Book excerpt: as he exits Apple's board, Disney's Bob Iger recounts talks with Steve Jobs before Disney bought Pixar, and how their friendship grew
As he exits Apple's board, the Disney chief reminisces about his relationship with its mercurial founder—and how their radical visions aligned to save two companies.
Google says Google Pay in India has 67M monthly active users and has processed transactions worth $110B+ in the last 12 months and unveils Pay for Business
Rama Devi has taught more than a thousand women how to use the internet in her role as a Saathi—now she's helping farmers become more productive.
GitHub buys code analysis tool Semmle, which helps identify security vulnerabilities and has Microsoft, Google among clients; Semmle raised $31M in VC funding
Microsoft's GitHub today announced that it has acquired Semmle, a code analysis tool that helps developers and security researchers …
Huawei unveils flagship 6.53-inch Mate 30 Pro with Kirin 990 chipset, 8GB RAM, 4,500mAh battery, fast 27W wireless charging, and no Google-licensed apps
The Huawei Mate 30 Pro has now gone official with the troubled handset coming with a serious spec sheet that includes the Kirin 990 chipset …
A day before global climate strikes, Jeff Bezos announces the Climate Pledge for businesses to commit to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2040
During a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington this morning, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos alongside former United Nations climate leaders unveiled …
Sources: AT&T is considering parting ways with its DirecTV unit, including spinning it off into a separate public company or combining assets with Dish
Telecom giant considers fate of DirecTV satellite unit — AT&T Inc. is exploring parting with its DirecTV satellite unit …
Google announces Vodafone-Idea Phone Line, a free phone number for the carrier's feature phone users in India to talk to Google Assistant in Hindi or English
Google will let people in emerging markets like India talk to Google Assistant, the company's virtual assistant, simply by dialing a phone number.
Facebook debuts Portal TV, a TV accessory for video calling, streaming, AR gaming, and co-viewing Facebook Watch shows, shipping November 5 for $149
Facebook wants to take over your television with a clip-on camera for video calling, AR gaming, and content co-watching.
Roku unveils smaller $29.99 Express, a faster $99.99 Ultra with a customizable remote, and Roku OS 9.2 with new content discovery tools and voice capabilities
The Ultra's remote can open whatever app you want with a single button press — Roku is unveiling its fall 2019 lineup …
Automattic raises $300M Series D from Salesforce Ventures at a post-money valuation of $3B
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce and soon Tumblr, has closed a $300 million funding round at a $3 billion post-money valuation. The Series D round has a single investor, Sale...
Airbnb, which generated revenue of more than $1B in Q2, says it intends to go public in 2020
While $1 billion in revenue is impressive, it's not the first time Airbnb has achieved the number. What matters for the homesharing platform is the growth narrative.
Nintendo Switch Lite review: streamlined, sturdier design, excellent directional pad, and improved battery life, but no TV connectivity or kickstand
It doesn't switch, but that won't matter for everyone — Ever since it entered the world of video games, a few things about Nintendo have remained consistent.
Facebook unveils second-gen 10-inch Portal for $179, and 8-inch Portal Mini for $129, with WhatsApp call support, picture-in-picture viewing, and Prime Video
by default and without an opt-out — and sending them to contractors to transcribe. It paused that last month, but is soon resuming it with an opt-out. Great reporting by @KurtWagner8. https://www.bloo...
Datadog, an app performance monitoring and analytics platform, raises $648M in US IPO, valuing the company at $7.83B, after rejecting Cisco's acquisition offer
Datadog Inc. raised $648 million in its U.S. initial public offering, pricing its shares above an already increased target range.
Apple's VP of communications Steve Dowling is leaving the company after five years in the role; Dowling joined the company 16 years ago
and for me, last — launch cycle” 👀 https://twitter.com/...
Profile of WeWork CEO Adam Neumann and his sometimes chaotic lifestyle, as sources detail worrying stories, like his wife firing multiple employees she just met
but thought that he needed to be crazier.” Dustin Volz / @dnvolz : The CEO of WeWork left a cereal box full of weed on a private jet last summer and ended up stranded in Israel when the jet's owner re...
Apple Watch Series 5 review: it's a minor update and battery life hasn't improved, but an always-on, beautiful screen and new apps make it the best smartwatch
but not necessarily on the Series 5, especially given that the Series 3 is now $199. It doesn't make sense to pay a premium on a device that's still very much in progress https://www.buzzfeednews.com/...
An in-depth look at Apple's six-core A13 Bionic processor, found in the new iPhones, which promises 30% more efficiency than last year's A12 chip
Here's how the chip in each new iPhone works, and what it tells us about the future of mobile technology. — About 72 minutes …
New Relic updates its app monitoring platform with programmability features that enable developers to build native apps on it, new AI troubleshooting tool, more
Application and DevOps monitoring company New Relic Inc. is evolving its New Relic One platform via a major update announced at its annual FutureStack conference today.
Researchers: many smart TVs and streaming dongles from Roku, Samsung, Amazon and others are sending user data to companies like Netflix, Microsoft, and Facebook
even what you buy in stores. It's as if your TV can unhook itself from the wall and follow you around.” —@geoffreyfowler https://twitter.com/... @dhh : Oh great. Facebook Google, et al are spying on y...
Another push by tech giants to weaken the California Consumer Privacy Act, set to go into effect Jan. 1, has failed as it survives legislative sessions intact
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Documents found on an unprotected backup drive of a Nokia Networks employee shed light on Russia's secret network surveillance system, known as SORM
collecting calls, messages, and data — on the country's largest cell network. https://techcrunch.com/...
Inside the growing split between Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party, once allies, as leading presidential candidates express extreme worries about Big Tech
With help from Cristiano Lima … Julie Bort / Business Insider : WeWork founder Adam Neumann joked about changing the United States Constitution so he could run for president Tweets: Teddy Schleifer / ...
Medium adds a “Save to Medium” bookmarking feature that lets users save articles to a reading list via sharing extensions on mobile and in Chrome
Bookmark stories from the Web and apps to read later Medium Help Center : Save to Medium — With Save to Medium, you can save stories … Tweets: @medium : Introducing ‘Save to Medium,’ a new feature t...
Congress grills Google, Facebook, and Twitter again as lawmakers weigh creating a commission with subpoena power to study and monitor social media weaponization
slated for consideration next week — would create national commission and fed task force to probe social media and extremism. More, including news from today's hearing with FB, Google and Twitter, in ...
DCVC, which focuses on early-stage “deep” technology startups, closes a $725M fifth fund; the fourth DCVC fund, raised in 2016, topped out at $212M
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Nielsen acquires a minority stake in OpenSlate, which evaluates brand safety of video content on YouTube and Facebook; source: deal values OpenSlate at $100M+
Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal :
Hamburg-based Wunder Mobility, a platform for municipalities and companies like BMW to create urban mobility services, extends its Series B by $30M to $60M
Wunder Mobility, which develops a platform that lets companies and municipalities create their own urban mobility services …
Built Robotics, which makes autonomous construction equipment, raises $33M Series B led by Siemens-backed Next47, bringing its total raised to $48M
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Amazon says it is bringing Amazon PayCode, which allows customers to check out using cash at Western Union locations, to the US
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Dental Intelligence, a Utah-based analytics and workflow automation platform for dental practices, raises $34M Series A
Roundup of everything that is known about Google's Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, set to be announced on October 15, after weeks of non-stop leaks
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IBM unveils a 53-qubit quantum computer, scheduled to arrive next month, making it the largest universal quantum computer available for external use
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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