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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
LA-based lifestyle brand FabFitFun, which crossed $200M+ in revenue last year, raises $80M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins to grow its subscription box business — The Los Angeles-based company has steadily expanded its retail and lifestyle empire through subscription boxes, video... and even an augmented reality app.Thanks:@debsyoon
| Aaron Pressman / Fortune: |
Profile of Intel's new CEO Bob Swan, who joined the company in 2016 as CFO, after stints as finance chief at GE divisions, COO and CEO of Webvan, and eBay's CFO — Intel spent seven months searching for a new chief executive only to end the process right where it had started.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Huawei Honor View 20 review: hole-punch display is a clear upgrade over most notches, but the new Magic UI is a letdown and the 48MP camera is mediocre — Coming to the View 20 from the Google Pixel 3 XL, which has 4GB of RAM and sometimes over-aggressive power optimizations, the new Honor phone feels luxuriously speedy.| Edmund Lee / New York Times: |
How Locast, a free streaming service for local TV with about 60K users in several major US cities, is hoping to avoid Aereo's legal fate — Want to watch the Super Bowl and other network TV for free? A start-up called Locast will let you, and (so far) the big broadcasters aren't trying to stop it.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
A college student who stole $5M+ in cryptocurrency via SIM hijacking gets 10 years in prison and is the first person in the US to be sentenced for such a crime — A 20-year-old college student who was accused of stealing more than $5 million in cryptocurrency in a slew of SIM hijacking attacks …
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The Block, The Hacker News, CoinGeek, Mashable, The Verge, Crowdfund Insider, and Slashdot
Tweets: @manhattanda, @lorenzofb, and @briankrebs
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Attorneys General of CT, IL, MA, NY, NJ, and NC are investigating how Facebook has handled user data, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal — - Cambridge Analytica data breach triggered state probes — Facebook Inc. has become the target of at least three more state probes … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher finds “admin@kremlin.ru” backdoor accounts on 2,000+ exposed MongoDB databases that handle financial transactions of businesses operating in Russia — “Admin@kremlin.ru” account spotted on thousands of Russian-linked, internet-exposed MongoDB databases.
Tweets: @akihheikkinen, @martinsfp, and @zdnet
| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Microsoft will announce Xbox Live SDK, which will enable cross-platform play on iOS, Android, Switch, Xbox, and Windows PCs, at GDC 2019 — At GDC 2019, Microsoft is set to debut a new cross-platform development platform with the goal of bringing Xbox Live support to games on Android, iOS …
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GDC SF 2019, Android Authority, Engadget, Digital Trends, CNET, MSPoweruser, and Neowin
Tweets: @benbajarin and @scully1888
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
UK-based startup Bud, which connects banks to fintechs and other financial service providers, raises $20M Series A with backing from HSBC, Goldman Sachs, others — Bud, the U.K. fintech that helps banks connect their apps and data to other fintech companies and financial service providers … | Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
London-based Mimiro, previously known as ComplyAdvantage, which uses AI to detect and analyze the risk of potential financial crimes, raises $30M Series B — Mimiro announced today that it has raised $30 million to fuel global expansion of its financial risk analysis platform.
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Business Wire and TechCrunch
| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Report: Russian pirates found a new business model, sharing ripped TV and movies via private CDNs with streaming sites that monetize the CDNs' streams via ads — With the popularity of torrent sites on the wane in Russia, an interesting business model for mass streaming is thriving in the region.
Tweets: @neilturkewitz
| Simone Stolzoff / Quartz: |
Ahead of his fifth anniversary as CEO, a look at how Satya Nadella changed Microsoft's culture by using a Stanford professor's concept called “growth mindset” — It was March 27, 2014, and Satya Nadella was about to make his first public appearance as CEO of Microsoft.
Tweets: @dskok and @philboyte
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