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Spotify reports Q1 revenue of €1.5B, up 33% YoY, reduces net loss to €142M, says it has 217M MAUs, up 26% YoY, with 100M premium subscribers, up 32% YoY — Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT) today reported financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2019 ending March 31, 2019.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Phil Schiller, in an email to a user, says screen-time apps Apple restricted used MDM feature only intended for enterprises, creating privacy and security risks — Earlier today, a report from The New York Times highlighted Apple's removal of a number of App Store apps that had allowed users …
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| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Yuval Noah Harari and Fei-Fei Li discuss the challenges AI poses to society as the merger of biological knowledge and tech may enable hacking of humans at scale — THIS WEEK, I interviewed Yuval Noah Harari, the author of three best-selling books about the history and future of our species …
Tweets: @alexjohnlondon, @drfeifei, and @wired
| Roger Parloff / Yahoo Finance: |
Profile of Chris Cox, who, despite being chief product officer for years, never drew the attention for Facebook's scandals that Zuckerberg and Sandberg did — In late 2003, during his senior year at Stanford, Chris Cox, the future Chief Product Officer at Facebook (
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Business Insider. Tweets: @yahoofinance, @hkanji, @zooko, @hardcorevalue, @agisilaosts, @sfiegerman, @mathewi, @alexeheath, @mikeisaac, and @jason_kint
| New York Times: |
How the boom in Chinese bike-share companies like Ofo and Mobike was quickly followed by a bust, wiping out many investors and littering towns with unused bikes — Bike-sharing start-ups brought prosperity to Wangqingtuo. Now residents are dealing with the mess they left behind.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Tray.io raises $37M Series B led by Spark Capital for its enterprise automation platform, says it has over 200 customers including Lyft, Intercom, IBM, and SAP — Tray.io, the startup that wants to put automated workflows within reach of line of business users, announced a $37 million Series B investment today.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Uber will pitch an Amazon-like growth story during IPO roadshow, but a filing shows Q1 revenue growth was 20%, less than half of what it was a year ago — SAN FRANCISCO — Pop quiz: Which technology company does Uber, the ride-hailing giant on the cusp of an initial public offering, consider itself to be the most like?
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @danprimack, @nytimes, @boztank, @mikeisaac, @tejeshwi_sharma, and @mikeisaac
| Kieren McCarthy / The Register: |
Hertz sues Accenture for delays, poor design, security vulnerabilities and performance problems of its website and mobile app redesign, for which it paid $32M — Rental firm fuming after consultancy ‘never delivered a functional site or mobile app’ — Car rental giant Hertz is suing over a website redesign from hell.
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| Vivian Wang / New York Times: |
New York City's Board of Elections has posted voter enrollment lists, including party affiliation, full names, and home addresses, to its election website — The city's Board of Elections posted its voting rolls to its website, allowing anyone to access people's home addresses and party affiliation.| Deanna Ting / Skift: |
Marriott launches Homes & Villas, an Airbnb competitor, in more than 100 markets around the world, following an year-long pilot program with 200 homes in London — This news will trigger responses from elated to downright furious, whether you're a Bonvoy member, Marriott hotel owner …
Tweets: @marksilva
| steve cheney: |
Advances in 3D image processing and image sensors, which are progressing at a Moore's Law-like pace, will make lidar redundant for self-driving cars in 3 years — Last week when Tesla launched its dedicated autonomy ASIC, a lot of the focus was on this new hardware which allowed redundancy and incredibly fast neural processing.
Tweets: @louisgray, @stevecheney, @stevecheney, @stevecheney, and @stevecheney
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
GoDaddy resets passwords for several hundred compromised accounts and takes down 15,000+ subdomains of otherwise-legitimate sites, used by hackers for scams — GoDaddy resets passwords for several hundred compromised accounts. — Web hosting provider and domain registrar GoDaddy has taken … Sponsor Posts
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