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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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| 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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| Roland Li / San Francisco Chronicle: |
In a letter to the CA government, 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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Tweets: @neilcybart, @sfchronicle, @karlhodge, and @chrissyfarr
| 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Though Seattle repealed its “head tax”, Amazon says it won't use the 722K sq.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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| 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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| 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, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Cointelegraph, The Block, Bloomberg, FinSMEs, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @ekp
| 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.| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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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Tweets: @selina_y_wang, @jonerlichman, @delrey, @lamonicabuzz, and @dee_bosa
| 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 … | 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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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Box misses Q4 expectations with $163.7M revenue, up 20% YoY and compared to $164.2M estimated, and issues weak Q1 guidance; stock drops 24%+ after hours — - Shares of Box fell as much as 23 percent in after hours trading Wednesday after the company reported its Q4 2019 earnings.| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Review of Shadow Ghost, a $140 streaming game console made by French startup Blade, which runs a $35/month cloud gaming service that now has ~65,000 subscribers — French startup Blade, the company behind Shadow, is launching a new set-top box to access its cloud gaming service — the Shadow Ghost.
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Engadget, ExtremeTech, IGN, MMORPG.com, CNN, shadow.tech, Tom's Guide, TechNode, CNET, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @mikel_triny, @shadow_usa, @shadow_usa, and @im_ebg
| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
Crowdtangle data: a small number of Facebook Pages created 46% of the top 10,000 posts for or against vaccines, with 20% generated by seven anti-vax Pages — Squelching vaccine misinformation might be easier than the platform makes it seem. — Look up vaccinations on Facebook …
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