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Sources: Rajeev Misra, head of the $100B Vision Fund, is accused of sabotaging other SoftBank execs for career advancement; Misra and SoftBank deny the report — - Rajeev Misra, the head of SoftBank's $100 billion Vision Fund, is accused of overseeing a plan to lure SoftBank's then-president into a … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
At Apple's shareholder meeting, Tim Cook says Apple will open its online store in India this year, with physical stores in 2021, and addresses COVID-19 concerns — - CEO hints wearables sales $40 billion; equal to Marriott, Visa — Company plans to open retail stores in India next year
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Square beats Q4 expectations with revenue of $1.31B, up 41% YoY, says its Cash App has 24M MAUs, up 60% YoY, with a profit of $144M; stock up ~6% after hours — The company reported its fourth quarter financial results on Wednesday. — Square reported its fourth quarter financial results on Wednesday.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Online gaming platform Roblox raises $150M led by a16z's Late Stage Venture fund, reportedly at a $4B valuation; Roblox was valued at $2.5B+ as of last year — Online gaming platform Roblox, now home to 115 million largely Gen Z players per month, announced today it has raised $150 million …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Q&A with Steven Levy on his new book, “Facebook: The Inside Story”, Instagram, interviewing Facebook executives, and the company's future after Mark Zuckerberg — A Q&A with the author of one of our mostly hotly anticipated books of 2020 — People kept having the idea …
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Several high-profile Instagram accounts switch to private to avoid scrutiny when posting sponsored content for Bloomberg's campaign — The Bloomberg campaign is putting out more memes on private Instagram accounts — and running faster than Facebook can keep up.
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| Aaron Harris / Y Combinator: |
YC shares learnings across 190 Series A rounds, providing a term sheet that's the “fairest one possible”, an extensive Series A Guide, and more — We started YC's Series A Program two years ago to fix a problem faced by every startup raising an A: VCs understand how Series A's work and founders do not.
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| Michelle Cheng / Quartz: |
Uber Eats head Jason Droege steps down and is replaced by VP Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty as the company exits some markets amid growing competition — Jason Droege, the head of Uber's food-delivery business Uber Eats, will be leaving the company. — In a Feb. 25 regulatory filing …
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| Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast: |
Clearview AI, in a letter to customers, says an intruder accessed its client list and the number of searches clients conducted, but not their search histories — Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Bug in Cypress and Broadcom Wi-Fi chips meant billions of devices, many now patched, were left open to eavesdropping; Apple, Amazon, and others were affected — Cypress and Broadcom chip bug bit iPhones, Macs, Android devices, Echoes, and more. — SAN FRANCISCO — Billions of devices … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google adds five new languages to Translate, including Uyghur, Turkmen, and Tatar, its first additions in four years, bringing its total to 108 — Five new languages for a total of 108 — Google Translate is adding support for five new languages today, bringing its total to 108 languages.
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| John Nosta / Fortune: |
Apple Watch largely does not detect or categorize AFib at a heart rate greater than 120 beats per minute, which may give some users a false sense of security — The success of the Apple Watch is unprecedented: In five short years, the Apple Watch has outsold the entire Swiss watch industry …
Tweets: @rosenthalhealth
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says it will likely miss its guidance for its More Personal Computing segment, which includes Windows, due to COVID-19's impact on its supply chain — Microsoft shares fell 2% on Wednesday after the company said it doesn't expect to meet the quarterly revenue guidance …
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| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
Profile of Downdetector, a resource for determining website and platform outages; Downdetector relies almost exclusively on user reports since 2001 — Downdetector is a simple, ugly utility, which becomes a weird little life raft for displaced communities when their websites crash.
Tweets: @kait_tiffany and @slaskow
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Box beats Q4 expectations with revenue of $183.6M, up 12% YoY, says its achieved first full year of non-GAAP profitability; stock is up ~8% after hours — Etsy and Nutanix also reported better-than-expected results for the last quarter — Cloud content management company Box achieved …
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
Declassified study: NSA system to analyze American domestic call and text logs cost $100M from 2015 to 2019 and yielded only one significant investigation — A disputed program that allowed the National Security Agency to gain access to logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts yielded …
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Techdirt, Input, Engadget, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Schneier on Security, and The Hill
Tweets: @snowden, @faizapatelbcj, @shiraovide, and @jameeljaffer
| Charles McLellan / TechRepublic: |
A look at the current state of IoT in monitoring biodiversity loss and climate change, with examples of how it is being used to monitor vulnerable ecosystems — The potential to install a regime of benign surveillance over the natural world is immense, ranging from earth-observation satellites … Thanks:@steveranger
| Karandeep Singh / Android Police: |
Samsung says the S20 series came with its first dedicated security chip, called the Secure Element, separating memory from main storage — Our mobile operating systems are protected with adequate software-based security measures to keep the miscreants away, but there's always more that can be done.| Salesforce: |
Salesforce says Keith Block has stepped down as co-CEO but will still advise Marc Benioff; Gavin Patterson named President and CEO of Salesforce International — Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) today announced that Keith Block has stepped down as co-CEO of Salesforce and Marc Benioff is Chair and CEO of the company.
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Protocol, Motley Fool, TheStreet, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Enterprise Times, ZDNet, and Silicon Valley Business …
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