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May 31, 2019, 7:10 PM

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Christine Fisher / Engadget:

Report: Apple to limit third-party tracking in apps for kids starting next week — As tech companies grapple with safety and privacy concerns, Apple will reportedly limit third-party tracking in kids apps starting next week. While the company hasn't announced the change, a source told The Wall Street Journal that it's in the works.

Source: Wall Street Journal. More: The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, GeekWire, 9to5Mac, CNET, Boing Boing, Seeking Alpha, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Mac Observer, Engadget, and Silicon Valley Business …

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Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott:

Report: Spotify is working on a new “Social Listening” feature that allows users to listen along with their friends and add songs to a shared queue — Spotify is taking its Spotify Connect features to the next level with social integration. The company is working …

Julie Verhage / Bloomberg:

Coinbase COO Asiff Hirji is leaving the company, to be replaced by VP of business Emilie Choi; a number of execs, including the CTO, have left Coinbase recently — - Former TD Ameritrade executive Asiff Hirji joined in 2017 — Emilie Choi named as Hirji's successor at San Franscico firm

More: The Block, CoinDesk, and Ethereum World News

Tweets: @readdanwrite, @teddyschleifer, and @urbanarson

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Foursquare buys location analytics service Placed from Snap, raises $150M led by Raine Group; Placed reportedly raised $13.4M before Snap acquired it in 2017 — Foursquare just made its first acquisition. The location tech company has acquired Placed from Snap Inc on the heels …

More: enterprise.foursquare.com, Marketing Land, Wall Street Journal, Wired, PYMNTS.com, GeekWire, and socalTECH.com

Tweets: @parismartineau, @dcseifert, @bmorrissey, @dens, @cphenner, @fromedome, @foursquare, @thekenyeung, @asanwal, @jonty, and @dens

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

A deep dive into the 233-page antitrust ruling against Qualcomm, which said the company's aggressive licensing tactics had strangled competition for modem chips — We did a deep-dive into the 233-page ruling declaring Qualcomm a monopolist. — In 2005, Apple contacted Qualcomm …

More: Reuters and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @aatifsumar. Thanks:@cremnob

Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech:

MediaTek claims its 7nm chipset is the world's first SoC with an integrated 5G modem, will ship in devices in 2020 using Arm's Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU — Today MedaTek is making quite an unusual announcement: The company is the first to announce a SoC with an integrated 5G modem.

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, GSMArena.com, XDA Developers, Reuters, PR Newswire, Pocket-lint, The Verge, ExtremeTech, VentureBeat, Business Insider, and Trak.in

Tweets: @philipmichaels and @andyboxall

Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:

Slack's final quarterly results ahead of its IPO show revenue grew 67% YoY to $134.8M, losses grew 28% to $31.9M, and paying customers increased 42% to 95,000 — - Message platform company details private share sales — Slack says CEO, other executives, directors to retain control

More: TechCrunch and Crunchbase News

Tweets: @ericnewcomer and @business

Noah Kirsch / Forbes:

Tempus, a clinical data collection and analytics platform launched in 2015 by Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky, raises $200M Series F at a valuation of $3.1B — Tempus, a health technology startup based in Chicago, raised $200 million in new funding at a $3.1 billion valuation, the company announced on Thursday.

More: Business Insider, TechCrunch, smartbusinessdealmakers.com, Built In Chicago, GenomeWeb, and Chicago Tribune

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle:

Kiwibots, the “parallel autonomy” food delivery bots popular with students at UC Berkeley, are remotely piloted by workers in Colombia who are paid $2/hour — Karis Tang, age 2½, squealed with excitement when she saw a Kiwibot rolling through Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley.

Tweets: @rikabel, @mariafarrell, @matthewbevan, @harrysiegel, @atulacharya, @vogon, @jakebackpack, @jasperrlz, @sub8u, @matthewbevan, @simoncarless, @ruchowdh, and @carnage4life

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC:

Profile of Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram who, sources say, argued for removing fake news and demoting Breitbart in News Feed in 2017 and early 2018 — KEY POINTS — In succeeding Instagram CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom, Adam Mosseri has to balance his staff's desire for autonomy with the greater needs of Facebook.

More: Yahoo Finance, Gizmodo, and The Daily Hodl

Tweets: @sal19, @mosseri, @cnbc, @robaeprice, and @stevekovach. Thanks:@mattrosoff

Kara Swisher / Vox:

Q&A with Mark Cuban and Steve Case on investing in tech startups outside of Silicon Valley, how AI is changing the tech landscape, tech regulation, and more — In the short term, learning to code is good for your job prospects. But on the latest Recode Decode, Cuban explained …

More: Observer and CNBC

Tweets: @fmbutt, @went1955, @woosteredu, @voxdotcom, and @recode

Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu:

Sorted Group, a Manchester-based delivery platform for retail companies, raises £15M, bringing its total amount raised to £22M — The UK's delivery platform for retail companies Sorted Group has landed £15 million in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures and NVM Private Equity LLP.

More: North West and BusinessCloud.co.uk

Megan Graham / CNBC:

Amazon to buy Sizmek's Ad Server and Dynamic Creative Optimization units after the adtech company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March — KEY POINTS — Sizmek Ad Server and Sizmek DCO will operate separately from Amazon Advertising for the time being, Amazon said.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”; earlier CBS aired the Kennedy Center Honors, hosted by Trump

Zachary Leeman / Mediaite:

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller calls for CBS staff who “revolted” over Bari Weiss' decision to postpone 60 Minutes' CECOT segment to be fired

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Comcast extends Mike Cavanagh's contract through January 1, 2029, and grants a ~$35M performance-based stock package; he's set to become co-CEO in January 2026

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FinSMEs:

BabbleLabs, which wants to use AI to improve speech quality, accuracy, and personalization in voice apps, raises $14M Series A

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Danny Palmer / ZDNet:

Report: ~2.3B files, including sensitive info like credit card and medical data, are exposed via publicly accessible online file storage servers, up 50% YoY

More: Forbes, WeLiveSecurity, Dark Reading, and TechRepublic

Dani Deahl / The Verge:

In the age of music streaming, missing, bad, or inconsistent song metadata is estimated to have left billions on the table unpaid to artists and musicians

More: 9to5Mac. Tweets: @reckless, @taishicode, @mattk, @madorlandoliz, @heilemann, @brianpolar, @dropslash, @smalldrink, @mysteryroommke, @jsnod, @dgreenstein1, @emanateofficial, @sammyandrews, @danideahl, @cartwro, and @blakereid

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:

Netflix and Amazon made £1.1B in revenue from ~17.7M UK subscribers in 2018, while streaming services of UK's four main commercial broadcasters made ~£530M

More: FierceVideo, MSPoweruser, Variety, and Engadget

BuzzFeed News:

Investigation: US universities, foundations, and retirement plans back funds that invest millions in Chinese surveillance tech companies Megvii and SenseTime

More: TechNode and Slashdot

Tweets: @rmac18, @ahmed, @rmac18, @rmac18, @dtbyler, @miriamelder, @davidmackau, @uyghurproject, @gadyepstein, @mat, @mdudas, @dangillmor, @thegrugq, and @ceodonovan

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:

Intuit says it is acquiring Origami Logic, an Accel-backed marketing analytics startup that has raised over $64M in funding, in a deal expected to close Q4 2019

More: Intuit Inc. and ZDNet

Larry Dignan / ZDNet:

Dell reports Q1 net income of $329M on revenue of $21.9B, up 3% YoY, below analyst estimates of $22.24B, as server and networking revenue fell 9% YoY to $4.2B

More: The Register, Dell Technologies, VMware, Inc., SiliconANGLE, Forbes, and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @delltech

Reuters:

Sources: Amazon is interested in buying Sprint's prepaid brand Boost Mobile, which T-Mobile and Sprint have already pledged to sell to get their merger approved

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Tweets: @sprintcto, @trengriffin, @amlivemon, @trengriffin, @whatthebit, @reutersbiz, @levynews, @thekenyeung, and @stevekopack

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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:

Uber reports Q1 revenue of $3.1B, up 20% YoY, gross bookings of $14.65B, up 34%, net loss of $1.01B; Uber Eats revenue grew 31% to $239M, gross bookings up 108%

Lily Hay Newman / Wired:

Google's new policies for Chrome extensions and Drive API will limit the ability of extensions and 3rd party apps to access personal data, starting this summer

More: ZDNet, The Keyword, Chromium Blog, Android Central, SecurityWeek, TechSpot, Android Police, Help Net Security, ZDNet, The Verge, gHacks Technology News, 9to5Google, BleepingComputer, and TechCrunch

Tweets: @lukolejnik, @tsimonite, @ohmdee, and @campuscodi

Janko Roettgers / Variety:

Nreal unveils a $499 consumer version of its Light AR glasses that are compatible with any phone using the Snapdragon 855 chip, available later this year

More: CNET, VentureBeat, The Verge, UploadVR, and Engadget. Tweets: @jetscott. Thanks:@francisybea

Julia Alexander / The Verge:

The YouTube channel of Indian music production company T-Series becomes the first to cross 100M subscribers after a months-long race with PewDiePie

More: Digital Information World, TechSpot, Firstpost Tech, Memeburn, ValueWalk, and Business Insider

Tweets: @youtube and @tseries

Nick Summers / Engadget:

Microsoft is bringing its Xbox Game Pass subscription service to Windows 10 PCs with a “curated library” of more than 100 titles; details to be revealed at E3

Ryan McMorrow / Agence France-Presse:

Investigation finds Huawei has received ~$1.6B in Chinese government grants over past ten years, heavily subsidized land, and favorable export financing terms

More: Financial Times, Telecoms.com, and iPhone in Canada Blog

Tweets: @rwmcmorrow, @gabewildau, @gabewildau, @cold_peace_, @sanverde, @dravirmani, @akannampilly, and @paulmozur

Brian Dowling / Xconomy:

Insight Partners buys a majority share in Boston-based threat intelligence company Recorded Future for $780M, the highest ever price for a threat intel firm

More: TechCrunch, PR Newswire, and Dark Reading

Tweets: @gthuang, @techjournalist, and @pearlf. Thanks:@gthuang

Sam Meredith / CNBC:

An open letter signed by 47 companies, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, and WhatsApp, condemns proposal from the UK's GCHQ to eavesdrop on encrypted messages