Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter scramble to remove a video touting hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure, after it was shared by Trump and his allies
Social media lights up with viral videos touting hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus cure. It's not. — Hydroxychloroquine …
CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are preparing to argue that their companies do not stifle competition at a congressional hearing on Wednesday
The tech C.E.O.s will appear together at a congressional hearing on Wednesday to argue that their companies do not stifle competition.
Twitter temporarily locks Donald Trump Jr's account for posting a “misleading and potentially harmful” video touting hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure
President posts same tweet, and is hit by slightly different sanctions … Donald Trump Jr has been suspended by Twitter for posting …
As the House antitrust hearing looms, lawmakers discuss potential lines of inquiry, including evidence of a “copy-acquire-kill” strategy to subdue rivals
Congress brought the country's big banks to heel after the financial crisis, cowed a tobacco industry for imperiling public health …
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
via @averyhartmans https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... @voxdotcom : Jeff Bezos said in 2018 that Amazon needs “to conduct ourselves in such a way that when we are scrutinized, we pass with flying c...
Sources: after Airbnb and ClassPass began selling virtual classes, Apple wanted to collect its 30% commission on the sales, up from no fee previously
After Airbnb and ClassPass began selling virtual classes because of the pandemic, Apple tried to collect its commission on the sales.
Google announces plans to build a new undersea network cable connecting the US, UK, and Spain, expected to be completed by 2022
Google has announced plans to build a new undersea network cable connecting the US, UK and Spain. — The tech giant says it is incorporating new technology into the cable …
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to tell Congress that Facebook's rise is an American success story and regulation only serves to help Chinese companies
or even favoring the latter — is not going to age well. And this isn't a defense of Facebook. April Glaser / @aprilaser : remembering Facebook's previous posture towards China and that if FB was actua...
In a reversal, CES says its event planned for January 2021 will be going all-digital, using a virtual meeting format for vendors, attendees, and the press
CES 2021 will take place in January as an all-digital event since the organizers feel it's the only way they can protect attendees during the pandemic.
Revel suspends its electric moped service in NYC after two people were killed in recent weeks; at least one was not wearing a helmet during the crash
Two people were killed and one was critically injured while riding the shared electric mopeds — Revel is suspending its service …
Intel announces a reorg, with chief engineering officer Murthy Renduchintala departing, Intel veteran Dr. Ann Kelleher now leading work on 7nm and 5nm processes
New Leaders for Key Intel Technology Organizations will Report Directly to CEO Bob Swan; Murthy Renduchintala to Depart
Study of 15K+ recent popular queries finds Google devoted 41% of the first page of search results on mobile devices to its own properties and “direct answers”
The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page
Spotify debuts a Group Session feature in beta, letting up to five premium users simultaneously listen to the same content remotely
Simultaneously stream music or podcasts — Spotify is now allowing its paying users to listen to music and podcasts with friends and family at the same time …
After suing the EU on July 15, Facebook won a temporary halt to a demand for documents by EU antitrust investigators
- EU tribunal suspends EU Commission's information requests — Facebook is suing EU over ‘irrelevant’ data demands in probes — Facebook Inc. won a temporary halt …
Combined market cap of Apple, Facebook, Alphabet, and Amazon is ~$5T, their combined 2019 revenue was ~$773B, and they have a combined cash reserve of ~$420B
The four Big Tech CEOs who will testify before Congress Wednesday command global empires with power and wealth that make them more like countries than companies. Tweets: @madhavchanchani , @patrickmcg...
Sources: Instagram has made lucrative offers, some in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, to some of TikTok's most popular creators to use Reels
Instagram makes lucrative offers to popular TikTok users to join its new competing service, raising stakes in social-media rivalry
Qualcomm announces Quick Charge 5, refueling smartphone batteries to 50% in five minutes and 100% in 15, likely to start showing up over the next few months
Wireless recharging has become increasingly popular over the past few years due to its convenience — just drop your phone on a pad …
The Anti-Monopoly Fund, founded last year by Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, says it's giving $1.6M to 14 organizations that examine concentrated market power
Naomi Nix / Bloomberg : Tweets: @pixelatedboat and @brucebartlett Tweets: @pixelatedboat : Seems inefficient to split the money between all these groups. Instead they should've given $22 million to t...
Sources: Google will extend its work from home policy until at least July 2021, affecting almost 200,000 full-time and contract employees
a year from now — making it the first major U.S. corporation to formalize such an extended timetable. Partly to give staff maximum family flexibility. One year from now. https://www.wsj.com/... @arain...
The story of CyberBunker, a hosting provider that once hosted The Pirate Bay and a number of dark web sites, whose German facility was raided by police in 2019
An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals. Tweets: @feikehacquebord , @balumcarnes , @alfonslopezt...
Gaming platform Roblox says it has 150M+ MAUs, up from 115M in February, and its developer community is on pace to earn $250M+ in 2020, up from $110M in 2019
Gaming platform Roblox, which has seen a surge of use due to the coronavirus pandemic, now has over 150 million monthly active users …
Through June 30, Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft announced 27 acquisitions, up 29% YoY, the fastest pace since 2015, amid antitrust scrutiny
Bloomberg Law :
Explorium, which develops an automated data and feature discovery service, raises $31M Series B led by Zeev Ventures, bringing its total funding to $50M
Explorium, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an automated data and feature discovery platform, today closed a $31 million funding round.
Garmin says a ransomware attack occurred on July 23 but there's “no indication” customer data was stolen, expects to return to normal operation in a few days
TAREN STANTON, FRONT RANGE FLIGHT SCHOOL A Cyberattack on Garmin Disrupted More Than Workouts | WIRED https://www.wired.com/... @wired : Runners and athletes weren't the only ones affected by the cybe...
Indonesia-based online travel service Traveloka raises $250M to weather the pandemic, bringing its total raised to ~$1.2B
Indonesia-based online travel portal, Traveloka, has picked up $250M in fresh funding to beef up its coronavirus-battered balance sheet.
Source code leaked from exposed repos of many companies including Nintendo, Daimler AG, Microsoft, Adobe, Lenovo, and AMD; unclear how much of it is proprietary
allowing non-domain email addresses to register for your private GitLab/JIRA/etc corporate apps.
Chorus.ai, which develops AI-based software to analyze sales calls, raises $45M Series C led by Georgian Partners, bringing its total raised to $85.2M
Chorus.ai, a startup that leverages AI to analyze sales calls, this week raised $45 million. CEO and cofounder Jim Benton says the proceeds …
Analytics service Waydev says hackers breached it earlier this month and stole GitHub, GitLab OAuth tokens, likely pivoting to attack other companies like Dave
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Alexa app gets revamped, adding more personalization options and replacing 3rd-party skill suggestions on the main screen with frequently used actions
here's what's changing Tristan Rayner / Android Authority : Analogue Pocket excites the retro world, Intel shakeup, and more tech news today Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com : Amazon overhauls Ale...
Advertima, which offers AI-backed software that tracks in-store shopping behavior, raises €15M Series A led by Swiss real estate firm Fortimo Group
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Sources: India is examining an additional 275 Chinese apps, including PubG, AliExpress, and Resso, for a potential ban citing national security and user privacy
The Economic Times :
Enterprise startup Density, offering anonymous people-counting tech, raises $51M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins as offices aim to reopen with social distancing
Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News :
Withings, which develops consumer health hardware and supplies data to healthcare providers for more personalized care, raises $60M Series B
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch :
UK-based ComplyAdvantage, which offers an AI-backed service to track financial crime, raises $50M Series C led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sues Google for allegedly expanding the use of users' personal data without gaining explicit consent
Matt Johnston / iTnews :
Profile of FaZe Clan, an e-sports collective of 85 professional gamers and content creators, backed by big-time music investors, which has become a cultural hit
Dan Rys / Billboard : Tweets: @freshtine_ See also Mediagazer Tweets: @freshtine_ : “FaZe Clan is what today's major record companies aspire to be: a global Ent. behemoth w. superstar artists on its ...
A look at companies like Cerence, which have partnered with automakers to roll out emotion- and object-detecting AI systems for cars over the next two years
then sell the resulting data for a profit.” 🚮🚮🚮 https://www.vice.com/... @zenalbatross : US car companies helped kill the dream of universal rail and public transport by creating the cultural myth of ...
Match Group names ex-CBS Interactive boss Jim Lanzone as Tinder's new CEO, beginning August 3
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @austin_rief , @kantrowitz , @jlanzone , @sarafischer , @joshelman , and @bgurley See also Mediagazer Tweets: @austin_rief : Interesting to see dating ap...
Documents from June show Texas AG is probing Facebook over its collection of biometric data, which potentially violates state law
Ashley Gold / Axios : Tweets: @alexsalvinews . Thanks: @ashleyrgold Tweets: Alex Salvi / @alexsalvinews : Texas is investigating Facebook for possibly running afoul of state laws on the collection of...
Inside Facebook's “AI red team”, which hacks its own AI systems to stay ahead of outside attackers and better understand vulnerabilities and blind spots
Tom Simonite / Wired : Tweets: @krishnan , @nxthompson , and @wired Tweets: Krish Subramanian / @krishnan : Like the Facebook AI Red Team, we need teams taking a Chaos Monkey approach to bias mitigat...
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.