Taiwanese Wikipedia editors, who suspect the Chinese government is behind edits made to politically sensitive articles, are facing attacks and death threats
Ask Google or Siri: “What is Taiwan?” — “A state”, they will answer, “in East Asia”. — But earlier in September …
Amazon launches $110 Kindle Kids Edition, with a choice of four cases, one year free FreeTime Unlimited subscription, and features like achievement badges
Amazon's been selling kid-friendly editions of Fire tablets for a while, but now it's bringing the Kids Edition concept to its Kindle e-reader.
Sources: Apple has recently approached big music labels about bundling together Apple Music and Apple TV+ for one flat monthly fee
Apple's hopes of creating a super-bundle of media content for one flat monthly fee have run into early opposition, with some record labels nervous …
Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo is raising $1.5B at a $10B valuation, of which $700M is from the founder Ritesh Agarwal, who plans to raise his stake to 30%
- 25-year-old founder will spend $700 million for new shares — Existing investors such as SoftBank, Sequoia will add the rest
SCOTUS refuses to review a 2018 decision by appeals court that found Apple didn't infringe on a Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison patent and threw out $506M in damages
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a bid by the University of Wisconsin's patent licensing arm …
Two new California laws crack down on deepfakes in politics and porn, with one giving citizens the right to sue if they are placed in porn without their consent
While some deepfakes are silly and fun, others are misleading and even abusive. Two new California laws aim to put a stop to these more nefarious video forgeries.
Matt Mullenweg and Ruby on Rails' creator David Heinemeier Hansson discuss balance of power in open source projects, tradeoffs of growing WordPress market share
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Sonos launches Sonos Flex, a subscription service for renting its speakers, starting at €15 per month, currently available only in the Netherlands
Weird Flex, but ok — Sonos has quietly launched a new subscription service that lowers the initial barrier to taking home its costly connected speakers.
Report: Ninja's manager says he left Twitch for Mixer because Twitch's contract was too restrictive on outside brand deals, limiting growth beyond gaming
Julia Alexander / The Verge :
A look at the vast surveillance infrastructure in Chongqing, China, where an estimated 2.58M surveillance cameras cover a population of 15.35M
Whether it is to monitor traffic, prevent petty theft in restaurants or monitor public safety in parks - residents can be sure there is a camera following … Tweets: @fabiochiusi , @patrickpoon , and @...
DHS' new cloud-based HART system, which will house biometric data on 250M+ people via AWS' GovCloud, promises to significantly expand DHS' biometric operations
Jack Corrigan / Nextgov :
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
33.5% and 29.2%, respectively..” “..incentive to give buyers — mutual fund companies and big hedge funds — a deal..” https://www.cnbc.com/... Investors In Vests / @investrsinvests : “Number one rule o...
Analysis: in 2017 and 2018, quantum computing startups received at least $450M in private funding, more than 4x the $104M disclosed over the previous two years
A Nature analysis explores the investors betting on quantum technology. — Search for this author in: — Share via E-Mail
Next Insurance, which offers digital insurance products for small businesses, raises $250M Series C at a valuation of $1B+, bringing its total raised to $381M
Next Insurance, a three-year-old U.S.-based firm that sells insurance products to small businesses, has become the latest unicorn …
Berlin-based Tier Mobility, which operates a fleet of 20K scooters across 40 cities in 12 countries, raises $60M Series B co-led by Mubadala and Goodwater
On the heels of Bird closing a $275 million round to help put itself in pole position in the electric scooter market …
Facebook agrees to pay $40M in proposed settlement with several advertising agencies that claimed the company misstated video metrics by 150-900%
Advertisers would collect the bulk of the money after alleging Facebook inflated the average time users viewed video on the platform. Tweets: @robblatt , @alexweprin , and @mattnavarra Tweets: Rob / @...
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
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land :
Real estate data company CoStar Group has agreed to buy hotel data company STR for $450M in cash
Andrew Sheivachman / Skift :
Profile of Barry Diller, as he prepares to spin off IAC's 81% stake in Match Group and 84% stake in Angie's List owner ANGI HomeServices, worth a combined $20B
Antoine Gara / Forbes : Tweets: @lsukernik , @ckwitt3 , @modestproposal1 , and @antoinegara Tweets: Larry Sukernik / @lsukernik : “I wasn't a founder of a single company. We were opportunists and I t...
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