Evo, a renowned esports tournament that moved online in 2020 due to the pandemic, is canceled after parting ways with co-founder for alleged sexual misconduct
Evo, the biggest fighting game event of the year, has been canceled after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced regarding …
LinkedIn says its iOS app is copying the contents of users' clipboards after every key press due to a bug and promises a fix, after iOS 14 reveals the snooping
The new clipboard access detection and warning feature in iOS 14 exposes another app. — A LinkedIn spokesperson told ZDNet yesterday …
Some advertisers participating in the ad boycott remain unimpressed with Facebook's promises to better police hate speech, as negotiations continue
More than 750 advertisers are boycotting Facebook, asking for better policing of hateful content. Facebook's concessions so far haven't won them over.
European advertising associations criticize Apple's plans to require apps to seek additional permission before tracking users across other apps and websites
(Reuters) - A group of European digital advertising associations on Friday criticized Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) plans to require apps …
The Wild Wild Web, a shoot-first, aim-later era of tech strategy, is coming to an end, and a less willfully naïve, self-policing ethos is taking its place
The internet is changing, and the freewheeling, anything-goes culture of social media is being replaced by something more accountable. Tweets: @shiraovide , @marilink , @p2son , @kmmunger , @hackylawy...
Hong Kong's new national security law could force platforms like Facebook and Twitter to relinquish some of the freedom their operations have had in the city
New national-security law means authorities can ask companies to delete users or their content — HONG KONG—U.S. technology titans face …
UK government and India's Bharti Enterprises win an auction for bankrupt satellite broadband operator OneWeb for $1B; the parties will own a 45% stake each
Financial Times :
Apple is pulling away from the competition to a degree never seen before and has years' worth of competitive advantage in emerging categories like wearables
For the second year in a row, Apple held a developers conference that should frighten its competitors.
Profile of investor Lee Fixel, the partner behind Tiger Global's investments in Flipkart and Peloton, who says he raised $1.3B for his VC firm Addition
Peloton CEO John Foley was used to hearing “no” by the time he met with investor Lee Fixel in early 2014.
India's Reliance Jio launches JioMeet, a Zoom-like video-conference service, offering unlimited free calls in 720p with up to 100 participants and no time limit
and it is absolutely free Brandy Betz / Seeking Alpha : Reliance Jio releases Zoom competitor Tweets: @shrinivassg : JioMeet and Zoom - a thread. Screen 1 - Landing Page. https://twitter.com/... Avina...
Internet Association publishes a wish list for a UK-US trade deal, including no unilateral digital taxes and protecting “intermediary liability protections”
One of America's largest internet advocacy groups has published a six-point wish list for a future UK-US trade deal …
Some Amazon contracted delivery drivers in the US say they are feeling overwhelmed and overworked by dramatic increases in workloads during the pandemic
Amazon's contracted delivery drivers say that their workloads have dramatically increased during the Covid-19 pandemic, in some cases more than doubling. Tweets: @vice , @motherboard , and @laurenkgur...
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
chiefly journalism in the public interest. https://www.vice.com/... @jason : Fair warning: everything you say on #Clubhouse is being covertly recorded by journalists to weaponize against you This is t...
Interview with Troy Hunt, founder and sole employee of Have I Been Pwned, on his reluctance to retain breached data, future revenue streams, being pwned himself
When Troy Hunt launched Have I Been Pwned in late 2013, he wanted it to answer a simple question: Have you fallen victim to a data breach? Tweets: @troyhunt and @zackwhittaker Tweets: Troy Hunt / @tro...
Uber partners with three local cab companies to launch a taxi dispatch service in Tokyo, six years after entering Japan
Bloomberg :
Intel Capital to invest $253.5M in Jio Platforms for a 0.39% stake, giving the Indian firm a valuation of $65B
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Colin Huang, the CEO of Chinese e-commerce company Pinduoduo, steps down; the company says he will remain chairman and work on long-term strategy
- PDD shares have more than quadrupled in less than two years — Huang gives away $14 billion stake after stepping down as CEO
Instacart raises $100M in new funding from T. Rowe Price, on top of the $225M round co-led by DST Global and General Catalyst last month
*on top* of the $225 million it announced last month https://www.axios.com/...
WhatsApp's private group structure encourages spread of misinfo and conspiracy theories as it enables higher levels of trust and solidarity among group members
A virtual May Week Tweets: Soraya Chemaly / @schemaly : 100% this. Shift to private social is deliberate, strategic, profitable. WhatsApp's already implicated in the rapid spreading of hateful content...
A conversation between Wendy Liu and Alex Kantrowitz on the ills and promises of Silicon Valley, following publication of their contrasting books on the subject
Or Should We Burn It All Down? https://onezero.medium.com/...
Taiwan's Foxconn says customs clearing procedures in India have been resolved
Foxconn Tweets: Ankush Chhabra / @ankushchhabra53 : Chinese companies' imports may stay stuck https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ ... For instance, Taiwanese smartphone maker Foxconn, which runs two...
Analysts say that under the new security law, Hong Kong police won't need court orders to force ISPs to help with investigations or remove information
Phila Siu / South China Morning Post : Tweets: @fabiochiusi , @kenroth , @hongkonghermit , and @jerometaylor Tweets: Fabio Chiusi / @fabiochiusi : “Hong Kong's internet service providers will have no...
Mozilla updates Common Voice, its open source transcribed voice collection, to 7226 hours in 54 languages, releases first data set for “Hey Firefox” wake word
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Tweets: @epro Tweets: Emil Protalinski / @epro : “This segment data will help @mozilla benchmark the accuracy of our open source voice recognition engine, DeepSpeech, in ...
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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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
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