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Lyft says it has filed with the SEC for an IPO, hasn't specified the number of shares it is selling or their price range; sources say IPO is slated for H1 2019 — (Reuters) - Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc on Thursday filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google says it will stop working on Allo and instead focus on Messages; Allo will stop working March 2019 — Google has officially announced that it's shutting down Allo, ending the run of yet another failed Google chat app experiment. The news isn't entirely unsurprising …
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Canada has arrested Huawei's global CFO, who now faces extradition to the US on the warrant from NY state claiming she violated US trade sanctions against Iran — Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China's Huawei Technologies who is facing extradition to the United States …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will rebuild Edge to run on Google's open source Chromium project and will make it available on macOS, Windows 7, and Windows 8 — A Chromium version of Edge will also arrive on Windows 7 and Windows 8 — Microsoft is announcing some significant changes to its Edge browser today.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Australia passes sweeping anti-encryption bill giving police power to implant malware and insert backdoors, despite opposition from experts, tech companies — Australia's controversial anti-encryption bill is one step closer to becoming law, after the two leading but sparring party political giants struck … | Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Amazon says it is beta testing Amazon Answers, an invite-only program for users to help answer questions that Alexa doesn't know, starting today — Smartphones settle a lot of dinner table debates nowadays. We argue about this or that, until somebody finally pops out a phone and Googles it.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Apple Watch Series 4 ECG feature goes live in the US as part of the watchOS 5.1.2 update, letting users detect irregular heart rhythms — Apple Watch users can now take a reading of their heart's electrical signal by holding a finger on the crown of the device.
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| Financial Times: |
Millions of users on O2 in UK are unable to use mobile data due to a software problem in Ericsson's equipment; SoftBank in Japan was affected for several hours — Millions of mobile phone users around the world have been unable to use their smartphones after a software issue in systems provided by Ericsson caused major disruption.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Pandora officially launches its Podcasts on Pandora platform for iOS with hundreds of podcasts from various genres — Pandora has officially launched its podcasts platform today after running a beta on iOS and Android for about three weeks. Podcasts on Pandora is now available for all users …
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Qualcomm gives details on Snapdragon 855, its smartphone chipset: X24 modem, which isn't 5G compatible, 7 nanometer for 20% better graphics, and AI improvements — Qualcomm calls it an AI powerhouse — Qualcomm officially took the wraps off the Snapdragon 855, its next generation processor, yesterday at the SnapDragon Tech Summit.
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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
UK Parliament publishes 250+ redacted pages of sensitive, internal Facebook documents seized last month from founder of Six4Three, a company suing Facebook — - Documents were released by U.K. parliamentary committee — Lawmaker Collins says publication was lawful in U.K.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Business intelligence and big data analytics platform Looker raises $103M Series E at a valuation of $1.6B; CEO says revenue run rate has crossed $100M — Looker has been helping customers visualize and understand their data for seven years now and today it got a big reward … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
AT&T says it now supports eSIM on the latest iPhones with the iOS 12.1.1 update, making it the first major US carrier to support Dual SIM on iPhones — Apple today officially released iOS 12.1.1 to the public, teasing in the update's release notes that it includes “eSIM …
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| Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
Firefly, which wants to use GPS and other sensors to display contextual ads on ride-sharing cars, raises $21.5M in seed funding — A car is just a packet carrying a payload through a network so plopping an ad unit atop it as it caroms from node to node is kinda gross but is probably a viable business.| Marguerite Reardon / CNET: |
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says ~500K of the 22M comments submitted during the net neutrality debate were linked to Russian email addresses — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said earlier this week that roughly 500,000 comments submitted during the debate over the controversial repeal …
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