Sources: Google is pushing the Trump administration to exempt it from a ban on exports to Huawei, warning that it could compromise national security
this is a major partner it has worked with on Android. You can tell this from the way Google was caught off guard when word of the ban first emerged https://twitter.com/... Karen Tso / @cnbckaren : .@...
Uber COO Barney Harford and CMO Rebecca Messina are leaving the company
Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi is parting ways with two top lieutenants in a major leadership overhaul. Barney Harford, the chief operating officer, and Rebecca Mess...
Report: India's draft law proposes a 10-year jail term for “mining, generating, holding, buying, selling, or dealing in cryptocurrencies directly or indirectly”
If the 'Banning Cryptocurrencies and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill 2019' becomes law, mining … Source: BloombergQuint .
Some European mobile traffic was rerouted through China Telecom due to a BGP leak at a Swiss colocation company which was accused of a similar mistake in 2018
It was China Telecom, again. The same ISP accused last year of “hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries.”
Some videos intended for anti-racist, educational purposes were removed due to YouTube's new rules, highlighting the weaknesses of algorithmic content removal
YouTube's campaign against hateful and racist videos is claiming some unintended victims: researchers and advocates working to expose racist hatemongers.
Peter Bright, also known as @DrPizza, who was an Ars Technica contributing writer, has been arrested on charges of soliciting sex with children online
Warning: This article contains graphic sexual language. — Tech reporter Peter Bright has been arrested for soliciting sex with children online.
Tech giants don't fit neatly into existing models for antitrust action, since they regularly add new businesses to keep up with tech and provide free services
As federal regulators and Congress zero in on Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon, they're about to encounter one of the most difficult rulemaking challenges in US history.
Sources: China summoned US and global tech giants to warn of dire consequences if they cooperate with Trump bans, hinting US companies should lobby against bans
SAN FRANCISCO — The Chinese government this past week summoned major tech companies from the United States and elsewhere to warn … Tweets: @paulmozur , @hawleymo , @kateconger , @mdudas , and @matthew...
How a rule, allowing US companies to apply for exemptions from the Huawei ban, was created when the Obama administration was contemplating sanctions against ZTE
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FedEx says it will not renew its US air-shipping contract with Amazon, and says the online retailer accounted for 1.3% of FedEx 2018 revenue
FedEx Corp. said it wouldn't renew its U.S. air-delivery contract with Amazon.com Inc., as the courier focuses on “serving the broader e-commerce market.”
Google bought 270 companies since 2001, Facebook bought 92 since 2007, some direct or nascent competitors; only one Google acquisition was challenged by the US
“Big tech” companies like Google and Facebook are, in reality, the products of hundreds of mergers.
Amazon VP Sean Scott talks about how his team built the Scout delivery robot, which is currently in field testing, how Scout finds its way around, and more
Earlier this year, Amazon announced its Scout sidewalk delivery robot. At the time, details were sparse, except for the fact …
Walmart's InHome service will deliver groceries directly to customers' refrigerators when they are not home, starting this fall in three US cities
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Online fashion retailer Revolve Group closes up 89% on its first day of trading after raising $212M in its IPO, is now valued at more than $2.3B
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Profile of 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki, who wants to leverage the falling costs of genetic sequencing and the company's DNA library to fuel a “biotech machine”
Anne Wojcicki is 45 minutes late, something so encoded in her habits as 23andMe's CEO that employees have stopped complaining about it.
How Lenovo is trying to bring together PCs, smartphones, and data centre hardware into a comprehensive strategy via its three main business groups
Lenovo, a leading PC manufacturer and a top-five player in the server market, has recently returned its smartphone group to profitability.
Lyft subsidiary Motivate sues SF, alleging exclusivity contract violations for bike-share programs; SF says exclusivity does not apply to dockless bike-share
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Synapse, which provides payment, deposit, lending, and investment products as APIs to fintech companies, raises $33M Series B, bringing the total raised to $50M
20 years ago, if you had a great idea for an online … Jon Russell / TechCrunch : Fintech platform Synapse raises $33M to build ‘the AWS of banking’ PYMNTS.com : Synapse Raises $33M As It Gears Up To E...
A Google employee who helped organize walkouts has resigned, alleges she was the target of a campaign of retaliation designed to intimidate and dissuade others
badge or no, Claire isn't going away, nor are the 1000s organizing across the company. 📣 Structural change IS coming to tech https://twitter.com/... @carmencrincoli : This thread is what a failure of ...
Judge declines Google's motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging hiring bias, first filed by James Damore, who exited the lawsuit and is in arbitration with Google
Google discrimination case first brought by James Damore can proceed https://bayareane.ws/2wKT5RW via @mercnews
GSMA: Chinese telecom equipment ban may lead to €55B in additional costs and delay of 5G rollout by 18 months in Europe; Nokia disputes the report
Gwénaëlle Barzic / Reuters :
Source: the FTC's recently launched technology task force held private meetings in May in Silicon Valley to seek evidence of big tech's anticompetitive behavior
Margaret Harding McGill / Politico :
Cabify founders and early investors in Brazil's 99, who met at Stanford and are compared to the PayPal Mafia, reflect on Latin America's startup revival
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch : Tweets: @mdudas Tweets: Mike Dudas / @mdudas : “It was in one of those houses, about a twelve-minute bicycle ride from @Stanford University, that the seed was planted ...
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