WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann is resigning as CEO, will be nonexecutive chairman of We Co.; source: his voting shares will be reduced in power from 10:1 to 3:1
- WeWork CEO Adam Neumann will step down but retain his seat as nonexecutive chairman, the company says.
Kuo: 2020 iPhones will have a new metal frame structure similar to iPhone 4 to reduce the negative impact of metal on the efficiency of the internal antenna
Apple will unveil redesigned iPhones next year that boast a new metal frame structure reminiscent of the iPhone 4 …
Microsoft opens registrations for public preview of Project xCloud, coming in October to US, UK, and Korea, starting with Android devices
Available in the coming weeks in the US, UK, and Korea — Microsoft is starting to accept registrations for its upcoming Project xCloud game streaming preview.
Google has released a dataset of ~3,000 deepfake videos to help researchers develop deepfake detection techniques
Deep learning has given rise to technologies that would have been thought impossible only a handful of years ago. Modern generative models are one example of these …
Leaked TikTok content moderation guidelines reveal how it censors videos mentioning Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or Falun Gong
Leak spells out how social media app advances China's foreign policy aims — TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network …
Facebook says it doesn't fact-check politicians' speech or block their content, generally assuming it is newsworthy, even if it violates Facebook policies
Facebook confirms it won't fact-check politicians' speech or block their content if it's newsworthy even if it violates the site's hatespeech rules or other policies.
Google refuses to pay publishers in France, first to apply EU's copyright law, will only show headlines and thumbnails, unless publisher asks to add previews
The announcement pours cold water on publishers' hopes of getting more money from Google after an EU reform of online copyright law.
eBay announces CEO Devin Wenig is leaving the company and appoints CFO Scott Schenkel as interim CEO
Online commerce giant eBay has announced that CEO, president, and company director Devin Wenig is leaving the company, with former chief financial officer (CFO) Scott Schenkel stepping in to the hotse...
Google contract workers in Pittsburgh, employed by IT services provider HCL, vote to join the United Steelworkers union in a 49 vs 24 vote
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - About 80 contracted Google employees voted to join the United Steelworkers union. — The workers voted in favor of unionization …
After many years in the lab, Boston Dynamics will begin selectively leasing its four-legged robot Spot, which can keep its balance under extreme circumstances
A new leasing program is putting dozens of robots to work in the real world — Boston Dynamics is letting its first major robot out of the lab.
Azure Sentinel, Microsoft's cloud-based security information and event management service, hits general availability, with prices starting at $2.46 per GB
Pricing starts at $2.46 per gigabyte (GB) of ingested data. — Microsoft today took Azure Sentinel out of public preview …
Comscore settles with SEC on charges the firm and its ex-CEO made false statements, engaging in a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue by ~$50M from 2014-2016
Media analytics firm is accused of overstating revenue by $50 million, making false statements about performance
Report: analysis of ~2,000 malware samples attributed to Russian state-sponsored hacking groups shows that the groups rarely share code with one another
A first-of-its-kind research project highlights the connections between nearly 2,000 samples of Russian APT malware.
Apple says it is working to fix a bug in iOS 13 and iPadOS that may grant “full access” to third-party keyboards by mistake
Apple is warning users of an iOS bug involving third-party keyboards. — In a brief advisory posted Tuesday, the tech giant said the bug impacts third-party keyboards …
Interviews with 20 people show Uber's 80-strong Special Investigations Unit, which deals with severe incidents, often puts Uber's interests ahead of riders'
Investigators say drivers get three “strikes” for bad behavior — and may just end up driving for Lyft. Tweets: @drewharwell , @elizabeth_joh , @goldfarb , and @laurastevens Tweets: Drew Harwell / @dre...
Adobe launches Fresco, an iPad app for painting that supports oil, watercolor, and vectors, with a limited version available for non-Creative Cloud users
Adobe today announced the availability of its much-anticipated iPad drawing app, Fresco, which supports the Apple Pencil and uses AI …
An excerpt from “Uncanny Valley”, a memoir on the aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment of Silicon Valley startup culture
Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns. — Depending on whom you ask, 2012 represented the apex, the inflection point … Tweets: @tmytrn , @oteghauwagba , @devapriyaroy , @laurengoode ...
Alibaba unveils its first AI chip, the Hanguang 800, used within Alibaba for product search, translation, and recommendations, not for sale to third parties yet
The chip's launch comes amid a national drive by China to integrate emerging technologies such as AI and next generation 5G wireless networks …
Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual primary care clinic with an option for nurses to visit employees in the home, as a pilot for employees in Seattle
Christina Farr / CNBC :
EU's top court rules that Google does not have to apply “right to be forgotten” globally
but not for privacy. https://www.bbc.com/... Jesse Blumenthal / @jessekblum : Important victory for free speech European countries may have the ability to censor legitimate speech within their countri...
What to expect from Amazon's hardware event today: new Echo devices, Alexa-powered earbuds, updates to the Fire TV and Fire tablet lines, more
Dan Seifert / The Verge :
Lawmakers say the White House has been withholding details of its offensive hacking strategy used for cyber warfare for over a year
The Trump administration is blocking Congress from auditing a secret hacking policy it has already used for cyberattacks on Russia and Iran …
Austin-based ZenBusiness, which develops a platform to help entrepreneurs launch companies, raises $15M Series A led by Greycroft
There are two sides to starting a new business. On one side, entrepreneurs need creativity, imagination — a dream, essentially — to find, build, and market a new product to users and consumers.
Fidel, which offers an API to enable developers to build on top of payment card data from Visa/Mastercard, raises $18M Series A co-led by Nyca Partners and QED
Fidel, the U.K.-headquartered startup that offers an API to let developers build functionality, such as rewards …
Paris-based BlaBlaCar, which has raised $335M and has 80M members, 25M of which are in Russia, to acquire Busfor, Russia's largest bus platform
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat :
Snapchat extends its skippable ads limit to three minutes from ten seconds; non-skippable six-second ads within shows now let users swipe up for related actions
Garett Sloane / Ad Age :
Arceo.ai, a cyber insurance platform for insurers and companies that uses data analytics, raises $37M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Founders Fund
Arman Tabatabai / TechCrunch :
TigerGraph, which offers a suite of enterprise graph database tools, raises $32M Series B led by private equity firm SIG, bringing its total raised to ~$60M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Amazon's suspended 3rd-party sellers say they aren't receiving 30-day suspension notice that Amazon agreed to as part of a German antitrust settlement in July
Rachel Premack / Business Insider : Tweets: @rrpre Tweets: Rachel Premack / @rrpre : SCOOP: Amazon's third-party sellers who get booted off the platform aren't receiving the 30-day suspension notice ...
Xiaomi announces Mi 9 Pro 5G with Snapdragon 855+, 8 or 12GB RAM, 6.5-inch 1080p OLED display, and support for 30W fast wireless charging, starting at ~$520
Data Sheet Ewdison Then / SlashGear : Xiaomi Mi 9 Pro 5G and Mi Full Screen TV bring saner products to market
Duda, which offers a cloud-based website building platform for digital agencies, raises $25M from Susquehanna Growth Equity, bringing its total raised to $50M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Facebook buys CTRL-Labs, which makes a bracelet that measures neuron activity to detect movements the user is thinking about; sources: size of deal is $500M-$1B
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg :
Built-in Google Assistant is no longer exclusive to “Made by Google” Chrome OS devices, begins rolling out to more Chromebooks
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Lisbon-based Unbabel, a service which combines human and machine translation in 70+ languages and has Microsoft and Facebook as clients, raises $60M in Series C
Florian Faes / Slator :
AI-based accounts payable platform Tipalti raises $76M Series D led by Zeev Ventures and joined by Dick Costolo and Adam Bain's 01 Advisors, among others
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ingridlunden and @adambain Tweets: Ingrid / @ingridlunden : I can't say accounting makes my heart beat faster (well, I guess it does if I'm on the wrong side of ...
Samsung Galaxy S10 gets the Galaxy Note 10's camera features like AR Doodle and DeX for PC support with an update
Joe Fedewa / XDA Developers :
Meme editor Kapwing, which has grown from ~100,000 to ~1M since launching a year ago, raises $11M Series A led by CRV
Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Tweets: @harrystebbings , @briannekimmel , @crv , @joshconstine , and @joshconstine Tweets: Harry Stebbings / @harrystebbings : I've had 500+ founders on @twentyminutevc ...
AI-powered law for startups
Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.