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Uber prices its IPO at $45 per share, near the low end of its expected range, raising $8.1B and valuing the company at about $82.4B — The biggest Silicon Valley initial public offering in years turned out to be less lofty than expected. — Uber priced its public offering on Thursday at $45 a share …
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| Caroline Spiezio / Law.com: |
SEC filing: Uber settles with “a large majority” of 60K+ US drivers who filed arbitration demands over their employment status, plans $146M-$170M for payouts — Uber is setting aside at least $146 million to pay drivers over misclassification concerns.
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Google is touting an increased focus on privacy and is making privacy settings slightly easier to find, but those settings remain very confusing for users — IT'S GOOGLE'S BIG privacy pivot, according to Google. — On Tuesday, The New York Times ran an op-ed about privacy written …
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Washington AG says Amazon has agreed to require sellers of kids' school supplies and jewelry to provide lab certification that their products are not toxic — AG investigation found some school supplies with more than 80 times legal limit of lead — SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson …
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Smartphone shipments in North America dropped 18% YoY in Q1 to 36.4M units, a five-year low; Apple kept its ~40% market share YoY, shipping 14.6M iPhones — Smartphone shipments in North America plummeted 18% year on year in Q1 2019 to a five-year low of 36.4 million units, down from a record high of 44.4 million in Q1 2018.
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Chris Hughes' op-ed reflects a consensus among early Facebook executives that the company is too large, too powerful, and too deleterious to society's health — Thanks to everyone who wrote with warm wishes about jury duty. Sadly, I was not called upon to serve my democracy.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The lead of Oculus VR, Hugo Barra, says he is taking a new role at Facebook “building a global AR/VR partner ecosystem”; Erick Tseng to take over Oculus — Hugo Barra, the former Xiaomi executive who has run Facebook's Oculus VR team since 2017, is changing roles in what looks like a larger shake-up in VR at Facebook.
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
A year after its intro, Google Duplex is still limited in availability, with minimal impact on service workers, some of whom say it is more polite than humans — Myriah Q. hasn't stopped moving since the moment I entered the bar. She's got patrons seated on the sidewalk and the backyard areas …
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| NBC News: |
Photo storage app Ever, launched in 2013, now focuses on selling facial recognition tech, trained using 13B+ stored user photos, to others — “The app developers were not clear about their intentions,” one Ever user said. “I believe it's a huge invasion of privacy.”
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| Bob Diachenko / Security Discovery: |
Over 274M records with personal identifiable info of Indian citizens exposed by unsecured MongoDB database, in what may be part of a massive scraping operation — On May 1st, I have discovered an unprotected and publicly indexed MongoDB database which contained 275,265,298 records …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Instagram says it will begin hiding search results for hashtags that consistently return false vaccine information, plans a pop-up to link to high-quality info — The company says it will use machine learning to identify where misinformation shows up most — Instagram will begin hiding …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Reali, a flat fee real estate startup with an AI tool to predict home buying chances at various offers, expands Series B to $29M, bringing total raised to ~$40M — Reali, a real estate startup facilitating transactions between property buyers and sellers, today announced that it's expanded …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Dropbox Q1: revenue of $385.6M, up 22% YoY, net loss of $7.7M, 13.2M paid users, up from 11.5M YoY, avg revenue per paying user of $121.04, up from $114.30 YoY — The company said average revenue per paying user was $121.04, compared to $110.79 for the same period last year.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Consumer advocacy groups file a complaint with the FTC accusing Amazon's Echo Dot Kids of collecting children's data without parental consent — Amazon barreled into the children's smart-speaker market last year with a brightly colored device called Echo Dot Kids Edition.
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| Europol: |
Europol announces that the Spanish Civil Guard arrested eight people in Spain who have connections to a $10M+ crypto money laundering ring — Print PDF — Europol has supported Spain in dismantling a criminal organisation providing large-scale crypto money laundering services to other criminal organisations.
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CoinGeek, Olive Press News Spain, FinanceFeeds, CryptoGlobe, BTCMANAGER, CCN, Cointelegraph, and Crowdfund Insider. Tweets: @europol
| Mark Wilson / Fast Company: |
Interview with Google designer Jennifer Daniel on the complicated issues of gender in images as Google plans to release 53 gender ambiguous emoji with Android Q — In 1999, the Japanese wireless communications company NTT Docomo released 176 pictures for people to quickly, efficiently …
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| Zoë Bernard / The Information: |
Sources: at least six Intercom employees have left the company in the last few years over sexual harassment allegations against its CEO Eoghan McCabe — Eight years ago, a group of Irish entrepreneurs led by an ambitious leader, Eoghan McCabe, relocated their software startup, Intercom …
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