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Dropbox, Inc. S-1 SEC filing for IPO — This is an initial public offering of shares of Class A common stock of Dropbox, Inc. Dropbox, Inc. is offering to sell shares of Class A common stock in this offering. The selling stockholders identified in this prospectus are offering to sell an additional shares of Class A common stock.
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Dropbox files for an IPO, says its 2017 revenues were $1.11B, up 31% YoY, losses were $111.7M, down from $210.2M in 2016; Dropbox now has 500M registered users — Cloud storage company Dropbox filed to raise $500 million in a public offering on Friday, giving investors a first look at the books …
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Dropbox has saved almost $75M since 2015 by moving from AWS to custom-designed infrastructure and software — After making the decision to roll its own infrastructure and reduce its dependence on Amazon Web Services, Dropbox reduced its operating costs by $74.6 million over the next two years … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches ARCore out of preview, says it works on 13 Android phone models, 100M devices, will expand Google Lens to iOS and more Android smartphones — Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona, Google today launched ARCore 1.0, letting developers create AR experiences on Android.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google Assistant will gain multilingual support, first for English, French, and German and will be available in 30+ languages this year — As teased yesterday by Hiroshi Lockheimer's MWC 2018 post, Google is heading into the mobile trade show with a number of Assistant announcements.
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| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Facebook removes a demo of a VR shooting game called Bullet Train at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference out of respect for Parkland victims — Facebook pulled a demo of Bullet Train, a virtual reality game that lets players use an imaginary gun to pretend shoot people in a train station …
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What to expect at MWC 2018: Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+, new flagships from Sony and Nokia, iPhone X notch lookalikes, and further decline of headphone jack — Welcome to the Samsung show — The world's biggest mobile technology event is upon us. This coming week's Mobile World Congress …
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| Paul P. Murphy / CNN: |
YouTube removed Infowars video from The Alex Jones Channel claiming Florida student was paid actor; source: first of 3 strikes before YouTube terminates account — Shooting survivor: I'm not a crisis actor — (CNN)InfoWars, a far-right media organization run by Alex Jones and known …
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How “hacker-proof” voting machines that are not connected to the internet can still be vulnerable due to remote access software and internal modems — In 2011, the election board in Pennsylvania's Venango County — a largely rural county in the northwest part of the state …
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Twitter investigates how cryptocurrency scammers changed handles on verified accounts and kept verified badges to trick users to send funds to scammer wallets — This is the Twitter account for Tron Foundation, the organization behind a cryptocurrency that has a current valuation of $2.8 billion.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers say some security certificates are being sold and registered using stolen corporate identities, making traditional network security less effective — Certificates registered in names of real corporations are surprisingly easy to come by. — The Stuxnet worm that targeted …
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| Shirin Rajaee / CBS Sacramento: |
Police say an Apple refurbishing center in Sacramento County has made ~1,600 accidental 911 calls since Oct. 2017; Apple says it's investigating — ELK GROVE (CBS13) - Emergency dispatchers in Elk Grove and Sacramento County are seeing an influx of false alarm 911 calls flooding their emergency communication centers.
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