Researchers find YouTube's recommendation algorithm is curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog sexualizing children
Christiane C. didn't think anything of it when her 10-year-old daughter and a friend uploaded a video of themselves playing in a backyard pool.
Infineon to acquire Cypress Semiconductor for $23.85 per share, valuing the company at €9B, at about 33% premium to its Friday closing price of $17.82
- The proposed acquisition values Cypress at about $10 billion — Semiconductor players are wrestling with slowing growth
Report: 52% of parents vs. 39% of teens said they spend too much time on their phones, up from 29% of parents and down from 61% of teens in 2016
The kids are all right. But the parents? — Since 2016, adults have grown much more concerned about the time they spend on mobile devices …
Twitter acquires Fabula AI, which uses ML to help detect the spread of misinformation online, to join Twitter's in-house team of AI researchers called Cortex
Twitter has acquired Fabula AI, a London-based startup that uses machine learning (ML) to help detect the spread of misinformation online.
Filing: Huawei is selling off its undersea telecom cable business, its first major asset sale since the US ratcheted up its accusations against the company
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Huawei Technologies Co Ltd plans to sell its undersea telecom cable business, showed a buyer's filing on Monday …
CFTC says it is in very early talks with Facebook to understand if its upcoming cryptocurrency falls under the US regulator's jurisdiction
Facebook has begun talks with the top US derivatives regulator over its plans for a digital currency, in a sign of how the world's largest social media platform …
Stripe launches Chargeback Protection, based on its fraud prevention tool Radar, which automatically reimburses businesses for the cost of a disputed charge
Stripe, the payments company, announced Monday (June 2) the launch of Chargeback Protection, a new service that provides customers with machine learning-based fraud protection.
PayPal rolls out its e-commerce platform, used by Instagram Checkout and Facebook Marketplace, to all, with services like fraud protection and authentication
KEY POINTS — The payments giant announced the launch of the"PayPal Commerce Platform" Monday, an e-commerce system …
IEEE says it has lifted restrictions on employees of Huawei and its subsidiaries in participating in papers' peer reviews, after clarification from the US DOC
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) said on Monday curbs on employees of Huawei Technologies …
YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Discord, and many other services were down throughout US during a major Google Cloud service outage, now resolved after 4+ hours
Tom Warren / The Verge :
NBC officially launches NBC News Now, a free streaming news service with 8 hours of programming every weekday, expects to have it running 24/7 by 2020
The service, which doesn't require cable service authentication, is intended to go round-the-clock by next year.
Facebook introduces Avatars, its Bitmoji competitor, launching the look-alike stickers feature today in Australia for use in Messenger and News Feed comments
Stickers that look like you — Ditch those generic emoji. Facebook's new Avatars feature lets you customize a virtual lookalike … Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine Tweets: Josh Constine / @jos...
Sources: FTC secured the rights to begin a potential anti-trust probe of Facebook as part of an agreement that let the DOJ take the reins in a Google probe
Federal Trade Commission secures right to examine how Facebook's practices affect digital competition — This is a developing story and will be updated shortly. Tweets: @mayazi , @dmccabe , and @shir...
eBay partners with Spanish bank Santander to offer loans to more than 200,000 SMBs on its platform in UK via Asto, the bank's business bookkeeping app
Santander and eBay have agreed a lending partnership for small businesses as the two groups attempt to combat competition from tech giants and newer digital rivals.
Sources: FTC and DOJ have reached an agreement to divvy up antitrust oversight of Google and Amazon, putting Amazon under FTC's watch and Google under DOJ's
Many companies are shifting down for the summer months. Amber Neely / AppleInsider : FTC, Department of Justice amping up antitrust monitoring of tech firms Scott Bicheno / Telecoms.com : Google and A...
WorldRemit, which helps immigrants and migrant workers abroad send money back home, raises $175M Series D, source says at a $900M+ valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
On Friday, US began requiring most visa applicants to provide information on their use of social media; the policy was announced in March 2018
Saagar Enjeti / The Hill :
Caller ID and spam blocking app Truecaller can endanger journalists by revealing their phone numbers, even if journalists never use the app
we've found a few GRU agents whose real names were revealed by TrueCaller. https://ifex.org/...
Report: Finland-based IoT service company Uros says it had sales of €1.3B, up 171% YoY, and profits of €120M, up 845% YoY in 2018
Anne Kauranen / Reuters :
Volvo invests in VR startup Varjo, says its engineers are designing new interfaces by driving on test tracks using Varjo's new mixed-reality headset XR-1
Scott Stein / CNET :
TaniGroup, which operates a B2B platform for Indonesian farmers to sell their produce direct to 400 SMBs that cater to 10,000 consumers, raises $10M Series A
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
PE firms Francisco Partners and Israel Growth Partners to acquire LiveU, an Israel-based developer of live broadcasting and streaming tech, for $200M
Meir Orbach / CTech - 24/7 :
US court sentences Phantom Secure CEO to nine years in prison for selling encrypted phones to criminals and routing encrypted text messages via overseas servers
Associated Press : Tweets: @exiledsurfer Tweets: @exiledsurfer : Canadian sold phones nobody could wiretap; nine years in American jail. https://apnews.com/...
Sitetracker, a project and physical asset management platform with clients like Alphabet and Verizon, raises $10M, extending the $24M Series B it raised in 2018
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Former Facebook execs, who are mostly just expressing remorse now, should speak out more forcefully and use their Facebook riches to promote reform there
very rich enemies—of many of his former partners, who are now speaking out. Time for them to put their money where their mouth is https://www.vanityfair.com/... Buzz Andersen / @buzz : “Zuckerberg's b...
True Balance, a wallet app used in India's tier-two and tier-three markets, which has raised a total of $42M, says it now has ~60M users and $100M in GMV sales
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Russia has a booming market for leaked personal data like phone records, addresses, passport details, and even bank security codes with prices starting at $16
Andrei Zakharov / BBC : Tweets: @josephfcox Tweets: Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Buying phone data in the Russian underground, including the geolocation of devices when making calls. Dirt cheap and eas...
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