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Source: Apple's planned game subscription service for iOS will only include paid titles, not freemium ones, and will pay developers based on user play time — - Devices take a back seat to video, news, gaming subscriptions — Company tries biggest strategy change since the iPhone in 2007
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| Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz: |
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| Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz: |
Pinterest had 250M MAUs in 2018, two thirds of them female; avg. US user generated $9.04, up 47% YoY, while avg. international user generated $0.25, up 22% YoY — Pinterest revealed a trove of data about its more than 250 million monthly active users in an IPO filing on Friday (March 22).
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at an early version of Microsoft's new Chromium-powered Edge browser — This could be your new default browser on Windows — Microsoft is rebuilding its Edge browser on Chromium. The software maker has been testing versions of this browser internally at Microsoft …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
LA to limit scooter companies that don't share GPS data with the city to 30-day permit and 3K scooter fleet, while those that do can have fleets of up to 10.5K — Los Angeles is pumping the brakes on scooter companies that won't tell it what part of the city you're wheeling around.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Iterable, a startup that helps companies build marketing campaigns, raises $50M Series C to expand cross-channel marketing platform — Iterable, a startup that helps companies build complex marketing campaigns across channels to reduce churn and increase usage, announced a $50 million Series C round today.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Popular people-tracking app Family Locator left real-time location data of more than 238,000 users exposed online for weeks via an unprotected database server — A popular family tracking app was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks after the developer left a server exposed without a password.
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @zackwhittaker, and @chirayunix
| Stephen O'Grady / Redmonk: |
A Redmonk study, combining GitHub and Stack Overflow data, finds TypeScript, Kotlin, and Julia usage is up, while Go, R, Scala, Clojure, Groovy usage is down — This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by IBM. From Java to Node.js, IBM remains at the forefront of open source innovation.| Chavie Lieber / Vox: |
Toy brands increasingly develop packaging and prepare surprises so that toy unboxing, popular among kids on YouTube, will look good on camera — Kids are obsessed with YouTube unboxing videos. The toy industry is taking notice. — New York City's Javits Center is a big, boring building that hosts big, boring conferences.| Reuters: |
Alibaba, Tencent, Suning, and several Chinese carmakers have set up a ~$1.5B joint venture to invest in a ride-hailing company focusing on new energy vehicles — BEIJING (Reuters) - Alibaba, Tencent, Suning, and car makers including Chongqing Changan Automobile have set …
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A look at the battle between hacking tool vendors such as NSO Group and UAE-based DarkMatter as they compete for business from authoritarian governments — Sophisticated surveillance, once the domain of world powers, is increasingly available on the private market.
Tweets: @marietjeschaake, @fabio_vanorio, @calder_walton, @nytimes, and @snowden
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
New York-based Jitjatjo, an on-demand staffing marketplace that matches service and hospitality businesses with temp workers, announces $11M Series A — It's not easy finding quality workers in a pinch, particularly if you're in the service and hospitality industry.
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