Apple sues mobile device virtualization company Corellium, accusing it of copyright infringement for illegally replicating iOS, along with iPhone and iPad apps
Apple today filed a lawsuit against Corellium, a mobile device virtualization company that supports iOS.
Coinbase has acquired the custody business of Xapo, a service best known for storing bitcoins in a vault under a Swiss mountain; source says for $55M
Cryptocurrency firm Coinbase has acquired the custody business of Xapo, a service best known for storing Bitcoins in a vault under a Swiss mountain.
YouTube changes policy: copyright owners will no longer be able to monetize creator videos with very short or unintentional uses of music via its manual tool
YouTube is making a change to its copyright enforcement policies around music used in videos, which may result in an increased number …
Bluetooth SIG issues a security notice for the “KNOB” flaw, which allows hackers to steal data by brute forcing the encryption key used during bluetooth pairing
A new Bluetooth vulnerability named “KNOB” has been disclosed that allow attackers to more easily brute force …
After the latest firmware update, some Surface Pro 6 and Surface Book 2 devices are throttling CPU speeds to 400 MHz; Microsoft says it is working on a fix
User reports indicate that an erroneously set CPU flag is sending Intel Core processors back into the Pentium II age.
In a letter to Congress, the Trump administration asks lawmakers to reauthorize a law that lets the NSA gain access to logs of phone and text records
The White House is seeking reauthorization of a law that lets the N.S.A. gain access to logs of Americans' phone and text records …
YouTube's guidelines may not discriminate against LGBTQ creators, but their vagueness and ad-friendly conservatism leads to discriminatory enforcement
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India-based Twitter-like platform ShareChat, which supports multiple regional languages, raises $100M round led by Twitter, sources say at $600M-$650M valuation
Regional language social networking platform ShareChat has completed a $100 million (about Rs 718 crore) equity financing round led …
Apple says its US job footprint reached 2.4M and it is on track to hit its goal of directly contributing $350B to the US economy by 2023
Apple today has shared an update on its job footprint and growth in the United States. It touts that its US job footprint is 2.4 million people in the US.
Sources and a leaked pitch deck indicate that Amazon may have offered vendors the ability to bid for an Amazon Choice badge in 2017
Amazon has previously offered vendors the ability to “bid” for an Amazon's Choice badge by lowering prices and spending more money on advertising …
EU's General Court says it will hear arguments in Apple's and Ireland's challenges to EU's €13B bill over the company's back-taxes on September 17-18
- EU court sets date for Apple, Ireland appeals of payback order — Apple got record tax bill in 2016 EU order over fiscal deal
Nvidia beats Q2 expectations with revenues of $2.58B, down 17% YoY, gaming chip sales of $1.3B, up 24% from Q1, and data center revenues of $655M, up 3% QoQ
- Chipmaker says all markets grew sequentially in quarter — Stock rallies on optimism for end to inventory slump
Amazon launches “Custom Interfaces”, a new API that allows developers to connect gadgets and smart toys with Alexa-enabled devices to create new interactions
Since launching Alexa more than four years ago, customers have purchased more than 100 million Alexa-enabled devices …
A deep dive into Amazon FC Ambassadors program finds 53 Ambassador accounts in seven countries, some of which are using fake identities and recycling accounts
On August 14, a Twitter thread that included a small army of “Amazon FC Ambassadors” went viral, bringing to light Amazon's year-long social media brand ambassador program.
Canalys: North American wearables market hit $2B in Q2, as market leader Apple grew 32% YoY with 2.9M units shipped, Fitbit grew 18%, and Samsung grew 121%
In North America, the market for wearables — particularly wearable bands — is still continuing to grow, and Apple's popular Apple …
Google Assistant now lets users create reminders that can be assigned to friends or family, including scheduled time-based or location-based reminders
here's how Napier Lopez / The Next Web : Google Assistant can now nag your family with assignable reminders Eric Abent / SlashGear : Google Assistant can now remind your kids to do their chores Mahit ...
Overview of startup exits outside Silicon Valley from the past ten years, not including Asian companies: Sweden edges out UK, Boston remains big, more
There's never been a better time to build a company outside the Bay Area — The Bay Area has been the best place to build a startup for the last two decades. Tweets: @niklas_a and @stevecase Tweets: ...
ICE's Bakkt says it plans to launch its physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts on Sept. 23, after getting approval from NY state's financial regulator
Bakkt has been cleared to launch. — The Intercontinental Exchange's young subsidiary announced Friday that it had acquired …
Huge survey of 6K+ firmware images of devices by 18 vendors including Linksys and Netgear finds no improvement in software security and lax security standards
A survey of more than 6,000 firmware images spanning more than a decade finds no improvement in firmware security and lax security standards …
Flyhomes raises $21M Series B and $120M in debt for its platform that lets buyers make upfront cash offers for a house, and then helps them sell their own homes
Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes is reloading its war chest with $141 million in new funding to carve out a spot …
Google says data from its new “Password Checkup” Chrome extension shows that 1.5% of all website logins use credentials that have been compromised
Karl Bode / VICE :
Data leak in Kaspersky's antivirus software for Windows has allowed third parties to potentially track users by injecting unique IDs into web pages since 2015
Ronald Eikenberg / heise online :
A close reading of the S-1 of the soap opera that is The We Company, a “tech company” whose mission “is to elevate the world's consciousness”
Fruit Water and Financial Arbitrage Shira Ovide / Bloomberg : WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn Byrne Hobart / Medium : What is We!? Understanding the WeWork IPO Gabriela Barkho / Observe...
Sources: JD.com is talking with investment banks about a $500M US IPO in May for its online supermarket unit Dada-JD Daojia; Walmart owns 10% of Dada-JD Daojia
Chinese online retailer JD.com is in talks with bankers to list shares of its online supermarket joint venture in the U.S. next May …
Facebook is expanding its third-party fact checking program to Instagram, starting with US, and will downplay posts deemed fake on its Explore and Hashtag pages
Cristina Tardáguila / Poynter :
Study: leading AI models to detect hate speech are 1.5x more likely to flag tweets by African Americans as offensive or hateful, partly due to social context
and content moderators who grade the test data that teaches these algorithms how to do their job—don't usually know the context of the comments they're reviewing” Then what even is the point of the la...
Tech companies can do a lot more to protect the identities of people speaking in recordings used to train AI, like shifting the voice or gender of the speaker
April Glaser / Slate :
Cloudflare files for an IPO, citing sites like 8chan as one risk factor, says it had revenues of $192.7M in 2018, up 43% YoY, and a net loss of $87.2M
with a female co-founder Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch : Cloudflare says cutting off customers like 8chan is an IPO ‘risk factor’ Teuta Franjkovic / Coinspeaker : Cloudflare Files for IPO despite Growth...
Ripple's investment subsidiary Xpring grants 1B XRP, around $262M, to Coil, a micropayments platform for content creators, to drive adoption of the token
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
Cyprus-based Au10tix, an AI-based ID verification and authentication platform, raises $60M at a $260M post-money valuation, from TPG Tech Adjacencies
After a 40% share price drop in 2019, Baidu has been replaced on the top 5 list of China's most valuable internet companies by NetEase
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
In a memo sent internally before he left the company, a Google employee wrote about “the burden of being black at Google”, noting he regularly faced racism
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE :
UPS takes a minority stake in self-driving truck startup TuSimple for an undisclosed sum, says it's been carrying UPS cargo between Phoenix and Tucson since May
Sean O'Kane / The Verge :
Report: Alibaba to buy NetEase's Kaola, one of the biggest Chinese shopping sites for imported goods, for $2B in cash
(Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has agreed to pay $2 billion in cash to buy Chinese e-commerce firm Kaola, local news outlet Caixin reported on Friday. (bit.ly/2HcCI6C)
Walmart says its online sales grew 37% in Q2, boosted by its four-day July sales event that countered Amazon Prime Day
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet : Tweets: @benbajarin Tweets: Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin : If done right by other retailers, Prime Day could be a rising tide lifts all boats sort of scenario. https://twitte...
Amazon launches a new donations program, called FBA Donations, for third-party sellers to dispose of unsold products stored in its warehouses in the US and UK
Eugene Kim / CNBC :
Investors and employees of Toptal, a freelancing platform with ~$200M revenue and originally funded by $1.5M in convertible notes, have ended up with no equity
but it never does (aka, gotta read the fine print.) https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Tom Dotan / @cityofthetown : After its seed investment 7 years ago, Toptal promised equity for investors and emp...
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