Trump says he will allow sales of US equipment to Huawei, where there are no national security issues, for now; US will not impose new tariffs on China
U.S. agrees to halt additional tariffs on Chinese goods for now — OSAKA, Japan—President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed …
Ex-Equifax CIO Jun Ying sentenced to four months in prison for insider trading; he pleaded guilty to selling Equifax shares prior to 2017's breach announcement
Four months of jail time — The Justice Department announced this week that former Equifax CIO Jun Ying has been sentenced to four months in prison for insider trading.
A look at the challenges, downsides, and huge costs of 5G rollout in the US, which may take a decade or more to complete
As carriers launch their 5G networks, the promise of superfast wireless is clashing with the reality of the rollout; ‘the real onslaught has not yet begun’
Booster, which enables fuel delivery directly to cars via an app in more than 20 US cities, raises $56M Series C, bringing total raised to $88.5M
Booster, a San Mateo, California-based startup offering same-day fuel delivery service in the U.S., today announced that it's raised $56 million …
Walmart de Mexico says it is now offering grocery delivery via WhatsApp, charging ~$2.55 for a delivery within 90 minutes and ~$2.03 for longer waits
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Walmart's Mexico unit has begun offering grocery delivery from its Superama stores via messaging service WhatsApp … Tweets: @dainabethcita Tweets: Daina Beth Solomon / @dainabe...
Profile of Foxconn's new chairman Liu Young-way, who joined the firm as a special assistant to Gou in 2007 and was named head of semiconductor business in 2017
Gou remains the largest shareholder with 10 per cent of the company's shares and retains his seat on the board Low profile head …
Interview with Google's Matías Duarte on his smartphone notification designs while at Danger between 2000-2005 and what can be done to make notifications better
NOTIFICATIONS ARE, AT the most basic level, a method of alerting people to some piece of information, often with some element of urgency. Tweets: @wired , @wired , and @laurengoode Tweets: @wired : No...
Amazon Air has started operations in Anchorage, Alaska, which could allow Amazon to expand its in-house logistics to moving goods to and from Asia
- Observers say Amazon is building a logistics empire to compete with UPS and FedEx. — Beginning June 27, Amazon will start daily operations … Tweets: @rrpre Tweets: Rachel Premack / @rrpre : Amazon ...
A look at a dispute among Wikipedia administrators and some on the Wikimedia Foundation board after a prolific, long-serving administrator was banned for a year
The once-derided open-source encyclopedia is the closest thing the internet has to an oasis of truth. Tweets: @zoeblade , @redlightvoices , @petersuber , @bernstein , @shinyemptyhead , @buzzfeednews ,...
Creative Group, which offers mobile phone top-ups and e-vouchers for iTunes, Google, Spotify, Xbox, PlayStation, and other online services, raises €22M
Creative Group, a fintech startup headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, has landed a €22 million in funding from Prime Ventures …
EU-based IT-consultant Capgemini to buy Altran for $4.1B, to fill the gap in its services competing with rivals like Accenture for IoT, 5G, and AI contracts
Capgemini SE said it will acquire Altran Technologies SA for 14 euros-a-share to expand its software engineering network with internet and technology companies.
Source: Bytedance spent ~$1B advertising TikTok in 2018, heavily promoting its short video app on Facebook and Instagram, and becoming Snap's biggest advertiser
China's first big hit in the U.S. uses an advanced algorithm to personalize its video-sharing app, and parent Bytedance's enormous ad spending … Tweets: @jeremysliew , @mtatsis , @peterpham , and @kar...
GrubHub buys domain name variations of restaurant clients and launches shadow pages, some of which outrank clients' websites, inflating GrubHub's commissions
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Report: multiple publishers have been unimpressed with revenue from Apple News+; one said revenue has been one twentieth of what Apple said it would be
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Splyt, which wants to bring international roaming to ride-hailing apps and already allows Alipay users to book Grab rides, raises $8M Series A from Grab, others
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Ted Cruz touting a recent undercover Project Veritas YouTube sting, supposedly proving censorship and bias, shows how these misleading attacks can be successful
and Successful: James O'keefe's Stunt Playbook Keeps Giving Conservative Lawmakers Ammunition, Even if the Evidence Is All Phony https://www.theverge.com/... Lon Harris / @lons : Wait, the Project Ver...
Data mining and ad targeting company LiveRamp, formerly known as Acxiom, to acquire Data Plus Math, which helps advertisers analyze TV viewer data, for $150M
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @simonjharris Tweets: @simonjharris : Wow @LiveRamp acquires @DataPlusMath for $150m ($120m in cash & $30m stock). That's a 25x revenue multiple. It's ...
Chinese Netflix equivalent iQiyi announces it has reached 100M subscribers; senior exec says it intends to expand into other Asian countries and North America
Imagining the future where regulations of social media platforms didn't end harassment, extremism, or disinformation, and only made the platforms stronger
an industry that will fight to keep 230 to the death. Carrie is on the right side of history. Cory is on the side of Bezos and Zuck. https://twitter.com/... Carrie A. Goldberg / @cagoldberglaw : Proud...
GoFundMe is an increasingly popular way to raise money to cover medical expenses, where storytelling and personal connections often play a crucial role
Nathan Heller / New Yorker : Tweets: @kenvogel , @nathanheller , @repdebdingell , @newyorker , @newyorker , @jessicagolds , @lizszabo , @devonrgoss , @newyorker , and @jeremycsnyder Tweets: Kenneth P...
Profile of Beijing-based PingCAP which is replacing IBM and Oracle as the enterprise software provider of choice for Chinese startups, amid US trade tensions
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg : Tweets: @redgenkosi Tweets: Nkhosi.... / @redgenkosi : Tech War: Oracle & IBM ditched in China by China's biggest start-u tech firm. The turf is suddenly turning rougher...
Cloud computing, AI, and low-cost sensors have given rise to a slew of weather forecasting startups that think incumbents are vulnerable to new business models
long before other companies began forecasting the weather: https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/... @forbes : The $6 billion battle over the future of weather forecasting: https://www.forbes...
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