Walmart partners with Rakuten to sell 1,200 US branded products on Rakuten Ichiba, Japan's largest e-commerce store — Walmart is continuing its strategy of revamping its businesses in Asia after the U.S. retail giant opened its first e-commerce store in Japan, where it is working with local retail giant Rakuten.
UK-based travel software company Travelport says private equity companies Siris Capital and Elliot Management will take it private for ~$4.4B in cash — The long-predicted buyout of public-company Travelport has happened at a premium of about twice the market capitalization of the company.
A group of ten US tech companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter, have collectively denounced Australia's anti-encryption law — A group of U.S. tech giants, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, have collectively denounced the new so-called “anti-encryption” …
Google Lens is now rolling out to the Google iOS app with a live viewfinder that lets users tap on objects or text to begin a visual search analysis — Google Lens began widely rolling out to Android in March and got a big update at I/O 2018 with real-time results and smart text selection.
Verizon says 10K+ employees, or about 7% of its workforce, have accepted its voluntary severance packages which were offered to ~44K employees in September — - The program offered eligible employees and managers up to 60 weeks of salary, bonus and benefits, depending on length of service.
House report finds that Equifax's security practices and policies were subpar and that patching vulnerable systems could have prevented last year's data breach — A House Oversight Committee report out Monday has concluded that Equifax's security practices and policies were sub-par …
YouTube says it has terminated the account of Gavin McInnes, the founder of far-right organization Proud Boys, due to multiple claims of copyright infringement — The YouTube account of Gavin McInnes — the founder of far-right organization Proud Boys and one of the co-founders of Vice Magazine …
Amazon begins rolling out features that allow US Alexa users to set location-based routines and reminders, find and call local businesses, check email, and more — Amazon's Alexa is getting a slew of useful new features ahead of the holiday season. The Seattle company announced this morning …
Facebook says it will now let individual developers not associated with a business go through its revised app review process to regain access to certain APIs — Facebook announced today that it is letting individual developers who aren't associated with a business go through …
Sources: Vishal Shah, a product exec who oversaw Instagram's shopping efforts, ad products, and IGTV, has been promoted to head of product for all of Instagram — Vishal Shah has been promoted to lead all of Instagram's product efforts. — Instagram has filled one of its most important executive vacancies …
House Judiciary Committee posts Sundar Pichai's prepared testimony, where he talks about leading without political bias, taking users' privacy seriously, more — Google CEO Sundar Pichai will tell lawmakers Tuesday that the company takes user privacy seriously, doesn't bake political bias …
Miami-based ParkJockey, a platform for garage and lot managers to monetize parking spaces, announces a SoftBank investment that, sources say, values it at $1B+ — Miami is now officially home to its first unicorn. — On Monday, ParkJockey, founded in 2013 by entrepreneurs Ari Ojalvo …
An overview of responses to Jack Dorsey's tone-deaf tweets about a trip to Myanmar that failed to mention the region's genocide, which social media enabled — Jack Dorsey, CEO of social media platform Twitter—the company now emblazoned in the public eye as one of the primary mouthpieces …
Instagram launches a walkie talkie-like voice messaging feature, rolling out globally on Instagram Direct today — You'd think Facebook would be faster at copying itself. Five years after Facebook Messenger took a cue from WhatsApp and Voxer to launch voice messaging …
Huawei debuts Honor View 20 with a 48MP rear camera and Samsung unveils A8s with a 6.4" Infinity-O display, both with a hole-punch camera cutout in the screen — Two smartphone-makers have unveiled handsets featuring a “hole-punch” selfie camera. — The screens of the Samsung A8s …
New York Times : Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry ...
