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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 … | Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Top five Dropbox shareholders: Drew Houston holds 25.3% stake, Sequoia has 23.2%, Arash Ferdowsi has 10.3%, Accel has 5%, and T. Rowe Price has 3.5% — - CEO Drew Houston and venture firm Sequoia Capital each own more than a 20 percent stake in Dropbox. — Dropbox has taken a very unconventional route to an IPO.
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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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| 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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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| Kim Zetter / New York Times: |
How “hacker-proof” voting machines that are not connected to the internet can still be vulnerable due to remote access software and internal cellular 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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BMW to recall 11,700 cars, says it installed wrong engine management software in some cars; move comes after reports of Volkswagen-like emissions manipulation — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German carmaker BMW (BMWG.DE) said on Friday it would recall 11,700 cars to fix their engine management software …
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