Uber reports Q2 revenue of $3.17B, up 14% YoY, net loss of $5.2B and a loss of ~$1.3B excluding stock based compensation, gross bookings of $15.8B, up 31% YoY
SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2019.
Huawei unveils HarmonyOS, a microkernel-based, distributed OS, which Huawei says is an alternative to Android in case it can no longer use Google's OS
Huawei's long-rumored Android alternative, Hongmeng, is finally official. At today's Huawei Developer Conference …
Sources: Goldman Sachs is approving Apple Card applications for some users with low credit scores as Apple wants as many of its customers as possible approved
KEY POINTS — Goldman, which is in charge of deciding who gets the Apple Card, is accepting some applications from users …
Amazon says it is investigating after leaked documents show Foxconn is requiring school children to illegally work overtime as interns to make Alexa devices
Leaked documents show children as young as 16 recruited by Amazon supplier Foxconn work gruelling and illegal hours
Sources: White House holds off a decision on licenses for US companies to restart sales to Huawei after Beijing said it was halting purchases of US farm goods
The White House is holding off on a decision about licenses for U.S. companies to restart business with Huawei Technologies Co …
Sources: Facebook is offering millions of dollars to news outlets to license their content for a news section that the company hopes to launch later this year
Company approached ABC News, Dow Jones, Washington Post and Bloomberg as it plans to launch news section
AMD announces second generation EPYC processing chips for data centers with better performance while using less power, adds Google and Twitter as customers
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced the launch of its second generation of EPYC processing chips for data centers …
Apple expands bug bounty to macOS, watchOS, and Apple TV, increases maximum payout to $1M, and will open the program to all researchers this fall
Apple is offering between $100,000 and $1 million for anyone who can hack an iPhone. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) — GETTY IMAGES
Broadcom acquires Symantec's enterprise business for $10.7B in cash
KEY POINTS — U.S. President Donald Trump jokes with Broadcom CEO Hock Tan as he announces that Broadcom would be moving back to the U.S. in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Nov. 2...
Google Maps expands its beta AR walking navigation feature, called Live View, to all Android and iOS devices that support ARCore and ARKit, starting this week
Google wants its Maps app to be about more than just getting directions. The search giant on Thursday announced a handful …
Federal appeals court rules Facebook must face a class action suit claiming that its facial recognition practices violated an Illinois biometric privacy law
(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook Inc's (FB.O) effort to undo a class action lawsuit claiming …
Uber's Latin American revenues in Q2 fell 24% YoY to $547M, as company posts its slowest overall quarterly revenue growth of 14%; stock is down 8%+
Eliot Brown / Wall Street Journal :
Uber Eats Q2 revenue was $595M, up 72% YoY; Uber says it now has 99 million active consumers on its platform overall, as the number of Eats users grew 140% YoY
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
GitHub launches the beta of a new version of GitHub Actions with continuous integration and delivery capabilities built in, says it now has 40M+ users
Microsoft's GitHub today launched the beta of a new version of GitHub Actions with full continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) capabilities built right into the service.
After denying it broke Instagram's rules, Hyp3r says it has taken its services offline for now, and is planning to meet with Facebook as soon as next week
KEY POINTS — Facebook is setting up a meeting with Hyp3r, a marketing firm that was removed from Instagram after allegedly violating the social network's policies.
11 current and past YouTube moderators say popular creators like Logan Paul often get special treatment in the form of looser interpretations of guidelines
Moderators describe a chaotic workplace where exceptions for lucrative influencers are the norm. — SAN FRANCISCO … Tweets: @laurastevens and @geoffreyfowler Tweets: Laura Stevens / @laurastevens : ....
Dara Khosrowshahi says Uber considered buying food delivery startup Caviar before DoorDash acquired it for $410M, but decided to pass on the deal
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Trump says US will cut ties with Huawei, but that could change if there's a trade deal with China
KEY POINTS — The U.S. will cut ties with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, but that could change if there's a trade deal with China, said Trump. — The move on Huawei came …
iPhones now do not display the Battery Health feature when their batteries are replaced by unauthorized service providers
“Guess what, Apple. You've got some explaining to do.” Jason Koebler / VICE : Apple Is Locking Batteries to Specific iPhones, a Nightmare for DIY Repair Rene Ritchie / iMore : Is Apple Locking iPhone...
20+ people, many who worked with Jack Dorsey at Square or Twitter, recall how he avoids decision-making, is a slower thinker, and sometime responds in riddles
“Jack is thinking about things at a different pace from the rest of us,” says Greg Kidd, who has known Jack Dorsey, now 42, since Dorsey was 19. Tweets: @bendwalsh , @_harshilshah , @hlplost , @darias...
ES&S claims that its election systems are never connected to the internet, but researchers find 35 ES&S systems in 10 states have been online over the last year
some in swing states — have been internet connected for months, maybe years. l o l https://www.vice.com/... @dwightshellman : Journalism matters. A lot. Here's Exhibit A. In today's cyber threat envir...
Head of Uber India says the company is building a bus service in India, hopes to launch in the next 12 months; Uber launched a bus service in Cairo in October
Pradeep Parameswaran, Uber India and South Asia head told Moneycontrol that the company is in the process of building the product and refining it.
With a subscriber miss, ballooning costs, rivals circling, and a dire need for more in-house hits, Netflix is looking like the entertainment giants it disrupted
With a subscriber miss, ballooning costs, competitors circling and an existential need to produce more in-house hits … Tweets: @johnfinnegan247 , @cinestate , @bakelwalden , @notcapnamerica , and @thr...
Google will start surfacing individual podcast episodes in search results and will soon let users ask Google Assistant to play podcasts about specific topics
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Securiti.ai, which is developing an automated platform that helps enterprises comply with privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA, raises $31M Series A
Cybercrime never sleeps. Juniper Research pegs the number of digital records that will be stolen in 2023 at 33 billion, compared with the 12 billion stolen in 2018.
Samsung confirms Galaxy Note10 and 10+ won't work with its Gear VR headset
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Researcher says one in four UK- and US-based companies contacted to test a GDPR “right of access” request made in someone else's name revealed personal data
Leo Kelion / BBC :
India's LendingKart, which helps SMBs access working capital, raises $30M Series D from existing investors, bringing its total raised to $143M
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
SignalWire raises $11.5M Series A led by Storm Ventures, with Samsung NEXT, Sequoia, others participating, for its open-source enterprise communication platform
Facebook is testing selling video streaming subscriptions in the US, starting with four services including BBC and ITV's BritBox and CollegeHumor's Dropout
but not from HBO or Showtime Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Facebook's Testing New Third-Party VOD Subscription Partnerships to Boost its Video Offerings John Anon / Android Headlines : Face...
Strategy Analytics: Roku, through partnership with TCL and others, crossed Samsung to become the top-selling smart-TV platform in the US with a 33% market share
Abigail Summerville / Wall Street Journal :
Researchers: nearly two years after US banned the use of Kaspersky by the government, its software can still be found on military and other federal networks
Thomas Brewster / Forbes : Tweets: @expanseinc Tweets: Expanse / @expanseinc : Expanse discovered that at least two US military networks, eight non-military government networks, and 14 defense contra...
WhatsApp-advised startup Meedan unveils a tool that auto-responds to fact-check queries from chat apps like Messenger and WeChat if a fact-checked answer exists
Cristina Tardáguila / Poynter : Tweets: @factchecknet See also Mediagazer Tweets: Ifcn / @factchecknet : Here comes a tool, approved by WhatsApp, to automate the distribution of fact-checks in privat...
Dropbox reports Q2 revenue of $401.5M, up 18% YoY, net loss of $21.4M, up from $4.1M and avg revenue per paying user of $120, up from $117 a year ago
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DeepMind execs talk about the importance of interdisciplinary research and how AI could help solve tough scientific problems, like predicting shapes of proteins
Greg Williams / WIRED UK : Tweets: @wireduk and @wireduk Tweets: @wireduk : DeepMind's AI has mastered Go and defeated chess grandmasters, but what's its real mission? CEO and co-founder @demishassab...
Check Point researchers: Facebook has failed to address a WhatsApp flaw that lets hackers alter messages and sender identities, a year after it was reported
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times :
Source: Mario Queiroz, the Google VP who heads its Pixel division, is leaving the hardware unit for a new job in the office of Sundar Pichai
Ina Fried / Axios :
Apple brings Apple Music for Artists, its data dashboard for musicians, out of beta, with an iOS app and new features including data from Shazam
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
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