Kim Kardashian settles with the SEC for $1.26M after not reporting a $250K payment to promote EthereumMax on Instagram and won't promote crypto for three years
- Kim Kardashian agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle SEC charges for failing to disclose a payment she received for touting a crypto asset on Instagram.
Sources: Sony plans to make 2M PlayStation VR2 units by March 2023, an ambitious target, and has not yet faced supply chain constraints
Sony Group Corp. plans to make 2 million units of the PlayStation VR2 headset by March next year, people familiar with the matter said …
Sources: Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky withdrew $10M from the crypto lender weeks before the company froze user accounts; a source says ~$8M was used for taxes
Scrutiny of Alex Mashinsky grows after crypto lender was left with hole in balance sheet — Celsius Network founder Alex …
The SCOTUS agrees to hear two Section 230-related cases, Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, both stemming from terrorist content on the services
The US Supreme Court will decide whether social media companies can be sued over targeted content recommendations …
The Vice Society ransomware gang publishes data allegedly from the Los Angeles Unified School District, after the school system did not pay the ransom
The Vice Society Ransomware gang published data and documents Sunday morning that were stolen from the Los Angeles Unified School District during a cyberattack earlier this month.
Research: Pegasus attacks on Mexican activists and reporters from 2019-2021 used 0-click exploits, after Mexico's president called Pegasus a thing of the past
Key Takeaways — Mexican digital rights organization R3D (Red en los Defensa de los Derechos Digitales) …
Filings: TikTok's European business reports $990M revenue in 2021, up from $172M in 2020, and a $896M loss due to increased spending on its 4,396 staff
Social media platform records revenues of more than $990mn after recruiting thousands more staff — TikTok increased its European …
A document shows an Italian administrative court scrapped a €200M fine for Apple and Amazon from 2021 over alleged collusion in selling Apple and Beats products
An Italian administrative court scrapped a fine imposed by the country's antitrust authority on U.S. tech giants Apple …
A look at the fake online traffic business, as some ad exchanges look the other way and advertisers are embarrassed to admit they purchased fraudulent inventory
Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.
Singapore-based online shopping rewards app ShopBack adds $80M to its Series F from Temasek's 65 Equity, making the round $160M, source says at a ~$1B valuation
ShopBack, an online shopping rewards app backed by Singapore's Temasek Holdings Pte, raised $80 million from the state investment …
Deliveroo partners with UK supermarket Morrisons to open its first physical store, in London; customers can shop in-store, collect orders, or get local delivery
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University of Illinois, Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and others launch the Speech Accessibility Project, aiming to improve voice recognition for disabled users
The University of Illinois (UIUC) has partnered with Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and nonprofits on the Speech Accessibility Project.
A profile of Checkout.com founder and CEO Guillaume Pousaz, who owns 60% of the $40B London-based payments company and has begun investing in fintech startups
A college dropout from Switzerland has amassed a $14 billion fortune to become one of the country's richest people by creating a rising star in electronic payments. Tweets: @ivanlevingston . Thanks: @...
Kentik: Iran's three main mobile operators shut down service for about eight hours in the evening for 10 consecutive days, causing an uptick in landline traffic
getting thousands of Starlink or similar devices into Iran,” said Mehdi Yahyanejad, an internet freedom activist and tech entrepreneur. The goal should be roughly 10,000 satellite devices, he said. ht...
Prosus Ventures terminates its deal to acquire Indian payments company BillDesk for $4.7B in cash, saying “certain conditions precedent were not fulfilled”
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Immerok, which is building an Apache Flink-based cloud service for data streaming, raised a $17M seed led by CUSP Capital, 468 Capital, and others
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Instagram food photography is becoming more realistic, driven by generational changes, more diverse food creators, and a frustration with the curation culture
London-based Improbable, a blockchain game maker that raised $500M from SoftBank in 2017, is close to raising £100M at a £3B+ valuation, up from £2.5B in 2018
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From shutting down services only in Texas to letting users opt out of hateful content, tech companies are gaming out responses to the state's social media law
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The UN World Food Programme and the WHO say a nearly two-year internet and phone shutdown in Ethiopia's Tigray is hampering aid delivery and health monitoring
NXP Semiconductors CEO Kurt Sievers estimates the EU must invest €500B to achieve its 20% global chip market share goal by 2030, short of the Chips Act's €43B
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Tally Technologies, which uses AI to automate credit card payments, raised an $80M Series D led by Sway Ventures at an $855M valuation, up from $280M in 2019
Tally Technologies Inc., a startup that automates credit card payments, has tripled its valuation to $855 million in a funding round led by Sway Ventures.
Symantec details an ongoing campaign by the Witchetty hacking group, potentially tied to a China-backed threat actor, that hides malware in a Windows logo image
A profile of David Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in the 1980s, as about two dozen Internet Engineering Task Force contributors work toward NTPv5
JD.com founder Richard Liu settled a US lawsuit filed by a former University of Minnesota student who alleged he raped her in 2018; the amount was not disclosed
A look at the AI chatbots designed to improve mental health, like Wysa and Woebot, which have millions of users despite scant research to support their efficacy
Tencent is no longer China's most valuable company after its shares fell 64% since January 2021, wiping $623B in market cap, more than any other firm globally
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.