Month: February 2020
Google confirms it again removed alleged spying tool ToTok from Google Play
In December, The New York Times reported a popular messaging app called ToTok was actually a spying tool used by the government of the United Arab Emirates to track users’ conversations, location, and social connections. The app was removed from the Google Play store in December, while Google investigated, then…
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Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be treated differently from media organizations
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes that content posted on social networks should be regulated using a system somewhere between the existing rules for telecoms and media industries. At the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Zuckerberg explained that Facebook has made significant progress in fighting online election interference. He also once…
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Leaked TCL is an alternative to foldable phones, but still has a tablet-like screen
TCL had a lot to show off at CES 2020 with the likes of 5G and foldable phones under $500, but the company has another design that it was waiting to show off until MWC 2020, and it has a slide-out display, according to sources for CNET. The images obtained…
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New email scheme threatens to get websites kicked off Google AdSense unless they pay bitcoin
A new email scam threatens website owners with a flood of bot traffic to get their Google AdSense accounts suspended, Krebs on Security reports. By directing a large amount of bot traffic to a company’s banner ads, the scammers could trigger Google’s automated anti-fraud protection, which flags traffic that looks…
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GeForce Now lost all Activision Blizzard games due to an Nvidia blunder
Activision Blizzard’s library of games disappeared from GeForce Now shortly after the game streaming service was officially launched, but it seems like that might have been Nvidia’s fault, after all – in terms of a misunderstanding over the terms of the deal between the two firms. At the time, Nvidia…
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Boston’s year jump starts as two local startups raise $520M in two rounds
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Late last week two Boston-based companies raised big rounds. The size of the two investments — each over the $100 million mark — and their rapid succession made them stand…
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