| 11:05 PM • | Dami Lee / The Verge: Hands-on with Nintendo's fourth Labo kit, which allows users to build their own VR games with six Toy-Con creations and will be available April 12 for $79.99 |
| 10:25 PM • | Joe Carlson / Star Tribune: DHS warns of two vulnerabilities affecting about 750,000 Medtronic implantable defibrillators worldwide, which could allow hackers to take control of devices |
| 9:45 PM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Report: Apple acquires Italian startup Stamplay, which specializes in backend automation, for about €5M |
| 9:25 PM • | Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: Court filing by DC AG: Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica data misuse months before it was first reported; Facebook says it did not mislead about timeline |
| 8:40 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Source: Apple has signed up Vox for its upcoming news subscription service; other Vox Media properties will not participate initially |
| 8:26 PM • | Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: Sources: Bitmain plans to deploy ~$80M of mining equipment in China to take advantage of excess hydropower and low electricity costs in the summer rainy season |
| 8:00 PM • | Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: Trump to nominate Michael Kratsios to be his first US CTO; Kratsios is currently US deputy CTO and was formerly chief of staff at Thiel Capital |
| 7:30 PM • | Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Pinterest has sped up the timing of its IPO, plans to make its filing public as early as Friday and list its shares on the NYSE in mid-April |
| 7:20 PM • | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: Source: Uber picks the NYSE for its upcoming IPO; Lyft will start trading next week on Nasdaq |
| 6:55 PM • | Kate Clark / TechCrunch: A look at some of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 cohort who secured funding before Demo Day due to early interest from those connected to the YC network |
| 6:40 PM • | Alex Heath / Cheddar: Q&A with Vishal Shah, Instagram's head of product who previously ran Instagram's business products, on e-commerce as a revenue driver, IGTV, and more |
| 6:10 PM • | Michael McWhertor / Polygon: Valve announces a Steam game library redesign and Steam Events, which developers can use to communicate in-game events, entering open beta in the coming months |
| 5:35 PM • | Casey Newton / The Verge: Houseparty promotes co-founder and COO Sima Sistani to CEO; co-founder and CEO Ben Rubin will move to the company's board and continue to advise product teams |
| 5:15 PM • | Kate Clark / TechCrunch: Sources: UiPath, a process automation platform targeting IT businesses, is raising $400M+ at a $7B+ valuation; it closed a $265M Series C in November |
| 5:05 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Hacker groups are creating backdoor admin accounts and redirecting users to tech support scams using a zero-day vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin |
| 4:45 PM • | Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: An ad fraud scheme that runs video ads behind banner images targeted popular Android apps, including many using Twitter's MoPub ad platform |
| 4:00 PM • | Mark Sweney / The Guardian: Report: for the first time, music streaming accounted for more than half, at 54%, of UK record label income as it hit £468M in 2018, up 35% YoY |
| 2:45 PM • | Andrew Liptak / The Verge: MPAA: streaming video subscriptions surpassed those for cable TV for the first time in 2018 globally, rising 131.2M or 27% YoY to 613.3M, as cable fell to 556M |
| 2:25 PM • | Richard Lawler / Engadget: Comcast's Xfinity Flex, a $5/month service for its broadband customers, comes with a 4K set-top box and access to paid and free, ad-supported streaming services |
| 2:00 PM • | Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: Rent the Runway raises $125M, led by Franklin Templeton Investments and Bain Capital, at a $1B valuation as it expands its subscription clothing business |
| 1:45 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Delaware filing: payment card services startup Marqeta is raising $250M Series E at a valuation of $1.9B |
| 1:25 PM • | Nicholas Fandos / New York Times: Jared Kushner's lawyer told the House Oversight Committee late last year that Kushner uses WhatsApp for official WH business, including with foreign contacts |
| 1:20 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: HoneyBook, which offers a financial and business management platform for freelancers and “solopreneurs”, raises $28M Series C, bringing the total raised to $74M |
| 1:00 PM • | Peter Kafka / Recode: Sources: Apple's new TV service to be unveiled Monday will be a storefront for other streaming services, with Apple hosting and serving the streams |
| 12:05 PM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: LogRocket raises $11M Series A, led by Battery Ventures, for its software tool that records a user's activity for engineering teams to review and resolve issues |
| 11:55 AM • | Jez Corden / Windows Central: Internal documents: disc-less Xbox One S, a cheaper alternative with a 1TB HDD, will launch globally on May 7 |
| 11:50 AM • | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon is beta testing video ads on its shopping app on iOS with plans for a similar product for Android later in 2019 |
| 11:42 AM • | Pedro Canahuati / Facebook: Facebook says it will notify hundreds of millions of Facebook users and thousands of Instagram users after it found passwords were stored in a readable format |
| 11:30 AM • | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Facebook admits it inadvertently stored some user passwords in plain text, searchable by employees; source says it may have been between 200M and 600M passwords |
| 11:06 AM • | Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: Instagram, which has largely escaped scrutiny, is teeming with conspiracy theories, misinformation, and extremist memes, boosted by its recommendation algorithm |
| 10:25 AM • | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: Tesla files two lawsuits against multiple former employees and the self-driving car startup Zoox alleging misappropriation of the company's trade secrets |
| 9:55 AM • | Vikas SN / The Economic Times: Sources: Netflix is testing a low-cost, mobile-only subscription with select users in India, for half the price of its entry-level plan in the country |
| 9:45 AM • | Guy Rosen / Facebook: Facebook says it blocked 800+ distinct variants of New Zealand shooting video, in contrast to ISIS-style propaganda which is not rebroadcast or reshared widely |
| 9:30 AM • | James Vincent / The Verge: Four European Wikipedia sites are blocking access and directing users to contact their EU representatives on March 21 to protest the copyright directive |
| 9:00 AM • | Dustin Childs / Zero Day Initiative: Researchers hacked Apple's Safari, Oracle VirtualBox, and VMware Workstation in Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019 contest, earning $240K in cash awards |
| 8:45 AM • | Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: Tencent misses Q4 profit estimates with net income falling 32% YoY to $2.1B on revenue of $12.6B, partially due to China's gaming freeze |
| 8:20 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Israeli startup Guesty, which provides tools for property managers who list on Airbnb and other rental sites, raises $35M Series C led by Viola Growth |
| 7:45 AM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Microsoft launches Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview and Microsoft Defender ATP for macOS in limited preview |
| 7:15 AM • | Nilay Patel / The Verge: Apple iPad mini (2019) review: same specs as larger iPad Air, headphone jack, and solid performance, but has huge bezels and a Lightning port instead of USB-C |
| 7:05 AM • | Alfred Ng / CNET: US retailers are deploying facial recognition tech to fight shoplifters, raising privacy concerns due to lack of legal restrictions or rules to prevent abuse |
| 6:40 AM • | Jamie Rigg / Engadget: A look at the history of game-playing AI and how it often beats humans, from IBM's Deep Blue to AlphaGo |
| 4:50 AM • | Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: A look at an automated Instagram influencer account made to garner free meals from NYC restaurants in exchange for posts |
| 2:55 AM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: YouTube faces legal and ethical minefield from unmarked “kidfluencer” sponsored marketing, which targets kids under 13, who are barred from creating accounts |
| 1:20 AM • | Laura M. Holson / New York Times: After Rep. Devin Nunes sued Twitter and the @DevinCow account claiming defamation, the parody account gained 465K+ followers, surpassing his own follower count |
| 12:00 AM • | Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: Two crypto indices from CoinMarketCap, CMC Crypto 200, which includes bitcoin, and CMC Crypto ex BTC, which doesn't, launch on Nasdaq, Bloomberg, and Reuters |
| 11:15 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Microsoft says support for Windows 7, which makes up 40% of desktop market, will end Jan. 14, 2020; enterprise customers can pay for extended support until 2023 |
| 10:10 PM • | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: In its first quarter since going public, Tencent Music posts net loss of $127M on $785M revenue, mainly due to a one-off share-based charge to label partners |
| 7:55 PM • | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Square CEO Jack Dorsey introduces Square Crypto, a new initiative for open source contributions to the “bitcoin/crypto ecosystem” |
| 7:15 PM • | Eugene Kim / CNBC: Amazon vendors say Amazon is more aggressively blocking ads of unprofitable products and telling them to lower wholesale prices for ads to be reinstated |
| 6:45 PM • | Scott Stein / CNET: Qualcomm says it is developing Snapdragon-powered VR and AR headsets that will double as wireless VR for PCs, with hardware arriving this year |
| 6:10 PM • | Jessica Conditt / Engadget: Epic says Fortnite has 250M registered players, up from 200M in December, releases a free cross-platform SDK to help developers launch, operate, and scale games |
| 5:35 PM • | Sara Salinas / CNBC: Google's stock rose 2% by the end of trading, adding nearly $17B to its market value, the same day it was fined €1.49B by the EU Commission |
| 5:20 PM • | Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: WSJ plans to join the new paid tier of Apple News to be announced on Monday, expected to cost $10/month; NYT and The Washington Post have opted out |
| 4:18 PM • | CNBC: Walmart's CTO Jeremy King is leaving the company to start a “new adventure”, to be replaced by Senior VP of Customer Technology Fiona Tan |
| 4:10 PM • | Caroline Haskins / Motherboard: Interviews detail the ongoing battle on YouTube between children-focused channels making animated videos and those featuring humans |
| 3:15 PM • | Vlad Savov / The Verge: By integrating Stadia into YouTube, Google plans to cement YouTube's dominance, as 200M users already watch gaming content there every day |
| 2:50 PM • | Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: Case reports shed light on how deputies in the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Oregon are using Amazon's facial recognition software to investigate crimes |
| 2:25 PM • | Paris Martineau / Wired: Inside Airbnb's “guerrilla war” against US local governments, which often face a slew of lawsuits from the company when they try to collect occupancy taxes |
| 2:10 PM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Uber says Freight, which connects truck drivers to shipping companies, is expanding to Europe, starting in the Netherlands |
| 1:50 PM • | Patrick Howell O'Neill / Gizmodo: AT&T and Comcast say they successfully tested anti-robocall protocol SHAKEN/STIR, which adds a verified status to calls authenticated across networks |
| 1:00 PM • | Nick Statt / The Verge: Epic Games will give away $100M in grants, varying between $5,000 and $500,000, to fund creative projects that use its Unreal Engine 4 toolset |
| 12:45 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Facebook begins rolling out threaded messages to Messenger users around the world, activated by long-pressing on a message |
| 12:40 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Atlanta-based Movius, which lets companies assign a separate phone number to any phone, raises $45M Series D, bringing total raised to $100M |
| 12:35 PM • | Jason Del Rey / Recode: Instagram's new in-app shopping feature could help customers make serendipitous impulse buys, something Amazon is not especially strong at |
| 12:25 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Las Vegas-based NS8, which develops a SaaS solution to combat e-commerce fraud, raises $26M Series B led by Edison Partners |
| 12:15 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Audio sample marketplace Splice, which charges $7.99/month for access, raises $57.5M Series C co-led by USV and True Ventures |
| 12:10 PM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Report: Apple approved production of its wireless charging AirPower mat earlier this year, after announcing it in 2017 with a 2018 launch date |
| 12:05 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Skedulo, a service that helps companies manage their mobile employees, raises $28M Series B led by Microsoft's M12 |
| 11:50 AM • | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Boston-based Optimus Ride says it will deploy its autonomous shuttle service in NYC from Q2 2019, running in closed loops at the Brooklyn Navy Yard |
| 11:40 AM • | Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas pleads guilty to wire fraud related to fake invoices that tricked Facebook and Google employees into sending him over $100M |
| 11:25 AM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple updates App Store guidelines to mandate new apps are built on iOS 12.1 SDK or later and support iPhone XS Max and 12.9-inch iPad Pro, starting March 27 |
| 11:20 AM • | Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: Hands-on with Oculus Rift S: nice hardware design by Lenovo, display has double the pixels but isn't AMOLED, and it lacks eye tracking and wireless tech |
| 11:03 AM • | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Oculus announces $399 Rift S, developed alongside Lenovo, with higher-res 1280x1440 displays and improved optics, available in spring |
| 10:45 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Google's Stadia could be the future of gaming but the announcement left questions unanswered, like cost and subscription, launch date, or available games |
| 10:10 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Opendoor, which buys homes from sellers directly to sell at a profit, raises $300M led by General Atlantic, sources say at a $3.8B valuation |
| 9:55 AM • | Michelle Toh / CNN: Profile of Connie Chan, a16z's first partner promoted from within, who has built a reputation for sourcing deals with startups like Pinterest and Lime |
| 9:30 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Abstract, which provides a versioning platform for designers, raises $30M Series C led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, sources say at a $190M valuation |
| 9:15 AM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Amazon adds a built-in light to its entry-level Kindle, now available to preorder for $89.99, shipping April 10 |
| 9:10 AM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Blameless, which offers a site reliability engineering (SRE) platform for enterprises, comes out of stealth with $20M from investors including Accel |
| 8:45 AM • | Apple: Apple launches new AirPods with hands-free “Hey Siri” and more talk time for $159, with wireless charging case for $199, available to order today |
| 8:25 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Portworx, which provides a cloud-native data management platform for enterprises, raises $27M Series C led by Sapphire Ventures |
| 8:05 AM • | Manish Singh / VentureBeat: Opera adds unlimited VPN service to its Android browser for free, with 256-bit encryption and no data logging |
| 7:40 AM • | Marie Mawad / Bloomberg: Paris-based Doctolib, which books doctor appointments and related services on mobile, raises $170M led by General Atlantic, at a $1.1B valuation |
| 7:15 AM • | EU Press Room: The European Commission has fined Google €1.49B for “abusive practices in online advertising” and breaching EU antitrust rules |
| 6:45 AM • | Alex Konrad / Forbes: Profile of Eduardo Saverin's B Capital VC firm, which has made ~20 investments since launching in 2015 with a $360M fund, as it prepares to raise a larger fund |
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