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Spotify reports Q1 revenue of €1.5B, up 33% YoY, reduces net loss to €142M, says it has 217M MAUs, up 26% YoY, with 100M premium subscribers, up 32% YoY — Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT) today reported financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2019 ending March 31, 2019.
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| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Facebook to give 60+ academics around the world access to its data from January 2017 to February 2019, which excludes run-up to the 2016 US election and Brexit — Facebook is opening up its data for the first time to more than 60 academics from around the world, who will be able to look …
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Tweets: @kadhimshubber, @mshannahmurphy, @hoofnagle, @dpfunke, and @pablo_ortellado
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Ad Archive API criticized for lacking info on ads' targeting criteria and being limited to keyword searches, preventing a comprehensive look at ads — Facebook has been accused of blocking the ability of independent researchers to effectively study how political disinformation flows across its ad platform.
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The Mozilla Blog, The Mac Observer, and Lifehacker
Tweets: @jmgrygiel, @mozilla, and @kevinroose
| Deanna Ting / Skift: |
Marriott launches Homes & Villas, an Airbnb competitor, in more than 100 markets around the world, following an year-long pilot program with 200 homes in London — This news will trigger responses from elated to downright furious, whether you're a Bonvoy member, Marriott hotel owner …
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| Brian Crecente / Variety: |
Microsoft says Minecraft creator Markus Persson won't be part of 10-year anniversary plans for the game because of his “comments and opinions” — “Minecraft” creator Marcus “Notch" Persson, who sold the title to Microsoft for $2.5 billion in 2014, won't be part of 10-year anniversary plans …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple says $250 Powerbeats Pro wireless earbuds will be available to preorder on May 3 and ship on May 10 in black with three other colors coming in the summer — Preorders start just a few days from now on May 3rd — There was a ton of reader interest in the new Powerbeats Pro …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
How Microsoft learned from its past mistakes to embrace an “open design” philosophy, which integrates hardware and software for more inclusive designs — A new open design challenge for a 44-year-old company — One room at Microsoft's headquarters represents everything that's changed about its design philosophy.| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
ICE's Bakkt, which has faced regulatory delays, says it has acquired the Digital Asset Custody Company and has applied with NY to become a registered trust — Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which owns the New York Stock Exchange, made a splash last August with big plans to get into the Bitcoin business.
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Bakkt Blog, CoinDesk, Medium, CryptoGlobe, NewsBTC, Cointelegraph, and The Block. Tweets: @bakkt
| Kurt Wagner / Vox: |
Sources: around 2013, Facebook created Oxygen, a contingency plan outlining how to distribute its apps on Android if Google shut them out of the Play Store — The social network you love — or hate — needs a radical reboot. — In late 2011, Facebook found itself in a terrifying position … | Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Microsoft and Dell announce a new partnership that lets Azure cloud computing customers use VMware's virtualization software to manage their IT operations — Dell Technologies, VMware, and Microsoft are making their data center, workplace software, and cloud computing technologies work better together.
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| New York Times: |
How the boom in Chinese bike-share companies like Ofo and Mobike was quickly followed by a bust, wiping out many investors and littering towns with unused bikes — Bike-sharing start-ups brought prosperity to Wangqingtuo. Now residents are dealing with the mess they left behind.
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The Atlantic. Tweets: @drinksolapop, @gregcipes, @jotted, @nytimesbusiness, @absurdistwords, @sanjay__bakshi, @jotted, and @jotted
| BBC: |
Consent forms to access the phones of victims of crime, including those alleging rape, have been rolled out across England and Wales — Victims of crimes, including those alleging rape, are to be asked to hand their phones over to police - or risk prosecutions not going ahead.
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| Roger Parloff / Yahoo Finance: |
Profile of Chris Cox, who, despite being chief product officer for years, never drew the attention for Facebook's scandals that Zuckerberg and Sandberg did — In late 2003, during his senior year at Stanford, Chris Cox, the future Chief Product Officer at Facebook (
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| Laura Hautala / CNET: |
Researchers find the addresses and demographic details of more than 80M US households listed on an unsecured database stored on a Microsoft cloud service — Exposed database reveals details on over 80 million US households … DOWNLOAD — BEST PRODUCTS — REVIEWS — NEWS — VIDEO
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BleepingComputer, USA Today, PCWorld, DataBreaches.net, Dark Reading, Engadget, Fortune, and AskWoody
| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Microsoft rebrands Bing Ads as Microsoft Advertising, says it will introduce more advertising products with built-in AI over the next year — The new name reflects a broader focus on ad inventory, data and targeting capabilities. — First there was Microsoft adCenter. Then there was Bing Ads.
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Bing Ads, Windows Central, ZDNet, OnMSFT.com, Search Engine Roundtable, MSPoweruser, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, and Neowin
Tweets: @ginnymarvin, @kerrymflynn, @rustybrick, and @carnage4life
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Tray.io raises $37M Series B led by Spark Capital for its enterprise automation platform, says it has over 200 customers including Lyft, Intercom, IBM, and SAP — Tray.io, the startup that wants to put automated workflows within reach of line of business users, announced a $37 million Series B investment today.
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SiliconANGLE and FinSMEs
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches P2P payments via Amazon Pay for Android users in India, built on the government-backed UPI platform — Continuing its investment in India, Amazon today announced the launch of person-to-person (p2p) payments via Amazon Pay for Android users in the country.
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Online Shopping site in India and Moneycontrol
| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
After a record-busting $1.2B opening weekend, Avengers: Endgame shows that, despite the ubiquity of streaming content, theaters can still deliver breakout hits — LOS ANGELES — Audiences have splintered into a million personalized subsets. Streaming services are sprouting like mushrooms.| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
El Pais-owner Prisa Media made a tool that uses machine learning to identify articles that evoke positive feelings, in a bid to sell brand-safe ads at a premium — Monetizing hard news has always been a thorn in the side of general-news publishers. For some advertisers … Sponsor Posts
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Zoho:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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