Court filing: Tim Cook, Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi, Eddy Cue, and ex-iOS software chief Scott Forstall are among witnesses to testify in Epic vs Apple trial
Apple today submitted its witness list for its upcoming bench trial with Epic Games, and several Apple executives will be testifying …
Twitter says it will set up a legal entity in Turkey to comply with the country's social media law that took effect in October 2020
Twitter accepted a requirement to appoint a local representative in Turkey as part of a new social media law that took effect in October 2020, according to a top Turkish official.
Brazilian state of São Paulo fines Apple $2M for selling iPhones without a charger, allegedly misleading customers about the water resistance of iPhones, more
“Apple needs to understand that in Brazil there are solid consumer protection laws and institutions.
Coinbase will pay a $6.5M fine to settle with the CFTC, over allegations that it self-traded cryptocurrencies between 2015 and 2018
Coinbase will pay a $6.5 million fine to settle allegations it self-traded cryptocurrencies between 2015 and 2018. — Crypto exchange Coinbase …
Twitter confirms it's testing an “Undo Tweet” feature, first discovered by Jane Manchun Wong, who suggests it could be part of Twitter's planned subscriptions
An app researcher's screenshot shows that among the options for subscribers of an unrevealed service.
REvil ransomware gang says it had breached Acer, sharing leaked images of internal docs on the dark web, and is demanding $50M; Acer says it is investigating
Taiwanese computer maker Acer has suffered a ransomware attack over the past weekend at the hands of the REvil ransomware gang …
Misinformation and historical revisionism are widespread on some non-English editions of Wikipedia, such as Japanese, which is the most visited after English
During World War II, Unit 731 of the Japanese military undertook horrific medical experimentation in Manchukuo (Northeast China). Tweets: @edfrench , @yumikosatomtbc , @slate , @yumikosatomtbc , @yumi...
Google's plan to remove third-party cookies from Chrome does little to change the underlying dynamics of the surveillance-based behavioral advertising industry
The demise of surveillance capitalism has been greatly exaggerated. — GOOGLE GOT SOME good press a few weeks ago when it announced …
After Citigroup erroneously sent $900M to lenders using Oracle's Flexcube, some are calling for simplified business software UX to match consumer-facing design
Citi's accidental payment makes a strong case for upgrading back-end technology to match consumer-facing design
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics
Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @jcstearns , @justinh...
How Pinduoduo leads China's adoption of social e-commerce by putting social media first, and gamifying the shopping experience so people win deals and discounts
Five-year-old company is first challenger to loosen Alibaba and JD.com's stranglehold over online consumption in the country Tweets: @juokaz , @mdudas , @jchengwsj , and @wsj Tweets: @juokaz : A five-...
Weee!, an online grocer specializing in Hispanic and Asian foods, has raised $315M Series D led by DST Global, source says at a $2.8B valuation
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Profile of Yubo, a social media app for teens to connect with strangers, which saw engagement increase nearly 400% in the last year and has at least 40M users
Anna Kramer / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol Tweets: @protocol : If you Google Yubo, you'd mostly find news articles warning parents about child predators. But Yubo... isn't like that. At its core, it'...
Interview with CEO of SkySilk, the hosting company that helped bring Parler online, who says he did it to spite tech giants like Amazon who abuse their might
On Jan. 10, just days after pro-Trump rioters blitzed the U.S. Capitol, Amazon Web Services pulled the plug on the conservative social media site Parler. Tweets: @davetroy , @jimstinnett , @tompalmspr...
Sources: UK's CMA is preparing an antitrust investigation into the way Facebook allegedly uses customer data to squash rivals in social media and online ads
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Experts discuss challenges of building government tech, including legacy systems, regulatory complexity, lack of data sharing between departments, and more
Cat Ferguson / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @shashashasha , @camcritt , @mattbernius , @annelies_goger , and @techreview Tweets: Sha / @shashashasha : My mind, honestly, is elsewhere today. But I'...
As videos from court hearings on Zoom go viral, a look at the debate over privacy of citizens in those videos and judicial transparency on the internet
Gita Jackson / VICE : Tweets: @kari_paul , @jason_koebler , @digiphile , @misupremecourt , and @motherboard Tweets: Kari Paul / @kari_paul : Covid has moved many court hearings to Zoom, allowing peop...
A look at Facebook's “Red Team X”, an internal hacking team founded in 2020, which probes 3rd-party tech Facebook uses for hardware and software vulnerabilities
Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Tweets: @johnjhacking , @gadgetlab , @lilyhnewman , and @ajxchapman Tweets: John Jackson / @johnjhacking : Jealous. This is what I need to be doing for a living. https://www...
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.