Armed with new capital (following a recent £8 million Series C round) and now doing £1 million per month in revenue, job meta-search engine Adzuna has acquired the U.K. tech startup job board Work In Startups. Terms of deal aren’t being disclosed. However, it will see Adzuna take over operation of the Work In Startups…
Yahoo has agreed to pay $50M in damages for a huge security breach in 2013 that hit all three billion of its user accounts. If the settlement is approved by a court next month, affected U.S. users can claim a portion of the funds. The post Yahoo agrees to pay $50M damages for biggest-ever data…
If your Instagram followers aren’t aware that you’ve voted, did you really even vote? In 2018, the act of voting is great social media fodder. People want their friends to know they’ve registered to vote, or that they’ve just mailed in their absentee ballot or even that they’ve bought some sort of “look, I voted”…
Tesla reported a profit in the third quarter, reversing seven consecutive quarters of losses. It is only the third time in its history that it has achieved this milestone. The third quarter earnings, which were reported after the market closed Wednesday, rocketed shares up nearly 12 percent to above $320. Tesla reported a profit of…
President Trump has three iPhones — two of them are “secure” and his third is a regular personal device. But whenever the commander-in-chief takes a call, his adversaries are said to be listening. That’s according to a new report by The New York Times, which put a spotlight on the president’s array of devices —…
Facebook is working on a new app that it hopes could win back the attention of teens while capitalizing on its recently-attained major label music licenses. Facebook is building a standalone product where users can record and share videos of themselves lip syncing or dancing to popular songs, according to information from current and former…
Facebook announced today that it has removed 8.7 million pieces of content last quarter that violated its rules against child exploitation, thanks to new technology. The new AI and machine learning tech, which was developed and implemented over the past year by the company, removed 99 percent of those posts before anyone reported them, said…
Whether you’ve started a new school year, are shopping for a student, or you just need a new computer, we’ve got you covered: These are the 10 best laptop deals going right now, from discounted MacBooks to on-the-go gaming PCs. The post Here are the 10 best laptop deals for October 2018 appeared first on…
Nearly as many cybersecurity professionals are concerned about the security risks of artificial intelligence (AI) as are convinced that the technology will bolster their cyber defences. That’s one of the findings of a new report from real-time information specialist, Neustar. The International Cyber Benchmarks Index is published by the Neustar International Security Council (NISC), a group of…
“Yeah! Well of course we’re working on it” Facebook’s head of augmented reality Ficus Kirkpatrick told me when I asked him if Facebook was building an AR glasses at TechCrunch’s AR/VR event in LA. “We are building hardware products. We’re going forward on this . . . We want to see those glasses come into…
