Internet/e-commerce

Uber rewrote its UK driver contracts to act as an agent rather than a supplier of taxi services outside London, to avoid UK's new 20% “taxi tax” on total fares (www.theguardian.com)
2026-1-3 Uber Tax London

Google is testing a new image AI and it's going to be its fastest model (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-3 Google AI

How Meta's Reels became a hit, with a $50B+ annual run rate; Sensor Tower: users spend 27 minutes/day on Instagram Reels, 21 on YouTube Shorts, and 44 on TikTok (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-2 YouTube Instagram Sensor

A look at the rise of AI companion apps; a researcher counts 206 such apps on the App Store and 253 on Google Play, with 220M+ total downloads as of July 2025 (www.ft.com)
2026-1-1 Google AI

5 Critical Microsoft 365 Security Settings You Could Be Missing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-1 Microsoft

Sources: Uber is in talks to acquire the parking space reservation app SpotHero; the parking app was last valued at $290M (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-1 Uber

IBM warns of critical API Connect auth bypass vulnerability (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-31 IBM

OpenAI financial data: its stock-based pay averaged ~$1.5M per employee in 2025, ~7x Google pre-IPO and ~34x the average pay of other pre-IPO peers, per Equilar (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-31 Google IPO

Sources: Satya Nadella is focused on the increasing AI competition from Amazon and Google; Microsoft Deputy CTO Dee Templeton says Nadella is in “founder mode” (t.co)
2025-12-30 Google Amazon Microsoft AI

How to Use Google's Gemini CLI for AI Code Assistance (realpython.com)
2025-12-30 Google AI

Driven by the AI boom, chipmakers posted $400B+ in sales in 2025; FactSet projects revenue for Nvidia, Intel, Broadcom, AMD, and Qualcomm to reach $538B in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-30 Intel AI Nvidia AMD

Google, Kodak, and Disruption (dailyreckoning.com)
2025-12-30 Google

Nvidia Takes $5 Billion Stake In Intel Under September Agreement (slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 Intel Nvidia

Stingless Bees From the Amazon Granted Legal Rights in World First (science.slashdot.org)
2025-12-30 Amazon

Permalink to Google releases Gemini 3 Flash, enabling faster, more cost effective reasoning (sdtimes.com)
2025-12-30 Google

Microsoft Copilot is rolling out GPT 5.2 as "Smart Plus" mode (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-30 Microsoft

Samsung and Google partner to bring Google Photos to TizenOS-powered TVs, launching in March 2026 and showing curated memories, ahead of CES 2026 (www.androidpolice.com)
2025-12-30 Google Samsung

SEC filing: Nvidia acquires Intel shares worth $5B, carrying out a transaction announced in September, buying 214.7M shares for $23.28 each (www.reuters.com)
2025-12-29 Intel Nvidia

A Kapwing study of the 15,000 top YouTube channels finds 278 of them have only posted AI-generated “slop” videos, amassing 63B+ views and 221M+ subscribers (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-29 AI YouTube

Sources and a memo: the US DOJ is using a novel reading of a federal anti-fraud law to probe contractors, including Google and Verizon, over their DEI programs (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-29 Google

Lou Gerstner, a former IBM CEO and chairman credited with turning the company around, died at 83; IBM's market value rose from $29B to ~$168B during his tenure (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-29 IBM

Google's 'AI Overview' Wrongly Accused a Musician of Being a Sex Offender (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-12-29 Google AI

New Runtime Standby ABI Proposed for Linux Like Microsoft Windows' 'Modern Standby' (linux.slashdot.org)
2025-12-28 Linux Microsoft

Mesh Networks Are About To Escape Apple, Amazon and Google Silos (mobile.slashdot.org)
2025-12-27 Google Amazon Apple

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google pledged a combined $67.5B in Indian investments since October, 80% of those in December, as part of an AI spending frenzy in India (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-12-27 India Google Amazon Microsoft AI

A Google support page in Hindi says the company plans to roll out an option to let users change their Gmail addresses while retaining all data and services (9to5google.com)
2025-12-26 Google

As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon is playing defense by blocking agents' access to its site and investing heavily in its own tools (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-26 Amazon Startup AI

Google will finally allow you to change your @gmail.com address (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-12-26 Google

KGB chief ridicules Zelensky's claims about Oreshnik intel (www.rt.com)
2025-12-25 Intel

How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-25 Trump Netflix

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