As Apple and Epic make their closing arguments, a look back at the judge's pointed questioning of Cook on Friday that touched on App Store's lack of competition
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over the Epic v. Apple antitrust trial, saved her best for last.
In his Epic v. Apple trial testimony, Tim Cook offered a carefully tended ignorance that left many of the lawsuit's key questions unanswered, or unanswerable
Study: among 44 tech startups that completed a SPAC deal from the start of 2020 through April 2021, their share prices had fallen 12.6% on average by May 17
Entrepreneurs are increasingly wary about the money-raising tool after watching peers' stocks slide and investors balk
Q&A with Michael Siliski, a business lead at Stripe, on product culture, how written long-form documents facilitate the flow of information at Stripe, and more
Go deep, move fast, and build multi-decade abstractions — This is the next part of my ongoing series about product culture.
Ethiopia picks a consortium backed with US foreign aid and led by Vodafone over a China-backed group to build a multi-billion dollar 5G-capable network
A U.S.-backed consortium beat a Chinese-backed one for a multibillion-dollar contract to build Ethiopia's 5G-capable network
Twitch launches a category for “Pools, Hot Tubs, and Beaches” streams, letting creators continue to stream them while letting advertisers and viewers avoid them
Two Twitter offices in India are raided by Dehli police, after demanding Twitter explain why a “manipulated media” tag was given to a BJP spokesperson's tweet
- Tribunals are in pathetic condition, make appointments in without specifying tenure: SC to Centre
Indian startup Zeta, which helps banks launch fintech products, raises $250M Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a valuation of $1.45B
Zeta, a startup that helps banks and fintech firms launch products, is the newest to attain the coveted unicorn status after closing a new financing round.
Over 500 AI researchers are working on a project to build an open-source large language model that will be used to conduct research independent of any company
Hundreds of scientists around the world are working together to understand one of the most powerful emerging technologies before it's too late.Source:BigScience WorkshopandBigScience WorkshopTweets:@j...
Pro-Palestinian activist campaign targets Facebook's app store ratings via 1-star reviews; Facebook's internal chats show Apple declined to remove the reviews
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Apple says HomePod and HomePod mini will receive a software update in the future to natively support Apple Music Lossless
Q&A with Apple VP Tim Twerdahl, who says the new Siri Remote doesn't need AirTag's UWB tech because it is too thick to get lost in couch cushions
How Pinterest's neural network curates pins for users, pairing them with tailored ads on their search results, drawing 480M people to the site in Q1, up 30% YoY
Using neural networks, the site is able to find images—and ads—that will catch the consumer's eye Tweets: @glenngabe and @psb_dc Tweets: Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe : “Neural networks are driving nearly 1...
Japan's leading matchmaking app Omiai was hacked in April, exposing personal information, including photo IDs, of 1.7M+ users; no credit card info was leaked
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PitchBook: Indian startups raised $7.8B from Jan. to Apr 2021, ~70% of $12.1B raised in 2020; average funding size is $25.21M in 2021, up from $14.94M in 2020
Startup funding party continues amid second wave of Covid-19 — Risk investors continue to pump in record funds …
India's information technology ministry asks social media companies to take down any content that refers to an “Indian variant” of the coronavirus
Kuaishou, ByteDance's main rival, reports Q1 revenue of $2.65B, up 37% YoY, and a net loss of $8.9B, as it delved deeper into online commerce and advertising
- Advertising and e-commerce helped juice quarterly revenue — Kuaishou offers investors a taste of China's hot video market
A look at CaliberAI, a company that develops a tool for detecting potentially libelous claims, which may be particularly valuable for short-staffed newsrooms
Source: 100+ US municipalities have bought surveillance systems made by Chinese companies Hikvision and Dahua, which the US has linked to human rights abuses
Hikvision and Dahua supplied Beijing with technology it used to surveil ethnic groups — At least a hundred U.S. counties … Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @zackwhittaker Tweets: Zack Whittaker / @zackwhi...
Profile of Paul Romer, once tech's favorite economist and now a critic, who has championed state taxes on the digital ads sold by Facebook and Google
Sensor Tower makes its first acquisition with deal for market intelligence company, Pathmatics, and gets a growth investment from Riverwood Capital
Mobile app market intelligence firm Sensor Tower has made its first acquisition. The company this morning announced it's acquiring Pathmatics …
A look at the greater role automation is playing in the US, with labor shortages driving greater adoption since the start of the pandemic
but with 8.2 million fewer workers, equal to the combined payrolls of every employer in Virginia, Arizona and Iowa. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @mckinsey_mgi : Three-quarters of companies surv...
Google's partnership with Samsung to merge Wear OS with Samsung's Tizen comes after years of Google failing to build a cohesive wearables strategy
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge : Tweets: @ericliptonnyt , @jarango , and @killedbygoogle Tweets: Eric Lipton / @ericliptonnyt : THE VERGE: Despite all that hardware, software, and engineering prowess, ...
South Korea-based Riiid, which offers an AI-based tutor that gives real-time progress evaluations for students, raises $175M from SoftBank Vision Fund 2
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Invoca, which provides call tracking and conversational analytics services, buys DialogTech, which helps marketers analyze inbound calls, source says for $100M
On the heels of expanding its marketing call analytics platform last year to provide more insights to help those in sales … Thanks: @dstickler_01
Great Deals, which helps brands like L'Oréal and Unilever build their online retail operations in the Philippines, raises $30M Series B led by Fast Group
Heru, which is building a tool that uses AI and commercial AR/VR headsets to diagnose eye conditions and vision loss, raises $30M Series A led by D1 Capital
Solidus Labs, which develops monitoring and compliance tools for identifying market manipulation in crypto, raises $20M Series A
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Cynerio, a cybersecurity startup focused on healthcare IoT, raises $30M Series B, says it ended 2020 with a 300% YoY increase in revenue
London-based Faculty, an applied AI startup which helps companies adopt AI into their businesses, raises £30M from the Apax Digital Fund
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ProducePay, which offers an analytics service to track market prices of fruits and vegetables, raises $43M Series C led by G2VP, bringing total raised to $300M
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.