Microsoft's next-gen Xbox, once-codenamed Project Scarlett, is officially called Xbox Series X, and looks more like a PC than past consoles
Xbox now looks like a PC — Microsoft's next-generation Xbox is officially called Xbox Series X. Microsoft revealed the name and console design on stage at the Game Awards today.
Trump agrees to a limited trade deal with China that could result in Apple and others avoiding a 15% tariff on their products set to begin on Dec. 15
Plan would prevent new tariffs planned for Sunday and roll back some existing tariff rates — President Trump has agreed …
Sources: FTC is considering seeking an injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how it integrates its apps and their interoperability
Antitrust concerns lead agency to consider taking action against social-media giant as soon as January
Sources: Apple buys Spectral Edge, a UK startup whose tech improves the colors in photos by taking infrared shots and blending it with standard photos
- Spectral Edge technology improves colors in smartphone photos — Photograph is a key differentiator in the smartphone market
Lyft launches a car rental service with no mileage limit, starting in SF and LA for as low as $35 per day
Starting in SF and LA for as low as $35 per day — Lyft is getting into car rentals. The ride-hailing company announced Thursday that it's launching a rental service available …
Bonobos founder Andy Dunn to leave Walmart in early 2020, two years after selling his menswear brand to Walmart for $310M
KEY POINTS — The founder of Bonobos, Andy Dunn, is leaving Walmart, roughly two years after the company acquired the money-losing online apparel retailer …
iOS 13.3 bug in Communication Limits, which lets parents control who kids interact with, lets kids skirt protections; Apple says it is working on a fix
- iOS 13.3 launched this week and introduced a new feature called Communication Limits that adds new parental controls.
A recent spate of Ring camera hacks were part of a podcast livestreamed to Discord called “Nulledcast” in which Ring owners were hacked and harassed live on air
@josephfcox @jason_koebler http://bit.ly/2LJeFyn Fred Blankenship / @fblankenshipwsb : No sireeee! “I can see you in the bed! C'mon! Wake the [expletive] up!” This terrified Brookhaven woman says some...
Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to president and chief operating officer from his role of president and chief product officer; he will report to Marc Benioff
Salesforce announced today that it has named Bret Taylor as president and chief operating officer of the company.
German food delivery company Delivery Hero to buy its South Korean rival Woowa Brothers for $4B
SEOUL (Reuters) - German food delivery company Delivery Hero (DHER.DE) has agreed to acquire its South Korean rival Woowa Brothers for $4 billion, Woowa Brothers said in a statement on Friday.
Sources: YouTube's premium services have 800K+ subscribers in India and are growing faster than rival paid services including Spotify, Gaana, and JioSaavn
- YouTube said to sign up more than 800,000 users in the country — India is home to the video service's most-subscribed channel Tweets: @bloombergquint Tweets: @bloombergquint : YouTube has convinc...
Google rolls out Verified SMS, which labels messages from legitimate businesses, on Android in nine countries, expands spam detection in messages to the US
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Facebook has filed more lawsuits against scammers this year than in all previous years combined, a legal strategy that could help it stave off regulation
When Facebook caught the New Zealand-based company Social Media Series Limited selling likes from fake users on Instagram, the tech giant did something out of character. Tweets: @newsalliance , @scott...
Inside Google's culture war as some employees and managers describe a “climate of fear” and the erosion of transparency that once defined the company
Restive workers see a culture in ‘total collapse.’ — Each morning, workers at Google get an internal newsletter called the “Daily Insider.” Tweets: @ericnewcomer and @rj_gallagher Tweets: Eric Newco...
Google brings its real-time translation mode, interpreter, to the Google Assistant app on iOS and Android globally with support for 44 languages
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
Police raided the Moscow offices of NGINX and detained employees over a copyright complaint from Rambler claiming full ownership of the NGINX web server code
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Sources describe how ISPs like AT&T and Cox push the FCC to omit unflattering data, among other tactics, to improve scores on FCC's internet speeds report
Wall Street Journal :
Facebook makes an initial commitment of $130M to its upcoming Oversight Board and says it will not announce the first members this year as originally expected
But Punts On Launching It Allison Matyus / Digital Trends : Facebook's long-promised Supreme Court for content won't be here for a long time Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Facebook Allocates...
As it did in 2018, Twitter says it will add labels to 2020 House, Senate, and governor candidates who qualify for the general election ballot
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Oracle reports Q2 revenue of $9.61B, up 0.5% YoY and short of analyst estimates of $9.65B, with Cloud Services division revenue of $6.81B, up 3% YoY
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
Facebook says it doesn't need to change its web tracking to comply with CCPA; source: Facebook contends its data collection doesn't count as a “sale” under CCPA
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal :
DataRobot, a company creating automated machine learning models, announces that it intends to acquire Paxata, a data prep platform that previously raised $90M
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
A look at the rise of Roku, which is valued at $17B and whose stock is up 300% this year, amid escalating competition from Amazon, Google, and others
Bloomberg :
As Intel now deletes BIOS drivers for unsupported motherboards from its site, and browsers end FTP site support, finding drivers for older hardware gets harder
Ernie Smith / VICE :
Bill.com, which automates payments for SMBs, prices its IPO at an above-range $22 per share to raise around $216M at a valuation of around $1.6B
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch :
Unencrypted hard drives with payroll data, including names, bank account numbers, compensation info of 29,000 Facebook employees, stolen in a car break-in
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg :
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