Some GoDaddy employees are upset after the company sent a phishing email scam to test its employees, with the email promising a $650 one-time holiday bonus
GoDaddy surpassed 20 million customers this year and laid off or reassigned hundreds of employees during the coronavirus pandemic in Arizona, Iowa, and Texas.
Citrix confirmed ADC networking equipment is being actively exploited to amplify DDoS attacks against a “small number of customers”; patch expected mid-January
Citrix says it's working on a fix, expected next year. — Threat actors have discovered a way to bounce …
Facebook's claims that SMBs will suffer from iOS's privacy changes seem exaggerated when examining the technical changes Facebook announced in response
The social media giant would have you believe that Apple's privacy update will hurt the little guys. But Facebook's motives aren't so altruistic.
A study using 96K searches found that Google News put far more national news outlets than local outlets at the top of search results, even for local queries
Our audit reveals that Google News sends readers — and advertising dollars — away from local news outlets.
As streaming platforms like Netflix have grown, political films they used to seek out, like The Dissident, on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, are being shunned
Bryan Fogel's examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies … Tweets: @joshfoxfilm , @dlepeska , @sub8u , @amlivemon , and @brooksbar...
CD Projekt sued in CA federal court by investor seeking class action status, claiming the company made “false and/or misleading” statements about Cyberpunk 2077
A New York-based law firm filed the lawsuit on Thursday — After a rocky Cyberpunk 2077 launch earlier in December …
China's market regulator announces an antitrust investigation into Alibaba for alleged monopolistic practices, the first investigation of its kind in China
the man most closely identified w/ the meteoric rise of China Inc.—was advised by the government to stay in the country... https://www.bloomberg.com/... @luluyilun & @cocojournalist report. Art Jonak ...
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
after Google did not respond to demands from Black employees from within the company for better treatment and representation. My latest w/@CiCiAdams_ https://www.nbcnews.com/... Jeffrey Dastin / @jlda...
Bloomberg has acquired Second Measure, a data analytics firm offering consumer behavior and company performance insights; Second Measure previously raised ~$25M
Bloomberg today announced that it has acquired data analytics platform Second Measure, a San Mateo-based startup that leverages big data …
European tech executives and diplomats privately complain US sanctions on Huawei shut them out of the Chinese market while offering exceptions for US companies
Business says EU groups are losing out on licences to sell to blacklisted Chinese companies — European tech executives … Tweets: @anupamchander , @pastynome , @j_b_c16 , @chadbown , @peterkirkegaard...
Leaked docs show Nintendo carried out a surveillance operation, with a “carrot and stick” approach, on a hacker who was researching exploits for 3DS
Projects to protect the intellectual property rights of corporations are underway all around the world on a continual basis …
The Alibaba antitrust probe was likely triggered by online merchants being forced to pick only one platform as their distribution channel, a widespread practice
NewsGuard: 17% of engagement among the top 100 news sources on social media in 2020 was with sources NewsGuard considers unreliable, compared to 8% in 2019
Unreliable news websites significantly increased their share of engagement among the top performing news sources on social media this year … Tweets: @rpeddy , @shawnarchen , @jimwarren55 , and @justin...
Amazon's $250 Echo Frames review: good as a Bluetooth headset, little noise bleed, good mic quality, but middling battery life, falls short as an Alexa device
Dieter Bohn / The Verge :
An interview with Keith Rabois, who has championed Miami as a tech destination after moving there, and whose investment portfolio has seen major exits this year
San Francisco isn't dying Brian Bandell / South Florida Business Journal : Silicon Valley tech leader Rabois buys Miami Beach mansion for $29M (Photos) Tweets: Mike Solana / @micsolana : we're turning...
UK cosmetic surgery chain The Hospital Group confirms a ransomware attack after hacker group REvil claims it has obtained more than 900GB of patient photographs
Joe Tidy / BBC :
Privacy laws in the US had momentum at the beginning of 2020, but the pandemic has focused Congress elsewhere and forced everyone to give up more data online
Our lives moved online in 2020. Too bad privacy laws didn't. — SHARE All sharing options — As a digital privacy reporter … Tweets: @azza_alt , @adam_k_levin , @evan_greer , and @hypervisible Twee...
Tencent-backed Meishubao Education, a Chinese startup providing online art classes to users aged 3 to 18, has raised $210M Series D led by TPG's The Rise Fund
Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia :
In unsealed court docs, Facebook managers appeared to admit to major flaws in ad targeting capabilities in 2016 and wondered if they were misleading advertisers
not banned. They (generally, depending on product) perform better, and I don't have any interest (or upside) in invading customers privacy (in fact, we can't see individual data). https://twitter.com/...
UK-based Brightpearl, which offers operations management software for logistics and more, raises $33M Series C led by Sage
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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
Uniontech Software, a Chinese startup that makes Linux-based operating systems, raises $168.2M Series A led by state-owned investment firm Beijing E-Town
Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia :
Analysis: cybersecurity companies across the globe have raised $8.1B in 2020 and nearly $6.3B in the US, up from $7.4B globally and $4.7B in the US in 2019
Despite a pandemic that raged around the globe for the better part of the year, the cybersecurity market retained investor interest …
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
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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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.