Amazon blocks marketplace sellers from using FedEx Ground for Prime shipments indefinitely over FedEx's “delivery performance”
Amazon cites a decline in FedEx performance heading into the final holiday push — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN .47% is blocking its third-party sellers …
Instagram expands its fact checking efforts by hiding false content behind warnings, except for politicians, and removing it from Explore and hashtag pages
Instagram is giving politicians the same free reign to spread misinformation as its parent company Facebook.
Security engineer at Google says she was fired from the company last week after two years for sending internal browser pop-ups about labor rights
The latest termination at the company — Google has fired another employee following a showing of internal activism, marking the latest …
Microsoft opens up the Microsoft Edge Addons store for submissions ahead of Chromium Edge's launch; existing Chromium extensions to be migrated automatically
Developers can now submit to the Microsoft Edge Addons Store, with existing Chromium extensions migrated automatically.
Report: Amazon had revenue of $1.4M from Alexa's in-skill purchases in the first ten months of 2019, which was well short of its target of $5.5M
The Information published (N.B. paywall) an article this morning saying that Amazon earned $1.4 million Alexa skill revenue through the first 10 months … Source: The Information .
Instagram will preemptively flag potentially offensive captions, in addition to comments, aiming to nudge users to reconsider their words without censoring them
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Sources describe Peter Thiel's expanding influence at Facebook, where he advises Zuckerberg on White House dynamics and holding firm on the political ads policy
Billionaire investor thinks political-ad policy shouldn't change; some directors and executives disagree
Microsoft's support doc says the Chromium-based Edge will be automatically rolled out to PCs running Windows 10 April 2018 Update or newer starting January 15
Mayank Parmar / Windows Latest :
Facebook, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram, all belonging to Facebook, were the most downloaded apps worldwide of this decade
Mobile Has Been at the Heart of Major Changes in Consumer Behaviour This Decade Throughout the 2010s we have seen our world transform.
WhatsApp fixes bug that allowed a rogue group member to render the app unusable, forcing a reinstall and loss of group chat content
Researchers detail security flaw that allowed hackers to crash WhatsApp and permanently delete contents of group chats - and urge users to update the app to protect against attacks.
Mac Pro needs little to no tooling for basic fixes and upgrades, scores a 9/10 on repairability; components are modular but some are proprietary, like SSD cards
Teardown of the reinvented 2019 Mac Pro, which returns to a properly repairable design that happens to not grate cheese very well.
LogMeIn to be acquired by affiliates of PE firm Francisco Partners and Elliott Management for $86.05/share in cash, valuing the company at about ~$4.3B
All-Cash Transaction Valued at Approximately $4.3 Billion — LogMeIn, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOGM), a leading provider of cloud-based connectivity …
Profile of Dave Clark, global logistics chief at Amazon, where he oversees shipment of 2.5B packages/year and delivery of 46% of US packages bought on Amazon
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg : Tweets: @business , @rrpre , and @shiraovide Tweets: @business : Amazon's Dave Clark has a challenging job: making sure holiday packages get to customers on time and keepi...
Lime launches a weekly subscription service for frequent riders that waives the unlock fee on renting the company's e-scooters and bicycles
LimePass waves the unlock fee on your rentals — Lime just announced LimePass, a weekly subscription service that waves the unlock fee on renting …
Skyryse demos its Skyryse Flight Stack tech, enabling existing helicopters to be flown autonomously, says it's raised $38M, with $13M in new funding
Skyryse is a three-year old transportation startup that is approaching the future of aviation from a different angle when compared to most.
Netflix shares detailed overseas subscriber numbers for the first time in a filing, and says 90% of total subscriber growth came from outside the US since 2017
U.S. and Canada highest at $13.08 for Q3 2019 (+32% compared with two years earlier), followed by EMEA at $10.40 (+12%), Asia-Pacific at $9.29 (+2%) and LatAm at $8.63 (+5%). https://variety.com/... @...
Survey: 50% of companies integrating AI into their workflows spend between 8 and 90 days deploying a single machine learning model, with 18% taking even longer
Incorporating AI and machine learning technologies into everyday workflows isn't as easy as the testimonials would have you believe. Tweets: @jeffnolan and @ozaiane Tweets: Jeff Nolan / @jeffnolan : m...
Odoo, the Belgian provider of open source all-in-one business software, raises $90M led by Summit Partners
Odoo, the Belgian provider of open source all-in-one business software, has raised a $90 million round, led by Summit Partners, to fund its fast-paced product development and continued global expansio...
Lee Sang-hoon, chairman of Samsung Electronics' board, sentenced to 18 months for violating South Korean labor union laws by disrupting union activities
Eun-Young Jeong / Wall Street Journal :
Intel acquires Israel-based AI chip maker Habana Labs for $2B
Karl Freund / Forbes :
Campaign staff and researchers say almost no political campaigns, including presidential ones, have teams for spotting and pushing back on disinformation
Davey Alba / New York Times :
Amazon launches Alexa Knowledge Skills in preview, a new skill type that organizations can use to create internal FAQs, glossaries, and more without coding
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
House passes Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act, barring FCC from funding federal purchases from Huawei, other telcos deemed national security risks
Emily Birnbaum / The Hill :
ICANN says it will review PIR's sale of .org to Ethos Capital to decide if it should be allowed; notes it has 30 days to provide or withhold its consent
The proposed acquisition of Public Interest Registry … Marietje Schaake / Financial Times : Selling off online domain names threatens internet governance Anthony Spadafora / TechRadar.com : ICANN paus...
LogicGate, which helps automate corporate governance, risk, and compliance processes, raises $24.75M co-led by Jump Capital and High Alpha Capital
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
ProdPerfect, which offers a platform to automate web app quality assurance testing, raises $13M Series A led by Anthos Capital
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch :
French startup EfficientIP, which helps fight DDoS attacks, raises $11M Series B from Jolt Capital
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
Anyscale, which offers tools to run apps built with the Ray open source framework securely and efficiently, raises $20.6M led by a16z
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
A look at the back-end operations of Evil Corp, the Russian gang sanctioned by the US Treasury for allegedly operating a cybercrime network with FSB connections
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security : Tweets: @jaredhanson , @jp_koning , @techchaser , and @briankrebs Tweets: Jared Hanson / @jaredhanson : “any user could view messages sent to and from all other user...
Teraki, which offers edge processing software that speeds up computing on resource-constrained devices, raises $11M led by Horizons Ventures
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Tel Aviv-based Arbe, which is developing a high-resolution radar chipset for autonomous vehicles, raises $32M Series B
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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