GitHub officially confirms it is blocking devs in Iran, Syria, N. Korea, Cuba, and Crimea from accessing private repositories and paid accounts due to sanctions
The impact of U.S. trade restrictions is trickling down to the developer community. GitHub, the world's largest host of source code …
ByteDance confirms it is working on its own smartphone after acquiring some patents and employees from Chinese smartphone maker Smartisan earlier this year
Chinese social media firm ByteDance Ltd said on Monday it is developing a smartphone, following a deal it made with device maker Smartisan Technology.
Sources: Amazon is exploring an ambitious new grocery chain, probably separate from Whole Foods, built for pickup and delivery as well as in-store shopping
SEATTLE — In early 2017, a memo circulated inside Amazon that imagined an ambitious new grocery chain.
EU's top court rules that sites with embedded Facebook Like buttons are responsible for data collected, must obtain user consent before data is sent to Facebook
Europe's top court has made a ruling that could affect scores of websites that embed the Facebook ‘Like’ button and receive visitors from the region.
UK's Just Eat is merging with its Dutch rival Takeaway.com in a £9B deal that will create one of the world's biggest online food delivery companies
British firm joins Dutch rival to form one of the world's biggest online food delivery companies — Just Eat is merging …
Grab says it will invest $2B in Indonesia over the next five years to help it compete with Gojek using funds it has raised from SoftBank
Grab — the on-demand transportation app worth $14 billion that is the Uber of Southeast Asia — today announced how it would be using some of the $7 billion …
Sales enablement platform MindTickle raises $40M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, bringing its total raised $81M+
MindTickle, a sales enablement solutions provider with offices in Bangalore and San Francisco, today announced that it's raised $40 million in series C funding led …
Sources: Amazon is planning to launch a food delivery service in India in September with a local partner, Catamaran, and has begun hiring staff
BENGALURU (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is planning a foray into the burgeoning online food delivery business in India this year …
Amazon is increasingly good in helping us buy things we know we want, but it's not clear if it'll ever be good at helping us shop for things we don't know about
I sometimes think that if you could look in the safe behind Jeff Bezos's desk, instead of the sports almanac from Back to the Future …
Deloitte study finds executives at most large organizations are not mature users of AI or advanced analytic tools, with 62% still relying on spreadsheets
AI and advanced analytic tools are present in most enterprises, but so are data silos and spreadsheets.
In an update to a previous report, Ming-Chi Kuo now says that all three new iPhones coming in 2020 will support 5G
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
Tech companies, including Apple and Google, are petitioning the FCC to allow low-power devices for unlicensed use of the 6GHz Wi-Fi band without restrictions
Part of a spectrum battle pitting hardware makers against carriers and utilities — It's rare to see Apple, Google, Microsoft …
A look at Etsy's turnaround since Josh Silverman became CEO in 2017, largely focused on improving basic parts of the user experience, like search and shipping
When you type the term “bike jersey” into the search field at Etsy.com, most of the results you get are, in fact, bike jerseys. Tweets: @dickc , @jstrauss , @joshk , and @wexboy_value Tweets: Dick Cos...
Report: Venezuela uses digital wallet app Jetman Pay to convert taxes from one of its airports into Bitcoin and sell it abroad for USD, bypassing US sanctions
Yessi Bello Perez / The Next Web :
Three-year-old Reliance Jio becomes the biggest telecom operator in India, as its subscribers grow to 331M in Q2 2019, surpassing Vodafone Idea's 320M subs
the great Indian telecom battle Tweets: Yoolim Lee / @yoolimleenews : Jio has been transformative in India. Its affordability is enpowering people in rural areas and hopefully will reduce the gender g...
Planning to improve rural internet access, Canada to contribute C$85M to Telesat's R&D, as the company deploys a constellation of 292 low-earth-orbit satellites
Amrita Khalid / Engadget :
Europol says that free tools provided as part of its three-year-old “No More Ransom” project prevented ransomware gangs from making at least $108M in profits
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
US cybersecurity company Immunity is selling a working BlueKeep exploit that enables remote code execution over Windows RDP, as part of a pen testing suite
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
A profile of Ping An, China's second-largest insurer and biggest private-sector company by revenue, which is focusing on inventive uses of AI and big data
Ping An built an empire around safe and staid products like life insurance. Now it's betting its future on inventive uses of big data … Tweets: @polina_marinova and @fortunemagazine Tweets: Polina Ma...
How constant location sharing via apps like Find My Friends or Glympse may trigger anxiety in friends when a phone dies, or the app shows an unexpected detour
Boone Ashworth / Wired :
Alibaba's new chip division releases its first core processor IP, says the chip is based on RISC-V and is suitable for edge computing, self-driving applications
Josh Horwitz / Reuters :
Following Microsoft's $1B investment in OpenAI, critics worry about whether the latter is the proper vehicle for democratizing the benefits of AI
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune :
Weimob, which helps merchants market and sell on WeChat and has seen its shares rise 60%+ since its Jan. Hong Kong IPO, raises $180M more from Tencent, others
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg :
How China is trying to increase its influence in global tech standards organizations like ITU, IEEE, and 3GPP, and how the US and EU are pushing back
Alan Beattie / Financial Times : Tweets: @evawxiao and @yuanfenyang Tweets: Eva Xiao / @evawxiao : “The EU has a subtler strategy for constraining China...its approach involves regulating the way tha...
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