| 9:35 PM • | Corinne Reichert / ZDNet: The privately-owned $300M Hawaiki subsea cable connecting Australia, New Zealand, and the US, with anchor customers including Vodafone and AWS, has gone live |
| 7:35 PM • | Bloomberg: Best Buy, expected to succumb to competition from Amazon, is instead thriving because of in-home consultations and “personal chief technology officers” |
| 6:25 PM • | Louise Matsakis / Wired: Closed Facebook group for sexual assault survivors with 15K+ members changed admins, was invaded by trolls, and was deleted after members reported the group |
| 5:50 PM • | Zero Hedge: Study: up to 95M Instagram users may be bots, or 9.5% of its total user base, up from 7.9% in 2015 |
| 5:05 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft Surface revenue jumped 25% YoY this quarter to $1.1B; gaming revenue increased 39% YoY, with Xbox software and services revenue growth of 36% YoY |
| 4:45 PM • | Eugene Kim / CNBC: Internal documents show Amazon's struggles to fix Prime Day outages as an internal system broke down and engineers scrambled to scavenge hardware |
| 4:17 PM • | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: Microsoft surpasses $100B in full-year revenue and beats analyst estimates for Q4; Productivity and Businesses revenue rose 13% YoY to $9.7B |
| 4:13 PM • | BuzzFeed News: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg called Trump to congratulate him after his election victory; Facebook has privately praised Trump campaign's use of its platform |
| 4:08 PM • | Microsoft: Microsoft Q4: $30.1B in revenue, up 17% YoY; operating income up 35% YoY to $10.4B; Intelligent Cloud revenue up 23% YoY to $9.6B and Azure revenue up 89% YoY |
| 3:45 PM • | Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: Autonomous truck startup Embark Trucks raises $30M Series B led by Sequoia Capital, bringing total funding to $47M, to expand its fleet from five to 100 |
| 3:10 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Instagram adds a green status indicator next to online users on Direct inbox and share menus |
| 2:45 PM • | Celia Wan / Crunchbase News: Baidu-owned online education startup Zuoyebang, which lets students upload homework and find solutions, raises $350M Series D led by Coatue Management |
| 2:05 PM • | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: Uber's head of strategic finance, Prabir Adarkar, leaves to be the new CFO of DoorDash as Uber's three-year search for a CFO continues ahead of next year's IPO |
| 1:20 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Amazon quietly rolls out “Part Finder”, which uses computer vision to let users identify screws, nuts, bolts, and more, for iOS users |
| 12:45 PM • | Matthew Hughes / The Next Web: Cloudflare launches free service for state and local governments to protect election websites against cyber attacks |
| 12:25 PM • | Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: Intelligent budgeting app Even raises $40M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total raised to $50.5M |
| 12:10 PM • | Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Investigation shows Google Home and Alexa struggle to understand Indian, Chinese, and Spanish accents compared to accents from across America |
| 11:55 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Insight Venture Partners closes a $6.3B fund, called Fund X, to invest in growth-stage tech companies globally |
| 11:45 AM • | Dan Primack / Axios: Source: GV has for years been using an algorithm, dubbed The Machine, to help make investment decisions |
| 11:33 AM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook says it will begin proactively locking accounts of those under 13 on Instagram and Facebook, after report showed relaxed attitude by moderators |
| 11:20 AM • | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: Uber partners with Cargo, which makes boxes of items such as gum, phone chargers, and snacks, to help drivers sell goods to their passengers |
| 11:10 AM • | Eric Geller / Politico: Survey of election security in 50 US states shows vulnerabilities persist ahead of midterms as only 13 of 40 respondents said they would buy new voting machines |
| 10:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources give more details on Google's Fuchsia OS, which now has 100+ engineers working on it and aims to underpin all Google's gadgets from IoT to Pixel |
| 10:40 AM • | Alex Davies / Wired: Alphabet's Loon signs its first commercial agreement to work with Telkom Kenya to provide internet in central Kenya starting next year |
| 10:25 AM • | Zoe Greenberg / New York Times: New York City passes bill to restrict short-term rentals, under which Airbnb would be required to provide detailed information on hosts every month to the city |
| 9:45 AM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Leaked internal Apple document confirms that the 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard includes a membrane to prevent debris from entering butterfly key mechanism |
| 9:30 AM • | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: To combat China's rise in tech, the US government should spend more on the research and development of advanced technologies rather than imposing tariffs |
| 9:00 AM • | Li Dongmei / China Money Network: Shanghai-based AI startup Yitu Technology, which focuses on machine vision and more, raises $100M in addition to the $200M Series C+ it raised in June |
| 8:05 AM • | Supraja Srinivasan / The Economic Times: Indian online ticketing service BookMyShow raises $100M Series D led by private investment firm TPG Growth, at a post-money valuation of $850M, sources say |
| 7:30 AM • | Stewart Clarke / Variety: Ofcom report: UK subscribers to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Sky's Now TV hit 15.4M in Q1, overtaking the 15.1M traditional pay-TV subscribers for the first time |
| 6:55 AM • | Rich Gordon / Nieman Lab: For stories like the Trump-Putin summit, Google News needs to be clearer about how its algorithm works and learn to separate commentary from factual reporting |
| 5:00 AM • | Felix Salmon / Wired: Amazon has built its empire by playing freely with new ideas; besides book-selling, there isn't any market where Amazon has really disrupted the incumbents |
| 2:05 AM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Glovo, a Barcelona-based on-demand delivery business, raises €115M Series C with Spanish press reporting the round values the startup at more than €300M |
| 11:10 PM • | Biz Carson / Forbes: Chinese bike-sharing company Ofo lays off majority of staff in the US as insiders say it is scaling back its global operations to focus on China |
| 10:55 PM • | The Information: Siri cofounder Tom Gruber and Apple's head of search Vipul Ved Prakash have left the company after John Giannandrea was named as the leader of the Siri Group |
| 9:30 PM • | Richard Speed / The Register: Microsoft announces public preview of Windows 10 IoT Core Services, which will let device manufacturers control updates for $.30/device/month after preview ends |
| 8:20 PM • | Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: Despite repeated requests, Spotify does not let users block followers to deal with harassers and says a block feature is not in its current road map |
| 7:50 PM • | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: Leaked documents: Facebook moderators can ban Pages if admins get 5 “strikes” or if 30%+ of other people's posts violate its community standards within 90 days |
| 7:35 PM • | Reuters: Court filing: DOJ has proposed an expedited schedule for its appeal of the ruling allowing AT&T to buy Time Warner, seeking briefs by Oct. 18 |
| 7:15 PM • | Marshall Allen / ProPublica: Investigation: the health insurance industry is working with data brokers to collect “lifestyle” details on hundreds of millions of Americans to predict costs |
| 7:00 PM • | Casey Newton / The Verge: Facebook says it has begun removing misinformation that contributes to violence on its site, will review text and images in partnership with local organizations |
| 6:20 PM • | Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: Amazon Web Services CEO says that AWS is not actively building a commercial network switch, after a report said the company was considering selling its own |
| 6:15 PM • | Rachel Sandler / INSIDER: Openpath, a workplace security startup that lets employees enter offices with their phone, raises $20M Series B led by Emergence Capital |
| 5:45 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Facebook confirms users can now sync their Instagram contacts to Messenger |
| 5:20 PM • | Kara Swisher / Recode: Mark Zuckerberg clarifies his comments about Holocaust deniers on Facebook: “I absolutely didn't intend to defend the intent of people who deny that” |
| 5:10 PM • | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: eBay reports Q2 revenues of $2.6B, up 9% YoY, vs. $2.66B est., with non-GAAP net income of $533M, up 7% YoY, and gross merchandise volume of $23.6B |
| 4:45 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: IBM reports Q2 revenues of $20B, vs. $19.85B expected, up 4% YoY, marking IBM's third consecutive quarter of revenue growth after five years of YoY declines |
| 4:10 PM • | Lily Katz / Bloomberg: Coinbase, which on Monday said it got the green light from the SEC to move forward with a trio of acquisitions, now says it never got such an endorsement |
| 3:30 PM • | Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: Researcher: a robocalling company has left hundreds of thousands of voters' data, including personal details and audio recordings, exposed on a public server |
| 3:20 PM • | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: Uber hires Ruby Zefo, Intel's chief privacy and security counsel, as its first-ever chief privacy officer, to report to Uber's chief legal officer |
| 3:00 PM • | Stephen Babcock / Technical.ly DC: Verodin, which assesses cybersecurity tools' effectiveness on enterprise networks, raises $21M Series B led by TenEleven Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners |
| 2:45 PM • | BBC: Roblox, an MMO game popular with kids, blames the virtual gang rape of a seven year old's character on a hack, saying malicious code was uploaded to a server |
| 2:20 PM • | Arielle Pardes / Wired: Reddit begins rolling out live chatrooms, organized by subreddit and created by admins only, currently in beta |
| 1:45 PM • | Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: Netflix is creating a comedy-focused radio channel in partnership with Sirius XM, due to launch in January 2019 |
| 1:05 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Y Combinator will award grants of $10K to 100 graduates of the third year of its 10-week online Startup School program |
| 12:40 PM • | George Avalos / Mercury News: eBay notifies California's Employment Development Department it's eliminating nearly 300 Bay Area jobs, including more than 200 in San Jose |
| 12:08 PM • | Kara Swisher / Recode: Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg about Russia, fake news, InfoWars, Myanmar, and why he thinks Facebook shouldn't take down posts that deny the Holocaust |
| 11:50 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Viz.ai, which uses AI to detect early signs of time-sensitive medical conditions like stroke, raises $21M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, with GV participating |
| 11:20 AM • | Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: Despite glitches, Amazon sold more than 100M products on Prime Day, driving record Prime sign-ups and sales; Fire TV Stick was the most popular purchase |
| 11:05 AM • | Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: Researchers: Trump and his PAC spent $274K on Facebook ads viewed by at least 37M users since early May, making him the biggest political advertiser on the site |
| 10:35 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google rebrands Cloud Launcher as GCP Marketplace, adds outside commercial and open source Kubernetes applications |
| 10:05 AM • | Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Samsung to launch phone with a 7" display that can be folded in half like a wallet early next year; Bixby speaker launching in about a month for ~$300 |
| 9:40 AM • | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: Apple's iCloud user data in China is now being stored by a division of state-owned China Telecom |
| 9:20 AM • | Kif Leswing / Business Insider: Light, which makes a 16-lens camera, raises $121M Series D led by SoftBank's Vision Fund to bring its camera tech to smartphones and self-driving cars |
| 8:55 AM • | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Interview with nine engineers who worked on Google's Safe Browsing, which now underpins user security in all of Google's major platforms and runs on 3B+ devices |
| 8:45 AM • | The Keyword: Google CEO Sundar Pichai says Android has created more choice, not less, and that Google will appeal the EU ruling |
| 8:10 AM • | Olivia Solon / The Guardian: Researcher shows Venmo transactions, which are public under default user settings, reveal details including real names, comments, and dates through a public API |
| 7:10 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: EU fines Google a record €4.3B (~$5B) in antitrust case for illegal practices regarding Android mobile devices to strengthen dominance of Google's search engine |
| 4:35 AM • | Ian Cutress / AnandTech: Interview with Jim Keller, a microprocessor engineer known for his work at AMD and Apple, on his work heading up the Silicon Engineering Group at Intel |
| 1:30 AM • | Patricia Hernandez / The Verge: Twitch streamers describe the sometimes psychologically taxing nature of broadcasting to no one and trying to get noticed to start building an audience |
| 11:05 PM • | Li Yuan / New York Times: Zero2IPO Research: in Q1 2018, private equity and VC funds in China raised less than two-thirds of what they had raised over the same period a year ago |
| 9:55 PM • | Ryan Smith / AnandTech: Consortium backed by AMD, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Oculus, and Valve announces VirtualLink spec for connecting next-gen VR headsets via single USB Type-C cable |
| 9:10 PM • | Robin Emmott / Reuters: EU and Japan reach a deal on seamless user data transfer between European Economic Area and Japan; the deal should come into effect by the end of this year |
| 8:30 PM • | Yingzhi Yang / South China Morning Post: Bytedance says its short video app, known as Douyin in China and Tik Tok elsewhere, has hit 500M global monthly active users |
| 8:00 PM • | Sarah Marsh / Reuters: Cuba begins rolling out mobile internet provided by national telecom firm ETECSA to select users, aims to expand service to all customers by year's end |
| 7:50 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: UPS tests an Amazon Key-style delivery program in New York using locks made by a startup, Latch; service works with the building, not individual apartment units |
| 7:40 PM • | Angela Moscaritolo / PCMag: Google says it's building Dunant, a transatlantic cable between US and France, its second private intercontinental cable after Curie, connecting US and Chile |
| 7:10 PM • | Jessica Toonkel / The Information: Sources: Walmart is considering launching a subscription streaming video service that would undercut Netflix and Amazon Prime Video on price |
| 7:00 PM • | Nick Statt / The Verge: A reporter posing as a Dublin Facebook moderator found that pages from far-right groups face looser content standards; Facebook vows to improve its training |
| 6:55 PM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Twitter product lead Kayvon Beykpour says the company is pausing work on fixing its verification policy to focus on more important areas like election integrity |
| 6:15 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Instagram says it is building a non-SMS two-factor authentication system that works with security apps like Google Authenticator or Duo to thwart SIM hijackers |
| 5:55 PM • | Alex Barker / Financial Times: Sources: EU's fine over Google's anticompetitive Android practices, coming on Wednesday, will significantly outstrip the €2.4B fine Google received last year |
| 5:50 PM • | Richard Nieva / CNET: Google says Nest CEO to exit, sources say after employee revolt; sources: Alphabet tried selling Nest to Amazon; Nest now part of Google's home devices unit |
| 5:05 PM • | Associated Press: Analysis of Twitter data shows the company suspended at least 58M user accounts in the final three months of 2017 |
| 4:55 PM • | Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget: Giphy, in a partnership with Twitch, launches an extension that lets viewers select GIFs from a curated catalog to appear on-screen during a stream |
| 4:10 PM • | Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: Slack acquires Missions, a tool that helps automate routine processes and tasks in Slack without needing to write code |
| 3:40 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Tinder says it will begin testing Bitmoji integration in Canada and Mexico using the recently launched Snap Kit |
| 3:30 PM • | Joe Fedewa / XDA Developers: Google debuts visual snapshot for Assistant, a Google Now-like feature for proactive suggestions related to your commute, upcoming events, purchases, and more |
| 3:17 PM • | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: HR software-as-a-service company Ultimate Software is acquiring French HR startup PeopleDoc for $300M in cash and stock |
| 2:25 PM • | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: Inside OGUSERS, a forum to trade social media and gaming handles, often stolen via “SIM hijacking” where phone numbers are stolen via carrier's customer service |
| 1:50 PM • | David Shepardson / Reuters: In a hearing, Facebook, Alphabet, and Twitter tell House Judiciary Committee that they are not discriminating against content for political reasons |
| 1:40 PM • | Facebook: Facebook announces a new AI lab in Pittsburgh and hires a number of new researchers for Facebook AI Research in Seattle, London, Menlo Park, and Pittsburgh |
| 1:00 PM • | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: BMW's ReachNow launches Ride, a ride-hailing offering now available in Seattle, accessible alongside its car-sharing offering in the ReachNow app |
| 12:55 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Amazon's EC2 gets faster processors and new high-memory instances, as well as the ability to run a local version of EC2 inside an AWS Snowball Edge device |
| 12:45 PM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Blast raises $12M in seed round to help gamers save money when they hit in-game achievements, announces its app is available in Play Store |
| 12:25 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Google launches Chrome Enterprise Grab and Go, a software suite to help businesses operate a Chromebook loaner program for employees |
| 11:57 AM • | Kim Zetter / Motherboard: Election Systems and Software contradicts earlier statements, admits to Sen. Wyden some voting systems sold to states from 2000-2006 had remote access feature |
| 10:45 AM • | Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: Profile of Zoox, which has been building an autonomous car from scratch since 2014 and has raised $800M to date, including $500M in July at a valuation of $3.2B |
| 9:45 AM • | Ryan Smith / AnandTech: Samsung announces 10nm 8GB LPDDR5 DRAM chip, targets 6.4Gbps data transfer rates and 30% reduced power |
| 9:30 AM • | Alex Konrad / Forbes: Andreessen Horowitz names Connie Chan a General Partner, ending the VC firm's no-promotion policy |
| 9:20 AM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Dialpad, which provides conferencing software and voice transcription apps, raises $50M Series D led by Iconiq Capital |
| 9:10 AM • | Bloomberg: Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya defends his work after a string of prominent staff departures and a failed expansion that have left investors dismayed |
| 8:30 AM • | CBC News: Detailed medical histories and contact information of 80K+ patients in Ontario allegedly held for ransom after data breach at CarePartners healthcare provider |
| 8:15 AM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Snap partners with NewsWhip, Storyful, SAM Desk, and TagBoard to help journalists better mine the billions of public videos and photos shared on its app |
| 7:20 AM • | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: Travel giant Booking Holdings, formerly known as Priceline, invests $500M in Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing |
| 7:10 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Walmart strikes a five-year strategic partnership to use Microsoft's cloud tech, AI, machine learning, and other services, as both firms look to fend off Amazon |
| 6:45 AM • | Sarah Jeong / The Verge: Inside the world of self-published romance on Amazon Kindle Unlimited, where authors collaborate and compete to game Amazon's algorithm |
| 4:50 AM • | Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg: How Helsinki residents are getting around the city by bus, train, bike, taxi, or car, via a monthly subscription to all-inclusive transportation app Whim |
| 2:15 AM • | Hanna Kozlowska / Quartz: Airbnb's approach to dealing with people with criminal convictions highlights the challenges faced by formerly incarcerated people in the sharing economy |
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