Sources: Apple is asking suppliers to study feasibility of shifting final assembly of some products out of China amid trade tensions
iPhone maker is asking suppliers to study moving final assembly of some products out of the country — Apple Inc. AAPL -.29% is asking suppliers …
Senate panel says it will hold a hearing on Facebook's Libra on July 16; source: David Marcus, who leads Facebook's blockchain efforts, is expected to testify
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee will discuss Facebook's proposed cryptocurrency at a July 16 hearing, the panel announced Wednesday.
Sources: YouTube is considering far-reaching changes to protect kids, including moving all children's content to the YouTube Kids app and turning off autoplay
Rob Copeland / Wall Street Journal :
A Florida city council votes to pay $600K ransom to hackers who, over three weeks ago, encrypted city records, disabled its email system, and more
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida city agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom to hackers who took over its computer system …
UK government says the age verification requirement for porn websites is delayed because it failed to inform European regulators about the plan
An age-check scheme designed to stop under-18s viewing pornographic websites has been delayed a second time. — The changes - which mean UK …
Google says it has fixed an issue with some used Nest cameras that gave previous owners unfettered access to images when paired with a Wink hub
Note: After our story broke yesterday, a Google representative sent us the following statement: “We were recently made aware of an issue affecting …
Sources: after complaints about privacy practices around children's videos on YouTube, FTC is in late stages of a probe, causing YouTube to rethink its strategy
Data Sheet Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter : YouTube Reportedly In Late Stages Of Federal Investigation For Violating Children's Privacy Laws Haydn Taylor / GamesIndustry.biz : YouTube reportedly under inves...
NYSE says Slack's reference price for its direct listing has been set at $26 per share, which would value Slack at $15.7B, per sources
This is a developing story and will be updated shortly. — WSJ opens select articles to reader conversation to promote thoughtful dialogue.
Waymo partners with Renault and Nissan to explore creating driverless mobility services in France and Japan
Waymo, Alphabet Inc.'s self-driving vehicle unit, is preparing to expand the scope of its autonomous tech efforts beyond the U.S. in a new partnership with the Renault-Nissan Alliance aimed …
Instead of moving kids content to YouTube Kids, where existing problems could be replicated, YouTube Kids should invest in curation and product development
Facing mounting pressure over failures to protect children from inappropriate content, Google is reportedly considering a number of changes to its video sharing site YouTube.
Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, which makes Hue-branded smart lights, announces new Li-Fi lights called Truelifi with data transfer speeds of up to 150 Mbps
Signify's Truelifi can be retrofitted into existing Philips lights — Signify, the company formerly known as Philips Lighting …
Oracle publishes out-of-band update to patch a zero-day code-execution vulnerability in WebLogic Server that is being actively exploited, per researchers
Oracle's WebLogic Java appserver hit with the third in a series of exploited RCEs. — Oracle on Tuesday published an out-of-band update patching …
Druva, which provides a SaaS platform for data protection and management, raises $130M round led by Viking Global Investors at a $1B+ valuation
As businesses continue to move more of their computing and data to the cloud, one of the startups that has made a name for itself as a provider …
Some Twitter users receiving notifications whenever someone unfollows them, falsely saying the user “followed them back”; Twitter says it's working on a bug fix
Twitter is telling people when someone has unfollowed them. — For several days, untold numbers of Twitter users …
Sources: the US has told India it is considering caps on H-1B work visas for nations that force foreign companies to store data locally
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The United States has told India it is considering caps on H-1B work visas for nations that force foreign companies to store data locally …
Facebook open sources PyRobot, a framework and ecosystem that enables AI researchers to program robots without specialized knowledge of the hardware
Frameworks such as PyTorch have dramatically accelerated the progress of research in AI subfields such as computer vision and natural language processing.
Analysis of 150B+ browser-based US Google searches in Q1 2019: only 41.45% resulted in organic clicks to non-Google sites, and 48.96% ended without a click
In December of 2018, Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, was asked a set of questions by the United States Congress. His responses left... a lot... to be desired.
Haoqipei, a Shangai-based B2B auto parts trading platform connecting vehicle repair shops with suppliers in 100+ cities in China, raises $60M Series D
Haoqipei, a Shangai, China-based Business-to-business (B2B) auto parts trading platform, closed US $60m in Series D financing.
Sources: Ajit Pai's office has withheld documents from Democratic FCC commissioners on the FCC's probe into the unauthorized sale of US cellphone location data
Democratic commissioners at the FCC are still in the dark when it comes the agency's ongoing investigation into the unauthorized sale … Tweets: @dellcam , @dellcam , @dellcam , and @karlbode Tweets: D...
Valtix, which develops a suite of enterprise cloud security products, raises $14M Series A from Trinity Ventures and others
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Fresno-based Bitwise Industries, which offers training for developers, raises $27M Series A led by Kapor Capital
James Fallows / The Atlantic :
Apple says its devices can now be repaired in 1,000+ Best Buy locations across the US, expanding on its current network of ~270 Apple stores
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
London-based Kano, which makes hardware to teach younger people about computing and coding, partners with Microsoft and launches a £300 11.6" touchscreen laptop
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Oracle reports Q4 revenue of $11.14B, rising 1% YoY and beating analyst estimates of $10.93B, as its Cloud Services division beats with revenue of $6.8B
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Analysis of Crunchbase data of 21K funding rounds for 13K US startups shows women leading “non-female-focused” startups raise 54% less VC than their fair share
I've raised four rounds of venture capital. Each time, I feel a little part of me dies so goTenna might succeed. Tweets: @arcalinea and @ekp Tweets: Jay Graber / @arcalinea : When women stick to wome...
Cloudflare announces Ethereum Gateway, which makes it easier to interact with Ethereum's network and add interactive smart contract-powered elements to sites
Jonathan Hoyland / The Cloudflare Blog :
Mozilla patches a Firefox zero-day exploit that was discovered by Google's Project Zero and Coinbase's security teams, and it says was being abused in the wild
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Anti-phishing startup Valimail, which develops a cloud-based platform for companies, raises $45M Series C from Insight Partners, bringing total raised to $84M
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Researchers find that an ad agency left a database open with 150K+ personal records, including names and email and home addresses, from user-filled forms
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Virginia-based Expel, which offers managed cybersecurity services for companies, raises $40M Series C led by Index Ventures, bringing total raised to ~$70M
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Google rolls out Private Join and Compute, a tool that lets organizations gain insights about other parties' confidential data, as an open source project
On Deploying Secure Computing Commercially … Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet : Google open sources Private Join and Compute, a tool for sharing confidential data sets PYMNTS.com : Google Releases Open Sourc...
Quibi says it has booked more than $100M in ad sales with launch partners including Google, P&G, PepsiCo, Walmart, and Anheuser-Busch, ahead of April 2020 debut
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Bitrise, which helps companies build and operate mobile apps, raises $20M Series B led by Partech and says it is used by over 100,000 developers globally
Robin Wauters / Tech.eu :
AI and IoT are driving an industrial revolution on the factory floor by improving operational technology, lowering downtime via predictive maintenance, and more
Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica : Tweets: @libertyrpf Tweets: Liberty / @libertyrpf : “IoT has arrived on the factory floor with the force of Kool-Aid Man exploding through walls.” https://arstechnica....
Text IQ, a machine learning system that parses and understands sensitive corporate data, raises $12.6M Series A led by FirstMark Capital
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch :
Shopify announces a range of new updates, including a new Plus tier for enterprise, new tools for developers, and AI-powered fulfillment centers across the US
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
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