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Alphabet breaks out revenue numbers for YouTube ads for the first time, says they generated $4.7B in Q4 revenue and $15.15B in fiscal 2019, up from $11.16B YoY — We've never before known how much money YouTube generates — YouTube generated nearly $5 billion in ad revenue in the last three months … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
In its first revenue disclosure for Google's cloud division, Alphabet says it generated $2.61B Q4 revenue and $8.92B in fiscal 2019, up from $5.84B YoY — - Google broke out numbers for YouTube and cloud for the first time Monday. — YouTube ads generated $15.15 billion in revenue in fiscal 2019 … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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Twitter says it has suspended “a large network of fake accounts” and many others for abusing an API feature that let them match phone numbers to usernames — Twitter announced today that over the holidays it identified and shut down “a large network of fake accounts,” … | HuffPost: |
Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built Iowa caucus app used by workers that caused delays in reporting results — Shadow, a Democratic digital firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results.| Robert Armstrong / Financial Times: |
Mastercard CEO details why the company pulled out of Libra, says he had concerns about how Libra went from an “altruistic idea” to Calibra, a proprietary wallet — - Money laundering questons on Facebook's digital currency — Banga does not understand how Libra makes money| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Asana says it has confidentially filed to go public via a direct listing; the startup has raised about $213M to date and was last valued at ~$1.5B in 2018 — Workplace productivity toolmaker Asana announced late Monday that they have confidentially filed their S-1 and said in a statement …
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Researchers detail EKANS ransomware, which is targeting industrial control systems and appears to be the work of cybercriminals rather than nation-state hackers — EKANS appears to be the work of cybercriminals, rather than nation-state hackers—a worrying development, if so.| About Facebook: |
Dropbox CEO and co-founder Drew Houston joins Facebook's board of directors, effective immediately — Facebook today announced that Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, has been appointed to the company's board of directors, effective immediately. — Mark Zuckerberg …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
A performance artist loaded 99 smartphones into a wagon and opened Google Maps on all of them, creating an artificial traffic jam that turned green streets red — Google Maps is a hugely useful tool that's used by millions of people around the globe, mostly thanks to its excellent navigation and traffic tools.
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Amid virus outbreak, authorities in China are using its vast surveillance network to identify potential carriers, ostracizing even those without the symptoms — The authorities hunt for people from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak, encouraging citizens to inform on others.
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
HPE acquires zero-trust authentication startup Scytale, which was founded by the creators of open source projects SPIFFE and SPIRE and had raised $8M to date — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said that it has acquired Scytale Inc., a startup that develops so-called zero-trust security software …
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Microsoft Teams was down for nearly three hours on Monday morning after Microsoft forgot to renew a security certificate — Microsoft Teams is currently down worldwide after Microsoft forgot to renew a critical security certificate. Users of Microsoft's Slack competitor were met …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Byte, a short-form video app from Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann, had ~1.3M downloads during its first week, with 70% of installs happening in the US — New short-form video app Byte, heralded as Vine's successor, is off to a strong start despite its issues.
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