Expedia execs sacrifice salary as firm raises $3.2bn during crisis
In addition to raising $3.2bn, Expedia has appointed two company veterans to the roles of CEO and CFO and has said that these executives will not…
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Malware found lurking in kids’ Play Store apps, security firm finds
A host of utility and children’s apps in Google Play Store contained hidden auto-clicker malware, amounting to more than a million installs across…
Saudi VC Firm Hires Google Exec To Grow Tech Unicorns
Saudi Arabia’s STV, one of the country’s largest venture capital firms, has enlisted the help of a Google employee, Ivan Jakovljevic, with the hope…
Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints
New York facial recognition startup Clearview AI – which has amassed a huge database of more than three billion images scraped from employment sites,…
Antivirus firm Avast is reportedly selling users’ web browsing data
Avast, which makes free antivirus software that’s used by millions of people around the world, is reportedly selling “highly sensitive” web browsing…
DDoS Mitigation Firm Founder Admits to DDoS
A Georgia man who co-founded a service designed to protect companies from crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has pleaded to…
Xiaomi to set up consumer finance firm in Chongqing
Chinese regulators have given smartphone maker Xiaomi the green light to set up a consumer finance company in Chongqing, a municipality in the…
Pinterest taps market research firm IRI to measure offline sales lift
A little over two years ago, Pinterest announced a partnership with IRI, the global market research company, to measure the impact of ad campaigns…
Fintech firm One Connect plans to raise $468 million in downsized IPO
Ping An’s fintech arm One Connect Financial Technology said on Monday that it is aiming to raise $468 million in its US listing, a significant…
Google acquires Microsoft-backed enterprise software firm CloudSimple
It is unclear whether CloudSimple will remain available to Microsoft Azure users following the deal with Google. On Monday (18 November), Google…