Apple says allowing users to download apps directly onto their iPhones without having to use the App Store would harm customers by damaging privacy and security
Company says allowing users to download software onto their iPhones without using the App Store jeopardizes protections
DOJ says it has seized 36 Iranian media websites and sites for groups affiliated with Iran that are linked to Iranian disinformation for violating US sanctions
The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it seized 36 Iranian-linked websites, many of them associated with either disinformation activities …
Twitter opens applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows for a small number of users, who will keep 97% of revenue after the IAP cut if making <$50K
Users initially keep 97 percent of their revenue — Twitter is opening applications for a limited test of its Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces features.
Apple's head of user privacy says sideloading is actually “eliminating choice” and would negate technical and policy defenses
Recently there have been growing calls for Apple to allow third-party app stores for the iOS and iPadOS platforms, which would enable a process known as …
Australia's controversial Online Security Bill is about to become law, expanding the eSafety Commissioner's ability to censor the internet
The controversial Online Safety Bill will give broad censorship powers to the eSafety commissioner, and experts warn that it could harm those it purports to save.
Analysis: bitcoin's hashrate, or the power needed to mine it, has nearly halved from 168,000 PH/s on May 15 to 86,000 PH/s on June 23, as its price falls
Quick Take — Bitcoin hashrate has declined by nearly 50% in over a month, according to The Block Research.
Microsoft has become the second public US company to reach a $2T market value, after Apple did in August 2020 and two years after hitting its first $1T in value
- Shares of the software giant have gained 19% so far this year — Only Apple and Saudi Aramco had hit $2 trillion in value
Morning Consult poll of 2,000 US voters: 53% at least somewhat support Congress' Big Tech antitrust bills; 44% rank tech regulation as their lowest priority
- A new poll commissioned by tech industry-funded group shows 53% of voters favor at least some tech regulation.
Inside Republican infighting over the proposed Big Tech antitrust bills, as some co-sponsor bills while others argue the bills don't address alleged bias
Apple, Google, FB & Amazon — see the very real possibility that their power can finally be constrained. They're waging an all-out lobbyist effort to stop it. Right now, the 2 key obstacles are McCarth...
EA says it will buy Warner Bros. Games' Playdemic mobile games studio, known for one of the top mobile games “Golf Clash”, for $1.4B in cash
Founded in 2010, Playdemic is known for “Golf Clash,” which lets players compete with each other around the world in real time.
How recent actions against Big Tech in the US, UK, and EU could inadvertently lead to more fragmentation and ossification of the internet
A big change in how the Internet is defined - and who defines it - is underway. — For a while now, it's been apparent that Internet and Web standards have stagnated at the ‘top’ of the stack.
Facebook says it is working on visual search for Instagram shopping to help users find info on products in images, and Shops is coming to WhatsApp, Marketplace
Facebook is working on visual search technology for Instagram as it doubles down on shopping features throughout its platform.
Bitmain, the largest producer of crypto mining equipment, suspends sales of machines for spot delivery globally, as top-tier rig prices drop ~75% since April
- Bitmain takes step to help prop up second-hand prices — Cost of a top-tier rig plunged by about 75% since April
Antitrust experts say the biggest obstacle to Lina Khan's agenda will be a conservative judiciary, which has made it difficult for regulators to win big cases
The fiercest foes of America's technology giants cheered when Lina Khan, a professor at Columbia Law School …
Rights Group Global Witness study finds Facebook is promoting content that incites violence against Myanmar's coup protesters and amplifies junta misinformation
Posts ranging from wanted posters to death threats remain online for months, breaching platform's own standards
International coalition of consumer groups, digital and civil rights organizations, and data protection experts call for ban on “surveillance-based advertising”
An international coalition of consumer protection, digital and civil rights organizations and data protection experts …
Tim Berners-Lee defends his decision to auction an NFT representing the web's source code, comparing it to the sale of an autographed book or a speaking tour
Creator of the world wide web says digital asset is ‘totally aligned with the values of the web’
What to expect from Microsoft's “next generation” Windows event on Thursday: new Windows 11 UI, updated Windows Store, and a focus on productivity and gaming
Microsoft's “next generation” of Windows event is taking place later this week, on June 24th at 11AM ET.
YouTube Shorts, which launched new stars but is rife with clickbait and TikTok re-uploads, will use new metrics to pay creators via a $100M fund this summer
As a kid in Manchester, England, Dan Rhodes taught himself magic by watching tutorials on YouTube.
Ohio-based Lower, which offers online home financing services, raises $100M Series A led by Accel, its first external funding round in its seven-year history
Lower, an Ohio-based home finance platform, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Accel.
European Commission says it has opened an antitrust investigation into whether Google favors its own display ad tech over rivals
2017 Google fined $2.7 billion for shopping — 2018 Google fined $5 billion for Android — 2019 Google fine $1.7 billion for ads https://www.axios.com/... Parmy Olson / @parmy : Google's big new antitru...
London's mayor says the Underground will have mobile coverage by the end of 2024 across its entire system, including some popular stations by the end of 2022
Sources: the FTC will review Amazon's proposed acquisition of MGM, just as the commission gets a new chairwoman who has been critical of Amazon's expansion
Vercel, which develops the popular open-source Next.js React framework, raises $102M Series C led by Bedrock Capital at a $1.1B valuation
Vercel, the company behind the popular open-source Next.js React framework, today announced that it has raised a $102 million Series C funding round led by Bedrock Capital.
After agreeing to be Facebook's first VR ad test partner, Resolution Games says it won't move forward with the test in its paid VR game Blaston
Privacy browser Brave launches a non-tracking search engine in beta, at search.brave.com, to offer an “all in one” alternative to Google Search and Chrome
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Q&A with Patreon CEO Jack Conte on its relationship with Apple and exception from App Store's 30% cut, supporting creators across platforms, and more
Washington Democrat Pramila Jayapal says bipartisan antitrust legislation, one of six bills, would force Amazon to sell its logistics division
Kuaishou now has 1B monthly active users globally, joining rivals ByteDance and Tencent, including on its Kwai and Snack Video apps
China's No 2 short video-sharing app operator joins rival ByteDance and Tencent as internet platforms with 1 billion monthly active users Kuaishou's tally covers …
Pakistan outlines plans to double its IT industry in two years using new tech zones, after missing out on tech booms that lifted India and the Philippines
- New tech zones may double IT industry to $6 billion in 2 years — Pakistan has huge youth population, world's No. 3 gig economy Tweets: @economypak Tweets: @economypak : “Pakistan is looking to do...
Full Truck Alliance closes at $21.50 per share on its first day of trading, up 13% from its initial price of $19, giving it a market value of ~$23.6B
Israeli startup Mitiga, which helps companies manage cloud security, raises $25M Series A led by ClearSky Security, Atlantic Bridge, and DNX
Israeli cloud security startup Mitiga has raised $25 million in a Series A round of funding as it moves to “completely change” the traditional incident response market.
Two South African brothers who founded crypto investment firm Africrypt vanished with ~69,000 bitcoins, worth $3.6B+, after informing clients of an alleged hack
- Lawyers hired by investors piece together funds' disappearance — Africrypt loss would rank among biggest-ever crypto heists
Boston-based Drata, which uses automation to help companies obtain SOC 2 compliance for secure cloud data storage, raises $25M Series A led by GGV Capital
Security compliance is precisely three things: incredibly boring, time consuming, and entirely necessary to run a business in the modern age.
Intel forms an Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics unit, and a Software and Advanced Technology unit, as part of the company's ongoing reorg
Tiernan Ray / ZDNet :
A look at AMD's new FidelityFX Super Resolution, which aims to upscale games to higher resolution and competes with Nvidia's DLSS technology
Quanergy Systems, which makes lidar sensors and perception software for autonomous cars, will go public via a SPAC merger at an implied valuation of $1.4B
Investigation: Strike, El Salvador's digital crypto wallet partner, is only licensed in one US state, potentially making transfers to El Salvador illegal
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, caused a stir this month when he declared his country would become the first in the world to accept Bitcoin as legal tender. Tweets: @scottchipolina , @scot...
Sources: Hong Kong's on-demand logistics and delivery firm Lalamove has filed confidentially for a US IPO, looking to raise at least $1B
- Logistics firm has filed confidentially for U.S. share sale — Lalamove was raising funds at $8 billion valuation last year
Elliptic report: US regulators, led by SEC, have levied $2.5B against various crypto projects since 2009, mostly from unregistered securities offerings
Primer raises $110M Series C for its natural language processing platform used by US national security agencies and others, says it's partnering with Palantir
Sources: Ant Group is in talks with Chinese state-owned companies to create a credit scoring company that will put Ant's vast data under Chinese control
The fintech giant is in discussions to start a new credit-scoring business with Chinese state-owned enterprises Tweets: @jingyanghk , @lingling_wei , and @joshchin Tweets: Jing Yang / @jingyanghk : *O...
Self-driving truck startup Embark says it is going public via SPAC merger at a ~$5.2B valuation
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal :
Paris-based Kaiko, which provides cryptocurrency market data and research, raises $24M Series A to expand analysis of the Asian market
Helene Braun / CoinDesk :
Salesforce and AWS extend their partnership with new integration capabilities to make it easier to share data and build apps on their platforms
Technologies and methodologies in the IT world have changed radically.
Incorta, which aims to optimize data warehousing projects for enterprises, raises $120M Series D led by Prysm Capital, bringing its total funding to $195M
Jonathan Vanian / Fortune :
Google, shifting to a hybrid workplace, debuts a Work Location Tool for staff to apply for an office move or to become fully remote and see how salaries change
but change your approach Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : FAAMNG has now settled on hybrid work with 3 days in the office as a minimum threshold or optionally working remote. The next consensus...
How Reddit uses its community-first approach to moderate content, relying heavily on its users instead of outsourced moderation farms
Chinese autonomous driving company WeRide confirms it raised $600M+ in just under five months across Series B and C rounds at a $3.3B valuation
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
Splunk raises $1B from Silver Lake in exchange for convertible notes, and says it will use the investment to fund buybacks; Splunk stock up 11%
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE :
PlanetScale, which builds a database-as-a-service offering on Vitess, the tech that helps scale YouTube, raises $30M Series B
Peter Wayner / VentureBeat :
Viva Republica, developer of Korean financial services app Toss, raises $410M at a post-money valuation of $7.4B, and says it's launching a neobank in September
Philadelphia-based Sporttrade raises $36M in funding, after emerging from stealth in May, for its upcoming app which provides a trading exchange for sports bets
Atom Finance, which lets users track investments and research holdings, raises $28M led by SoftBank's Latin America Fund, source says at a ~$150M valuation
Dawn Lim / Wall Street Journal :
CipherTrace, which helps track crypto crimes and sells compliance tools, raises $27.1M Series B
Danny Nelson / CoinDesk :
Aircall, which offers a cloud-based call center and CRM service, raises $120M led by Goldman Sachs Group's asset management arm at a $1B+ valuation
Crystal Tse / Bloomberg :
Oyster, which develops HR software for a distributed workforce, raises $50M Series B led by Stripes at a $475M valuation, up 6x from its previous valuation
South Korea-based VoyagerX, which develops AI software, raises $27M Series A from investors including SoftBank Ventures Asia and Altos Ventures
Quynh Nguyen / DealStreetAsia :
Sprinklr, which builds tools to help brands interact with customers online, raises $266M in US IPO at about a $4B valuation
Katie Roof / Bloomberg :
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.