Facebook Facebook Demands Email Passwords Then Quietly Uploads Contact Lists But Once Again We Don't CareForbes - Kalev LeetaruJust weeks after Facebook acknowledged it had been secretly storing its users’ passwords in cleartext on its servers where they had been accessed more than 9 million times by its employees, the Daily reported
Microsoft Microsoft's big win: Pentagon signs massive $1.76bn contract | ZDNetZDNet Microsoft wins a five-year services deal with Department of Defense, Coast Guard, and intelligence community. Microsoft wins huge $1.76 billion …
SaaS 5 Reasons to Actually Have Board Meetingssaastr.com - Jason Lemkin I’ve held off for 6+ years and 3000+ Quora answers on writing a post on Board Meetings. Why? Every investor in the world writes lengthy posts on How …
Amazon It's A Mirakl! You Can Have Your Own Amazon-Style Website Thanks To This Global CompanyForbes - Daniel D'AmbrosioIf it’s good enough for Amazon, it’s good enough for Walmart, Best Buy, Urban Outfitters and more than 200 other companies, says Adrien Nussenbaum, CEO of Mirakl, a global firm with offices in Boston,
Shopify API flaw offered access to revenue data of thousands of storesZDNet - Charlie Osborne The bug was accepted as valid, but the researcher wasn’t paid. A security flaw in a Shopify API endpoint has been discovered by a researcher which can …
Robert Mueller How Mueller used Bitcoin to catch RussiaCNN - By Donie O'Sullivan, CNN BusinessNew York (CNN Business) — Russian operatives used cryptocurrency at almost every stage in their online efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to Special Counsel Robert final
Startups Startups Weekly: Zoom CEO says its stock price is 'too high'TechCrunch - Kate ClarkWhen Zoom hit the public markets Thursday, its IPO pop, a whopping 81 percent, floored everyone, including its own chief executive officer, Eric Yuan. Yuan became a billionaire this week when his video
WeWork WeWork is replacing its chief operating officer to focus on overseas growthRecode - Theodore SchleiferA lot is riding on a new London-based COO to help justify the company’s $45 billion valuation. WeWork is shuffling around some of its most senior executives as it tries to build out its international which
How-To's The Ultimate Guide For Scaling, Sales and Raising Capital in SaaSsaastr.com - Amelia Ibarra If you’ve been wondering … How do I choose who should be the CEO when I have a co-founder? What are some rookie mistakes founders make during VC …
SaaS The 10+ Year Customersaastr.com - Jason Lemkin Salesforce likes to talk about “Customers for Life”, and while that’s sort of catchy, it’s a little hard to grok what it really means. It finally sunk …
Investing Prosper is the latest Silicon Valley company to get dinged by, and settle charges with, the SECTechCrunch - Connie LoizosAnother Silicon Valley company is settling with the SEC: the online lending company Prosper, which the SEC had accused of “miscalculating and materially overstating annualized net returns to retail and
SaaS 9 Reasons Good Salespeople Failsaastr.com - Jason Lemkin In my experience at least, strong salespeople fail all the time in new roles. Good reps, that could otherwise do well, and have in the past.And it …
G Suite Microsoft starts rolling out Google G Suite to Office 365 migration toolsZDNet - Mary Jo Foley Microsoft's promised automated tools for migrating users from G Suite to Office 365 are rolling out over 'the coming …
Silicon Valley Top Silicon Valley VCs Bid Up Email Startup SuperhumanThe Wall Street Journal. - Yuliya ChernovaAndreessen Horowitz has beaten rival Silicon Valley firms bidding to lead funding of Gmail challenger Email startup Superhuman Labs Inc. believes that despite Gmail’s dominance, a new player could shake
Oracle Will automated databases kill the DBA position?TechRepublic - Brandon Vigliarolo Oracle's Autonomous Database may have database admins worried, but it shouldn't. The DBA role in an automated world will change, but it won't be …
First Look At The Fastly IPO...crunchbase.com - Alex Wilhelm Morning Markets: A dorky edition of this column focused on the Fastly S-1 filing. Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily A day after the Zoom and Pinterest …
Value Propositions Can a good salesman sell anything?saastr.com - Jason Lemkin Not really in SaaS. At least not well. The classic “Sell Me This Pen” test is still a good one, even in SaaS. There is no perfect answer, but it does …
Technology Security flaw in French government messaging app exposed confidential conversationsTechCrunch - Romain DilletThe French government just launched its own messaging app called Tchap in order to protect conversations from hackers, private companies and foreign entities. But Elliot Alderson, also known as Baptiste
Startups Sequoia India's Surge unveils its first batch of startupstechinasia.com - Terence Lee Surge, Sequoia India’s new startup accelerator, has revealed the 17 startups that form the first batch of its program. Surge has invested seed money …
Star Trek Interview: Jonathan Frakes Wishes ‘Star Trek: TNG’ Had Continued And Wants To Work With Tarantinotrekmovie.com - Anthony Pascale Our extensive exclusive interview with Jonathan Frakes continues with this third and final part, a discussion of his time on Star Trek: The Next …
T-Mobile T-Mobile gets into banking, offering 4% interest and no fees on its free checking accountUSA TODAY - Eli Blumenthal and Janna Herron, USA TODAYT-Mobile is jumping into the banking business with a splash. The wireless carrier on Thursday introduced a mobile checking account that offers an interest rate thousands of times higher than the national
Amazon River Battle for .amazon Domain Pits Retailer Against South American NationsThe New York Times - By SHASTA DARLINGTONSÃO PAULO, Brazil — Amazon is the world’s biggest online retailer. It is also the world’s largest rain forest. The question is who owns the name. This is the core of an epic battle between the tech behemoth
Blockchain Here's What We Know So Far About the Hunt for Satoshi's Treasurebreakermag.com - By Jessica Klein It began with an encrypted message transmitted through the Blockstream Satellite on April 13. “Welcome, Hunter,” it began. “If you are reading this, …
Tech Industry Zoom Video CEO: I Don't Know Why Our Shares Soared 72% After IPOFortune - Jonathan Vanian Zoom Video Communications CEO Eric Yuan said he’s mystified about why shares in his video conferencing company soared 76% in their first day of …
Technology CloudBees acquires Electric Cloud to build out its software delivery management platformTechCrunch - Frederic LardinoisCloudBees, the enterprise continuous integration and delivery service (and the biggest contributor to the Jenkins open-source automation server), today announced that it has acquired Electric Cloud, a
Technology Microsoft acquires Express Logic for its real-time internet of things operating systemVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersMicrosoft today announced that it’s acquired Express Logic, a 23-year-old San Diego, California-based developer of real-time operating systems (RTOS) for internet of things (IoT) and edge devices powered
Startups HipChat founders launch Swoot, a social podcast appTechCrunch - Anthony HaPete Curley and Garret Heaton, who previously co-founded team chat app HipChat and sold it to Atlassian, are officially launching their new product Swoot today. The app makes it easy for users to recommend
BlackBerry The consumer version of BBM is shutting down on May 31TechCrunch - Matt BurnsIt might be time to move on from BBM. The consumer version of the BlackBerry Messenger will shut down on May 31. Emtek, the Indonesia-based company that partnered with BlackBerry in 2016, just announced
Source Code You can now download the source code for all Infocom text adventure classicsArs Technica - Samuel Axon Yes, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Zork are both included. The source code of every Infocom text adventure game has been uploaded to …
Technology The first DDoS attack was 20 years ago. This is what we’ve learned since.MIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv On the 20th anniversary of the first distributed denial of service attack, cybersecurity experts say the internet must be redesigned to prevent …
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