AWS experienced an outage in North America Wednesday that affected many sites and services including Roku, Flickr, Adobe, and others
AWS has been experiencing an outage for hours — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps …
Source: Foxconn is moving some iPad and MacBook assembly from China to Vietnam at the request of Apple, which is diversifying production amid US-China trade war
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Foxconn is moving some iPad and MacBook assembly to Vietnam from China at the request of Apple Inc …
Coinbase shares an internal email on an upcoming NYT story alleging several Black employees had negative experiences, says it “will paint an inaccurate picture”
In the spirit of transparency, we're sharing an internal email that was sent to our employees earlier today: … All,
Analysis of PS5 and Xbox Series X games, like Devil May Cry 5, CoD, and Dirt 5, shows PS5 narrowly outperforming Xbox despite Microsoft's “most powerful” claims
here's why Lewis White / MSPoweruser : Microsoft is working with developers to rectify Xbox Series X performance issues Chris Smith / Trusted Reviews : PS5 outperforming Xbox Series? Microsoft respond...
Critics say Microsoft 365's productivity score feature is enabling workplace surveillance by letting managers track employee activity at an individual level
Tool allows managers to use Microsoft 365 to track their employees' activity — Microsoft has been criticised for enabling …
For many AI researchers, OpenAI's GPT-3 has been an unexpected step toward machines that can understand the vagaries of human language
The latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and even writes its own computer programs.
Coinbase says it will end margin trading immediately after revised guidance from the CFTC; the feature will be fully offline by the end of December
Crypto exchange Coinbase plans to end all margin trading effective Nov. 25, 2020, due to recent regulations by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Court filing: CFIUS extends the deadline for ByteDance to complete its sale of TikTok by seven days, until December 4
The Trump administration has given the owner of TikTok another week to resolve national security concerns before it's required to sell the viral video-sharing app.
Sources: Salesforce has held talks about acquiring Slack, although a deal is not guaranteed
they've kind of become the tech acquirer of choice. Big enough to buy $20b businesses, small enough to avoid regulatory scrutiny. https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : just a stray thoug...
Twitter says it will relaunch account verifications in early 2021 for six categories, including news, companies, and government officials, and asks for feedback
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Kuo says Apple will introduce redesigned MacBooks with Apple Silicon and an Apple Watch with a new form factor, both in the second half of 2021
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :
Interpol arrests three suspected members of Nigerian email scam group TMT and says the group's malware has infected 50K+ organizations in 150 countries
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Apple stands by head of global security Thomas Moyer, indicted on bribery charges: “We conducted a thorough internal investigation and found no wrongdoing”
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica :
200+ Chinese apps are now blocked in India after the government banned another 43 apps on Tuesday, leaving Chinese tech companies facing huge losses
Five months after his business was banned in India, Aaron Li has resigned himself to being locked out of the country forever. Tweets: @satyanewshi , @zouyuetweets , @johnhemmings2 , @yusufdfi , @malco...
Thousands of Amazon workers in 15 countries, including call center workers, warehouse workers, and garment makers, to stage coordinated Black Friday protests
The day of action includes strikes and protests from garment manufacturers in Bangladesh to call center workers in the Philippines … Tweets: @jason_koebler Tweets: Jason Koebler / @jason_koebler : NEW...
Amazon expands its IP Accelerator, which helps SMBs selling on Amazon obtain and protect trademarks on their intellectual property, to Europe
As we head into the biggest shopping period of the year — which this year may well have an even stronger online component than usual because of COVID-19 …
Crunchbase: US fintech firms raised $16.9B so far in 2020, up 20% YoY; female founders run 3.8% of them but got only 0.9% of total funding
- Firms started by women got just 0.9% of total funds raised — A record $16.9 billion has been plowed into fintechs this year
CoStar Group: Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft together occupy around 589M square feet of US real estate, up 5x from a decade ago
Tech's soaring property demand has been mostly a boon for cities, although it has fueled some concerns over rising rents and gentrification
YouTube says it barred OANN from posting videos for a week and demonetized its content following a video promoting a phony cure for COVID-19
An inside look at Facebook News Feeds of two baby boomers for three weeks around Election Day showed that comments were a primary source of debunked claims
Square buys Credit Karma Tax unit from Intuit for $50M and will integrate its free tax filing service into Cash App
Dan Weil / TheStreet :
DC AG says DoorDash settled over claims it misled users over allocating driver tips, will pay $2.5M, and ensure earned tips don't reduce base pay
Lauren Feiner / CNBC :
UK government says it will spend £250M to help carriers replace Huawei 5G tech by 2027, including around £50M in 2021
Thomas Seal / Bloomberg :
Observable, which develops data visualization tools and aims to build a GitHub-style community, raises $10.5M Series A led by Sequoia Capital and Acrew Capital
Jared Newman / Fast Company :
Filing: Facebook will pay $300+ each to 1.57M Illinois residents who made claims following $650M facial recognition suit, a quarter of the 6M eligible residents
Sources: IBM is planning to cut 10,000 jobs in Europe, or 20% of staff in the region, to lower costs in its services unit as it prepares for a spinoff
Xerox PARC sues Facebook and Twitter, accusing them of patent infringement, including through tools both companies use to slow the spread of misinformation
Matthew Bultman / Bloomberg Law : Tweets: @packym and @seamushughes Tweets: Packy McCormick / @packym : The people who let Steve Jobs waltz away with the GUI are patent trolls now? What a world. http...
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.