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| Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
CEO Brian Chesky says Airbnb will not go public in 2018; CFO Laurence Tosi is stepping down to focus on his investment fund; Belinda Johnson becomes first COO — Airbnb is losing its Wall Street-savvy CFO, getting its first COO and ruling out an IPO in 2018, delaying any payout for employees …
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Tweets: @dee_bosa, @rafat, @mikeisaac, and @stevekovach
| David Katzmaier / CNET: |
YouTube TV is now available on select Roku devices for $35/month; YouTube says the service is coming to Apple TV “very soon” — YouTube's $35-per-month alternative to cable TV is now on the most popular streaming platform. — Just in time for the big game, the Winter Olympics … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Alphabet and state-owned oil giant Aramco are in talks to jointly build data centers and a large tech hub in Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil giant and Google parent Alphabet Inc., two of the world's biggest companies, are in talks about jointly building …
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9to5Google, Reuters, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, and Deadline
Tweets: @jamesvgrimaldi, @shiraovide, @wsjbusiness, @mims, and @wsjmarkets
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube expands YouTube Go, a lightweight version of its service for emerging markets, to 130+ countries — YouTube Go, a mobile version of YouTube built for emerging markets with features like offline viewing and nearby sharing, is today expanding to over 130 countries worldwide.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram Stories begins rolling out its “type mode” feature to users, letting them post text-based pages — Not so photogenic — Instagram's newest Stories feature doesn't feel much like Instagram. The platform's new “type mode,” which starts rolling out today …
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Tweets: @instagram and @caseynewton
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Apple pulls Telegram apps from the App Store for inappropriate content; founder Durov expects both apps to return once protections are in place — Update:Both Telegram iOS apps are now back on the App Store. Original story follows below — The Telegram messaging apps appear …
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| Julia Alexander / Polygon: |
Nintendo confirms Switch Online will launch in September for $3.99/month and Mario Kart Tour will come to smartphones by March 2019 — Company confirms Nintendo Switch Online launches this fall — Mario Kart Tour is the next Nintendo mobile game heading to smartphones.
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Tweets: @nintendoamerica and @nintendoamerica
| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Spotify partners with gaming chat service Discord to let users connect accounts on the platform; Premium users will be able to play music within a server — Gaming-focused chat platform Discord today announced a new integration with Spotify that will allow users to connect their Spotify accounts …
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| Miranda Katz / Wired: |
Podcasters first look at Apple's Podcast Analytics data shows listeners are highly engaged, with many listening to 80-90% of shows, and prefer longer formats — The public radio producer had started a podcast as a side project in early 2017, and the exploration of her experience …
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Tweets: @andrewthehan, @marcoarment, @kenburbary, and @mims
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Facebook's daily active user base in the US and Canada fell for the first time ever in Q4, dropping to 184M from 185M in Q3 — It was a small but negative change to daily active users in Facebook's most valuable market. — Here's a troubling data point if you're a Facebook investor …
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @coachkozak, @joshconstine, @jason_kint, @kantrowitz, @dseetharaman, @shiraovide, @joshconstine, @sarafischer, @shiraovide, @shiraovide, @joshconstine, @shiraovide, @natjarv, @lexnfx, @shiraovide, @jank0, @lexnfx, @lexnfx, @lexnfx, @lexnfx, @kurtwagner8, and @lexnfx
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
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Tweets: @jandawson, @cnbc, and @ranimolla
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India says it does not consider cryptocurrencies legal tender and will eliminate their use for payments, but would explore use of blockchain technology — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India will move to stamp out use of cryptocurrencies, which it considers illegal, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday … | Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
eBay says it will stop using PayPal for its backend payments service by 2020, will work with Amsterdam-based Adyen instead; PayPal stock down 8%+ — The shopping marketplace will instead begin working with Amsterdam-based Adyen. — One of the tech industry's most storied partnerships is coming to an end.| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
| Reuters: |
Alibaba's Q3 earnings beat expectations as revenue jumps 56% YoY to ~$13.19B; company will buy a 33% stake in its payment affiliate Ant Financial — (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N), China's biggest e-commerce company, reported a 56 percent increase in third-quarter revenue …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Interviews with Amazon execs detail the company's initial adoption of AI, which is now found in almost every product and service, from search to AWS and Alexa — How deep learning came to power Alexa, Amazon Web Services, and nearly every other division of the company.
Tweets: @mhbergen, @stevenlevy, @scottthurm, and @laurengoode
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Instagram announces plan to bring Carousel Ads to Stories, letting advertisers show up to three photos or videos in Stories — It's been less than a year since Instagram brought advertising to Instagram Stories — a format that its owner Facebook said in November has more than 300 million daily users.Sponsor Posts
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