In an open letter to CFIUS, Senator Josh Hawley says US should reject Oracle-ByteDance collaboration citing national security grounds and calls for a full sale
The deal is ‘completely unacceptable,’ Hawley says — Sen. Josh Hawley is publicly calling on the Treasury Department …
Internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist says large amounts of inauthentic bot activity has boosted many countries' leaders, with Facebook slow to act
Facebook ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections …
Sources: Sony has cut PS5 production for this fiscal year by 4M units to ~11M, following production issues with its custom-designed SoC
- Low yields of company's custom-designed silicon a bottleneck — Sony facing aggressive pricing from Microsoft's Xbox team
Oracle confirms it is part of a proposal submitted by ByteDance to the US Treasury to become TikTok's “trusted technology provider”
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After retrieving a submerged shipping-container-size data center from Scotland's Orkney Islands, deployed in 2018, Microsoft says the project was a success
Two years after deploying a shipping-container-size data center to the depths off Scotland's Orkney Islands, Microsoft has reeled it back in …
Sources detail Apple's Tuesday event: Apple Watch Series 6 with faster CPU and blood oxygen meter, new mid-tier iPad Air, and no new iPhones
- Company to debut new Apple Watches and iPad Air on Tuesday — Smaller HomePod, headphones in the works; iPhones coming later
Sources: Oracle and Walmart are still pursuing a stake in TikTok US, as ByteDance banks on Trump backing off requiring a full sale of TikTok US to avoid a ban
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The Trump administration, in a filing, says that Trump's EO on a TikTok ban will not hinder the company from paying salaries to its employees in the country
An executive order banning TikTok from the US won't affect employees' paychecks, the Trump administration said Monday in a court filing.
Q&A with Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick on his skepticism about cloud gaming and Microsoft's new subscription and installment pricing plans for Xbox
Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive Software, has an ambitious goal for his company.
Kuo: the 5.4" iPhone 12 will feature a narrower notch but none of the iPhone 12 models will have a 120hz display; iPad Air will feature Touch ID in side button
here's why Tweets: Dieter Bohn / @backlon : sad! https://twitter.com/... Droid / @droid254 : Then what's the point of upgrading? https://twitter.com/... Jon Prosser / @jon_prosser : @MacRumors @rsgnl ...
Amazon launches invitation-only Luxury Stores for US Prime members, available on its mobile app, with Oscar de la Renta as the first brand partner
After months of industry speculation, Amazon is finally launching its Luxury Stores experience. Oscar de la Renta is the first and only label …
Activists say ethnic violence in Ethiopia in recent months has been supercharged by hate speech on Facebook, which says it has increased monitoring of content
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. — Throughout his life, Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa sang about love …
Q&A with ex-CSO of Facebook Alex Stamos on why big newsrooms should have threat modeling teams, how media is amplifying disinformation with its coverage, more
An interview with Facebook's ex-security chief — Editor's note: We're barreling toward the 2020 election with big unresolved problems …
As Big Fish Games announces $155M class action settlement in WA, 21 users describe how they were hooked on casino-style apps and lost significant sums of money
Shellz, 37, a nurse from Houston, spends at least two hours a day with her husband playing a casino-style smartphone game called Jackpot Magic.
ViacomCBS will rebrand CBS All Access as Paramount+ early next year and expects to expand internationally, starting in Australia, Latin America, and the Nordics
Announces 5 New Originals, Plans to Expand Internationally in 2021 — It's official, CBS All Access is changing its name to Paramount+ next year.
Source: Apple tells staff it's no longer offering credit cards via Barclays, which offers zero interest financing, as it shifts to Apple Card financing plans
- Longtime credit-card deal offered Apple customers no interest — Company to focus on Apple Card installment payments instead
Home buying startup Opendoor announces it's going public by merging with Chamath Palihapitiya's SPAC
Today, Social Capital Hedosophia II, the blank-check company associated with investor Chamath Palihapitiya, announced that it will merge with Opendoor, taking the private real estate startup public in...
YouTube says it is launching an early beta of YouTube Shorts, a 15-second video feature, in India
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US Customs seized a shipment of OnePlus Buds thinking they were counterfeit Apple AirPods
Facebook launches an information center to combat climate change misinformation and pledges to cut greenhouse gases from its global operations this year
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Seegrid, which builds autonomous industrial vehicles for transporting materials, adds $27M to its recent $25M round, taking its total raised to $150M
Seegrid, a company that builds self-driving vehicles to carry materials in industrial environments, has added a further $27 million to its recent equity funding.
Anchor says it is cracking down on copycat podcasters by improving the detection of stolen podcasts, adding new rules around monetizing shows, and more
‘This is definitely a new type of attack for Anchor’ — Anchor, a Spotify-owned company, is addressing the copycat podcast problem that's roiled the industry for the past month.
Observe.ai, which develops call center software that analyzes conversations, raises $54M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total raised to $88M
Observe.ai, a startup developing AI call center software, today closed a $54 million funding round.
Volansi, maker of long-range delivery drones, raises $50M Series B led by Icon Ventures; its M20 drone has a touted range of 350 miles and top speed of 75 mph
Robotics generally have seen an increase in interest during the pandemic, so it makes perfect sense that investors are taking a closer look at autonomous drone delivery.
Facebook paid $367.6M to buy a 400K square foot complex from REI in Bellevue, WA, expanding its 3M square feet office space footprint in Seattle
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LG announces Wing, a smartphone with a 6.8-inch main “twisting” display and a 3.9-inch display underneath; release data and price TBA
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CISA: hacking groups linked to China's Ministry of State Security have exploited F5, Citrix, Pulse Secure, and Microsoft Exchange bugs to hack US gov't networks
Chinese Ministry of State Security-Affiliated Cyber Threat Actor Activity Ravie Lakshmanan / The Hacker News : CISA: Chinese Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Devices to Target U.S. Agencies Ken Wieland / ...
Swedish online payments startup Klarna raises $650M led by Silver Lake Partners, valuing the company at $10.6B
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Google announces it will unveil the Pixel 5 as well as a new smart speaker and Chromecast on September 30
In an updated S-1 filing, Snowflake raises its expected IPO price by around 30% which would value the company between $27.7B-$30.5B compared to $20.9B-$23.7B
a dozen VCs to me, this year https://www.cnbc.com/... @cnbcdisruptors : Snowflake raised its estimated IPO price by around 30% in a new S-1 filing earlier today. This #Disruptor50 debut is on track to...
Facebook Gaming says it will allow partnered streamers to play some copyrighted music in the background of their live streams
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Data virtualization service Varada raises $12M Series A led by Israeli early-stage fund MizMaa Ventures, with participation by Gefen Capital
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
Over the weekend, almost two thousand online stores running Magento 1 were hacked, likely using a zero-day exploit that was up for sale for $5K a few weeks ago
School districts across US start dropping Acellus, an online learning service that claims to serve 6,000 schools, after reports of inappropriate content on it
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Airmeet, which offers an online events hosting service, raises $12M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India, with participation from Redpoint, Accel, and others
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Facebook introduces Watch Together for Messenger, letting up to eight people in a mobile chat or 50 people in a Room watch videos together
Low-code database service Airtable raises $185M Series D at $2.58B post-money valuation and launches Airtable Apps, a JavaScript-based no-code development tool
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US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission finds that IBM discriminated against older workers when making thousands of layoffs between 2013 and 2018
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Courier, which offers an API that helps developers add multichannel user notifications to their apps, raises $10.1M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch : Tweets: @antrod and @patrickmalatack Tweets: Antonio / @antrod : Couldn't think of a better board member to help build a next-gen Twilio 😉 https://twitter.com/... Pa...
Allegro, Poland's biggest ecommerce platform, says it plans to list on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, sources say targeting a valuation of between €10B and €12B
James Shotter / Financial Times : Tweets: @csertoglu Tweets: Cem Sertoglu / @csertoglu : A $10bn IPO for Allegro would nicely underscore the consumer internet opportunity in sizable European emerging...
In a bid to lure fast-growing startups, Microsoft and Amazon are striking cloud services deals with a promise to help sell the companies' services
GoodRx, a US online drug coupon and price comparison site, says in amended S-1 it offered founders ~$500M in stock, raised $100M from Silver Lake ahead of IPO
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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