Trump expresses support for Oracle's TikTok bid, calling Larry Ellison “a tremendous guy” and Oracle “a great company”; Ellison has held a fundraiser for Trump
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison is Trump supporter, hosted fundraiser for the president
Apple becomes the first US company to reach a $2T market cap during intraday trading, two years after reaching $1T
Just two years after becoming the first U.S. company to reach a $1 trillion market capitalization, Apple has officially doubled its value to $2 trillion.
Avaaz: sites spreading health misinfo had ~500M views on Facebook in April; top 10 such sites had almost four times the views of top 10 reputable health sites
Research findings undermine firm's claims it is cracking down on inaccurate news — Websites spreading misinformation …
Oculus will soon require all of its VR headset users to sign up with a Facebook account, removing support for new separate Oculus accounts in October
Support for separate Oculus accounts will end in 2023 — Oculus will soon require all of its virtual reality headset users to sign up with a Facebook account.
Zoom says it is adding support for Amazon Echo Show, Facebook Portal, and Google Nest Hub Max later this year
Zoom from even more places — Zoom is expanding to a variety of new devices later this year, with the company announcing that the Amazon Echo Show, Facebook Portal …
A ban on TikTok is overdue as the US confronts China's asymmetrical “net nationalism” and fights for the future of the open internet
the open internet — should be extended only to companies from countries that respect that openness themselves.” Best summary yet on TikTok: https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytopinion : “Behind the TikTok...
Instagram rolls out “suggested posts”, appearing when users reach the end of their feed, offering related content unlike Explore feed's adjacent content
You thought you were done — Instagram is expanding its feed today with the launch of “suggested posts.”
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter successfully stopped the second “Plandemic” video from going viral, likely due to widespread announcements about its premier
The trick is getting the hucksters to announce a premiere date — One of the more hopeful developments at tech platforms …
Instagram starts rolling out QR codes for user profiles globally, a feature that it had first launched in Japan last year; Instagram is deprecating Nametags
Don't open Instagram to find a profile — Instagram is bringing QR codes to the app. Users can now generate QR codes that'll …
Facebook says it will add native support for Zoom, Webex, BlueJeans, and GoToMeeting to Portal starting next month
Facebook is turning Portal into a Trojan horse for the enterprise: The smart display is getting native apps for Zoom, Webex, BlueJeans and GoToMeeting starting next month, the social media giant annou...
How Americans can draw upon European thinkers, like Dutch politician Marietje Schaake, to address issues of antitrust, Big Tech, and democratic governance
Last October, a couple of days before joining Stanford University as the international policy director at the Cyber Policy Center …
Report: a look at the narrowing regulatory exemptions Apple has been operating under in China, such as running an App Store without a local partner
Amid continued tension between the United States and China, a new report from The Information details how Apple could be impacted by Chinese retaliation. Source: The Information .
Stocks of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Facebook rose a combined 37% in the first seven months of 2020, while all the other S&P 500 stocks fell 6%
As the economy contracts and many companies struggle to survive, the biggest tech companies are amassing wealth and influence in ways unseen in decades.
Google updates its activity cards feature to provide more personalized results for recipes, jobs, and shopping
Google is making its activity cards feature — which helps you pick up where you left off in Search on mobile — more useful. Let's say you're looking for iPad accessories.
How low-code database services like Airtable, a category often sneered at by professional programmers, let non-programmers create community databases
When people build a database to manage reading lists or feed their neighbors, that's coding—and culture. — It's a normal afternoon in July. Tweets: @backchnnl , @wired , and @rozzie Tweets: Backchan...
Inside the work of the DNC and RNC digital teams for the conventions: building a robust network, ensuring a livestream, producing a broadcast, and more
Making sure livestreams don't lag. Sending out remote video kits. Showing speakers how to avoid microphone mishaps. Tweets: @aaronemyers , @nytpolitics , @ericdavismiddvt , and @ofirahy Tweets: Aaro...
Sources say the Twitter breach in 2015 involving access of internal data by employees yielded information that led to the disappearance of Saudi dissidents
Access of internal data by Twitter employees in 2015 presaged the disappearance of Saudi dissidents
Senate Intelligence Committee concludes Putin ordered the 2016 hacking of Democratic Party accounts and the release of emails to harm Hillary Clinton's campaign
it's a clarion warning call for the upcoming election. https://twitter.com/... Joyce Alene / @joycewhitevance : GOP Senators signed off on the report's conclusion Trump discussed Wikileaks' release of...
Profile of Color of Change, a civil rights group pushing Big Tech on issues of race has gone from 1.7M members in May to 8M today
It felt hot in Brandi Collins-Dexter's attic, but nerves may have had something to do with it. — It was late June, and she was sitting in front of her computer … Tweets: @birnbaum_e , @issielapowsky...
Twitter says it has locked or suspended 47% more accounts in H2 2019 for breaking its rules than in H1 2019, due to better human oversight, policies, and tools
Twitter nearly doubled its enforcement actions against accounts engaging in abuse and harassment and saw government requests …
India's main opposition party asks Facebook to investigate favorable treatment of BJP by Facebook's India team, and to replace the team during this probe
i don't think it's good business to alienate the government in power and that's what Facebook has successfully achieved. It's morality a different thing. Das to me is mover powerful than even Ajit Moh...
US Department of Energy and Microsoft partner to develop AI-based disaster response tools, which could help first responders in events like fires and floods
The technology could help first responders more quickly address fast-moving events like fires, floods and windstorms
Imgur partners with Coil to launch Emerald, a $5/month ad-free service with new community features, available on web and Android now and iOS eventually
In partnership with Coil, which pays out to sites and creators — Imgur is launching a subscription service that offers …
Berlin-based travel booking service Omio raises $100M, bringing its total raised to ~$400M, and says it's eyeing potential M&A opportunities in the sector
Multimodal travel platform Omio (formerly GoEuro) has raised $100M in late stage funding to help see its business through the coronavirus crisis.
Google Maps says it's rolling out more detailed maps with improved street designs for SF, NYC, and London, and with more accurate natural features worldwide
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Google has expanded its Kormo Jobs app, first launched in Bangladesh in 2018 to help people find entry-level jobs, to India
Google said on Wednesday it has expanded its jobs app, called Kormo Jobs, to India as the Search giant looks to offer a helping hand to millions looking …
Taiwan to ban Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent from September, prohibiting Taiwanese individuals and organizations from working with the companies
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Android 11 to remove the camera picker, often seen in 3rd-party apps, defaulting instead to the built-in camera; Google says it's to protect privacy, security
Cody Toombs / Android Police :
Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy has proposed a merger with its smaller rival Medlife, which would create a combined entity likely to be valued at $1.15B
Official statistics show e-commerce penetration in the UK went from 20% to over 30% in the past two months and from 17% to 22% in the US
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Take-Two Interactive has agreed to acquire NYC-based mobile game developer Playdots for $192M in cash and stock; Playdots had raised $10M Series A in 2014
Matthew Handrahan / GamesIndustry.biz :
Nvidia's cloud gaming service GeForce Now is now available in beta on Chromebooks, but lacks the ability to automatically adjust for poor network conditions
Joanna Nelius / Gizmodo :
Chinese AI company SenseTime, blacklisted by Trump last year, saw its revenue surge 147% to $720M in 2019 and expects an 80% revenue growth in 2020
- World's largest AI startup SenseTime sees business boom — SenseTime is said to expect 80% revenue growth this year Tweets: @retogregori and @luluyilun Tweets: Reto Gregori / @retogregori : China'...
India's antitrust watchdog has dismissed a case against WhatsApp, saying the company has not abused its dominant position to expand in the payments market
Taiwan accused China-linked hackers of infiltrating Taiwanese companies that provide info services to government bodies, to steal citizens' personal data
Debby Wu / Bloomberg :
In the pandemic era, QR codes have seen a huge uptick in adoption as the perfect touch-free medium, used to order food and drinks, book rooms, and more
Victoria Turk / WIRED UK :
Reliance Retail, India's largest retail chain, has acquired a 60% stake in online pharmacy Netmeds' parent firm Vitalic for about $83.2M
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
India's ban on WeChat has inconvenienced Tibetan refugees in the country, who despite censorship risk, relied on the app to stay in touch with family back home
Tsering D. Gurung / Rest of World : Tweets: @barbarademick , @anupkaphle , @clara111 , @f_potkin , @restofworld , @telliotter , and @tsering_ Tweets: Barbara Demick / @barbarademick : Fascinating pie...
Global VC funding for edtech totaled $4.1B between January and July 2020, which is the highest amount raised in that time frame for the past five years
Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News :
India-based FPL Technologies, which has built a mobile-first credit card and an app for helping people find and understand credit scores, raises $10M Series A
Manish Singh / 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.