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Spotify buys podcast producer Gimlet Media, sources say for ~$230M, and Anchor, a startup which makes it easier for users to record and distribute podcasts — Daniel Ek says he wants to spend up to $500 million on acquisitions this year. — Spotify is a streaming music company that wants to become a podcast company, too.
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| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Facebook's top global communications executive, Caryn Marooney, is leaving after eight years; Debbie Frost, Facebook's longest-serving PR exec, is also leaving — After a bruising year for the social media giant, longtime communications head Caryn Marooney is helping search for her replacement.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
On-demand e-scooter startup Lime raises $310M Series D, led by a16z, Bain Capital, Fidelity, GV, and IVP, at a $2.4B valuation — Confirming rumors that have been swirling for some time, on-demand electric scooter startup Lime today announced that it has closed a $310 million series D financing round led …
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Tweets: @teddyschleifer and @teddyschleifer
| Ryan Felton / Consumer Reports: |
Survey of 110 hospitals and five agencies from 47 US cities: 1,500+ e-scooter-related injuries since late 2017; quick spread of e-scooters surprised some cities — A Consumer Reports investigation finds 1,500 e-scooter injuries across the country, and many hospitals still don't track them
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Following a lawsuit, Instacart CEO apologizes for changes that meant some tips were used to boost base pay, says affected workers will get retroactive pay — On the heels of a recently-filed class action lawsuit over wages and tips, as well as drivers and shoppers speaking …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Leaked documents show around 250 bounty hunters and related businesses had access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint customer location data for at least five years — In January, Motherboard revealed that AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint were selling their customers' real-time location data …
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| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Interviews with 49 people illuminate Wisconsin's disastrous deal with Foxconn, championed by Trump, that saw $4.5B in promised incentives with little return — “This is the Eighth Wonder of the World.” — So declared President Donald Trump onstage last June at a press event at Foxconn's … | Motherboard: |
Inside the illicit world of “iCloud unlocking”, where cybercriminals trick iPhone owners or Apple staff into removing iCloud accounts to resell iPhones — In a novel melding of physical and cybercrime, hackers, thieves, and even independent repair companies are finding ways to “unlock iCloud” from iPhones.
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Tweets: @josephfcox, @josephfcox, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, @jason_koebler, @jason_koebler, and @josephfcox
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google says Gmail is now blocking an extra 100M spam messages each day by using TensorFlow-trained machine learning models — Google is using its machine learning platform, TensorFlow, to eke out additional gains — Google has recruited its in-house machine learning framework, TensorFlow …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Investigation: some iPhone apps use Glassbox's analytics SDK to record user interactions without permission, and recordings sometimes don't mask sensitive data — And there's no way a user would know — Many major companies, like Air Canada, Hollister and Expedia, are recording every tap and swipe you make on their iPhone apps.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
A security researcher who has shared iOS flaws before demos a macOS Keychain exploit, won't share details with Apple because of the lack of a macOS bug bounty — Security researcher Linuz Henze has shared a video demonstration of what is claimed to be a macOS Mojave exploit to access passwords stored in the Keychain.
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| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
A look at Pigeonly, InmateAid, and Flikshop, built by ex-convicts, and how they act as social networks to connect those in prison with friends and family — Laura Whitten, 35, woke up, rolled over and grabbed her phone, snapping a selfie in bed beside her dog.
Tweets: @ndahlberg and @michigancpr
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Inside Oracle's ad software arm Data Cloud, built with ~$3B of acquisitions since 2014, that has reported disappointing financials and seen layoffs — Oracle Corp. has spent five years and billions of dollars getting really good at following people around the internet.
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @sarahfrier, @carnage4life, @belril, @carnage4life, and @jeffmuskus
| Matthew Ball / REDEF: |
Fortnite's longevity will hinge on its ability to evolve and be a social network, which could allow Epic to build a Metaverse rivaling big internet platforms — In 2018, there was a lot to read about Fortnite, and even more to learn from it. And to point, “the game” is indeed the future of entertainment …
Tweets: @bakergavin and @mariosundar
| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Gizmodo: |
If Reddit lands a $150M Tencent investment, they'd make strange bedfellows: Tencent helps build the Great Firewall; Reddit's product, banned in China, is speech — Who really thinks about where the money is coming from as long as you get the money? — Reddit is about to get a huge new round … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says Build 2019 will take place from May 6 to May 8, with registration opening on February 27 — Registration for this year's Microsoft Build developers conference opens February 27. And Build, again, is going head-to-head with Google's I/O developer confab.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Starting Feb. 28, Facebook's “Why am I seeing this?” button on ads will show when a user's info was uploaded for ad targeting and if it was by a brand or agency — Facebook's crack down on non-consensual ad targeting last year will finally produce results.| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp says it bans about 2M fake or abusive accounts each month, 75% of them without manual intervention, 20% of them at the time of registration itself — WhatsApp today outlined how it is tackling abuse and spread of false information on its instant messaging platform as its largest market …
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Mashable, Fortune, Financial Times, CNN, CNET, Reuters, The Next Web, NDTV Gadgets 360, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @scepticgeek
| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Sources: no-fees mobile bank Chime is raising $300M at a $1.5B valuation, up from a $500M valuation in May 2018 — Chime, a financial technology startup that offers online banking services, is close to raising $300 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, according to two people familiar with the matter.| Angelica LaVito / CNBC: |
Meditation and sleep app Calm raises $88M Series B led by TPG Growth at a $1B valuation — - Calm has raised $88 million, valuing the meditation and sleep app at $1 billion, the company announced Wednesday. — Calm is the top grossing health and fitness app and 20th overall on iOS, according to App Annie.
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Tweets: @aparanjape and @pearlf
| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Match Group: Q4 total revenue was $457M, up 21% YoY, vs. $449M est., as Tinder's total average subscribers grew to 4.35M, up 1.2M YoY; stock up 10%+ after hours — The international dating scene is swiping right on Tinder, helping spark a 17 percent surge in total average subscribers … Sponsor Posts
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