Meta’s surveillance biz model targeted in UK ‘right to object’ GDPR lawsuit

Meta’s surveillance-based business model is facing an interesting legal challenge in the UK from an individual who’s suing over its continued processing of her data for ad targeting — despite her objection. The legal challenge — which is being brought by human rights campaigner, Tanya O’Carroll — is seeking a declaration that Meta is in … Read more

Get your product and customer success teams on the same page to improve net retention

Bryan House Contributor Share on Twitter Bryan House is the SVP of product and customer success at Elastic Path, where he leads the UX, product management, enablement and customer success teams. It’s easy to say things like “We’re customer obsessed,” but statements like that are hard to actually execute. In many companies, the product and … Read more

Custom jeweler Wove bags $3.85M to make engagement ring purchases less stressful

Wove, an online custom jewelry company, is injecting technology into the engagement ring buying experience to speed up the time it takes to create one-of-a-kind pieces. It’s also doing it with $3.85 million in a new seed funding led by Springdale Ventures. Joining Springdale was a group of investors that included Outlander VC, Rarebreed Ventures, … Read more

SponsorUnited secures $35M investment to build out its database of brand sponsorships

Sponsorships are a multibillion-dollar industry. But data on sponsorships, like who’s sponsoring who, can be tough to come by because of the various forms they take — and channels on which those sponsorships take place (think not only websites and social media posts but also physical signage and even sports team jerseys). For both brands … Read more

Time’s up: the leap second is being scrapped

Leap seconds depend entirely on how quickly the Earth spins, which can be a nightmare for managing technology hardware infrastructures. (Pictured: the World Time Clock in Berlin.) | Photo by INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images A global panel of scientists and government representatives have voted to scrap leap seconds by 2035. The ad hoc time … Read more

Amazon-owned Wickr is shutting down its free encrypted messaging app

Secure communications provider Wickr has announced that it will shutter its free encrypted messaging app, Wickr Me, next year. Wickr was founded in 2011 and became one of the first mainstream end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, until it was acquired by Amazon’s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services in 2021. In a post published Friday, Amazon said … Read more

India issues guidelines to curb fake reviews on e-commerce platforms

Tech giants that play in India’s e-commerce sphere are overrun with fake reviews. Today, the country’s regulators finally moved ahead with a new set of rules aiming to curb that. The Indian government has released a framework to curb fake and misleading reviews on e-commerce platforms and portals offering tour and travel services, restaurants, eateries … Read more

Broadcom’s proposed $61B VMware acquisition scrutinized by UK regulators

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has initiated a so-called “phase 1” investigation into Broadcom’s proposed $61 billion deal to buy virtualization software giant VMware. The news comes shortly after news emerged that the European Commission (EC) was also proceeding with an investigation into what would be one of the biggest tech acquisitions of … Read more

These vibrating LG Display panels turn car dashboards and headrests into speakers

LG Display’s Thin Actuator Sound Solution is just 30 percent of the weight and 10 percent of the thickness of a conventional car speaker. | Image: LG Display LG Display has developed a new “invisible” speaker technology for vehicles that uses a passport-sized vibrating panel to generate sound. It was developed with an unnamed “global … Read more