Activision Blizzard says that Blizzard's head of global human resources, Jesse Meschuk, has also left the company
Jesse Meschuk, SVP of global HR, has left — Blizzard president J. Allen Brack isn't the only executive leaving the company today after presiding over a culture now accused of fostering “constant sex...
WhatsApp is rolling out a View Once feature for photos and videos that disappear from the chat after the recipient opens it
There and gone — WhatsApp is rolling out its “View Once” feature today, which deletes photos or videos from your chat after they've been opened by the recipient. Source: About Facebook .
Facebook says it has disabled the accounts, apps, Pages, and access to its APIs for researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory Project, citing TOS violations
- Company says researchers of political ads were scraping data — NYU's Ad Observatory got cease-and-desist letter last October Source: About Facebook .
Sony beats estimates with Q1 operating profit of $2.6B and says the PS5 is no longer selling at a loss; PS Plus subscribers declined to 46.3M from 47.6M
- Sony expecting more from music streaming and digital cameras — PlayStation software sales and subscriber additions slowed
Activision Blizzard says President J. Allen Brack is leaving the company, replaced by Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra, as the fallout from CA lawsuit continues
Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra will take over as co-leaders — In the last week or so, we've learned about the state of California filing …
Q&A with YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan on monetizing Shorts, content moderation with Content ID, YouTube TV, competing with TikTok, and more
YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan joined Decoder this week to discuss YouTube's new $100 million fund to begin paying creators …
Activision beats expectations in Q2 with revenue of $2.29B, up 19% YoY, and net bookings of $1.92B, down only 7% YoY, notes risks of the sexual harassment suit
Activision Blizzard reported earnings today that beat Wall Street's and its own expectations with 19% revenue growth to $2.29 billion for the second quarter ended June 30.
Microsoft pauses free trials of its new Windows 365 service, which lets users stream Windows 10 or 11 via web browser, after “significant demand”
Windows 365 lets you stream a cloud PC to a web browser — Microsoft launched its new cloud PC Windows 365 service earlier this week …
Robinhood shares surged as much as 80% on Wednesday, reaching $85, with trading halted several times, bringing total gains across the week to up to 140%
Robinhood shares soared again on Wednesday, extending a wild rally in the newly public stock trading app's stock.
Sources: NLRB probe found Amazon illegally interfered with workers organizing in Staten Island, NY; NLRB officer recommends election rerun for Alabama warehouse
The National Labor Relations Board found that Amazon illegally interfered with worker organizing at its Staten Island, New York warehouse in May.
T-Mobile confirms that it will shut down Sprint's LTE network by June 30, 2022, following its decision to shut down Sprint's 3G CDMA network on January 1, 2022
T-Mobile confirmed to Light Reading that it will shut down the Sprint LTE network by June 30, 2022.
On-demand movie and TV service FandangoNOW has merged with video streaming service Vudu, which will become Roku's official movie and TV store
Last year, movie ticketing and discovery business Fandango, a division of NBCUniversal, bought the on-demand video streaming service Vudu from Walmart …
Instacart hires longtime Facebook ads chief Carolyn Everson, who left in June, as president, starting Sept. 7, following other high-profile hires from Facebook
- Weeks after poaching Facebook's Fidji Simo as CEO, Instacart hires Carolyn Everson as president.
After a report showed Amazon destroying millions of unsold items in the UK, Amazon introduces two programs to reduce waste, including reselling used items
- The so-called Fulfilment by Amazon programs, announced in a blog post on Wednesday, will help to build a circular economy, the company said.
Apple rolls out three new AMD Radeon Pro graphics card modules for Intel-based Mac Pros; options range from $2,400 to $5,600 in build-to-order configurations
YouTube will pay creators up to $10K/month for making original videos on YouTube Shorts, starting in 10 regions this month and paid out of its $100M Shorts Fund
California AG's case examples of CCPA enforcement seem to indicate that companies can't rely on trade groups' blanket opt-out tools not tailored to CCPA
For more than a year advertisers and publishers had few clues for detecting how California regulators would enforce the state's privacy law. Tweets: @chronotope , @katekayereports , @jason_kint , @pro...
Internal document: Google fired dozens of engineers between 2018 and 2020 for abusing their access to data and tools
Some allegations potentially center around accessing Google user or employee data. — Joseph Cox — Google has fired dozens of employees between 2018 and 2020 … Tweets: @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @...
After criticism from China, Tencent says it will limit playing time on flagship Honor of Kings for under 18s to one hour per day and not between 10PM and 8AM
with new boring title “Online Gaming Grows Into Industry Worth Hundreds of Billions of Yuan”. Scraps harsh words games are “opium of the mind”, “electronic drugs”. https://www.jjckb.cn/... https://twi...
Report finds attacks on 5 Southeast Asian telcos since 2017 are linked to 3 Chinese cyber-espionage groups, but found no signs of collaboration among the groups
an indication that the targets are of great value to the attackers. #china #espionage #apt #infosec #security #malware https://www.cybereason.com/... https://t.co/... @780thc : Cybereason investigated...
Overview of the severe shortage of cybersecurity workers across the US government and private sector, despite an unprecedented slate of hacking threats
Fallout from the Pegasus Project has started as more details emerge … Dave Nyczepir / FedScoop : DOJ reveals 27 U.S. Attorneys offices had emails compromised in SolarWinds hack Tweets: ISSA Los Angele...
A bipartisan Senate investigation finds that, despite years of warnings, many US government agencies have not established effective cybersecurity programs
Martin Matishak / The Record : Source: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs .
Zeni, which offers AI-powered tools to startups to manage finances for a flat monthly fee starting at $299, raises $34M Series B led by Elevation Capital
Zeni, a Palo Alto fintech company providing real-time financial services data to venture-backed startups, raised $34 million in Series B funding led by Elevation Capital.
Yellow.ai, which builds AI-powered conversational chatbot tools, raises $78.15M+ Series C, bringing its total raised to $102.15M, as it expands globally
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Conversational AI platform provider Yellow.ai today announced …
PE firm Apax Partners says it is merging three companies that make software for non-profits, EveryAction, Social Solutions, and CyberGrants, in a deal worth $2B
and it leads to scammy practices having a PE firm in charge seems next level bad https://twitter.com/... Matt Browner Hamlin / @mattkbh : Good to see private equity making big moves in the lucrative *...
Atlanta-based FullStory, which offers analytics tools to improve user experiences, raises $103M Series D at a $1.8B valuation, bringing total raised to $170M
Even with all the years of work that have been put into improving how screen-based interfaces work, our experiences with websites …
A look at a new labor force using microtask platforms like Remotasks to create and edit data sets for self-driving cars, located primarily in the Global South
To master the roads, autonomous vehicles need lots of data. Workers everywhere from Kenya to Venezuela are providing it.
Citizen launches Protect, a $20/month service that offers access to a Citizen operator and other features, after a 100,000-user beta test
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Email service Superhuman, which charges $30/month and hasn't formally launched, raises $75M Series C led by IVP, source says at a $825M valuation
Covering venture capital, software and startups — When Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra agreed to meet with former Dropbox CFO Ajay Vashee's … Tweets: @caseynewton , @alexrkonrad , @imkialikethecar , @mar...
NFT marketplace MakersPlace raises $30M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Pantera Capital; MakersPlace brought the $69M Beeple NFT to market
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Microsoft tells employees it will require proof of vaccination to enter a Microsoft building in the US starting September, with medical and religious exceptions
Apple and Affirm's PayBright will launch a “buy now, pay later” program for iPhone, Mac, and iPad purchases in Canada on Aug. 11, according to a staff message
and is separate from the Apple Pay Later ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ service Apple is developing for ALL Apple Pay transactions. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Mark Gurman / @markgurman : New story: Apple pla...
Third Wave Automation, a startup adding automation tech to forklifts to augment human workers, raises $40M Series B led by Norwest Venture Partners
Fresh off a strategic partnership with Toyota Industries Corporation to build an autonomous forklift, Third Wave Automation has snagged another $40 million from investors.
Elroy Air, which is building autonomous drones to transport cargo over long distances, raises $40M Series A from Lockheed Martin and others
Elroy Air has raised a $40 million Series A, including financing from Lockheed Martin's venture capital arm, to ramp up the build …
Lyft reports Q2 revenue of $765M, up 125% YoY and 26% QoQ, vs $696.9M est., active riders of 17.14M, vs 15.45M est., and a net loss of $251.9M vs $437M in Q2'20
Robinhood's stock closed at $46.80, up 24.2% on the day's trading, blowing past its IPO price of $38 and becoming Tuesday's “top traded stock” on Fidelity
Google consolidates its sign-in offerings with a new family of Identity APIs called Google Identity Services, including a new “One Tap” sign in prompt
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Kuaishou says it will shut down its Zynn video sharing app on August 20, ending its ill-fated attempt to compete with TikTok in North America
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Mexico City-based Yaydoo, a B2B software and payments startup, raises $20.4M Series A led by Base10 Partners and monashees
Christine Hall / TechCrunch :
Buildots, which uses computer vision to modernize construction management, raises $30M Series B led by Lightspeed Ventures
George Lawton / VentureBeat :
Dubai-based buy now, pay later service Tabby raises $50M Series B at a $300M valuation led by Global Founders Capital and STV
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch :
Researchers were able to quickly circumvent security protections of a laptop that followed virtually all NIST recommendations, including TPM and UEFI SecureBoot
India-based BharatPe, which helps offline merchants accept digital payments, raises $370M Series E led by Tiger Global at a $2.85B post-money valuation
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
How Michael Dell oversaw Dell's expansion after taking it private, growing the company to $75B, by focusing on providing infrastructure to businesses and others
Match Group reports Q2 revenue of $708M, up from $555M YoY, vs $694M estimated, and Tinder direct revenue of $399M, up 26% YoY, with 9.6M paying users, up 17%
Emily Bary / MarketWatch :
Apptopia: anonymous messaging app Sendit, which uses Snap Kit to work with Snapchat features, surges with 3.5M installs, two months after Snap banned Yolo, LMK
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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