Trump issues order blocking US companies from doing business with information and communications technology companies owned or controlled by a foreign adversary
Amid a deepening trade war with China, President Trump on Wednesday declared a “national emergency” to protect U.S. communications networks …
White House launches tool to solicit information from people who had social media accounts suspended or banned and who suspect political bias behind the actions
'If you suspect political bias caused such an action to be taken against you, share your story with President Trump'
Europol and FBI arrest the leader and ten members of the GozNym criminal network, who broke into 44K computers and tried to steal ~$100M
Paying money and buying online concept, couple doing internet shopping with computer, customers making secure payment on laptop via e-banking service, close up view of hand holding credit card
Amazon upgrades its $50 Fire 7 tablet with faster processor, doubled storage, and hands-free activation of Alexa, available for pre-order now, shipping June 6
Amazon today unveiled the next generation of its Fire 7 tablet and Fire 7 Kids Edition, speeding up the devices and adding more storage and features.
As the definition of “bias” expands to include instances where social media users don't have the desired outcome, it's harder for platforms to say there is none
Three years ago this month, Mark Zuckerberg gathered together a group of influential conservatives to defend Facebook against allegations of political bias.
Valve releases Steam Link, its service for streaming desktop games to another device, on iOS and Apple TV, almost a year after its initial App Store rejection
Almost exactly a year after its initial rejection from the App Store, Valve today has officially released Steam Link on the App Store.
Google clarifies Works with Nest shutdown, says connections will continue to work beyond Aug. 31 until they are replicated in new Works with Assistant program
Works with Nest moves from fully dead to on life support — Google has issued a response to the criticisms of its recent announcement …
Instagram is shutting down Instagram Direct, its standalone direct messaging app that it was testing to rival Snapchat, on iOS and Android
As Facebook pushes ahead with its strategy to consolidate more of the backend of its various apps on to a single platform, it's also doing a little simplifying and housekeeping.
SanDisk introduces the first 1TB microSD card, for $450
Have you been salivating at the thought of stuffing a 1TB microSD card into your phone? You can finally act on that impulse. SanDisk has made the record-setting Extreme card available both through i...
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google, and Amazon sign on to the Christchurch Call to Action, commit to a 9-point plan to stop spread of terrorist content online
resolute in our commitment—to ensure we're doing all we can to fight the hatred & extremism that lead to terrorist violence. Aditya Raj Kaul / @adityarajkaul : #BREAKING: India supports France and New...
Sprint says it will begin offering 5G in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, and Kansas City on May 31, with preorders for LG's V50 ThinQ 5G starting tomorrow
Having previously set general targets for its initial launch of 5G services and devices in the United States, Sprint says today …
Opera to add support for Tron's TRX and TRC-standard tokens in its browser-based crypto wallet, available on Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, and on iOS in beta
Opera is working to integrate support for Tron's TRX and TRC-standard tokens in its browser-based crypto wallet.
Instagram adds personalized Stories to the Explore tab which has been redesigned with shortcuts to Shopping, IGTV and channels for topics like Travel and Design
Instagram's pivot to Stories continues with an overhaul of Explore designed to let users dig deeper into their niche interests.
Facebook will now ban anyone who violates its “most serious policies” from using Facebook Live for a set period of time, starting with their first offense
San Francisco (CNN Business)Two months after the mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand was live-streamed by the accused gunman …
Sources describe Uber's IPO process and the setbacks that led Uber's $120B pre-IPO valuation floated by bankers to fall to its current market cap of $69B
Last September, Uber's top executives were pitched by some of Wall Street's biggest banks, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.
Google says it will bring YouTube VR to Facebook's Oculus Quest VR headset when it ships on May 21
Google will bring YouTube to Facebook's Oculus Quest virtual reality headset when it ships on May 21st. Like existing versions on the Oculus Go, Samsung Gear VR, and other headsets …
Travel activities booking platform GetYourGuide raises $484M Series E at a $1B+ valuation led by SoftBank Vision Fund, says it has now sold 25M tickets
As we swing into the summer tourist season, a company poised to capitalise on that has raised a huge round of funding.
Samsung and Huawei have agreed to settle their three-year dispute over smartphone patents, likely to refocus their energies on the global slowdown in demand
Move to settle patent dispute comes as global sales slow — GUANGZHOU — Samsung Electronics and Huawei Technologies …
Cloud-based IT management startup Apptio says it has acquired Cloudability, which makes software to automate, optimize, and manage multi-cloud deployments
Cloubability is focused on managing multi-cloud deployments and spending across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
The effective disappearance of early meme site YTMND heralds the end of another internet era, the one where a popular site could just be a weird and fun hobby
The gif-and-looped-sound site was one of the earliest homes of internet culture — One of the earliest and most influential …
Microsoft's AI for Accessibility initiative announces seven new grantees, including a chatbot for the cognitively disabled and a nerve-sensing wearable
Today is the eighth annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day, an event that was designed to help spread awareness around …
How political parties in India are using cheap software to send up to 100,000 WhatsApp messages a day and get around the app's limit of five forwards per day
Munsif Vengattil, Aditya Kalra, Sankalp Phartiyal — NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - WhatsApp clones and software tools that cost …
Sources: Quibi, the upcoming mobile streaming service led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, is planning to raise up to $1B, following a $1B raise in August
Quibi, the mobile video streaming service headed by Hollywood and tech veterans Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman …
Singapore-based digital banking startup YouTrip, which offers zero percent transaction fees and no cross-border fees, raises $25.5M to expand in Southeast Asia
Singapore-based startup YouTrip thinks consumers of Southeast Asia deserve a taste of the challenger bank revolution happening …
Google details Translatotron, its project to directly translate speech from one language into speech in another without intermediate text
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Q&A with Ted Wang, a partner at micro VC fund Cowboy Ventures, founded by Aileen Lee, on risk rewards of seed rounds, changes since its first fund, and more
For our most recent Seed Series we are talking with Ted Wang, the second partner at Cowboy Ventures, a micro VC fund based in Silicon Valley founded by Aileen Lee.
Ajit Pai proposes a new rule that would allow carriers to block robocalls by default and lets customers block calls from numbers not on their contacts list
Makena Kelly / The Verge :
TodayTix, a mobile ticketing startup for affordable theater tickets, raises $73M led by PE firm Great Hill Partners, bringing its total raised to $90M
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Report details Apple's “long and painful divorce” with Intel, says Apple's custom 5G modems may not arrive until 2025
Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac : Source: The Information .
Microsoft releases its SPTAG algorithm, used to answer questions on Bing, as MIT-licensed open source on GitHub
Peter Bright / Ars Technica :
User finds that Google was hiding three Google Pay privacy settings, like sharing creditworthiness, from its default view; Google says it was a bug it is fixing
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer :
In email to staff, Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan says management will not voluntarily recognize its employee union Kickstarter United, wants NLRB election instead
Bijan Stephen / The Verge :
Chainalysis research estimates that about 376 users, known as “whales”, control a third of all Ether, compared to 448 people who own 20% of all Bitcoin
Matthew Leising / Bloomberg :
UK Supreme Court finds in favor of civil rights organizations and rules that GCHQ's powers to hack into internet services should be subject to judicial review
Owen Bowcott / The Guardian :
Google Maps' two-wheeler mode in India, which offers custom routes for motorbikes before riders start a trip, has grown to 5M daily users since its 2017 launch
Jillian D'Onfro / Forbes : Tweets: @laurencza Tweets: Lauren Celenza / @laurencza : My team and I recently spoke with @Forbes & @jillianiles about our process for building two-wheeler mode for @googl...
Accel closes a $575M fund to back startups in Europe and Israel, primarily at the Series A stage between $5M-$15M, bringing its total managed in Europe to $3B
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Karat, which uses engineers to interview, test, and evaluate other engineers for jobs with clients like Citrix, Roblox, and InVision, raises $28M Series B
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Sources: two US data recovery firms touting hi-tech solutions for unlocking data after ransomware attacks instead just paid the ransom and charged victims extra
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Sources: Google plans to push Google Pay in India via an SDK for developers that aims to drive user engagement via rewards and cashbacks in Android apps
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Tweets: @refsrc and @jonrussell Tweets: Manish Singh / @refsrc : The company's Next Billion Users team has developed an engagement rewards platform to help businesses and ...
Data from CB Insights shows Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon have collectively acquired more than 50 AI companies since 2010
Kaveh Waddell / Axios : Tweets: @lolitataub Tweets: Lolita Taub / @lolitataub : We all know that there's a lack of AI talent. But did you know that FAGMA has been buying up AI startups for 9 years +?...
Because of US law, Google keeps advertisers from naming sanctioned countries as targets or exclusions in campaigns, leading to ads being served in those places
Issie Lapowsky / Wired : Tweets: @issielapowsky and @jason_kint Tweets: Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : NEW: Google has a habit of serving ads to sanctioned countries like Iran and North Korea, oft...
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