Google warns Australians that a plan to make it pay for news content threatens privacy, free Search and YouTube; Australia says the open letter contains misinfo
Internet group has also paused licensing deals with outlets due to proposed regulation — Google has warned …
ZTE says it will unveil Axon 20 5G, the first “mass-produced” smartphone with an under-display camera, on September 1; leak hints at a 6.92" display and more
ZTE has announced that it will release the first “mass-produced” smartphone with an under-display selfie camera, with the launch set for September 1st.
US says it will further tighten restrictions on Huawei's access to semiconductors and add its affiliates in 21 countries to the government's economic blacklist
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is set to announce on Monday it will further tighten restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co …
Black employees at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative say Zuckerberg's philanthropy efforts are stymied by blind spots around race and a desire to appear bipartisan
Black employees at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, his $80 billion philanthropic corporation, say his efforts are stymied …
Germany's antitrust authority says it has launched an investigation into Amazon's influence over third-party traders selling on its platform
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's anti-trust authority has launched an investigation into Amazon's relationship with third-party traders selling on its site …
UK-based counter-extremist group, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, says Facebook's algorithm “actively promotes” Holocaust denial content
Facebook's algorithm “actively promotes” Holocaust denial content according to an analysis that will increase pressure on the social media giant …
Canada's Competition Bureau says it has opened an antitrust investigation into Amazon to determine if it hurts consumers and competition
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Huawei, after having Google services banned from devices, aims to reassure international customers as it reforms its business model to be more like Apple's
it's our long-term strategy.” https://twitter.com/...
IBM announces Power10 CPUs, its first commercial 7-nanometer processors with up to 3x efficiency, aimed at big data analytics and AI workloads
At the Hot Chips 2020 conference, which was held virtually this year, IBM announced the IBM Power10. It's the successor to the Power9 and represents …
Robinhood says it raised $200M Series G from D1 Capital Partners, valuing it at $11.2B, up from a $8.6B valuation it received after last month's $320M raise
The popular stock trading app Robinhood announced on Monday that it raised a $200 million Series G funding round from a new investor, D1 Capital Partners. Tweets: @iankar_ , @sarthakgh , and @jeffjohn...
Sources: Amazon is in preliminary talks to acquire a minority stake in Rackspace
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is in preliminary talks to invest in U.S. cloud services provider Rackspace Technology Inc, people familiar with the discussion said on Monday. — The deal would involve Am...
During a dire UK job market, LinkedIn has become riddled with fake vacancies and improbable hiring stories that go viral
When a blood-splattered job applicant tumbled into Michael Kovich's office, covered in dirt, grass and jet fuel, he knew he had to hire him. Tweets: @firstdraftnews , @jaspjackson , and @newstatesman ...
With troubles at Mozilla and dominance of Chrome, Android, and AdWords, Google is close to replicating the WeChat and Facebook walled garden model on the web
Looking at Mozilla's finances, it's reasonable to conclude that Google is keeping them on life support to keep the anti-trust hounds at bay. Tweets: @apyth , @dankogai , @gullevek , @randfish , and @u...
Grafana Labs, which develops the open source analytics platform Grafana, raises $50M Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Raintank Inc.'s Grafana Labs, which is the lead developer of the Grafana and Loki open-source projects used to visualize time-series data …
While social media platforms did not create QAnon, they helped it go mainstream via recommendation systems designed to prioritize engagement
or, more accurately, their inaction — to where we are today.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew : Really glad that @cwarzel is situating this in Facebook's 2017 decision to...
A look at the similarities and differences between Epic's lawsuits against Apple and Google from an antitrust law perspective
and its founder, @TimSweeneyEpic—as “our champion” vs. Apple so exciting is they have the cash and the will to see this through; fighting Apple is almost impossible for most of us, as you need money f...
Agiloft raises $45M, led by FTV Capital, to automate contract procurement and management with its no-code service, its first external funding round since 1991
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
An ex-Googler who wrote a searing critique decrying Google's lack of innovation lambasts Google's approach to deprecation of its Cloud APIs
Steve Yegge :
As a US ban looms, TikTok partners with music distribution company UnitedMasters to let creators distribute songs directly to streaming platforms
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A look at Remark Holdings, supplying 100+ Chinese schools, and a Las Vegas school, with AI-powered thermal imaging tech to monitor COVID-19 safety compliance
but at what cost to privacy? https://www.wsj.com/... Doomscrolling Eternal / @hypervisible : “The coronavirus pandemic has started a wave of surveillance technology aimed at helping schools prevent or...
US military says its members stream on Twitch to become “relatable to a new generation”, but the recruitment tactic is under criticism from gamers and lawmakers
Shannon Liao / CNN : Tweets: @shannon_liao , @ihopwaitress74 , and @therealcliffyb Tweets: Shannon Liao / @shannon_liao : The US Army has returned to streaming on Twitch. In its first stream back, it...
How small VOIP operators in the US are being used to perpetrate robocall scams related to social security, COVID-19, and more
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @hoofnagle , @bysarahkrouse , and @ryanjtracy Tweets: Chris Hoofnagle / @hoofnagle : WSJ: “When you receive a robocall, chances are someone like Nick Palumbo collects ro...
RTrack: total active players on Roblox grew ~35% since Feb. to 164M in July, helping many of its 2M+ game developers, some as young as 16, make a lot of money
Kellen Browning / New York Times : Tweets: @kellen_browning , @myzta_ , @tpcarney , @gibbogame , and @ennisnyt Tweets: Kellen Browning / @kellen_browning : Three quarters of all U.S. kids ages 9 to 1...
Leaked documents: Google regularly forwarded personal info of extremist users, many far-right, to a US counter terrorism center but did not always ban them
Jason Wilson / The Guardian : Tweets: @jason_a_w Tweets: Jason Wilson / @jason_a_w : NEW: Blueleaks documents show that Google doesn't appear to need a warrant to hand over user data to the feds http...
Filing: Revolut lost £106.5M in 2019, up from £32.8M in 2018, while revenue grew 180% YoY to £162.7M and the number of customers grew from 3.5M to 10M
Oscar Williams-Grut / Yahoo Finance : Tweets: @oscarwgrut Tweets: Oscar Williams-Grut / @oscarwgrut : NEW: Revolut's 2019 accounts are out, showing losses tripling to £100m even as new business and r...
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
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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.