Sources: Google will keep nearly all of its employees working from home until at least July 2021, affecting almost 200,000 full-time and contract employees
Search-engine giant pushes back return to normalcy — SAN FRANCISCO—Google will keep its employees home until at least next July …
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress that Facebook's rise is an American success story and regulation only serves to help Chinese companies
- CEO likely to use testimony to set up comparison with China — Zuckerberg sees weakening of American tech as helping China Tweets: @sarahfrier , @moonalice , @frankpasquale , @mathewi , @benthomps...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sues Google for allegedly expanding the use of users' personal data without gaining explicit consent
This time over expanded use of personal data. — The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has again taken aim at Google …
Audit finds six election boards in MI, MO, ME, NH using a buggy version of email software Exim, which the NSA says has been targeted in attacks by Russia's GRU
Six jurisdictions used software that Russian spies have targeted in cyberattacks — Many of the thousands of county …
Jeff Bezos has taken a hands-off approach to Washington, staying above the fray, but that changes with his first-ever Congressional testimony on Wednesday
The chief executive, who testifies before Congress for the first time on Wednesday, had taken a hands-off approach with lawmakers in Washington.
A look at work-from-home trends: rise of “desktop as a service”, purpose-built hardware for remote communication, and more investment in home office equipment
Tens of millions of Americans are working from home and many will never go back; employers scramble to figure out what tools they'll need to stay productive
SAP announces plans to spin out Qualtrics, a user experience management platform it acquired in 2018 for $8B, with an IPO in the US
Twenty months after SAP swooped in and announced its plan to acquire Qualtrics for $8 billion as it was on the cusp of an IPO, the experience management software company may be going public after all.
Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave confirms a security breach after a hacker published personal information on 7.5M+ of its users on a public forum
Dave user data is now available for download on a public hacking forum. — Digital banking app and tech unicorn Dave.com confirmed today …
Samsung's trailer for its August 5 Unpacked event seems to confirm the launch of Galaxy Buds Live, Note20, Watch 3, Z Fold 2, and Tab S7
Samsung is preparing to launch a slew of new products on August 5th and, now, the company has put out a teaser which essentially confirms which devices are arriving at the event.
OnePlus Nord review: 90Hz OLED display, sub-6GHz 5G, and great battery, but its CPU can hold the phone back and the camera is mediocre despite multiple lenses
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Walmart Marketplace says it added 3,000 sellers in June, up from 2,290 in April; Walmart announced a partnership with Shopify to onboard SMB sellers in mid-June
Walmart's recent partnership with Shopify to expand its online marketplace appears to already be paying off.
Consumer Technology Association launches the Public Health Tech Initiative, a working group including Microsoft and Facebook that will learn from the pandemic
As the U.S. continues its struggle to control the COVID-19 pandemic, a broad coalition of tech and health care organizations …
A Garmin employee confirms that the company's servers were hit by WastedLocker, a ransomware variant developed by Russia-based cybercriminal group Evil Corp
and what you can do David Pierce / Protocol : iOS is telling on developers Kelly Earley / Silicon Republic : Garmin wearables back online after reported cyberattack Cat Ellis / TechRadar : Garmin Conn...
Sources detail Twitter's struggle to control employee account access: multiple warnings to Dorsey since 2015, bogus help requests used to snoop, and more
- Dorsey, Twitter's board warned repeatedly, ex-employees say — Company says 1,500 staff and contractors can access user data Tweets: @firstadopter Tweets: Tae Kim / @firstadopter : Great story on ...
A look at how India has become a “hack-for-hire” hub, as the growing, dark, and shady industry targets politicians, companies, and activists
- Politicians, companies and activists are increasingly being targeted by a secretive industry. How does it work? Tweets: @dillidurast and @razhael Tweets: Shivam Vij / @dillidurast : “Politicians, c...
The debate over TikTok is a chance to come up with a thoughtful model to regulate big tech companies, whether they're based in China, Copenhagen, or California
black-box algorithm, opaque moderation, unclear data custody — are issues with Facebook, YouTube, etc. as well. @hunterwalk : @alexstamos ""This is a chance to come up with a thoughtful model of how t...
Some ideas for questions and visual aids that House antitrust subcommittee members can use when questioning the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google
#Walmart. 👉 https://www.profgalloway.com/ ... #congressionalhearings #antitrust https://twitter.com/... @pythiar : What do you mean “appears”. They did. https://twitter.com/... Andrew Leigh / @aleighm...
Trump is running Facebook ads accusing Twitter and Snapchat of election interference, while Biden's Facebook ads accuse Facebook of posing a threat to democracy
Social media has become the target of a dueling attack ad campaign being waged online by the sitting president and his election rival. They're shooting the messenger while giving it lots of money. htt...
Arsenal.gg: in Q2 Facebook Gaming grew 75% QoQ and reached 334M hours watched in June 2020, up from 111M YoY; Twitch dominated with 5B+ hours watched in Q2
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cargo.one, a Berlin-based digital booking service for air cargo, raises $18.6M Series A led by Index Ventures
Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu :
Samsung could be the big winner from the West's fight with China over Huawei's 5G tech and China's proposed retaliation against Nokia and Ericsson
Elizabeth Koh / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jacobshap Tweets: Jacob L. Shapiro / @jacobshap : “Samsung also manufactures its network gear entirely in South Korea, lending it cover from the tit-for...
As police requests for Google users' location history grow, “geofence warrants” are facing increasing pushback and legal scrutiny, with challenges in CA and VA
David Uberti / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @hypervisible and @neerajka Tweets: Doomscrolling Eternal / @hypervisible : Geofence warrant requests “grew 1,500% from 2017 to 2018, and an additional 50...
Facebook hired StopFake in Ukraine to flag Russian disinformation, but critics accuse the fact-checking group of ties to the far right and of bias in its work
and who is considered a neutral fact checker in a country at war? Ukraine, as always, on the sharp end of global questions. @antontroian in NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/... Dmitry Polyanskiy / @dpol...
A look at the rise of “solo capitalists”, micro VC funds, and AngelList's Rolling Venture Fund product that lets users subscribe and invest on a quarterly basis
Micro, solo and vocal: The new million-dollar Lone-Wolf VCs. It's not uncommon for networked influencers like @HarryStebbings and @shl to raise a VC fund. But there's potentially a new model emerging ...
Sibros, which offers automakers a connected vehicle service for firmware updates and data collection from sensors and other components, raises $12M Series A
Christine Hall / Crunchbase News :
Q&A with Tim Maughan, the sci-fi writer whose dystopian visions of AR-powered surveillance capitalism now seem to be turning into reality with uncanny accuracy
Brian Merchant / OneZero :
Afresh, which offers grocers an AI-powered service to manage fresh food orders, inventory, and merchandising, raises $12M in Series A follow-on round of funding
Seoul-based Riiid, which uses AI to offer personalized study plans to students in its test prep app Santa, raises $41.8M, bringing its total raised to $70.2M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
EU watchdogs warn that there is no grace period after Schrems II ruling and transfers of personal data from EU to US relying on Privacy Shield are now illegal
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
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.