Sources: Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021 and is working on three Mac processors based on the 5nm A14 chip in the next iPhone
- New processors to be based on iPhone designs, replacing Intel — Transition will be gradual, start with less-powerful computers
Apple Music app is now available on Samsung's smart TV models from 2018 and later
Another Apple service comes to Samsung's sets, available now — Apple Music is getting an app on Samsung's most recent smart TVs, the two companies announced today. It's the latest expansion …
Researchers say they found two actively exploited iOS 0-days, present since at least iOS 6, including a remote zero-click flaw in Mail; Apple says patch coming
In the summer of 2016, researchers at a digital rights organization and a cybersecurity firm announced they had caught …
Google to require all advertisers to verify their identities, starting in the US; existing advertisers will have 30 days to complete the verification process
- Google began requiring political advertisers wanting to run election ads on its platform to verify their identity back in 2018.
Zoom CEO says it hit more than 300M DAUs on April 21, up from about 200M on April 1
Zoom Video Communications Inc. has been lambasted for its security flaws, but the backlash hasn't slowed growth. The company reported a 50% surge in use of the online meeting application in the past ...
Zoom rolls out its 5.0 update, focused exclusively on security and privacy features, including easier call management and upgrading encryption
But You Can Protect Yourself Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : 300 million people used Zoom on Tuesday. In December, their daily active users averaged 10 million. Scaling a real-time service 30x...
AWS launches Amazon AppFlow, an integration service for developers to easily transfer data between AWS and SaaS applications
AWS today launched Amazon AppFlow, a new integration service that makes it easier for developers to transfer data between AWS and SaaS applications like Google Analytics …
SuperData: worldwide digital video game spending reached a record $10B total in March, up 11% YoY, with $5.7B for mobile games, up 15% YoY
Console, PC and mobile games also saw significant revenue bumps amid the coronavirus lockdown. — Digital video game spending hit a record high …
Jeff Bezos, who sources say only worked on projects that posed a major risk to the company, has taken an active leadership role at Amazon amid COVID-19
The chief executive, who had distanced himself from day-to-day management, is closely involved in the company's response to the pandemic.
Twitter says it now prioritizes the removal of COVID-19 tweets that incite “harmful activity” or could lead to the destruction of 5G infrastructure
Ever since it first started rolling out, 5G skeptics have attempted to link the next-gen cellular technology to all manner of health issues.
Sources: Amazon employees often consulted sales info on third-party vendors when developing private-label merchandise, contrary to assertions to Congress
Contrary to assertions to Congress, employees often consulted sales information on third-party vendors when developing private-label merchandise Tweets: @jason_kint , @trippmickle , @wsj , @halsinger ...
FCC adopts a proposal that opens the 6GHz band for unlicensed Wi-Fi use, freeing up more than 1,200MHz of additional bandwidth for next-gen Wi-Fi 6E devices
Today, in a unanimous vote, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a proposal that opens the 6GHz band for unlicensed Wi-Fi use.
Instagram confirms it will add a “Remembering” banner under the usernames of people who have died, after accelerating the process due to the pandemic
Instagram is speeding up plans for a new account memorialization feature, adding a “Remembering” banner under a username to signal that a person has died.
Sources: Bill Gurley will not be a partner in Benchmark's 10th venture fund but will continue to work with companies he led earlier investments in
Lead investor won't be involved in new fund for first time since he joined firm in 1999 — Bill Gurley—one of the most prominent …
Facebook says it will now show the location of large Facebook and Instagram accounts alongside posts, to help users assess their authenticity, rolling out in US
Facebook today is introducing another feature aimed at making it easier to see who's behind the posts published across Facebook and Instagram.
Boston Dynamics says its quadruped Spot robot is in use at one Boston hospital for remote triage of patients suspected of having COVID-19
The company has ambitious plans for using robots to assist COVID-19 treatment — Robot maker Boston Dynamics announced on Thursday that its quadruped Spot robot …
UK's Communication Workers Union says it's had reports of about 120 cases of abuse, including murder threats, directed at engineers believed to be working on 5G
Telecoms engineers have told Radio 1 Newsbeat they're being threatened and harassed by people who believe they're working on 5G … Tweets: @jimwaterson , @ldrogen , @offbeatorbit , and @cwunews Tweets:...
Binance launches Bundle, a no-fee social payments app for users in Africa, starting in Nigeria with support for the naira, bitcoin, binance coin, and BUSD
A crypto payments app backed by global exchange Binance has launched in Nigeria, kicking the contest to become Africa's chief digital asset provider into high gear.
France is hypocritical to ask Google and Apple to ease their privacy protections for a French contact-tracing app, while being such a vocal critic of big tech
We keep trying to explain to people that privacy is always about trade-offs, and arguing for privacy laws that protect “privacy” … Tweets: @alecstapp , @alexstamos , @lam_barrett , @pegobry , @alexher...
Expedia is raising $3.2B in new capital with $1.2B in equity sale to Silver Lake and Apollo Global Management and $2B in new debt financing
Expedia is raising $3.2 billion in new capital as the coronavirus pandemic has stalled travel around the world. — The company is raising $1.2 billion …
iPhone SE 2020 review: good battery life but has a tired design and while the camera is good in bright light and great at video, it is noisy in low light
I dug out lots of the old models and compared. https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Here's @backlon's review of the new iPhone SE - it really is a spectacular phon...
Amazon launches Local Shops on Amazon in India, a program to let customers find and buy products from 5,000 participating local shops across 100 cities
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
UK competition authority approves the $7.6B Just Eat-Takeaway merger, as the pair raises $756M in the form of new shares and convertible bonds
On the heels of Amazon getting approval from the competition authority to proceed with an investment leading a $575 million round …
Sources: Magic Leap is laying off about half its employees, or around 1,000 people, as it winds down its consumer business; Magic Leap has raised over $2B
50 percent of its workforce — and shutting down its consumer division: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Jon Evans / @rezendi : This is going to go down as one of the biggest failures in the history of te...
Digital whiteboard maker Miro raises $50M Series B led by Iconiq Capital, bringing its total raised to around $75M
Miro is a company in the right place at the right time. The makers of a digital whiteboard are seeing usage surge right now as businesses move from the workplace and physical whiteboards.
Facebook removes “pseudoscience” from the list of categories advertisers can use to target people after report that the category contained more than 78M people
While vowing to police COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, Facebook let advertisers target users interested in"pseudoscience"
New research on market inflows for stablecoins from Oct. 2017-present suggests Tether wasn't used to pump Bitcoin prices in 2017, contradicting previous reports
Colin Harper / Decrypt :
A group of 75+ scholars and non-profits urges social media companies to preserve data on content removal during the pandemic and make it available for research
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
Google's Threat Analysis Group shares a report outlining efforts by over 12 state-sponsored hackers using COVID-19 as cover for espionage
Lily Hay Newman / Wired :
Snap to raise $750M through a private-placement debt offering, along with an option for buyers to purchase up to an additional $112.5M of convertible securities
Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, plans to launch a $750 million private-placement debt offering, along with the option …
UK-based Peak, which offers a full-stack AI system as an SaaS product, raises $12M in extended Series A, bringing its total raised to $18.5M
Christine Hall / Crunchbase News :
Sources: Indonesian ride-hailing giant Gojek has acquired Moka, a mobile point-of-sale startup, for ~$130M
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg : Tweets: @wizaj and @gwendolynregina Tweets: Wiza J. / @wizaj : This startup seems to do exactly what @Yoco_ZA does in South Africa. What stood out for me is Moka's valuation ...
Randori, which helps companies prevent or mitigate the effects of data breaches, raises $20M Series A led by Harmony Venture Partners
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Google launches a Watchlist feature for Search to help users keep track of TV shows and movies
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Trustwave: ransomware attacks have quadrupled YoY in 2019 and have overtaken credit card theft as the most common form of cybercrime
Danny Palmer / ZDNet :
American teens, stuck at home during the pandemic, are looking to recreate the fun of prom online, with many turning to TikTok
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic :
Fishtown Analytics, makers of an open source analytics engineering tool called dbt, raises $12.9M Series A led by a16z
"...more closely mirror the way the software engineers work and software engineers have been figuring this shit out for years and data analysts are still like sending each other Microsoft Excel docs o...
Deep dive on a “sextortion” spam email scheme that raked in 50.98 BTC, or ~$473K, over five months and, on some days, accounted for 20%+ of all observed spam
Sophos News : Tweets: @sophoslabs and @thepacketrat Tweets: @sophoslabs : “Some recipients of #sextortion emails do fall for this tactic and pay up. But where does the cryptocurrency go? Researchers ...
LendingClub says it is laying off 460 employees, ~30% of its workforce, including President Steven Allocca, to slash costs amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Bharath Manjesh / Reuters :
Some US courts are turning to Zoom for trials during the lockdown, which critics say limits public access to the courts and favors high-end law firms
Zoe Schiffer / The Verge :
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.