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Spotify files with SEC for $1B direct listing, will use SPOT as stock symbol; reports 71M paid subs, up 46% YoY, $4.09B revenue in 2017, up from $2.95B in 2016 — Music streaming giant Spotify today filed for a $1 billion IPO. Axios had previously reported on the company's confidential filing, but the new paperwork is public.
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Spotify Technology S.A. F-1 SEC filing for public listing on NYSE — This prospectus relates to the registration of the resale of up to of our ordinary shares by the registered shareholders identified in this prospectus ("Registered Shareholders"). Unlike an initial public offering …
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Sources: SEC increases scrutiny of ICOs, issuing “scores” of subpoenas and information requests to companies and advisers about structure of sales and pre-sales — Regulator issues subpoenas to parties engaged in booming market for initial coin offerings| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter begins rolling out its Bookmarks feature, which lets users privately save tweets to view later via a new share button, to all mobile users — Twitter today is publicly launching its “Bookmarks” feature, which has been in testing since late last year, following the company's HackWeek project dubbed #SaveForLater.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google unveils Learn with Google AI site for AI and machine learning resources, posts free 15-hour Machine Learning Crash Course used by 18K Google employees — A new ‘Learn with Google AI’ site will serve as a hub for AI and machine learning resources — Machine learning and AI … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google brings Hangouts Chat, its Slack competitor, out of beta and adds it to G Suite with deeper integration with other Google and third-party tools — Hangouts Chat, Google's take on modern workplace communication, is now generally available and is becoming a core part of G Suite.
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| Paris Martineau / The Outline: |
After removing some conspiracy and pro-gun videos and channels, YouTube says it will reinstate videos, which may have been removed in error by moderators — Looks like that whole “content moderation” thing wasn't a joke after all. — The Future — Looks like that whole “content moderation” thing wasn't a joke after all.| Hugh Langley / Wareable: |
Leaked images and sources detail Fitbit's next smartwatch, set for spring launch, that will appeal to female market, have 50M water resistance, no GPS, more — Exclusive: A better design than the Ionic, but lacks GPS — On its latest investors call, Fitbit teased a brand new smartwatch …
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft Teams adds guest support for users with any email address — Microsoft is today advancing guest account support for Teams. When Microsoft first launched guest account support for Teams, the company only allowed users with Azure AD accounts to be added as guests to a team using the service.
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Apple says it will let developers making apps for Watch Series 3 track ski and snowboard activities through APIs in watchOS 4.2 — Apple has announced that skiers and snowboarders can use Apple Watch Series 3 to track their activities starting today. — Apple Watch apps snoww, Slopes …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
San Francisco-based Triplebyte, which develops online tools to assess engineers' skills and match them to jobs, raises $10M Series A led by Initialized Capital — Triplebyte, a three-year-old San Francisco startup developing software and tools to assess engineers' skills and match them to available jobs … | Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal: |
Best Buy will be closing all of its 250 mobile phone stores in the US by end of May, says sales from the mobile stores account for ~1% of company revenue — The electronics retailer, which will close all 250 Mobile stores by the end of May, said operating the small stores cost more than big-box locations
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Genesis Global Trading launching digital currency lender Genesis Capital to allow investors to borrow bitcoin, ether, other cryptocurrencies for a fixed time — - “This will be the first time that institutional investors will get the opportunity to really borrow and hedge or short …
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Mist, a startup that offers an AI-powered self-learning wireless LAN for enterprises, raises $46M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins — Networking startup Mist Systems Inc., which has built a self-learning wireless local area network for enterprises that's powered by artificial intelligence technologies … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Box reports Q4 revenue of $136.7M, up 24% YoY, in line with estimates, and has 82K+ customers but forecasts revenue of $142-143M vs $144.3M est; stock down 11%+ — Box shares were down nearly 12 percent after hours. — Box published in-line fourth quarter financial results on Wednesday …
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