PayPal says it is withdrawing from Facebook's Libra Association, becoming the first of its founding members to do so
PayPal is withdrawing from Facebook's Libra Association, the company announced Friday. — “PayPal has made the decision to forgo further participation in the Libra Association …
Sources: Trump's re-election campaign is the presidential campaign that Microsoft said was targeted by Iranian hackers
SAN FRANCISCO — Iranian hackers targeted President Trump's re-election campaign, two people with knowledge of the attacks said on Friday, in a sign of how cyberattacks …
Microsoft: Iran-linked group, dubbed Phosphorus, attempted to hack 241 accounts belonging to a 2020 presidential campaign and others between Aug. and Sept.
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Report: Ninja's manager says he left Twitch for Mixer because Twitch's contract was too restrictive towards outside brand deals, limiting growth beyond gaming
Manager says Twitch didn't respect their wishes — Tyler “Ninja” Blevins' surprising departure from Twitch came after months …
How Tim Cook is cultivating a relationship with Donald Trump and advocates for Apple's interests, while avoiding public backlash from employees and customers
Apple CEO advocates for his company's interests while avoiding a backlash from either employees or the president
How China is using social media and films to stir patriotism and get communist party propaganda enthusiastically embraced by young people
Leveraging celebrities, the know-how of tech companies and images built for social media, the Communist Party can effectively stir patriotism among the youth. Tweets: @jianglilily , @iandenisjohnson ,...
As Verizon sells off MapQuest for a pittance, a look at the long, slow decline of the once dominant online mapping site which AOL bought for $1.1B in 2000
Once the dominant mapping site, the decline of Mapquest is a story of disruptive competition and corporate complacency.
A look at the history of open source as the big VC raises and multi-billion dollar exits for open source software startups become the norm
Editor's Note: The open source software (OSS) movement has created some of our most important and widely used technologies, including operating systems, web browsers, and databases. Tweets: @cathcam ,...
Bill Gurley talks about his drive to persuade more tech startups to choose direct listings, instead of traditional bank-led IPOs, to enter public markets
- Gurley said he met with partners from 25 venture firms before his direct listings summit this week and they all signed on with their support.
Drivers say Lyft does very little to protect them from assaults and harassment by passengers and makes it “extremely traumatic to report anything”
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Spain-based payments startup Bnext raises $25M Series A, plans to expand to Mexico later this year
Fintech startup Bnext has raised a $25 million funding round. The Spanish company is building a banking product and has managed to attract 300,000 active users.
Geospatial tech startup SenSat, which uses AI to create digital representations of real-world locations, raises $10M Series A led by Tencent
SenSat, a geospatial technology startup that digitizes real-world places for infrastructure projects, has raised $10 million in a series A round …
European tech companies struggle to compensate employees with profit-sharing in a system where stock options have big restrictions and high tax rates
Lawmakers across the Continent haven't given startups the compensation tools they need to share profits with employees. That's changing. Tweets: @mdudas and @alecstapp . Thanks: @vojtech Tweets: Mike...
Cybersecurity startup Kenna Security raises $48M Series D led by Sorenson Capital and Citi Ventures, bringing total raised to ~$98M
Risk-based vulnerability cybersecurity startup Kenna Security Inc. today said it has raised $48 million in new funding to accelerate its international expansion and drive product development.
Edify Labs, which provides software to manage customer engagement and cross-team collaboration, raises $10M seed led by First Round Capital
Edify Labs, a Carmel, Indiana-based provider of a software platform for businesses to manage customer engagement and cross-team collaboration, closed a $10m seed funding.
Google's Stadia execs talk about plans for the service, including tackling latency issues, building an exclusive content library, and an internal game studio
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Unlike other social media platforms, TikTok doesn't timestamp user uploads, frustrating some creators, but making it possible for months-old content to go viral
Louise Matsakis / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @lmatsakis , @firstdraftnews , @wired , @ursatong , @4evrmalone , @frankpasquale , and @nxthompson Tweets: @wired : TikTok presents an endless stream of vid...
France-based AnotherBrain, developer of AI software that costs less and uses less energy by not relying on big data sets, raises €19M Series A
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How Microsoft and Google Cloud are battling for enterprise customers with partnerships, hardball licensing tactics, and tailored offerings for deskless workers
Adam Mansfield / CIO.com : Tweets: @icopilots Tweets: Philippe Mda / @icopilots : While Microsoft adopts Android on its new small tablets (don't call them phones)... This ⤵️ https://twitter.com/...
Interview with AMD execs about the company's partnership with Microsoft and the semi-custom Ryzen Mobile CPU that runs the consumer-focused Surface Laptop 3
Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech : Tweets: @anandtech . Thanks: @iancutress Tweets: @anandtech : A bit more on AMD's Ryzen Microsoft Surface Edition processor. AMD has confirmed it is not custom silicon, ...
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