The European Commission opens two antitrust investigations into Apple's App Store and Apple Pay practices
Both investigations begin today — The European Commission is opening two antitrust investigations into Apple's App Store and Apple Pay practices today.
Six former employees of eBay charged with leading a cyberstalking campaign against a couple they believed was critical of eBay in an online ecommerce newsletter
6 eBay Executives And Employees Charged With Sending Threats, Bloody Pig Mask To Natick Couple https://boston.cbslocal.com/ ... @lilsarg : Can't lie. Nothing brings me joy like seeing cyberstalking pr...
Report finds 11% of people under-25 use Instagram for news compared with 12% for Twitter, predicts Instagram will overtake Twitter next year as a news source
Photo-sharing app Instagram is set to overtake Twitter as a news source, research suggests. — The 2020 Reuters Institute Digital …
Germany launches a coronavirus contact tracing app on iOS and Android, says it cost €20M to develop and will require €2.5M- €3.5M per month to operate
BERLIN (AP) — Germany launched a coronavirus tracing app Tuesday that officials say is so secure even government ministers can use it.
Instagram says that, amid concerns it may “shadowban” Black voices, it will review harassment and verification rules, and check for bias in recommendations
Instagram's top executive says the company will review its harassment and verification policies, as well as how the app recommends content …
Brightside, a financial health service offering expert assistance, says it closed a $35M Series A at the end of last year, led by Andreessen Horowitz
A pandemic in which thousands of businesses are struggling to pay bills seems like an odd time to voluntarily take on debt, especially for a startup.
China proposes an East Asian digital currency based on the Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, South Korean won, and the Hong Kong dollar
Beijing backs private-sector-led East Asia digital money in challenge to US — TOKYO — Global competition for supremacy in digital currencies has entered …
New York AG asks Apple and Google to ensure that coronavirus contact tracing apps on iOS and Android do not collect sensitive personal health information
Both Apple and Google are having a hard time regulating all the third-party COVID-19 contact tracing apps that popped up on their app stores recently …
Microsoft moves its Windows 10 Insider Program from rings to channels, to focus more on release quality rather than frequency of builds
For the last few years, Microsoft has given Windows enthusiasts the ability to opt in to early release “rings,” with the choice to pick between “fast” …
Dropbox launches a password manager, a secure vault for storing documents like birth certificates, a backup service, and a family plan
The company announced a bunch of new updates today — Dropbox is launching a bunch of new features today, many of which are security-focused …
Apple says its App Store facilitated $519B in commerce globally in 2019, citing a study from Analysis Group
Amid increasing antitrust scrutiny by U.S. regulators, Apple announced an update on its App Store ecosystem. While the company normally shares some App Store metrics during its WWDC keynote …
Sources: Epic Games, which owns Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and Houseparty, is close to raising $750M at a ~$17B valuation, with investors including T. Rowe, KKR
- Epic owns Fortnite video game, Unreal Engine and Houseparty — T. Rowe, KKR, Baillie Gifford to participate in round
CIA report: security was so lax at the time of the Vault 7 breach, that if WikiLeaks hadn't published said files, CIA may have never known they were compromised
The theft of top-secret computer hacking tools from the CIA in 2016 was the result of a workplace culture in which the agency's … Tweets: @nakashimae , @campuscodi , @ronwyden , @gossithedog , @somosp...
Basecamp debuts Hey, an email service for $99/year that tries to reimagine email, blocks tracking pixels, but needs its own client and can't import old email
David Heinemeier Hansson, the co-founder and CTO of Basecamp, is trying very hard to not say “I told you so.”
Dozens of Tunisian, Syrian, and Palestinian activists and journalists say their Facebook accounts have been deactivated recently on the pretext of terrorism
“Facebook doesn't care. It closes our accounts on the pretext of terrorism. We are against terrorism and violence," one journalist said. Tweets: @eff , @oliviasolon , @sivavaid , @evan_greer , @blac...
How location-tracking firms, once under fire from privacy activists, are now being used by officials to monitor the movements of people during the pandemic
Location-tracking companies were under fire from privacy advocates, but now officials are using them to monitor populations as the economy reopens
Chess on Twitch has taken off as professional chess streamers, like GM Hikaru Nakamura, have embraced legions of streaming personalities discovering the game
Hikaru Nakamura is the top-ranked blitz chess player in the world—and his channel has seen a meteoric rise as he coaches streamers in the ancient game. Tweets: @wired , @fide_chess , and @theeconomist...
Streamlit, an open-source Python app framework geared toward data scientists, raises $21M Series A co-led by Gradient Ventures and GGV Capital
Streamlit wants to be for data science what business intelligence tools have been for databases: a quick way to get to results, without bothering much with the details
[Thread] Former Pinterest public policy exec Ifeoma Ozoma shares stories of her time at the company that call into question its declared solidarity with BLM
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US government will amend its prohibitions on US companies doing business with China's Huawei to let them work together on standards for 5G networks
Grab says it will lay off 360 employees, or just under 5% of staff, as it reduces expenses to deal with an economic downturn from the pandemic
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Zycada, which is developing bot-based tech to speed up e-commerce sites, emerges from stealth with $19M led by Khosla Ventures
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Cameo launches Cameo Live, where people can, instead of a prerecorded shoutout, book a 10-minute Zoom call with celebrities
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UK banking startup Monzo raises £60M at a ~£1.25B valuation, a drop of 40%, after it announced 80 layoffs at the beginning of June
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Wandelbots, which makes it easier for non-programmers to program industrial robots, raises $30M Series B led by 83North
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London-based international money transfer service TransferGo raises $10M co-led by Seventure and Vostok Emerging Finance, says it now has 2M+ customers
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Square acquires peer-to-peer payments app Verse, which will keep running as a separate business and focus on growing in Europe
Multiple studies seem to show that people are more honest and convey more personal thoughts when writing on smartphones than writing on PCs
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Intel says its upcoming Tiger Lake mobile CPUs will be the first to use its anti-malware Control-flow Enforcement Technology
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Walmart has acquired technology and intellectual property from CareZone, a company that makes apps to help people manage their medicines; sources say for $200M
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Researchers find a developer running multiple dating services left 845GB of explicit photos, chats, and more exposed in AWS buckets
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Starburst, a startup based around an open-source data analytics project from Facebook called Presto, raises $42M Series B led by Coatue Ventures
An open-source software company with close ties to Facebook has raised a new funding round from one of the tech giant's former key executives. Thanks: @alexrkonrad
Salt Security, a cybersecurity startup which uses AI and machine learning to protect APIs, raises $20M Series A led by Tenaya Capital
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Norway to pull its contact tracing app, one of the first in Europe, after privacy watchdog's warning that it posed a disproportionate threat to user privacy
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Microsoft Teams plans support for up to 49 video call participants, matching Zoom, slated for fall, and Teams for Education gets several new features
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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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