Microsoft is bringing its Xbox Game Pass subscription service to Windows 10 PCs with a “curated library” of more than 100 titles; details to be revealed at E3
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Sources: Amazon is interested in buying prepaid cellphone wireless service Boost Mobile from T-Mobile and Sprint
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is interested in buying prepaid cellphone wireless service Boost Mobile from U.S. carriers T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thur...
Uber reports Q1 revenue of $3.1B, up 20% YoY, gross bookings of $14.65B, up 34%, net loss of $1.01B; Uber Eats revenue grew 31% to $239M, gross bookings up 108%
KEY POINTS — The company reported total revenue of $3.10 billion, at the top end of its preliminary estimates for the quarter.
Google's new policies for Chrome extensions and Drive API will limit the ability of extensions and 3rd party apps to access personal data, starting this summer
AFTER YEARS OF issues with rogue Chrome extensions, hijacks, and malware, Google announced a slew of new policies Thursday to ensure the little browser applets are secure.
Microsoft says devs can now bring Win32 games to the Microsoft Store, a shift away from the store's previous Universal Windows Platform requirement for games
It's been a long time coming — Microsoft had a dream with Windows 8 that involved universal Windows apps that would span across phones …
Foursquare buys location analytics service Placed from Snap, raises $150M led by Raine Group; Placed reportedly raised $13.4M before Snap acquired it in 2017
Foursquare just made its first acquisition. The location tech company has acquired Placed from Snap Inc on the heels …
Investigation: US universities, foundations, and retirement plans back funds that invest millions in Chinese surveillance tech companies Megvii and SenseTime
Millions of dollars from US university endowments, foundations, and retirement plans have helped fund two billion-dollar Chinese …
Report: Spotify is working on a new “Social Listening ” feature that lets multiple people add songs to a play queue to listen to them together
Spotify is taking its Spotify Connect features to the next level with social integration. The company is working …
Source: Galaxy Note 10 will lose the headphone jack and exterior buttons like volume and power will be replaced by capacitive or pressure-sensitive areas
It took “courage” … Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott : Samsung's Next Galaxy Note Won't Have Any Physical Buttons, or a Headphone Jack Rich Woods / Neowin : Samsung might kill off the headphone jack in the No...
A deep dive into the 233-page antitrust ruling against Qualcomm, which said the company's aggressive licensing tactics had strangled competition for modem chips
We did a deep-dive into the 233-page ruling declaring Qualcomm a monopolist. — In 2005, Apple contacted Qualcomm …
Intuit says it is acquiring Origami Logic, an Accel-backed marketing analytics startup that has raised over $64M in funding, in a deal expected to close Q4 2019
Financial software powerhouse Intuit Inc. today announced that it's buying Origami Logic Inc., an Accel-backed marketing analytics startup.
Report: ~2.3B files, including sensitive info like credit card and medical data, are exposed via publicly accessible online file storage servers, up 50% YoY
Digital Shadows research finds that the number of exposed files — including sensitive information — has risen by 50 percent compared with last year.
In the age of music streaming, missing, bad, or inconsistent song metadata is estimated to have left billions on the table unpaid to artists and musicians
Recently, a musician signed to a major indie label told me they were owed up to $40,000 in song royalties they would never be able to collect.
Netflix raises prices in UK by £1 to £8.99 for its standard plan and by £2 to £11.99 for a premium plan; the price for a basic plan remains unchanged at £5.99
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Q&A with Mark Cuban and Steve Case on investing in tech startups outside of Silicon Valley, how AI is changing the tech landscape, tech regulation, and more
In the short term, learning to code is good for your job prospects. But on the latest Recode Decode, Cuban explained …
Kiwibots, the “parallel autonomy” food delivery bots popular with students at UC Berkeley, are remotely piloted by workers in Colombia who are paid $2/hour
Karis Tang, age 2½, squealed with excitement when she saw a Kiwibot rolling through Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley. Tweets: @rikabel , @matthewbevan , @harrysiegel , @matthewbevan , @mariafarrell , @jake...
Netflix and Amazon made £1.1B in revenue from ~17.7M UK subscribers in 2018, while streaming services of UK's four main commercial broadcasters made ~£530M
Mark Sweney / The Guardian :
An open letter signed by 47 companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and WhatsApp, condemns proposal from the UK's GCHQ to eavesdrop on encrypted messages
Sam Meredith / CNBC :
BabbleLabs, which wants to use AI to improve speech quality, accuracy, and personalization in voice apps, raises $14M Series A
BabbleLabs, a San Jose, Calif.-based speech technology startup, raised $14m in Series A financing. — The round was co-led by Dell Technologies Capital and Intel Capital …
Researchers: some banned white nationalist groups like Proud Boys and Soldiers of Odin remain active on Facebook after slightly modifying their names
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The YouTube channel of Indian music production company T-Series becomes the first to cross 100M subscribers after a months-long race with PewDiePie
Julia Alexander / The Verge :
Genstar Capital buys a majority stake in Prometheus Group, a Raleigh-based plant maintenance operations and optimization software company, at a $1B+ valuation
Chantal Allam / WRAL TechWire :
VMware reports Q1 revenue of $2.27B, up 13% YoY, beating analyst estimates of $2.24B, and net income of $505M, including a gain of $132M from Pivotal
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
Dell reports Q1 net income of $329M on revenue of $21.9B, up 3% YoY, below analyst estimates of $22.24B, as server and networking revenue fell 9% YoY to $4.2B
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
Nreal unveils a $499 consumer version of its Light AR glasses that are compatible with any phone using the Snapdragon 855 chip, available later this year
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Cloud-to-cloud backup and restore vendor OwnBackup raises $23.25M Series C co-led by IVP and Vertex Ventures, bringing the total raised to ~$50M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Investigation finds Huawei has received ~$1.6B in Chinese government grants over past ten years, heavily subsidized land, and favorable export financing terms
and the benefits of state aid.” https://twitter.com/... Dr Arvind Virmani / @dravirmani : #Professor🤡Phd: “ Communist Party's definition of lies, subsidies, theft, forced, stealing and many other word...
Abacus Insights, a data integration platform for the healthcare industry, raises $12.7M Series A led by CRV
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Google says Gmail's confidential mode, announced last April, will become available to G Suite customers on June 25
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Insight Partners buys a majority share in Boston-based threat intelligence company Recorded Future for $780M, the highest ever price for a threat intel firm
Brian Dowling / Xconomy :
Weights & Biases, which is building development tools for machine learning for customers like OpenAI, GitHub, and Stanford, raises $15M Series B
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ohmdee Tweets: @ohmdee : “I don't think it's smoke & mirrors [for Google Duplex] to combine humans & ML algorithms. Every bank using ML to prevent fraud has humans ...
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