UK says it will bar telecom companies from purchasing new equipment from Huawei and gives them until 2027 to remove its technology from their 5G networks
British government gives cellular companies until 2027 to remove Chinese firm's technology — LONDON—The British government …
Amazon unveils Dash Cart, a smart shopping cart that links with your Amazon account, tracks the items you place inside, and checks you out without a cashier
The Dash Cart is coming to Amazon's LA grocery store later this year — Amazon is expanding its real-world footprint …
Spotify is launching a Trending podcast chart with 50 rising shows, and expanding its Top chart to the 200 most popular shows overall, localized by region
A long-awaited feature — Spotify is revamping its podcast charts today to help listeners find new shows and keep up with what people are enjoying in their area.
Sources: SoftBank is exploring a full/partial sale or public offering of Arm; SoftBank bought Arm for $32B four years ago
Japanese conglomerate bought British tech company four years ago for $32 billion — SoftBank Group Corp. 9984 4.23% is exploring alternatives including a full …
Huawei posts revenue of $64.88B in H1 2020, up 13.1% YoY despite sanctions and the pandemic, with its consumer businesses accounting for 56% of total revenue
Huawei reported a 13.1% year-over-year revenue growth in the first half of 2020, even if countries around the world continued …
Google Cloud debuts Confidential VMs, which keeps data encrypted while in use, and Assured Workloads for Governments, which helps meet compliance requirements
Confidential VMs are the the first product in Google's Confidential Computing portfolio, which will deliver breakthrough technology to encrypt data in use
TikTok outflanked Facebook, focusing on curation and user-made video, but its China ties mean privacy, censorship, and propaganda issues should lead to a US ban
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — Over the last week, as the idea of banning TikTok in the U.S. has shifted …
Business giant SAP patches RECON bug, which impacted most of its customers and let hackers create admin accounts on SAP servers
SAP patches bug impacting most of its apps and customer base. — Business giant SAP released a patch today for a major vulnerability that impacts the vast majority of its customers.
MGM's 2019 data breach may have affected 142M+ guests, not 10.6M as first reported, according to dark web marketplace; data includes contact details and DoB
EXCLUSIVE: The MGM Resorts 2019 data breach is much larger than initially reported. — The MGM Resorts 2019 data breach …
Sources: Apple pushes retail workers to begin working from home, says full return to offices won't happen in 2020 and it's shipping employees COVID-19 test kits
- Full return to U.S. offices won't happen before end of 2020 — Apple Inc. is readjusting operations as Covid-19 cases continue …
Google Cloud unveils BigQuery Omni, which lets developers query data that sits in multiple clouds, covering GCP and AWS for now, with Azure support coming later
At its virtual Cloud Next '20 event, Google today announced a number of updates to its cloud portfolio, but the public alpha launch …
Sources: Google is in advanced talks to invest $4B in Reliance Industries' Jio Platforms and an announcement could come as soon as the next few weeks
- Announcement could come as soon as the next few weeks — Google on Monday pledged to invest $10 billion in India
Walmart leads an additional $1.2B investment in India's Flipkart to increase its majority stake, valuing Flipkart at $24.9B post-money
Walmart is increasing its majority-stake in Flipkart by leading a new $1.2 billion financing round in the Indian e-commerce giant.
Google unveils the Google for India Digitization Fund, pledging ~$10B over seven years toward a mix of equity investments, ecosystem investments, and more
and to seeing India become the home of many global firsts in the coming years. https://india.googleblog.com/ ... Ravi Shankar Prasad / @rsprasad : Story of #DigitalIndia is that of development, empowe...
Inside Google's secretive ATAP lab, which develops imaginative tech including touch-sensitive fabrics and Soli, which powers Motion Sense in Pixel smartphones
The consumer-electronics research arm has been quiet for years—but it's also been busy. Its new mission: Make Google hardware as smart as Google software.
RealityEngines.AI, the machine learning startup founded by ex-AWS and Google exec Bindu Reddy, rebrands as Abacus.AI and raises $13M Series A
RealityEngines.AI, the machine learning startup co-founded by former AWS and Google exec Bindu Reddy, today announced that it is rebranding …
SiriusXM will buy E.W. Scripps' podcast network and producer unit Stitcher for $325M; Scripps says Stitcher had $72.5M in 2019 revenue
spotify, apple, and iheart. We haven't heard their strategy yet. Sirius has 33.7 mill subscribers. what percentage already listen to podcasts? Dave Zatz / @davezatz : ~$300m used to be a lot of money....
According to Robintrack.net, during a four-hour span Monday almost 40,000 Robinhood accounts added Tesla stock, which hit $1,794.99 before closing at $1,497.06
Sarah Ponczek / Bloomberg :
Crypto app Abra and partner company Plutus settle charges from SEC and CFTC for $300K after allegedly facilitating unregistered security-based swap transactions
Paddy Baker / CoinDesk :
Traceable, a startup developing AI-powered security tools for cloud apps, emerges from stealth and raises $20M Series A led by the CEO's own Unusual Ventures
Take the latest VB Survey to share how your company is implementing AI today. — Traceable, a startup developing an end …
US semiconductor manufacturer Analog Devices says it will buy rival Maxim Integrated for $20B+ in an all-stock deal
Subrat Patnaik / Reuters :
An analysis of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's dissertation at a German university in 2002 and how it presaged the work he would go on to do at Palantir
and what it reveals about the new tech nationalism. CW: Contains long, bone-dry summaries of late Adorno. https://www.boundary2.org/... Moira Weigel / @moiragweigel : For years I'd heard that the CEO ...
An Israeli court rules that NSO Group can keep exporting its tools as plaintiff Amnesty International failed to prove staff spying by a NSO customer
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE :
A look at Amazon Handmade, an Etsy competitor that launched in 2015, which sellers say operates like the rest of Amazon with little differentiation
an Etsy competitor marketed as a ‘factory-free zone, a mass-produced-free zone.’ 5 years later, struggling vendors say Amazon's support of the program is paper thin. @SarahFKessler @OZM https://onezer...
Microsoft and Samsung announce partnership to build tech for real estate development and property management using Azure IoT and Samsung's SmartThings platforms
Pradeep / MSPoweruser :
Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, others back Harvard and MIT's suit against ICE directive that will send international students home if classes are online
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol :
Lattice, whose software helps track, reward and set goal achievement in the workplace, raises $45M Series D led by Tiger Global, at a ~$400M valuation
Working these days is not what it used to be. To enforce social distancing and slow the spread of the COVID-19 health pandemic …
Facebook-provided data shows Trump's campaign micro-targets its ads more than Biden's; 68% of Trump's ads are seen fewer than 1,000 times vs 34% for Biden's
Bloomberg : Tweets: @bpolitics , @kimmaicutler , @swatipedia , @californiapanda , @misyrlena , and @misyrlena Tweets: @bpolitics : Donald Trump is taking advantage of Facebook's granular knowledge of...
Internal memo: UK-based travel service Skyscanner says ~20% of its 1,500 staff will be let go or offered redundancy, as it closes its Sofia and Budapest offices
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg :
Pricefx, which develops automated product and service pricing optimization software, raises $65M Series C led by Apax Partners' Apax Digital
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Washington-based identity-as-a-service startup Auth0 raises $120M Series F led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1.92B post-money valuation, up from $1B in May 2019
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Israel-based Beewise, which is developing subscription AI-powered beehive management software and hardware, raises $10M Series A led by Fortissimo
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
A look at Mitre Corp., a government-linked skunkworks organization that has been making bleeding edge tech for US agencies for more than six decades
Thomas Brewster / Forbes :
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.