A roundup of the coronavirus outbreak's impact on the tech sector, from closures of offices, stores, and factories in China to affecting MWC attendance
The outbreak shows that what impacts China impacts everything — The tech sector is currently feeling the impact of the coronavirus …
A group calling itself OurMine briefly compromised Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts, seemingly via a third-party service called Khoros
OurMine is taking credit for the hacks — Several of Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts were hijacked this evening …
Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 may end up raising less than half of the planned $108B, with nearly all of its capital coming from SoftBank itself
The new pool could end up being less than half its planned size, with nearly all of its capital coming from SoftBank itself
Motorola Razr review: front quick view display is useful but bumps can be felt while using the foldable screen, poor battery life, and the camera is lackluster
Too many compromises, for too much money. — Motorola RAZR: The review — Stunning design — Folding display — Average Battery
Coronavirus exposes China's surveillance state as apps show locations of the infected, cameras detect people with fevers and identify them even with masks, more
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When the man from Hangzhou returned home from a business trip, the local police got in touch.
The number of reported videos related to online child sex abuse reached 41M in 2019, surpassing the number of reported photos; Facebook found 85% of the total
In a first, videos outnumbered photos in reports to the authorities last year. Facebook found the most imagery, the bulk of it on its Messenger app.
Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake announces $479M round, led by Dragoneer with participation from Salesforce, at a $12.4B valuation, up from $3.9B in 2018
- Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman said the company generated well over $100 million in revenue in 2019.
How predictive algorithms are increasingly being used to set police patrols, prison sentences, and probation rules in the US and Europe
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more human oversight. Tweets: @satariano , @carnage4life , @...
Uber reports Q4 revenue of $4.1B, up 37% YoY, gross bookings of $18.1B, up 28%, and net loss of $1.1B; gross bookings from Uber Eats were $4.37B, up 71% YoY
@dkhos, beating street expectations https://www.ft.com/...
LA-based ridesharing company HopSkipDrive raises $22M, says it now has deals with school districts in 13 markets across eight states
It's no secret that it's hard to make the economics work at rideshare companies. That may explain the success to date of HopSkipDrive, a six-year-old …
Google says starting with Chrome 82 in April, it will gradually start blocking “mixed content downloads”, which are non-HTTPS downloads started on secure pages
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In 2019, 52 women became new VC or general partners in the US, up 37% from last year's record of 38; 65% of VC firms still don't have a woman partner
Correction: In a previous version of this blog post we published that there were 50 new female VC partners in 2019 but the number was actually 52. Tweets: @allraise , @deenashakir , @catleecatlee , an...
Interviews with 25+ current and former Darktrace employees reveal the troubling influence of top Autonomy executives on the UK-based cybersecurity startup
Former Darktrace board member Sushovan Hussain (above) is appealing a five-year prison sentence for his role in the disastrous HP Autonomy deal. Tweets: @find_evil , @dtunkelang , @iblametom , @nisos ...
Paystand, which is building a blockchain-based platform to make B2B transactions as easy as Venmo payments are for consumers, raises $20M Series B
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
64-core AMD Threadripper 3990X CPU review: great for rendering and scientific computing but has the same performance as AMD's 32-core CPU for other applications
AnandTech :
Instagram has internally prototyped an Instagram Partner Program that will let IGTV creators earn money by inserting ads in their videos
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
For the first time, Netflix details the government takedown requests it received, says it's removed 9 pieces of content around the world since it was founded
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Some ransomware rings have started stealing data before they encrypt to use stolen data as leverage, ensuring that even victims with backups make the payment
Ransomware operators stealing data before they encrypt means backups are not enough. — Not every ransomware attack is an unmitigated disaster.
Bangalore-based education app Byju's raises a round from General Atlantic, which, source says, invested $200M, following a $200M raise from Tiger Global in Jan.
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Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook account for ~18% of the S&P 500 index by market value
Stan Choe / Associated Press : Tweets: @hhorsley , @benbajarin , and @whatthebit Tweets: Hunter Horsley / @hhorsley : The 5 largest companies in the S&P 500 make up 18% of its value. Apple, Amazon, A...
Facebook says it has received 15K bug reports in 2019, awarded about $2.2M in bounties for 1,300 of them, up from ~$1.1M for 700 bugs in 2018
Lily Hay Newman / Wired :
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.