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Snap Inc.'s S-1 SEC filing for IPO — This is an initial public offering of shares of non-voting Class A common stock of Snap Inc. Snap Inc. is offering to sell shares of Class A common stock in this offering. The selling stockholders identified in this prospectus are offering an additional shares of Class A common stock.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Snap Inc. files for IPO, aiming to raise $3B; firm had $404M in revenue in 2016, up 500% YoY, on a $514M net loss — Snap today filed its S-1 paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), triggering the process to go public. The company aims to raise $3 billion … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat had 161M DAUs in December 2016, up from 110M last year, with 69M located in US and 53M in Europe; the firm makes $1.05 per user in revenue on average — It's here! Snap — which confidentially filed for its IPO late last year — has released its public filing through the Securities and Exchange Commission.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Travis Kalanick tells employees in internal memo that he's leaving President Trump's economic advisory council — SAN FRANCISCO — Travis Kalanick, chief executive of Uber, plans to step down from President Donald J. Trump's economic advisory council, according to an email that the executive sent … | Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon circulating draft open letter to Trump on recent immigration order ahead of planned release this week — It's the first joint effort from big U.S. businesses to try to support immigration. — Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft … | Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues: |
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Thousands of Comcast employees stop work in Philadelphia and other cities to protest Trump's immigration executive order — Thousands of Comcast employees in Philadelphia streamed out of the Comcast Center on Thursday afternoon to protest President Trump's recent executive order on Muslim immigrants and refugees from seven nations.| Business Wire: |
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Amazon reports Q4 revenue of $43.7B, up 22% YoY, vs $44.68B expected, as net income reaches $749M; stock down 3%+ — Mixed faces in Seattle today as Amazon delivered its Q4 2016 earnings. The e-commerce company reported lower than expected revenue of $43.74 with better than expected earnings per share of $1.54.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
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Hackers release iOS cracking tools used by Cellebrite, the Israeli firm known for breaking into phones; expert says the tools are similar to jailbreaking tools — The hacker says this demonstrates that when organizations make hacking tools, those techniques will eventually find their way to the public.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Outlook for iOS with support for apps and add-ons, starting with Giphy, Evernote, Trello, more — Microsoft is bringing apps and add-ins to its Outlook for iOS email application today. The software giant has partnered with Evernote, Giphy, Nimble, Trello … | John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to let users search for photos using keywords to describe them, powered by its Lumos AI, which has been used to help the visually impaired — Initially used to improve the experience for visually impaired members of the Facebook community, the company's Lumos computer vision platform …
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