Capital One announces breach affecting ~106M US and Canadian customers, with most info accessed from credit card applications; FBI has arrested suspected hacker
Capital One, the Virginia-based bank with a popular credit card business, announced Monday that a hacker had accessed …
Sony Q1: 3.2M PS4s sold, 100M sold since launch in 2014, while smartphone revenue dropped 15% QoQ, with 900K units shipped, less than half of Q1 2018
Despite flagging sales of late, Sony's PlayStation 4 has sold 100 million units, making it the fastest-selling console to hit that number.
Huawei H1 2019: revenue of $58.26B, up 23.2% YoY; smartphone shipments of 118M, up 24% YoY; Canalys report says Huawei leads in China with 38.2% market share
KEY POINTS — China's Huawei reported a 23.2% year-over-year increase in revenue for the first six months of 2019 despite facing political headwinds.
Google Project Zero researchers publish details and demo exploit code for five of six “interactionless” iOS security bugs; iOS 12.4 patched all but one of them
The six bugs, if sold on the black market, would have brought in well over $5 million.
Uber says it laid off ~400 people across 75 offices from its 1,200-person marketing team, as the ride-hailing company tries to streamline its operations
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber said it laid off around 400 people from its marketing team on Monday, as the ride-hailing company tries to cut costs …
Sony and LG still struggled to sell smartphones in Q2 2019, with LG reporting mobile division sales of $1.38B, down 21% YoY
It's that joyous time of the year when we're bombarded with long, boring press releases with lots of numbers on that tell how terrible a company is doing …
Nintendo reports quarterly profit of $252.26M, down 10% YoY, says it sold 2.1M Switch consoles in the quarter, bringing the total installed base to 36.9M units
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese gaming company Nintendo Co Ltd on Tuesday reported a 10% decline in quarterly profit …
Researchers: Wind River's popular VxWorks' real-time operating system for embedded devices has had serious flaws for the past 13 years; patches are available
Almost a dozen serious vulnerabilities have been sitting for the past 13 years in the VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) …
Vacation rental platform Vacasa to acquire Wyndham Vacation Rentals for $162M from publicly-traded Wyndham Destinations, adding ~10K to its portfolio of homes
Vacasa is expanding its vacation rental industry footprint in a big way. — The Portland, Ore.-based company …
Workplace collaboration platform Monday.com raises $150M Series D led by Sapphire Ventures, sources say at a $1.9B valuation
Workplace collaboration platforms have become a crucial cornerstone of the modern office: workers' lives are guided by software and what we do on our computers …
Pixel 4 will come with face unlock and radar-powered Motion Sense features to let you skip songs, snooze alarms, and more by waving your hand over the device
it would be better on a smartwatch—but we've done the big hand-wavy thing on phones before. Ken / @kenbolido : If there's anyone I trust can pull this off, it's Google. The LG G8 did gesture control a...
How the West has misinterpreted the scope of China's social credit system, which is currently a patchwork of regional pilots and experimental projects
IN OCTOBER 2018, Vice President Mike Pence paid a visit to the Hudson Institute—a conservative Washington D.C. think tank …
LA-based Ordermark, an online delivery management service for restaurants, raises $18M Series B led by Foundry Group
Los Angeles-based Ordermark, the online delivery management service for restaurants founded by the scion of the famous, family-owned Canters Deli, said it has raised $18 million in a new round of fund...
Google announces expanded partnership with VMware, will support VMware Cloud Foundation, which helps enterprises deploy and run hybrid clouds, on Google Cloud
Google today announced a new partnership with VMware that will make it easier for enterprises to run their VMware workloads on Google Cloud.
AT&T wins $984M DOJ contract to move DOJ employees to a new communications platform that includes cybersecurity, cloud services, and access to AT&T's FirstNet
AT&T has won a $984 million, 15-year contract to help upgrade the US Department of Justice's technology systems.
Techstars, a network of startup accelerators and entrepreneur mentoring programs, raises $42M led by SVB Financial Group
Techstars, the worldwide network of startup accelerators and mentoring programs for entrepreneurs, has raised $42 million in a financing round led by SVB Financial Group …
Google says it used field research that offered people $5 to scan their faces, to improve accuracy of face unlock; research data will be kept for 18 months
It's ensuring that the Pixel 4 will work on a wide range of faces — Google just announced a face unlock feature for the upcoming Pixel 4 …
Bitcoin wallet provider Blockchain launches PIT, its first crypto exchange, which is based in London and able to trade up to 26 assets
Bitcoin wallet and blockchain explorer provider Blockchain just launched its first exchange platform. — Blockchain's head of retail products …
As identity fraud schemes plague Facebook, the company seems unable or unwilling to address accounts that use others' photos as their own profile pictures
Renee Holland sent her Facebook friend thousands of dollars. She became entwined in a global fraud that the social network … Tweets: @matthewkeyslive , @jacknicas , @kashhill , @toluogunlesi , @nytim...
Self-proclaimed “YouTubers Union” and IG Metall, Europe's largest trade union, launch a campaign to voice concerns about video monetization and distribution
The YouTubers Union has joined forces with Europe's largest trade union to fight for a fairer platform. — JÖRG SPRAVE
Solana raises $20M Series A led by Multicoin Capital for its speed-focused blockchain, says it could do 50K transactions per second on a 200-node global network
Promising Layer 2 speeds on a Layer 1 platform, Solana has raised a $20 million Series A to build a blockchain meant to operate on the mass scale of the world wide web.
Qualcomm and Tencent Games announce strategic partnership to create digital entertainment, including Snapdragon-based mobile gaming devices, AR/VR, and 5G games
I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. — Today, Qualcomm announced a sweeping …
Robert A. Cohen, the SEC's Cyber Unit chief, will step down in August; Cohen had led several investigations into ICOs
Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk :
Sources: Huawei and Google were working together on a Huawei-branded smart speaker slated for September release, but that work ended after Trump's ban in May
Juro Osawa / The Information :
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
suggesting the CJEU ruling will apply to other social platforms"yep https://techcrunch.com/... Sally Hubbard / @sally_hubbard : I hope the EU court ruling is the beginning of the end of this fraudulen...
Swedish startup Minut, which makes a camera-less security device that relies on sensors including infrared motion detection and a mic, raises $8M Series A
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
According to notes from an Amazon webinar, Ring has partnered with 200+ local police departments in US, which can directly ask Ring owners for camera footage
they show Ring told police that it's partnered with 200 law enforcement agencies around the country. https://www.vice.com/... Emanuel Eggberg / @emanuelmaiberg : More amazing reporting from @carolineh...
Profile of ATPCO, an airline-owned business that has handled fare data for the airline and travel industry for 50+ years, as it begins moving operations to AWS
Stephanie Condon / ZDNet :
Walmart's Flipkart has invested ~$200M into its digital payments subsidiary PhonePe since March, as it reportedly plans to spin PhonePe off at a ~$10B valuation
Pramugdha Mamgain / DealStreetAsia :
Report: Chinese VCs invested ~$2.5B in Indian startups in 2018 and almost $1B so far this year; number of such deals jumped from 1 in 2013 to 27 in 2018
Vasudevan Sridharan / South China Morning Post : Tweets: @kpmgindia Tweets: Kpmg India / @kpmgindia : The knowledge, concepts, ideas, and innovations of the small #startups in India will have a globa...
Surescripts, which is being sued by FTC over alleged e-prescription monopoly, says that a contractor, ReMy Health, illegally gave its data to Amazon's PillPack
Christina Farr / CNBC :
Maryland-based Trinity Cyber raises $23M from Intel and others for its real-time threat mitigation services and hires ex-DHS Advisor Tom Bossert as CSO
and He Wants to Make Hackers Suffer Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Stealth intervention security startup Trinity Cyber raises $23M from Intel Tweets: Greg Otto / @gregotto : I am wholly confused by thi...
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 :
Source: Lyft COO Jon McNeill, who joined in February 2018, is leaving the company
GitHub confirms it is blocking developers in Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, and Crimea from accessing private repositories and paid accounts due to sanctions
But not China who had directed a massive DDOS attack at Github for hosting anti-censorship software tools https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/... Niac / @niacouncil : US sanctions are broad...
AppViewX, which offers a “low-code” platform that helps manage and automate application delivery, certificate lifecycles, and more, raises $30M Series A
James Thorne / GeekWire :
Grindr owner Beijing Kunlun Tech to relaunch the app's IPO process, saying that CFIUS had dropped its opposition; filing: Grindr to be listed outside of China
Meg Shen / Reuters : Tweets: @rmac18 Tweets: Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : This is quite the turn of events https://www.reuters.com/...
Sources: machine learning tools provider DataRobot has raised a ~$200M Series E led by Sapphire Ventures at a $1B+ valuation, following a $100M Series D in 2018
Brian Dowling / Xconomy : Thanks: @be_d
AI-powered law for startups
Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.