Study: Google's online shopping search still disadvantages EU rivals despite an EU crackdown three years ago, sending <1% of traffic to rival services Techmeme · 11 hours ago
US sets export restrictions on China's biggest chipmaker SMIC, saying exports to SMIC posed an "unacceptable risk" of being diverted to "military end use" Techmeme · 2 days ago
Large rival companies say Amazon restricts how competing products, like smart speakers and video doorbells, can be advertised, giving Amazon's devices an edge Techmeme · 6 days ago
Russian online services company Yandex says it has agreed to a $5.5B deal to buy Tinkoff, the country's top online bank Techmeme · 6 days ago
ByteDance asserts it will maintain majority ownership and control over TikTok Global and will not transfer source code or technology to Oracle and Walmart Techmeme · 1 week ago
Source: TikTok and WeChat will be removed from Apple and Google's app stores in the US from Sunday to implement Trump's executive orders Techmeme · 1 week ago
Money launderers are using Chinese online shopping sites to funnel billions of dollars to offshore gambling accounts using fake transactions Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Sources: ByteDance plans to place TikTok's global business in a standalone US-based company, likely with Oracle, Walmart, and others as minority shareholders Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Allegro, Poland's biggest ecommerce platform, says it plans to list on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, sources say targeting a valuation of between €10B and €12B Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Sources: Gojek and Grab have resumed talks for a merger at the behest of shareholders including SoftBank, after Masayoshi Son threw his weight behind a deal Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
PE firm EQT to buy Madrid-based property classifieds site Idealista for €1.3B from Apax Partners; Idealista was valued at €235M during its acquisition in 2015 Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
Sources: to allocate shares in its public listing, Unity is considering using a process similar to the Dutch auction Google used during its IPO Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
If Arm gets sold, the UK should at least insist that SoftBank follows through on its commitments, like keeping its HQ there and doubling staff over five years Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
How iOS app developers draw on behavioral psychology to design user ratings pop-ups that appear at opportune times, like after a high score or on payday Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Alibaba pays nearly $1B to increase its stake in the Chinese courier group YTO Express from 10.5% to 22.5% Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Under shareholder pressure, Apple quietly publishes its human rights policy based on UN guiding principles, but will follow national law if the two conflict Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Sources: unusually large call options purchases by SoftBank over the past month partly fueled the latest tech stock rally Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Amazon deletes 20,000 reviews by 7 of its top 10 UK contributors after an FT analysis found they appeared to profit from posting thousands of five-star ratings Techmeme · 3 weeks ago
Google says it will raise the price for ads 2% in UK and 5% in Turkey and Austria to cover the cost of digital services taxes in Europe, starting in November Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
KKR says it is selling Epicor to another PE firm, CD&R, in a $4.7B deal; Austin-based Epicor sells back-office software to manufacturing and retail companies Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
Dealroom: VC investment in farm automation startups is up 40% year-to-date, amid a shortage of agricultural workers during the pandemic Techmeme · 4 weeks ago
UK-based patent translation and IP search services company RWS has agreed to buy SDL, which develops language translation software, for £809M in all-stock deal Techmeme · 1 month ago
How Jack Ma's Ant Financial transformed within five years from a mobile payments platform into Ant Group, a digital supermarket of financial services Techmeme · 1 month ago
Leaked memo: TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigns after Trump threatened to ban app; Vanessa Pappas, currently general manager of TikTok, will become interim head Techmeme · 1 month ago
German food ordering group Delivery Hero acquires grocery app InstaShop, which operates in the MENA region, for $360M Techmeme · 1 month ago
Interviews and documents reveal Wirecard's desperate effort to cover up fraud, hoodwink its auditors, and a plan to take over Deutsche Bank in its final months Techmeme · 1 month ago
Sources: key ministries in India including its telecom department have indicated that local telcos should avoid using Huawei gear, but a formal ban is unlikely Techmeme · 1 month ago
Sources: Oracle, working with US investors who own a stake in ByteDance, held preliminary talks to acquire TikTok's operations in US, Canada, Australia, and NZ Techmeme · 1 month ago
Google warns Australians that the government's proposal to make it pay for news content would put user privacy at risk, threaten free Search and YouTube results Techmeme · 1 month ago
Ripple, sitting on $16B in XRP, says it plans to expand beyond its original cross-border payments system by becoming the "Amazon of payments" Techmeme · 2 months ago
With 2,500 claims of improper use of unlicensed music on Twitch in June, the Artists Rights Alliance, a trade body, criticizes Jeff Bezos' "wilful blindness" Techmeme · 2 months ago
As Zynga buys Istanbul-based Rollic Games for $168M, a look at the rapid growth of hyper-casual mobile games, where publishers may launch a new title every week Techmeme · 2 months ago
As it pursues TikTok, a look at how Microsoft laid roots in China in the 1990s and nurtured China's future tech leaders, including ByteDance's Zhang Yiming Techmeme · 2 months ago
Intercontinental Exchange has agreed to buy mortgage software company Ellie Mae for $11B from Thoma Bravo, which acquired it last year at a $3.7B valuation Techmeme · 2 months ago
Chinese investments into India's tech startups are showing signs of drying up amid geopolitical tensions, opening the door to US investors to fill the void Techmeme · 2 months ago
Mike Pompeo suggests US will take action in the coming days against more Chinese software companies that it perceives as a risk to national security Techmeme · 2 months ago
TechHub, a co-working space that was once the heart of London's start-up scene, filed for administration Techmeme · 2 months ago
Sources: Nvidia in talks to buy Arm in a cash-and-stock deal that would value it at more than the $32B SoftBank paid to buy the UK chip designer in 2016 Techmeme · 2 months ago
Fiat Chrysler says it has signed an "exclusive" deal with Waymo on self-driving tech, ending its 18-month relationship with Amazon-backed Aurora Techmeme · 2 months ago
Instacart sues Uber-owned Cornershop, one of the largest delivery apps in Latin America, alleging theft of product images, descriptions, and pricing info Techmeme · 2 months ago
Inside Facebook's clubby network of invitation-only advertiser groups, called client councils, which use a mix of perks and pressure to keep brands close Techmeme · 3 months ago
eMarketer: US consumers to spend $710B online in 2020, up 18% YoY, with ecommerce's share of the retail market growing to a record 14.5% Techmeme · 3 months ago
Sources: amid India-China tensions, Zomato is unable to access $100M of the $150M it secured from Ant Financial in January as the government reviews the funding Techmeme · 3 months ago