Under Texas' social media law, Kanye West's antisemitic posts on Twitter and Instagram would likely stay up, signaling a difficult future for social media
Taking down the rapper's bigoted posts was an easy call for Twitter and Instagram. That could change if Elon Musk and some GOP leaders have their way.
Google announces Chromebooks for gaming: the $650 16" Acer Chromebook 516 GE, the $599 16" Lenovo IdeaPad, and the $399 15.6" ASUS Chromebook Vibe CX55 Flip
ASUS, Acer and Lenovo built Chromebooks optimized to run services like GeForce Now. — Three new laptops from ASUS, Acer and Lenovo
CNN closes its “Vault by CNN” NFT project, launched in 2021 to “own a piece of history”, and plans to compensate purchasers with FLOW tokens or stablecoins
You may have already forgotten about it, but Vault by CNN launched in the summer of 2021 as a marketplace for its own NFTs …
Meta says documentation in The Wire's article alleging Instagram removed posts flagged by a BJP member in India without oversight “appears to be fabricated”
@JeffHorwitz Where to even begin with this story?! X-check has nothing to do with the ability to report posts. The posts in question were surfaced for review by automated systems, not humans. And the ...
Billionaire tech investor Yuri Milner renounced his Russian citizenship in August, after leaving Russia in 2014; Milner has been an Israeli citizen since 1999
His firm, DST Global, has invested in technology companies including Facebook, Twitter and Airbnb
Chip-related stocks in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan slump after US curbs on China; on October 10, the PHLX index closed at a low not seen since November 2020
Chip-related stocks in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan slumped as traders returning from Monday's holidays reacted …
New York grants BNY Mellon, the US' oldest bank, permission to receive some customers' BTC and ETH; BNY will store keys, offer bookkeeping services, and more
Founded by Alexander Hamilton, BNY Mellon is the first large U.S. bank to safeguard digital assets alongside traditional investments
Portugal's budget proposes taxing gains on crypto purchases held for less than a year at 28%, a major shift for one of Europe's most crypto-friendly countries
Portugal is planning to start taxing digital-currency gains on purchases held for less than a year in a major policy shift for one of Europe's most crypto-friendly nations.
Amazon's second Prime Day event is an attempt to capture holiday spending ahead of Black Friday as growth lags; analysts estimate an extra $4.1B in Q4 sales
Amazon is holding its second Prime Day shopping event in a year for the first time this week in a bid to boost its flagship ecommerce product and reverse declining sales.
Google partners with Coinbase to let some customers pay for cloud services in crypto, starting in 2023; Coinbase will move some data from AWS to Google Cloud
- Google will start allowing a subset of customers to pay for cloud services with digital currencies early next year.
Ofcom research: one-third of UK children between 8 and 17 with social media profiles use falsified adult ages, mainly by signing up with a fake date of birth
Companies like Instagram are getting been heavily fined (and dragged through the publicity coals) over how they have mishandled children's privacy on their platforms.
Nansen: former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky, who resigned on September 27, has moved ~$960K in CEL and USDC from six wallets to exchanges so far in October
Data show that Alex Mashinsky, who resigned as Celsius' CEO on Sept. 27, continues to move crypto out of wallets while withdrawals are suspended for customers.
Google updates its Workspace enterprise suite, adding integration with Atlassian, Figma, and other services, releasing new APIs for Chat and Meet, and more
Google's Cloud Next developer event is today, and the Google Workspace team is using the opportunity to announce a number of new tools across Gmail …
Source: Instagram removed 705 posts without oversight in India in September, after being flagged by Amit Malviya, the head of BJP's IT Cell, as part of XCheck
Sources: Apple plans to add 5G support to iPhone 12, 13, and 14 models in India by December through an iOS update and will meet executives from Airtel this week
Senior executives from Apple and Bharti Airtel will meet this week to discuss rollout timeline for software updates …
IIHS survey: 53% of Super Cruise, 42% of Autopilot, and 12% of ProPILOT Assist users say they were “comfortable treating their vehicles as fully self-driving”
Drivers using advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla (TSLA.O) Autopilot or General Motors (GM.N) …
A look at efforts by Twitch executives at TwitchCon to reassure streamers about monetary concerns, as Amazon stresses financial independence for the service
Weeks after Amazon.com Inc.'s video livestreaming site Twitch announced controversial changes to the way creators make money on the platform …
Nvidia RTX 4090 review: great 4K performance, DLSS 3 transforms frame rates, and 24GB of VRAM, but a 450W power draw, a dongle adapter, huge, and expensive
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In a court hearing over Crypto.com erroneously sending an Australian woman $10.5M, an executive says a worker in Bulgaria entered the wrong data on Excel
Money from crypto exchange was allegedly used to buy four houses worth $4m, vehicles, art and furniture, police officer tells court
Google plans to support the Pixel Watch with “at least” three years of Wear OS updates, including security updates
As part of the Pixel Watch rollout, Google has detailed that the Wear OS device will get “at least” 3 years of updates. — That period starts …
Unsealed court docs: Peiter Zatko said he burned 10 handwritten notebooks and deleted 100 files at the behest of Twitter managers to get his severance package
Just before Elon Musk revived his proposal to buy Twitter Inc. last week, the billionaire accused the company of ordering …
Google adds automatic transcriptions in English to Meet and plans to add support for French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese in 2023
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The Department of Labor releases a nonbinding proposal to classify US gig workers as employees and not independent contractors; Uber and Lyft stocks drop 10%+
A proposed rule, long awaited by labor activists, would make it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors.
Crypto exchange Bittrex agrees to a $29.3M settlement with the US Treasury Department over potential liability for sanctions violations between 2014 and 2017
- Bittrex is facing record fines from the U.S. Treasury Department over the exchange's lack of sanctions controls between 2014 and 2017.
Data analysis: users of Twitter's Birdwatch fact-checking tool have focused on posts about COVID-19, false earthquake predictions, and election misinformation
Analysis by The Verge shows that Birdwatch users regularly tackle misinformation topics with the highest stakes, including pandemic response Tweets: @corintxt , @willoremus , @mariuswatz , @bendreyfus...
After criticism, PayPal says its policy update about a $2,500 penalty for “the sending, posting, or publication” of misinformation was “incorrect information”
Low De Wei / Bloomberg :
YouTube announces “handles”, letting creators identify their channel using the @username format across channel pages, video descriptions, comments, and Shorts
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Over a dozen job openings indicate TikTok plans to build fulfillment centers in the US as it looks to build an “international e-commerce fulfillment system”
TikTok is planning to build its own product fulfillment centers in the U.S., creating an e-commerce supply chain system …
Canalys, IDC, and Gartner global Q3 2022 PC shipment estimates have a big discrepancy for Apple: up 1.7% YoY, up 40.2% YoY, and down 15.6% YoY, respectively
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Fortinet confirms a critical remote authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager is being exploited; a patch is available
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
The European Parliament's economics committee approves the Markets in Crypto Assets bill, which limits stablecoin token issuance, regulates mining, and more
Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt :
Days after Celsius shared all its users' names and crypto transaction histories in a bankruptcy filing, a new website shows who allegedly lost the most money
Zi Wang / Decrypt :
Thoma Bravo plans to acquire ForgeRock, which makes identity verification software, for $2.3B in cash; ForgeRock raised $275M from its IPO in September 2021
Jennifer Ryan / Bloomberg :
Barcelona-based Factorial, which offers HR tools for SMBs, raised a $120M Series C led by Atomico at a $1B valuation, up from ~$500M in September 2021
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Melbourne-based Airwallex, which offers cross-border banking and other financial services, raised a $100M Series E2, bringing its total funding to $900M+
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
WhatsApp users in India say the service, which has ~550M users in the country, has become overrun by spam from brands, some using WhatsApp's business tools
Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World :
Arkansas-based Insite, which uses AI to help price, distribute, and promote packaged goods, raised a $19M Series A from NewRoad Capital and Microsoft's M12
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Tracxn: Indian startups raised $3B in Q3 2022, down 57% QoQ and 80% YoY, in 334 deals, down from 674 YoY; Crunchbase: global funding fell 33% QoQ and 53% YoY
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Endor Labs, which helps businesses select, secure, monitor, and maintain their open-source software dependencies at scale, emerges from stealth with a $25M seed
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Bain & Co. and Flipkart report: India's e-commerce userbase is expected to grow 25%-30% annually for the next five years, passing the US in two years
One quick thing: In a blow to ride-hailing platforms Ola, Uber, and Rapido … Bain : How India Shops Online 2022 How India Shops Online 2022
Sensor Tower: BeReal has passed 53M installs, its MAUs are up 2,254% since January 2022, and ~9% of its active Android installs opened the app every day in Q3
Trendsi, which helps sellers and manufacturers predict demand, raised a $25M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $30M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
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.