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Angela Ahrendts to leave Apple in April after five years, as Apple names 30-year company veteran Deirdre O'Brien SVP of Retail + People reporting to Tim Cook — Angela Ahrendts Plans April Departure After Five Successful Years — CUPERTINO — Apple today announced that Deirdre O'Brien … | The Keyword: |
Google launches Password Checkup, a Chrome extension that alerts users to breaches and prompts resets, and Cross Account Protection for apps with Google Sign in — Editor's note: Today is Safer Internet Day, but we'll be talking about it all week with a collection of posts from teams from across Google.
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @wired, @samharrelson, @lilyhnewman, and @gartenberg
| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
Zcash discloses a flaw, first discovered in-house last March and fixed in October, that may have allowed “infinite” counterfeiting — On March 1 of last year, Ariel Gabizon was tidying up a presentation he was preparing to deliver the following day at a financial cryptography conference …
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| Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: |
Unicode Consortium finalizes its emoji list for 2019, including 230 new emojis like “yawning face” and “pinching hand”, likely coming to major platforms soon — The final emoji list for 2019 has now been approved by the Unicode Consortium and includes a total of 230 … | Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Facebook Messenger now lets you delete messages from everyone's view for up to 10 minutes after you have sent them — You can now delete messages from everyone's view on Facebook Messenger — Facebook has come out with a feature that lets you delete messages from a conversation after you've sent them …
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Tweets: @iansherr, @gaberivera, @alexhern, and @shiraovide
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Citing data privacy and security flaws, EU orders recall of Safe-KID-One, a kids' smartwatch made by German company ENOX, the first recall of its kind in the EU — EU warns that ENOX Safe-KID-One smartwatches contain several security flaws that let third-parties track and call children's watches.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces Baby Skill Activity API for Alexa devices, available initially in the US, and invests in Hatch Baby, which makes baby-focused smart products — Amazon today is one of the biggest retailers of gear for babies and other parenting aides, and today the company is taking another … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Reddit is raising $150M to $300M in a Series D led by Tencent at a $2.7B pre-money valuation — Reddit is raising $150 million to $300 million to keep the front page of the Internet running, multiple sources tell TechCrunch. The forthcoming Series D round is said to be led …
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Snap reports Q4 revenue of $389.8M, up 36% YoY, DAUs of 186M in Q4'18 from 187M in Q4'17 and 186M in Q3'18, as Android design refresh rolls out; stock pops 20%+ — Snap, the parent of disappearing message app Snapchat, stemmed recent declines in users and beat revenue expectations …
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| Rebekah Valentine / GamesIndustry.biz: |
EA reports Q3 net revenue of $1.289B, missing its own projection of $1.375B, digital net revenue of $908M, and net income of $262M; stock down 17%+ after hours — Q3 net revenue of $1.3 billion didn't quite meet guidance for Battlefield V release period — With December solidly behind them …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it has banned four armed groups in Myanmar and will remove all “related praise, support, and representation” — Facebook is taking action in Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country where the social network has been used to incite racial tension and violence, after it banned four armed groups from its service.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says its experimental Instagram-like Explore tab has expanded beyond the iOS app to more devices and now suggests smaller, up-and-coming creators — YouTube is expanding the test of its “Explore” feature, a new discovery tool it first introduced as an experiment within its iPhone app last year.
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Gizchina, Digital Trends, and Social Media Today
| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Winklevoss' crypto exchange Gemini has reportedly been shutting down accounts after large redemptions of its stablecoin, GUSD — Two over-the-counter trading desks say their accounts at Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by U.S. investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss …
Tweets: @la__cuen, @fintechfrank, and @mo_lazarus
| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
YouTube CEO says the number of channels with 1M+ subs nearly doubled and the number of creators who earned five or six figures grew 40%+ in the last year — In a post Tuesday about her goals for 2019, YouTube Chief Executive Susan Wojcicki touted several milestones Google's massive video site surpassed … | Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
Databricks, which runs an Apache Spark-based data analytics platform, raises $250M Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.75B valuation — Today Databricks is announcing that it has raised $250 million in a Series E funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, a firm which has led three …
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Databricks, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Bloomberg, MSPoweruser, and VentureBeat
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Apple reaches a deal with France to pay backdated taxes, with reports putting the sum at around €500M — PARIS (Reuters) - U.S. technology giant Apple said it had reached a deal with France to pay an undeclared amount of back-dated tax, with French media putting the sum at around 500 million euros ($571 million).
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Ike, the autonomous trucking startup founded by three veterans of Apple, Google, and Uber ATG, raises $52M Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures — Redpoint Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Basis Set Ventures, and Neo also participated in the round. Bain Capital Ventures partner Ajay Agarwal has joined Ike's board.
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Ike Robotics, Redpoint Ventures, VentureBeat, and PE Hub Blog
| Mark Zuckerberg: |
On Facebook's 15th anniversary, Zuckerberg says it will spend more on safety and security in 2019 than it had revenue at its IPO, pans critics' “negative” focus — Fifteen years ago today, I launched the first version of the Facebook website from my college dorm.
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The Guardian, BBC, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, New York Times, Gizmodo, Wired, Dice Insights, FutureSin, Business Insider, Firstpost, Silicon Republic, Telegraph, Ars Technica, and Mashable
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| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
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