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Spotify files paperwork with SEC for $1B IPO, using a direct listing, and will use SPOT as ticker symbol; reports $4.09B revenue in 2017, up from $2.95B in 2016 — Music streaming giant Spotify today filed for a $1 billion IPO. Axios had previously reported on the company's confidential filing, but the new paperwork is public.| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: |
Spotify Technologies S.A. F-1 SEC filing for public listing on NYSE — This prospectus relates to the registration of the resale of up to of our ordinary shares by the registered shareholders identified in this prospectus ("Registered Shareholders"). Unlike an initial public offering …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter begins rolling out its Bookmarks feature, which lets users privately save tweets and has been in testing since October 2017, to all mobile users — Twitter today is publicly launching its “Bookmarks” feature, which has been in testing since late last year, following the company's HackWeek project dubbed #SaveForLater.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says it will let developers making apps for Watch Series 3 track ski and snowboard activities through APIs in watchOS 4.2 — Apple has announced that skiers and snowboarders can use Apple Watch Series 3 to track their activities starting today. — Apple Watch apps snoww, Slopes …
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| Hugh Langley / Wareable: |
Leaked images and sources detail Fitbit's next smartwatch, set for spring launch, that will appeal to female market, have 50M water resistance, no GPS, more — Exclusive: A better design than the Ionic, but lacks GPS — On its latest investors call, Fitbit teased a brand new smartwatch …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google brings Hangouts Chat, its Slack competitor, out of beta and adds it to G Suite with deeper integration with other Google and third-party tools — Hangouts Chat, Google's take on modern workplace communication, is now generally available and is becoming a core part of G Suite.
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| Ali Winston / The Verge: |
Sources: Palantir has been secretly testing predictive policing technology in New Orleans since 2012 that identifies individuals at risk of committing crime — Palantir deployed a predictive policing system in New Orleans that even city council members don't know about — Illustrations by Garret Beard and Alex Castro
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Self-driving car startup Aurora raises $90M Series A, with participation from Greylock Partners and Index Ventures — Self-driving car startup Aurora has raised $90 million in a Series A round, with participation from both Greylock Partners and Index Ventures.| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft Teams adds guest support for users with any email address — Microsoft is today advancing guest account support for Teams. When Microsoft first launched guest account support for Teams, the company only allowed users with Azure AD accounts to be added as guests to a team using the service.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is rolling out job ads to 40 more countries; businesses can post job openings to a Jobs tab on their Page, Facebook Marketplace, and the News Feed — LinkedIn wasn't built for low-skilled job seekers, so Facebook is barging in. Today Facebook is rolling out job posts to 40 …
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / Bloomberg: |
Study: top 3% of most-viewed YouTube channels receive ~85% of all views, attract 1.4M+ views/month, but could bring only ~$17K/year each in advertising revenue — You can have a million views a month and still not be able to make rent — Do your children dream of YouTube stardom?
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| Washington Post: |
NSA director says Russia hasn't been dissuaded from meddling in US elections, and Trump hasn't given him new authority to strike at Russian cyber-operations — The head of U.S. Cyber Command warned lawmakers that penalties and other measures have not “changed the calculus or the behavior” …
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| Clare McGrane / GeekWire: |
Microsoft announces four new services aimed at healthcare professionals, including Microsoft Genomics for genetic analyses and AI-based Empower MD platform — Every day, doctors and nurses across the country do a complicated dance around patient care. They turn back and forth as a mother describes …
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| Kim Hart / Axios: |
Poll of 3,574 US adults shows 55% are in favor of the government regulating big tech companies, up from only 40% in November last year — A majority of Americans are now concerned that the government won't do enough to regulate how U.S technology companies operate, according to an Axios-SurveyMonkey poll.
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| Stefan Etienne / The Verge: |
Asus ZenBook Flip 14 review: looks good, great battery, and has good performance aided by discrete GPU, but keyboard is poor and speakers are muffled — The ZenBook Flip 14 is a 2-in-1 with a twist — This is the future of ultraportable laptops: a machine capable of 3D editing …
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Inside the informal coalition of tech companies, experts, industry groups, and more who meet weekly in Washington to discuss protecting net neutrality rules — Every week, a motley crew of tech wonks and legal experts meet in Washington to discuss the problem they've been grappling … | Akhil Arora / NDTV Gadgets 360: |
Amazon Music launches in India as a free service for Prime members, available on Android, iOS, and the web — Amazon has quietly given Amazon Music a full-scale launch in India, its subscription-based music streaming service that's part of Amazon Prime membership.
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Venezuela's “petro” cryptocurrency is a joke that uses blockchain to hide debt for the government, while giving nothing in return, especially to Venezuelans — The petro is just a way to hide new international debt behind crypto mumbo-jumbo. — This post originally appeared in Money Stuff.
Tweets: @alegw, @benbartenstein, and @treehcapital
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Duo Security reports SAML vulnerability affecting single sign-on systems, allows attackers with authenticated access to log in as other users without a password — A validation bug in how some single sign-on products implemented an open authentication standard could have allowed an attacker …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Square reports Q4 revenue of $283M, up 47% YoY, versus estimates of $266.3M, and 2017 subscription and services-based revenue of $253M, up 95% from 2016 — Square posted a largely successful fourth quarter that showed continuing growth with its Cash App — with users spending around $90 million … Sponsor Posts
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