Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news
Testing a dedicated place for news in the US — Journalism plays a critical role in our democracy.
Amazon Q3: $70B revenue, up 24% YoY, net income of $2.1B, down from $2.9B in Q3 2018, AWS revenue of $9B, up from $6.7B in Q3 2018
SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE) October 24, 2019—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2019.
Google Pixelbook Go review: excellent keyboard, good performance and battery life, with solid and stable OS, but remains pricey, and trackpad could be smoother
By focusing on the basics, Google's latest Chromebook is less ambitious but more successful. — Google has been building …
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Tom Cotton ask US intelligence officials to determine whether TikTok poses “national security risks”
Washington Post :
TikTok says its content moderation policies are led by a US-based team and it will not remove content, including posts about Hong Kong, at the behest of China
Short-form video app TikTok can't shake an air of suspicion that surrounds it in the United States.
Google says it's improving 10% of English searches in the US by using NLP techniques to better understand query context and words' relationship with each other
For Google's namesake search engine, delivering the right results is about understanding what people are asking for.
Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint announce the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative to bring RCS to Android phones in 2020
Here's a shocker. All four major US carriers — Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile — have just announced that they're joining forces to deliver RCS messaging in the US for Android smartphones in 2020...
Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek, one of the gaming world's most watched streamers, announces a move to Microsoft's Mixer from Twitch, following Tyler “Ninja” Blevins
'I'm making moves' — Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek is the latest Twitch megastar to abandon …
Sources say Facebook will pay some news partners up to $3M a year for appearing in its news tab, coming today to a couple hundred thousand US users
and now Facebook is going to do just that https://www.vox.com/... @hypervisible : “If you click on a Wall Street Journal article via Facebook's news section, you'll be able to read that one story, but...
Gene Levoff, who was in charge of enforcing Apple's Insider Trading Policy, indicted for insider trading between 2011 and 2016; Levoff was fired in Sept. 2018
- Gene Levoff, who was a senior director of corporate law, was aware of Apple financial results before they were public …
AT&T says HBO Max will be available free to the 10M AT&T customers in the US who are also HBO subscribers when it launches in the spring
(Reuters) - In the bestselling novel “Circe” — optioned by WarnerMedia for its forthcoming HBO Max streaming service — the daughter …
Amazon has spent $9.6B on shipping and fulfillment in Q3, up nearly 46% YoY, as it tries to make Prime one-day delivery a reality
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Twitter says some users will start seeing more ads after it changed its historical approach of showing fewer ads to users with high follower counts
- Twitter's third-quarter earnings were marred by issues in a product that advertisers use to market mobile apps.
Jack Dorsey criticizes Mark Zuckerberg's free speech comments, says there wasn't any talk of reach and amplification and his Iraq War mention was not authentic
Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey called out his counterpart at Facebook Inc., saying Mark Zuckerberg has a …
Sources: Sony has hired bankers to explore a sale of its Playstation Vue service, which would include the company's tech and a subscriber list of around 500K
Sony Corp. is exploring the sale of its Playstation Vue service, which offers a slimmed-down version of cable TV delivered over the internet …
Twitter misses Q3 estimates with revenue of $823.7M, up 9% YoY vs. $874M expected; 145M monetizable DAUs, up 17% YoY
and the internet surveillance economy in general — that ending privacy-violating settings dented Twitter's ad sales? https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... Tim O'Brien / @timobrien : “E...
Amazon reports Q3 “other” category revenue, which mostly covers its ad business, of $3.6B, up 44% YoY, and subscriptions services revenue of $5B, up 34% YoY
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
As Facebook dangles extra traffic via a dedicated news tab, and journalism outlets leap into its cage, a look at 10 years of Facebook abusing publishers
10 years of abusing publishers — Are we really doing this again? After the pivot to video. After Instant Articles.
Ahead of Project xCloud's launch, Microsoft adds mobile gaming gear, like a new smartphone-holding clip for Xbox controllers, to its Designed for Xbox program
As Kareem Choudhry shared last month, our vision for Project xCloud is to empower gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want.
A moderator for r/relationships, a subreddit with 2.6M members, talks about the rigid moderation policies that have kept the subreddit from devolving into chaos
and when it is, it's reduced to the alt-right stuff. but while the decentralization + anonymity make it hard to study, they also make it so unique. https://twitter.com/... Leah Libresco / @leahlibresc...
Intel beats with Q3 revenue of $19.19B, up 6% YoY, vs. $18.05B est., and Client Computing Group revenue of $9.7B, down 5% YoY; stock up 5%+
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Square says it is rolling out free fractional share trading to users of its Cash App, allowing them to buy fractions of shares for as little as $1
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Shipwell, a marketplace that connects shippers with freight companies and helps manage trucking logistics, has raised $35M Series B from Georgian Partners
News from Shipwell: We just raised our Series B! Gordon Gottsegen / Built In Austin : Shipwell Just Closed a $35M Series B. Now It's Looking to Grow. Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch : Very Good Security r...
Weave, a customer communication platform for service-based businesses, raises $70M Series D at a valuation of $970M, bringing its total raised to $152.5M
Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News :
Google Pixel 4 review: not competitive, as $800 is pricey for 64GB, Motion Sense is fiddly, no expandable storage or fingerprint reader, battery life is weak
Kellen / Droid Life : Tweets: @whatthebit and @iamkellex Tweets: Stefan Constantine / @whatthebit : How much more would people love the Pixel 4 if the small one was $599 and the big one was $699? htt...
ARM says it will keep supplying Huawei with its chip designs after determining that Armv8-A and its next-gen architecture are of non-US origin
Steve Dent / Engadget :
SEC, CFTC, and FDIC join the Global Financial Innovation Network, an international alliance led by UK's FCA to coordinate policies on cryptocurrencies, more
Danny Nelson / CoinDesk :
Microsoft says it's paid $1.2B to indie game devs during the current Xbox generation, for games that came through its ID@Xbox cross-platform publishing program
Leah Williams / Kotaku Australia :
Caffeine, which aims to compete with Twitch, signs rapper Offset to live stream video games, after having raised $146M from 21st Century Fox and others
Shannon Liao / CNN :
Fair.com, a flexible car ownership marketplace valued at $1.2B that raised $500M from SoftBank and others, says it is laying off 40% of its staff
The Station is back for another week … PYMNTS.com : Car Subscription Service Fair Axes CFO And 40 Pct Of Staff Tweets: Brian McCullough / @brianmcc : Hooo boy... is it metastasizing? https://www.techm...
Sources: SoftBank is planning to take a writedown of at least $5B to reflect a plunge in the value of some of its biggest holdings, including WeWork and Uber
Bloomberg : Tweets: @zerohedge , @edbott , @feedkastcharles , and @tracyalloway Tweets: @zerohedge : SoftBank Vision Fund Planning Writedown of at Least $5 Billion: BBG From what? $1 quadrillion? Ed ...
Ally, maker of enterprise goal-planning software, raises $15M Series B led by Tiger Global, its third raise of 2019 after a $3M seed round and $8M Series A
Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News :
Google to start publishing the number of government requests it receives for Google Cloud and G Suite enterprise data as part of its transparency report
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
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