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Lyft prices IPO at $72 per share, which would value the company at over $20B and hit the top of its expected range — - Ride-hailing platform Lyft was funded early on by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Mayfield, K9 Ventures, Floodgate and others. — Lyft is one of several aging start-ups expected …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
UK's review of Huawei's telecommunications equipment finds “significant” security problems but does not call for an outright ban — LONDON — A British review of Huawei found “significant” security problems with the Chinese company's telecommunications equipment …
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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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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Verizon rolls out a free version of Call Filter, its $3/month spam and robocall protection service — Now you don't have to pay extra money to battle against spam and robocalls — Verizon is taking new steps to combat the unrelenting nuisance of spam calls.
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| 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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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter expands dark mode options for iOS users with a pure black Lights Out mode and an Automatic Dark Mode — Twitter has announced today that it is expanding its dark mode options for iOS users. Adding to the blue/gray dark mode theme that the platform has offered for a while …
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| Stefan Etienne / The Verge: |
LG says G8 ThinQ, its latest flagship, will be available on April 11 from all major US carriers starting at $820; pre-orders available on March 29 — You'll get the best deal from T-Mobile — LG's latest flagship, the G8 ThinQ, will be released in the US beginning on April 11th.
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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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| 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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| 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.
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| Jake Kanter / Business Insider: |
Leaked Facebook emails reveal intense discussion over an anti-Semitic Instagram post by Alex Jones before it was taken down — - Business Insider has seen a lengthy Facebook email chain in which executives discuss Alex Jones' future on Instagram and removing an inflammatory post.
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| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
FTC has secured $1.5B worth of fines from robocallers through court judgments since 2004 and has collected $121M or 8% of that amount — America's telecommunications watchdogs have levied hefty financial penalties against illegal robocallers and demanded that bad actors repay millions to their victims.
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Leaked Apple documents outline a support program for third-party repairs that seems to comply with requirements of right-to-repair bills proposed in 20 states — A leaked internal document obtained by Motherboard outlines a program that looks almost exactly like the requirements of right …
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ExtremeTech, iFixit, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Fast Company, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, and Insanely Great Mac. Tweets: @nproctor
| Zoë Bernard / The Information: |
Source: Carta, formerly eShares, is close to completing a $300M funding round led by a16z at a ~$1.8B valuation; Carta raised $80M in December — Carta, a startup that helps investors manage their equity stakes in private companies, is close to having a new set of investors of its own.| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Apple's Tim Cook, Qualcomm CEO Steven Mollenkopf, and execs and engineers from both companies to testify in the Apple vs Qualcomm trial starting Apr. 15 — The Apple vs. Qualcomm trial kicking off in San Diego next month will feature a star-studded cast in the dispute over chips used in iPhones …
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| 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 — Ten major VPN providers have been ordered by Russian authorities to begin blocking sites present in the country's national blacklist.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Security researcher charged with computer misuse in the UK after admitting to hacking Microsoft and Nintendo, which estimate the cost of damages at ~$3.8M — 24-year-old also involved in Vtech breach — A 24-year-old security researcher narrowly avoided prison today … Sponsor Posts
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