Thursday, November 7, 2019
Freshers and students log on to upskill
ETtech Top 5: Deep discounts: Ecomm vs Govt, AngelList's funding product goes live & more
We are no predators: Ecomm firms tell their side of the story
Stop predatory pricing: Piyush Goyal tells ecommerce firms
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)
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 — We've been tracking the revenue multiples of SaaS companies broadly, and the 2019 IPO class more specifically over the past few months.
India should emulate China in tech transfer, IP: MIMO inventor Arogyaswami Paulraj
How digitisation provides new business opportunities for technology providers in healthcare
WhatsApp can't start payments business, RBI tells SC
Indiana passes law, targeting Big Tech, that exempts sales taxes for an unprecedented 50 years to companies that commit $750M+ to a data center in the state (Mya Frazier/Bloomberg)
Indiana passes law, targeting Big Tech, that exempts sales taxes for an unprecedented 50 years to companies that commit $750M+ to a data center in the state — Ed Soliday likens data centers to the Spruce Goose, the enormous wooden airplane Howard Hughes flew just once.
Massive data dump exposes members of website for violent white supremacists
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Editor's note: this article discusses a hate group's uses of racist language that may be hard to read.
Private data for Iron March, a notorious website for violent white supremacists, has been published online in a stunning leak that exposes a trove of detailed information on as many as 1,000 or more members. The 1GB SQL database appears to contain the entirety of the site's information, including user names, private messages, public posts, registered email addresses, and IP addresses.
The leak was posted on the Internet Archives on Wednesday by an anonymous individual using the handle antifa-data. A list of domains used in email registrations shows two from US universities. Private messages shows some members discussing life in the US Marines, Navy, Army, and military reserves.
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Microsoft's Office 365 guarantees are not enough for legal or compliance data retention
Disney+ will launch in the UK, Germany, Italy, France, and Spain in March 2020
Disney+ will launch in the US, Canada, and the Netherlands on November 12th, a bit shy of a week from today. On November 19th, it’ll expand to Australia and New Zealand.
But what about the rest of the world?
Disney has kept a bit quiet about its plans for other countries, presumably because going live in another country is a bit more complicated than just flipping a switch. Every country tends to have different privacy/tax laws regarding subscription services, and rights and licensing for each bit of content has to be detangled with respect to existing deals.
Now, at least, we’ve got a launch date for five more countries: Disney says that Disney+ will launch in the UK, Germany, Italy, France, and Spain on March 31st.
This news might be slightly less intriguing for folks in the UK, who’ve had streaming access to a pretty massive collection of Disney stuff by way of DisneyLife — a streaming service that served as a test run of sorts for Disney+ — since its launch back in 2015. But hey, The Mandalorian!
One thing worth noting: don’t expect Disney+ to be exactly the same around the world. Thanks to those aforementioned rights/licensing deals that may already be in place around the world, as Disney puts it, “Titles may vary by territory.”
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Airbnb to Verify All 7 Million Properties in a Massive Review
Facebook Used User Data to Fight Rivals, Court Documents Reveal
An in-depth look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers test AI systems for risks and for capabilities that might become dangerous in the future (Billy Perrigo/Time)
Billy Perrigo / Time : An in-depth look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers test AI systems for risks and for capabili...
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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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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...
