Epic filing reveals that in a 2016 email Phil Schiller said “moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us”, which Epic argues is proof of lock-in
Epic and Apple are preparing to battle it out in court over the App Store (remember that whole Fortnite debacle?) …
As part of its filing in its case against Epic, Apple argues that the App Store doesn't lead the gaming market and so cannot be considered a monopoly
Fraud Engineering Algorithms and Risk — said in a recent deposition that his team believed the App Review team was inadequate to the risks posed by malicious actors, saying they were “bringing a plast...
Union seeking to represent Amazon workers in AL says 3,215 ballots were cast; half of ballots have been counted, votes against unionization have 2-1 advantage
With about half the ballots counted late Thursday, votes against unionization had a more than 2-to-1 advantage over those in favor …
Verizon is recalling 2.5M Ellipsis Jetpack mobile hotspots, ~1.3M of which are in use, after investigation found batteries could overheat and pose fire hazards
The CPSC says the devices' batteries are the source of the overheating — Verizon said Thursday it is working …
Report: hackers scraped data of 500M LinkedIn users and posted it for sale online; LinkedIn confirms the dataset includes publicly viewable info from its site
- Personal data from 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and is reportedly for sale on a hacking forum.
A senior Apple engineer compared App Store's defenses against malicious actors to “bringing a plastic butter knife to a gunfight”, according to legal documents
Revelation part of legal documents released by Epic Games ahead of antitrust trial
Amazon gains enough votes to beat union effort in Alabama as counting continues
- With more than two thirds of the ballots counted, Amazon on Friday secured enough votes to defeat the unionization drive at one of its Alabama warehouses. — The NLRB still has yet to count hundreds...
Robinhood says 9.5 million customers traded crypto on its platform in Q1 2021 compared to 1.7 million in Q4 2020, an increase of 458%
The online brokerage service Robinhood said on Thursday that 9.5 million of its customers traded cryptocurrency on its platform in Q1 of 2021.
Investigation finds Google uses a secret blocklist to stop advertisers from making YouTube ad campaigns for hate terms; it worked less than a third of the time
Many well-known White supremacist and White nationalist terms and slogans were not blocked — First of two parts.
Taiwan is going to great lengths to keep water flowing to chip factories of TSMC and others, including shutting off irrigation to legions of rice growers
The island is going to great lengths to keep water flowing to its all-important semiconductor industry, including shutting off irrigation to legions of rice growers.
US Commerce Department adds seven Chinese supercomputing entities to an export blacklist for allegedly building supercomputers used by Chinese military
- Commerce added seven Chinese supercomputing entities to a U.S. economic blacklist citing national security concerns.
Amid a mental health crisis because of COVID-19, Stanford researchers found that most tech platforms have no policies related to discussions of self-harm
Exclusive: Amid a rising mental health crisis, Stanford researchers find many companies ignoring posts about self-harm
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have recovered after a brief outage; Facebook says a configuration change caused the issue
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Lawsuit alleges that, since 2017, civil rights groups have flagged hundreds of anti-Muslim Pages and Groups to Facebook, more than half of which stayed up
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Samsung announces $40 SmartTag+, which uses Bluetooth and UWB to locate lost items, and AR to guide users to them, launching globally on April 16
super-accurate item tracker Joseph Maring / ScreenRant : Samsung Beats Apple To UWB Tracker With Galaxy SmartTag Plus Sagar Naresh / Android Headlines : Samsung Galaxy SmartTag Plus With UWB To Releas...
Intel details Bleep, which uses AI to redact audio when it detects “hate speech” and lets users toggle how much they want to hear
But On A Sliding Scale James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Intel's new hate speech-purging AI Bleep comes under criticism Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net : Intel's AI-powered Bleep tech lets you choose exactl...
Facebook removed 16K groups trading fake reviews and made more changes to prevent misleading paid content, after second intervention by UK competition watchdog
(Reuters) - Social media company Facebook Inc suspended 16,000 accounts for selling or buying fake reviews of products and services …
Sources: Abu Dhabi's state fund Mubadala has started preparations for a US IPO of GlobalFoundries that could value the chipmaker at about $20B
- Abu Dhabi firm starts preparations for listing of chipmaker — Sovereign fund holds initial talks with potential advisers
Lenovo debuts 6.92" Legion Phone Duel 2 with two 2,750 mAh batteries, two USB-C ports, two cooling fans, Snapdragon 888, and up to 18GB RAM, starting at €999
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Matt Mullenweg denounces Wix's bizarre marketing campaign against WordPress and says Wix's business model “is getting customers to pay more and more every year”
@photomatt, founding developer of @WordPress https://ma.tt/... #FuckWix (I like the sound of that) Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : Those Wix ads are in poor taste for a company who has failed to deliv...
Peter Thiel says he is a “pro-Bitcoin maximalist”, but BTC threatens fiat money and might be used by China to undercut the US dollar's reserve currency status
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Facebook says it is adding contextual labels like “satire page” and “public official” to some posts in News Feeds, to reduce confusion about their origin
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Sources: Didi Chuxing is raising $1.5B in debt financing from banks ahead of a potential US IPO that could value the company at about $100B
- Ride-hailing giant signs revolving loan facility with banks — Debt deal to serve as stepping stone ahead of share sale
Iyuno-SDI Group, whose ERP software offers media localization services like subtitles, dubbing, and accessibility features, raises $160M from SoftBank Vision 2
Iyuno-SDI Group, a provider of translated subtitles and other media localization services, announced today it has raised $160 million in funding from SoftBank Vision 2.
Community, which lets public figures, media outlets, and brands text with fans, raises $40M from Salesforce Ventures, bringing its total raised to $90M
The platform for brands and celebrities seeks to expand to more large marketers and small businesses — Community.com Inc. …
Amazon offers a rare insight into its Indian business over the past decade: $3B of Indian-made goods exported, 1M+ local jobs created, and 250,000 new sellers
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Report: collaboration tools like Slack and Discord are increasingly being used to spread malware, often using the tool's own CDNs and APIs to evade detection
There's A New Malware Out There Snatching Users' Passwords TechRadar : Discord and Slack are becoming hotbeds for malware Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek : Collaboration Platforms Increasingly Abused for...
Cryptocurrency mining company Riot Blockchain says it will buy Texas-based Bitcoin hosting facility Whinstone for $80M in cash and around $570M in stock
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Tencent-backed Linklogis, which helps facilitate supply chain finance transactions, rises 11% in its $1.02B Hong Kong IPO
- Linklogis priced $1 billion offering near midpoint of range — Too early to say city's IPO sentiment is recovering: UOB — Chinese fintech firm Linklogis Inc. rose …
Crypto exchange Kraken is considering going public via direct listing in 2022; Kraken is the fourth-largest crypto exchange by trading volume with 6M+ clients
Orum, which speeds up bank payments by using AI to assess risk, raises $21M Series A led by Bain Capital
Today you can load a movie on Netflix in a second, catch an Uber in a minute and get groceries delivered in an hour. You'd think money would move just as quickly—and some of it does. Tweets: @nikmila...
Ramp, which provides corporate cards and spend management software, raises $115M at a $1.6B valuation, and says it is nearing a transaction rate of $1B
it's a really great product. Tried alternatives and nothing came close. https://twitter.com/... Harrison / @vcguidehq : I'll say it again: @tryramp on my chest, my heart, & my mind. Whenever people as...
App Annie: average daily time spent in apps crossed four hours in the US, Turkey, and India for the first time in Q1; time spent in India grew 80% from Q1 2019
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London-based mobile game studio Tripledot raises $78M Series A and says it has an active user base of 11M, up from 6M six months ago
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
UK startup TrueLayer, which lets fintech apps connect with customers' bank accounts, raises $70M Series D led by Addition, bringing its total raised to $142M
Ryan Browne / CNBC :
Alyce, which uses AI to analyze users' relationships with their colleagues and provide gift recommendations, raises $30M Series B led by General Catalyst
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Indian messaging service Gupshup raises $100M from Tiger Global at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total raised to $150M
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