COVID-19's impact on tech this week: cancelled conferences, supply chain and sales disruptions, murky business outlook for online travel firms, and rise of Zoom
Companies are telling investors that sales are slumping because of the outbreak, conferences are being canceled, and workers are being instructed not to travel.
AT&T TV launches across the US after rolling out in over a dozen markets last year, with prices that start at $49.99/month but go up dramatically after a year
AT&T's next big TV play has a problem: pricing — AT&T TV is launching nationwide today after initially rolling out to over a dozen markets last year.
Report: Apple and its suppliers are among the 83 big companies benefitting from China's abusive labor transfer programs for Uyghur Muslims and other minorities
A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think-tank has named Apple among 83 other major companies benefiting …
Rajeev Suri to step down as Nokia CEO after over half a decade; Pekka Lundmark, outgoing President and CEO of energy firm Fortum appointed as President and CEO
Rajeev Suri, the chief executive of Nokia, is stepping down from his leadership role after overseeing the Finnish networking giant for more than 10 years.
Kuo: iPhone production will not significantly improve before Q2, as suppliers like lens manufacturer Genius Electronic Optical struggle to keep up amid COVID-19
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A look at China's new system using color-coded QR codes to dictate people's movements and quarantines, that may be a template for social control beyond COVID-19
A new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.
Researcher demos multiple ways of how to take over and repurpose allegedly state sponsored Mac malware
Former NSA hacker repackages in-the-wild Mac malware for his own use. — SAN FRANCISCO—Malware developers are always trying to outdo each other with creations that are stealthier and more advanced th...
Verge survey of 1,123 US adults: 72% said Facebook has too much power; 51% said Google and YouTube should be split up into separate companies
Ahead of the election year, we polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information — and which ones should be broken up
Alphabet's X unveils Tidal, a moonshot project to track thousands of fish using computer vision and AI to protect the ocean and help feed humanity sustainably
Latest Division X project aims to help fish farmers, and the planet — Today Alphabet is announcing Tidal …
Apple agrees to pay up to $500M to settle a US class-action lawsuit accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones
(Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle litigation accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models …
Indie game developers and publishers say Stadia's library is sparse because Google wasn't offering devs enough money and may abandon the platform in the future
that Google might just give up [...] was repeatedly brought up, unprompted, by every person we spoke with for this piece.” https://twitter.com/... Mcc / @mcclure111 : “This concern — that Google might...
Sources: Airbnb's long-planned IPO, previously scheduled for March or April, has been derailed by the coronavirus fallout and could be pushed back to 2021
- Startup was targeting first half to kick off the process — Shares of rivals dive as travel bookings canceled globally Tweets: @ericnewcomer Tweets: Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : Unexpected risk...
Several terabytes of stolen adult content from OnlyFans, a social media platform popular with sex workers, influencers, and porn actors, have leaked
A leak of several terabytes of pornographic images and videos from clip site OnlyFans went viral on Thursday. Tweets: @allyo_reilly Tweets: Ally O'Reilly / @allyo_reilly : this is so severely fucked u...
Spotify is making a big push for artists and record labels to pay to promote their music in its app, complicating talks over long-term music rights
- Music service needs ad revenue source to reach profitability — The three major record labels are balking at Spotify's plans See also Mediagazer
As the public comments phase ends for FAA's revised drone rules, hobbyists complain the rules would require most drones to keep a persistent internet connection
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Indian used-car platform Spinny raises $43.7M Series B led by the Fundamentum Partnership, claims to have sold 10,000 cars through its marketplace
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Analysis: one-third of donations from employees at big tech firms went to Sens. Warren and Sanders, despite a lack of enthusiasm from tech executives
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Profile of Turntable.fm founder's social network, Botnet, populated by adoring bots that give users an experience of being internet famous without facing trolls
Hello beautiful people! Tweets: Alexa Sonnenfeld / @alexaportia : “It's just you and the bots, who like and comment on your posts with reckless abandon.” https://www.wired.com/... @wired : Want to kno...
How CEO Robert Swan is overhauling Intel's culture to improve the relationship between chip designers and manufacturing, and vastly speeding up product design
Don Clark / New York Times : Tweets: @jonmasters and @nytimesbusiness Tweets: @jonmasters : I wish him good luck in shaking it up. But having been on the receiving end of some of the dirty tricks in ...
Apple has been asking for proof of government license for iOS games in China since 2016, but did not enforce the policy, a loophole it is now closing
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AG Bill Barr, a close Trump ally, has spent months taking greater control of DOJ's antitrust probes into big tech firms, sidelining current antitrust leadership
Leah Nylen / Politico : Tweets: @navynana2 Tweets: NavyNana / @navynana2 : These are the things that are going on while we are distracted with elections and coronavirus. Bad news for Silicon Valley: ...
Thought Machine, which sells a platform for banking services sold via a B2B2C model, raises $83M Series B led by Draper Esprit
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Europe-focused Lakestar raises $735M with one third of the commitments allocated to early stage startups and two thirds to its growth stage fund
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Cera Care, which provides home care for the elderly in the UK, raises $70M and launches SmartCare, a tool that uses AI to predict health deteriorations
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Process Street, which is developing a no-code workflow builder for businesses, raises $12M Series A led by Accel
Venture — Tech News & Trends Frederick Daso / Forbes : Process Street, A No-Code Workflow Management Startup, Raises $12M From Accel To Create GitHub For Knowledge Workers
Lendio, a Utah-based online marketplace for small business loans, raises $55M in equity and debt, bringing its total raised to $108.5M
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Tweets: @bayareawriter Tweets: Mary Ann Azevedo / @bayareawriter : Updated this story with more details: CEO @BrockBlake told me that @Lendio had reduced its mont...
How Apple, after languishing in India for years, became the fastest growing premium smartphone brand in the country in 2019
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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.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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