אסף מגידש - בשורה אחת

Virtualized storage startup Tintri closes up 3.86% on a first day of trading, after lowering its IPO price from $10.50-$12.50 range to $7 per share (Julie Bort/Business Insider) אסף מגידש

Delivery Hero rises 9% on a first day of trading in Frankfurt after raising about €1B in an IPO (Arno Schuetze/Reuters) אסף מגידש

Facebook will identify and demote links from users who post more than 50 times a day in News Feed (Kurt Wagner/Recode) אסף מגידש

Nokia nabs Samsung North America CEO to lead its consumer-focused Technologies division (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Facebook begins global rollout of "Find Wi-Fi" feature for its mobile apps, which displays nearby WiFi hotspots that businesses shared from their Facebook pages (Facebook) אסף מגידש

Korea's Kakao spins out Kakao Mobility unit which includes ride-hailing service, raises $437M from TPG for the new business (Jon Russell/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Xcalar, which wants to use big data to provide business insights, announces $16M Series A led by Khosla Ventures; firm has partnerships with Microsoft, Google (Cat Zakrzewski/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Germany passes law allowing fines of up to $57M for social media companies if they do not delete illegal, racist, or slanderous content within 24 hours (New York Times) אסף מגידש

Swift Navigation, maker of high-accuracy GPS hardware for autonomous vehicles, announces $34M round, bringing total raised to $47.6M (Bérénice Magistretti/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

JASK emerges from stealth with $12M Series A, led by Dell Technologies Capital, for its automated threat detection service (Jonathan Shieber/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Facebook says its solar-powered Aquila drone completes its second test flight successfully, after flying for 1 hour and 46 minutes, and landing perfectly (Martin Luis Gomez/Facebook Code) אסף מגידש

AMD's new Ryzen PRO CPUs designed for corporate desktops come with standard Ryzen features plus a 3-year warranty, additional management and security features (Peter Bright/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Make.tv, a cloud-based video management firm, raises $8.5M led by Voyager, with Microsoft Ventures, Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital, and Arnold Ventures (Tom Krazit/GeekWire) אסף מגידש

Dubai Police plan to deploy self-driving miniature vehicles that will use biometrics to scan crowds and identify criminals and suspects (Ali Al Shouk/Gulf News) אסף מגידש

Sources: Cyber security firm Zscaler to hire banks for potential IPO later this year at valuation of about $2B (Reuters) אסף מגידש

McMansion Hell architecture criticism blog returns and Zillow drops its complaint against the EFF-supported blogger after backlash over fair use of images (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire) אסף מגידש

Sources: Twitter is weighing a way to let users flag tweets with misleading, false, or harmful info, moving slowly due to concerns users could game the system (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post) אסף מגידש

macOS High Sierra public beta is now available, with improvements to Photos, Notes, Safari, and Mail, plus major under-the-hood enhancements like APFS (Mark Spoonauer/Laptop Mag) אסף מגידש

Internet has ushered in an age of "distributed truth", widely spreading little known knowledge that used to be confined offline, such as Caldbeck's behavior (Eugene Wei/Remains of the Day) אסף מגידש

How iPhone jailbreaking has evolved over the years, from a widespread phenomenon to an individual pursuit, as Apple and hackers played a game of cat and mouse (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/Motherboard) אסף מגידש

GPU database provider Kinetica raises $50M Series A led by Canvas Ventures and Meritech Capital Partners (Barb Darrow/Fortune) אסף מגידש

Google hires ex-Intel VP Danielle Brown as VP of Diversity, says 20% of tech employees are now women, 1% are black, 39% are Asian, 53% are white (Eileen Naughton/Google) אסף מגידש

Adobe updates its Analytics Cloud suite to track how users interact with apps built for Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Google Assistant, and Samsung's Bixby (Marty Swant/Adweek) אסף מגידש

A look at France's Station F hub, which has space for 1,000 startups, has backing from Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and aims to make France a startup hotspot (New York Times) אסף מגידש

Sources: Airbnb plans to launch new service for luxury vacation rentals at mansions and penthouses, will start testing in some markets at the end of the year (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Microsoft buys Israeli cloud management company Cloudyn, will incorporate Cloudyn's cloud management products into its portfolio; sources say price was $50-$70M (TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

How Instagram used DeepText, an AI-based system built at Facebook that mimics the way language works in our brains, to block offensive comments (Nicholas Thompson/Wired) אסף מגידש

Ann Lai, a former principal at Binary Capital, sues firm for harassment by Justin Caldbeck following her resignation (Emily Chang/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

How Maersk has largely gone back to operating manually after malware attack, which some experts are calling a "Y2K moment" for the shipping industry (Sam Chambers/Splash 247) אסף מגידש

Microsoft buys Israel-based cloud management company Cloudyn, will incorporate Cloudyn's cloud management, security, and governance solutions in its portfolio (Jeremy Winter/The Official Microsoft Blog) אסף מגידש

Interview with Pantera Capital's Dan Morehead, Paul Veradittakit, and Joey Krug, on the company's $100M ICO fund, which has already raised $35M (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Nutanix announces strategic partnership with Google Cloud and unveils new tools for hybrid cloud management (Larry Dignan/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Malware attack raises concern that the NSA has lost control over cyberweapons they developed, and that damage from the Shadow Brokers leaks could be much worse (New York Times) אסף מגידש

Researchers using 1.6M tweets from the 2011 London riots identify threats up to an hour faster than the police (Dani Deahl/The Verge) אסף מגידש

White House confirms Trump nominated Brendan Carr, FCC general counsel and Pai ally, for FCC GOP slot; he named Jessica Rosenworcel for Democratic slot earlier (Tony Romm/Recode) אסף מגידש

Eero Home WiFi System 2 review: easier to setup and more powerful, but it is pricey and not the fastest mesh router among the competition (Michael Brown/TechHive) אסף מגידש

Internet radio service 8tracks hacked, usernames, email account details, and passwords stolen; LeakBase says 18M accounts, some from 2008, affected (Joseph Cox/Motherboard) אסף מגידש

Twitch says its mobile app has been installed 83M+ times and will update in early July with live streaming, its social feed Twitch Pulse, and dark mode theme (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

In filing, Uber suggests Levandowski took discs of Waymo IP home as negotiating tactic for $120M bonus, reasserts that Kalanick told him to not share the IP (Kate Conger/Gizmodo) אסף מגידש

Sources: Andy Rubin-backed AR gaming glasses startup CastAR shuts down, lays off about 70 and is liquidating assets (Brian Crecente/Polygon) אסף מגידש

Interview with Lyft's John Zimmer on its culture, values, marketing strategy, and the firm's refusal to gloat over Uber's escalating woes, more (Kevin Roose/New York Times) אסף מגידש

Malware used in outbreak was not ransomware, as the "petya" variant had been altered to wipe and destroy system memory, suggesting this was done by nation state (Matt Suiche/Comae Technologies) אסף מגידש

Canada's top court rules that Google can be compelled by lower courts to remove search results worldwide, causing concern among civil liberties groups (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune) אסף מגידש

iOS 11 on iPad Pro falls short of being a laptop replacement due to lack of precise pointer input, but side-by-side view and multitasking are getting better (Tom Warren/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Google officially debuts its internal Area 120 startup incubator and announces a VR advertising project called Advr aimed at testing formats (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Analysis of EU's Google antitrust fine: digital monopoly definition and focus on promoting competition are good but punishing Google for being best is misguided (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) אסף מגידש

A look at "new-collar" tech-focused jobs, supported by big firms like Microsoft and IBM, that aim to provide skills to workers without college degrees in the US (Steve Lohr/New York Times) אסף מגידש

Google Photos begins rolling out new suggested sharing features, including dedicated in-app sharing tab and optional automatic sharing (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Salesforce debuts three new AI-powered tools for developers building atop its Einstein platform, focused on sentiment and intent analysis and image recognition (Ron Miller/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Alibaba to invest another $1B in e-commerce site Lazada, raising its stake from 51% to 83%, in a bid to extend its presence in the Southeast Asian market (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש