MASHABLE.COM — The Trump administration is temporarily easing its ban on Huawei. In an announcement on Monday, the U.Department of Commerce said it would be giving the Chinese tech giant a 90-day exemption from trade restrictions, thanks to a Temporary General License (TGL). Last week, Huawei was added to the department’s entity list, which bars the company from buying U.parts and components without U.government approval, citing national security concerns regarding its telecommunications equipment.

ENTREPRENEUR.COM — Do you know what ‘on-SERP SEO’ means in the marketing universe? You’re not alone, but you are missing an opportunity. May 15, 2019 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their…

SOCIALMEDIATODAY.COM — How many chat messages have you sent today? 20? 50? 100? Probably a lot, and that’s typical. Since 2014, people have been using chat apps more than they have social media tools. On Facebook Messenger alone, more than eight billion messages are sent around the world daily, and the Messenger marketing platform is responsible for millions of messages between people and businesses.

TECHCRUNCH.COM — has selected seven lucky startups to receive grants from its AI for Accessibility program. The growing companies aim to empower people with disabilities to take part in tech and the internet economy, from improving job searches to predicting seizures. Each of the seven companies receives professional-level Azure AI resources and support, cash to cover the cost of data collection and handling, and access to Microsoft’s experts in AI, project management, and accessibility.

ENTREPRENEUR.COM — Users are shifting from editorial to visual content, which demands a completely new set of best practices for social media marketing. May 18, 2019 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their…

SOCIALMEDIATODAY.COM — Twitter is once again trying out carousel ads, this time with a new format which would provide those running app install campaigns with the opportunity to add multiple images for context. As you can see in this example (via Sam Schmir), the new format would enable app advertisers to include multiple, swipeable images in a single ad.

BLOG.HOOTSUITE.COM — Blog / Social Using Google Ads (formerly known as Google Adwords) might be the most profitable decision you make for your business. This is not an exaggeration. Google owns nearly 75% of search engine market share. People turn to the platform to search 3.5 billion times a day for…

TECHCRUNCH.COM — is investing in certification and training for a range of A.I.-related skills in partnership with education provider General Assembly, the companies announced this morning. The goal is to train some 15,000 people by 2022 in order to increase the pool of A.talent around the world. The training will focus on A.I., machine learning, data science, cloud and data engineering and more.

TECHCRUNCH.COM — It’s been a long night at VivaTech. The building hosted a very special competition — the TechCrunch Hackathon in Paris. Hundreds of engineers and designers got together to come up with something cool, something neat, something awesome. The only condition was that they only had 36 hours to work on their projects.

BLOG.HOOTSUITE.COM — Blog / Social If your brand is on Instagram, it’s important to keep up with the latest Instagram photo editing trends. Instagram users post over 95 million photos each day, and spend an average of 32 minutes scrolling through posts and Stories. With so much content, users’ tastes…

TECHCRUNCH.COM — Earlier this year, founder-investor left his high-profile role as the president of Y Combinator to become the CEO of OpenAI, an AI research center at its outset that founded by some of the most prominent people in the tech industry in late 2015. The idea: to ensure that artificially intelligence is “developed in a way that is safe and is beneficial to humanity,” as one of those founders, Elon Musk, said back then to the New York Times.

TECHCRUNCH.COM — Twitter is finally modernizing its core APIs after 7 years of stagnation, and it wants early feedback from developers. That’s why today it’s launching Twitter Developer Labs, which app makers can sign up for to experiment with pre-release beta APIs. First up will be real-time streaming access to the Twitter firehose with the expansion of tweet filtering plus impressions and engagement metrics that were only previously only available in its expensive enterprise API tiers.

TECHCRUNCH.COM — In -dominated China, there’s no shortage of challengers out there claiming to create an alternative social experience. The latest creation comes from ByteDance, the world’s most valuable startup and the operator behind TikTok, the video app that has consistently topped the iOS App Store over the last few quarters.

MASHABLE.COM — May is National Masturbation Month, and we’re celebrating with Feeling Yourself, a series exploring the finer points of self-pleasure. Although he isn’t romantically or sexually attracted to cis men, B says his fascination to “strictly penises” began when he started watching porn in high school. . “For a very long time I just brushed it aside and ignored it,” B told Mashable through a Reddit DM.

MASHABLE.COM — May is National Masturbation Month, and we’re celebrating with Feeling Yourself, a series exploring the finer points of self-pleasure. When VR was tech’s pie in the sky years ago, people’s minds ran wild imagining all the new ways it could get us off. But then VR actually came, and largely, there wasn’t all that much to cum about.

TECHCRUNCH.COM — Alibaba Group has acquired about RMB 4.36 billion ($635 million) worth of convertible bonds in Red Star Macalline, one of China’s biggest furniture retailers. If converted, this would give Alibaba about a 10 percent stake in the company. It also purchased 3.7 percent of Red Star Macalline’s publicly traded shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange, according to a disclosure.

TECHCRUNCH.COM — The United States has been lobbying for months to prevent its western allies from using Huawei equipment in their 5G deployment, and on Wednesday, Washington made it more difficult for the Chinese telecom titan to churn out those next-gen products. The announced that it will add Huawei and its 70 affiliates to the so-called ‘Entity List,’ a move that will prevent the telecom giant from buying parts and components from U.companies without approval from Washington.

FASTCOMPANY.COM — Off the coast of New Zealand last year, a kayaker was drifting along quietly when a seal burst from the water and slapped him in the face with a large octopus. As it happens, the trip was funded by GoPro as part of a product launch, and that sucker punch was caught on video by one of the…

FORBES.COM — Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The November 30, 2018 cover of Forbes magazine featuring Steph Korey, who cofounded Away with Jen Rubio. ForbesLuggage manufacturer Away reached a valuation of $1.4 billion after raising $100 million, led…

TECHCRUNCH.COM — announced this morning that it’s begun to roll out Alexa Guard to all Echo customers in the U.The feature lets the company’s line of smart home products double as home security devices while the user is out. Say “Alexa, I’m leaving” on your way out the door, and the device will start listening. The key feature here is something called “Smart Alerts,” which listen for key sounds, indulging breaking glass and smoke and carbon monoxide alarms.