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Uber reports Q4 revenue of $4.1B, up 37% YoY, gross bookings of $18.1B, up 28%, and net loss of $1.1B; gross bookings from Uber Eats were $4.37B, up 71% YoY — Revenue of $4.1 billion, growing 37% year-over-year or 39% on a constant currency basis — Rides Adjusted EBITDA of $742 million, with continued margin expansion
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FCC announces proposals to pay satellite companies $9.7B to quickly free up C-band spectrum for 5G, and another $3.3B-$5.2B to pay for costs — Listen — Intelsat SA and other satellite providers would share as much as $14.9 billion under a proposal from federal regulators to compensate … | Dane Glasgow / The Keyword: |
Google Maps turns 15 and updates its app with five tabs: Explore, Commute, Saved, Contribute, and Updates, new transit features, and more — In 2005, we set out to map the world. Since then we've pushed the limits of what a map can do: from helping you easily navigate from point A to B …
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Sources: Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, and Vivo are creating a platform to let developers outside China upload apps onto all of their app stores simultaneously — SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - China's Xiaomi, Huawei Technologies, Oppo and Vivo are joining forces to create a platform for developers outside China …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped 30.7M Watches globally in 2019, up 36% YoY, outselling entire Swiss watch industry, which shipped 21.1M units, down 13% YoY — The Apple Watch continues to dominate the market — The Apple Watch wasn't just the best-selling smartwatch last year …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
SEC commissioner proposes a three-year grace period from a startup's first token sale to achieving a level of decentralization sufficient to pass SEC evaluation — SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce wants to give legitimate crypto projects a shot at success without running afoul of U.S. securities laws.
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: ViacomCBS is building a new ad-supported streaming service that will build on CBS All Access, and an ad-free version that includes Showtime — - ViacomCBS is preparing to throw its hat into the streaming wars after consummating a merger on Dec. 31.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Nuro receives a two-year driverless exemption for its new delivery vehicle called R2 and says it is the first company to receive such an exemption from NHTSA — Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup that raised $940 million in financing from Softbank Vision Fund last year …
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Nuro, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Associated Press, Digital Trends, Silicon Valley Business …, Business Insider, Mashable, The Last Driver License Holder, VentureBeat, NBC Bay Area, Yahoo Finance, and Houston Chronicle
Tweets: @avgregr, @mcwm, @scobleizer, @nurobots, @macaulaykong, @techcrunch, and @pavecampaign
| Joe DeBlasio / Google Online Security Blog: |
Google says starting with Chrome 82 in April, it will gradually start blocking “mixed content downloads”, which are non-HTTPS downloads started on secure pages — Today we're announcing that Chrome will gradually ensure that secure (HTTPS) pages only download secure files.| Reuters: |
US Attorney General William Barr says the US and its allies should consider investing in Nokia and Ericsson to counter Huawei — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday stressed the threat posed by Huawei Technologies and said the United States and its allies …
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Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Light Reading, Wccftech, Android Central, and The Verge
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| Mark Harris / TechCrunch: |
Facebook and Google seek FCC permission to activate a portion of the PLCN undersea cable, excluding Hong Kong and China's section amid ongoing regulatory battle — Tech giants' high-speed internet link to Hong Kong has become politically toxic — Google and Facebook seem to have resigned themselves … | Biz Carson / protocol: |
Sweat Equity Ventures, which trades operational and recruiting expertise for equity instead of cash, launches publicly, backed by $30M from Reid Hoffman — Launching from stealth, Sweat Equity Ventures is a new venture concept that trades operational and recruiting expertise for equity in startups.
Tweets: @jank0, @joshconstine, @jenn_rtr, @kylebrussell, @bizcarson, @issielapowsky, @bizcarson, @triketora, @edbyrne, @kateclarktweets, @bizcarson, and @sfshag
| Maddie Stone / VICE: |
Leaked contract shows Apple wants repair shops signing up to its Independent Repair Program to agree to audits and inspections, even after leaving the program — Last August, in what was widely hailed a victory for the right-to-repair movement, Apple announced it would begin selling parts …
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Gizmodo, MacRumors, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, Michael Tsai, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, iMore, and AppleInsider
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Huawei says it does not include backdoors into its products, including HiSilicon, after recent reports of security issues in HiSilicon chips — HiSilicon is a global leading fabless semiconductor and IC design company that is dedicated to providing comprehensive connectivity …
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it plans to expand its headcount in Bellevue, WA to more than 15,000, an increase of more than 7x over the 2,000 Amazon staff in the city today — Amazon said it plans to expand its headcount to more than 15,000 people in Bellevue, Wash., the growing city 10 miles east of Seattle …
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The Amazon Blog, The Seattle Times, CNET, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, and CNBC. Tweets: @taylor_soper
| VICE: |
Pornhub claims it has systems in place to flag harmful videos like Girls Do Porn but an investigation finds even light editing allows such videos to be uploaded — On May 1, 2016, in the middle of final exams, a young woman got a text message that would change her life forever.
Tweets: @lisavaas, @thottonmather, and @carolineha_
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Netflix says users can now turn off the autoplay preview feature on its homepage — Browsing the homepage isn't an annoying problem anymore — Netflix customers have complained for years about the frustrating and annoying autoplay feature that occurs on its homepage.
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Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Android Police, Houston Chronicle, Digital Trends, Vox, Tubefilter, Polygon, Variety, TidBITS, Tom's Guide, Game Rant, GameSpot, and MacRumors
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Elliott Management has quietly built up a $2.5B+ stake in SoftBank and is pushing for changes like stock buybacks and improved corporate governance — Activist fund pushes for stock buybacks and for the tech giant to improve corporate governance to boost share price
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