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Lyft prices IPO at $72 per share, which would value the company at over $20B and hit the top of its expected range — - Ride-hailing platform Lyft was funded early on by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Mayfield, K9 Ventures, Floodgate and others. — Lyft is one of several aging start-ups expected …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Huawei reports ~$8.8B profit in 2018, up 25.1% YoY on revenue of ~$107.13B, up 19.5% YoY, boosted by strong revenue growth of 45.1% YoY in its consumer business — - Huawei reported revenue of 721.2 billion yuan ($107.13 billion) in 2018, a 19.5 percent year-on-year rise.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase Custody starts offering staking services to institutional clients, starting with Tezos — The Takeaway: — Coinbase Custody is offering staking services to institutional clients, starting with Tezos. — Client assets will remain inside Coinbase's fully insured cold storage at all times, mitigating risk to investors.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches new Ad Library that now makes all active ads and inactive political ads searchable, opens Ad Library API to all Facebook-verified developers — Now you can search Facebook for how much Trump has spent on ads in the past year, which Pages' ads reference immigration, or what a Page's previous names were.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Google pulls “conversion therapy” app after prominent LGBTQ group Human Rights Campaign suspended Google's ranking from its influential Corporate Equality Index — Google is pulling a controversial app that LGBTQ rights groups say engages in a form of conversion therapy …
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| Joel Spolsky / Stack Overflow Blog: |
Joel Spolsky announces he will step down as CEO of Stack Overflow and become chairman of the board, says the company booked $70M in revenue last year — Big news! We're looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I'm stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft tells business users that Windows 10 1809, also known as the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, is ready for broad deployment — Microsoft finally is telling business users that Windows 10 1809, originally released last fall, is ready for deployment — just a month before Windows 10 1903 may start rolling out.| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Russia tells ten major VPN providers including NordVPN, ExpressVPN, TorGuard, IPVanish, Kaspersky, Hola, and OpenVPN, to block sites on the country's blacklist — For the past several years, Russia has continued with its mission to restrict access to content the state finds objectionable.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches Alexa for Business Blueprints, a set of templates for employees to create and publish private Alexa skills for their organization, in the US — Use Alexa in your place of work? There's cause for minor celebration: today marks the launch of Alexa for Business Blueprints …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter expands dark mode options for iOS users with a pure black Lights Out mode and an Automatic Dark Mode — Twitter has announced today that it is expanding its dark mode options for iOS users. Adding to the blue/gray dark mode theme that the platform has offered for a while …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
More Apple Card details, including that a user can generate virtual card numbers for online non-Apple Pay purchases at any time by tapping a button — One of the most buzzy announcements on Apple's stage this week was Apple Card, its in-house credit card powered by Goldman Sachs and Mastercard.
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| Jake Kanter / Business Insider: |
Leaked Facebook emails reveal intense discussion over an anti-Semitic Instagram post by Alex Jones before it was taken down — - Business Insider has seen a lengthy Facebook email chain in which executives discuss Alex Jones' future on Instagram and removing an inflammatory post.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
AirPods with Wireless Charging Case review: excellent wireless performance and reliability with support for Qi charging but using “Hey Siri” can be frustrating — The new AirPods look and sound familiar, but have a couple new tricks — Of the many new products that Apple announced …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Study: 5.5% of the top 10K HTTPS websites have exploitable TLS flaws subtle enough that the green SSL certificate padlock still appears in up-to-date browsers — WIDESPREAD ADOPTION OF the web encryption scheme HTTPS has added a lot of green padlocks—and corresponding data protection—to the web.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Verizon rolls out a free version of Call Filter, its $3/month spam and robocall protection service — Now you don't have to pay extra money to battle against spam and robocalls — Verizon is taking new steps to combat the unrelenting nuisance of spam calls.
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Sources: HUD alerted Twitter and Google last year that it is scrutinizing their ad targeting practices for possible housing discrimination — The Trump administration delivered its first sanction of a tech giant Thursday, charging Facebook with housing discrimination in a move that could threaten …
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