Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal emails staff to announce that Elon Musk will hold an internal AMA addressing concerns that Musk will sabotage the company culture
Twitter plans to host Elon Musk for a question-and-answer session with employees after a week of internal outcries over his appointment …
Microsoft says it obtained a court order on April 6 to take control of seven domains and disrupt Russia-linked hacking group Strontium's attacks against Ukraine
Microsoft has successfully disrupted attacks against Ukrainian targets coordinated by the Russian APT28 hacking group after taking …
Twitter tests Unmentioning with some users on the web, letting users select “leave this conversation” on a tweet to avoid notifications
Twitter might not have an edit button just yet, but it's still delivering at least one useful feature this week.
Apple releases a report it commissioned from Analysis Group, showing that the company's iOS apps “are rarely the most popular app of a particular type”
Apple today shared a new App Store study that it commissioned from economists at Analysis Group, with the report highlighting …
Activision Blizzard will convert all its 1,100 temporary and contingent QA workers to full-time employees on July 1 and raise the minimum hourly rate to $20
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Google partners with iFixit to offer spare parts for its devices going back to 2017's Pixel 2, in the US, UK, and other countries later this year
Spare parts going back to the Pixel 2 will be available — Google has become the latest manufacturer to partner with DIY repair specialists iFixit …
US judge sentences Denys Iarmak, a Ukrainian and member of the FIN7 hacking group, to five years in prison; FIN7 has stolen 20M+ credit card numbers since 2015
Denys Iarmak, a high-level member of the criminal hacking group FIN7, was sentenced to five years in prison today by a U.S. judge.
Singapore-based Luna Foundation Guard, a non-profit building reserves for the Terra (UST) stablecoin, plans to buy $100M worth of Avalanche tokens
The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), a Singapore-based nonprofit building reserves for the stablecoin Terra (UST), announced Thursday …
India's payments body refuses to acknowledge Coinbase's India launch, saying it is not aware of any cryptocurrency exchange using the UPI payments instrument
The National Payments Corporation of India, the governing body that oversees UPI in the country, said in a statement on Thursday evening …
Activision Blizzard: Raven Software QA workers who joined the Game Workers Union in January won't be able to take advantage of the new $20 minimum hourly rate
Raven Software QA workers organized under the Game Workers Alliance will not be able to benefit from the new pay raises
TSMC reports a record ~$17B in Q1 revenue, up 36% YoY and above estimates, boosted by increased demand for chips as the prolonged shortage helped raise prices
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. revenue rose to a record in the first quarter on demand for chips used in smartphones …
Crypto payments startup Strike announces Shopify integration for bitcoin's Lightning Network, letting Shopify merchants in the US opt-in to the payment option
The bitcoiner instrumental to El Salvador's announcement at last year's conference waxed philosophical on Bitcoin's role as a payments network.
Meta disrupts covert influence operations by Belarus- and Russia-linked actors targeting Ukrainians, like hacking Ukrainian military staff's Facebook accounts
combining computer network exploitation with influence operations, CNE & active measures, in classic terminology (to be expected historically). Meta does an exceptionally good job at reflecting this d...
Taiwan has launched investigations into around 100 Chinese companies suspected of illegally poaching semiconductor engineers and other tech talent
Taiwan's spy catchers have launched probes into around 100 Chinese companies suspected of illegally poaching semiconductor engineers and other tech talent …
Epic Games and Lego partner to “shape the future of the metaverse” by building a digital experience where children can play safely online, but offer few details
Welcome to another edition of Lab Weekly! Transistori : Epic Games ja Lego metaverse-yhteistyöhön Karandeep Oberoi / MobileSyrup : Epic Games and Lego join forces to develop a kid-friendly metaverse C...
Algospeak, like saying unalive instead of dead, is becoming common on the internet as people seek to bypass content moderation filters on platforms like TikTok
“Algospeak” is becoming increasingly common across the Internet as people seek to bypass content moderation filters … Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @evan_greer , @evan_greer , @kslane , @thedextriarchy , @t...
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gives her first speech on digital assets, saying a CBDC “would require years of development, not months”, and more
except for stablecoins Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk : Crypto Rules Should Match Traditional Financial System, Yellen to Say Thursday Casey Wagner / Blockworks : Yellen Warns of Crypto Risk in First Digit...
Gartner: total global tech spending will rise 4% YoY to $4.4T in 2022, device spending will reach $824.6B, and software spending will rise 9.8% YoY to $674.9B
The respected analyst firm Gartner Inc. said today in its latest forecast that worldwide information technology is expected …
Google releases “multisearch” for Lens, letting users ask questions about photos and screenshots, in beta for US users in English on Android and iOS
by starting with a picture Josh Norem / ExtremeTech : Google Now Lets You Use Images to Search For Things You Don't Know How to Google Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Search By Image & Tex...
Kumo, whose AI platform uses graph neural networks to help companies predict better, raises a $18.5M Series A led by Sequoia Capital at a $100M valuation
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Brookfield Business Partners acquires CDK Global for $6.41B in cash, taking private the last major public provider of software to auto dealers and manufacturers
China will begin on-site inspections of large internet platforms to assess potential abuse of their algorithms, likely including Tencent and ByteDance
China kicked off a formal campaign to rein in the potential abuse of algorithms by internet giants from ByteDance Ltd. to Tencent Holdings Ltd. …
Coinbase adds support for the popular UPI payment method in India, making the cryptocurrency exchange functional in the world's second-largest internet market
At Coinbase, we believe that crypto is the best tool … Varinder Singh / CoinGape : “Working With Lawmakers And Regulators In India”- Coinbase CEO Adrian Klent / Cryptopolitan : Coinbase ignores risk, ...
Viz.ai, which uses AI to quickly detect signs of stroke and other diseases, raises a $100M Series D led by Tiger Global and Insight at a $1.2B valuation
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Leaked recording: after laying off Better.com staff in December 2021, CEO Vishal Garg said the company “made $250M last year” but “probably pissed away $200M”
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Twitter says its ALT badge for images and improved image descriptions are now available globally, after testing the features in March
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Built Robotics, which makes autonomous construction equipment, raises a $64M Series C led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $112M
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Crypto platform Toucan's efforts to offer carbon offset credits, an estimated $190B market in sales by 2030, are backfiring as they incentivize zombie projects
Bloomberg : Tweets: @willoremus , @aaschapiro , @akshatrathi , and @climate Tweets: Will Oremus / @willoremus : Starting to wonder: Are there any examples of efforts to use crypto/web3 to solve some ...
Robinhood expands its crypto wallet to 2M+ users on a waitlist and says it will support transacting on bitcoin's Lightning Network in the coming months
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China's Zhiyi Tech, which provides AI tools to help fashion brands better predict bestsellers for e-commerce livestreaming, has raised ~$100M over three rounds
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
Lilt, which offers business translation using both human translators and AI, raises a $55M Series C led by Four Rivers, bringing its total funding to $92.5M
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Sensor Tower: Tencent's Honour of Kings and PUBG Mobile are the world's most lucrative mobile games, respectively making $735.4M and $643M in Q1 2022 revenue
Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post :
Mexico City-based online-only supermarket Jüsto raises a $152M Series B led by General Atlantic, after raising a $65M Series A in February 2021
OpenPhone, which provides SMBs with a business phone line through its mobile app, raises a $40M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to $56M
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.
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.