Google releases beta of its open source Flutter SDK for building iOS and Android apps  —  Flutter is Google's open source toolkit for helping developers build iOS and Android apps.  It's not necessarily a household name yet, but it's also less than a year old and, to some degree …

Google says it received ~2.4M takedown requests from 2014-2017 under EU's right to be forgotten laws and complied with 43% of them  —  Google has now been complying with the European Union's controversial “right to be forgotten” laws, which the European Court of Justice first ruled applied to search engines in 2014, for three years.

Venmo reaches FTC settlement over bad security and transaction practices, with FTC Chairwoman Maureen K. Ohlhausen noting “consumers suffered real harm”  —  ‘Consumers suffered real harm,’ says commissioner  —  The Federal Trade Commission has announced a settlement with Venmo …

Facebook to launch Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, a $3M three-month pilot program to help metro papers boost digital subscription efforts  —  Facebook Journalism Project will announce today the launch of its Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, a $3 million, three-month pilot program …

T-Mobile and Sprint announce the 30 and six cities respectively they plan to build out 5G for, including Dallas and LA, which will be available next year  —  The race to the next generation data network — 5G — is heating up.  —  T-Mobile and Sprint — the nation's third …

Google Clips review: nice design and simple set up, but no sound recording, poor image quality, pricey, and redundant alongside a decent smartphone camera  —  Can you trust Google's algorithms with your most precious moments?  —  Picture this: you're hanging out with your kids or pets …

Sick people in the US are increasingly using Uber or Lyft to get to the emergency room, instead of an ambulance, exposing drivers to potential legal risks  —  Mike Fish was driving for Uber 10 minutes outside of Boston when he picked up a second passenger in his Uber Pool who, he said, seemed “out of it, drowsy — almost sedated.”

Sources: Apple is launching AC Wellness, a group of medical clinics for its employees and their families, starting in California this spring  —  - The company is advertising for doctors, health coaches, and “designers” to create a program to promote healthy behavior.

Pinterest has hired former Google and Square executive Francoise Brougher as its first COO  —  Brougher joins as Pinterest is eyeing an IPO.  —  Pinterest just made an important new hire: The visual search company is bringing on Francoise Brougher, a former executive from both Google and Square, to be its first-ever COO.

AT&T describes post-net neutrality plans for paid prioritization, to “enable innovative new technologies” like autonomous cars, remote surgery, and VR services  —  “AT&T is not interested in creating fast lanes and slow lanes,” ISP claims.  —  AT&T is talking up the benefits …

Big data analytics service Splunk says it will acquire security automation platform Phantom Cyber for $350M in cash and stock; Phantom has raised $22M  —  Big data-crunching platform Splunk has announced plans to acquire Phantom Cyber Corporation ("Phantom"), a security automation and orchestration platform …

Entertainment Software Rating Board says “in the near future” all physical, boxed games that contain in-game purchases will include a label notifying purchasers  —  The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) today announced that all physical, boxed games that contain …

Vero, an ad-free social networking app that first launched in 2015, becomes the top app on the App Store in US as frustration with Instagram's algorithm grows  —  Every product here is independently selected by Mashable journalists.  If you buy something featured, we may earn an affiliate commission which helps support our work.

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten will roll its $9B loyalty program into a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency, Rakuten Coin  —  Back in 2016, Amazon's Japanese rival Rakuten acquired Bitnet, a bitcoin wallet startup that it had previously invested in, to help it work on blockchain technology and applications.

Coinbase to comply with court order and send IRS details of ~13,000 users who moved $20K+ through their accounts in a single year between 2013 and 2015  —  Within 21 days  —  Coinbase told its customers on Friday that it plans to comply with a court order and hand over about 13,000 customers' data to the IRS within 21 days.

Interview with Evernote CEO Chris O'Neill on migrating backend to Google Cloud, recent growth in business users, and release of new collaboration tool, Spaces  —  On the screen in front of him, Anirban Kundu draws a simple caricature of a face and turns to the computer screen to his left.

Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth shares chart that shows the Trump campaign paid slightly higher CPM prices compared to Clinton in 2016 election, disputing reports  —  After some discussion we've decided to share the CPM comparison on Trump campaign ads vs. Clinton campaign ads. This chart shows that during general election period, Trump campaign paid slightly higher CPM prices on most days rather than lower as has been reported. http://twitter.com/...

Sources: CFIUS, a US inter-agency panel focused on national security that can stop mergers, is examining Broadcom's bid for Qualcomm  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A national security panel that can stop mergers that could harm U.S. security has begun looking at Singapore-based chipmaker Broadcom Ltd's plan …

A look at tech real estate in the Bay Area: Google has 19.9M sq. ft. of office space for 34K+ workers, 38% more than Apple's 14.4M sq. ft. for 25K+ people  —  Google's parent company, Alphabet, has been adding office space more rapidly than any other tech company in the Bay Area.