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Cambridge Analytica is shutting down following the Facebook data misuse scandal, says it was losing clients and facing mounting legal fees — Company had lost multiple clients in recent months — Cambridge Analytica , a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign …
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Filing shows executives at Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group, along with the Mercer family, have moved to create a new firm, Emerdata, possibly for “rebranding” — The embattled political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica announced on Wednesday that it would cease most operations …
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| Peggy Sito / South China Morning Post: |
Xiaomi files for an IPO in Hong Kong; sources say the Beijing-based company is seeking to raise $10B at a valuation of $100B — Xiaomi's 2017 sales jumped by two-thirds to 114.6 billion yuan, while operating profit tripled and adjusted net profit soared from a year earlier
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon launches Wag, its own brand of pet products, starting with dry dog food, only available to Prime subscribers — Amazon.com Inc. has started its own brand of pet products, called Wag, expanding on existing private-label efforts that include batteries, baby products, clothing and household goods.
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Square Q1: non-GAAP revenue of $307M, up 51% YoY, gross payment volume of $17.8B, up 31% YoY, net loss of $24M; stock down 5%+ after hours due to low guidance — The company posted a Q1 net loss of $24 million, or six cents a share, compared to a net loss of $15.1 million, or four cents a share, a year earlier.
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Facebook debuts PyTorch 1.0, which optimizes production performance and improves model compatibility with other AI frameworks, coming to beta in a few months — The path for taking AI development from research to production has historically involved multiple steps and tools …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it has started rolling out Google Pay on the web through desktop browsers and iOS — Since Google Pay launched as the company's unified payment solution in February, it has added a number of new features with more on the roadmap. Google Pay is now beginning to roll out on the web for desktops and other mobile platforms.| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Goldman Sachs to open a Bitcoin trading operation, will begin using its own money to trade Bitcoin futures contracts on behalf of clients in the next few weeks — SAN FRANCISCO — Most big banks have tried to stay far away from the scandal-tainted virtual currency Bitcoin.
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Spotify reports first ever financial results with Q1 revenue of €1.139B, up 26% YoY, on operating loss of €41M; MAUs up 30% YoY to 170M — Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT) today reported financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2018 ending March 31, 2018.
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
SoundHound raises $100M from strategic investors including Tencent, Daimler, Hyundai, and others to grow its Houndify voice AI platform — As SoundHound looks to leverage its ten-plus years of experience and data to create a voice recognition tool that companies can bake into any platform …
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Sources: Google is building Arcade, a social-gaming startup led by 21yo ex-Facebook staffer Michael Sayman, which will release a trivia-style app this summer — Michael Sayman, 21-year-old ex-Facebooker, said to be leading — Company will focus on mobile gaming with friends, Google says
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Zynga founder Mark Pincus reducing his voting power in the social gaming firm from a 70% to 10% stake, will remain on board but as non-executive chairman — In an unusual move, Pincus doesn't want the final say anymore and wanted more freedom. — In an unusual move for a Silicon Valley company …
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| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Telegram is calling off the public part of the ICO for the Telegram Open Network after raising $1.7B from 175 accredited investors via private deals — Telegram plans to put the money it raised into a new digital payment platform, Telegram Open Network, meant for a wide audience
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| April Glaser / Slate: |
Twitter approved an ad pretending to be a Twitter verification service that pushed users to a phishing scheme after the verification program was suspended — On Monday, while taking an early morning scroll through Twitter, I noticed a peculiar ad that seemed perfectly tailored to me …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Reflections on the shift to the Stories format, which will likely surpass other formats soon, as nearly a billion users consume stories across social networks — We're at the cusp of the visual communication era. Stories creation and consumption is up 842 percent since early 2016, according to consulting firm Block Party.Sponsor Posts
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