SEC filing: Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger has resigned from Apple's board
LOS ANGELES — Robert A. Iger, Disney's chief executive and chairman, has resigned from the board of Apple, whose growing Hollywood operation would have made it harder for him to fully engage as one of...
MoviePass says it is shutting down and ending service for all subscribers on Saturday, September 14
KEY POINTS — The company informed subscribers that it was ending the service because its “efforts to recapitalize MoviePass have not been successful to date.”
Bipartisan House lawmakers ask Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple for detailed information about internal operations and execs' emails in antitrust probe
A congressional antitrust investigation into Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google entered a new phase Friday, after lawmakers called …
US Treasury sanctions three North Korean state-sponsored hacking groups, Lazarus, Bluenoroff, and Andarial; Lazarus was responsible for WannaCry ransomware
US wants to seize financial assets associated with the Lazarus Group, Bluenoroff, and Andarial. — The US Department …
A look at Ultra Wideband-based U1 chip in iPhone 11 models, which is being used for AirDrop and could have many other potential applications like tracking tags
Apple likes talking about the awesome chips it designs for its iPhones, but it hates even hinting at products it hasn't yet announced.
AT&T's WarnerMedia signs an exclusive five-year deal with J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot for TV, film, and streaming projects; sources: deal is worth ~$250M
Bad Robot, the production company he runs with his wife and co-CEO, Katie McGrath, will now have all of its divisions …
Discord says it's phasing out the digital game store it launched less than a year ago as part of its $9.99 per month Nitro subscription service, by October 15
The company says few subscribers actually took advantage of Nitro Games — Discord seemingly isn't the place where people want to go for subscription gaming.
Microsoft will reportedly launch a 15-inch version of the Surface Laptop 3 during its October 2 event
Surface Book 3 probably won't appear next month — Microsoft is planning to refresh its Surface lineup next month, and there could be a bigger version of the Surface Laptop 3 in the cards.
Spotify acquires SoundBetter, a music production marketplace for artists, producers, and musicians to connect on specific projects, for an undisclosed sum
Spotify today took another step in its efforts to build out services for artists to help diversify itself away from a business model predicated …
A profile of Urban Dictionary, which started as a fun way to find meanings for slang but has done little to moderate submissions, letting hate speech flourish
The crowdsourced dictionary once felt like a pioneering tool of the early internet era. Now in its 20th year, it has become something much more inhospitable. Tweets: @megreenwell , @wired , @wired , ...
YouTube says it will no longer allow paid views and advertising to influence its YouTube Music Charts, instead calculating rankings based only on organic plays
YouTube will no longer allow paid views and advertising to influence its YouTube Music Charts, the company announced this morning.
WeWork announces sweeping corporate governance changes in amended S-1; sources: WeWork is now seeking a valuation as low as $10B to $12B in its IPO
Supervoting shares (for Adam Neumann and others) are now 10 votes, not 20 — Rebekah, his wife and WeWork cofounder, no longer has role in picking his successor — they'll add independent board member h...
Sources: Disney is mimicking Netflix in offering TV producers and others profits sooner in exchange for backend revenue, the first legacy media company to do so
Walt Disney Co., which became a dominant player in television production with its acquisition of Fox assets earlier this year …
House Judiciary Committee's letter to Apple asks for all internal communications from 14 top execs relating to “restrictions on third-party repairs”
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Cloudflare closes up 20% on its first day of trading after raising $525M in its IPO, which valued the company at over $4B
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iOS 13 exploit bypasses the lockscreen to get access to contacts, appears to be fixed in beta copies of iOS 13.1, which is slated for release on September 30
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After selling AppNexus to AT&T for $1.6B, Brian O'Kelley raises $10M for his new startup, CMDTY, to apply his adtech expertise to supply chain logistics
What does physical commodities trading have in common with programmatic advertising? Quite a lot.
Audible will limit its Captions program, which shows text alongside narration, to public domain works until the copyright lawsuit filed by seven publishers ends
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Sources: Square is testing a new Cash App feature that would let users make free stock trades
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Apple says developers now have the option to offer a grace period for auto-renewable subscriptions when they lapse due to factors like expired credit cards
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Patreon says it is selling the assets of Kit, the social-shopping platform that it acquired in June 2018, to localized affiliate link service Geniuslink
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Applied Intuition, which provides software simulators for developing, testing, and deploying autonomous vehicles, raises $40M Series B
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Tweets: @joshbuckley Tweets: @joshbuckley : Congratulations to @AppliedInt on the $40m Series B! Qasar is one of the best operators I've ever met. https://venturebeat.com...
Element AI, which helps companies improve their operations using AI, raises $151.4M Series B, reportedly at a $625M valuation
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