Buyout Firms Eye Gusher of Cash From Aramco IPO

  Reddit   ·   6 hours ago

How the 1% Scrubs Its Image Online

  Reddit   ·   1 day ago

PayPal Sues U.S. Regulator over Prepaid-Card Rule

  Hacker News   ·   2 days ago

Sources: Trump agrees to a limited trade deal with China that could result in Apple and others avoiding a 15% tariff on their products set to begin on Dec. 15

  Techmeme   ·   2 days ago

Facebook says it doesn't need to change its web tracking to comply with CCPA; source: Facebook contends its data collection doesn't count as a "sale" under CCPA

  Techmeme   ·   2 days ago

Sources: FTC weighing an injunction against Facebook over antitrust concerns related to how it integrates its apps or allows them to work with potential rivals

  Techmeme   ·   2 days ago

‘It’s Hard to Trust the Numbers.’ Internet Providers Inflate Official Speed Results

  Reddit   ·   2 days ago

Facebook Pledges $130M to Fund “Supreme Court” for Content

  Hacker News   ·   2 days ago

Vatican Uses Donations for the Poor to Plug Its Budget Deficit

  Hacker News   ·   3 days ago

SoftBank Is Selling Wag Stake Back to Company

  Hacker News   ·   4 days ago

If Bitcoin Looks Like It Isn’t Trading, It’s Because It Isn’t

  Hacker News   ·   5 days ago

American Factories Demand White-Collar Education for Blue-Collar Work

  Hacker News   ·   5 days ago

Five Cities Account for Vast Majority of Growth in Tech Jobs, Study Finds

  Hacker News   ·   5 days ago

A $7 Credit Limit: Jack Ma’s Ant Lures Hundreds of Millions of Borrowers

  Hacker News   ·   6 days ago

Google seen as retreating from the Alphabet experiment

  Hacker News   ·   1 week ago

Amazon Dodges Responsibility for Unsafe Products

  Hacker News   ·   1 week ago

PG&E Had Systemic Problems with Power Line Maintenance, California Probe Finds

  Hacker News   ·   2 weeks ago

Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips

  Hacker News   ·   2 weeks ago

Schwab Leaves San Francisco for Texas

  Hacker News   ·   2 weeks ago

U.S. Tech Companies Prop Up China’s Vast Surveillance Network: Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and others aided and profited from China’s multibillion-dollar surveillance industry, used in its Muslim crackdown

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

A former Facebook employee who was embedded with the 2016 Trump campaign details how he leveraged Facebook's ad-targeting tools and products to help them win

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

The U.S. Gave Troubled Doctors a Second Chance – Patients Paid the Price

  Hacker News   ·   3 weeks ago

Sources: Facebook sought feedback from large Republican and Democratic political ad buyers about changing ad targeting audience size from 100 to a few thousand

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Government data shows student income and debt by college degree

  Hacker News   ·   3 weeks ago

Google Interferes with Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results

  Hacker News   ·   4 weeks ago

Big Oil’s New Favorite Toy: Supercomputers (2018)

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

Google plans to partner with banks to offer checking accounts

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

Social media influencers are encouraging teens to be real in their posts instead of perfect, making them vulnerable to predators looking to take advantage

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Google's ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

Tencent, the world's largest videogame company by revenue, is looking to make more console games for US users by leveraging its partnership with Nintendo

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Sources: WeWork's parent company is in talks to hire T-Mobile US CEO John Legere, following the exit of co-founder Adam Neumann

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

The Rising Threat of Digital Nationalism

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

Profile of Disney's Kevin Mayer, head of the company's streaming strategy and the Disney+ launch, who managed acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Fox

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

As the US investigates Google for possible abuse of power as the biggest digital ad broker, a detailed look at how Google built the world's dominant ad machine

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Missouri to develop hyperloop test track to achieve 700 mph

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

New York Fed Adds $115.14B in Short-Term Liquidity to Markets

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

Sources: Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund invested $400M in Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens in January, valuing the "ghost kitchen" operator at about $5B

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

For Sale: SAT-Takers’ Names. Colleges Buy Student Data and Boost Exclusivity – WSJ

  Pinboard   ·   1 month ago

Court documents: Mark Zuckerberg and other executives repeatedly called messaging apps a threat to Facebook, in the months before acquiring WhatsApp

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Xerox to sell 25% stake in joint venture to Fujifilm for ~$2.3B; Fujifilm's lawsuit against Xerox for walking away from a merger last year will be dismissed

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

Sources: Xerox is considering making a cash-and-stock offer for HP, which has a market value of ~$27B and is more than three times the size of Xerox

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

California Mayors Join Campaign to Buy Out PG&E

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

Dozens of companies in Vision Fund's portfolio have struggled lately; sources: Oyo founder invested $2B into his company by using a loan backed by Masayoshi Son

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

The Link Between Diet, Exercise and Alzheimer’s

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

Twitter suspends accounts linked to Hezbollah and Hamas after criticism from US lawmakers, after previously saying it distinguished military and political arms

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Obscure Model Puts a Price on Good Health–and Drives Down Drug Costs

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

Study: ~50% of bitcoin's price jump from March 2017 to March 2018 was due to influence of a manipulation scheme by one entity's account at Bitfinex using tether

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago