After people dial 911, Apple’s forthcoming iOS 12 will automatically share their location with first responders. “The move is intended to dramatically improve emergency service response time, and Apple says the feature is implemented with privacy in mind,” 9To5Mac reports. “Apple already implements a feature called Hybridized Emergency Location, or HELO, that tries to estimate an iPhone caller’s location for emergency services using radios.”

Google’s mobile-data monitoring app Datally just added a few new features. “First up is Guest Mode, which lets you set a temporary limit on how much data guests can use,” according to Android Authority. “You can change the data allotment and set a password to prevent others from making changes … This is good for folks who tend to pass their phones around and worry about how much of their data gets used.”

Google is planning to invest more than half a billion dollars in Chinese ecommerce giant, JD.com. “As part of a strategic partnership, Google will put $550 million in cash into JD.com,” CNBC reports. “The two tech companies said they would work together to develop retail infrastructure that can better personalize the shopping experience and reduce friction in a number of markets, including Southeast Asia.”

Adobe appears to have had a strong fiscal second quarter. “Adobe said in a statement that revenue rose 24 percent year over year,” CNBC reports. “Most of the company's revenue comes from subscriptions, and that category was up almost 30 percent year to year.” Of note, “In the quarter the company said that it was acquiring Magento Commerce for $1.68 billion,” CNBC notes.

Twitter is losing its corporate communications head, Kristin Binns, Reuters reports. Binns is taking a similar position at video game publisher Activision Blizzard. “Binns, who joined Twitter in September 2016, will be replacing Mary Osako, who left Activision several months ago to pursue another venture,” according to Reuters. 

Although Wired calls it “dismal,” Google’s latest diversity report is a mixed bag. “In 2017, black employees left Google at the highest rates, followed by Latinx employees; but the attrition numbers also showed that Google was better at retaining female employees than male employees,” Wired writes. “Google also said it made gains in hiring Asian women.”

Instagram has ceased testing a feature that alerted users when others took a screenshot of their Stories. “Adopting this feature would have put Instagram on the same page as Snapchat, which has always let users know when screenshots are taken and by who,” Search Engine Journal reports. “Instagram did not elaborate on why it decided to scrap this feature.”

Despite continuing concerns about its handling of use data, Facebook’s stock price is soaring. In fact, “Facebook’s stock hit a new all-time high on Thursday morning, completing a Wall Street recovery that has been months in the making,” The Wrap writes. “Facebook is now worth more than $565 billion. ”

Google is making several changes to its ad tools, Venture Beat reports. With “Ad Settings,” for example, “users will be able to go into their Google account, click on Ad Settings, and scroll through the list of factors that are considered as algorithms figure out which ads to serve up,” it writes. “The new features come as internet companies such as Google and Facebook are facing a global backlash around their handling of personal data.”

Apple is making it harder for law enforcement to break into iPhones, Reuters reports. With a new settings change, Apple “was aiming to protect all customers, especially in countries where phones are readily obtained by police or by criminals with extensive resources,” it writes. Apple executives “also noted that criminals, spies and unscrupulous people often use the same techniques. Even some of the methods most prized by intelligence agencies have been leaked on the internet.”