Intel says it's investigating the leak of an infographic related to its Q4 earnings report, which prompted its release ahead of stock market close on Thu. Techmeme · 2 days ago
Deliveroo says it has raised $180M in new funding from existing investors led by Durable Capital Partners and Fidelity Management at a $7B+ valuation Techmeme · 7 days ago
Sources: investors, including BlackRock, GIC, and Silver Lake, who invested $10.3B in Ant's 2018 pre-IPO round are left with illiquid stakes after canceled IPO Techmeme · 1 week ago
US commerce department finalizes powers for commerce secretary to issue licenses or block imports of foreign tech including drones and surveillance cameras Techmeme · 1 week ago
Researchers: Telegram, which had 11.9M downloads the week of the Capitol riot, began shutting down public white supremacist groups for the first time Wednesday Techmeme · 1 week ago
Grab raises $300M led by Hanwha Asset Management for its financial services business, which spun out of Grab in 2018 and is now valued at $3B Techmeme · 1 week ago
Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese companies, including contract electronics manufacturers, are moving away from China over trade tensions and rising costs Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Car makers including Volkswagen, Daimler, GM, and Renault are facing a crippling shortage of semiconductors; Volkswagen said it'll produce 100K fewer cars in Q1 Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
SolarWinds hires ex-CISA Director Christopher Krebs as an independent consultant to help its crisis response after the hack Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
UK's competition authority launches an investigation into Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm, after rivals raised concerns Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Researcher: Get Schooled, an education charity setup by Bill Gates and Viacom, left personal details of hundreds of thousands of US students exposed Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Fujitsu eyes 20 potential M&A targets as part of a five-year $5.8B plan aiming to strengthen its digital services and capitalize on US-China trade disputes Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
FactSet: Amazon's "other" business unit, which is made up almost entirely of its ads business, will make $21B in revenue in 2020, up 47% YoY Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Uruguay's first unicorn, the payment processor dLocal, and GeneXus, a sophisticated COVID-19 advice app, have put the country's tech scene on the global map Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
A look at challenger search engines like UK-based Mojeek, You.com, and Neeva, founded by former Google execs, all targeting Google as it fights antitrust suits Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
South Korean antitrust regulators have asked Delivery Hero to sell its existing business before its $4B takeover of Woowa Brothers can go ahead Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Study: the median valuation for SaaS companies raising their Series C rose by 40% to $210M this year, while their median revenue grew 20% Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
European tech executives and diplomats privately complain US sanctions on Huawei shut them out of the Chinese market while offering exceptions for US companies Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Seven startups, including Thrasio and Heyday, hoping to become conglomerates like P&G have raised a combined $950M to acquire small Amazon Marketplace sellers Techmeme · 1 month ago
China's market regulator announces antitrust investigations into Alibaba, first of its kind for a Chinese internet company, for alleged monopolistic practices Techmeme · 1 month ago
Formula One's outgoing CEO says the company is in active talks with Amazon over streaming deals to screen its Grand Prix races Techmeme · 1 month ago
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says GDPR shows that "regulation can get it wrong" and "we are still a small part of the overall information ecosystem" Techmeme · 1 month ago
Study: tens of thousands of sellers are using Shopify to scam consumers and sell counterfeit goods, with up to 21% of 120K sites posing a risk to shoppers Techmeme · 1 month ago
Wish and other ecommerce sites delivering from China are building their own global freight networks after the USPS raised its international rates in July Techmeme · 1 month ago
OneWeb, recently rescued from bankruptcy, has launched 36 global broadband satellites, says it is close to raising $400M next month Techmeme · 1 month ago
An investigation into who owns MindGeek, the secretive company behind Pornhub, which had $460M in revenue in 2018 and has 115M+ daily visitors to its sites Techmeme · 1 month ago
YouTube agrees to set up an office in Turkey following a threat of de facto ban from the country; most social media companies refused to comply with the demand Techmeme · 1 month ago
Sources: e-commerce site Wish priced its IPO at $24 a share, at the top of its range, raising $1.1B to give the company an implied market cap of $14B Techmeme · 1 month ago
UK publishes its online safety legislation plans; tech companies will face fines of up to £18M or 10% of annual revenue if they fail to moderate illegal content Techmeme · 1 month ago
Just Eat says it will offer 1,000+ new UK workers an hourly wage, plus other benefits like sick pay, in a challenge to gig economy rivals Deliveroo and Uber Techmeme · 2 months ago
Inside Disney's costly online push while its lucrative legacy businesses decline, as sources say the success of Disney Plus diminished Disney's interest in Hulu Techmeme · 2 months ago
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan had sales of $5.4B in Q3, up 29% YoY; Meituan's stock has nearly tripled in 2020, bringing its market value to ~$220B Techmeme · 2 months ago
Amazon unveils Monitron, a service for monitoring factory workers and machines with low-cost sensors, as it looks to push into the industrial sector Techmeme · 2 months ago
Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company report: investments in Indonesia's tech sector in the first half of 2020 totaled $2.8B, up 55% from the same period in 2019 Techmeme · 2 months ago
Sources: Facebook's Libra currency is preparing to launch as early as January but in an even more limited format with just one dollar-backed coin Techmeme · 2 months ago
200+ Chinese apps are now blocked in India after the government banned another 43 apps on Tuesday, leaving Chinese tech companies facing huge losses Techmeme · 2 months ago
Sources: Facebook and Google are among the companies that French authorities demanded payment of a digital tax for 2020 in recent days Techmeme · 2 months ago
Sources: Facebook's charm offensive to repair ties with Biden's administration includes News Feed vaccine promotion and relying on Nick Clegg to mend relations Techmeme · 2 months ago
Sundar Pichai apologizes to Thierry Breton for an internal Alphabet document outlining a plan to attack the EU commissioner, saying it "was never shown to me" Techmeme · 2 months ago
Facebook and Google quietly extend their planned one week bans on political ads, as Trump and GOP continue their claims of voter fraud Techmeme · 2 months ago
SoftBank reveals details for SB Northstar, a new unit focused on Nasdaq tech stock trading: $17B portfolio, $3.4B in equity derivatives, and a $3.7B loss so far Techmeme · 2 months ago
SoftBank's Vision Fund invests $250M in Berlin-based e-scooter rental service Tier Mobility, valuing the startup just below $1B Techmeme · 2 months ago
SoftBank has removed three of its most senior executives, including Vision Fund head Rajeev Misra, from its board, amid calls to improve corporate governance Techmeme · 3 months ago
Monzo and Revolut, which have struggled during the pandemic, have faced a barrage of complaints in recent months from customers who've had their accounts frozen Techmeme · 3 months ago
Sources: Huawei is working on plans for a dedicated chip plant in Shanghai that aims to produce 28nm chips by the end of 2021 and 20nm chips by late 2022 Techmeme · 3 months ago
Taiwanese contract chipmaker UMC fined $60M after pleading guilty to DOJ charges of stealing trade secrets from US chipmaker Micron Techmeme · 3 months ago
With its Xilinx deal, AMD has staked a claim to being a central force in supplying chips for data centers that only five years ago would have seemed improbable Techmeme · 3 months ago
Sweden bans Huawei and ZTE from 5G networks, giving telecoms operators until 2025 to remove equipment made by the companies from their existing infrastructure Techmeme · 3 months ago
Sources: EU is making a "hit list" of up to 20 large internet companies, likely to include Facebook and Apple, subject to tougher rules to curb market power Techmeme · 3 months ago
In its trading debut, Polish e-commerce giant Allegro jumped 60%+ on Warsaw's stock exchange, the country's largest IPO ever, valuing the company at ~$17.4B Techmeme · 3 months ago