will use AR to help find the right sneaker fit, expected to launch in the US in July
Did you know that three out of every five people … Rae Witte / TechCrunch : With new Fit technology, Nike calls itself a tech company Trevor Mogg / Digital Trends : Nike Fit aims to help you slip into...
Reali, a flat fee real estate startup with an AI tool to predict home buying chances at various offers, expands Series B to $29M, bringing total raised to ~$40M
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The lead of Oculus VR, Hugo Barra, says he is taking a new role at Facebook “building a global AR/VR partner ecosystem”; Erick Tseng to take over Oculus
bringing AR and VR to more people!
Dropbox Q1: revenue of $385.6M, up 22% YoY, net loss of $7.7M, 13.2M paid users, up from 11.5M YoY, avg revenue per paying user of $121.04, up from $114.30 YoY
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SEC filing: Uber settles with “a large majority” of 60K+ US drivers who filed arbitration demands over their employment status, plans $146M-$170M for payouts
Caroline Spiezio / Law.com :
Sonos says Google Assistant support, first announced in 2017, will roll out to Sonos One and Beam next week through a software update in the US
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
FCC votes unanimously to deny China Mobile's application to provide telecommunications services in the US due to concerns about national security
Photo storage app Ever, launched in 2013, now focuses on selling facial recognition tech, trained using 13B+ stored user photos, to others
Qualcomm partners with Google to create a reference design and development kit for building Assistant-enabled Bluetooth headphones with Fast Pair support
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Google replacing “Works with Nest” with “Works with Google Assistant” for privacy reasons could lead to a future with fewer compatible smart home devices
Dan Seifert / The Verge :
Symantec says its president and CEO, Greg Clark, has stepped down; stock is down 13%+ after hours
Jordan Novet / CNBC : Tweets: @techjournalist Tweets: Sean Kerner / @techjournalist : Un-expected. I've had the good fortune to speak with @symantec CEO Greg Clark a dozen or more times over the year...
A year after its intro, Google Duplex is still limited in availability, with minimal impact on service workers, some of whom say it is more polite than humans
Natt Garun / The Verge :
Adtech AI startup GumGum spins out Pearl, which will focus on using AI to analyze dental scans; GumGum CEO moves to Pearl, which has raised $11M Series A
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
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