Daily Crunch: The Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle suit
The Supreme Court announces several tech-related rulings, LG will shut down its smartphone business and we take a deep dive into the story of StockX. This is your Daily Crunch… »
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Google suffers worldwide outage with Gmail, YouTube and other services down
Outages disrupted vast majority of services, but search remained largely unaffected Google has suffered a worldwide outage, with failures reported across the company’s services, including Gmail, Google Calendar and YouTube…. »
Ireland’s data watchdog slammed for letting adtech carry on ‘biggest breach of all time’
A dossier of evidence detailing how the online ad targeting industry profiles Internet users’ intimate characteristics without their knowledge or consent has been published today by the Irish Council for… »
Thanks to Google, app store monopoly concerns have now reached India
Last week, as Epic Games, Facebook, and Microsoft continued to express concerns about Apple’s “monopolistic” hold over what a billion people can download on their iPhones, a similar story unfolded… »
This Week in Apps: The App Store’s new rules, Epic’s battle continues, TikTok’s time is up
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is… »
Daily Crunch: Spotify is testing virtual events
Spotify explores virtual concerts, Twitter tests a “quotes” count and Google’s Nest Hub becomes more hotel-friendly. This is your Daily Crunch for August 26, 2020. The big story: Spotify is… »
Turing raises $14M to help source, vet, place and manage remote developers in tech jobs
The emergence, and now seemingly extended presence, of the novel coronavirus health pandemic has made remote working into a pretty standard part of office life for so-called knowledge workers. Today,… »
Treasury denies it plans to drop ‘Facebook tax’ in favour of trade deal
Recently introduced tax expected to raise £500m, helping to reduce Britain’s huge Covid bill Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The UK government has denied reports that… »
Launched with $17 million by two former Norwest investors, Tau Ventures is ready for its closeup
Amit Garg and Sanjay Rao have spent the bulk of their professional lives developing technology, founding startups and investing in startups at places like Google and Microsoft, HealthIQ, and Norwest… »
Google warns users in Australia free services are at risk if it’s forced to share ad revenue with “big media”
Google has fired a lobbying pot-shot at a looming change to the law in Australia that will force it to share ad revenue with local media businesses whose content its… »
Clearview AI landed a new facial recognition contract with ICE
The controversial facial recognition software maker Clearview AI has a new contract with ICE, the most controversial U.S. government agency. Clearview was already known to work with the branch of… »
Travel startups cry foul over what Google’s doing with their data
As the antitrust drumbeat continues to pound on tech giants, with Reuters reporting comments today from the US Justice Department that it’s moving “full-tilt” on an investigation of platform giants… »
TikTok found to have tracked Android users’ MAC addresses until late last year
Until late last year social video app TikTok was using an extra layer of encryption to conceal a tactic for tracking Android users via the MAC address of their device… »
Facebook extends coronavirus work from home policy until July 2021
Facebook has joined Google in saying it will allow employees to work from home until the middle of next year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. “Based on guidance… »
Google is making autofill on Chrome for mobile more secure
Google today announced a new autofill experience for Chrome on mobile that will use biometric authentication for credit card transactions, as well as an updated built-in password manager that will… »
How to watch big tech’s CEOs tangle with Congress on antitrust issues and more
Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg will defend their companies before the House Antitrust Subcommittee Wednesday in a hearing that will make tech industry history, no matter… »
Cloudflare launches Workers Unbound, the next evolution of its serverless platform
Cloudflare today announced the private beta launch of Workers Unbound, the latest step in its efforts to offer a serverless platform that can compete with the likes of AWS Lambda…. »
This Week in Apps: Apple argues for commissions, ‘Find My’ NDA, Alexa to open apps
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series* that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app… »
Data from Dutch public broadcaster shows the value of ditching creepy ads
For anyone interested in the contested question of how much ‘value’ — or, well, how little — publishers derive from the privacy-hostile practice of tracking web users to behaviorally target… »
Amazon reportedly in talks to buy a 9.9% stake in India’s Reliance Retail
Amazon may join its global rivals Google and Facebook in backing one of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s ventures. The American e-commerce giant is in preliminary talks to acquire a 9.9%… »
Google ‘may have blacklist of conservative sites’ ex-engineer says after ‘glitch’ blocked outlets from search results
GOOGLE “may have a blacklist of conservative sites” an ex-engineer said after a “glitch” blocked outlets from search results. Mike Wacker was fired from his role as a Google Engineer… »
This Week in Apps: US tops China on downloads, EU regulates app stores, Instagram takes on TikTok
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series* that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app… »
India seeks new regulator for non-personal data
India should set up a data regulator to oversee how companies collect, process, store, monetize and even destroy non-personal data (or data that has been anonymized), a panel tasked by… »
Google’s Fitbit deal could avoid EU antitrust probe by agreeing not to use health data for ads
Google announced its plans to acquire Fitbit for $2.1 billion back in November. As of this writing, the deal has yet to go through, courtesy of all the usual regulatory… »
This Week in Apps: India bans Chinese apps, Apple freezes game updates in China, iOS developer backlash continues
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is… »
R&D Roundup: Tech giants unveil breakthroughs at computer vision summit
Computer vision summit CVPR has just (virtually) taken place, and like other CV-focused conferences, there are quite a few interesting papers. More than I could possibly write up individually, in… »
Apple and Google block dozens of Chinese apps in India
Two days after India blocked 59 apps developed by Chinese firms, Google and Apple have started to comply with New Delhi’s order and are preventing users in the world’s second… »
AR 1.0 is dead: Here’s what it got wrong
The first wave of AR startups offering smart glasses is now over, with a few exceptions. Google acquired North this week for an undisclosed sum. The Canadian company had raised… »
Google adds local COVID-19 news coverage to its Google News app in pilot test
Google is piloting a new way to bring local news about the COVID-19 pandemic to its Google News application. In partnership with regional news publications in select cities across the… »
This Week in Apps: WWDC20 highlights, App Store antitrust issues, tech giants clone TikTok
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is… »
Scientists say increasing cases on continent show UK must be cautious in easing restrictions Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A rise in coronavirus cases across Europe… »
Exclusive: In leaked emails, Matt Hancock’s adviser says there is ‘urgent need for decisions’ on asymptomatic testing Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Senior government officials have… »
