Shadow's Iowa failure was a dangerous combination of techno-utopianism and laziness, which led to slapdash software engineering, procurement, and deployment
Democrats desperately need to win the internet to beat Trump. Their first big test was a massive failure. — Mr. Warzel is an opinion writer at large.
Spotify will buy The Ringer, the podcast-centric media company run and owned by Bill Simmons, and plans to hire Simmons and his approximately 90 employees
The Ringer CEO Bill Simmons in 2015 | Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Vanity Fair — It's the fourth podcast deal Spotify has done in a year.
Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built the Iowa caucus app that contributed to delays in reporting results
show’ a year ago Wall Street Journal : Iowa's Tally-by-App Experiment Fails Zeynep Tufekci / The Atlantic : Who Needs the Russians? Jeff Bercovici / Los Angeles Times : Tech firm started by Clinton ca...
Amid coronavirus fears, ZTE cancels its MWC 2020 press conference; LG Electronics says it is withdrawing from exhibiting and participating in the Barcelona expo
The second big company to cancel its MWC appearance — LG Electronics, the division of LG Corporation responsible for mobile phones …
Twitter says users “may not deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media” likely to cause harm; such tweets will be labeled or removed
It's our responsibility to create rules on Twitter that are fair and set clear expectations for everyone on our service.
Researchers discover a now patched vulnerability in Philips Hue smart light bulbs that could have let hackers infiltrate users' home or corporate networks
Might want to check if you've got firmware 1935144040 — Four years ago, security researchers showed how a flying drone could hack …
Disney says Disney+ will roll out to Western Europe in March and India on March 29 through Hotstar; Disney plans to launch Hulu internationally as soon as 2021
Hulu will finally expand outside of the U.S., likely as soon as next year. This tidbit of news was confirmed by Disney Chairman …
Rockstar Games says co-founder Dan Houser is leaving in March, after taking a break since spring 2019; Houser co-founded Rockstar in 1998 with his brother Sam
He touched every franchise it worked on — Dan Houser, co-founder of Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games, will leave the company in March.
LinkedIn says CEO Jeff Weiner is stepping down in June after 11 years in the role, becoming executive chairman, to be replaced by SVP of Product Ryan Roslansky
After 11 steady years as the CEO of the professional networking company, Weiner is yielding the reins to deputy Ryan Roslansky.
Disney beats analyst expectations for Q1, reporting $20.86B in Q1 revenue, up 36% YoY, 26.5M subscribers for Disney+, and 30.4M for Hulu, up 33% YoY
or five years (if you count the time before a stand-alone streaming plan was offered). https://www.wsj.com/... Sahil Patel / @sizpatel : I subscribe to Disney+ and Hulu's SVOD. According to Disney, I ...
[Thread] Democratic campaign tech projects suffer from one-off startup-like funding with no money for further development, lack of trust between campaigns, more
complicating processes that would otherwise manage just fine 👇 https://twitter.com/... Christina Holland / @americanwombat : This is a really detailed account of specific companies and people and deci...
Spotify reports Q4 results: 271M total MAUs, up 31% YoY, as paying users rise 29% YoY to 124M; overall revenue was $2B, up 24% YoY; stock down 4%+
Streaming music now accounts for more than 80% of all music consumption in key markets like the US, and one of the big leaders in the field is reaping some of the rewards.
Apple Pro Display XDR review: exceptional color accuracy, sturdy build, competitive price among reference-grade pro monitors, expensive Pro Stand but worth it
- Exceptional color accuracy. — DisplayHDR 1600 looks incredible. — High contrast ratio. — Sturdy build.
Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI says YouTube served a cease-and-desist letter over photo scraping, following Twitter's letter in January
Google and YouTube have sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that has been scraping billions …
Researcher details a backdoor in Huawei-owned HiSilicon chips used in millions of smart devices, including security cameras, that has been active since 2013
Researcher said he did not notify HiSilicon due to a lack of trust in the hardware vendor to adequately fix the issue.
Sources: Instagram generated ~$20B in advertising revenue in 2019, making up more than a quarter of Facebook's revenue
- Unit brought in about $20 billion in 2019, people familiar say — Photo-sharing app has gained in importance since 2012 purchase
Sources: DOJ reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad agencies, and ad tech rivals of Google as its online ad tools become a focus of antitrust probe
Antitrust enforcers have reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad tech rivals and ad agencies
HackerRank's survey of 116K+ developers across 162 countries finds that Go and Python are the top programming languages that developers want to learn next
A huge developer survey reveals trends in developer education, job prospects, skills acquisition, and salaries.
The NYPD is replacing officers' handwritten patrol memo books, a fixture since the 1800s, with an iPhone app starting February 17
Officers' most-used item since the 1800s isn't the gun or handcuffs, but the handwritten activity log. Now an iPhone app is replacing it. Tweets: @chillmage and @caseynewton Tweets: @chillmage : make...
Microsoft reorganizes its Windows software and hardware teams into one group, called Devices + Windows and led by Panos Panay, amid other reshuffling
It's reorg day in Microsoft's Experiences and Devices unit. Here's what's happening, including what's happening with Windows client and Surface.
A look at the wave of hundreds of tech companies helping enterprises comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act
Privacy-focused technology companies are offering a variety of services, from personal data scrubbing to business-focused software meant to help companies comply with the law. Tweets: @privacyproject ...
India's premium smartphone segment grew 29% YoY in 2019; Apple was the fastest growing brand, up 41% YoY, and OnePlus maintained its No. 1 position
Danish Khan / The Economic Times :
Transparent Financial Systems, a Seattle-based startup developing a real-time cryptographic settlement network, raises $14M+ Series A led by Pantera Capital
Transparent Financial Systems, a Seattle-based startup developing a real-time “cryptographic settlement” network …
Sources: NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange has made a takeover offer for eBay that could value the marketplace at more than $30B; eBay stock closes up 8.78%
Wall Street Journal :
Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service launches from beta with Steam, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Uplay support, rivaling Google Stadia at $5/month
Waitlist removed, memberships now available for everyone. Kevin C. Tofel / About Chromebooks : Look out Google Stadia: Nvidia GeForce NOW coming to Chromebooks Chris Reed / IGN : GeForce Now Founders ...
Q&A with the general manager of Microsoft Game Stack, the cloud gaming services for developers, on how games are changing, the problem of discoverability, more
James Gwertzman started PlayFab to provide cloud-based tools and services for game developers, offloading …
Finnish startup Aiven, which offers managed cloud services to help companies build on open source projects, raises $40M Series B led by IVP
The growing ubiquity of open source software has been a big theme in the evolution of enterprise IT. But behind that facade of popularity lies another kind … Tweets: @ingridlunden Tweets: Ingrid / @i...
Verana Health, which analyzes large registries of anonymized patient data to help drug development, raises $100M from investors including GV and Bain Capital
Emma Court / Bloomberg :
ConsenSys, a blockchain app developer started by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, buys broker-dealer Heritage Financial Systems to tokenize municipal bonds
Amanda Albright / Bloomberg :
A look at Anguilla, a tiny British territory in the Caribbean with the .ai TLD, which made $2.9M in fees in 2018 through domain sales to AI startups and others
by A.I. start-ups or by speculators hoping to resell the names to big companies or investors — the island of Anguilla collects a $50-a-year fee, which goes mostly to the government treasury. https://w...
Sendoso, which helps companies send customized physical gifts to clients at scale for a monthly fee, raises $40M Series B led by Oak HC/FT Partners
Email is garbage and we're all buried in the stuff. Actually getting someone's attention given the constraints that digital missives present is difficult.
Google makes its Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 AR headset available for direct purchase, nearly a year after its launch
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Australian logistics company Toll Group says it was targeted by a ransomware attack on Friday, causing delivery delays; Toll disabled some systems as precaution
Asha Barbaschow / ZDNet :
Snap reports Q4 revenue of $561M, vs $563M est, up 44% YoY, net losses rose to $241M from $192M YoY, DAUs of 218M, up 17% YoY; stock drops 8%+
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC :
The Zebra, which runs an insurance comparison site, raises $38.5M Series C led by Accel, bringing its total raised to $101.5M
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News :
Toronto-based BenchSci, which is using AI to accelerate drug discovery research and reduce related costs, raises $22M Series B led by F-Prime Capital
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Apple updates iCloud.com with mobile web support for Photos, Notes, Reminders, and Find iPhone
Praveen Nagaraj / News Landed :
Google Fiber says it will no longer offer a linear TV package to new customers, and is partnering with streaming service FuboTV, after adding YouTube TV in Dec.
only offering @YouTubeTV and now @fuboTV as options for subscribers $GOOGL ▪️ speaks to falling interest in TV bundles ▪️ interesting Google giving an option beyond YTTV https://fiber.google.com/... h...
floLIVE, a London-based IoT connectivity startup which wants to let enterprise customers connect to any device globally, raises $21.5B Series B led by 83North
Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu :
How the big companies like Marriott, Disney, and IBM, are pushing to limit Section 230 of the CDA, challenging Facebook, Google, and the internet as we know it
David McCabe / New York Times : Tweets: @edbott , @david_boaz , @mchui , @nxthompson , @riana_crypto , @ktummarello , @nytimesbusiness , @mathewi , @annemariebridy , @nytimesbusiness , @gigibsohn , @...
Irish regulators have launched separate inquiries into Google, over location data, and Tinder, examining how they process user data after a number of complaints
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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.