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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Slack files for an IPO via direct listing, reports loss of $138M on $400M revenue for FY 2019 ending Jan. 31, compared to $140M loss and $220M revenue for 2018 — - Slack follows several tech companies that have already debuted on the public market in 2019, including Lyft, PagerDuty, Pinterest and Zoom.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
How Bitfinex lost access to $850M it held with the shady Panama-based payments processor Crypto Capital and tried to cover the loss by borrowing from Tether — Also Uber, Slack and mortgage settlements. — Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering finance.| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
NY State AG sues Bitfinex for allegedly using Tether reserve funds to cover withdrawals, after the loss or theft of ~$851M from Bitfinex's payments processor — The New York State Attorney General (NYSAG) is suing Bitfinex, the cryptocurrency exchange, and affiliated firm Tether, the company behind the stablecoin of the same name.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: starting last summer, Apple held talks with Intel about acquiring parts of the smartphone-modem chip business, but talks halted recently — Talks have cooled and Intel plans to seek out other buyers — Apple Inc. held talks with Intel Corp. about acquiring parts …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
In a chat with the historian Yuval Noah Harari, Zuckerberg says Facebook will not comply with the laws of authoritarian countries requiring local data centers — If free nations demand companies store data locally, it legitimizes that practice for authoritarian nations which can then steal …
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| Justin Elliott / ProPublica: |
Intuit is deliberately preventing TurboTax's free tax filing website from showing up in Google's and other search engines' results — The makers of TurboTax as well as H&R Block promised the IRS to offer free filing for many Americans. But they're keeping Google from seeing it.
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Irish DPC launches inquiry into Facebook after the company reported millions of Facebook Lite and Instagram user passwords were stored in plain text internally — The Data Protection Commission was notified by Facebook that it had discovered that hundreds of millions of user passwords …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Three veteran designers from Apple's industrial design team are leaving as the famously close-knit team under Jony Ive undergoes a series of changes — Three designers will have recently left the prestigious, two-dozen member team responsible for the iPhone's design
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iFixit says it has removed its Samsung Galaxy Fold teardown at Samsung's request through a “trusted partner” who supplied iFixit with the phone — The drama is unfolding with increasing strangeness — What in the world is going on over at Samsung in the wake of the Galaxy Fold delay?
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| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Google removed 46 Android apps from Chinese developer DO Global that were committing large-scale ad fraud; source says Google is moving to ban DO Global overall — Google has begun the mass removal of apps from a major Chinese Android developer following a BuzzFeed News investigation …
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| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Huawei tried to explain its ownership structure after a report accused it of being misleading about the matter, but questions remain — SHENZHEN, China — For one of the world's largest technology companies, it should be a simple question: — Who owns Huawei?
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Magic Leap raises $280M from NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest cellphone service provider, and says it will reopen its most recent round for more funding — Magic Leap, the maker of augmented-reality goggles, has already raised $2.3 billion, an extraordinary amount for a start-up.
Tweets: @nytimes
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Uber sets IPO price range of $44 to $50 per share, plans to raise up to $10.35B at a valuation of up to ~$84B — Uber on Friday morning disclosed that it plans to raise upwards of $10.35 billion in its IPO, at a market cap that could approach $84 billion. — The ride-hail giant …
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| Motherboard: |
Sources: at a Twitter all-hands, a staffer said it doesn't block white supremacist content as aggressively as ISIS since algorithms may ban some GOP politicians — A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
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