Attorneys general from every US state, excluding California and Alabama, as well as DC and Puerto Rico, launch an antitrust investigation into Google
KEY POINTS — Texas will lead a joint state investigation into Google over antitrust concerns, state Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday.
Sources: the WeWork IPO is going forward as planned, with the roadshow set to kick off as soon as Monday
KEY POINTS — The roadshow for the We Co., the startup's parent company, is set to kick off as soon as Monday, sources say. — WeWork's roadshow flies in the face …
Sources: SoftBank urges WeWork to cancel IPO following cool reception from investors, amid fears it could affect SoftBank's Vision Fund fundraising efforts
SoftBank, the biggest outside shareholder in WeWork, is urging the lossmaking property group to shelve its hotly anticipated initial public offering …
Photos and videos on private Facebook and Instagram accounts can be shared publicly by followers via source URLs, even after Stories expire or media is deleted
Photos and videos posted to private accounts on Instagram and Facebook aren't as private as they might seem.
Hedge fund Elliott Management takes a $3.2B stake in AT&T, questions its M&A strategy and operational execution, calls for reassessing leadership team
KEY POINTS — Hedge fund Elliott Management takes a $3.2 billion stake in AT&T, questioning its M&A strategy and operational execution.
Ahead of iOS 13, which will warn users of apps that collect location data in the background, Facebook publishes a blog post explaining how it uses location data
KEY POINTS — Facebook has published an informational blog post about how its app collects and uses background location data from smartphones.
Microsoft unveils a redesigned To-Do app, now just called To Do, to look and feel more like Wunderlist, which it is set to replace
Microsoft encourages Wunderlist users to switch to its To-Do app — Microsoft is making some big tweaks to its To-Do app this week, with a redesign …
900+ Amazon employees have pledged to walk out September 20 to protest Amazon's huge carbon footprint, demanding a commitment to get to zero emissions by 2030
Nearly 1,000 employees have pledged to walk out September 20 to demand the company go to zero emissions by 2030.
Polaroid Originals unveils Polaroid Labs, a device that prints photos directly from smartphone screens, goes on sale on October 10 for $130 in the US and Europe
There's something appealing about physical photos in the age of smartphone cameras. Sifting through images to find …
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager has been appointed to the additional position of EU vice president for digital, with broad oversight of tech policy issues
- Margrethe Vestager nominated as EU vice president for digital — As EU antitrust chief she's hit big tech with large penalties
Facebook tightens its policies around self-harm, suicide, and eating disorder content to prevent its spread, after consulting with experts
Timed with World Suicide Prevention Day, Facebook is tightening its policies around some difficult topics including self-harm, suicide …
Privacy International finds popular period tracking apps, including MIA Fem and Maya, are sending monthly timings, contraception use, symptoms, more to Facebook
including “when women last had sex” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @BuzzFeedNews Lisa Tozzi / @lisatozzi : Period tracker apps are sending deeply personal information about women's health and s...
Profile of incoming Alibaba chairman Daniel Zhang, who replaces Jack Ma during a tricky time for the company as it delays its $20B Hong Kong stock offering
the most flamboyant tech founder on the planet and China's richest man … Arjun Kharpal / CNBC : Jack Ma steps down as Alibaba's chairman. Here are key moments in the company's history Josh Horwitz / R...
Adobe unveils Customer Journey Analytics, which draws on data from multiple enterprise systems to provide better perspectives on customers' brand engagement
Adobe Inc. today added a new tool to its Adobe Analytics offering that's meant to give companies more advanced insights into their customer's behavior.
Based on an internal build of iOS 13, 2019 iPhones will include an R1 sensor coprocessor, adding support for more sensors than the existing M-series coprocessor
Steve Moser / MacRumors :
Google Nest Hub Max review: beautiful screen, versatile camera, extensive smart home controls, but sound is not powerful, can't play Netflix, no camera shutter
Dan Seifert / The Verge :
Federal appeals court rejects LinkedIn's effort to stop hiQ Labs from scraping public profile data, reaffirming a ruling from August 2017
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Stellar Foundation says it will give away 2B XLM tokens, currently worth ~$120M, to users of Keybase's chat app over the next 20 months
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
China Labor Watch: at the largest iPhone factory ~50% of workers were temps in August, breaking a 10% limit set by China; Apple, Foxconn admit it was an issue
September 10, 2019 Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : Apple's Online Store Goes Down Ahead of Today's iPhone Event China Labor Watch : iPhone 11 Illegally Produced in China: Apple Allows Supplier Factory Fox...
E-commerce and other internet companies can take cues from industries like retail and commercial aviation to build loyalty businesses
Each day on Tech Twitter, we get up in the morning, open up the website, and then go see what it is we're mad about. A few days ago, it was this: Tweets: @nikillinit , @simoncarless , and @jhtscherck...
Snyk, which helps detect security vulnerabilities in open source code and containers, raises $70M led by Accel, source says at a ~$500M valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Researchers are increasingly using “digital exhaust”, passive social media and smartphone data, to conduct scientific health studies, such as for autism
Earlier this summer, a team at England's Keele University published a behavioral study on children with autism. Tweets: @ruchowdh and @theatlantic Tweets: Rumman Chowdhury / @ruchowdh : “Digital pheno...
CEOs of 51 major tech companies, including Amazon, IBM, SAP, Dell, and Salesforce, sign a letter to congressional leaders calling for a federal data privacy law
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Profile of Dawn Ostroff, Spotify's chief content officer, as the company invests heavily in podcasts to gain an edge over rivals
Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times :
Shopify acquires 6 River Systems, which offers fulfilment automation for e-commerce and retail operations, for ~$450M in cash and stock
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Brazil-based QuintoAndar, an online marketplace that lets users search, book, and advertise rental properties, raises $250M Series D led by SoftBank
Anna Escher / TechCrunch :
The Vivaldi browser comes to Android with swipe gestures for navigation, advanced tab management, notes, screenshots, no-tracking, dark mode, and more
Ivan Mehta / The Next Web :
Q-CTRL, which develops software that reduces error and noise in quantum computing hardware, raises $15M Series A led by Square Peg Capital
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ingridlunden Tweets: Ingrid / @ingridlunden : There is so much potential in quantum computing, solving computations and questions that have never been solved bef...
Root Insurance, an auto insurance startup that uses telematics data from its mobile app to gauge driving style, raises $350M Series E at a $3.65B valuation
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
India-based Glance, which shows media content in local languages on lock screens of Android smartphones, raises $45M from Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
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