Friday, July 26, 2019
T-Mobile wins US antitrust approval for $26 billion takeover of Sprint
Interview with Facebook's ex-CSO Alex Stamos about the Stanford Internet Observatory, funded in-part by $5M from Craig Newmark, which monitors internet abuses (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
Interview with Facebook's ex-CSO Alex Stamos about the Stanford Internet Observatory, funded in-part by $5M from Craig Newmark, which monitors internet abuses — Alex Stamos' Stanford-based project will try to persuade tech firms to offer academics access to massive troves of user data.
Twitter delivers strong user growth, revenue up 18% to $841M in Q2
Policymakers a divided lot on Personal Data bill provisions
WhatsApp's payment service is now being tested by companies
History of Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony, or Sprint, which transitioned to mobile, made some disastrous bets, and merged with T-Mobile (Eli Blumenthal/CNET)
History of Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony, or Sprint, which transitioned to mobile, made some disastrous bets, and merged with T-Mobile — Sprint has struggled to stay alive for more than a decade, constantly fighting for that next wireless customer.
A look at "pedophile hunting" vigilante Facebook groups, which stage real-life sting operations, some that are live streamed, to catch suspected child abusers (Hanna Kozlowska/Quartz)
A look at “pedophile hunting” vigilante Facebook groups, which stage real-life sting operations, some that are live streamed, to catch suspected child abusers — Tony Blas is a plumber in his mid-thirties who lives in Queens, New York. He has two young daughters.
Marcus "MalwareTech" Hutchins sentenced to time served and one year of supervised release for writing and selling the Kronos banking malware (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins sentenced to time served and one year of supervised release for writing and selling the Kronos banking malware — Marcus Hutchins, the malware researcher who became known as an “accidental hero” for stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017 …
Facebook says it will migrate Instant Games from the Messenger app on iOS to the Gaming tab in Facebook's main app starting later this summer (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
Facebook says it will migrate Instant Games from the Messenger app on iOS to the Gaming tab in Facebook's main app starting later this summer — Instant Games have become a popular pastime, allowing friends to play light games with each other in their messaging apps.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Google Parent Alphabet Sees Fresh Growth Amid Antitrust Woes
Apple Buys Intel Smartphone Modem Division for $1 Billion
Spotify rolls out new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada to generate scripts and voiceovers, and pitches itself to advertisers as "nutritional" (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
Jessica Testa / New York Times : Spotify rolls out new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada to generate scripts and voiceo...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Expanding its "Azure IP Advantage" programme, Microsoft is donating 500 patents to start-ups that are part of a non-profit organis...
