India’s IT minister accuses Facebook of suppressing right-leaning pages

Ravi Shankar Prasad, India's IT and Law and Justice minister, has accused Facebook India's leadership team of suppressing the reach of pages that support and promote right-leaning ideology, in what is the latest turn of events for the social giant in its biggest market by users where it has

Alexa can now pay for gas at over 11,500 Exxon and Mobil stations in the US

In January, Amazon announced a new feature that would allow Alexa users to pay for their gas at the pump using voice commands via Echo Auto and other Alexa-enabled mobility devices. Today, the company says the feature is now live at moer than 11,500 Exxon and Mobil gas stations across the U.S., all

Tesla taps market rally keg, announces $5B stock sale

Tesla said Tuesday it will sell up to $5 billion in new stock as the company seeks to take advantage of an unprecedented run up in its share price. Tesla will sell the shares from “time to time,” through an “at-the-market” offering program, the company said Tuesday in a filing with

The good and the less-good from Sumo Logic’s updated IPO filing

Sumo Logic filed an S-1/A this week, updating the world to its latest financial results ahead of its IPO pricing. Today, just over a week after we first looked at Sumo Logic’s recent financial performance when it filed its first S-1 document, let’s explore what’s new in the docume

Netflix is making a series based on ‘The Three-Body Problem’

Netflix just announced its plans to turn Cixin Liu’s “Three-Body Problem” trilogy into an original, English-language science fiction series. The show will be executive produced and written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (the “Game of Thrones” showrunners signed a mul

The 5G version of Samsung's Galaxy Tab S7 starts at $850 and arrives September 18

2020 was going to be the year 5G went truly mainstream. Things obviously haven't gone according to plan these past several months, but this is undoubtedly the year Samsung went all-in on the next-generation technology. After being one of the first to market with a 5G device, it has since made i

Oral-B’s iO smart toothbrush is a big upgrade in just about every way

It can be easy to mock the very concept of a “smart toothbrush” — what other device in our lives do we use daily that seems least in need of a connected upgrade? But Oral-B has been upgrading its powered toothbrush lineup with Bluetooth and app-based intelligence for quite a while

Meet the $3,300 edition of the Galaxy Z Fold 2

If you're going to spend $1,000 on a phone, you might as well spend $2,000. And honestly, if you're going to spend $2,000, why not just go for it and spend $3,300? That seems to be a chief guiding principle behind the Samsung Galaxy Fold Z 2 Thom Browne edition — a handset for those who w

Samsung's new Galaxy Fold arrives September 18 for $2,000

As far as launches for revolutionary products are concerned, the Galaxy Fold could have gone a lot better. It's not for lack of hype, of course. Years of prelude punctuated by Samsung's own breathless expectations provided plenty of build-up, but in the end, the device felt like a partially

InCountry raises $18M more to help SaaS companies store data locally

""> ""> We’re seeing a gradual expansion of national regulations that require data from SaaS applications to be stored locally in the country where it’s sourced and used. Today a startup that’s but a service around that need — specifically, data residency-as-a-service R

Amazon brings Twitch’s live streams to its Amazon Music app

Amazon is leveraging its investment in live-streaming site Twitch to expand its Amazon Music service. The company announced this morning Twitch’s live streams will now be available in the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android, with the goal of allowing fans and artists to connect amid a pandemi

Fresh off $200M Series D, Gong acquires early-stage startup Vayo

Gong announced a $200 million Series D investment just last month, and loaded with fresh cash, the company wasted no time taking advantage. Today, it announced it was buying early-stage Isreali sales technology startup Vayo. The companies did not share terms of the deal, but Gong CEO Amit Bendov sa

Bambuser raises $45M after shifting focus to live video shopping

Bambuser is a name you may not have heard in a while, but the Stockholm-headquartered company is announcing today that it has raised $45 million in new funding this year, with $34.5 million of that amount raised during the pandemic. Bambuser’s history goes back more than a decade (the first T

PicnicHealth raises $25 million for its patient health record management service

PicnicHealth, the startup that’s looking to give patients a way to manage their care in one place and pharmaceutical companies access to patient records for real-world data, has just raised $25 million in financing to grow its business. Founded in 2016 by a former international development wo