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Pinterest generated $756M in revenue and $63M net loss in 2018, compared to $473M in revenue and $130M million net loss in 2017, according to public IPO filing — Pinterest, the social bookmarking platform, on Friday filed for an IPO that should result in its shares being traded next month on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Pinterest S-1: in Q4 2018, company had $273.2M in revenue and $47M in profit, and had $628M in cash and equivalents at the end of last year — On the heels of Zoom's S-1 filing, social giant and San Francisco unicorn Pinterest publicly filed to go public. The company's long walk …
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OpenSignal: AT&T's “5G E” phones get average speeds of 28.8Mbps, compared to T-Mobile's 29.4Mbps and Verizon's 29.9Mbps which use similar 4G LTE-Advanced tech — AT&T's so-called “5G E” lost to Verizon and T-Mobile 4G in new speed tests. — AT&T's “5G E” service …
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| Oliver Darcy / CNN: |
Twitter is inserting tweets into the feeds of users that do not follow the accounts which posted them, sometimes inadvertently amplifying extremist rhetoric — New York (CNN Business)Imagine opening up the Twitter app on your phone and scrolling through your feed.
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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel confirms it will not develop new Compute Card products — Intel will not develop new Compute Cards, the company has confirmed to Tom's Hardware. Compute Cards were Intel's vision of modular computing that would allow customers to continually update point of sale systems, all-in-one desktops, laptops and other devices.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
A consumer spyware vendor has left a server with 95K+ images and 25K+ audio recordings exposed, and has not fixed the leak yet, despite being warned weeks ago — A consumer spyware vendor left a lot of incredibly sensitive and private data, including intimate pictures and private call recordings … | Julia Arciga / The Daily Beast: |
GoFundMe says fundraising campaigns promoting misinformation about vaccines violate its ToS and will be removed — Activists have raised more than $170,000 for their anti-science message. — Anti-vaxxers have long used GoFundMe to raise money to spread their dangerous message …
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
IFTTT says all Gmail triggers, except “Send an email” and “Send yourself an email”, will stop working on March 31 — IFTTT is an extremely powerful automation tool that combines hundreds of different online services. You can make your Hue lights flash when your phone gets …
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Shopify and Mailchimp remove integration between their platforms after failing to agree about how to share customer data, blame each other for the breakup — Mailchimp today announced that the Mailchimp app, which let its users use their Shopify data to create targeted email campaigns …
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| Ali Breland / Mother Jones: |
Since the Christchurch shooting, Reddit's r/CringeAnarchy and r/The_Donald have hosted anti-Muslim hate speech justifying the attack and violence toward Muslims — And the platform doesn't seem to care. — Days after the tragic shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand …
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Video-conferencing software company Zoom files for an IPO, says it had $330.5M in revenue, up 118% YoY, and $7.6M in profits in its last fiscal year — Zoom, which provides video-conferencing software that can be used across devices, filed its IPO prospectus on Friday … | Monojoy Bhattacharjee / What's New in Publishing: |
Report: YouTube is now responsible for 37% of all mobile internet traffic, ahead of Facebook's 8.4%; media time spent on mobile in US rose from 21% to 24% YoY — Smartphones are the big gainers in media consumption year-over-year, according to the just-released Nielsen's Q3 2018 Total Audience Report.
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| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
Court filing by DC AG: Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica data misuse months before it was first reported; Facebook says it did not mislead about timeline — Company confirms suspicions of separate incident following Washington DC attorney general court filing
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / Crunchbase News: |
Berlin-based Spark Networks to acquire San Francisco-based dating startup Zoosk for ~$255M — Coming off of acquisitions like Christian Mingle, JSwipe and Jdate, Berlin-based Spark Networks SE swiped right yesterday for a new dating company: Zoosk. — Spark Networks is planning …
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| Emma Hinchliffe / Fortune: |
Cleo, a parenting support app for working parents offered through employers, raises $27.5M Series B, says its app now reaches 475,000+ families in 50+ countries — When Jeff Immelt was running GE, he noticed that the company, like many, struggled with attrition.
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| Dustin Childs / Zero Day Initiative: |
Researchers hacked Mozilla's Firefox, a VMware Workstation client, and Microsoft Edge on the second day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019, earning $270K in cash awards — Day Two of Pwn2Own has come to an end, and the research presented was truly amazing. For Day Two, we awarded $270,000 for a total of nine unique vulnerabilities.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Indonesia-based trucking logistics startup Kargo comes out of stealth, raises a $7.6M seed round led by Sequoia with Travis Kalanick's 10100 participating — Travis Kalanick may be busy cooking up a cloud kitchen business, but that hasn't stopped the former Uber CEO's VC fund from making its first investment in Southeast Asia.| Isabel Woodford / The Block: |
Sources: Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt is being valued at around $740M following its $182.5M Series A — Bakkt, ICE's yet-to-launch crypto exchange, is being valued at around $740 million following a recent Series A round of funding, sources close to the project tell The Block.
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Crowdfund Insider, The Daily Hodl, and Cointelegraph
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple has signed up Vox for its upcoming news subscription service; other Vox Media properties will not participate initially — Apple Inc. signed Vox to be part of an upcoming subscription service for newspaper and magazine readers, according to a person familiar with the matter …
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