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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Analysis: Apple removed or restricted 11 of the 17 most downloaded screen-time apps over the past year; two app developers made an antitrust complaint to EU — SAN FRANCISCO — They all tell a similar story: They ran apps that helped people limit the time they and their children spent on iPhones.
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Docker discovers unauthorized access to a Hub database that exposed info of ~190K users; the info included access tokens for GitHub and Bitbucket repositories — An unauthorized person gained access to a Docker Hub database that exposed the the user names and hashed passwords for approximately 190,000 users.
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| Loren Grush / The Verge: |
FCC gives SpaceX permission to fly some Starlink satellites at a lower orbit than planned earlier, enabling SpaceX to launch first internet satellites in May — Changing the destination for more than 1,500 satellites — The Federal Communications Commission has approved SpaceX's request …
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| Rebecca Mead / New Yorker: |
A deep look at how Airbnb has influenced the housing market and transformed neighborhoods in Barcelona, where 1.5M visitors stay in Airbnbs annually — In the tourist-clogged city, some locals see the service as a pestilence. — In 1904, the city of Barcelona received a petition … | Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Overcast introduces a new clip-sharing feature, allowing users to share audio or video clips, up to a minute each, from any public podcast — Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I've always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations …
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| New York Times: |
Officials say FBI, DHS, NSA, and the US Cyber Command task forces, formed before midterms to combat foreign interference in elections, have been made permanent — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director warned anew on Friday about Russia's continued meddling in American elections, calling it a “significant counterintelligence threat.”
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Slack files for an IPO via direct listing, reports loss of $138M on $400M revenue for FY 2019 ending Jan. 31, compared to $140M loss and $220M revenue for 2018 — - Slack follows several tech companies that have already debuted on the public market in 2019, including Lyft, PagerDuty, Pinterest and Zoom.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
San Francisco-based Brightback, a subscription retention and churn management software startup, raises $11M Series A led by Index Ventures — Subscription retention and churn management software company Brightback today announced the close of an $11 million funding round.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal to buy $500M worth of Uber shares at $47/share, says the companies will work on future payment collaborations, including developing Uber's digital wallet — Uber's announcement of its IPO pricing earlier today came with a $500 million belated Easter egg.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Dyndrite, which is building a new geometric modeling kernel that is used in CAD or design applications, raises $10M Series A led by Gradient Ventures — Most of us don't know what a geometric modeling kernel or solid modeling kernel is, but every CAD or design application uses one to create shapes.| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Tangdou, an app with 200M users in China that offers dance video tutorials for the elderly, has closed a round led by Tencent, bringing total raised to ~$100M — Besides churning out video games for China's young generations, Tencent has also been attuned to the need of silver-haired users …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Affirm, an online lending company led by former PayPal CTO Max Levchin, spins out Resolve, an automated payments platform focused on B2B e-commerce — Resolve takes Affirm's buy now, pay later approach and applies it to business purchasing. — Affirm, a financial services company led … Sponsor Posts
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