Facebook's efforts are laudable, but the Oversight Board does not end debates over online speech or legitimize content moderation choices by other platforms
With the Naming of Oversight Board Members, What Kind of Institution Will This Become? — With Facebook's unveiling of the first 20 …
Facebook's Oversight Board announces its first 20 members, out of a total of 40, who will oversee challenging content issues
“We want to make sure the content people … Steven Levy / Wired : Facebook Names the 20 People Who Can Overrule Mark Zuckerberg Chinmayi Arun / Just Security : The Facebook Oversight Board: An Experime...
UK broadband provider Virgin Media and telecom operator O2 announce a £31B merger in an effort to take on BT, Sky, and Vodafone in the country
The rumors were true: UK broadband provider Virgin Media and telecoms operator O2 are to merge, their parent companies confirmed today.
Zoom is acquiring Keybase, a 25-person startup, to add end-to-end encryption to video calls, the first acquisition in the company's nine-year history
- Zoom is acquiring Keybase, a 25-person start-up in New York, to add end-to-end encryption to video calls.
Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch review: nice display, lovely keyboard, and great performance, but models with 10th-gen Intel CPUs are pricey and it can get hot
I had a feeling I'd be reviewing a new 13-inch MacBook Pro sooner rather than later. When Apple refreshed the MacBook Air back in March …
Israeli security company says hackers linked to the Chinese military have used Aria-body, a cyberattack tool, on governments and firms in Australia and SE Asia
An Israeli security company said the hacking software, called Aria-body, had been deployed against governments and state-owned companies in Australia and Southeast Asia.
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs says it will no longer pursue its smart city project at Quayside in Toronto due to “unprecedented economic uncertainty”
Sidewalk Labs has announced it will no longer pursue its project at Quayside in Toronto. The company noted the decision was due to the current …
Smart home company Wink to require users pay a $4.99 monthly subscription fee starting May 13, or device automations and accessibility via app will be disabled
Smart home company Wink has made a surprising and heavily criticized announcement: it will soon charge a monthly subscription fee.
Uber leads a $170M investment in Lime, with Bain Capital Ventures, Alphabet, and GV participating, and will transfer its Jump scooter division to Lime
- Uber is leading a $170 million investment round in Lime, the companies announced Thursday. — Uber will transfer its own electric bike …
Epic Games says Fortnite has 350M registered players, up from 250M in March 2019; in April, players logged 3.2B hours in the game
More than 3.2 billion hours played in April alone — Epic's Fortnite has more than 350 million registered players, the game developer announced on Wednesday.
Apple awards $10M from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a leader in COVID-19 sample collection kit production
Cupertino, California — Apple today announced it is awarding $10 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to COPAN Diagnostics, a market leader …
Nintendo reports FY 2019 net profit of $2.43B, up 33.5% YoY, on sales of $12.31B, up 9% YoY; to date, 55.7M Nintendo Switch and Lite consoles have been sold
Nintendo reported that its full-year sales for the fiscal year ended March 31 were $12.31 billion, up 9% from $11.30 billion a year earlier.
Google updates its Lens app for iOS and Android to let users copy and paste some handwritten text to Chrome, read text aloud, and provide information on words
If you handwriting is neat enough — Google has added a very useful feature to Google Lens, its multipurpose object recognition tool.
In a letter, Democratic senators ask Amazon if it retaliated against whistle-blowers by firing four employees who raised health concerns about warehouses
Democratic senators sent a letter to the company asking for more details after it fired four employees who raised health concerns about its warehouses.
Google Authenticator now lets users transfer accounts between devices
The Google Authenticator app has undergone its first facelift since 2017, making the jump from version 5 to 5.10. But the visual makeover — including a much-needed adaptation to newer phones' aspect ...
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partnership, a spin-off of Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs, raises $400M Series A from Alphabet and OTPP to improve US infrastructure with tech
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Strategy Analytics: global smartwatch shipments grew 20% YoY to 14M in Q1 with Apple Watch maintaining 55% marketshare and Samsung in second place with 15%
BOSTON—(BUSINESS WIRE)— According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartwatch shipments grew 20 percent annually …
Square reports $528M in Q1 revenue from its Cash App, with $306M coming from Bitcoin transactions, exceeding the app's fiat revenue of $222M for the first time
Bitcoin has flippened USD on Square's Cash App, sort of. — As reported in the publicly traded fintech company's …
Square reports Q1 revenue of $1.38B, up 44% YoY, with net loss of $106M, up $68M YoY, as Square fills reserves to prepare for COVID-19 problems
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AMD launches Ryzen Pro 4000 series of mobile business processors, with better security features and improvements to battery life and performance
AMD promises new security features and big performance gains — AMD has announced its Ryzen Pro 4000 series of mobile business processors.
Sources: US Department of Commerce is close to signing off on a rule allowing US companies to work with Huawei on setting 5G network standards
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Commerce is close to signing off on a new rule that would allow U.S. companies to work with China's Huawei Technologies …
Short-term rental hosts, frustrated with Airbnb and similar companies amid widespread cancellations, are launching their own direct-booking websites
- Short-term rental hosts are launching their own direct-booking websites in an effort to diversify their business after years of mounting frustrations with companies such as Airbnb.
Sonos debuts the $799 Sonos Arc soundbar, the $699 Sub, and the $499 Five speakers, available globally on June 10; all will require the new S2 app
Sonos has introduced a trio of new hardware today, adding three new smart speakers to its lineup, including the Sonos Arc soundbar …
Report: India had 227M active internet users in rural areas, more than the 205M in urban areas, for the first time, as of November 2019
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Sources: Microsoft to buy Israel-based CyberX, which develops security products for IoT and industrial systems, for $165M; CyberX has raised $48M to date
The U.S. software giant is expected to pay $165 million for the internet of things cybersecurity platform company Tweets: @karolcummins Tweets: Karol Cummins / @karolcummins : Microsoft to Buy Israeli...
Shopify and Pinterest partner to let Shopify merchants upload their catalogs to Pinterest and turn products into shoppable Product Pins
Shopify merchants in the U.S. and Canada are now able to share their products to about 350 million Pinterest users, the companies announced Thursday.
The Libra Association names former US Treasury Department official Stuart Levey as its first CEO ahead of a renewed regulatory push
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Helium Health, which digitizes data, formalizes monetization, and enables telemedicine in Nigeria, Liberia, and Ghana, raises $10M Series A
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NYC Department of Education reverses its ban on Zoom for online learning after Zoom agreed to create customized platform for the city to address security issues
Visit the InfoHub for printable translations … Jitendra Soni / TechRadar.com : New York schools remove Zoom ban after security pledge Tweets: Marc Porter Magee / @marcportermagee : So all that confusi...
NFC Forum unveils its Wireless Charging Specification, allowing 1 watt charging for smaller devices
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Symend, which uses AI to help companies develop individualized consumer debt remediation programs, raises $52M Series B led by Inovia Capital
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Internal document reveals Twitch is looking to fund a slate of original, unscripted series that would be live and interactive on dating, sports, music, and more
dating, talk, music — aimed at 18 to 24 year olds. Spending as much as $250K/week on each show, per a document I saw. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
PayPal misses Q1 estimates with revenue of $4.62B, up 13% YoY, net income of $84M, down from $667M YoY, and says May 1 was its largest transaction day ever
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GitHub announces new features, including Codespaces, a free cloud-based developer environment now in beta that's based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor
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Report: VC funding in Latin America more than doubled YoY to a record $4.6B in 2019 across 440 deals, compared to ~$2B invested in 2018 across 463 deals
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Tweets: @bayareawriter , @all_vp , and @sophiakunthara Tweets: Mary Ann Azevedo / @bayareawriter : Venture funding in #LatinAmerica more than doubled in 2019 to $...
Twilio beat Q1 estimates with revenue of $364.9M, up 57% YoY, and reports over 190K active customer accounts
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Source: Spotify is testing video podcasts in its app, starting with two YouTube stars
Elon Musk: video conferencing … Tweets: Nathan Baschez / @nbashaw : Fascinating test! I am skeptical, given how annoying the videos in playlists like Rap Caviar were, but worth a shot I guess https://...
GigaSpaces, which develops in-memory data analytics software, raises $12M led by Fortissimo Capital, bringing its total raised to $53M
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Inkscape, a 16-year-old open source project, has released version 1.0 of its free vector graphics editor for Linux, Windows, and macOS
Sarvottam Kumar / Fossbytes :
Dtex, which uses AI to monitor and detect insider threats in enterprise networks, raises $17.5M led by Northgate Capital
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Microsoft updates To Do with new features as Wunderlist shutters ~5 years after its acquisition, and the founder behind it unveils work on a new app, Superlist
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