Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte, a Vine-like short-form video app, on iOS and Android, aims to start its partner program to pay creators “soon”
Two years after Vine's co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS and Android.
Report: Samsung's upcoming foldable smartphone, possibly called Galaxy Z Flip, to use “Ultra Thin Glass” with a Dynamic AMOLED display underneath
Samsung is preparing to launch its second foldable smartphone next month, and if you can believe it, more leaks are coming out for the device. Source: @maxwinebach .
India's smartphone market surpassed the US, becoming the second-largest smartphone market globally, reaching 158M shipments in 2019, up 7% YoY
- realme (255%), Vivo (76%), Asus (67%) and OnePlus (29%) were the fastest-growing smartphone brands on an annual basis.
Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource, an SF-based machine learning training data company with a large workforce in East Africa, dies at 37
The startup community has lost another moral leader today. — Leila Janah, a serial entrepreneur who was the CEO and founder …
An in-depth look at facial recognition technology, with a primer on how it works, who is using it in the US, and how to avoid it online and in public
The controversial and nearly ever-present technology that could replace the fingerprint — From iPhones and Snapchat filters …
Laws that ban facial recognition miss the larger point: we need laws on all tech used for identification and to decide how much of our data should be surveilled
and the ways that data is combined to create searchable profiles of us without any consent on our part. https://www.nytimes.com/... Dahlia Peterson / @dahlialpeterson : “A ban on facial recognition wo...
UK's science minister Chris Skidmore says the UK won't implement EU's Copyright Directive, which includes Article 13, after the country leaves the EU
One of the most intriguing aspects of Britain's departure from the European Union will be which elements of EU law will be dropped and retained … Source: BBC .
YouTube gains exclusive streaming rights to Activision Blizzard's big esports events like Overwatch League, which was a Twitch exclusive for the past two years
Activision Blizzard And Google Enter … Justin Diaz / Android Headlines : Google Cloud Will Power Activision Blizzard Games Like Call of Duty James Hale / Tubefilter : YouTube Gaming To Exclusively Liv...
India-based Pine Labs, which offers POS services, raises an undisclosed round from Mastercard; source: the $100M-$150M round values the company at $1.5B-$1.6B
BENGALURU: Point-of-sales (PoS) services provider Pine Labs has raised a new round of funding from the global card network major Mastercard.
Payments processor Wex to acquire travel focused B2B payments services providers eNett and Optal for a combined $1.7B
With this deal, Wex now becomes a powerhouse in assisting business-to-business travel payments worldwide. The deal also gives cash to seller Travelport …
FloQast, a startup that sells accounting software, raises $40M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to over $90M
This morning FloQast, an LA-area startup, announced that it closed a $40 million Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners.
Unito, whose tool helps teams communicate between different workplace productivity software suites, raises $10.5M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners
Startup productivity tools have never been better, but that's led to employees being more passionate than ever about the tools that they want to use themselves.
An overview of nine leading US presidential candidates' positions on Big Tech, with Warren and Sanders leading the charge to break up big tech companies
Republican President Donald Trump's administration has also stepped up its scrutiny of Big Tech, conducting a wide-ranging probe …
A federal jury in California reduces the damages Apple has to pay Canadian IP licensing company WiLan for infringing on two wireless patents from $145M to $85M
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How adding wireless chips, motion and pressure sensors, displays, and machine learning to products like toothbrushes is changing our oral hygiene habits
It's easy to bristle at a $200 AI-powered toothbrush, but not for the reasons you might think. — In Las Vegas a couple weeks ago …
Google has started charging law enforcement agencies fees for legal demands of user information such as emails, location tracking information and search queries
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Report: betting companies had access to a UK Department for Education database with records of 28M children, after a third-party gave access without permission
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet : Tweets: @libertyhq , @dannyjpalmer , @damiancollins , @ineqegroup , and @carolecadwalla Tweets: Liberty / @libertyhq : This data was collected from students by trusted educa...
Anchore, which offers automated container security management to clients including US DOD, raises $20M Series A led by SignalFire, bringing total raise to ~$30M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Socially Determined, which offers a data analytics platform focused on measuring the impact of the social determinants of health, closes $11.1M Series A
Michelai Graham / Technical.ly DC :
Galvanize to be acquired by education company K12 Inc. for $165M in cash, according to an email to shareholders; some shareholders won't get proceeds
Kate Clark / The Information : Tweets: @rfern_____ , @jasonlk , @kateclarktweets , @frankcatalano , @kimmytaylor , and @jhtscherck Tweets: @rfern_____ : My former employer was acquired for $165,000,0...
Fossil Gen 5 review: best Wear OS watch yet with clever notification handling, good battery life, but hardware UX is unpredictable and phone can disconnect
Samuel Gibbs / The Guardian :
GelSight raises $10M Series B for its imaging system that uses an elastomeric-based sensor and computer vision to produce highly accurate 3D maps of surfaces
Jeremy Bogaisky / Forbes :
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
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.