Facebook and Google's self-imposed ban on political ads in Washington state, which led to uneven enforcement and confusing rules, is a cautionary tale for 2020
A troubling omen for Twitter's global ban — On Wednesday, Twitter announced that it will ban all forms of political advertising starting …
Google to acquire Fitbit at $7.35 per share in cash, valuing the company at about $2.1B
- The acquisition pits Alphabet against fellow tech giant Apple in the wearable fitness tracking space. — Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference ...
[Thread] Twitter will stop accepting all political and issue ads on its platform globally starting on November 22
but not the sense that will get them banned. https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... @jack : Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-...
Apple TV+ launches with nine original titles in 100+ countries for $4.99/month or $49.99/year with a one year free trial on the purchase of a new Apple device
After months of waiting, Apple's TV streaming service Apple TV+ is now live. You can start watching on any platform that offers …
Investigation finds domestic workers in Kuwait are bought and sold online through Instagram, promoted via hashtags, and other apps on Play Store and App Store
Drive around the streets of Kuwait and you won't see these women. They are behind closed doors, deprived of their basic rights …
China's three state-backed wireless carriers launch 5G in some cities, ahead of original 2020 date; China Mobile aims to bring 5G to 50+ cities by year's end
BEIJING — Chinese cellphone carriers will begin offering super-fast, next-generation 5G service on a commercial basis Friday …
Waterfront Toronto agrees to move forward on Alphabet Sidewalk's smart city proposal but with government control over data collection and limits on scale
Waterfront Toronto will move forward with a proposal for Sidewalk Labs to build a high-tech community on the city's waterfront …
Jack Dorsey's announcement that Twitter will cut out political ads increases the pressure on Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to follow suit
FB has had problems here. Everything involving an important topic gets defined as a “political ad” https://twitter.com/...
A scam spanning eight US cities and nearly 100 listings shows how easy it is to exploit Airbnb's poorly written rules through phony listings and fake reviews
While searching for the person who grifted me in Chicago, I discovered just how easy it is for users of the short-term rental platform to get exploited.
In an earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook's political ads policy, estimates ads from politicians will be less than 0.5% of company's revenue in 2020
based on 2019 consensus revs that is ~$350 million of political ad dollars Twitter has said Political Ad dollars are less than $3 million, which implies about 0.1% of revs based on 2019 consensus $FB ...
Google says it has started rolling out incognito mode for Google Maps on Android, in which users' activity will not be saved to their Google Account
When you turn on Incognito mode, your activity in Maps—like the places you search or get directions to—won't be saved to your Google Account.
GitHub doubles down on its ICE contract, saying cancellation could “hurt” the immigrants that “we all want to help” in internal memo, amid rising employee anger
When GitHub Chief Executive Nat Friedman announced on Oct. 9 his company would donate half a million dollars …
FireEye: Chinese state-backed hacker group APT41 is using malware called MESSAGETAP to parse and save SMS traffic from a telecom's network at scale
Microsoft says authorities in Dehradun, India were able to automate hundreds of driver license tests in recent weeks by using its AI-based project called HAMS
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Japan-based Paidy, which lets people pay for online goods without using a credit card by offering them instant credit, raises a $83M Series C extension
Paidy, a Japanese financial tech startup that provides instant credit to consumers in Japan, announced today that it has raised a total of $143 million in new financing.
Alibaba reports Q2 revenue of $16.91B, up 40% YoY, with net income more than tripling to ~$10B due to a one-time gain related its stake in Ant Financial
Canalys: Huawei shipped 41.5M smartphones in China in Q3, up 66% YoY, growing its country marketshare to 42% from 25% last year
Sources: the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has launched a review of ByteDance's acquisition of Musical.ly
NEW YORK/BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has launched a national security review of TikTok owner Beijing ByteDance Technology Co's $1 billion acquisition … Tweets: @oneunderscore__ ...
Sources: senior government and military officials in at least 20 countries, including US allies, were among the known targets of NSO Group's WhatsApp malware
Casstime, a China-based automotive aftermarket search engine and procurement platform, raises $80M Series C1 led by Sequoia China and Source Code Capital
Casstime, a Shenzhen, China-based automotive aftermarket company, closed an USD$80M Series C1 funding round.
Modus, a Seattle-based startup developing software to optimize title and escrow stage of home buying process, raises $12.5M Series A
Pete Flint knows a thing or two about real estate. He helped launch Trulia and later sold the real estate data platform to Zillow for $2.5 billion in 2015.
ACLU sues DOJ, FBI, and DEA in federal court, detailing their use of facial recognition software and arguing it constitutes a nationwide surveillance system
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UPI, a payments platform created by India's largest retail banks, has crossed 100M users and 1B transactions three-and-a-half-years after its launch
- Walmart, Paytm and others also vie in thriving payments market — Competition is expected to intensify in Indian digital wallets Tweets: @mdudas Tweets: Mike Dudas / @mdudas : Amazon and Google no...
Pinterest reports Q3 revenue of $280M, up 47% YoY, net loss of $125M, up from $19M in Q3 2018, global MAUs up 28% YoY to 322M; stock opens down ~22%
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How Netflix is navigating strict, sometimes vague, censorship standards in countries like Turkey and India, while viewers decry the concessions to censorship
Alex Marshall / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimes , @nytimesarts , and @sushantsin See also Mediagazer Tweets: @nytimes : Netflix is trying to get ahead of state censors in Turkey, where streaming se...
Apple reports Q4 revenue of $64B, up 2% YoY, of which $51.5B came from products and $12.5B from services; Q1 2020 revenue expected to be $85.5B-$89.5B
The Defense Innovation Board, a Pentagon advisory board led by Eric Schmidt, unveils principles for the US military to apply to combat and non-combat AI systems
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Qoo10 acquires Indian ecommerce company Shopclues; sources: the deal values ShopClues, which claimed a valuation of $1.1B in 2016, between $50M and $80M
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Report: 21M stolen credentials from global Fortune 500 organizations were found for sale on the dark web, 16M of which were compromised in the last 12 months
Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek :
Amazon says Alexa skill personalization, which allows developers to provide personalized experiences for different customers, is now generally available
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Crunchbase, a platform for finding business information about private and public companies, raises $30M Series C led by OMERS Ventures
Jager McConnell / Crunchbase :
DotData, which offers automation tools for data science tasks, raises $23M Series A led by JAFCO, bringing its total raised to $43M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
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