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Uber launches Uber Health, a B2B ride-hailing platform for healthcare, which allows hospitals and clinics assign rides for patients from a centralized dashboard — Uber's launching a new business line called Uber Health on Thursday that will provide a ride-hailing platform available specifically …
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Best Buy will be closing all of its 250 mobile phone stores in the US by end of May, says sales from the mobile stores account for ~1% of company revenue — The electronics retailer, which will close all 250 Mobile stores by the end of May, said operating the small stores cost more than big-box locations| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
DoorDash is raising $535M Series D led by SoftBank, sources say at a post-money valuation of $1.4B, says it will double its headcount by 250 to ~800 this year — The challenge for the company will be to stay disciplined even as it sits on a huge stockpile of dollars.
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Researchers: second-hand smartphones account for an increasing share of phone buys as upgrade cycle widens from 23 months in 2014 to estimated 33 months in 2019 — Some shoppers are balking at new-phone price tags pushing $1,000 or features that don't impress
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Fired Google engineer who worked at the company for seven years files lawsuit against Google alleging “bro culture” led to repeated sexual harassment — Loretta Lee, a software engineer who worked at Google for seven years before being fired in February 2016 …
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Sources: SEC increases scrutiny of ICOs, issuing “scores” of subpoenas and information requests to companies and advisers about structure of sales and pre-sales — Regulator issues subpoenas to parties engaged in booming market for initial coin offerings| Dr. Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate: |
DisplayMate: Samsung Galaxy S9 has the most innovative and high performance display we've ever tested, with highest absolute color accuracy and peak brightness — Introduction and Overview The key element for a great Smartphone has always been a truly innovative and top performing display … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google unveils Learn with Google AI site for AI and machine learning resources, posts free 15-hour Machine Learning Crash Course used by 18K Google employees — A new ‘Learn with Google AI’ site will serve as a hub for AI and machine learning resources — Machine learning and AI …
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Spotify files with SEC for $1B direct listing, will use SPOT as stock symbol; reports 71M paid subs, up 46% YoY, $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.
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After removing some conspiracy and pro-gun videos and channels, YouTube says it will reinstate videos, which may have been removed in error by moderators — Looks like that whole “content moderation” thing wasn't a joke after all. — The Future — Looks like that whole “content moderation” thing wasn't a joke after all.| Alex Knapp / Forbes: |
Astranis raises $13.5M Series A led by a16z for a new geostationary satellite technology to provide broadband internet — Satellite startup Astranis announced Thursday that it has raised $13.5 million in a Series A round. The round brings its total funding to $18 million.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter begins rolling out its Bookmarks feature, which lets users privately save tweets to view later via a new share button, 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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| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nintendo is focusing on making accessories and increasing Switch supply, rather than updating its hardware, a year after it first went on sale — Seventeen million sets will have been sold by March 31 — OSAKA, Japan— Nintendo Co. NTDOY .33% is looking to peripherals to lift …
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