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| Roland Li / San Francisco Chronicle: |
In a letter to a CA agency, Apple confirms that 190 employees, including 124 engineers, will be laid off from its self-driving car division on April 16 — Apple will lay off 190 employees in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale in its self-driving car division, the company said.
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Reuters, Android Authority, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Business Insider, Inquirer, Silicon Valley Business …, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Mashable, PYMNTS.com, Firstpost, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, O'Grady's PowerPage, Cult of Mac, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, MacRumors, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, MAC blog, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @sallyshin, @neilcybart, @sfchronicle, @karlhodge, and @chrissyfarr
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Amazon Day, a new delivery option allowing Prime members to pick a day of the week to take delivery of their recent orders — Amazon this morning launched a new delivery option for Prime members that will allow them to control when their orders arrive, Amazon Day.
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BetaNews, Windows Central, CNET, Amazon.com, Inc., and Neowin
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped 22.5M Apple Watch units in 2018, accounting for about half of global smartwatch shipments — Fresh statistics from research firm Strategy Analytics show Apple retained its position as the clear leader in the smartwatch sector, with Apple Watch capturing 51 percent …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Equipment from Cellebrite, popular with law enforcement for hacking into iOS/Android devices, is selling for $100-$1,000 on eBay; new units usually cost $6,000 — When eBay merchant Mr. Balaj was looking through a pile of hi-fi junk at an auction in the U.K., he came across an odd-looking device.
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9to5Mac, Computerworld, TechSpot, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, Softpedia News, Mashable, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @iblametom and @forbes
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
FTC settles with Musical.ly, now TikTok, for $5.7M, over the app's violation of US child privacy laws; TikTok's app updates with a new UX for users under 13 — A significant FTC ruling issued today will see video app TikTok fined $5.7 million for violating U.S. children's privacy laws …
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Tweets: @tlordan, @shiraovide, @joshconstine, @stokel, @mrdylancollins, @joshconstine, and @profcarroll
| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Motorola confirms it is working on a foldable smartphone; it will likely be a revival of the Razr brand that will launch this summer — By now, it's not much of a secret that Motorola is working on a folding phone of its own: A patent for such a device surfaced late last year …
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Tweets: @danawollman and @chrisvelazco
| Fred Imbert / CNBC: |
Report: both Uber and Lyft plan to give some of their most-active or longest-serving drivers a cash award with an option to put it toward stock in their IPOs — - Uber's plan would give some drivers either a cash bonus or the option to use that money to buy shares at the IPO price, the report says.| Alex Feerst / OneZero: |
Interviews with 15 content moderators from YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms on their day-to-day, how the job has affected them personally, and more — Tech platform trust and safety employees are charged with policing the impossible. They open up to Medium's head of trust and safety.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Dow Jones' watchlist of 2.4M high-risk individuals, including current and former politicians, criminals, and terrorists, was exposed on an unsecured AWS server — A watchlist of risky individuals and corporate entities owned by Dow Jones has been exposed, after a company with access …
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Security Discovery, IT PRO, CNET, Engadget, DataBreaches.net, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @techcrunch
| The Seattle Times: |
Though Seattle repealed its “head tax”, Amazon says it won't use the 722K sq. ft. in Rainier Square tower it had leased, which would have housed up to 5K staff — The lease was one of the biggest in Seattle history — enough space to hold at least 3,500 employees and perhaps up to 5,000.
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Tweets: @jasonrantz, @cmkshama, @byrosenberg, and @cruickshank
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Microsoft unveils Azure Sentinel, a new cloud service that allows customers to view and respond to security alerts and threats across corporate networks — Ahead of next week's big RSA security conference, Microsoft plans to introduce a new cloud service Thursday that will help customers manage …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Figure, which uses blockchain tech to provide home equity loans, raises $65M; founded over a year ago by ex-SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, Figure has raised $120M total — Figure, a 13-month-old, San Francisco-based company that says it uses blockchain technology to provide home equity loans online …
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CoinDesk, PR Newswire, Barron's Online, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, The Block, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, FinSMEs, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @ekp
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla releases Common Voice, an open source collection of transcribed voice data comprising 1,400+ hours of samples from 42K contributors in 18 languages — Mozilla wants to make it easier for startups, researchers, and hobbyists to build voice-enabled apps, services, and devices.
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Engadget and The Mozilla Blog
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud survey of enterprises and SMBs: Azure adoption grew from 45% to 52%, reaching 85% of AWS adoption, up from 70% last year — The RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report from Flexera highlights how enterprises are spending more on cloud computing …
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Flexera, eWeek, BetaNews, Forbes, TechRepublic, CRN, Security Boulevard, InfoWorld, TechRepublic, BetaNews, and diginomica
Tweets: @mdymondyyz, @lawrencehecht, @lawrencehecht, and @lawrencehecht
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Coinhive, an in-browser Monero miner known for cryptojacking, says it will shut down on March 8, citing the crypto crash and a recent Monero hard fork — Coinhive wanted to be an alternative to classic banner ads but it became malware after constant abuse.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Fortnite dance emote lawsuits set a precedent for media companies to abuse copyright law further and turn shared culture of dance moves into private property — Fortnite is one of the most popular and profitable video games in history, and its publisher Epic is copying creative work … | Bloomberg: |
Chinese used-car trading platform Chehaoduo Group is raising $1.5B from SoftBank Vision Fund at a $9B+ valuation — - The investment valued Chehaoduo Group at over $9 billion — The startup intends to spend the money on technology and AI — SoftBank Vision Fund is investing $1.5 billion …
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FinSMEs and TechCrunch
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Square reports Q4 adjusted revenue of $464M, up 64% YoY, 15M Cash App MAUs in Dec. 2018, up from 7M YoY, issues weak Q1 guidance; stock down 6%+ after hours — - Payment company Square reported fourth-quarter results that beat analysts' expectations for earnings and revenue on Wednesday.
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Square Investor Relations, Bitcoinist.com, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, Investor's Business Daily, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @selina_y_wang, @delrey, @lamonicabuzz, @dee_bosa, and @jonerlichman
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Paris-based Mirakl, which provides an API-backed ecommerce marketplace for B2C and B2B verticals, raises $70M Series C led by Bain Capital — Mirakl, a Paris-based software company that develops ecommerce solutions for corporate and retail clients, isn't shy about throwing its weight around …
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TechCrunch and FinSMEs
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
BlackBerry sues Twitter for allegedly infringing six messaging patents; BlackBerry sued Facebook and Snap in 2018, also alleging messaging patent infringement — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd on Wednesday filed a patent infringement lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc of illegally using technology … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon announces Project Zero, an invite-only program to let brands autonomously flag and remove counterfeit listings of their products from Amazon — Amazon wants to cut down on fake listings — Amazon announced a new initiative today called Project Zero, a new effort that the online retailer …
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