|
February 24, 2018, 9:55 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Dropbox files for an IPO, says its 2017 revenues were $1.11B, up 31% YoY, losses were $111.7M, down from $210.2M in 2016; Dropbox now has 500M registered users — Cloud storage company Dropbox filed to raise $500 million in a public offering on Friday, giving investors a first look at the books …
More:
Fortune, Axios, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Barron's Online, Engadget, GeekWire, Bloomberg, The Verge, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @belril, @sai, @ericnewcomer, @imkialikethecar, @markets, @shiraovide, @scottmaustin, @mattrosoff, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @dinabass, and @chris_ciaccia
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Dropbox has saved almost $75M since 2015 by moving from AWS to custom-designed infrastructure and software — After making the decision to roll its own infrastructure and reduce its dependence on Amazon Web Services, Dropbox reduced its operating costs by $74.6 million over the next two years … | Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Top five Dropbox shareholders: Drew Houston holds 25.3% stake, Sequoia has 23.2%, Arash Ferdowsi has 10.3%, Accel has 5%, and T. Rowe Price has 3.5% — - CEO Drew Houston and venture firm Sequoia Capital each own more than a 20 percent stake in Dropbox. — Dropbox has taken a very unconventional route to an IPO.
More:
Business Insider and MacDailyNews
| Bloomberg: |
Dropbox gave 3 top execs stock worth $190M in 2017: CEO Drew Houston got $109.6M, co-founder Arash Ferdowsi got $46.7M, engineering VP Quentin Clark got $34.1M — Dropbox Inc. granted about $190 million in stock awards to three top executives last year as the file-sharing company prepared for an initial public offering.
More:
Business Insider
| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: |
Dropbox, Inc. S-1 SEC filing for IPO — This is an initial public offering of shares of Class A common stock of Dropbox, Inc. Dropbox, Inc. is offering to sell shares of Class A common stock in this offering. The selling stockholders identified in this prospectus are offering to sell an additional shares of Class A common stock.
More:
Fortune, SlashGear, Crunchbase News, Reuters, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, Business Insider, New York Times, The Register, Quartz, Wall Street Journal, Recode, ZDNet, Mashable, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, CNNMoney, 9to5Mac, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @eringriffith, @zck, @levie, @pacificleo, and @ataussig
| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Facebook removes a demo of a VR shooting game called Bullet Train at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference out of respect for Parkland victims — Facebook pulled a demo of Bullet Train, a virtual reality game that lets players use an imaginary gun to pretend shoot people in a train station …
More:
USA Today, CNET, Engadget, Washington Post, Newser, Business Insider, The Guardian, BBC, The Hill, CNBC, and Axios
| BuzzFeed: |
Twitter investigates how cryptocurrency scammers changed handles on verified accounts and kept verified badges to trick users to send funds to scammer wallets — This is the Twitter account for Tron Foundation, the organization behind a cryptocurrency that has a current valuation of $2.8 billion.
Tweets: @cwarzel, @buzzfeednews, @cwarzel, and @rmac18
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches ARCore out of preview, says it works on 13 Android phone models, 100M devices, will expand Google Lens to iOS and more Android smartphones — Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Google today launched ARCore 1.0, letting developers create AR experiences on Android.
More:
The Keyword, Thurrott.com, Firstpost, The Mac Observer, The Tech Report, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Mashable, Geekologie, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, The Verge, and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @karanganesan, @jonwiley, and @lucasmtny
| Paul P. Murphy / CNN: |
YouTube removed Infowars video from The Alex Jones Channel claiming Florida student was paid actor; source: first of 3 strikes before YouTube terminates account — Shooting survivor: I'm not a crisis actor — (CNN)InfoWars, a far-right media organization run by Alex Jones and known …
More:
Mashable, BetaNews, The Next Web, Engadget, and The Hill
Tweets: @cwarzel, @brendannyhan, and @ericboehlert
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Bernstein analysts estimate that Bitmain made between $3B and $4B in operating profit in 2017 by selling bitcoin miners and mining cryptocurrencies — - Based on conservative estimates of gross margin of 75 percent and operating margin of 65 percent, Bernstein analysts calculate …
More:
Cointelegraph.com News. Tweets: @aparanjape, @pressed250, @tusharjain_, @pressed250, @nathanielpopper, @peterktodd, @pressed250, and @pressed250
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Twitter's annual report says it has written off $66.4M of its investments in private firms, most likely related to rumored $70M investment in SoundCloud in 2016 — Twitter's lost almost all of the money it had invested in SoundCloud, the company disclosed as part of its 2017 annual report Friday.
More:
Twitter Inc.
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Facebook's mandatory anti-malware scan for flagged devices lacks transparency in how scanned data is used and has locked out an undisclosed number of users — WHEN AN OREGON science fiction writer named Charity tried to log onto Facebook on February 11, she found herself completely locked out of her account.Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.Who's Hiring In Tech?
The Kevin Rose Show:
Magatte Wade, Unlocking Prosperity in Africa (#53)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Subscribe to the Kevin Rose Show!
Techmeme Ride Home:
Thu. 04/18 - Game Emulators On iOS And The Atlas Robot Lives!
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:55 AM ET, February 24, 2018.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
New York Times:David Ingram / NBC News:
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Dan Strumpf / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
PR Newswire, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, NASDAQ.com, TechNode, Investor's Business Daily, China Money Network, Caixin Global, and Business Insider. Tweets: @jasonlk
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
More:
TheStreet, Tech Times, Neowin, Softpedia News, Android Authority, Phandroid, eWeek, Droid Life, Android and Me, Quartz, and Android Authority
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |