WordPress.com owner Automattic says it will buy Tumblr from Verizon, take on ~200 staffers, and keep the porn ban; source says Automattic paid less than $10M
Verizon is set to sell the social network Tumblr to Automattic Inc, the owner of blog site and publishing tool Wordpress, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Snap announces Spectacles 3 with an updated design and a second HD camera to create depth perception, going on sale in November for $380
They're $380 and go on sale in November — Snap today announced Spectacles 3, a redesigned version of its augmented reality sunglasses with a sleek …
How YouTube radicalized Brazil, diverting users to conspiracy and far-right channels, elevating Bolsonaro's party, and possibly creating a public health crisis
NITERÓI, Brazil — When Matheus Dominguez was 16, YouTube recommended a video that changed his life.
Interviews with 47 former and current employees about the past three years at Google reveal fear of the far right, activist awakening, weaponized leaks, more
ON A BRIGHT Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employees—horrified, alarmed, and a little giddy …
Johnson Controls' GLAS thermostat, debuted as a Cortana-powered device in 2018, is being updated to remove Cortana, instead offering Alexa and Google Assistant
The GLAS smart thermostat was to be Cortana's big expansion in the connected home, but the stylish glass HVAC controller …
Spotify for Podcasters comes out of beta, giving podcasters valuable listener data like age, gender, location, music taste, and episode listening duration
Spotify for Podcasters comes out of beta today — Spotify is going to give podcasters listener data they can't get anywhere else.
A look at Jeff Bezos' radical approach of giving nonprofits millions from his Day One Fund to provide shelter for homeless families without any restrictions
Jeff Bezos is making a name for himself in the world of charity. Nicole Craine/WireImage — Is that good? Is that bad?
Coinbase tells UK customers to convert their Zcash to other coins or move it to external wallets, otherwise it will automatically convert to pounds on Aug. 26
The U.K. arm of Coinbase appears to be dropping support for the privacy-focused cryptocurrency zcash.
23 job search websites in Europe allege anti-competitive behavior from Google in antitrust complaints to the European Union competition commissioner
BRUSSELS/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google's fast-growing tool for searching job listings has been a boon for employers and job boards starving …
Researchers find that in four dating apps, including Grindr, any user's location can be determined using the apps' public APIs, if the username is known
Four popular dating apps that together can claim 10 million users have been found to leak precise locations of their members.
Behind the rise of “twinfluencers” on social media, as content produced by twins continues to explode in popularity on YouTube and Instagram
You're not imagining it: Influencers really are multiplying. — There are the Dolan Twins, a pair of square-jawed 19-year-olds … Tweets: @katienotopoulos , @davezatz , @yappelbaum , @fordm , and @ven...
Clumio, a SaaS-style cloud-based backup platform for enterprises, announces it has raised a total of $51M in Series A and B rounds since it was founded in 2017
Creating backups for massive enterprise deployments may feel like a solved problem, but for the most part, we're still talking about complex hardware and software setups.
Blade, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange launching in three weeks, raises $4.3M seed funding from investors including Coinbase and SV Angel
Exchanges like Coinbase have ballooned in size by taking the mechanics of equity markets and fitting them to cryptocurrency markets …
Cray, which is in the process of being bought by HPE, wins contract to make a $600M supercomputer for the US DoE, for 3D simulations, nuclear weapons research
Seattle-based supercomputer maker Cray has been tapped to develop a new $600 million system for the U.S. Department of Energy …
How Steve Jobs conceived the “bicycle for the mind” metaphor for the personal computer, which largely drove Apple's philosophy for decades
“When we invented the personal computer, we created a new kind of bicycle...a new man-machine partnership...a new generation of entrepreneurs." Tweets: @stevesi and @waltmossberg Tweets: m_pszStevenSi...
Twitch reverts Tyler “Ninja” Blevins' channel to offline mode after he calls Twitch out for using it to promote other streamers, including a porn broadcast
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Microsoft says the next planned major update for Minecraft, the Super Duper Graphics Pack update, is “too technically demanding” and has been canceled
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Sources: Amazon is in late-stage talks to acquire up to 10% of Future Retail, India's No. 2 retailer by turnover, which is seeking $281M for the stake
- Indian supermarket firm seeks 20 billion rupees for shares — U.S. giant gears up for fight with Walmart, Reliance in India
Pavilion Data Systems, a data center storage company, raises $25M Series C led by Taiwania Capital and RPS Ventures
Data center hardware maker Pavilion Data Systems Inc. is gearing up for expansion after closing on a $25 million round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $58 million.
Singularity 6, a stealthy gaming startup developing an AI-powered “virtual society”, raises $16.5M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz
When Fortnite reached stratospheric popularity early last year, there were undoubtedly an awful lot of VCs on the sidelines looking enviously …
Samsung has unveiled ISOCELL Bright HMX, a 108MP smartphone camera sensor developed in collaboration with Xiaomi, one of the largest ever at 1/1.33-inches
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Polarity, which uses AI to analyze text on employee screens to augment it with context overlays, raises $8.1M Series AA following a $3.5M Series A in 2017
Reference docs and spreadsheets seemingly make the world go 'round, but what if employees could just close those tabs for good without losing that knowledge?
Kasten, which offers a platform for policy-based backup, recovery, and migration for Kubernetes applications, raises $14M Series A led by Insight Partners
Kasten, which bills itself as an enterprise-scale and cloud-native data management company, today announced that it's raised $14 million …
Since YouTube changed its recommendation algorithm in January to deprioritize conspiracy theories, monthly views of Fox News' YouTube channel more than tripled
Conspiracy channels all over the platform are funneling increased traffic to Fox. — Early this year, YouTube adjusted …
Chinese digital payments firm QFPay, one of the largest global partners of WeChat Pay and Alipay, raises $20M from investors including Sequoia Capital China
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As researchers find more ways to detect browser incognito mode despite Chrome 76 protections against it, NYT's paywall is back up for Chrome Incognito visitors
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Deliveroo says it is exiting Germany completely, a year after shuttering services in smaller German cities to concentrate on cities like Berlin and Munich
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Dostavista, a Russian same-day delivery service operating in 11 countries including Brazil, India, and Mexico, raises $15M Series B led by Vostok New Ventures
Ana Wolsztajn / Tech.eu :
IBM is the first major tech company to back Hedera Hashgraph, which claims its distributed ledger tech is faster and more secure than current blockchains
Nathan DiCamillo / CoinDesk :
Zhihu, a China-based Q&A platform with 100M+ posts, raises $434M led by Chinese live-streaming platform Kuaishou, with Baidu, Tencent, and others participating
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Uniphore Software Systems, which aims to use AI in call centers for faster and more personalized customer support, raises $51M
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ByteDance launches Toutiao Search, a mobile-optimized search engine in China, setting it up as a competitor to Baidu
Data Sheet Zheping Huang / Bloomberg : ByteDance Brings Google-Like Search to China — With Censorship Matt Southern / Search Engine Journal : TikTok's Parent Company ByteDance is Launching a Search En...
AI-powered search company Lucidworks raises $100M from investors including Francisco Partners and TPG Sixth Street Partners, following last year's $50M Series E
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News :
Attentive raises $40M Series B led by Sequoia for its mobile messaging tools for retailers
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French regulators approve a plan by the country's heavyweight broadcasters to launch Salto, a joint streaming service expected in Q1 2020, to battle Netflix
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Roblox says it has 2M+ game creators worldwide who are on track to earn $100M in 2019, debuts a Developer Marketplace for creators' development assets and tools
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Tweets: @chrisfralic Tweets: Chris Fralic / @chrisfralic : In other UGC news today, Roblox announces new game-creation tools and marketplace, $100M in 2019 developer revenu...
District judge rules that Coinbase must face a negligence lawsuit from customers who bought bitcoin cash, following its allegedly botched listing in 2017
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