The dueling hashtags on Twitter, blaming the Clintons and Trump for Jeffrey Epstein's death, are a grim testament to our deeply poisoned information ecosystem
and Trump's tweets Pbokelly / Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check : Epstein Suicide Conspiracies Show How Our Information System Is Poisoned | NYT Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : twitter's trending topic...
China's border guards close to Xinjiang install Android malware on tourists' devices that scans for 70K+ files and downloads texts, calendar entries, phone logs
An APK Chinese authorities load onto the Android phones … Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : China installs a surveillance app on tourists' phones while crossing in the Xinjiang Harper Neidig / T...
a16z raises new $2B fund and says the firm's 150 employees are being registered as financial advisers, so they can go deeper on riskier bets, like buying crypto
and more company is coming Lauren Feiner / CNBC : One of Silicon Valley's most famous venture capital firms says it will no longer be a venture capital firm Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk : A16z Moves to Pla...
Mark Zuckerberg, in a conversation with Axel Springer's CEO, floats a “news tab to surface more high quality news”, says Facebook could pay publishers
Hi. This is your host Can Duruk speaking. Joyce Koh / Bloomberg : Singapore Isn't Waiting for Facebook to Crack Down on Fake News Leif Johnson / Macworld : Apple News+ FAQ: Magazine list, price, down...
Lyft closes up 8.7% on its first day of trading after raising $2.3B in its IPO, which valued the company at over $20B
and is now valued at $27 billion Taylor Soper / GeekWire : Lyft IPO: Ride-hailing giant begins trading at $24B valuation, first of many tech companies to go public Biz Carson / Forbes : Lyft Stock Jum...
FTC announces a new task force to monitor competition in “technology-related sectors” and says that it will look into previous mergers
Trump Turns on China Hawks as Huawei Doubles Down Carla Sinclair / Boing Boing : [UPDATE] Herbal company fined $12.8 million after paying for fake Amazon reviews Cal Jeffrey / TechSpot : FTC creates t...
FTC announces a new task force to monitor competition in “technology-related sectors” and says that it will look into previous mergers
Trump Turns on China Hawks as Huawei Doubles Down Issie Lapowsky / Wired : Critics Are Wary of the FTC's New Tech Antitrust Task Force Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast : Lina Khan, a Top Antitrust Thi...
Fossil says Google will pay $40M for some smartwatch IP related to tech developed since its acquisition of Misfit; part of Fossil's R&D team will join Google
Transaction Unlocks Growth Opportunities … Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Google is buying Fossil's smartwatch tech for $40 million Tim Hardwick / MacRumors : Google Fuels ‘Pixel Watch’ Rumors in $40 Mil...
Sources: Apple plans three new iPhones for this fall, including a high-end one with a triple rear camera and an iPhone XR successor with a dual-camera system
Examining Facebook's Strengths and Blind Spots Henry T. Casey / Tom's Guide : Apple Will Offer A Trio Of 2019 IPhones, One With 3 Cameras (Report) Evan Selleck / iPhone Hacks : 2019 iPhones May Suppor...
Samsung's 2018 and 2019 TV models will be able to access iTunes content directly via a dedicated app and support Apple's AirPlay 2 wireless streaming standard
As rare as last week's Apple revenue warning … Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : AirPlay 2 and HomeKit Support Coming to New LG Smart TVs Samsung Newsroom / Samsung Global Newsroom : Samsung Smart TVs to La...