Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan charged with obstruction of justice for trying to conceal the 2016 data breach of millions of users and drivers from FTC officials
Joe Sullivan, who led Uber's security team through the company's most tumultuous period, was fired by the company's newly installed chief executive in 2017.
Epic to host a Fortnite tournament on Aug. 23 where players can win anti-Apple prizes, encourages iOS users to switch and tweet to Apple using #FreeFortnite
Fortnite-maker Epic Games and Apple are currently embroiled in a public battle over Apple's App Store policies …
Leaked renders of the Google Pixel 5 show dual main camera, punch-hole front camera, and a fingerprint sensor on the back
Google launched the successor to last year's Pixel 3a, the Pixel 4a earlier this month. At the time, the company announced that the Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 would be released this fall.
Jeff Wilke, Amazon's CEO of Worldwide Consumer, will retire from the company in 2021; senior VP of retail operations Dave Clark will succeed him
- Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon's worldwide consumer business, will retire from his role in the first quarter of 2021, Amazon said Friday.
Kuo: Apple is looking to offset cost of new 5G tech in iPhone 12 by using a simpler battery board design that will be 40%-50% cheaper than the one in iPhone 11
Apple is looking to put a pricing squeeze on component suppliers for the upcoming iPhone 12 lineup to help offset increased costs …
An appeals court blocked an order requiring Uber and Lyft to classify drivers as employees, averting an expected shutdown of their services in California
The companies, under legal pressure to reclassify their California drivers as employees, said they would halt rides before an appeals court gave them permission to continue.
A trade body representing NYT, WaPo, WSJ, and other publishers asks Apple for improved deal terms for digital subscriptions sold through the App Store
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are among companies seeking more favorable terms in Apple's app store
Facebook says it's piloting an effort to closely watch posts that rapidly gain millions of views to ensure they don't violate community standards
Earlier this week, I wrote about how platforms proved they can stop a piece of health-related misinformation in its tracks.
TikTok says it removed 380,000 videos and 64,000 comments, and banned 1,300+ users, in the US since the beginning of the year for breaking hate speech rules
Karissa Bell / Engadget :
Sources: Apple quietly acquired Israeli AR and computer vision startup Camerai over a year ago for several tens of millions of dollars
The AR and computer vision company was purchased a year and a half ago, an example of the tech giant's strategy of silently buying up small tech companies
A look at Democratic VP candidate Kamala Harris' deep ties to Big Tech, fostered during years in California, as critics say she did little to curb their power
Silicon Valley has enthusiastically backed Ms. Harris since she first ran for state attorney general in California a decade ago. Tweets: @kenvogel , @kenvogel , and @daiwaka Tweets: Kenneth P. Vogel /...
Indian parliamentary panel has summoned Facebook executives on Sept. 2 to question them on regulation of political content on the platform following controversy
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian parliamentary committee will question Facebook (FB.O) executives on how the social media giant …
Facebook confirms Mark Zuckerberg testified before FTC this week, as part of the agency's antitrust probe
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week testified at a Federal Trade Commission investigative hearing related to the federal agency's antitrust investigation into the tech company, the company confir...
Facebook's move to require Oculus devices be linked to a Facebook login sets a dangerous precedent and deserves fierce scrutiny in light of antitrust probes
Opinion: No device should require a Facebook login—so what is Oculus doing? — On Tuesday, Facebook found another …
Latest update to Lightroom for iOS inadvertently wiped users' photos and presets not synced to the cloud; Adobe says Apple backups may recover some photos
DL Cade / PetaPixel :
DOJ asks US Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that found Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his critics on Twitter
John Kruzel / The Hill :
Ann Syrdal, AT&T researcher who helped give computers a female voice and laid the groundwork for digital assistants like Siri and Alexa, dies at 74
a much harder result to achieve, in part because so much of the previous engineering work had been done for male voices.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Daniel E. Slotnik / @dslotnik : Without Ann Syrdal...
Lambda School, the virtual coding school where students pay tuition only after getting a job, raises $74M Series C led by Gigafund
and it might be last funding round they ever (hope to) raise: https://techcrunch.com/...
Uber partners with NimbleRx, an on-demand prescription delivery service, as it enters the home prescription delivery business, first in Seattle and Dallas area
Bruce Japsen / Forbes :
A deep dive into Tencent, its history, core businesses, investment portfolio, and Pony Ma's “outsider CEO” characteristics that led to its success
Tencent is the most important company that many Americans know the least about. When President Trump signed … Tweets: @zoescaman and @docolumide Tweets: Zoe Scaman / @zoescaman : In China, Tencent is...
Craft, which uses data from thousands of financial and alternative sources to improve visibility in complex supply chains, raises $10M Series A
During the COVID-19 pandemic supply chains have suddenly become hot. Who knew that would ever happen? The race to secure PPE, ventilators …
Leaked Palantir S-1 show the company had 2019 revenue of $742M, up ~25% YoY, and a net loss of $580M, about the same as in 2018
Palantir filed an S-1 confidentially to the SEC in early July, but we have so far been waiting for the final doc to be published for weeks now with nary a murmur.
Airbnb announces a global party ban at its listings and an occupancy cap of 16 people, saying some users took “bar and club behavior to homes” during COVID-19
Sam Shead / CNBC :
Google fixed a bug impacting Gmail and G Suite email servers, which allowed attackers to spoof SPF and DMARC rules, months after being alerted by a researcher
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Google's Pixel Buds get a new transcribe mode to translate long speeches, Attention Alerts to alert users of important events happening around them, and more
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Medical imaging startup Exo, which is developing AI-powered workflow software and a portable ultrasound device, raises $40M, bringing total raised to ~$88M
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Report: China is targeting top science and tech expertise in the US and other countries through 600+ talent recruitment stations globally, with 146 in the US
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @repjimbanks , @jchengwsj , @marshablackburn , and @summerinsmokehk Tweets: Jim Banks / @repjimbanks : A just-released Australian report details the infrastructure the #...
EU privacy regulators are clashing over how much to fine Twitter for its handling of 2018 data breach, which could delay investigations into Facebook and Google
leading Ireland to for the first time invoke the GDPR's dispute-resolution mechanism. https://www.wsj.com/... Robert Ward / @robertalanward : More evidence that rules/standards an increasingly importa...
A look at contact-tracing app Aura, which was a required download for students at a Michigan college and has faced criticism for its privacy and security issues
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Pachyderm, an open source service on Kubernetes that helps manage data for AI, raises $16M Series B led by Microsoft's M12
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE :
Crypto lending and borrowing service BlockFi raises $50M Series C led by Morgan Creek Digital, bringing its total raised to around $160M
Christine Hall / Crunchbase News :
Yalochat, which helps businesses manage sales and customer service within chat apps, raises $15M Series B led by B Capital Group
There's financing news today: Yalochat closed a $15M B Round from B Capital, with follow-on from Sierra Ventures.
Sources: the Open Technology Fund is suing the US Agency for Global Media, helmed by a new Trump-appointed CEO, for withholding $20M in Congressional funds
Sara Fischer / Axios : Tweets: @sarafischer Tweets: Sara Fischer / @sarafischer : The past 2 CFO's of the @USAGMgov both left the agency (one fired, one quit) in the past week after they were asked t...
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.