Sources: SoftBank to take control of WeWork, spending $4B-$5B on new funding and existing shares in The We Company, valuing it between $7.5B and $8B
KEY POINTS — Softbank to spend $4 billion to $5 billion on new equity, existing shares, sources say.
Mark Zuckerberg's proposal of social media as a “Fifth Estate” highlights that the world is fundamentally changing; the sooner we realize that, the better
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began his speech last week by attempting to place free expression in the historical American context … Tweets: @cpojer and @stratechery Tweets: Christoph Nakazawa / @cpoje...
Facebook bans networks, three originating in Iran and one in Russia, running “inauthentic” accounts, Pages, and Groups misleading US and Latin American users
many of the accounts claimed to be run from swing states pic.twitter.com/pmpLN7LsEf Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : Accounts with usernames like http://black.queen.chloe and michigan_black_community_ look...
Verizon is giving away Disney+ for free for one year to all of its wireless customers on unlimited-data plans and to FiOS and 5G home internet customers
New Fios broadband, 5G home wireless internet customers also eligible for 12-month free offer — Verizon is giving away Disney Plus …
Facebook says it will more prominently label content that fact-checkers deem false on Facebook and Instagram, will ban ads suggesting voting is pointless
three from Iran, one from Russia. more than 50 takedowns in 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/... Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy : Really don't think a press release authored by a lifetime Republican operat...
The Pixel 4 and 4 XL support fast wireless charging on any Qi charger, unlike the Pixel 3, which needed Google's own Pixel Stand for fast charging
11W speeds seem to be supported on just about anything. — Updated October 22, 2019: So it turns out that the Pixel 4's wireless charging situation …
New York State's attorney general says 46 attorneys general have joined its antitrust probe into Facebook, separate from DOJ and FTC investigations
The expanded roster of states and territories taking part in the investigation reflects broad concerns among officials that ‘Facebook may have put consumer data at risk.’
Devumi settles FTC charges that it sold fake followers and likes; cosmetics firm Sunday Riley also settles with FTC for allegedly posting fake online reviews
The Federal Trade Commission uncovered and stopped the misleading online marketing tactics of two different companies, it announced Monday.
Google's Nest Mini is a great-sounding upgrade over the Home Mini, its ability to be mounted to a wall is nice, but it still lacks a 3.5mm jack, unlike Echo Dot
It can't hang with more expensive speakers, but it can hang on the wall — The main thing you need to know about the new Google Nest Mini …
Researchers find open database that leaked 179GB+ of customer, US government, and military records from Best Western's travel reservation system Autoclerk
Led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor's research team discovered a breach in a database belonging to Autoclerk …
Firefox 70 arrives with social tracking blocked by default, a personalized privacy report to show how many trackers have been blocked, and performance gains
Mozilla today launched Firefox 70 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Firefox 70 includes social tracking protection …
A look at the revival in digital music sales, which have grown from $14.3B in 2014 to $18.1B in 2018, mainly thanks to paid streaming services like Spotify
Imagine, for a moment, that Taylor Swift was wrong. The reigning queen of country-tinged pop shocked fans in 2014 by abruptly …
Google Duplex to launch a limited pilot in New Zealand to confirm holiday store hours of some local businesses during the Labor Day public holiday on October 28
Google quietly announced this evening that Google Duplex, its AI chat agent that can arrange appointments over the phone …
Sources: Adobe will preview Illustrator for iPad at its Max conference in November before launching it in 2020
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Facebook now requires some page owners to disclose the orgs running them and if they're tied to state-owned media, will add labels to pages run by state media
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NordVPN confirms it found out a few months ago that one of its datacenters was hacked in March 2018, leaving it vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks
Need I say more? Be safe. 🤗🖖 https://twitter.com/... @nordvpn : @zackwhittaker Hi, our service has not been hacked. None of the information available on the one server can be used to impersonate or de...
Tim Cook becomes chairman of the advisory board of China's Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, a 3-year position; he joined the board in '13
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Sources: MPC, which pitched itself as a privacy-focused smartphone vendor, was run by a violent UK gang, shuttering after multiple investigations into it began
Crime blogger Martin Kok was assassinated while leaving a sex club. It turned out MPC, one of his clients, was not an ordinary phone company. Tweets: @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @vice , @derektmead ,...
Signal AI, formerly Signal Media, which offers AI-backed media monitoring and market intelligence services, raises $25M Series C led by Redline Capital
Media monitoring — where news sources and other public information outlets are scanned regularly for mentions of specific organizations …
SAP has struck a three-year deal where Microsoft will sell a bundle of SAP cloud services directly to customers who run SAP on Azure
Nat Levy / GeekWire :
Microsoft announces Secured-core PCs, which will come from many vendors like Dell and adhere to security best practices for better firmware attack protection
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Google hires Javier Soltero, Acompli co-founder and former head of Microsoft Outlook, to run G Suite
Ina Fried / Axios :
Hackers breached the internal network of Avast likely aiming for another supply chain attack on CCleaner; Avast says it didn't find malicious changes to the app
again Robert Lemos / Dark Reading : Avast Foils Another CCleaner Attack Alex Scroxton / ComputerWeekly.com : Attacker hit VPN firm Avast through its VPN Seth Rosenblatt / The Parallax : SafeBreach dis...
Roku to buy ad tech platform Dataxu, which provides software for managing ad campaigns programmatically across digital platforms, for $150M in cash and stock
Roku is buying Dataxu, a platform that lets marketers plan and buy video ad campaigns, for $150 million in cash and stock. Tweets: @kirbywinfield and @dylanljmartin See also Mediagazer Tweets: Kirby W...
EU says preliminary results of its probe into software used by EU institutions raises “serious concerns” over Microsoft's compliance with data protection rules
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
IonQ, which uses “trapped ions”, or charged particles in a vacuum, for its quantum computing hardware, raises $55M led by Mubadala Capital and Samsung
Robert Hackett / Fortune :
Microsoft acquires Edmonton-based Mover to bolster its cloud migration solutions, just weeks after acquiring Movere, another cloud migration company
@JeffTeper (Microsoft CVP). Read more about today's news https://aka.ms/... https://twitter.com/... NTB / @chupchap : Somewhere in MS hq. “What? We acquired Movere? We were supposed to acquire Mover!”...
IAB and PwC: US online ad spending reached $57.9B in H1 2019, up 16.9% year-over-year but lower than the 23.1% growth in the same period last year
Greg Sterling / Marketing Land :
Verizon's rollout of 5G to three NBA arenas and over a dozen NFL stadiums only covers some of the seating areas in each facility
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Instabase, which sells app making tools to enterprise, raises $105M Series B at a $1.05B valuation
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg : Tweets: @markets , @edwardbenson , @nea , @lydiagu , and @paulnakata Tweets: @markets : The little-known software company has raised new funding at a $1.05 billion valuati...
Self-driving car startup Zoox raises $200M in convertible note funding that will be folded into a Series C, its first raise since firing CEO Tim Kentley-Klay
Axios : Tweets: @comma_ai Tweets: Comma Ai / @comma_ai : Is @zoox out of cash? Why else would you start your Series C with a convertible note? Curious what's going through the mind of investors think...
Amid growing skepticism about Libra, David Marcus says the group may consider stablecoins pegged to national currencies, instead of the coin it has proposed
here's why Adrian Potoroaca / TechSpot : Libra Association may consider launching multiple stablecoins based on international currencies Francisco Memoria / CryptoGlobe : Facebook's Libra Will ‘Never ...
Upstream Security, which provides a centralized security and analytics platform for connected vehicles, raises $30M Series B led by Alliance Ventures
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
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