Huawei announces its first device running Harmony OS, an Honor Vision smart TV launching on August 15
Companies that have traditionally been known for their smartphones are venturing into the smart TV business. Xiaomi has been in this game for some time now, while OnePlus is also gearing up to launch...
Teen hacker Bill Demirkapi on finding bugs, that exposed 5M student records across 5,000 schools, in educational software from providers Blackboard and Follett
A FEW SHORT decades ago, the archetypal hacker was a bored teenager breaking into his school's network to change grades, à la Ferris Bueller.
Telegram releases new features including sending messages without notification sound, a “slow mode” that restricts group members from messaging too often, more
The previous update brought more movement to Telegram - this one brings more peace of mind.
China's central bank official says its digital currency, CBDC, is “ready”, and will not rely entirely on a pure blockchain architecture
Mu Changchun, Deputy Chief in the Payment and Settlement Division of the People's Bank of China (PBOC,) stated that the CBDC prototype exists …
Cisco to acquire Voicea, the maker of a voice assistant called Eva for business meetings; Voicea had raised $20M from investors including GV and Salesforce
Cisco Systems Inc. today announced that it's bolstering its family of collaboration products with the acquisition of Voicea …
Nike buys Celect, an AI startup focused on predicting what customers want, allowing better inventory management; Celect had raised over $30M from investors
Nike's market cap has swollen past $100 billion, but the shoe company still sees potential to learn more about what customers …
The fintech company TastyTrade invests $20M in its new subsidiary Dough, a Robinhood-like no fee stock trading service with a $1 per month subscription
The new Chicago fintech firm, which will be a TastyTrade subsidiary, aims to take on Robinhood in wielding the smartphone to trade stocks.
In the face of the US ban, Huawei's smartphone sales are surging in China, boosted by rising grassroots patriotism and heavy promotions by the company
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When 23-year-old Chinese student Aaron Huang started his hunt for an Android replacement for his Apple … Tweets: @mattk Tweets: Matt / @mattk : Samsung getting affected ...
FCC filing reveals Sonos is working on its first-ever Bluetooth speaker
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Susan Wojcicki talks about the crises that have engulfed YouTube recently, the power of its platform, and being a working parent of five
As the crisis-hit video site struggles to stem the flow of extreme content, the CEO talks about her role as the internet's gatekeeper Tweets: @caseynewton , @brianmcc , @timmaughan , @hshaban , and @h...
QR code payments, which require opening an app, are causing holdups for public transit commuters in China, where 100M+ WeChat users regularly pay with QR codes
NFC availability is growing, but 100 million WeChat users are now paying for public transit with QR codes
Swiss startup DeepCode raises $4M seed to expand its AI-powered system for code reviews that is mostly trained using data from open source GitHub repositories
We're fast approaching a point where every company is effectively a software company, a notion proffered by some of tech's top people such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Backbone, which provides product lifecycle management SaaS for consumer goods companies, raises $10M Series A extension, closing the round with a total of $18M
Boulder, Colo.-based Backbone, a SaaS company that helps direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands get products to market, has raised $10 million as part of an ongoing Series A round.
Profile of WWT, which helps clients including the US federal government procure and install IT equipment; the company reported revenue of $11.2B last year
Lauren Debter / Forbes : Tweets: @forbes and @brentbeshore Tweets: @forbes : “I hope what this represents is that all things are possible. We still live in the greatest country in the world and God b...
Interviews and documents show that One Concern, which wants to use AI to help emergency responders in disasters, dangerously exaggerated its tools' abilities
Sheri Fink / New York Times : Tweets: @random_walker , @nytimes , @jimmyjwu , @robreich , @jswatz , @kellyhereid , @kellyhereid , and @kellyhereid Tweets: Arvind Narayanan / @random_walker : The fake...
Telegram has become a haven for white supremacists, violent men's groups, anti-PC agitators, and others who fear alleged censorship by big tech companies
April Glaser / Slate : Tweets: @levynews , @carnage4life , @libshipwreck , @maasalan , @frankpasquale , @dgolumbia , and @aprilaser Tweets: Ari Levy / @levynews : Who could've predicted? https://twit...
Uber imposes hiring freeze on engineering teams in the US and Canada, canceling scheduled interviews with job applicants this week
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Squad, an eight-month-old video chat and screen sharing app making a safe space for its 450K users, raises a $5M seed round; 70% of its users are teenage girls
Kate Clark / TechCrunch :
Jollychic, a Chinese ecommerce platform focused on the Middle East, raises $65M Series C2; a Series C round a year ago valued the startup at $1B+
Zubair Naeem Paracha / MENAbytes :
There is a growing sentiment among Stanford's CS students to resist working at tech companies like Palantir that they feel are unethical
April Glaser / Slate : Tweets: @mikeisaac , @ross , @dhh , @ethanz , and @aprilaser Tweets: Rat King / @mikeisaac : this @aprilaser piece is real good techcos start to give many shits once the kids t...
Sydney-based Fluent Commerce, which provides cloud-based order management software for retail clients like Target in 11 markets globally, raises $22.4M Series B
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Profile of Amazon Publishing, which puts out around 1,100 titles a year and, like Prime Video, exists to reinforce Prime memberships
Blake Montgomery / The Atlantic : Tweets: @theatlantic Tweets: @theatlantic : Amazon Publishing may not be the tech giant's best-known enterprise, but it is a quietly consequential piece of the compa...
Ezoic, which is developing an AI-powered website optimization platform for digital publishers, raises $33M, bringing its total raised to nearly $40M
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