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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Source: Trump complained in a meeting with Jack Dorsey that Twitter had removed some followers; Dorsey stressed even he lost followers from new Twitter policies — President Trump on Tuesday met privately with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, a huddle at the White House between one of the site's …
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| Alan Levin / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet's Wing becomes the first drone operator to get FAA approval as an air carrier, plans to launch a delivery trial in Virginia this year — - Google offshoot becomes only drone firm approved as an airline — Wing's new status clears way for others seeking drone commerce
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Leaked internal memo suggests Apple now requires most keyboard-related repairs to be carried out in store with a quoted next-day turnaround time — Apple has indicated that most MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboard repairs will be required to be completed at Apple Stores until further notice …
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| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
A history of Kleiner Perkins' two-decade losing streak, as it got distracted by renewable energy, lost key talent, and failed to groom its next-gen leadership — Once the very embodiment of Silicon Valley venture capital, the storied firm has suffered a two-decade losing streak.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Kohl's and Amazon expand partnership: Amazon customers will be able to return products to Kohl's 1,150 US stores, some of which will now carry Amazon products — It's one thing to be able to get everything delivered to your doorstep, it's another to then have to actually have to leave your home …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q1 revenue of $320M, vs. $307M est., up 39% YoY, DAUs of 190M, up 2% QoQ; Snapchat reaches 90% of 13-24 year-olds in US — - Snap, the maker of Snapchat, posted a loss fo 10 cents per share, vs. expected loss of 12 cents per share. — The company also managed to continue growing …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook shares his thoughts on privacy, tech regulation, politics, and the “rigged” San Bernardino encryption case, citing an inspector general report — Today at the TIME 100 Summit, Apple CEO Tim Cook opened the event with an interview with Nancy Gibbs.
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| Ashley Gold / The Information: |
Open Technology Institute director and Facebook critic Kevin Bankston says he is leaving in mid-June to become a director of privacy policy at Facebook — Kevin Bankston, currently director of the privacy-focused Open Technology Institute in Washington, will be joining Facebook as a director of privacy policy, he announced Tuesday.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: billionaire SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son made a huge personal bet on bitcoin just as prices peaked and lost more than $130M when he sold out — Japanese billionaire made a huge personal investment in the digital currency as prices peaked — Masayoshi Son, the billionaire founder …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Q1 beats with revenue of $787M, up 18% YoY and net income of $191M, reports MAUs of 330M, up 9M QoQ but down 6M YoY; stock closes up 15%+ — Social networking and media platform Twitter today reported its results for the first quarter of the year, and it's a strong one.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Report: the UK will allow Huawei limited access to help build parts of the country's 5G network, such as antennas and other “non-core” infrastructure — Experts and policymakers are wary of letting China get involved in domestic infrastructure — UK Prime Minister Theresa …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Squarespace makes its first acquisition by buying Acuity Scheduling, which helps businesses manage online appointments; all 45 employees will join Squarespace — Squarespace is announcing its first acquisition today, a 13-year-old company called Acuity that allows businesses to manage their online appointments.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FireEye researchers find the source code of the Carbanak malware, made by a hacker group who has stolen €1B+ from banks, has been on VirusTotal for two years — Carbanak source code has been available on VirusTotal for two years, and security firms didn't even notice.
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| Federal Bureau of Investigation: |
Report from FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says online theft, fraud, and exploitation caused losses of $2.7B globally in 2018, up from $1.4B in '17 — Report Shows Cyber-Enabled Crimes and Costs Rose in 2018 — The statistics gathered by the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
The EU has voted to interconnect border control, migration, and law enforcement systems into a searchable biometrics database of 350M+ EU and non-EU citizens — EU Parliament green-lights the creation of the Common Identity Repository (CIR), a gigantic biometrics database.| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Reddit says it is rolling out Events, used to schedule posts related to an event like a TV show, and Collections, used to curate posts, to all subreddits — After testing them with “Game of Thrones” fans and a few dozen other Subreddits for the past couple of months, Reddit is now launching …
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
KeepTruckin, which develops hardware and software that helps truck drivers manage their vehicles and cargo, raises $149M Series D at a $1.25B valuation — KeepTruckin, a developer of hardware and software that helps truck drivers manage their vehicles and cargo, has raised $149 million in Series D funding.
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FinSMEs, PE Hub Blog, and SiliconANGLE
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Kaspersky researchers say the supply-chain attack that infected ASUS and its PC update tool this year also affected six other companies, mostly in South Korea — ASUS was not the only company targeted by supply-chain attacks during the ShadowHammer hacking operation as discovered by Kaspersky … | Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel debuts 9th Gen Core chips: 34 desktop CPUs with minor enhancements and more cores at the high end, as well as 45W H-Series, best suited for gaming laptops — How Intel has launched its range of ninth generation processors has been an odd and awkward one.| Scott Cohn / CNBC: |
Letter from Wisconsin governor to a Foxconn executive reveals that Wisconsin is renegotiating its contract with Foxconn to build an LCD plant in the state — - In a letter to Foxconn exec Louis Woo, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers reiterated that Foxconn approached the state last month … | Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Postmates says it has launched in 1,000 new cities since December, now operates in 3,500 cities across all 50 states, and that it reaches 70% of US households — Postmates is expanding like crazy ahead of an initial public offering expected later this year.| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
Civic says it will bring its blockchain age verification tech to 1,000 beer vending machines by end of 2019, partnering with 12 major automated retail companies — It started with selling beer, but age verification could crack open a whole industry to cryptocurrency.
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