SEC sues Ripple Labs, its CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Chairman Chris Larsen, alleging they violated federal securities laws in selling XRP to retail consumers
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) believes Ripple Labs violated federal securities laws in selling the XRP cryptocurrency to retail consumers.
April Christina Curley, a Google recruiter focused on Black colleges, says she was fired in September and alleges a hostile work environment for Black people
- A Google employee, who said she was fired by the tech giant in September, claimed Monday that her manager told her that her way of speaking …
China's market regulator announces antitrust investigations into Alibaba, first of its kind for a Chinese internet company, for alleged monopolistic practices
Probe into China's biggest tech group is one of the first of its kind for country's internet sector
US officials say Chinese tech companies, including Alibaba and Baidu, have been enlisted to process stolen US data for Chinese spy agencies to analyze
Beijing was giving China hawks in the United States plenty of ammunition. That same year, hackers working for China's People's Liberation Army …
Apple's new privacy prompt to allow or deny tracking, originally meant to be introduced in Sept., has started to roll out for some iOS 14 users in certain apps
As a privacy measure, Apple will be requiring developers of iPhone and iPad apps to request permission from users to track …
Source: Square has held talks to acquire music streaming service Tidal, which Jay-Z acquired for $56M in early 2015
- Streaming music platform has struggled to keep up with Spotify — Dorsey has met with Jay-Z multiple times during the pandemic — Square Inc., the digital-payment …
Source: Apple is planning to release an updated Apple TV with a focus on gaming, an updated remote, and a new processor next year
Hey everyone, it's Mark Gurman. I cover all things Apple Inc. at Bloomberg Technology and I'm the host of the new consumer tech segment Power Up on Bloomberg TV.
Nuro says it has been granted a permit to test and charge for its commercial autonomous delivery service by California's DMV, the first company to do so
Hours after announcing that it acquired self-driving truck startup Ike, Nuro revealed it's the first company to receive permission …
DHS has issued an advisory to US businesses, warning of data security risks with using communication equipment and services from China-linked companies
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Driverless truck company Ike says it has been acquired by autonomous delivery vehicle startup Nuro for an undisclosed sum; Ike raised $52M Series A in Feb. 2019
Today we're excited to announce that Ike has been acquired by Nuro. Dave Ferguson / Nuro : Welcome Ike — Two and a half years ago, JZ and I met with Ike's co-founders Nancy, Alden … Kirsten Korosec ...
The Alibaba antitrust probe was likely triggered by a practice where online merchants are forced to pick only one platform as their distribution channel
Chinese regulators will look into the ‘picking one from two’ practice as part of their probe into Alibaba Group Holding …
DeepMind details MuZero, revealed in 2019 and following AlphaZero, which can master games without knowing the rules and is working on YouTube video compression
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[Thread] How iPhone security degrades following a user's first device unlock after powering it on, leaving it more vulnerable to data exfiltration
or you need the user to have entered it. 4/ Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : When you first unlock your iPhone after power-on, it uses your passcode to derive several sets of cryptographic keys. The...
China's regulatory crackdown to limit the influence of Jack Ma, who has long cultivated the image of a rebel fighting the system, has been years in the making
When Jack Ma took to a Shanghai conference stage in October, China's most famous entrepreneur was on the brink of pulling off …
Seven startups, including Thrasio and Heyday, hoping to become conglomerates like P&G have raised a combined $950M to acquire small Amazon Marketplace sellers
Start-ups including Thrasio, SellerX and Heroes are rolling up small brands, hoping to become the new P&G or Unilever Tweets: @fercany , @macrotactical , @tim , and @colarusso42 Tweets: Fercan Yalinki...
Sources: Zoom has begun developing a web email service for businesses, and may trial it next year, and is also considering building a calendar app
and how 2020 changed Zoom forever Tweets: Sharon O'Dea / @sharonodea : But y tho? (Seriously, no one wants this. Changing your primary email is a PITA so adding gmail won't encourage anyone to upgrade...
FCC's ongoing 5G wireless licenses auction has fetched over $69.8B after three weeks, beating the $44.9B sale of 4G licenses in 2015, and will resume January 4
Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal :
Amazon's $250 Echo Frames review: good as a BT headset with little noise bleed, good mic quality but have middling battery life, fall short as an Alexa device
Great in concept, but there's a limit to what Alexa can do on a phone — I did not expect to like the Amazon Echo Frames as much as I do.
Biden transition team says Twitter told it current followers of @POTUS won't carry over to Biden, whose @POTUS account will start at zero, a reversal from 2017
Clubhouse is testing an invite-only Creator Pilot Program, with over 40 members, as the service hits 600,000 registered users
Taylor Lorenz / New York Times :
NY governor signs a bill to suspend the use of facial recognition and other biometric ID tech in schools until July 2022, the first such regulation in the US
Rachel Sandler / Forbes :
Online boutique marketplace Jane raises $40M Series A from Tritium Partners; Jane was founded in 2011 and is expected to generate $250M in sales this year
We are pleased to announce a $40 million growth investment from Tritium Partners. FinSMEs : Jane Raises $40Mi in Growth Funding Tweets: Scott Rafferty / @_scott_raff : Big day for the https://jane.com...
Profile of Brandlive, a live video platform that became the crown jewel of Joe Biden's digital strategy, powering 230 campaigns and securing $30M in donations
As the COVID-19 pandemic forced live event organizers to rethink their strategies this year, there was particular attention … Tweets: @harrymccracken and @emmakinery Tweets: Harry McCracken / @harrymc...
Telegram debuts group voice chat as CEO Pavel Durov says it is nearing 500M MAUs and will launch an ad platform for public one-to-many channels next year
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A look at the growing online movement against multilevel-marketing companies, as TikTok becomes the first major platform to explicitly ban multilevel marketing
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic : Tweets: @iansherr , @scottgerber , @kaitlinmaud , and @theatlantic Tweets: Ian Sherr / @iansherr : How is it that TikTok is so much on top of it than Facebook and Twi...
Oracle's top lobbyist says it gave presentations to officials in 12+ US states about Google tracking users, a potential factor in antitrust investigations
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Voat, a lightly moderated Reddit clone that gained users after the ban of several subreddits about five years ago, says it will shut down on December 25
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
Filing: ByteDance says TikTok UK had sales of $20M in 2019, with a loss of $119.5M, driven by advertising and marketing expenses of $109M
- Chinese owner ByteDance has not disclosed global figures — Video-sharing app has been rapidly expanding in U.K.
Experts say demand for data centers has been a bright spot for US commercial real estate this year; REITs focused on data centers had returns of 19% in H1 2020
Martha C. White / New York Times :
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
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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