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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on open source, AWS, working with the military, expanding Google Cloud's sales teams, and more — New Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has a lot of work to do. — The company that basically invented the concept of hyperscale distributed computing … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Anthos, Google's Cloud Services Platform for managing hybrid clouds that span on-premise data centers and Google Cloud, comes out of beta, runs on AWS and Azure — Google's Cloud Services Platform for managing hybrid clouds that span on-premise data centers and the Google cloud, is coming out of beta today.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Uber to sell ~$10B worth of stock at $90B-$100B valuation in IPO, will make S-1 public Thursday, begin roadshow late April, and start trading early May — (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc has decided it will seek to sell around $10 billion worth of stock in its initial public offering … | Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Pirates are using Facebook's Watch Party group video-streaming feature to host movie marathons and TV watch parties, sometimes for thousands of viewers — - Facebook's new group-video-watching feature, Watch Party, is proving wildly popular with pirates. It's designed to let Facebook users watch …
Tweets: @robaeprice, @profcarroll, @robaeprice, @jsnell, @robaeprice, @robaeprice, and @robaeprice
| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: Larry Page and Sergey Brin have yet to make an appearance at Google's weekly “TGIF” town halls in 2019, their longest absence since at least 1999 — Following leaks and employee revolts, the absences raise questions about the future of transparency at Google| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook says it will use AI to stop notifying users to reach out to deceased friends, rolls out a “tribute” section dedicated to posts made posthumously — Algorithmic features have sent suggestions to wish happy birthday to those who've died — Facebook has promised …
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| Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Bipartisan bill introduced by Senators Mark Warner and Deb Fischer to ban online companies with 100M+ MAUs from designing addictive products for kids under 13 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senators Mark Warner, a Democrat, and Deb Fischer, a Republican, are introducing a bill on Tuesday …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart expands its rollout of store tech in US, including more vending machine-like Pickup Towers for online orders and robots that scrub floors and scan items — Walmart is doubling down on its technology innovations in its brick-and-mortar stores in an effort to better compete with Amazon.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ahead of its expected IPO in June or July, shares of Slack on private markets are selling for prices valuing it at ~$16B, 2X+ its last funding round — In the next few months, anyone will be able to buy stock in Slack Technologies Inc. In the meantime, wealthy investors …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Apple has reportedly hired Arthur van Hoff, a founding executive of the Disney-backed VR startup Jaunt, as a senior architect — Apple just made a significant hire in the virtual reality (VR) space: The iPhone maker has hired serial entrepreneur Arthur van Hoff, a founding executive of the Disney-backed VR startup Jaunt.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm unveils Cloud AI 100, a chip slated to ship next year for AI inference at the edge, estimating peak performance to be over 3X that of Snapdragon 855 — Qualcomm kicked off its annual AI Day conference in San Francisco with a bang. It took the wraps off of three new system …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Udacity lays of 20% of its staff, or 75 employees, and restructures its operations to help bring costs in line with revenue — Udacity, the $1 billion online education startup, has laid off about 20 percent of its workforce and is restructuring its operations as the company's co-founder Sebastian Thrun seeks … | Jake Evans / ABC: |
Alphabet's Project Wing gets approval in Canberra, Australia to launch a commercial drone delivery service, will initially deliver from a dozen local businesses — Google has launched a world-first commercial air delivery business in Canberra's north, delivering gelato and golfing equipment by drone directly to homes.
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Tweets: @nisummers, @fastcompany, @theteamatx, and @jcobevans
| Nick Heath / TechRepublic: |
Stack Overflow's annual survey, taken by 90K+ developers this year, finds Python to be the fastest-growing major programming language, with Rust the most-loved — The annual Stack Overflow survey is one of the most comprehensive snapshots of how programmers work.
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Verizon is pushing updates to patch critical flaws in millions of residential routers, after the vulnerabilities were reported in mid-December — Verizon has been pushing firmware updates to its Fios Quantum Gateway residential routers to address several vulnerabilities …
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
LG G8 ThinQ review: has bigger battery, more RAM, and feels nice to hold, but it might not receive timely OS updates and some features like Hand ID are gimmicky — It checks a lot of boxes, except the ones that really matter — If you're looking for a new phone in 2019 that has a bunch of features …
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| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Opera for desktop now includes a cryptocurrency wallet, after its Android app got one in December; wallet keys and transactions are synced between PC and mobile — Opera has updated its eponymous web browser for the desktop with a crypto-makeover and a number of additional features.
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Opera Desktop, CoinDesk, The Next Web, CNET, SludgeFeed, TechRadar.com, Windows Central, ZDNet, BetaNews, Memeburn, Cointelegraph, and Messari Crypto. Tweets: @opera
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
ShopBack, a Singapore-based rewards app that works with Alibaba and other major online brands, has closed a $45M round led by Rakuten Capital and EV Growth — An Asian rewards app that works with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and major online brands has snagged $45 million from Japan's Rakuten Capital and other investors.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
YouTube says it will begin developing choose-your-own-adventure-style shows under a new unit, following the success of Netflix's “Bandersnatch” and others — - Video site is steering program dollars into new technology — Company to announce new slate of shows next month in New York
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Android Police, Variety, Pocket-lint, Tubefilter, Gizmodo, SlashGear, The Verge, CNET, Engadget, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @lucas_shaw
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: 31.6-inch Apple display with mini-LED backlight will launch in Q2 or Q3 2019; new iPad and MacBook with mini-LED displays will launch by 2020 or early 2021 — TF Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo has released a report which lays out Apple's product interest in mini-LED technology.
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Tweets: @marcoarment and @bzamayo
| Seth Fiegerman / CNN: |
Pinterest's slow approach to growth has let it build a distinct brand and avoid harsh scrutiny, while allowing other platforms to overshadow it in the press — New York (CNN Business)The team at Pinterest was nervous. — For most of its early history, the digital scrapbooking service had grown unimaginably fast.
Tweets: @sfiegerman, @adzebill, @terrymatz, and @fritinancy
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