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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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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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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.| Reuters: |
Finland to investigate HMD after report found some Nokia 7 Plus phones sent user data to a Chinese server; HMD says it was a software packaging error, now fixed — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's data protection ombudsman said on Thursday he would investigate whether Nokia-branded phones …
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DHS watchdog report says FEMA exposed personal info of ~2.3M US disaster survivors, including some personal addresses and banking info, to a federal contractor — The Federal Emergency Management Agency shared personal addresses and banking information of more than 2 million U.S. disaster survivors …
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| Edmund Lee / New York Times: |
Netflix's absence from Apple's media bundle portends a fight in content distribution; Goldman Sachs says the bundle could add $12B+ to Apple's Services business — The first skirmishes have already been fought in what could turn into a tech cold war. “The game is on,” said the Netflix chief executive, Reed Hastings.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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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 … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla announces a new version of Firefox for iOS that has been optimized for iPad with support for split screen and keyboard shortcuts — Mozilla today announced a new iOS version of Firefox that has been specifically optimized for Apple's iPad. Given the launch of the new iPad mini this week, that's impeccable timing.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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 … | 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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A look at Chinese tech workers' struggle with burnout and work-life balance, as many are expected to work a “996” schedule, or 9am to 9pm six days a week — He is so focused on keeping his start-up alive that he can't sleep at night. She was asked in an interview if she would be willing … Thanks:@chuakongho
| 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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Microsoft details xCloud tools to bring Xbox games to mobile, including a way to apply touchscreen controls to a game made for controllers or mouse and keyboard — xCloud members explain the company's new cloud gaming tools for developers — Google may have stolen the show … | 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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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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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 … | New York Times: |
Inside the legal fight over a $10B Pentagon IT contract between Amazon and Oracle, which claims a former Pentagon employee shaped the contract in Amazon's favor — Deap Ubhi is a restless guy. At 26, he quit his job in private equity in Northern California, where he had grown up and gone to college …
Tweets: @thomaskaplan, @carter_pe, @defensebaron, and @nytimes
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