Equifax will pay at least $650M and potentially significantly more to end an array of state, federal, and consumer claims over the 2017 data breach
The credit bureau Equifax will pay at least $650 million and potentially significantly more to end an array of state, federal and consumer claims …
Leaked documents show Huawei secretly helped North Korea build its wireless 3G network, raising the question of whether it violated US export controls
Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese tech giant embroiled in President Trump's trade war with China and blacklisted as a national security threat …
Microsoft says it will invest $1B in OpenAI, beginning a partnership to jointly develop new AI technologies for the Azure cloud platform
Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman …
Profile of Jeff Williams, Tim Cook's heir apparent as CEO, who is broadly regarded as a strong choice for the top job within Apple
Jeff Williams co-created the Apple Watch and runs the company's global operations. Can he also handle design—and everything else?
Etsy to acquire Reverb, a marketplace for new and used musical instruments, in a cash deal worth ~$275M; Reverb raised nearly $50M from Max Levchin and others
Etsy has announced plans to acquire Reverb, a marketplace for new and used musical instruments, in a cash deal worth approximately $275 million.
Slack updates its desktop app for Windows and macOS, which is still built on Electron, claims it now launches 33% faster and uses 50% less RAM than before
Slack's desktop app has been rebuilt for Windows and macOS — Slack is unveiling a new version of its desktop app for Windows …
As matchmaking sites surpass friends and family for finding partners, the burden of finding a partner now rests solely on the individual and can be lonesome
My maternal grandparents met through mutual friends at a summer pool party in the suburbs of Detroit shortly after World War II.
Confiant: two Hong Kong-based firms have been responsible for malicious ads with 100M+ impressions in 2019, including many shown via Microsoft's Windows 10 apps
Security firm tracks down malvertiser who deployed malicious ads in Outlook, Microsoft games, and the Microsoft News app.
Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in 2015 accusing it of age discrimination in hiring, paying out $11M across 227 people who joined the class action
- Company vows to train employees, managers about discrimination — Woman who sued interviewed for job with tech titan four times
Microsoft settles with the SEC and the DoJ for $26M over potential bribery and corruption related to software sales in Hungary
The deal with the U.S. Justice Department and the SEC resolves claims the software giant violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Sennder, which connects commercial businesses with freight carriers, raises $70M Series C led by Lakestar at a valuation in the region of $300M
Logistics and the movement of freight from point A to B (and C and beyond) is one of the more antiquated, and less-understood aspects of the world of commerce.
Tel Aviv-based UVeye, which is building drive-through scanners that use AI for external inspection of vehicles, raises $31M
The race is on for the car of the future, equipped with self-driving capabilities, on-board personalised information and entertainment, and an ever-smaller carbon footprint.
Zenith: online advertising forecast to grow by 10% globally next year, the lowest level since 2001, as big brands seek risk-free placement in traditional media
Sector to be outpaced next year by cinema ads as big companies raise fears over digital scandals
Tutors for services like VIPKIDS, which links native English speakers with Chinese students, recount instances of parents abusing kids during online sessions
Emily Tate / EdSurge :
LA-based three-year-old VC firm Fifth Wall Ventures raises $503M for its next real estate technology-focused fund, from 50 corporate investors in 11 countries
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News :
Hackers breached SyTech, a contractor for Russia's FSB, and stole 7.5TB of data about its projects for the agency, including one for deanonymizing Tor traffic
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
ByteDance to set up a data center in India to store Indian user data locally, says its social app Helo has 50M MAUs and TikTok has 120M MAUs in the country
Megha Mandavia / The Economic Times :
David Marcus' congressional testimony shows the Libra Association may take a much more hands-on approach towards regulatory compliance than initially envisioned
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica :
iflix, a streaming service targeting emerging markets, raises $50M ahead of a potential IPO, says it had around 17M users in May, up from 9M six months earlier
Miguel Cordon / Tech in Asia :
A reporter describes his and others' experiences delivering food on bikes for apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Postmates in New York City
with a camera on his chest. This is what he saw. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Profile of Nick Clegg, ex-Liberal Democrats leader and deputy prime minister in UK, who became Facebook's head of global affairs and communications in Oct. 2018
Edward Docx / New Statesman :
Just Eat merges its customer and restaurant operations teams in the UK and Ireland, as part of which, a source says, as many as 100 staff have been laid off
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Horizon Games, developer of a blockchain game distribution platform and an ethereum-powered game, raises $3.75M seed led by Alexis Ohanian's Initialized Capital
Brady Dale / CoinDesk : Tweets: @coindesk Tweets: @coindesk : JUST IN: @0xHorizonGames has raised $3.75 million in seed funding in a round led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian's Initialized Capita...
Google's Area 120 debuts Byteboard, a job interview tool that lets candidates choose their coding environment and work on projects from design to implementation
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Report details the activities of Apple's New Product Security team, created after a major iPhone 5c leak, which is now increasing focus on CAD schematics leaks
and sometimes get away Tweets: Wayne Ma / @waynema : Apple has spent the past seven years plugging leaks in its Chinese supply chain, which have grown more audacious. We reviewed an internal document ...
A look at gallium nitride, a compound that can replace silicon in chips and is key to miniaturizing 5G tech; China controls 95% of gallium's global supply
South China Morning Post : Tweets: @scmpnews Tweets: @scmpnews : China tightens grip on wonder metal gallium as #Huawei works on promising applications beyond 5G https://www.scmp.com/...
Analysis of factors that have slowed the tech boom in China, where VC deals in the IT sector have declined from a peak of $26.4B in Q2 2018 to $2.2B in Q2 2019
Louise Lucas / Financial Times : Tweets: @jc_mittelstadt Tweets: @jc_mittelstadt : “The transaction-oriented model is more or less done,” says Jason Ding, partner at Bain & Co consultancy in Beijing....
Zefr sells its video rights-management tech, RightsID and ChannelID, to Vobile in ~$90M deal and will refocus on its contextual-advertising service for YouTube
Todd Spangler / Variety :
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