Oracle says it is moving its corporate headquarters from Redwood City, CA to Austin, TX and will implement “a more flexible employee work location policy”
- Oracle is the latest tech company to relocate from California to Austin, Texas. — HPE announced its move to Houston earlier this month.
Public records show school districts across the US are purchasing phone hacking tools from companies like Cellebrite to search students' personal devices
In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by one of the district's school resource officers.
Filing: California is seeking to join the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Google, making it the first Democratic state to request to join 11 GOP AGs in the suit
- California is seeking to join the Justice Department in its antitrust lawsuit against Google, according to a court filing the state submitted on Friday.
Violent unrest erupts at Wistron's iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru in India, sources say over the company's failure to pay promised wages
A screenshot of the video showing employees damaging properties at the iPhone manufacturing plant. — BENGALURU: The iPhone manufacturing plant …
Four key Facebook staffers who dealt with hateful or violent speech have left in recent weeks, calling out leadership for lack of action in their farewell posts
On Wednesday, a Facebook data scientist departed the social networking company after a two-year stint, leaving a farewell note for their colleagues to ponder.
Internal memo: Roblox, citing soaring market debuts of Airbnb and DoorDash, says it is too difficult to price its shares and will delay its IPO until next year
Videogame company, citing Airbnb and DoorDash market debuts, says it is too difficult to price its shares
Norman Abramson, the wireless network pioneer known for leading the development of Hawaii's ALOHAnet, died last week at 88
His ALOHAnet, designed a half-century ago in Hawaii, was a precursor to the technology used in today's smartphones and home WiFi networks.
AirPods Max sound great and are very well made, but they're expensive, heavy, and make Apple TV's lack of support for spatial audio that much more glaring
Some iPhone users say iOS 14 is not showing notifications when receiving SMS texts and iMessages
and one that's probably leading to some awkward conversations! https://www.theverge.com/... O...K / @kateconger : oh my god i'm so glad i'm not losing my mind https://www.theverge.com/...
Sources: Israeli surveillance vendors like Bsightful, backed by the US public company Verint, hook into ad exchange systems to siphon app location data
This year has seen a rush amongst government snoops for a new and sometimes contentious data set: location data grabbed by smartphone popular apps.
Microsoft releases a preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM, available to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel
Build 21277 (https://blogs.windows.com/...) is also available as an optional update if you want move to even newer builds. ^AL https://twitter.com/... Zac Bowden / @zacbowden : 64-bit app emulation co...
Wisconsin-based Fetch Rewards raises $80M Series C led by ICONIQ Growth for its consumer loyalty and retail rewards app, bringing its total raised to $118M
Late last month, we wrote about the 50 most funded tech startups in the United States in 2020. Little did we know that Fetch Rewards …
Eric Engstrom, one of the pioneers behind DirectX which helped make Windows a dominant gaming platform and paved the way for Xbox, died at 55 on December 1
Eric Engstrom was part of rebellious team behind technology that paved way for Xbox — In the early 1990s, Microsoft Corp.'s …
Microsoft: “Adrozek” malware campaign is distributing an ad-injecting browser modifier which changes security settings; Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Yandex at risk
what to do now Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Microsoft Edge, Chrome, and Firefox Being Hit By “Adrozek” Attacks Usama Jawad / Neowin : Microsoft issues warning about malware campaign infecting Chrome, Edge...
Innoviz, a lidar company backed by auto suppliers Magna and Aptiv, is going public via a SPAC merger expected to close in Q1 2021 at a valuation of $1.4B
Bloomberg :
Sweden-based MTG acquires Hutch Games, a London-based game studio behind popular mobile racing games such as Rebel Racing and F1 Manager, for up to $375M
Sweden's MTG is making a significant acquisition in the mobile gaming industry. The company is acquiring Hutch Games …
Apple says it is retiring Music Memos, an app released in 2016 to let musicians record song ideas, on March 1, 2021, directs users to export to Voice Memos app
Ireland-based Immedis, whose software is used to process payroll in 150+ countries, raises $50M from Lead Edge Capital and is now valued at more than $575M
Sarah Harford / Silicon Republic :
House and Senate pass the annual defense bill without any provisions to repeal Section 230, defying Trump's veto threat with a veto-proof two-thirds majority
Hyundai buys an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics in a deal that values the robot company at $1.1B
Kyunghee Park / Bloomberg :
Amsterdam-based Catawiki, an online auction site that specializes in selling high-value collectors' items like classic cars, raises €150M from PE firm Permira
Kaye Wiggins / Financial Times :
Disney's stream of Disney+ announcements on Thursday finally delivered on ~$100B worth of acquisitions over 15 years of widely adored billion dollar franchises
Julia Alexander / The Verge :
Facebook identifies individuals behind APT32 and suspends their accounts, linking one of the most active state-sponsored hacking groups to an IT firm in Vietnam
one operating in Vietnam, and the other in Bangladesh. https://about.fb.com/... Alon Gal / @underthebreach : Idk if Facebook made the right move by doxxing APT32 publicly prior to any arrests, nor wit...
Twitter says it has acquired screen-sharing social app Squad whose team will join Twitter, and it will shut down the app tomorrow
with Periscope in danger Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Twitter Acquires Multi-Participant Streaming App Squad, Which Enables Screen-Sharing Within Chats PYMNTS.com : Twitter Buys Screen-Sha...
Text inside Twitter's app code suggests that live broadcasting app Periscope may get shut down
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Senator Klobuchar, alarmed by the “intrusive” nature of Amazon's Halo health tracker, writes letter to HHS asking it to safeguard users' private health data
and makes the absolute least use of it.” Comes with bonus sexism: “an automated system that essentially says, 'Hey, sweetie, why don't you smile more?'” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Gareth L Po...
Some restaurants listed as Black-owned on Uber Eats appear to not be owned by Black people, as Uber lets restaurants self-identify through a form
instead, it seems more aligned with a commitment to a business model that, whenever possible, will extract value from Black people...” https://twitter.com/... Jonathan Kay / @jonkay : Watching @VICE g...
Members of Spotify unions at Gimlet, The Ringer, and Parcast stopped working for two hours on Friday, demanding fairer contracts and better working conditions
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE :
Salesforce's acquisition of Slack is emblematic of a long-standing trend of defensive acquisitions by Big Tech and speaks to the impact of weak antitrust laws
Slack wanted to stay independent. But in a landscape dominated by tech giants, that proved impossible.
Twitter says iOS users can now add tweets to Snapchat Snaps as stickers, and it will soon test sharing tweets to Instagram Stories
Source: at an all-hands meeting, Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook employees they will not be required to get vaccinated before returning to work in their offices
Graphiant, a stealth startup working on next generation computer networking tech, raises $33.5M Series A co-led by Sequoia Capital and Two Bear Capital
Bionic, which helps businesses manage applications via automated app analytics, has come out of stealth with $17M in Series A and seed funding
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
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.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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