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Lyft opens up more than 20% on its first day of trading after raising $2.3B in its IPO, which valued the company at over $20B — - The stock held at around $87 in its first few minutes of trading — something of a modest IPO for such a giant tech company. — Lyft stock started trading …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Huawei reports ~$8.8B profit in 2018, up 25.1% YoY on revenue of ~$107.13B, up 19.5% YoY, boosted by strong revenue growth of 45.1% YoY in its consumer business — - Huawei reported revenue of 721.2 billion yuan ($107.13 billion) in 2018, a 19.5 percent year-on-year rise.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple to close Texture on May 28 following the launch of Apple News+, effectively ending the service for subscribers without Apple devices — A year ago, Apple acquired the digital newsstand app Texture to form the basis of its new subscription-based service, Apple News+, which launched on Monday.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase Custody starts offering staking services to institutional clients, starting with Tezos — The Takeaway: — Coinbase Custody is offering staking services to institutional clients, starting with Tezos. — Client assets will remain inside Coinbase's fully insured cold storage at all times, mitigating risk to investors.
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Google pulls “conversion therapy” app after prominent LGBTQ group Human Rights Campaign suspended Google's ranking from its influential Corporate Equality Index — Google is pulling a controversial app that LGBTQ rights groups say engages in a form of conversion therapy …
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Inmates at two Finland prisons are classifying data to train AI for a startup building a database of companies; some experts have concerns about exploitation — Empowerment or exploitation? — “Prison labor” is usually associated with physical work, but inmates at two prisons in Finland …
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| Joel Spolsky / Stack Overflow Blog: |
Joel Spolsky announces he will step down as CEO of Stack Overflow and become chairman of the board, says the company booked $70M in revenue last year — Big news! We're looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I'm stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches new Ad Library that now makes all active ads and inactive political ads searchable, opens Ad Library API to all Facebook-verified developers — Now you can search Facebook for how much Trump has spent on ads in the past year, which Pages' ads reference immigration, or what a Page's previous names were.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft tells business users that Windows 10 1809, also known as the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, is ready for broad deployment — Microsoft finally is telling business users that Windows 10 1809, originally released last fall, is ready for deployment — just a month before Windows 10 1903 may start rolling out.| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Russia tells ten major VPN providers including NordVPN, ExpressVPN, TorGuard, IPVanish, Kaspersky, Hola, and OpenVPN, to block sites on the country's blacklist — For the past several years, Russia has continued with its mission to restrict access to content the state finds objectionable.
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Alibaba invests $171M in publicly traded Qutoutiao in the form of a convertible loan which would convert into a 4% stake in the Chinese news content aggregator — The race to give Chinese users their daily dose of news intensifies as Qutoutiao, a rival to TikTok parent Bytedance, net an installment of sizable backing.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Study: 5.5% of the top 10K HTTPS websites have exploitable TLS flaws subtle enough that the green SSL certificate padlock still appears in up-to-date browsers — WIDESPREAD ADOPTION OF the web encryption scheme HTTPS has added a lot of green padlocks—and corresponding data protection—to the web.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
More Apple Card details, including that a user can generate virtual card numbers for online non-Apple Pay purchases at any time by tapping a button — One of the most buzzy announcements on Apple's stage this week was Apple Card, its in-house credit card powered by Goldman Sachs and Mastercard.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches Alexa for Business Blueprints, a set of templates for employees to create and publish private Alexa skills for their organization, in the US — Use Alexa in your place of work? There's cause for minor celebration: today marks the launch of Alexa for Business Blueprints …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
AirPods with Wireless Charging Case review: excellent wireless performance and reliability with support for Qi charging but using “Hey Siri” can be frustrating — The new AirPods look and sound familiar, but have a couple new tricks — Of the many new products that Apple announced …
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Daimler Trucks to acquire a majority stake in Torc Robotics, which develops self-driving software, as part of a push to develop Level 4 self-driving trucks — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daimler Trucks has agreed to buy a majority stake in self-driving truck software maker Torc Robotics as part …
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US Department of Housing and Urban Development files charges against Facebook, saying the company's ad targeting tools enable violations of Fair Housing Act — 'Facebook is discriminating against people based upon who they are and where they live,' says HUD secretary
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