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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.
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Sources: starting last summer, Apple held talks with Intel about acquiring parts of its 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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sony has told reporters that the next-generation PlayStation won't launch within the next 12 months, says PS4 sales now total 96.98M, up from 86.1M in November — The next-gen battle is set for 2020 — Sony recently revealed that its next-generation PlayStation, we'll call it the PS5, won't be ready for 2019.
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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 hiding TurboTax's free tax filing site from Google and other search engines; Intuit says it's reviewing its search practices — 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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| Bloomberg: |
Two organizers of the Google walkout held a meeting, attended by hundreds of staff, to discuss claims of “systemic” internal retaliation for company criticism — Hundreds of Google staffers met on Friday and discussed what activists allege is a frequent consequence of criticizing the company: Retaliation.| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
BBC iPlayer, once a trailblazer in streaming services but hamstrung by tight media regulations, saw its UK marketshare decline from 40% in 2014 to 15% now — Corporation wants to be able to show programmes for up to a year in attempt to stem decline — The BBC has admitted iPlayer has lost … | 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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| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Filing: Amazon has spent $1.7B on video and music content in Q1 2019, up 13% YoY — - Amazon disclosed for the first time its total video and music expense in its quarterly filing on Friday. — In the first quarter, Amazon spent $1.7 billion on video and music content, which translates to roughly $7 billion for the full year.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast says its customers' monthly median data use rose to 200GB in Q1 2018, up 34% YoY, driven by streaming video, especially in 4K — Median usage hit 200GB, but Comcast won't say how many use a full terabyte. — Comcast said its customers' monthly Internet data usage increased 34 … | Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Lattice, a cloud-based HR platform focused on performance reviews and used at startups like Reddit, Slack, Coinbase, raises $15M Series B led by Shasta Ventures — Sam Altman's little brother Jack is an entrepreneur, too. — Jack Altman, whose resume includes a stint as vice president …
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| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Source: E*Trade is preparing to let customers trade cryptocurrencies on its platform starting with Bitcoin and Ethereum, will consider adding other currencies — - The brokerage giant will offer Bitcoin and Ethereum trades — Service will compete with startups like Coinbase and Robinhood
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| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
A look at smart home security companies August, Netatmo, Wyze, and SimpliSafe, which are entering markets dominated by Google and Amazon — In the business of smart home security, it's tough not being Amazon or Google. — Over the last year or so, both companies have released DIY security …
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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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| Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter: |
Vimeo launches Showcase, a toolkit allowing creators to launch portfolio sites with access controls, branded smart TV channels on Roku and Amazon Fire, and more — Vimeo has unveiled today a new toolkit dubbed Showcase that arms professional creators and business owners with the ability … | Data Protection Commission: |
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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