Twitter says hackers accessed the DM inbox for up to 36 of the 130 high profile accounts targeted in last week's attack
Last week's hack of over 100 very high-profile Twitter accounts did in fact expose the direct messages of many of those accounts, the company admitted today …
Sources: Nvidia expressed interest about a potential deal for ARM as SoftBank explores a sale; Apple declined to pursue a bid after being approached by SoftBank
- SoftBank also approached Apple to gauge its interest in Arm — Japanese group bought U.K. chip designer for $32 billion
Twitter misses Q2 expectations with revenue of $683M, down 19% YoY, but reports 186M mDAUs, up 34% YoY, and ad revenue of $562M, down 23% YoY
- Twitter reported second-quarter earnings Thursday that missed analyst expectations on revenue, but showed strong growth in users.
Microsoft Q4: revenue up 13% YoY to $38B, net income of $11.2B, down 15% YoY, Intelligent Cloud revenue of $13.4B, up 17%, and Azure revenue up 47%
Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended June 30, 2020, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:
Google Shopping goes commission-free for retailers and adds support for third-party providers, starting with PayPal and Shopify
Over the past few months, we've made significant changes to help businesses reach more consumers and help people find the best products, prices and places to buy online.
Corning announces Gorilla Glass Victus, says it can resist a six-foot drop and has twice the scratch resistance of the previous model
Samsung will be the first to feature the new glass — Your next Samsung Galaxy or iPhone may soon include the toughest gadget glass Corning has ever created.
Facebook now allows Messenger Rooms users to live broadcast video calls with up to 50 participants
- Facebook announced a new feature that will allow users to live broadcast video calls with up to 50 participants. — The ability to live broadcast Messenger Rooms calls could pose another threat …
Plex launches 80+ free live TV channels accessible by both free users and subscribers with news, sports, film, classic TV, comedy, anime, and more
Streaming media platform Plex announced today it's further expanding into live TV with the addition of over 80 free live TV channels accessible by free users and subscribers alike.
Facebook can now simulate the actions of bad actors using AI-powered bots let loose in a parallel version of Facebook that researchers can then study
Bad bots roam free in a parallel version of Facebook — Facebook's engineers have developed a new method to help them identify …
US bank regulator grants national savings banks and federal savings associations the authority to provide cryptocurrency custody services to their customers
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has opened the door for federal savings associations and national savings banks …
Personal info of 200K+ Instacart users is being sold on the dark web, including names and last 4 digits of credit card numbers; Instacart denies a data breach
The personal information of what could be hundreds of thousands of Instacart customers is being sold on the dark web.
Hackers attacked GEDmatch servers and caused over 1M of its profiles to be opted-in for searching by law enforcement, which were previously opted-out
First GEDmatch, the DNA database that helped identify the Golden State Killer, was hacked. Then email addresses from its users were used …
Facebook VP of AI Jerome Pesenti says OpenAI's GPT-3 can “easily output toxic language that propagates harmful biases”, as some critics point out issues of bias
While GPT-3 has earned ecstatic reviews from many experts for its capabilities, some critics have pointed out clear issues around bias.
Jack Dorsey says Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including through a subscription model
Washington (CNN Business)Twitter (TWTR) is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday.
NY legislature passes a bill pausing use of facial recognition and other biometric ID tech in schools until 2022, the first such regulation in the US if signed
The New York legislature today passed a moratorium banning the use of facial recognition and other forms of biometric identification in schools until 2022.
An overview of how COVID-19 contact tracing technology has fared in the US and around the world, as contact tracing apps retreat from the spotlight in the US
In May of this year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged the United Kingdom would develop a “world beating” …
Microsoft's Q4 Gaming revenue increased 64% YoY, with Xbox content and services revenue rising 65% YoY and hardware revenue up 49% YoY
Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance :
Microsoft's Personal Computing saw Q4 revenue rise by 14% YoY to $12.9B, with Surface up 28%; LinkedIn rose 10% YoY, Office 365 consumer subscribers hit 42.7M
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
Sources: Amazon is in talks to buy a 9.9% stake in Reliance Retail, for a preferred, strategic stake in its e-commerce venture JioMart
JioMart, the e-commerce venture of Reliance's retail arm, was launched in May and poses a formidable challenge to Amazon's local unit and Walmart's Flipkart.
AT&T told some customers their phones are not compatible with its new network, without explicitly saying the issue may not affect them until February 2022
I just received an email from AT&T that their network … Dwight Silverman / Houston Chronicle : AT&T opens up its 5G network in Houston Nathan Ingraham / Engadget : AT&T says its 5G network is now avai...
Sources: to save TikTok, ByteDance and investors are considering options like selling just TikTok's US business or splitting off ByteDance's international arm
- Venture investors urge Zhang to sell a majority stake in app — Time is running short to avoid a crackdown from U.S. officials
Pandora expands interactive voice ads in beta for more listeners and advertisers and allows free users to unlock on-demand music search with their voice
Pandora is expanding the scope of its interactive voice-based advertising today, launching the service in beta for more listeners and advertisers …
TikTok says it is launching a new $200M creators fund to pay creators directly for their content
The first major monetization effort from the company — As TikTok continues to grow in popularity and its personalities become mainstream celebrities in their own right …
Apple starts giving “hacker-friendly” iPhones with a custom and more accessible iOS version to vetted researchers in the iOS Security Research Device program
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built
On July 1, Max Wang, a Boston-based software engineer who was leaving Facebook after more than seven years … Tweets: @rmac18 , @buzzfeednews , @hannahgais , and @mat Tweets: @rmac18 : Facebook employe...
Facebook to pay $650M to settle a facial recognition suit in Illinois, after judge says the original settlement of $550M did not adequately punish the company
Facebook has agreed to pay a total of $650 million in a landmark class action lawsuit over the company's unauthorized use of facial recognition, a new court filing shows. Tweets: @caseynewton . Thanks...
Sources: France told telecoms that licenses for Huawei 5G equipment would not be renewed, amounting to a de facto ban of Huawei within its 5G networks by 2028
As investors become skeptical about self-driving tech, startups can compete by focusing on commercializing the least demanding applications of self-driving tech
Slow progress is forcing self-driving startups to tighten their belts. — Progress on self-driving technology has been slower … Tweets: @samabuelsamid and @binarybits Tweets: Sam Abuelsamid / @samabu...
Cybersecurity startup CyCognito raises $30M Series B led by Accel, bringing its total raised to $53M
CyCognito, which helps identify and eliminate the critical security risks in an organization's IT ecosystem, secured a $30 million round of Series B funding to expand its unique approach to assessing ...
Sources: Facebook is preparing to limit the reach of QAnon content, with an announcement next month, and has been coordinating with Twitter and other companies
something we've seen more of in recent weeks. Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : Facebook also planning on taking acton against QAnon, sources tell me. One source said company's challenge is determining what...
Talkdesk, which develops cloud-based customer service software, raises $143M from investors including Franklin Templeton, at a $3B+ valuation
Gillian Tan / Bloomberg :
Jamf, which helps businesses deploy Apple products, closed up 50% on first day of trading, after raising around $468M in its IPO
Ari Levy / CNBC :
UK-based Quantexa, which uses big data intelligence for risk analysis and investigations, raises $64.7M Series C led by Evolution Equity Partners
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Ohio-based Branch Insurance, whose tech helps customers bundle home and auto insurance online by just providing name and address, raises $24M Series A
Katy Smith / Columbus CEO : Tweets: @quinnypig and @joshconstine Tweets: HydroxyCoreyQuinn / @quinnypig : Congratulations to @joeemison and the rest of the team at Branch Insurance. “Branch Insurance...
Tencent-backed online healthcare startup Waterdrop is preparing for an IPO, seeking a valuation of ~$4B, with US among potential listing venues
Bloomberg : Tweets: @pekingmike Tweets: Mike Forsythe / @pekingmike : Boyu Capital is co-founded by the grandson of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin. It should be mentioned in every story about t...
Apple hires economists to help prove its App Store commissions aren't anti-competitive
expensively! — buying PalmOS apps for my Treo from websites like Palm InfoCenter (and I believe CrackBerry had their own web-based app store?) prior the iOS App Store. It was just $30+ an app and the ...
Profile of Tim Bray, the former VP at Amazon who quit in May criticizing its “vein of toxicity” and who is building a business case for breaking up the company
Karen Weise / New York Times : Tweets: @kyweise , @nytimesbusiness , @zephyrteachout , @stacyfmitchell , @nytimestech , @kyweise , and @pinboard Tweets: Karen Weise / @kyweise : Remember when Amazon ...
Facebook is testing a new design for Pages with the removal of the Like button and Like counts while keeping follower counts, which reflect a Page's true reach
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Shopify adds Affirm Inc. as a partner, working together to offer flexible payment plans to Shopify's US consumers; the plans are expected by the end of the year
Bloomberg : Tweets: @technology Tweets: @technology : Shopify teams up with one of the founders of PayPal, stepping up the Canadian e-commerce giant's competition with Amazon https://www.bloomberg.co...
Sensor Tower: NBCU's Peacock streaming service was downloaded ~1.5M times across the US App Store and Google Play in its first six days, 25% more than Quibi
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Propeller, a 3D mapping and data analytics company for construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management worksites, raises $18M Series B
Nick Greenhalgh / AmericanInno :
Fintech startup Meemo emerges from stealth with $10M seed investment from Greycroft and others and launches its social finance app
Christine Hall / Crunchbase News :
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.