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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook unveils plans for Messenger app for Windows and macOS, a new social video-watching feature, a lightweight and full-featured version of Messenger, more — Ahead of its annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Facebook has offered a glimpse into some of the things it's cooking …
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Tweets: @tonyromm and @stefansamne
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Dating launches in 14 more countries, will come to US in 2019, adds Secret Crush feature to let users select up to 9 friends for Tinder-like matching — Facebook built Dating to be privacy-safe, hoping to avoid the awkwardness of friends or family checking out your romance profile.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook says it's running a test in Canada to hide Likes in Instagram's Feed, on permalinked pages, and profiles — It's only a test for now — Instagram announced at its F8 developer conference today that it'll start testing a new feature later this week that'll hide users' public like counts on videos and photos.
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook launches a major redesign that ditches the blue bar at the top, features Groups and Stories more prominently, and debuts Meet New Friends feature — - Facebook is getting a major redesign. — The social network has ditched its iconic blue bar and now looks more similar to Messenger and Instagram.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Messenger adds a Close Friends tab, the ability for users to book appointments with merchants, other business tools like lead generation chatbot templates, more — To win chat, Facebook Messenger must be as accessible as SMS, yet more entertaining than Snapchat.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
Cable operator Altice USA agrees to acquire streaming-video network Cheddar for $200M; Cheddar founder Jon Steinberg to become president of the Altice News unit — Cheddar founder and CEO Jon Steinberg is set to become president of Altice News, overseeing Cheddar, News 12 and i24News
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Business Insider, Axios, Business Wire, Crunchbase News, The Wrap, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @felixsalmon
| Ju-min Park / Reuters: |
Samsung posts a profit of $5.4B in Q1, down 60% YoY, as its semiconductor and mobile businesses post a 64% drop and a 40% drop in operating profits respectively — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd posted a 60 percent drop in first-quarter operating profit on Tuesday … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says its photo-editing software Aperture, which hasn't been actively developed in years, won't run in future macOS versions after Mojave — In a new support document, Apple has indicated that its legacy photo editing suite Aperture will not run in future versions of macOS after macOS Mojave.
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Apple Support, The Verge, TechCrunch, Macworld, Engadget, Jeff Carlson, Neowin, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, The Mac Observer, and Digital Photography Review. Tweets: @edbott
| Sage Lazzaro / OneZero: |
Residents of a rent-controlled Manhattan building are suing smart lock startup Latch for providing data about tenants and their guests to landlords — Great for landlords. Not so great for you. — atch is on a mission to digitize the front door, offering apartment entry systems … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Bird is launching monthly scooter rentals for $24.99 in San Francisco and Barcelona — The company will even deliver the scooter right to your front door — If using an app to track down a nearby electric scooter to rent is too much of a crapshoot, Bird is now offering monthly rentals … | Will Greenwald / PCMag: |
Oculus Rift S review: a worthwhile $399 Rift successor with a sharper screen and a 6DOF tracking, but it's still tethered and connects via DisplayPort, not HDMI — Editors' Rating: — 4.00 — EXCELLENT — PCMag reviews products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page.
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: Anki, the robotics startup that raised $200M+ from investors including a16z, is shuttering and laying off its staff of 200 with one week's severance — It's a hard, hard fall. — Anki, the robotics company that has raised over $200 million in venture capital …
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Android Police, Macworld, ExtremeTech, Mashable, KnowTechie, MacRumors, Crunchbase News, TechSpot, Silicon Valley Business …, Axios, AppleInsider, Voicebot, Cult of Mac, Fast Company, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, CNET, VentureBeat, The Robot Report, Wired, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, Pocket-lint, IEEE Spectrum, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
General counsel to both Bitfinex and Tether says in an affidavit that the USDT stablecoin is only 74% backed by cash and equivalents as of April 30 — The USDT stablecoin is only about 74 percent backed by fiat equivalents as of April 30, says its issuer's general counsel.
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| BBC: |
Vodafone denies report that said Huawei could have had unauthorized access to the carrier's fixed-line network in Italy, saying the issues were caught and fixed — Vodafone has revealed that it found vulnerabilities in equipment supplied to it by Huawei in Italy 10 years ago.
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| Bloomberg: |
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Tweets: @ibsparkes, @journeydan, @shonaghosh, @lisafleisher, @matalaz, @yuanfenyang, and @dcuthbert
| Alphabet: |
Alphabet Q1: revenue of $36.3B, up 17% YoY, net income of $6.66B with EU fine, CPC down 19%, and paid clicks on Google properties up 39% YoY; stock is down 8%+ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 29, 2019 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2019.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
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| Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab: |
Amazon is looking to hire a managing editor of news for its video doorbell company Ring to “deliver breaking crime news alerts to our neighbors” — When news organizations think about competition from tech companies, it's usually in terms of the audience's attention and advertisers' dollars.
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Gizmodo, Telecoms.com, Motherboard, The Next Web, KnowTechie, and Business Insider
Tweets: @jbenton, @trishathadani, @niemanlab, @byrosenberg, @knguyen, @stephmbuck, and @_zeets
| Malwarebytes Labs: |
Researchers are monitoring a growing botnet hijacking Electrum cryptocurrency wallets and spreading malware that has infected 100K+ clients and stole $4.6M+ — By Jérôme Segura, Adam Thomas, and S! Ri — We have been closely monitoring the situation involving the continued attacks … | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Ford says it is bringing Amazon Key's in-car delivery service to select Ford and Lincoln vehicles — The automaker said eligible Ford and Lincoln vehicles from 2017 onward will have the ability to link up to Amazon's Key delivery service. — Ford Motor Company said on Tuesday …
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| Lauren Hirsch / CNBC: |
Chewy.com, the online pet product retailer acquired by PetSmart for ~$3B in 2017, files for IPO, reports net loss of $268M on sales of $3.5B for fiscal year '18 — KEY POINTS — Chewy.com, the online pet product retailer owned by PetSmart, filed documents with regulators on Monday to prepare for an initial public offering.
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Garmin adds period tracking to Garmin Connect, announces three new types of Forerunner smartwatches, starting at $199 — The new Garmin Forerunner 45 smartwatch. [credit: Garmin ] — Garmin has been slowly updating its smartwatches and fitness trackers over the past few years, and 2019 appears to be the year of the Forerunner.
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Engadget, Windows Central, iMore, The Verge, TechCrunch, ZDNet, ZDNet, and Android Authority
| CNBC: |
The We Company, better known as WeWork, announces it has filed confidentially for IPO; the company has said its 2018 revenue was $1.8B with a net loss of $1.9B — KEY POINTS — The We Company, better known as WeWork, filed confidentially for an IPO. — The company did not reveal … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Creative Commons launches its search engine out of beta, with over 300M images indexed — Nonprofit organization Creative Commons is today publicly launching its search engine, after over two years of beta testing. The new service is designed to offer an easy way to search the commons' archive …
Tweets: @mattmcgee
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces that the Alexa Skills Kit now supports Spanish in the US and that Alexa-enabled devices in the US will gain support for Spanish later this year — Hola, Alexa. ¿Cómo estás? Amazon today announced that the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) …
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Amazon, CNET, KnowTechie, Digital Trends, Engadget, Geek.com, Voicebot, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @alexadevs
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Germany-based Citycomp, an internet infrastructure provider for companies like Oracle, confirms it's been hacked and customers' financial data has leaked online — The data was stolen from Citycomp, which provides internet infrastructure for dozens of companies including Oracle, Airbus, Toshiba, and Volkswagen.
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CircleID and Business Insider
Tweets: @jason_koebler, @motherboard, @gossithedog, and @josephfcox
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UiPath, a process automation platform targeting IT businesses, raises $568M Series D led by Coatue, at a $7B valuation — Companies are on the hunt for ways to reduce the time and money it costs their employees to perform repetitive tasks, so today a startup that has built a business …
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