Facebook responds to Chris Hughes, says it is not a monopoly and has robust competition in all areas it operates, reiterates its call for more regulation
Dismantling our company won't fix what's wrong with social media. — Mr. Clegg is Facebook's vice president for global affairs and communications.
French telecom Orange to acquire Netherlands-based cybersecurity company SecureLink for €515M
The deal has been inked for over €500 million. — Orange has agreed to acquire SecureLink to tap into the growing enterprise cybersecurity market in Europe.
Uber's IPO got caught in a perfect storm of negative events on Friday, some of its own making, some, like Trump's China tariffs, outside its control
Uber's IPO stalled out yesterday, stunning both Silicon Valley and Wall Street. — Details: The ride-hail giant priced shares near the bottom of their range on Thursday night.
An in-depth look at Ingress, a sci-fi AR/VR MMO game about two factions fighting for global domination, and how far its fans go in real life for a virtual war
She led hundreds of real people on secret missions for a make-believe cause. — At 4:30 PM on February 17th, 2017 … Tweets: @austin_walker Tweets: Austin Walker / @austin_walker : This story about th...
A Hong Kong tycoon is suing the salesman who persuaded him to let an Austrian supercomputer named K1 manage his investments with AI, whose trades cost him $20M+
Robots are getting more humanoid every day, but they still can't be sued. — So a Hong Kong tycoon is doing the next best thing. Tweets: @jeremyakahn Tweets: Jeremy Kahn / @jeremyakahn : A Hong Kong ...
Enterprise startups should not rely on data network effects as a defensive moat and should focus on and invest in long-term defensibility from other areas
Data has long been lauded as a competitive moat for companies, and that narrative's been further hyped with the recent wave of AI startups. Tweets: @honnibal , @muellerfreitag , and @srchvrs Tweets: M...
GitHub unveils GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that supports npm, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, and Docker, available today in limited beta
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JD.com posts record profit of $1.1B in Q1 on $18B revenue, up 20.9% YoY, says it now has 310.5M active user accounts, up from 305.3M in the previous quarter
Chinese e-commerce group renews alliance with Tencent to compete with Alibaba — NEW YORK — Despite scandals related to its chief executive …
Amazon's recent pledge of $800M to make next-day delivery the new standard is pressuring rivals to increase their investments in logistics startups to compete
- Flexe and Dolly are lining up backing for national expansions — Several of the upstarts are led by former Amazon executives
A look at the eclectic, global data-hunting community, and the tools its members use to scour the internet for unsecured databases
Justin Paine sits in a pub in Oakland, California, searching the internet for your most sensitive data. It doesn't take him long to find a promising lead.
Amazon has been mistakenly taking down ads with religious content, causing some sellers of religious products to lose sales
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How AI-powered tools like TellFinder, Spotlight, and Traffic Jam are aiding sex and human trafficking investigations in the US
Machine learning technology is opening up new strategies to find and prosecute the men who profit from the worst of the illegal sex trade — “Hey there. You available?” Tweets: @medium Tweets: @medi...
SEC approves the creation of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, or LTSE, a Silicon Valley-based national securities exchange proposed by Eric Ries
if they don't kill each other first Tweets: Alexis Ohanian Sr / @alexisohanian : This is great news: @WSJ reports that @ltse cleared to become 14th U.S. Stock Exchange. Very happy to have @ericries an...
SEC filing shows Jawbone Health CEO Hosain Rahman has managed to raise $65.4M for the company
Not everyone gets a second chance in Silicon Valley. Entrepreneur Hosain Rahman has been given many more than that. Though his last company, Jawbone, which produced wireless speakers and Bluetooth e...
Google awards $25M in AI impact grants to organisations from 12 countries which want to use AI to reduce pesticide use, study suicide risk in LGBT youth, more
Google today awarded $25 million in grants to a range of organizations to help them apply machine learning to fight some of the world's biggest challenges. Tweets: @raju and @samuel_wong_ Tweets: Raju...
Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security preemptively arrested some of its most high-risk suspects after a software update crashed hundreds of ankle monitors
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Tech activists are protesting Palantir's work with ICE by mass flagging “issues” with the company's most popular GitHub repositories
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Salesforce to acquire Tel Aviv-based conversational AI startup Bonobo, source says for $50M
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