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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook reports Q1 revenue of $11.97B, up 49% YoY, vs. $11.41B est, and net income of $4.99B, up 63% YoY; MAUs up 13% YoY to 2.20B and DAUs up 13% YoY to 1.45B — Amongst massive criticism over data privacy, Facebook showed the resiliency of its advertising machine by beating Wall Street's …
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Facebook reports Q1 advertising revenue of $11.8B, up 50% YoY, of which ~91% comes from mobile, up from 85% in Q1 2017; headcount up 48% YoY to 27,742 — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018. — “Despite facing important challenges …
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap announces Snappables, AR lenses that use touch, motion, and facial expressions for single and multiplayer games, rolling out globally with new games weekly — Snapchat wants to let you play its augmented reality Lenses, not just play dress-up. Today it launched Snappables …
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| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sonos is preparing for an IPO that could come as soon as June or July; one source says the company is expecting a post-IPO valuation of ~$2.5B-$3B — Wireless-speaker company has filed confidentially and is likely to go public in next few months — Sonos Inc., the Santa Barbara …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
WebStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service with 136K users and linked to 4M+ cyberattacks is shut down; UK's NCA says service could be rented for as little as $14.99 — Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service WebStresser.org and arrested its alleged administrators.
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| Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company: |
Digg, formerly owned by Betaworks, has been sold to Boston-based ad-tech company BuySellAds; new CEO Todd Garland plans to streamline Digg and build up ad stack — This story has been updated. — Last month, Digg, an old beloved content aggregation destination, made the sad announcement …
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| Bloomberg: |
Samsung, the exclusive supplier of iPhone X OLED screens, says its Q1 profits for its display business were “affected by slow demand for flexible OLED screens” — IPhone X screenmaker adds to chorus of sales concerns — Samsung is exclusive supplier of OLED screens to Apple| Mat Honan / BuzzFeed: |
Amazon launches a $79 Echo Dot Kids Edition with kid-friendly Alexa and one year of FreeTime Unlimited, a bundle of curated content with a Parent Dashboard — There's a new version of Alexa, Amazon's digital assistant, that's designed just for kids. The Amazon Echo Dot Kids Edition …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers find flaw in Vingcard's Vision locks, used in 140K hotels in 160 counties, that lets them make a master key using an old key card and a $300 reader — IN 2003, FINNISH security researcher Tomi Tuominen was attending a security conference in Berlin when a friend's laptop …
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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft is working on a new edition of Windows 10, codenamed Lean, that is 2GB smaller than the normal edition, aimed at devices with 16GB storage — Windows 10 Lean is Windows 10 on a diet. Featuring a much smaller footprint, Windows 10 Lean is designed for devices with 16GB …
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| Tom Jackman / Washington Post: |
Federal appeals court upholds a 15-month prison sentence for e-waste recycler Eric Lundgren for making Windows restore disks — A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling electronic waste is headed to federal prison for 15 months after a federal appeals court in Miami rejected …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube announces expanded opt-in YouTube Kids controls for parents, including locking down content to show only channels reviewed by humans — To address parents' concerns over inappropriate content on YouTube being seen by children, Google today is announcing an expanded series of parental controls for its YouTube Kids application.| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's Azure Container Instances exits beta after July 2017 debut; the tool competes with AWS' Fargate to ease deployment of containers on Azure — Microsoft announced today that Azure Container Instances, the company's offering for running software containers without provisioning … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
Profile of Ray Ozzie, former CTO at Microsoft, and his quest to architect a backdoor for encrypted devices that won't lead to a security or privacy fiasco — Ray Ozzie thinks he has an approach for accessing encrypted devices that attains the impossible: It satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
AMD reports Q1 revenue of $1.65B, up 40% YoY, driven largely by $1.12B revenue from its Computing and Graphics division, up 95% YoY; stock up 9%+ after hours — Advanced Micro Devices is on a comeback and it is stealing market share from arch rival Intel, based on earnings results reported today.
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| Benjamin Robertson / Bloomberg: |
Binance founder Zhao Changpeng sued in Hong Kong court by Sequoia, who allege he breached exclusivity agreement by talking to IDG, amid a failed deal — Binance founder Zhao Changpeng sued in Hong Kong court — Dispute sheds light on how VC firms have valued the exchange
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| Morgen Peck / Glamour: |
A look at nine influential women in cryptocurrency, who are working towards making the technology more inclusive and less biased by closing the gender gap — Meet nine women who are changing the game. — When dinner conversations turn to cryptocurrency, as they often do these days …
Tweets: @bancor and @jmorourke04
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US DOJ is investigating whether Huawei violated US sanctions related to Iran, amid broader concerns about the company from the US government — Probe raises the stakes for Huawei, which faces a series of moves by Washington to diminish its already-limited business dealings in the U.S.
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| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
PayPal reports Q1 revenue of $3.69B, up 24% YoY, vs. $3.59B est., and $132B in total payment volume, an increase of 32% from the previous quarter — PayPal Holdings Inc. reported earnings that beat analysts' estimates in the first quarter and gave an optimistic forecast for the second …
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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Facebook and Microsoft confirm plans to update their gun emoji designs to be more in line with Apple, Samsung, and Google; Microsoft shares water gun design — - Apple changed the design of the gun emoji into a squirt gun back in 2016. — At the time, it was a controversial choice, but tech companies have since followed suit.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
London-based Fat Lama, a peer-to-peer rental marketplace for almost anything, raises $10M Series A led by Blossom Capital with participation from Y Combinator — Fat Lama, the startup that offers a fully insured peer-to-peer rental marketplace for almost anything, is getting a little fatter.
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| Economist: |
OECD working paper: 14% of jobs across 32 developed countries are highly vulnerable to automation and 32% are vulnerable, equaling ~210M jobs in total — That could free people to pursue more interesting careers — A WAVE of automation anxiety has hit the West. Just try typing “Will machines...” into Google.Sponsor Posts
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