FireEye says some internal systems were hacked by nation state actors, compromising its Red Team tools, used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers
The cybersecurity company said the attack compromised its software tools used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers
WhatsApp says Apple's privacy “nutrition labels” are anti-competitive because pre-installed apps like iMessage do not come with such labels
Facebook's global messaging service WhatsApp is protesting Apple's requirement that app owners submit information about the user data …
YouTube says it will remove any content published from today that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the 2020 US Presidential election outcome
Over the past weeks and months, we've seen people coming to YouTube to learn more about where and how to vote or learning more about a candidate or an issue.
Microsoft says its cloud gaming service, as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, will come to iOS via web browser in spring of 2021
Microsoft has confirmed that Xbox cloud gaming is coming to iOS in 2021. In a new blog post today, the company says that cloud gaming as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate …
Sources: FTC and 40+ state AGs to file antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday, alleging Instagram and WhatsApp purchases were made to kill competition
More than 40 attorneys general and the U.S. government are preparing to file antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday …
Pornhub will no longer let users download videos or unverified users upload videos, after a NYT report alleged that it was hosting videos of rape, underage sex
NEW YORK (AP) — Pornhub said Tuesday it was halting unverified users from uploading video material after a report alleged …
Sources: DoorDash is expected to price shares in its IPO at $102, valuing the company ~$38.7B fully diluted, well above last week's $90 to $95 range
- DoorDash sold shares at $102 a piece in its IPO, above its range of $90 to $95, according to people familiar with the matter.
DoorDash sells 33M shares at $102, raising $3.37B and valuing the company at $38B fully diluted
- Food delivery company reaches value of $38 billion in listing — Airbnb seeks to raise up to $3.09 billion in its IPO Wednesday — DoorDash Inc. is making its trading debut Wednesday …
Sources: Samsung Unpacked will take place on January 14, and official marketing teasers for Galaxy S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra appear to have leaked
Samsung's next-gen Galaxy S21 series is just about a month away, and with that official debut coming up fast, renders of the device are inevitably …
Internal email: Google tells its ad partners that it will lift the post-election political ad ban from December 10
Google informed its advertising partners on Wednesday that beginning Dec. 10, it will lift the post-election political ad ban that went into effect after polls closed on Nov. 3, according to an email ...
Report: four former Apple employees say the company was aware of Chinese labor law violations by its suppliers but took no action to avoid product delays
Three former members of the Apple Supplier Responsibility team say Apple was complicit in labor law violations in China. Source: The Information .
Uber is selling its flying car project, Elevate, to Joby Aviation and is investing $75M into the company as part of the deal; terms were not disclosed
- The move will allow Joby to use Uber's app to offer air taxi rides when the company's aircraft eventually enters service, which could be as soon as 2023.
Apple's simplistic presentation of privacy trade-offs risks hurting the internet economy, where small businesses rely on Facebook, Stripe, others to reach users
In 1990, Congress passed the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act, which required nutrition labels for nearly all packaged food products …
Atomico report: European tech startups are on track to receive a record $41B in VC funding in 2020, driven by fintech and SaaS startups
Despite the upheavals and uncertainties, 2020 is on track to be a record year for the amount of capital invested into European tech. Source: The State of European Tech .
A proposed Australian bill to force Google and Facebook to pay publishers for news now recognizes the monetary value of traffic that platforms send publishers
Google and Facebook Inc. won a key concession in Australia as the government unveiled details of a world-first law to force …
Apple announces AirPods Max, over-ear headphones with noise cancellation, adaptive EQ, spatial audio, and audio sharing, available from December 15 for $549
here's how Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet : Will 2021 be the year Apple fans get their most wanted product? Damon Beres / Debugger : Apple's AirPods Max Announcement Is Missing Something Big Julio Cac...
Sources: C3.ai prices its IPO at $42 per share, above the marketed range of $36-$38, to raise $651M; company will have a market value of ~$4B
C3.ai Inc., the software maker founded by former Oracle Corp. executive Tom Siebel, has priced its initial public offering above the marketed range …
Swedish startup GetAccept, whose B2B sales software helps companies close deals remotely, has raised $20M Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners
founded in 2015 by Swedish entrepreneurs Samir Smajic, Mathias Thulin, Jonas Blanck, and Carl Carell—is on a mission to radically change the way the SMB runs sales. https://www.forbes.com/... https://...
Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best on why it is not a media company, content moderation, making a reader app for users to easily read their newsletters, and more
On today's episode of Decoder, I'm talking to Chris Best, co-founder and CEO of Substack, the subscription newsletter startup that's taken …
WorkRamp, which offers digital workplace training tools, raises $17M Series B led by OMERS Ventures and will focus on European and Indian growth
Enterprise learning platform WorkRamp has raised $17 million in a Series B round led by OMERS Ventures 1. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily
Latin American crypto exchange Bitso raises $62M Series B led by QED Investors and Kaszek Ventures, following a $15M Series A in October 2019
Latin American crypto exchange Bitso has raised a whopping $62 million funding round, the largest in the region for a digital asset firm.
An internal Huawei document, found on its website, says Huawei tested facial recognition with a “Uighur alarm” to alert Chinese police when it detected Uighurs
A look at Webull, a Chinese-owned no-fee stock trading app whose userbase in the US has grown tenfold this year to over 2M
Even in a year full of surprises on Wall Street, this one stands out: A Chinese-owned brokerage has quietly built one of the fastest-growing retail trading platforms in the U.S. Tweets: @bw , @thestal...
Defense tech company Northrop Grumman will sell its IT services unit to Veritas Capital for $3.4B; the cash deal is expected to close in first half of 2021
Northrop Grumman Corp. agreed to sell a technology-services business to Veritas Capital for $3.4 billion as part of the contractor's effort …
Supply chain and logistics cloud software startup Stord has raised $31M Series B at a ~$200M valuation led by Founders Fund, bringing its total funding to $46M
Sean Henry, 24, and Jacob Boudreau, 22, founded flexible warehousing startup Stord while in college at Georgia Tech in 2015.
Google says it is opening up its open source Fuchsia OS to outside developers, the first formal announcement about the project
This document describes the different ways you can get involved and stay informed about Fuchsia. Mayank Sharma / TechRadar : Google opens up its Fuchsia OS to the public Jean-Luc Aufranc / CNX Softwar...
Any consumer product that has a social component baked in has fundamental and asymmetric advantages over competing non-social products in that category
Social Strikes Back is a series exploring the next generation of social networks and how they're shaping the future of consumer tech. Tweets: @laurenmurrow and @a16z Tweets: Lauren Murrow / @laurenmur...
App Annie: consumers will have downloaded 130B apps globally in 2020, up 10% YoY, as spending rose 25% YoY to $112B; 65¢ of every $1 was spent on iOS
Consumers will have downloaded 130 billion apps in 2020 across iOS and Google Play, up 10% year-over-year, according to mobile data …
Wiz, which helps companies identify cybersecurity threats across a cloud network, raises $100M Series A led by Index Ventures at an estimated $500M valuation
In March, as the Covid-19 pandemic was sweeping the globe, Assaf Rappaport was pushing hard to convince major companies …
Senate votes 49-47 to appoint Trump ally Nathan Simington to the FCC for a five-year term, which could mire the FCC in partisan gridlock
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JD.com's digital health care unit JD Health closed up nearly 56% on Tuesday in its Hong Kong trading debut, says net proceeds from its IPO last week were $3.41B
CentOS, a free Linux distro functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, says it's ending support for recently announced CentOS 8
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Amazon adds Microsoft, Unilever, and 11 others to its Climate Pledge, an effort to meet the goals of the Paris Accord by 2040
Some environmental groups say the initiative's limited disclosure requirements undermine its effectiveness. — SEATTLE — Amazon added to the roster …
Radeon RX 6900 XT review: at $999, the GPU only provides a minor performance bump compared to the 6800 XT, but is competitive with Nvidia's pricier RTX 3090
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Florida police raid home of former state employee and COVID whistleblower, claiming she breached a messaging system despite all its users sharing one password
Sources: as Bob Mansfield retires, Apple puts AI chief John Giannandrea in charge of self-driving car project Titan; Doug Field runs the project day to day
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Tel Aviv-based Firebolt, which develops a cloud data warehouse for analytics, raises $37M led by Zeev Ventures
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Cloudflare and Apple say they have developed a new protocol called Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS, which decouples DNS queries from internet users for more privacy
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Google announces Look to Speak, an experimental project for Android that helps users with speech and motor impairments by selecting phrases with their eyes
Netflix rolls out Kids Activity Report tool for parents to monitor their child's frequently watched shows, favorite character, and recommendations on new shows
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Germany, France, and 11 EU countries plan to invest in semiconductor manufacturing using some of the EU's €145B pandemic recovery funds for digital projects
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany, France, Spain and ten other EU countries have joined forces to invest in processors … Tweets: @adfichter and @marietjeschaake Tweets: Adrienne Fichter / @adfichter : Germ...
Pear Therapeutics, a startup developing app-based therapy and tracking tools to help treat patients, raises $80M Series D led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2
Samsung's SmartThings will support Google Nest devices starting in January 2021
Truecaller: 31.3B spam calls were received between Jan. and Oct. globally, up 18% YoY, with the average American getting 28.4 spam calls/month, up from 18.2 YoY
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Mexican digital bank albo raised $45M Series B from investors including Valar Ventures and Greyhound Capital, claims 500,000 MAUs and 40% market share in Mexico
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch : Tweets: @angelsahagun , @angelsahagun , @angelsahagun , and @angelsahagun Tweets: Angel Sahagun / @angelsahagun : 1/ Excited to announce our $45M round for @albomx - a...
Square commits $10M to fund efforts to mine bitcoin with renewables; Dorsey believes “that cryptocurrency will eventually be powered completely by clean power”
Scott Chipolina / Decrypt : Tweets: @square , @apompliano , @markjeffrey , and @timccopeland Tweets: @square : We are also launching a Bitcoin Clean Energy Investment Initiative, committing $10M to s...
Amazon launches a preview of HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service for health organizations to store, transform, and analyze life science data in AWS
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
GitHub expands its Sponsors program to let companies directly fund open source projects, starting with Amazon, AmEx, Daimler, Stripe, and others
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YouTube launches HDR support for live streams and says that it's the first major platform to do so
AT&T CEO says HBO Max now has 12.6M subscribers in the US, up from 8.6M at the end of Q3; ~30% of HBO subscribers have exercised their right to access HBO Max
Dade Hayes / Deadline : Tweets: @thr See also Mediagazer Tweets: @thr : WarnerMedia's HBO Max has reached about 12.6 million activated users, AT&T CEO John Stankey said and defended the decision to b...
Unit, whose API helps companies integrate banking services like payment cards and checking accounts, emerges from stealth with $18.6M in funding
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Paris-based NextMind says its wearable $399 Dev Kit, offering a claimed real-time brain computer interface, will begin shipping
Cybersecurity insurance startup At-Bay raises $34M Series C led by Qumra Capital, as regulatory regimes like GDPR fuel the industry's growth
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.