Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable? facebook social media Article 581 words 5 votes
Tech companies are pretending to be on their best behavior: Big tech is watching its step and trying to appear ethical during coronavirus. Don’t be fooled social media amazon facebook google Article 8 votes
Zoom acquires Keybase and announces goal of developing the most broadly used enterprise end-to-end encryption offering security Article 1159 words 38 votes
Uber-Grubhub: How the pandemic is launching the era of online platform regulation Article 2324 words 6 votes
Leaving Amazon - Tim Bray (former VP) on whistleblowers, climate strikes, sexism, and racism at Amazon amazon Link 27 votes
Magic Leap cuts half of jobs (about 1000) in major restructuring, plans to focus on enterprise business instead of consumer Article 7 votes
Facebook invests $5.7 billion in India's Jio Platforms, becoming the largest minority shareholder in the telecommunications company facebook social media Article 407 words 7 votes
Apple has acquired the Dark Sky weather app - Android version and website will shut down on July 1, API active through end of 2021 apple android Article 280 words 41 votes
Google will move its summer internship program to a virtual format this year google Article 405 words 7 votes
O’Reilly laid off all their conference staff and is shutting down their conference business for good Article 567 words 9 votes
Tesla’s Fremont factory will reduce its workforce from 10,000 to 2,500 workers Article 756 words 8 votes
French antitrust watchdog fines Apple 1.1 billion euros for anti-competitive coordination with wholesalers apple Article 740 words 9 votes
Supporting Google's extended workforce through the COVID-19 outbreak google Article 340 words 6 votes
Sophos has received an offer to be acquired for $3.9 billion by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo security Article 246 words 8 votes
The Waterfox browser has been acquired by System1, the company that purchased a majority stake of Startpage in September 2019 browsers privacy Article 460 words 12 votes
HQ Trivia, the top trivia game on the app store in early 2018, is ceasing operations and terminating all staff today Article 11 votes
The FTC is investigating the last 10 years of acquisitions by Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft amazon apple facebook microsoft Article 618 words 15 votes
An Update from Essential: "we have made the difficult decision to cease operations and shutdown Essential" Article 289 words 9 votes
Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole, the satire site created by The Onion internet Article 867 words 15 votes
YouTube moderators are being required to sign a statement acknowledging the job could give them PTSD google social media Article 1550 words 26 votes
How IoT betrays us: Today, Sonos speakers. Tomorrow, Alexa and electric cars? Article 1444 words 19 votes
Mozilla lays off seventy as it waits for new products to generate revenue Article 1043 words 27 votes
Special Services Group is marketing spying capabilities to local police departments, including cameras that are hidden inside a tombstone, a baby car seat, and a vacuum cleaner Article 1366 words, published Jan 9 2020 7 votes
Release of over 100,000 leaked documents from Cambridge Analytica has started, showing the company's work in sixty-eight countries privacy facebook social media Article 751 words 14 votes
8tracks, a site for sharing music playlists, is shutting down on Dec. 31 - The story of their 11-year journey from launch to shutdown Article 3239 words 12 votes
LogMeIn (owner of LastPass, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, OpenVoice and join.me) is being acquired by private equity firms for $4.3 billion Article 269 words 23 votes
Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building? Article 3342 words 13 votes
Telenor has picked Sweden's Ericsson as the key technology provider for its 5G telecoms network in Norway Article 78 words 4 votes
Coolest Cooler, which raised $13M on Kickstarter in 2014, announces they are shutting down with about 20,000 (1/3) of their backers not having their $200 pledge fulfilled Article 611 words 17 votes
How big and diversified is the Samsung group of companies? Video 11:23, published Apr 25 2015 5 votes
Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepping down at Alphabet. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai will become CEO of Alphabet google Link 18 votes