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Twitter Q4: profit of $91.1M, its first ever, revenue of $731.6M, up 2% YoY, vs. $686.4M est.; MAUs up 4% YoY but flat QoQ at 330M vs. 333M est.; stock up 10%+ — Revenue rises to $732 million, topping analysts' estimates — Efforts to fight spam, bots limited gains in user numbers
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says average tweet length has remained the same after doubling character limit, but engagement has increased — It turns out, 280-character tweets aren't the end of all that's good about Twitter. On a call with investors this morning, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey … | Motherboard: |
Apple files DMCA notice to remove apparent iOS 9 “iBoot” source code, parts of which are likely used in iOS 11, from GitHub; experts say the code is authentic — Update, February 8, 08:27 a.m.: Apple filed a copyright takedown request with GitHub and forced the company to remove the code.
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| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon starts delivering Whole Foods groceries to Prime members in Dallas, Virginia Beach, Cincinnati, and Austin with free two-hour delivery for $35+ orders — Groceries offered via one- and two-hour Prime Now service in four markets to start — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -1.81% …
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| Cindy Cohn / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow has died at 70 — With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF's founder, visionary, and our ongoing inspiration, John Perry Barlow, passed away quietly in his sleep this morning. We will miss Barlow and his wisdom for decades to come, and he will always be an integral part of EFF.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat expands its geofilter program with launch of $10+ Custom Lenses that let users make temporary AR effects for Snaps based on 150 templates — By combining augmented reality with your customizable captions, Snapchat hopes you'll share more from birthdays and weddings while earning it a little money.
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An in-depth look at the scary experience of living in a smart home and how it creates new streams of personal information that can be used to profile us — In December, I converted my one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco into a “smart home.” I connected as many of my appliances …
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| Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News: |
SEC filing: T-Mobile paid about $325M for Denver-based Layer3 TV, to help launch T-Mobile's new TV service later this year — Will use acquisition to launch ‘disruptive’ OTT TV service later this year — T-Mobile paid about $325 million to acquire Layer3 TV, the Denver-based MVPD … | Brad Sams / Petri: |
Microsoft says Build 2018 will take place on May 7-9 in Seattle, with registration opening February 15 — If you are a Windows Developer, the best event of the year for learning more about the future of the platform is Microsoft's Build conference. If you are planning to attend, it's time to clear your calendar in early May.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LogMeIn says it will acquire enterprise VoIP company Jive Communications for $342M in cash plus up to $15M based on milestones over the next two years — Yet more consolidation in the enterprise collaboration software market. Today LogMeIn, the company that offers conferencing services … | Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Intel releases stable Spectre patches for Skylake U-, Y-, H-, and S-series chips, says it will patch more platforms in the coming days — If you own a Skylake-based PC and receive a patch to address the Spectre vulnerabilities, install it—Intel has greenlit the code.| Harper Neidig / The Hill: |
The Internet Association, representing Facebook, Google, and other internet firms, pushes for a Senate vote to reverse FCC repeal of net neutrality laws — A trade group representing internet giants including Google and Facebook is throwing its support behind a bill that would reverse … | David George-Cosh / Wall Street Journal: |
Overview of Canada's tech sector as US tech firms, like Amazon and Google, take an interest and PM Trudeau laments “brain drain” and travels to Silicon Valley — Government seek to attract investment from big foreign players while stopping the brain drain
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| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Class action suit filed against Google alleges first-gen Pixel and Pixel XL phones were knowingly sold with defective microphones — Google is facing a lawsuit over the original Pixel. — In a class action complaint filed this week, plaintiffs allege that the microphones in their Pixel …
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Q&A: ex-Zenefits and Yammer CEO David Sacks on Craft VC fund and Harbor, which has raised $10M for its decentralized compliance protocol for crypto securities — I interviewed David Sacks last August about his interest in cryptocurrency. His interest was well-founded as the whole asset class took off last fall.
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