Devumi settles FTC charges that it sold fake followers and likes; cosmetics firm Sunday Riley also settles with FTC for allegedly posting fake online reviews
Shelby Brown / CNET: Devumi settles FTC charges that it sold fake followers and likes; cosmetics...
Facebook now requires some page owners to disclose the orgs running them and if they're tied to state-owned media, will add labels to pages run by state media
Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook now requires some page owners to disclose the orgs running them...
IAB and PwC: US online ad spending reached $57.9B in H1 2019, up 16.9% year-over-year but lower than the 23.1% growth in the same period last year
Greg Sterling / Marketing Land: IAB and PwC: US online ad spending reached $57.9B in H1...
Researchers find open database that leaked 179GB+ of customer, US govt, and military records from Autoclerk, a travel reservations system owned by Best Western
vpnMentor: Researchers find open database that leaked 179GB+ of customer, US govt, and military records from...
Sources: Adobe will preview Illustrator for iPad at its Max conference in November before launching it in 2020
Bloomberg: Sources: Adobe will preview Illustrator for iPad at its Max conference in November before launching...
EU says preliminary results of its probe into software used by EU institutions raises “serious concerns” over Microsoft's compliance with data protection rules
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: EU says preliminary results of its probe into software used by EU...
Instabase, which sells app making tools to enterprise, raises $105M Series B at a $1.05B valuation
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: Instabase, which sells app making tools to enterprise, raises $105M Series B...
SAP has struck a three-year deal where Microsoft will sell a bundle of SAP cloud services directly to customers who run SAP on Azure
Nat Levy / GeekWire: SAP has struck a three-year deal where Microsoft will sell a bundle...
Self-driving car startup Zoox raises $200M in convertible note funding that will be folded into a Series C, its first raise since firing CEO Tim Kentley-Klay
Axios: Self-driving car startup Zoox raises $200M in convertible note funding that will be folded into...
Verizon's rollout of 5G to three NBA arenas and over a dozen NFL stadiums only covers some of the seating areas in each facility
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Verizon's rollout of 5G to three NBA arenas and over a...
Google hires Javier Soltero, Acompli co-founder and former head of Microsoft Outlook, to run G Suite
Ina Fried / Axios: Google hires Javier Soltero, Acompli co-founder and former head of Microsoft Outlook,...
Sources: SoftBank to take control of WeWork, spending $4B-$5B on new funding and existing shares in The We Company, valuing it between $7.5B and $8B
CNBC: Sources: SoftBank to take control of WeWork, spending $4B-$5B on new funding and existing shares...
Tim Cook becomes chairman of the advisory board of China's Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, a 3-year position; he joined the board in '13
Juli Clover / MacRumors: Tim Cook becomes chairman of the advisory board of China's Tsinghua University...
Hackers breached the internal network of Avast likely aiming for another supply chain attack on CCleaner; Avast says it didn't find malicious changes to the app
Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: Hackers breached the internal network of Avast likely aiming for another supply...
Facebook bans networks, three originating in Iran and one in Russia, running “inauthentic” accounts, Pages, and Groups misleading users in the US, Latin America
Nathaniel Gleicher / Facebook: Facebook bans networks, three originating in Iran and one in Russia, running...
A deep dive into music licensing in games, where the wrong type of licenses or expired ones may force developers to stop sales or game releases on new platforms
Mat Ombler / GamesIndustry.biz: A deep dive into music licensing in games, where the wrong type...
As Amazon regularly fails to prevent expired food from being sold by merchants, concerned brands are often compelled to police marketplace listings on their own
Annie Palmer / CNBC: As Amazon regularly fails to prevent expired food from being sold by...
Google says it's aware iPhones can back up Original Quality HEIC photos to Google Photos for free, says it's a bug, after users wanted Pixel 4 to offer the same
Dieter Bohn / The Verge: Google says it's aware iPhones can back up Original Quality HEIC...