In safety report, Uber says only 37% of the 464 rape cases during its US rides in 2017 and 2018 were reported to law enforcement
Buried inside Uber's inaugural safety report this week that detailed thousands of sexual assaults and more than 100 deaths was another staggering revelation … Tweets: @rothwell_scott , @faizsays , and...
In report, Uber discloses 3,045 sexual assaults, 9 murders, and 58 people killed in crashes out of its 1.3B US rides in 2018
and we need to do more to address the horrific reality of rampant sexual assault happening every day across our country. https://twitter.com/... Ed Bott / @edbott : These are horrible numbers but also...
Bernie Sanders unveils a “High-Speed Internet for All” plan with $150B to build publicly owned broadband networks, wants to break up ISPs like Comcast and AT&T
- Bernie Sanders announces a plan to expand rural broadband internet access and break up giant internet service providers.
Report: Magic Leap sold ~6,000 headsets in six months after release, compared to a goal of 100,000 in the first year, and recently laid off dozens of employees
And Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly left its board — Magic Leap's sales numbers reportedly haven't matched CEO Rony … Source: The Information .
Report: Amazon leases 335K square feet of office space in NYC without any tax incentives, less than a year after pulling out of its larger HQ2 campus deal
Amazon is renting new office space in the Hudson Yards neighborhood. Max Touhey — The e-commerce titan remains interested in the Big Apple
Reddit says a leak of official US-UK trade documents on its platform was part of a Russian political influence campaign, bans 61 accounts and one subreddit
Reddit bans 61 accounts and one subreddit for “misuse of the platform.” — Reddit said today that a leak of official US-UK trade documents …
Adobe is acquiring Oculus Medium, a virtual reality sculpting tool launched in 2015, from Facebook
New updates will be coming in 2020 — Adobe is acquiring Oculus Medium, a virtual reality sculpting tool originally revealed by the Facebook-owned VR company in 2015.
A look at the mixed legacy of Alphabet's organizational structure, which sometimes led to the duplication of efforts among Google and Alphabet's other companies
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Ericsson admits it has bribed officials while selling telecom equipment in Asia, agrees to pay $1.1B in fines to US DOJ and SEC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Swedish mobile telecoms company Ericsson has agreed to pay over $1 billion to resolve probes into corruption, including the bribing …
A look at the creation of a new kind of nonconsensual porn, which combines deepfakes with 3D avatars that can be manipulated to do whatever their creators want
A lineup of female celebrities stand in front of you. Their faces move, smile, and blink as you move around them. Tweets: @mathewi and @zenalbatross Tweets: Mathew Ingram / @mathewi : This is fascina...
Pichai's track record at Google over the past two years shows that Alphabet companies can be expected to either become more focused or get folded into Google
I've been thinking a lot about the Alphabet-Google (my colleague Kyle Wiggers prefers “Googlebet") news this week. Tweets: @epro and @epro Tweets: Emil Protalinski / @epro : “Again, this CEO transitio...
Facebook says its AI bot achieved high scores playing Hanabi, a card game requiring teamwork, showing how AI can work with other bots or people to reach a goal
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SEC has rejected NYSE's proposal to allow companies going public through a direct listing to raise capital at the same time
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Survey of 6,154 people in China: 74% want the option to choose traditional ID methods over facial recognition, 84% want ability to review or delete their data
Most people would like to be able to choose traditional methods of identification over facial recognition technology … Tweets: @janoschdelcker , @sophiehrw , @hillmanje , @kenroth , and @yuanfenyang T...
14 US state AGs seeking to stop the T-Mobile and Sprint merger head to trial on Monday
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Profile of VSCO, a photo-sharing app with a reported valuation of $550M, which is trending towards 4M paying users in 2020, up from 2M in late 2018
No likes, no comments, no follower count — VSCO sells a sense of belonging — Long before Instagram toyed with removing “likes,” VSCO … Tweets: @glenngabe , @jessiechar , @joeldflory , @benterry , @k...
Ogury, a Paris-based mobile ad network which also offers a GDPR and CCPA compliant consent management platform, raises $50M Series C
Mobile data company Ogury raised $50 million in Series C funding on Thursday with an eye on international expansion and consumer privacy-related R&D.
Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck is leaving at the end of the year, to be replaced by David Shim, who joined Foursquare as president in June
a company many had written off, that instead is finishing the year with $100 million in revenues! https://twitter.com/... Sally Shin / @sallyshin : More CEO exits...This time at Foursquare. CEO Jeff G...
Netflix says it is spending ~$420M on content in India over the next year, a majority of which will be on original programming
Vikas SN / The Economic Times :
Amazon expands Bezos' elite ‘S-team’, adding 6 execs from its emerging branches such as advertising and fashion, bringing the number of execs on the team to 22
joining 19 men Isobel Asher Hamilton / Business Insider : Jeff Bezos now has 3 women in his elite S-Team exec squad but they're still massively outnumbered by 19 men Tweets: Carolyn Penner / @cpen : I...
Hungary's regulator fines Facebook $4M, arguing that it misled users by claiming its services are free, while earning money from ads based on user activity
Marton Eder / Bloomberg :
Survey of 2,000+ US users: 50% plan to subscribe to new OTT services, of which 64% intend to downgrade/cancel existing subs; say they spend ~$76/month on video
The percentage of total pay-TV users … See also Mediagazer
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