Apple rejects HEY appeal, noting email apps must work without paid subscription; Apple suggests offering in-app sub or to reconfigure app as IMAP and POP client
In a brief call today about Basecamp's Hay email app from the iOS App Store, Apple's Phil Schiller told me that there would currently …
A look at the internal divisions at Apple over its plans for an AR/VR headset, which may be released in 2022; AR glasses to be released by 2023 at the earliest
In late 2018, Apple Inc. was a few years into its plan to build a powerful headset with both virtual- and augmented-reality capabilities when things shifted dramatically.
Facebook says it has removed ads from Trump's 2020 campaign that featured Nazi iconography; the campaign ran 88 ads with the inverted red triangle symbol
Update (6/18/20, 1:15 p.m. EDT): Facebook has removed the ads in question following this post and public backlash.
Wirecard's CEO Markus Braun resigns over the missing €1.9B in cash; James Freis, chief compliance officer who joined company on Thursday, named as interim CEO
Markus Braun resigns as payment group's shares continue to collapse and investors threaten legal action
Q&A with House antitrust committee chair Rep. David Cicilline who says Apple is acting like a monopolist and a bully whose App Store fees are “highway robbery”
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Google removes 106 malicious Chrome extensions with 32M downloads that collect browsing history and sensitive credentials following researcher discovery
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions …
German payments group Wirecard says €1.9B cash is missing and that “spurious cash balances” might have been provided to its auditor by a third party
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TikTok describes its video recommendation algorithm, says engagement metrics are strong signals while time of publishing, creator, and device type are weak ones
For the first time, the social media company is opening up about its most mysterious feature.
Microsoft says some app stores are creating a far higher barrier to fair competition than Microsoft did when found guilty of antitrust violations 20 years ago
- Developers put at a disadvantage by unfair rules, Smith says — European Commission this week launched investigation of Apple
Google releases Text Fragment extension that lets Chrome users generate URLs linking directly to a specific section of text on page
An easier way to use Chrome's Text Fragment feature — Link to Text Fragment is a new Chrome Extension from Google that lets you generate URLs to specific text …
Facebook commits $200M to support US Black-owned businesses, plans to double Black and Latinx staff by 2023, and add “Lift Black Voices” section to app
Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg on Thursday announced a series of new steps the social media giant is taking …
Colin Kaepernick joins Medium's board and will write for Medium publications; Kaepernick Publishing will create stories for Medium about race and civil rights
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MayStreet, which provides high-precision capital markets data to traders and financial institutions, raises $21M Series A led by Credit Suisse's NEXT Investors
MayStreet, a NYC-based fintech company, closed a $21m Series A financing. — The round was led by Credit Suisse Asset Management's NEXT Investors.
Twitch is growing as a platform for live music, with music one of the top 15 genres on Twitch and 27M hours spent watching music in May, a 5X jump from January
Long an afterthought to YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, Twitch has won over musicians. Now it must deal with their lawyers. Tweets: @damianburns , @lucas_shaw , @mhbergen , @lucas_shaw , and @lucas_sh...
Palantir raises $500M from Japanese insurance holding company Sompo; sources: Palantir's shares have been trading on the private market at a $10B-$14B valuation
(Reuters) - Palantir Technologies Inc on Thursday said that Japanese insurance holding company Sompo Holdings Inc (8630.T) …
Staff at mental health startup Crisis Text Line turned to Twitter after calls about company's pattern of racial insensitivity were ignored, prompting CEO firing
To Jo*, the question of whether Crisis Text Line should issue a public response to the killing of Ahmaud Arbery was a no-brainer. Tweets: @verge Tweets: @verge : How a Twitter campaign brought down th...
In a major U-turn, UK government abandons its own coronavirus-tracing app approach and shifts to the model based on Google and Apple's API
Leo Kelion / BBC :
Alibaba and JD.com handled a record $136.51B in sales in 24 hours during 618, a major Chinese shopping event, pointing at a possible recovery in China
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
Court filings show how the FBI used a Philadelphia protester's Etsy profile, LinkedIn, and other internet history to charge her with setting police cars ablaze
Jeremy Roebuck / The Philadelphia Inquirer :
eBay's former CEO, Devin Wenig, denies cyberstalking of blogger, says he had “no knowledge, no private understanding, no tacit approval” of harassment campaign
Jason Del Rey / Vox :
Facebook acquires Swedish mapping startup Mapillary, which is building a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Microsoft discloses a new attack by Chimborazo, a group that is distributing a malicious Excel document on a site requiring CAPTCHA to evade automated detection
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
France's top court rejects a draft law compelling social media companies to remove hateful content within 24 hours for interfering excessively in free speech
virtual photocopy of German NetzDG, requiring platforms to take down “manifestly illegal” content—declared unconstitutional by French Constitutional Council. @article19org responds: https://www.articl...
Facebook files lawsuits in the US and Europe against developers it alleges scraped user data, as the company increasingly turns to lawsuits to stop data abuses
I'd appreciate your input on this! Facebook claims he violated CFAA because he used those ~5,500 login credentials without authorization. But if these customers gave permission for him to use it, is t...
Russia announces it is lifting restrictions on the use of the Telegram after the messaging app “agrees to help with extremism investigations”
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Google's Area 120 launches Keen, an automated, machine learning-based app similar to Pinterest that lets users track their interests
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Germany amends its NetzDG hate speech law, now requiring social media platforms to send flagged suspected criminal content directly to the federal police
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Profile of Neeva, founded by former head of Google's advertising arm, which has raised $37.5M for a search engine to be funded via subscriptions instead of ads
Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times :
Companies like Fitbit and Google's Verily are rushing out workforce health vetting and tracking tools for businesses trying to safely reopen during the pandemic
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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