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Spotify will buy The Ringer, the podcast-centric media company run and owned by Bill Simmons, and plans to hire Simmons and his approximately 90 employees — The Ringer CEO Bill Simmons in 2015 | Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Vanity Fair — It's the fourth podcast deal Spotify has done in a year.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify reports Q4 results: 271M total MAUs, up 31% YoY, as paying users rise 29% YoY to 124M; overall revenue was $2B, up 24% YoY; stock down 4%+ — Streaming music now accounts for more than 80% of all music consumption in key markets like the US, and one of the big leaders in the field is reaping some of the rewards.
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Spotify, Spotify, Reuters, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, CNET, PYMNTS.com, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, MacDailyNews, Engadget, and Fast Company
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| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
Shadow's Iowa failure was a dangerous combination of techno-utopianism and laziness, which led to slapdash software engineering, procurement, and deployment — Democrats desperately need to win the internet to beat Trump. Their first big test was a massive failure. — Mr. Warzel is an opinion writer at large.
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| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
LinkedIn says CEO Jeff Weiner is stepping down in June after 11 years in the role, becoming executive chairman, to be replaced by SVP of Product Ryan Roslansky — After 11 steady years as the CEO of the professional networking company, Weiner is yielding the reins to deputy Ryan Roslansky.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amid coronavirus fears, ZTE cancels its MWC 2020 press conference; LG Electronics says it is withdrawing from exhibiting and participating in the Barcelona expo — The second big company to cancel its MWC appearance — LG Electronics, the division of LG Corporation responsible for mobile phones …
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Tweets: @keithdyer, @dcseifert, @tomwarren, @andyboxall, @saschasegan, and @tomwarren
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Researchers discover a now patched vulnerability in Philips Hue smart light bulbs that could have let hackers infiltrate users' home or corporate networks — Might want to check if you've got firmware 1935144040 — Four years ago, security researchers showed how a flying drone could hack …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Disney says Disney+ will roll out to Western Europe in March and India on March 29 through Hotstar; Disney plans to launch Hulu internationally as soon as 2021 — Hulu will finally expand outside of the U.S., likely as soon as next year. This tidbit of news was confirmed by Disney Chairman … | Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance: |
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| Twitter: |
Twitter says users “may not deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media” likely to cause harm; such tweets will be labeled or removed — It's our responsibility to create rules on Twitter that are fair and set clear expectations for everyone on our service.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DOJ reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad agencies, and ad tech rivals of Google as its online ad tools become a focus of antitrust probe — Antitrust enforcers have reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad tech rivals and ad agencies| David Ingram / NBC News: |
A look at the wave of hundreds of tech companies helping enterprises comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act — Privacy-focused technology companies are offering a variety of services, from personal data scrubbing to business-focused software meant to help companies comply with the law.
Tweets: @privacyproject and @michellemanafy
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI says YouTube served a cease-and-desist letter over photo scraping, following Twitter's letter in January — Google and YouTube have sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that has been scraping billions … | Chris Stobing / PCMag: |
Apple Pro Display XDR review: exceptional color accuracy, sturdy build, competitive price among reference-grade pro monitors, expensive Pro Stand but worth it — - Exceptional color accuracy. — DisplayHDR 1600 looks incredible. — High contrast ratio. — Sturdy build.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher details a backdoor in Huawei-owned HiSilicon chips used in millions of smart devices, including security cameras, that has been active since 2013 — Researcher said he did not notify HiSilicon due to a lack of trust in the hardware vendor to adequately fix the issue.
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Security Affairs. Tweets: @axcheron, @cybergibbons, @counternotions, @phhaith1, @taosecurity, @iheartmalware, and @campuscodi
| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Rockstar Games says co-founder Dan Houser is leaving in March, after taking a break since spring 2019; Houser co-founded Rockstar in 1998 with his brother Sam — He touched every franchise it worked on — Dan Houser, co-founder of Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games, will leave the company in March.
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Tweets: @alexhern, @juliofortworth, @benjisales, @alexhern, @jasonschreier, and @gracecellis
| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
HackerRank's survey of 116K+ developers across 162 countries finds that Go and Python are the top programming languages that developers want to learn next — A huge developer survey reveals trends in developer education, job prospects, skills acquisition, and salaries.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft reorganizes its Windows software and hardware teams into one group, called Devices + Windows and led by Panos Panay, amid other reshuffling — It's reorg day in Microsoft's Experiences and Devices unit. Here's what's happening, including what's happening with Windows client and Surface.
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| Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: |
Transparent Financial Systems, a Seattle-based startup developing a real-time cryptographic settlement network, raises $14M+ Series A led by Pantera Capital — Transparent Financial Systems, a Seattle-based startup developing a real-time “cryptographic settlement” network …
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| Corey Kilgannon / New York Times: |
The NYPD is replacing officers' handwritten patrol memo books, a fixture since the 1800s, with an iPhone app starting February 17 — Officers' most-used item since the 1800s isn't the gun or handcuffs, but the handwritten activity log. Now an iPhone app is replacing it.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Sendoso, which helps companies send customized physical gifts to clients at scale for a monthly fee, raises $40M Series B led by Oak HC/FT Partners — Email is garbage and we're all buried in the stuff. Actually getting someone's attention given the constraints that digital missives present is difficult.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Instagram generated ~$20B in advertising revenue in 2019, making up more than a quarter of Facebook's revenue — - Unit brought in about $20 billion in 2019, people familiar say — Photo-sharing app has gained in importance since 2012 purchase
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Finnish startup Aiven, which offers managed cloud services to help companies build on open source projects, raises $40M Series B led by IVP — The growing ubiquity of open source software has been a big theme in the evolution of enterprise IT. But behind that facade of popularity lies another kind …
Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Asha Barbaschow / ZDNet: |
Australian logistics company Toll Group says it was targeted by a ransomware attack on Friday, causing delivery delays; Toll disabled some systems as precaution — The targeted attack has forced the company to disable its systems and revert to manual processes, causing delays across the country.
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iTnews, Business Insider Australia, and ZDNet
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: NYSE owner Intercontinental Exchange has made a takeover offer for eBay that could value the marketplace at more than $30B; eBay stock closes up 8.78% — A deal could value the online marketplace at more than $30 billion — New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc …
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