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Raleigh, NC-based Pryon raises $20M Series A to automate enterprise workloads with AI (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
VidMob, which makes video advertising tools, raises $25M Series B led by Austin-based BuildGroup, bringing its total raised to $45M+ (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Swvl, a two-year-old Cairo-based startup that makes an app for booking buses, raises $42M, bringing its total raised to ~$80M (MENAbytes)
Magic Leap sues Chi Xu, a former employee who founded the China-based AR startup Nreal, for alleged IP theft (Peter Blumberg/Bloomberg)
Stories of three fundraising campaigns that illustrate the complexities of the GoFundMe ecosystem, where 50M people have donated $5B+ through 2017 (Rachel Monroe/The Atlantic)
Marketing docs for Pixel 4 and 4 XL confirm 5.7" and 6.3" displays, with 90Hz "Smooth Display", 12MP and 16MP rear cameras, and Snapdragon 855 with 6GB of RAM (Abner Li/9to5Google)
What to expect from Google on Oct. 15: Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL, a faster Google Assistant, a more affordable Pixelbook, new Pixel Buds, and additional devices (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Newsletter platforms like Substack, which recently raised a $15.3M funding round, offer some writers a sustainable business model, but others see a bubble (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)
While tech journalists recently have embraced a watchdog role, they could be even more useful by focusing on solutions rather than palace intrigue and villains (Columbia Journalism Review)
ML frameworks in 2019: analysis of AI research papers shows TensorFlow is the platform of choice in industry, but most researchers are now using PyTorch (Horace He/The Gradient)
US private equity group Thoma Bravo agrees to buy British cybersecurity company Sophos for TITELTITELTITELTITELpound;3.1B (Philip Georgiadis/Financial Times)
China Construction Bank says its blockchain-based platform for factoring and forfaiting services has processed $53B+ in transactions since April 2018 (David Pan/CoinDesk)
Reliance Jio unveils an AI-powered Video Call Assistant service that will allow businesses to automate their customer support and other communications (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
A look at startups like Zippin and Standard Cognition that are pitching their Amazon Go-like tech to grocery chains, sports stadiums, and convenience stores (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
Google unveils the second-gen version of Assistant, promising speed boosts, new capabilities, and a design overhaul, coming first to Pixel phones (Nick Statt/The Verge)
Sources: Google staff are having a fiery debate on a mailing list about banning a Hong Kong protest game from Play; the issue also came up at an all hands (Shirin Ghaffary/Vox)
Denver-based Flowhub, a cannabis retail management platform that helps sellers navigate compliance, raises $23M Series A (Natasha Mascarenhas/Crunchbase News)
In a joint effort with UK and South Korea, US DOJ says it took down one of the largest child exploitation sites on the dark web, containing 200K unique videos (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Following the 2016 Brexit vote, analysis shows overseas bidders have announced ~$60B in deals for UK tech companies, driven in part by a weakened pound (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
MyGate, a Bangalore-based startup with a security and community management app for gated communities, raises $56M Series B from Tencent, Tiger Global, others (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Analysis of 168,907 tweets at Daryl Morey following his Oct. 4 pro-HK tweet: ~50% came from accounts with 0-13 followers, 4,855 users had never tweeted (Wall Street Journal)
DOJ officials say they tracked the owner and users of the dark web child-porn site Welcome to Video by working with Chainalysis to trace bitcoin transactions (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
Zuckerberg gives a full-throated defense of Facebook as a champion of free expression and defends Facebook policy to opt out of fact-checking political ads (New York Times)
iPhone users who save photos as HEIC/HEIF may get free unlimited storage of photos at original resolution with Google Photos, unlike Pixel 4 owners (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac)
YubiKeys can now be used to log into PCs running Windows 7, 8.1, and 10, via the Yubico Login app, previously only available to Mac and Linux users (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
Adobe says Photoshop for iPad will be released by year end, confirms that it will lack features after beta testers complained it was missing key elements (Bloomberg)
Massive protests erupt in Lebanon after a now-withdrawn government proposal to levy ~$6/mo tax on calls via WhatsApp and similar apps, amid an economic crisis (An-Nahar)
Wing starts first commercial drone delivery service in the US, delivering orders from FedEx Express, Walgreens, and Sugar Magnolia in Christiansburg, Virginia (Wing Blog)
A nonprofit is fighting illegal logging via a treetop monitoring unit that uses AI to detect sounds of chainsaws recorded and uploaded by used cellphones (Mike Ives/New York Times)
A game made with a real world dataset of defendants shows the shortcomings of COMPAS, an AI-powered risk assessment tool used in the US criminal legal system (MIT Technology Review)
TikTok launches an education program in India, partners with local edtech startups to create and promote educational content (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Y Combinator partners talk about its online Startup School program, which has enlisted 30K+ startups, as the institution tries to overcome its insular image (Richard Nieva/CNET)
ESET details a hacking campaign, active for the past 6 years, by the Russia-linked group the Dukes or Cozy Bear, which was thought to be dormant since DNC hack (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
Twitch is testing Watch Parties, a feature that allows streamers to screen Prime Video content that their viewers can watch along if they have Amazon Prime (Owen S. Good/Polygon)
eMarketer: Google will take 37.2%, or $48.05B, of all US digital ad spend this year, down from 38.2% in 2018, while Amazon will take 8.8%, up from 6.8% in 2018 (Laurie Sullivan/MediaPost)
As Amazon regularly fails to prevent expired food from being sold by merchants, concerned brands are often compelled to police marketplace listings on their own (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
A look at the Tsunami DemocrTITELTITELTITELTITELagrave;tic Android app, which uses geolocation and friend-to-friend technologies to organize protests and avoid the police in Barcelona (Laurie Clarke/WIRED UK)
How The Last Mile, a program to teach coding in prison at 15 facilities in five states, helped one man go from a life sentence to a $100K+ engineering job (Zachary Crockett/The Hustle)
Sources: Adobe will preview Illustrator for iPad at its Max conference in November before launching it in 2020 (Bloomberg)
Devumi settles FTC charges that it sold fake followers and likes; cosmetics firm Sunday Riley also settles with FTC for allegedly posting fake online reviews (Shelby Brown/CNET)
A look at the revival in digital music sales, which have grown from $14.3B in 2014 to $18.1B in 2018, mainly thanks to paid streaming services like Spotify (Andrew Nusca/Fortune)
Roku to buy ad tech platform Dataxu, which provides software for managing ad campaigns programmatically across digital platforms, for $150M in cash and stock (Megan Graham/CNBC)
PeerNova, a blockchain-based platform for financial institutions to synchronize data internally and externally, raises $31M, bringing the total raised to $74M (Joeri Cant/Cointelegraph)
Calgary-based Benevity, a platform helping employees of companies like Apple and Google give donations, raises $40M Series C from JMI Equity, General Atlantic (Meagan Simpson/BetaKit)
QTITELTITELTITELTITELA with Steve Roddy, vice president of the machine learning group at Arm, on culling neural nets for embedded devices, competing with Nvidia and Intel, more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Google claims "quantum supremacy" breakthrough: its quantum computer performed a calculation in 3 min 20 sec which largest supercomputer could not in 10K years (Cade Metz/New York Times)
EV Connect, which develops a cloud-based platform to manage electric vehicle charging, raises $12M Series B, bringing its total raised to $25M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
Tinder says it will roll out its "Swipe Night" choose-your-own adventure series globally in February, after messages rose 12% compared to a typical Sunday night (Kerry Flynn/CNN)
Amazon has acquired Health Navigator, which provides online symptom checking and triage tools to companies that are looking to route patients to the right place (Christina Farr/CNBC)
Twitter says it removed 50% of abusive tweets in Q3 before users even flagged them, up from 38% in Q1, credits its moderation algorithms (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
Live streaming service Caffeine, which has raised $146M from 21st Century Fox and others, signs a deal with rapper Offset as the service prepares to leave beta (Shannon Liao/CNN)
Shipwell, a marketplace that connects shippers with freight companies and helps manage trucking logistics, has raised $35M Series B from Georgian Partners (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)
Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news (Facebook)
ARM says it will keep supplying Huawei with its chip designs after determining that Armv8-A and its next-gen architecture are of non-US origin (Steve Dent/Engadget)
Sprout Social, a social media monitoring, marketing, and analytics startup, which has raised $115M and was valued at ~$800M in Dec. 2018, files for an IPO (Jason D. Rowley/Crunchbase News)
Pentagon awards $10B JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft over Amazon (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
In leaked video, Sundar Pichai admits at an all-hands that Google is "genuinely struggling" with employee trust as it defends the hiring of former DHS official (Greg Bensinger/Washington Post)
Study: researchers say an algorithm widely used in the US healthcare system to assess medical needs for millions of people is biased against black patients (Edward Ongweso Jr/VICE)
Minneapolis-based Total Expert, which makes marketing and customer management SaaS tools for banks, raises $52M Series C, bringing its total raised to $86M (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch)
Facebook took down ad by a PAC, which falsely claimed Sen. Graham supports Green New Deal, says it will fact-check ads from political groups but not politicians (Elizabeth Culliford/Reuters)
How Census Bureau is working with internet platforms to fight misinformation ahead of 2020 census and guide users to its site via searches and voice assistants (Associated Press)
Australian digital lending platform Athena Home Loans raises $70M Series C at a $230M valuation to expand into home loans after an initial focus on refinancing (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
Two FTC commissioners say the Sunday Riley settlement, which involved no return of gains, despite strong evidence of wrongdoing, may usher in more review fraud (Paris Martineau/Ars Technica)
Sources: after SEC injunction, Telegram Open Network ICO investors extended the deadline for the TON token launch from the end of October to April 30 (CoinDesk)
Incode, which is developing a biometric identity platform for enterprises, raises a $10M seed round (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Microsoft revives Xbox All Access with Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Live, and Xbox console starting at $20/mo, with the ability to upgrade to Project Scarlett in 2020 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
FCC proposes rules requiring telcos remove Huawei and ZTE equipment, in two draft orders slated to be voted on at a meeting on November 19 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Spotify says 14% of MAUs listen to podcasts, podcast hours streamed grew 39% QoQ, and podcast engagement is driving increases in free to paid conversion (Matthew De Silva/Quartz)
Microsoft says hackers from Strontium, also known as Fancy Bear/APT28, are targeting 16 global sporting and anti-doping organizations ahead of 2020 Olympics (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
China has created a $29B state-backed fund to invest in the semiconductor industry, from design to manufacturing, to reduce its dependency on US technology (Bloomberg)
Google now lets any company or organization register .new domains, a year after rolling out .new links as shortcuts to create new Google documents (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Samsung says SmartThings has over 45M monthly active users and works with more than 5,000 devices, as it announces new developer and partner programs (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Common Sense Media: screen time for Americans aged 8 to 12 has remained flat since 2015, but time spent watching videos has doubled to an hour per day (Rachel Siegel/Washington Post)
Kenya-based Twiga Foods, an online B2B marketplace for agricultural and packaged foods, raises $30M Series B led by Goldman Sachs, 11 months after a $10M raise (Jake Bright/TechCrunch)
A profile of the defunct cybersecurity company Tiversa, whose CEO is facing federal charges for falsifying evidence about data breaches to extort clients (Raffi Khatchadourian/New Yorker)
Faire, a wholesale marketplace for independent local retailers and makers, raises $150M Series D, co-led by Lightspeed and Founders Fund, at a $1B valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
Stampli, which develops an AI-powered platform for invoice management, raises $25M Series B led by SignalFire (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch)
HomePod software version 13.2.1 is rolling out now via the Home app; Apple pulled HomePod 13.2 update after some users reported it was bricking their devices (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
Dropbox says Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, is leaving the company after six and a half years and heading into retirement (Dropbox Blog)
An investigation into the supply chain of AmazonBasics batteries shows how Amazon masks its private label operations through a discreet network of outsourcing (Sarah Emerson/OneZero)
The Defense Innovation Board, a Pentagon advisory board led by Eric Schmidt, unveils principles for the US military to apply to combat and non-combat AI systems (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)
Amazon says Alexa skill personalization, which allows developers to provide personalized experiences for different customers, is now generally available (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Investigation finds domestic workers in Kuwait are bought and sold online through Instagram, promoted via hashtags, and other apps on Play Store and App Store (BBC)
Casstime, a China-based automotive aftermarket search engine and procurement platform, raises $80M Series C1 led by Sequoia China and Source Code Capital (FinSMEs)
Google releases patch for a Chrome zero-day vulnerability being used in the wild that allows hackers to escape sandbox protections via malicious websites (Swati Khandelwal/The Hacker News)
A Verge writer and former Techmeme editor describes the process for his successful submission of "yawning face" and waffle emojis to the Unicode Consortium (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Facebook says it will not fact-check ads by UK political parties and candidates running in December election, but will fact-check political groups like Leave.EU (CNN)
A look at the hidden complexities of an autonomous taxi service, after taking a fully driverless ride, now being tested as part of Waymo One service in Phoenix (Ed Niedermeyer/TechCrunch)
Trump has integrated Twitter into the very fabric of his administration, and, via more than 11,000 tweets, has reshaped the presidency (New York Times)
Vetting political ads effectively and consistently at global scale is impossible; Congress should restrict ad targeting to the level of an electoral district (Siva Vaidhyanathan/New York Times)
A technical critique on why even a well-intentioned effort to build a client-side scanning system for messaging will break key promises of end-to-end encryption (Erica Portnoy/Electronic Frontier ...)
Emotion recognition systems, which have been installed in Xinjiang, have started rolling out across China even as experts say the tech does not work very well (Financial Times)
A look at six apps that Google has released as part of its Digital Wellbeing initiative: Paper Phone, Post Box, Desert Island, Morph, We Flip, and Unlock Clock (David Nield/Gizmodo)
Unprotected database for popular "camgirl" sites run by Spain-based VTS Media exposed months worth of user activity logs and chats, details about sex workers (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Interview with Micron Technology VP Steve Pawlowski about the recent acquisition of AI startup FWDNXT and why the memory chip maker is moving into AI processing (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Microsoft announces "Project Cortex," a knowledge-management service, the first major new Office 365 cloud service that it has introduced since Teams in 2017 (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)
Researchers show that they can use lasers to inject commands to smart speakers, tablets, and phones via Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant from far away (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
Google Play Points, which rewards Android users with store credit or discounts for buying content like apps and movies, expands to the US from Japan and S.Korea (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Microsoft unveils Azure Synapse Analytics, a service that leverages big data analytics with tools to manage various data sources in a unified workspace (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Microsoft Surface Pro X review: beautiful design and good screen but expensive, slow for the price, and has an unimpressive battery and app compatibility issues (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
A look at startups such as Cameo and Karat that are building services for creators and influencers as VCs bet on a now established part of the digital economy (Kate Clark/TechCrunch)
Microsoft teams up with Warner Bros, stores and retrieves the 1978 movie Superman on a piece of glass as a proof of concept test for Project Silica research (Jennifer Langston/Microsoft)
Facebook Portal TV review: big screen video chatting feels futuristic and, with Alexa built in, the device is compelling enough at $149 but unlikely to be a hit (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Ex-military and intelligence pros have started using AI from computer vision startup XIX, which analyzes sex ads to spot signs of human trafficking (Sean Captain/Fast Company)
Survey of Tesla Model 3 owners: 90%+ say Autopilot makes them safer, 13% say Autopilot has put them in a dangerous situation and 28% say it saved them from one (Bloomberg)
Court docs: Facebook execs discussed a plan in 2012 to cut off access to user data for developers seen as future rivals while pushing a user privacy narrative (Reuters)
HP Inc. confirms it received an acquisition proposal from Xerox on Tuesday (Saheli Roy Choudhury/CNBC)
Chronosphere, founded by two ex-Uber engineers, raises $11M Series A for a scalable, cloud-native production monitoring tool able to handle Uber-level scale (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
Uber says it will allow passengers and drivers to record audio of their trips in Brazil and Mexico, in response to rising safety concerns in the region (Marcelo Rochabrun/Reuters)
Adobe says it is developing live-streaming features that are built directly into its Creative Cloud apps, starting with a beta version for Adobe Fresco (Dami Lee/The Verge)
Disney says Disney+ will launch in UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain on March 31 (Kris Holt/Engadget)
Cloudflare, in its first earnings report after IPO, announces Q3 revenue growth of 48% YoY to $73.9M as GAAP loss increased to $40.9M from $38M in Q3 2018 (Alex Wilhelm/Crunchbase News)
Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 hacking contest: Amazon Echo speakers, Samsung and Sony smart TVs, Xiaomi Mi9, others hacked; Facebook Portal and Google Nest not attempted (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
Google hires Sanjay Gupta, a former Disney and Star executive, as the manager and vice president of sales and operations for its India business (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Sources: Alibaba is planning to launch a Hong Kong IPO next week with plans to raise as much as $15B (Bloomberg)
Apple says it is working on a fix for a macOS bug that stored portions of encrypted emails sent via Mail app in an unencrypted form (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Facebook and YouTube say they are removing content that mentions the possible name of the whistleblower whose complaint prompted Trump impeachment inquiry (Oliver Darcy/CNN)
Roku launches its free Roku app for the Apple Watch that will allow users to launch channels on their TV, do voice search, and find lost Roku remotes (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
Via browser engine monopoly and handicapping web tech like WebRTC, PWA, and Electron, Apple ensures cross-platform apps remain second class citizens on iOS (Owen Williams/OneZero)
As unionized dockworkers protest automation in LA ports, truckers welcome the port robots which reduce unpaid time they spend waiting for the cargo to load (Margot Roosevelt/Los Angeles Times)
Google and Twitter approved anti-vaccination ads, with widely debunked claims, submitted as part of a test; Facebook, Snap, and YouTube rejected the ads (Blake Montgomery/The Daily Beast)
A look at Tree Hole Rescue, which uses AI to detect suicidal messages on Weibo, and has rescued ~700 people who attempted suicide in China in the last 18 months (Yitsing Wang/BBC)
An oral history of the rise and fall of LimeWire, which at its peak was estimated to be responsible for 80% of all illegal music downloads in the US (Quinn Myers/MEL Magazine)
In their Q3 earnings calls, both TripAdvisor and Expedia cite Google pushing more of its own travel products in search as a reason for disappointing results (Dennis Schaal/Skift)
Germany-based digital payments group Wirecard to acquire Chinese online payments company AllScore Payment Services for TITELTITELTITELTITELeuro;109M (Olaf Storbeck/Financial Times)
Instagram covers IGTV video production costs for some creators as long as the videos do not include content about social issues, elections, or politics (Bloomberg)
Autonomous trucking startup iSee announces $15M Series A from Founders Fund (Megan Hernbroth/Business Insider)
How some police departments in the US conduct facial recognition searches on behalf of other jurisdictions, boosting access to the tech and evading local laws (Michael Hayes/OneZero)
Blaize, which custom-designs AI chips with a new graph streaming architecture, emerges from stealth with $87M raised over several rounds (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Intel has been slow to address information-leaking chip bugs, issuing an incomplete fix for "ZombieLoad" in May and another series of microcode patches today (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
Sources: Apple to debut its 16-inch MacBook Pro with a redesigned keyboard as soon as Wednesday; expected to go on sale this week, starting at ~$2,399 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mozilla, Intel, Red Hat, and Fastly announce the launch of Bytecode Alliance, which aims to take WebAssembly and other related open standards beyond the browser (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Social media influencers are encouraging teens to be real in their posts instead of perfect, making them vulnerable to predators looking to take advantage (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)
A look at a group of Somali immigrant warehouse workers in Minnesota who stood up to Amazon over labor and civil rights without the clout of a traditional union (Jessica Bruder/Wired)
Cisco reports Q1 revenues of $13.16B, up 1% YoY, and Infrastructure Platforms revenue of $7.54B, down 1% YoY; stock down ~5% after hours on weak Q2 guidance (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
How startups around the world, using SoftBank funds, got contractors like drivers and hoteliers to commit via unsustainable incentives, and then cut them off (New York Times)
Siren, which helps build knowledge graphs from enterprise data, raises $10M Series A led by Atlantic Bridge (George Anadiotis/ZDNet)
Facebook launches an Instagram donation button and a fundraising sticker in Facebook Stories, more broadly rolls out fundraising on Facebook gaming live streams (Ashley Carman/The Verge)
Docs show surveillance robots from Knightscope collect data using tools like facial recognition, automatic license plate readers, and wireless device detection (Dave Gershgorn/OneZero)
The maker of viral deepfakes of Mark Zuckerberg and Boris Johnson says they show how personal data can be used in unexpected ways, even of those in power (Maya Shwayder/Digital Trends)
Twitter bans political ads globally, to allow some "cause-based" ads with limited targeting and promotion of issue-related fact-based reporting from news orgs (CNBC)
PillPack adds "Amazon Pharmacy" to its logo and says it has filed paperwork that adds "Amazon Pharmacy" to the licensed name of its pharmacy fulfillment centers (Christina Farr/CNBC)
Qualia, which streamlines closing of real estate deals and claims to handle 15%+ of all US transactions, raises $55M Series C, bringing its total raised to $95M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
As millions pay for premium subscriptions to have a "clean" digital media experience, privacy and freedom from advertising are gradually becoming luxury goods (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
Profile of Mixhalo, a live-music app being offered by bands like Aerosmith as a VIP experience, to let fans hear the music at live shows as the band intended (Mike Murphy/Quartz)
Self-driving startup Wayve, which considers sophisticated sensor tech like lidar unnecessary for safe autonomous driving systems, raises $20M Series A (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
Elavon, the payments subsidiary of US Bancorp, to acquire Sage Pay, a payment processor operating in the UK and Ireland, for TITELTITELTITELTITELpound;232M in cash (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Chinese government data suggests Apple shipped 10M iPhones in the country during Sept. and Oct., up 6% YoY, as overall smartphone shipments dropped 5% to 69.3M (Bloomberg)
Facebook launches Oculus Link software for Oculus Quest in beta, allowing users to access Rift PC games using a USB-C cable (Sam Machkovech/Ars Technica)
Czech government approves a proposal for a 7% digital tax covering revenue from large companies gained via targeted ads, user data sales, and more (Jason Hovet/Reuters)
Aerospike, which provides a high-scale NoSQL database platform for processing data queries really quickly, raises $32M Series D, bringing total raised to $78M (Jason D. Rowley/Crunchbase News)
Berlin-based Enway, which is developing autonomous street-sweeping machines and other special purpose vehicles, raises TITELTITELTITELTITELeuro;6M in seed funding led by Redalpine (FinSMEs)
Salesforce launches Cloud Voice, which integrates telephony inside Service Cloud, a revamped Einstein Voice Assistant, and a voice app development toolkit (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Snap pledges $750,000 to its top AR creators in 2020, 3x its 2019 commitment; 600,000+ Lenses, used 15B+ times, have been created by Snapchat creators (Garett Sloane/Ad Age)
Neon, which operates a digital bank in Brazil with nearly 2M accounts, has raised $94M in a round led by Banco Votorantim and General Atlantic (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
Pensa Systems raises $10M in additional seed funding for its tech that can help retailers automatically track in-store inventory using AI and autonomous drones (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
CloudFactory, a data labelling for machine learning platform, raises $65M led by FTV Capital, bringing its total raised to $78M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
After converting to a for-profit status, Samasource raises $14.8M Series A for its AI data annotation service used by companies like Google and Walmart (Jake Bright/TechCrunch)
Canaan, the China-based maker of Bitcoin mining machines, prices its US IPO at the bottom of the range at $9 per share, raising $90M (Crystal Tse/Bloomberg)
Apple tells Congress it is losing money on its device repair services, but critics say that Apple is being deliberately vague and may be misleading public (Matthew Gault/VICE)
N3twork, maker of the popular mobile game Legendary, raises $40M for its games publishing platform that helps mobile games gain traction (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Gmail on Android and iOS to gain support for dynamic email starting on Nov. 21, letting users take actions, like purchasing products, directly within a message (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Google reveals new details about Russia-linked "Sandworm" hacking group behind NotPetya, the attacks on Winter Olympics, French election, and more (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
Banyan Security, which offers a zero-trust remote access client for cloud and hybrid environments, raises $17M Series A led by Shasta Ventures (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
Sources say Apple AirPods shipments expected to double to 60M in 2019, driven by much higher than expected demand for the AirPods Pro model (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
Russia bans sale of gadgets including smartphones, computers, and smart TVs that are not pre-installed with alternative Russian software starting July 2020 (BBC)
Appeals court says Apple infringed only two of four VirnetX patents, vacates $503M jury award, sends the case back to Texas court to recalculate damages (Jan Wolfe/Reuters)
REX, a real estate broker that claims its AI allows it to price homes more accurately and charge lower commissions, raises $40M, bringing total raised to $115M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
Amazon filed its formal protest over JEDI on Friday, citing a Fox News segment and a Trump rally as evidence of improper political pressure from the White House (Monica Nickelsburg/GeekWire)
Every ad, political or commercial, should reveal its provenance, and all advertisers should stand by their ads and be held accountable for them (Tarleton Gillespie/Slate)
As we shop more online and think less about how our purchases reach our homes, a look at how our home delivery habit is reshaping the physical world (Samanth Subramanian/The Guardian)
A look at the team behind VLC, which started as a student-run project in 1996 that is now part of a nonprofit with a for-profit consultancy managed by ~10 staff (Chris Stokel-Walker/Increment)
ProPublica claims to have found 57 unlabeled state-sponsored channels on YouTube; after presented with a list, YouTube labeled only 35 of them as such (Ava Kofman/ProPublica)
Leaked Chinese government documents reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang using mass surveillance and predictive policing (Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian/ICIJ)
India-based financial services startup Paytm raises $1B led by T. Rowe Price, valuing the company at ~$16B; Paytm has raised more than $3.3B to date (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
T-Mobile says it suffered a data breach that affected over one million customers, exposing their names, billing addresses, phone numbers, and more (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
Uber loses its license to operate in London after authorities discovered that 14K+ trips were taken with uninsured drivers (Gwyn Topham/The Guardian)
Transcribers for Rev say they are exposed to troubling material, including violent police recordings and descriptions of child abuse, often with no warning (Dani Deahl/The Verge)
Review of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X, with 24/32 Cores on 7nm: they beat Intel chips across many benchmarks, especially on parallel computing tasks (AnandTech)
WI-based IT company VCPI, which services ~80,000 computers across ~110 nursing homes in the US, is hit by a ransomware attack and is not paying the $14M ransom (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
Argentina-based UalTITELTITELTITELTITELaacute;, a mobile banking and lending platform that links to a prepaid global Mastercard, raises $150M Series C led by Tencent and SoftBank (Anna Escher/TechCrunch)
The New York Stock Exchange files paperwork with the SEC that proposes letting companies raise fresh capital as part of their direct listing on the exchange (Kate Clark/TechCrunch)
HP Inc. beats with Q4 revenue of $15.41B, up 0.3% YoY, says its personal systems business, which includes PCs, contributed $10.43B in revenue, up 4% YoY (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Kasada, which has developed tech to fight bot-powered attacks, says it has closed $7M Series A, which includes funding from its newest investor In-Q-Tel (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Sources: Bangalore-based scooter rental startup Bounce raises ~$150M Series D led by existing investors B Capital and Accel at a valuation "well over $500M" (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
London-based Trouva, an online marketplace for independent boutiques selling hard-to-find homeware, raises $21.8M led by Octopus Ventures (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Twitter confirms it is testing threaded conversations features from its prototype twttr app on Twitter.com, ahead of the official rollout next year (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
EU data regulator issues first-ever sanction of an EU institution, against the European parliament over its use of US-based NationBuilder to process voter data (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
Unauthorized Uber drivers, including convicted felons with fake IDs, have surfaced in cities beyond London, including San Francisco, Houston, and Boston (Dara Kerr/CNET)
Best 2019 Black Friday deals on mobile devices, laptops, digital storage, wireless headphones, wearables, smart home products, TVs and more (The Inventory)
HSBC to shift $20B in assets to a blockchain-based custody platform called Digital Vault, one of the biggest uses of blockchain technology by a bank, by March (Reuters)
Researchers say multiple telcos are deploying RCS in ways that expose users to text and call interception, spoofed phone calls, and location data leaks (Joseph Cox/VICE)
US arrests an Ethereum Foundation researcher, claiming he participated in discussions about how N. Korea can avoid sanctions during a crypto conference there (Jordan Pearson/VICE)
Interview with the Internet Society CEO, as he tries to defend the sale of the .org top level domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital (Kieren McCarthy/The Register)
With chips like Threadripper 3960X and 3970X, AMD is now comfortably beating Intel in the high-end desktop/workstation CPU market, and is getting further ahead (Steve Dent/Engadget)
How angel investing for social status is a core part of Bay Area tech ecosystem, and is critically missing from other cities trying to grow their tech scenes (Alex Danco)
Adobe: Black Friday online sales grew 19.6% YoY to $7.4B, as Thanksgiving sales rose 14.5%, to $4.2B; Cyber Monday sales are expected to reach $9.4B, up 18.9% (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
A look at the Masakhane project, which aims to translate African languages using neural machine translation by working with AI researchers across the continent (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)
Indian police arrested 45 people and shut down a scam call center in Noida, alleging they used illicitly obtained info of Flipkart users to scam them (Times of India)
YouTube updates guidelines, easing restrictions on simulated violence in gaming content as long as violent or gory imagery is not the sole focus of a video (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Filing: DHS proposes removing exemptions for US citizens and green card holders from going through facial recognition scans before arriving or departing the US (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Singapore-based FinAccel raises $90M Series C for its credit lending app Kredivo, bringing its total equity fundraising to $140M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Inside the struggles of Larry Page-backed flying car company Kitty Hawk as sources suggest it may have ceded control of its self-flying taxi program to Boeing (Jeremy Bogaisky/Forbes)
A group of four former Google employees who say they were fired for organizing are filing unfair labor practice charges against the company (Shirin Ghaffary/Vox)
Genius sues Google and LyricFind alleging anticompetitive behavior and that song lyrics on its service were stolen, asking for over $400M in damages (Dani Deahl/The Verge)
Salesforce reports Q3 revenue of $4.5B, up 33% YoY and a net loss of $109M, beating analyst estimates, but issues disappointing Q4 guidance (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)
Firefox 71 arrives with Picture-in-Picture support on Windows for all video sites, Enhanced Tracking Protection and Lockwise password manager improvements, more (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat)
Researchers achieve new cryptography milestones, including factoring the largest RSA key size ever, largely thanks to improved algorithms, not better hardware (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
India, which is increasingly trying to shelter local companies, has erected regulatory hurdles over the past year for how US tech firms operate in the country (Newley Purnell/Wall Street Journal)
Kustomer, an omnichannel CRM platform for enterprise customer service, raises $60M Series E led by Coatue, bringing its total raised to ~$173M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
A look at the problems caused by spyware on student devices, marketed as a way to prevent shootings, without any independent research to support the claims (Todd Feathers/VICE)
Analysis: Series A and Series B rounds have annually accounted for between 21% and 37% of total $100M+ VC rounds across the globe since 2010 (Jason D. Rowley/Crunchbase News)
Alibaba-backed Chinese startup AutoX applies to test self-driving vehicles without an in-car backup driver in California (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)
Apple says iPhone 11 Pro shares location data even when the feature is turned off due to ultra wideband tech, will provide a new toggle in an upcoming update (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Cyberhaven, which provides data behavior analytics to protect company trade secrets such as IP for customers including Motorola and DARPA, raises $13M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Sources: Galaxy S11 to have a 108MP sensor, ultrawide-angle lens, 5x zoom, and time-of-flight sensor like in Note 10+; Galaxy Fold to have 108MP sensor, 5x zoom (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
Spotify says it now has 500K+ podcasts, podcast listeners are up more than 50% since the start of 2019 and podcast hours consumed by listeners grew 39% QoQ (John McCarthy/The Drum)
Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck is leaving at the end of the year, to be replaced by David Shim, who joined Foursquare as president in June (David Cohen/Adweek)
A trial in a lawsuit by 14 state attorneys general seeking to stop T-Mobile and Sprint merger starts Monday (Tali Arbel/Associated Press)
In safety report, Uber says only 37% of the 464 rape cases during its US rides in 2017 and 2018 were reported to law enforcement (Washington Post)
A look at the creation of a new kind of nonconsensual porn, which combines deepfakes with 3D avatars that can be manipulated to do whatever their creators want (VICE)
Ericsson admits it has bribed officials while selling telecom equipment in Asia, agrees to pay $1.1B in fines to US DOJ and SEC (Reuters)
Nancy Pelosi is pushing to remove language similar to Section 230 from the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, which could delay its passage in the House (Margaret Harding McGill/Axios)
An overview of 5G rollout plans in the US, technical limitations of millimeter-wave, mid-band, and low-band 5G frequencies, the state of 5G hardware, and more (Rob Pegoraro/Ars Technica)
China accounted for nearly half of the global facial recognition business in 2018 per IHS, but it is facing competition from rivals from Japan, US, and Israel (Financial Times)
Snapchat is testing Cameos, a Bitmoji alternative that lets users replace the faces of people with selfies in Snapchat-made short looping videos (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
Pundits proclaimed the death of the PC since the iPad was announced nearly a decade ago, but with 250M+ sold annually, PCs, while not growing, are far from dead (Ed Bott/ZDNet)
Education software company Instructure says it is being acquired for $47.60 per share or ~$2B by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo (Jeffrey R. Young/EdSurge)
The Archive Team, which wants to save Yahoo Groups content by uploading it to Internet Archive, says Verizon has blocked the email addresses of its volunteers (Liam Tung/ZDNet)
Oculus Quest becomes the first VR set with native hand tracking, available to users as an experimental feature this week and with an SDK for devs next week (Sam Machkovech/Ars Technica)
Dog walking startup Wag says SoftBank no longer has board seats; sources: SoftBank has sold its stake back to Wag after a major investment under two years ago (CNBC)
Cosmose AI, a Shanghai-based analytics software provider that anticipates how people shop offline, raises $12M seed led by TDJ Pitango and OTB Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Apple sues former chief architect of the iPhone and iPad microprocessors, who quit in February to start data center chip startup Nuvia, for breach of contract (Shaun Nichols/The Register)
The differences between "platforms" and "aggregators" show that lawmakers must take different and opposing approaches when attempting to regulating the two (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
VSCO acquires video editing startup Rylo, which had raised ~$38M, reached a valuation of ~$120.25M, and was backed by Sequoia Capital, among others (Kate Clark/TechCrunch)
Google brings Android 10 to Android TV, with performance and security improvements, and unveils the ADT-3, a tiny full-fledged Android TV device for developers (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Iterable, which offers SMS, email, and app notification growth marketing services, raises $60M Series D led by Viking Global Investors (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Glassdoor: Google and Facebook drop out of top 10 of US "best places to work" list, Google to 11, Facebook to 23; Microsoft only tech giant to jump in rankings (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
Intel releases its US pay disclosure report showing 26% of top tier earners, making at least $208K, are white men while less than 10% are black employees (Bloomberg)
Sources: PE firm Francisco Partners and hedge fund Elliott Management are in advanced talks to acquire LogMeIn for over $4B and take the company private (Bloomberg)
Twitter now lets users upload iOS Live Photos as GIFs, will preserve original JPEG quality for web uploads (Michael Potuck/9to5Mac)
AngelList report: seed stage investors can increase their yields by investing into every credible deal, contradicting the common wisdom of passing on most (Abe Othman/AngelList)
Jeanette Manfra, assistant director for cybersecurity at DHS, will be joining Google Cloud as global director of security and compliance (Sean Lyngaas/CyberScoop)
Profile of Canva, a graphic design app that CEO Melanie Perkins helped build from a yearbook-design business out of Perth into a profitable $3.2B Adobe rival (Alex Konrad/Forbes)
Report: Samsung to increase investment in its chip factory in China by $8B to boost production of NAND flash memory chips (Reuters)
A recent spate of Ring camera hacks were part of a podcast livestreamed to Discord called "Nulledcast" in which Ring owners were hacked and harassed live on air (VICE)
Sources: Apple buys Spectral Edge, a UK startup whose tech improves the colors in photos by taking infrared shots and blending it with standard photos (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Bonobos founder Andy Dunn to leave Walmart in early 2020, two years after selling his menswear brand to Walmart for $310M (Lauren Thomas/CNBC)
Game.tv raises $25M Series A led by Intel Capital for Tourney, its rapidly growing AI-powered esports platform focused on small gaming communities (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Morgan Stanley estimates Amazon is delivering half of its US packages, will soon pass UPS and FedEx in total volume, at a current rate of 2.5B packages a year (Michael Sheetz/CNBC)
Fintech startups in Asia are proving to be formidable competitors to traditional banks, offering a slew of financial services, but many are bleeding cash (Financial Times)
New Orleans declares state of emergency, shuts down its network after a ransomware attack on Friday, says it had found no signs that data was lost in the attack (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
Carsome, a Malaysia-based marketplace for trading used cars, raises $50M Series C from MUFG Innovation Partners and others to grow in Southeast Asian markets (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Distracted Boyfriend, Blinking White Guy, Pepe the Frog, and more: a rundown of 100 influential memes from the 2010s (BuzzFeed News)
Flipkart and Walmart invest in Ninjacart, a Bangalore-based fresh produce supply chain startup; sources had said earlier that Walmart could invest up to $50M (The Economic Times)
Argo AI CEO says the company plans to charge per mile for using its autonomous tech in commercial vehicles; sources: Ford and VW each own around 40% of Argo AI (Reuters)
Source: Uber is in advanced talks to sell Uber Eats India to a local rival Zomato in a deal that values the Uber Eats India at ~$400M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
CallMiner, which provides call centers with AI-powered speech and text analytics software, raises $75M from Goldman Sachs, bringing its total raised to ~$160M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Gecko Robotics, which uses data collected by its industrial inspection robots to avert dangerous equipment failures, raises $40M Series B led by Drive Capital (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
Netflix shares detailed overseas subscriber numbers for the first time in a filing, and says 90% of total subscriber growth came from outside the US since 2017 (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)
Amazon launches Alexa Knowledge Skills in preview, a new skill type that organizations can use to create internal FAQs, glossaries, and more without coding (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Survey: 50% of companies integrating AI into their workflows spend between 8 and 90 days deploying a single machine learning model, with 18% taking even longer (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Security engineer at Google says she was fired from the company last week after two years for sending internal browser pop-ups about labor rights (Colin Lecher/The Verge)
Facebook is funding a free 45-minute online Reuters course for journalists on spotting and handling manipulated media, now in English, French, Spanish, Arabic (Sara Fischer/Axios)
Facebook pilots a program in the US to use part-time contracted "community reviewers" to expedite the fact-checking process and aid its fact-checking partners (Sara Fischer/Axios)
The Epilepsy Foundation files criminal complaint against 30+ unidentified Twitter users for coordinated attack of seizure-inducing videos to its feed last month (CNN)
The defining moments of tech in the 2010s including the Arab Spring and unveiling of the iPad, as recalled by Zuckerberg, Snowden, Phil Schiller, and others (New York Times)
Paige, which helps diagnose cancer using computer vision trained with clinical image data, raises $45M Series B led by Healthcare Venture Partners (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Analysis: Netflix has released 371 original TV shows and movies in the US in 2019, a 54.6% increase over 2018 and more than the entire US TV industry in 2005 (Gavin Bridge/Variety)
Facebook acquires Spanish cloud gaming startup PlayGiga, reportedly for ~TITELTITELTITELTITELeuro;70M (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
Boston-based OM1, a healthcare industry startup which organizes and analyzes large datasets to measure and predict clinical outcomes, raises $50M Series C (Dave Muoio/MobiHealthNews)
MyShake, an app that uses data from the USGS alert system that senses earthquakes, sent out its first public alert for a 4.3 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday (Los Angeles Times)
Ad exchange Rubicon Project and Telaria, a yield optimization platform for video publishers, to merge, creating the largest independent programmatic ad platform (Ginny Marvin/Marketing Land)
Ghostery releases Ghostery Midnight, a desktop app that includes an ad blocker, tracker protection and monitoring, and a VPN, for $14 per month (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)
Apple opens its bug bounty program to security researchers, publishes eligibility criteria, bounty categories, and report and payout guidelines (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
Hipac, a Chinese B2B e-commerce platform for mothers and babies, raises $100M Series D led by Anchor Equity Partners (Song Jingli/KrASIA)
IAC to buy online caregiver marketplace Care.com in a deal valued at nearly $500M; Care.com stock is up 13+% (Elly Cosgrove/CNBC)
Interviews with current and former staff, sellers, and suppliers on how Amazon dictates and unpredictably changes rules, punishes and threatens businesses (Karen Weise/New York Times)
Forbes estimates that the highest paid YouTube star of 2019 is Ryan Kaji, an eight-year-old with 23M subscribers, who has earned $26M this year (Madeline Berg/Forbes)
A look at the global trade in hacked links, where hackers compromise websites and charge to add links to sites to improve SEO (BuzzFeed News)
China releases new rules for online content, requiring platforms and app operators to use AI-based moderation; the rules are set to come into effect in March (Yoko Kubota/Wall Street Journal)
TheSoul, a Russian web publisher with YouTube channels like 5-Minute Crafts, has the most reach among entertainment groups on YouTube, after Disney, WarnerMedia (Lisa Kaplan/Lawfare)
The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the 2010s, from the Fire phone and Google Glass to the undoing of net neutrality in the US (The Verge)
US officials say ToTok, a chat app gaining popularity around the world, is a spying tool by the government of UAE; Google and Apple have now removed the app (New York Times)
Emails show how ICE uses datasets from data brokers like Thomson Reuters alongside social media sleuthing to track down suspected illegal immigrants (Max Rivlin-Nadler/The Intercept)
iOS and macOS are so fundamentally different that the whole notion of getting a cohesive UX with minimal effort by using Catalyst to port an iPad app, is absurd (Jack Wellborn/Worms and Viruses)
In Argentina, delivery apps Glovo and Rappi, which allow users to send and receive all kinds of packages, have been found to deliver drugs in ~10 cases so far (Amy Booth/OneZero)
Twitter blocks animated PNGs, saying a bug had allowed them, and that they did not respect autoplay settings so could be used to harm people sensitive to motion (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
Sources show how Amazon repeatedly delayed or scrapped investments in common industry practices like onroad safety training, as it built out its driver network (ProPublica)
Educators and school administrators love digital devices that studies show mostly have a negative impact on learning, harming lower performing students the most (Natalie Wexler/MIT Technology Review)
How AI is assisting teachers in the classroom by taking over repetitive tasks like grading and optimizing coursework, helping students with exam prep, and more (Craig S. Smith/New York Times)
Hedera Hashgraph, which has raised $100M+ in 2018 ICO, asks investors to wait longer for purchased tokens, to help stabilize their cratering price (Paddy Baker/CoinDesk)
Chuck Peddle, a key designer of the $25 6502 microprocessor that powered the first big wave of personal computers, including the Apple II, has died at 82 (Cade Metz/New York Times)
Samsung plans to rival chip foundry market leader TSMC, as it invests heavily in a chip miniaturization process called extreme ultraviolet lithography (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
Sources: building on tactics deployed during 2018 midterms, US Cyber Command is exploring additional strategies to counter Russian 2020 election interference (Ellen Nakashima/Washington Post)
State of Live Streaming in 2019: Fortnite player Tfue was the most popular with 87M viewership hours, League of Legends retook the top title from Fortnite, more (Adam Yosilewitz/Legendary Live Streaming)
Indonesian education platform Ruangguru, which claims to serve 15M+ students and 300K+ teachers, raises $150M Series C led by General Atlantic and GGV Capital (Aditya Hadi Pratama/Tech in Asia)
FAA issues a new rule requiring most drones to implement remote ID systems that allow tracking by law enforcement, says it expects compliance within three years (William Feuer/CNBC)
Italy has passed a new law, effective Jan. 1, imposing a 3% tax on some digital revenues of companies with TITELTITELTITELTITELeuro;750M+ in global revenue and at least TITELTITELTITELTITELeuro;5.5M in Italy (Wall Street Journal)
Content creators including Jake Paul, iJustine, Dolan Dark, and Nerd City reflect on the last decade of internet culture (Kalhan Rosenblatt/NBC News)
Mastercard SpendingPulse: US online holiday sales from Nov. 1 through Dec. 24 grew 18.8% YoY, for a 14.6% share of the total retail sales during the period (Reuters)
Profile of Rune Christensen, the leader of MakerDAO, a decentralized finance project providing trustless loans, now backed by ~$312M worth of ethereum (Brady Dale/CoinDesk)
A look back at how Facebook and Twitter evolved over the 2010s, chasing size and influence at a cost to society that will take years to understand (Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed News)
Tencent debuts Tencent Meeting, a Zoom-like cloud-based video conferencing service, as it continues its push into enterprise services (Emma Lee/TechNode)
In 2010s, Twitter enabled young and marginalized people to be heard, held news organizations accountable, and pushed largely ignored issues into the mainstream (Sarah J. Jackson/New York Times)
Sources: New Delhi police is now using facial recognition software to screen protesters; police acquired the software in 2018 to search for missing children (Jay Mazoomdaar/The Indian Express)
Internal Pentagon memo warns service members against using consumer DNA testing kits from 23andMe and others, citing security risks (Yahoo News)
Since GDPR became law in May 2018, the only substantial privacy-related action against a major tech company happened in the US, where Facebook was fined $5B (Nicholas Vinocur/Politico)
Analysis: 142 startups, including 78 from the US and 22 from China, became unicorns in 2019, down from 158 in 2018; unicorns raised $85.1B vs. $139B in 2018 (GenTITELTITELTITELTITELeacute; Teare/Crunchbase News)
Facebook has quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention drugs after activists said they could have caused a public-health crisis (Tony Romm/Washington Post)
US shoppers are expected to return $100B worth of unwanted goods bought this holiday season; online purchases 3x more likely to be returned than those in stores (Alistair Gray/Financial Times)
Microsoft wins court order to seize 50 domains run by North Korean cyber-espionage group Thallium, the fourth APT Microsoft has combated with this tactic (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
Uber, Postmates sue CA to block AB5, days ahead of bill taking effect, say law unconstitutionally targets gig economy companies and benefits other industries (Bloomberg)
Analysis of PitchBook data since 2005 shows that in 2019, the number of enterprise-focused seed deals overtook consumer-focused seed deals for the first time (Eric Feng)
Big trends and takeaways from the 2010s: the "capital as a moat" model has failed, machine learning has become table stakes for tech companies, and more (Fred Wilson/AVC)
Trump signs TRACED Act into law to increase robocall fines, extend statute of limitations from 1 to 4 years, and require carriers to deploy STIR/SHAKEN protocol (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
Analysis: VC funding in North American consumer electronics startups was $1.74B in 2019 vs. $2.45B in 2018, with significant slowdown at the Series B stage (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
Sensor Tower: $277M was spent on apps across Google Play and App Store on Christmas Day, up 11.3% YoY; PUBG, the top grossing game, earned $8.5M, up 431% YoY (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
In its first transparency report, TikTok says it received most requests for user data and content takedowns from India and USA, claims zero requests from China (Zoe Schiffer/The Verge)
A look at how telemetry reshaped urban living in the 2010s when a slew of on-demand services made physical proximity less important (Laura Bliss/CityLab)
An inside look at the Windows business at the start of last decade, as PC sales grew at 3% in 2009 vs. historic 10%+, and the disruption of the PC felt imminent (Steven Sinofsky/Learning By Shipping)
SuperData: digital games and interactive media revenue was up 4% YoY to $120.1B in 2019, with $64.4B for mobile; Fortnite topped with $1.8B, vs. $2.4B in 2018 (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Informatica appoints Amit Walia, its products and marketing president, as its first new CEO since going private in 2015, replacing Anil Chakravarthy (Campbell Kwan/ZDNet)
Google unveils the Coral Dev Board Mini, a smaller, budget alternative to the Coral Dev Board with the Edge TPU, and the Accelerator Module, available H1 2020 (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Sources: Snap has acquired Ukraine-based computer vision startup AI Factory, which helped create a Cameos feature Snapchat is currently testing, for ~$166M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
A look at the Hype House "collab house", a collective of 19 young influencers renting an LA mansion, whose TikTok group handle amassed 3M followers in ~10 days (Taylor Lorenz/New York Times)
AInnovation, a China-based applied AI startup for retail, manufacturing, finance, and other sectors, raises ~$57M Series B, bringing its total raised to ~$143M (DealStreetAsia)
What to expect at CES 2020: 5G phones, 4K HDR TVs and HDMI 2.1, foldable and dual-screen laptops, gaming CPUs, smart home devices, game consoles, and more (The Verge)
A decade after debut, Chrome OS seems to have stalled out, as the future of the web "catching up" to make Chromebook a true laptop seems as remote as ever (David Ruddock/Android Police)
A new Illinois law, which went into effect on Jan.1, requires employers to notify and obtain consent from job applicants for using AI to grade video interviews (Rebecca Heilweil/Vox)
Walmart launches a self-serve ad platform to let advertisers buy on-site search and sponsored product ads on Walmart.com (Allison Schiff/AdExchanger)
A look at how cities around the world have been experimenting with app-based on-demand bus services, often with little success (Flavie Halais/Wired)
Crypto in 2020s: at least one blockchain will reach 1B users, a separate world of fully-decentralized, little-regulated crypto-to-crypto innovation will emerge (Brian Armstrong/The Coinbase Blog)
Facebook updates Privacy Checkup tool, the first significant update since its creation in 2014 that makes it a more convenient central hub for privacy settings (Alfred Ng/CNET)
AMD unveils 64-core AMD Threadripper 3990X CPU, a consumer variant of its 64-core EPYC 7702P currently for sale in the server market, available Feb. 7 for $3990 (Dr. Ian Cutress/AnandTech)
Lenovo unveils the Yoga 5G, a $1,499 2-in-1 with the Snapdragon 8cx chipset and a claimed 24-hour battery life, coming spring, to be called Flex 5G in the US (Joshua Goldman/CNET)
Facebook says it is tightening its policies around misleading manipulated media by banning videos that are either heavily edited or are deep fakes (About Facebook)
Cloudflare acquires stealthy startup S2 Systems as part of its new Cloudflare for Teams product suite, designed to protect an organization from internet threats (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
Google says Assistant now has 500M users and announces upcoming features: Scheduled Actions, privacy-focused voice controls, longform reading, and Sticky Notes (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)
Spatial Networks, developer of Fulcrum, a geospatial data collection and analysis platform for field operations, raises $42.5M Series A led by Kayne Partners (FinSMEs)
TikTok has fixed major security vulnerabilities that could have let hackers manipulate content, gain access to private videos, and extract personal data (New York Times)
ClassPass, which offers access to gyms and health clubs via a single subscription, raises $285M Series E led by L Catterton and Apax Digital at a $1B valuation (Jordan Crook/TechCrunch)
AvePoint, which makes cloud governance tools for Microsoft Office 365, Sharepoint, and more, raises $200M Series C led by TPG Sixth Street Partners (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
AI startups are selling images of realistic computer-generated faces, letting clients like dating apps "increase diversity" in their ads without needing people (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
Lightspeed POS, a Montreal-based payments software company, has agreed to buy German POS systems developer Gastrofix for ~$61M in cash and ~$40M in shares (Isabelle Kirkwood/BetaKit)
Komodo Health, which deploys AI on data across the medical industry to build a healthcare "map" of patient outcomes in the US, raises $50M Series C led by a16z (Sy Mukherjee/Fortune)
ByteDance says Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, now has over 400M daily active users, up from 250M in January 2019 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Verizon eliminates bundles and contracts for Fios line of TV, broadband, and phone services, will now sell them as standalone products via "Mix TITELTITELTITELTITEL Match on Fios" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Facebook starts testing a desktop redesign, announced last April, with a small set of users, plans to offer the new look more broadly sometime before the spring (Ian Sherr/CNET)
Tiger Global invests $200M in Bangalore-based Byju at $8B valuation, sources say secondary transactions at ~$100-200M may soon provide exits to early backers (Biswarup Gooptu/The Economic Times)
Facebook updates its hate speech policy to ban statements denying the existence of marginalized groups and an additional eight specific dehumanizing comparisons (Shoshana Wodinsky/Gizmodo)
A look at sexual health and wellness companies at CES 2020, where they were allowed to exhibit their products for the first time this year (Lauren Goode/Wired)
Source: Microsoft contractors vetting Skype audio worked from home in China with "no security measures"; company says it now uses secure facilities not in China (Alex Hern/The Guardian)
Researchers: cable modems with Broadcom chips, including an estimated 200M in Europe alone, are vulnerable to the remote exploit codenamed Cable Haunt (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
PayU to acquire India-based PaySense at a valuation of $185M and will merge it with its credit business LazyPay; the combined entity will be valued at $300M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Instagram is removing posts and suspending accounts that voice support for slain Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, says it is complying with US sanctions (Isobel Cockerell/Coda Story)
CES roundup: flexible screens are coming, battle between Intel and AMD will intensify, tech fetishization with AI, 8K, 5G lessened, sex tech on the rise, more (Dieter Bohn/The Verge)
Tencent says users spent ~$115B in 2019, up 160% YoY, through WeChat mini programs, which are miniature apps that work within the chat app (South China Morning Post)
Mobileye collects 3.7M miles of sensor data daily from vehicles, using it to produce HD maps that will let its partners offer Level 2+ driver assistance systems (Timothy B. Lee/Ars Technica)
CES 2020 show notes: a look at 12 technologies/categories, the raw materials of the primordial soup of innovation that the show has become over the years (Steven Sinofsky/Learning By Shipping)
epiFi, India-based neo-banking startup, raises $13.2M seed round at a $50M valuation led by Sequoia India and Ribbit Capital (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
HP Spectre x360 13 (2019) review: an excellent high-end laptop with nice port selection, good performance, and great battery life, but its trackpad is narrow (Valentina Palladino/Ars Technica)
Hesai Technology, a China-based LiDAR manufacturer with customers like Bosch, Lyft, and TuSimple, raises $173M Series C co-led by the Bosch Group and Lightspeed (Steve Crowe/The Robot Report)
Sources: Microsoft is slated to release a Windows update on Tuesday to fix a critical flaw in a crypto component present in all versions of Windows (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
A look at tech catering to the needs of the elderly showcased at CES; US citizens over 50 are projected to spend $84B on tech products over the next decade (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Gartner: global Mac shipments in Q4 dropped by 3% YoY, to 5.26M units, as the overall PC market saw growth for the first time since 2011 (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
Toyota launches Kinto in Europe, a package of four separate mobility programs including car sharing, car pooling, and subscription-based leasing (Michael Thomsen/Daily Mail)
Facebook will now notify users via email and the Facebook App when their account is used to login into a third-party app or website (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
Former Microsoft employees and third-party developers reflect on the rise and fall of Microsoft Kinect, which was once billed as the future of Xbox (Blake Hester/Polygon)
Sources: Apple has acquired Seattle-based Xnor.ai, which develops low-power, edge-based AI image recognition tools, for around $200M (GeekWire)
A look at the role of liquidators in the decentralized finance ecosystem, who make money by liquidating under-collateralized loans on crypto lending platforms (Tom Schmidt/Dragonfly Research)
Google announces Premium Support plan for enterprise cloud customers, starting at $12.5K per month with 15-minute response times for mission-critical situations (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
Subscription podcast startup Luminary lowers monthly US subscription prices, from $7.99 a month to $4.99, and also cuts international rates (Kim Lyons/The Verge)
Australia-based hotel booking tech company SiteMinder raises A$100M at a valuation of A$1.1B, says it now has 35,000 hotels worldwide as clients (Yolanda Redrup/Australian Financial Review)
Microsoft partners with T-Mobile to provide 4G SIM cards to students in underserved areas, announces 14 Windows 10 PCs, some cell-connected, starting from $219 (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)
LaunchDarkly, a feature management platform for developers, raises $54M led by Bessemer Venture Partners; sources say the company is now valued at $800M+ (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
Kan Liu, the Director of Product Management for Chrome OS, says Google is working to bring Steam support to Chrome OS (David Ruddock/Android Police)
Profile of Adam Mosseri, who sees Project Daisy, which will eliminate public display of Instagram Likes later this year, as a way to "depressurize the app" (Amy Chozick/New York Times)
Tile accused Apple of acting anti-competitively at a House antitrust hearing on Friday, while Sonos testified against Google, and PopSockets against Amazon (Tony Romm/Washington Post)
Second Measure: DoorDash led the 2019 US food delivery market with 33% of total sales, followed by GrubHub with 32%, Uber Eats with 20%, and Postmates with 10% (CNBC)
Airbnb to tie metrics like guest safety to employee bonuses, says it has created dedicated teams to serve all "stakeholders", which include hosts and guests (Sarah E. Needleman/Wall Street Journal)
Containous, which says it has built a "multicloud networking platform" for containerized applications and microservices, raises $10M Series A (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
Profile of Armslist, the "Craigslist of guns" that offers nearly every kind of gun imaginable and where all transactions are done peer to peer (The Verge)
Profile of Armslist, the "Craigslist of guns" that offers nearly any kind of gun imaginable and where all transactions are done peer to peer (The Verge)
Amazon says it now partners with 20,000+ neighborhood stores across Tier 1, 2, and 3 cities in India to store and deliver goods under its "I have Space" program (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
An analysis of 40 studies finds that the link between social media use and both depression and anxiety among adolescents is small and inconsistent (Nathaniel Popper/New York Times)
Insurance comparison shopping startup Insurify raises $23M Series A led by MTech Capital and Viola Fintech (Alex Wilhelm/TechCrunch)
Sources: ByteDance plans a foray into games, building a team of over 1,000 and buying game studios and title distribution rights; first games coming this spring (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says AI is too important not to be regulated and there are real concerns about the potential negative consequences of AI (Sundar Pichai/Financial Times)
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