T-Mobile President and COO Mike Sievert to succeed John Legere as CEO on May 1, 2020
- T-Mobile President and COO Mike Sievert will succeed John Legere as CEO on May 1, 2020, the company announced Monday. — CNBC's David Faber reported in July that Sievert was expected …
After ICANN lifted price caps on .org domains in June, the Internet Society has sold Public Interest Registry, the top level domain's operator, to PE firm Ethos
Ethos Capital, led by former ABRY Partners Managing Partner, buys .Org registry. — I thought this might happen. And now it has.
Musical.ly founder Alex Zhu, who now heads TikTok, says TikTok doesn't share data with China or Bytedance and doesn't censor videos at China's behest
Alex Zhu, the head of the Chinese-owned viral video app, is trying to assuage Washington's fears. “I am quite optimistic,” he said.
Inside Facebook's efforts to fight revenge porn using AI and a 25-person team; source: Facebook gets about 500K reports of revenge porn per month
The Facebook team tasked with fighting nonconsensual intimate images spoke for the first time about their research, early missteps and hopes for AI.
Line and SoftBank's Yahoo Japan announce merger plan, aim to sign a deal by December 2019, and integrate the businesses by October 2020
SoftBank and Naver's venture to be Japan's largest online player — TOKYO — The operators of Yahoo sites in Japan and the Line chat app jointly announced …
Sources: ByteDance is in talks with record companies to launch a music streaming service as soon as December, initially in Brazil, India, and Indonesia
The Chinese company behind the popular video app TikTok is set to go head-to-head with the likes of Spotify and Apple in the music streaming market …
Chrome, Edge, Safari hacked at elite hacking contest Tianfu Cup, which is now China's top competition after a participation ban on foreign contests like Pwn2Own
China's top white-hat hackers have gathered in Chengdu to test zero-days against today's top software.
Opera's Africa focused fintech startup OPay raises $120M Series B from Meituan-Dianping, SoftBank Asia, others, will expand to Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa
Africa focused fintech startup OPay has raised a $120 million Series B round backed by Chinese investors.
Microsoft updates its privacy rules for commercial cloud contracts, after a EU probe found that it failed to protect data under EU law
Microsoft has announced that it will update its privacy provisions for commercial cloud contracts. It comes after the European Data Protection Supervisor …
Chinese government data suggests Apple shipped 10M iPhones in the country during Sept. and Oct., up 6% YoY, as overall smartphone shipments dropped 5% to 69.3M
- Upgrades to camera and battery spur 6% growth in shipments — China is Apple's most important market after the U.S.
Salesforce launches redesigned Salesforce Mobile App alongside Trailhead GO, a mobile version of its learning platform, and a new version of its mobile SDK
The Apple-Salesforce effort, which was announced at Dreamforce, rhymes with other partnerships with enterprise software vendors and the iPhone maker.
AI-powered news aggregation app SmartNews raises $92M, including a $28M raise in August, at a valuation of $1.2B, bringing its total raised to $182M
Looks like there's still money to be made in news aggregation — at least according to the investors backing the news app SmartNews.
Sensor Tower: TikTok has passed 1.5B downloads worldwide on the App Store and Google Play, with 614M downloads in 2019 so far, up 6% YoY
with almost 500M in India Deccan Chronicle : TikTok crosses 1.5 billion download mark NDTV Gadgets 360 : TikTok Hits 1.5 Billion Downloads on App Store and Google Play, With India Leading the Chart: S...
Intel unveils plans for a 7nm Xe GPU, codenamed Ponte Vecchio, meant to rival Nvidia in handling datacenter AI workloads, but fails to give a release window
Nvidia can shake off rivals that have complicated and untested AI solutions Mark Hachman / PCWorld : Intel debuts Ponte Vecchio, its first Xe GPU for servers Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware : Intel Annou...
Elavon, the payments subsidiary of US Bancorp, to acquire Sage Pay, a payment processor operating in the UK and Ireland, for £232M in cash
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The White House confirms that President Trump will tour Apple's manufacturing plant in Austin on November 20
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HP board unanimously rejects Xerox's ~$33B cash and stock offer to acquire the company
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Northzone raises a new $500M fund to invest primarily in Series A and B rounds of European and East Coast US startups, amid a slew of new European VC funds
Northzone today announces … Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu : Northzone announces new $500 million fund for consumer and enterprise companies overthrowing legacy tech Tweets: Marta Sjgren / @martasjogren : B...
Self-driving startup Wayve, which considers sophisticated sensor tech like lidar unnecessary for safe autonomous driving systems, raises $20M Series A
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How Binance survived China's crypto crackdown, a $40M hack, and the bursting of the crypto bubble to become one of the most successful crypto exchanges
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Bolt Bikes, which operates an e-bike subscription platform for gig workers in Sydney and Melbourne, expands to San Francisco and London
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Huawei launched an invite-only bug bounty program last week for its Android devices, with a maximum payout of $220,000
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Palantir unveils a $150M deal with Japanese financial services company Sompo Holding, with an initial focus on health and cybersecurity clients in Japan
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