Sources: Apple's over-ear headphones, called “AirPods Studio”, will feature head and neck detection sensors, automated audio channel routing, and more
We've been hearing about Apple's upcoming over-ear headphones for some time, with evidence from multiple sources pointing to the official launch later this year.
Jeffrey Katzenberg blames COVID-19 for Quibi's paltry downloads as execs lower projections from 7M users and $250M subscriber revenue estimated for first year
Downloads of the $1.8 billion short-form streaming app, meant for phones, are paltry. “I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus,” Mr. Katzenberg said.
Apple unveils an update to Logic Pro X with Live Loops, a redesigned sampling workflow, and new beat-making tools
New Creative Tools for Electronic Music Production Make Logic Pro X 10.5 a Breakthrough Release for Musicians and Producers — Cupertino, California …
Twitter says it will add labels and warning messages to tweets about COVID-19 with misleading or disputed content and plans to expand the labels to other topics
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID-19 …
Spotify Kids now allows parents to view kids' listening history and block individual tracks and expands to Germany and Japan
Spotify is expanding the capabilities of its parental controls on its Spotify Kids app, aimed at children ages 3 and up on a parent's Spotify Premium Family plan.
Sources: Uber has made an offer to acquire Grubhub, with an agreement possible as soon as this month, sending the food delivery company's stock up 24%+
Uber Technologies Inc. has made an offer to acquire food-delivery startup Grubhub Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News reports.
Sources: JPMorgan Chase has extended banking services to two bitcoin exchanges, Coinbase and Gemini Trust, the first time it has accepted crypto clients
JPMorgan Chase has taken on two well-known bitcoin exchanges, Coinbase and Gemini Trust, as banking customers, say people familiar with the matter …
Sources: Facebook is quietly helping to launch American Edge, a political advocacy group in Washington, to battle regulators trying to rein in the tech industry
The organization, called American Edge, arrives at a time when the industry is facing withering antitrust scrutiny in Washington.
Spotify begins rolling out a new feature called Group Session, which lets multiple Premium users control a listening session
now available in 12 countries (Update: New features) Spotify : Group session — Listen together with a group session … Ed Bott / ZDNet : The best streaming music services: Spotify, Apple, Amazon and ...
TD Ameritrade-backed ErisX launches the first Ethereum futures trading platform in the US authorized by regulators
Ethereum has taken another big step into the regulated financial world. — ErisX, a US-based digital asset trading platform backed by TD Ameritrade, today launched trading for Ethereum …
Smartphone shipments in China rose 17% YoY in April according to government data, suggesting a potential return to normalcy for the consumer hardware market
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Smartphone shipments from China's factories to vendors rose 17% in April compared to the same month a year ago …
Bitcoin's third “halving”, the programmed event where mining rewards drop, has occurred, lowering the payout to 6.25 BTC per block; the last halving was in 2016
Bitcoin's third halving, the network's quadrennial landmark and the most anticipated event this year in the cryptocurrency industry, has finally happened.
Profile and behind-the-scenes story of Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins, who helped stop the WannaCry attack and pled guilty to selling the Kronos banking malware
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. Tweets: @malwaretechblog , @a_greenberg , @dakacki , @issielapowsky , @wired , ...
A look at Nookazon, a fan-made online retailer for trading Animal Crossing in-game items that claims 270K DAUs, over 9M listings, and 7M page views per day
Daniel Luu, a 25-year-old software engineer from Maryland, woke up one morning to find hundreds of thousands of people scouring his newly launched website Nookazon.
US election security responses against Russian interference in 2016 remain inadequate as Russian tactics continue to evolve in the run up to the 2020 election
Jack Cable sat down at the desk in his cramped dorm room to become an adult in the eyes of democracy. Tweets: @sifill_ldf , @jennycohn1 , @anneapplebaum , @theatlantic , @adriennelaf , @arictoler , @o...
Paris-based PlayPlay, which develops a video creation tool for marketing teams, raises €10M Series A led by Balderton Capital
PlayPlay, the Paris-based startup behind a video creation tool that enables comms, marketing and social media teams to produce high-quality video content …
Instagram Lite, the version of the Instagram app aimed at emerging markets, has quietly disappeared; source: a new lightweight Instagram app is being developed
Instagram Lite, the two-year old version of the Instagram app aimed at emerging markets, has quietly disappeared.
Microsoft's new Family Safety app, for managing kids' screen time and app usage, launches in preview on Android and iOS and syncs with Windows and Xbox devices
The app syncs with Windows and Xbox devices — Microsoft is launching a dedicated new app, Family Safety, designed for managing kids' screen time and app usage.
LinkedIn adds polls and live video-based events in a focus on more virtual engagement
With a large part of the working world doing jobs from home when possible these days, the focus right now is on how best to recreate the atmosphere of an office virtually, and how to replicate online ...
Equity management platform Carta is planning to launch CartaX, a private share trading platform to rival Nasdaq, this summer for companies worth $1B+
Silicon Valley start-up poised to launch exchange as tech companies delay IPOs — The Silicon Valley start-up Carta is planning to launch … Tweets: @sameer_singh17 , @mayazi , @thecompoundnews , and ...
Premium email app Newton Mail says it has been bought by new owners and will still charge $50 per year
this time, by two fans who straight up just bought the service so they could keep using it. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Dan Seifert / @dcseifert : truly the email app with 9 l...
Secondary shares marketplace Forge agrees to acquire rival Sharespost in a $160M cash-and-stock deal; Forge has raised $109M to date, Sharespost has raised $38M
Even amid a pandemic, there's a race on to create a powerful, global private securities marketplace where private shares …
Intel Capital commits $132M to 11 startups focused on AI, automation, and chipset design
Intel today announced that Intel Capital, its global investment organization, committed a total of $132 million to 11 startups focused on AI, automation, and chipset design.
SiMa.ai, which is building ultra low power software and chips for machine learning for edge computing, raises $30M Series A led by Dell Technologies
Krishna Rangasayeem, founder and CEO, at SiMa.ai, has 30 years of experience in the semiconductor industry.
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 768G processor with faster graphics performance and global 5G support
Jon Fingas / Engadget :
Iceland's contract tracing app has ~38% adoption, the highest in the world, among its population of 364,000, but its impact on containing COVID-19 seems small
Bobbie Johnson / MIT Technology Review :
Adapted excerpt from the book Dark Mirror by Barton Gellman, one of the reporters who received top-secret documents from Snowden about NSA's mass surveillance
Barton Gellman / Washington Post : Tweets: @freedomofpress , @carolleonnig , @eff , and @washingtonpost Tweets: @freedomofpress : Powerful retelling of the Snowden revelations from @bartongellman, on...
Sleeper, a social and fantasy sports site that's expanding into esports, raises $20M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total raised to $27.3M
Sleeper, which has developed a social and gaming platform for sports, has raised a $20 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
Michigan's governor implores Facebook to better enforce its rules after threats of violence against her surface in private groups, one of which FB has removed
Steve Neavling / Detroit Metro Times :
Twitter announces the appointment of Stanford professor and former Google AI chief Fei-Fei Li to its board as an independent director, effective immediately
Tyler Sonnemaker / Business Insider :
Vise, which provides a AI-powered app for investment advisors that helps them choose and personalize investment options for clients, raises $14.5M Series A
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch :
Nanit, which develops an AI-powered baby monitor and other wearables for infants, raises $21M from existing investors, bringing its total raised to $50M
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
Berlin-based digital staffing startup Zenjob raises $30M Series C led by Forestay Capital to expand throughout Germany
Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu :
Singapore-based Validus, a P2P lending service for SMBs and accredited investors, raises $20M for its ongoing Series B+ round, bringing total raised to ~$40M
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Amazon makes Kendra, its cloud-based search tool that uses natural language processing to improve enterprise search, generally available
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Tech labor leaders are organizing using Facebook Groups and sites like Coworker.org to prevent labor movements from being suppressed and surveilled by companies
break rooms or even water coolers — where workers can commiserate. This can leave people feeling isolated, but I wrote about the ways gig workers are organizing, often by reclaiming the platforms used...
DispatchTrack, which provides logistics services for last-mile deliveries, raises $144M from Spectrum Equity, in its first-ever funding
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
There is only around $8M in bitcoin on the Lightning Network about two years after launching in beta, less than the ~$11.5M locked up in Ethereum wallet dapps
Liam Frost / Decrypt :
COO of Yandex talks about revenue fall in its online ads and taxi businesses due to COVID-19, hopes increased demand for its delivery apps can mitigate losses
Max Seddon / Financial Times :
Sources: Dave McClure is raising $10M to buy out some LPs of 500 Startups' first fund using his Practical Venture Capital firm, which is raising a $100M fund
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios : Tweets: @axios Tweets: @axios : Dave McClure is raising $10 million for a special purpose vehicle to buy out some limited partners in the first fund of 500 Startups, the fi...
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.