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Sonos and Ikea unveil a $179 Symfonisk table lamp and a $99 bookshelf speaker, both of which can be controlled with Sonos' app, shipping in August — The lamp speaker and a bookshelf speaker are coming in August — Sonos and Ikea have fully unveiled the pair of speakers that the two companies have collaborated on for years.
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Pinterest sets IPO price range at $15-$17 per share, to raise as much as $1.275B at up to a $11.3B valuation; Pinterest was valued at $12.3B in its last round — After dropping its IPO filing two weeks ago, today Pinterest, the social media platform where people can discover and share ideas …
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Microsoft makes developer and “canary” builds of its Chromium-based Edge browser available today for Windows 10 64-bit, says builds for macOS “coming soon” — Microsoft today released the first Edge build based on Google's Chromium open source project, the same browser that Google's Chrome is based on.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Monzo is close to raising £100M from Y Combinator, which would give the UK-based digital bank a pre-money valuation of £2B, up from £1B in October — Just 5 months after announcing £85 million in Series E funding, Monzo is already gearing up to raise additional funding …
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UK whitepaper proposes “code of best practice” for how internet platforms should deal with harmful content, suggests expanding liability to tech company execs — Internet sites could be fined or blocked if they fail to tackle “online harms” such as terrorist propaganda and child abuse, under government plans.
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Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012 which says it has 12,000 customers, raises $150M Series B from Summit Partners — Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012, went about building its email marketing business the old-fashioned way.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
EU publishes seven guidelines for developing ethical AI applications including being accountable, sustainable, explainable, privacy-respecting, and unbiased — The European Union has published new guidelines on developing ethical AI — The European Union today published a set of guidelines …
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2U, which provides online degree programs for top US universities, acquires Trilogy Education, which creates tech bootcamp programs for higher ed, for $750M — As more universities turn to offering online degrees to expand their student bodies by way of cyberspace, one of the pioneers … | Emily Bell / The Guardian: |
Facebook and Google have placed op-eds and dozens of paid “native ad” articles across major publications, amid other media efforts, to steer future regulations — Three years on from the US election, tech firms are seeking rules that won't hit their profits| Eileen Yu / ZDNet: |
Dropbox pays out $319,300 in bug bounties for a HackerOne event in Singapore that focused on the file sharing service and its subsidiary HelloSign — Cloud storage vendor forks out $319,300 in a one-day bug bounty programme that galvanised 45 HackerOne members in Singapore … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft changes the default removal policy for external storage like USB thumb drives in Windows 10 from “Better performance” to “Quick removal” — The default removal policy for external storage media was changed by Microsoft in Windows 10 version 1809 from …
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Viber launches Viber Local Number, a new $4.99/month subscription service to give users a phone number that anyone can call or text, in the US, UK, and Canada — Viber, the chat and messaging app acquired by Japanese ecommerce titan Rakuten for $900 million five years ago …
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Roblox, an MMO game popular with kids, says it now has 90M MAUs, up from the 70M last fall, following international expansion and support for French and German — Kids gaming platform Roblox, most recently valued at over $2.5 billion, has reached a new milestone of 90 million monthly active users, the company said on Sunday.
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