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Facebook now reportedly facing an antitrust probe from the DOJ
Officials at the U.S. Justice Department are preparing to launch an antitrust investigation into Facebook Inc., it was reported Wednesday evening. The information comes by way of Bloomberg and Reuters, which both attributed the news to an unnamed “person familiar with the matter.” Bloomberg reported that the probe is being opened at the urging of ...
Salesforce, Slack join $22.5M round into cloud cost control startup Zylo
An underused Salesforce plan here or a superfluous Office 365 subscription there isn’t a big concern in a startup. But in a large enterprise with thousands of employees, wasteful cloud spending can add up to a major expense. Indianapolis-based Zylo Inc. today announced that it has raised $22.5 million in a Series B funding round ...
Alexa everywhere: Amazon intros Echo Loop ring, voice-controlled glasses and more
Every year in September, Amazon.com Inc. drops a slew of new Alexa-powered devices spanning multiple product categories. The 2018 lineup was difficult to top — the company introduced over a dozen gadgets — but the online retail and cloud giant still managed to outdo itself at its latest Alexa product event in Seattle today. Besides ...
Amid pressure from activist investors, eBay CEO Devin Wenig steps down
The past few days have not been kind to top tech executives. On Tuesday, The We Co. Chief Executive Officer Adam Neumann stepped down after reportedly facing pressure to resign from both the board and major investors. Fast forward to this morning, eBay Inc. said CEO Devin Wenig (pictured) is leaving in a development with apparently similar ...
Alibaba bolsters AI capabilities with homegrown Hanguang 800 chip
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today pulled back the curtains on the Hanguang 800, a homegrown chip optimized for artificial intelligence that already helps power some of its services. The Chinese e-commerce firm joins an existing list of tech giants running internally designed silicon in their data centers. Google LLC relies on custom chips known as ...
WeWork’s Adam Neumann out as CEO, will reportedly give up majority control
The We Co. Chief Executive Officer Adam Neumann will step down from the top post in response to the recent criticism around his leadership, the company said today. “While our business has never been stronger, in recent weeks, the scrutiny directed toward me has become a significant distraction, and I have decided that it is ...
Europe’s top court sides with Google in high-profile ‘right to be forgotten’ case
Google LLC has successfully argued before the European Court of Justice that it isn’t obligated to enforce the European Union’s “right to be forgotten” regulation outside the region. The ECJ ruled today that the policy, which requires the search giant to scrub sensitive and outdated results about EU citizens if they ask, doesn’t extend to foreign ...
Cycode launches from stealth to fix enterprises’ source code security problem
Enterprises’ code repositories contain trade secrets such as self-driving car algorithms that represent a valuable target for hackers. But protecting source code is difficult in a big company because files are often scattered among multiple locations and accessible by a large number of developers. Cycode Ltd. is taking it upon itself to address the challenge. The Tel Aviv-based startup exited ...
Apple pledges to make latest Mac Pro in US after weekend tariff exemptions
Apple Inc. has decided to continue assembling its Mac Pro desktop computer in the U.S. after securing tariff waivers on certain components it imports from China. Regulators over the weekend approved 10 of the 15 exemption requests the company had sent to the U.S. Trade Representative’s office. That led to Apple announcing today that it will ...
After scrutiny, Google tightens privacy controls around Assistant voice recordings
Google LLC today previewed a series of upcoming privacy changes to Google Assistant aimed at alleviating recent concerns about how the service processes user data. The search giant employs contractors to listen to a portion of consumers’ conversations with the voice assistant and flag audio issues, such as misinterpreted commands. The program entered the spotlight in ...