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Cambridge Analytica is shutting down following the Facebook data misuse scandal, says it was losing clients and facing mounting legal fees — Company had lost multiple clients in recent months — Cambridge Analytica , a data firm that worked for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign …
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| Spotify Investor Relations: |
Spotify reports first ever financial results with Q1 revenue of €1.139B, up 26% YoY, on operating loss of €41M; MAUs up 30% YoY to 170M — Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE:SPOT) today reported financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2018 ending March 31, 2018.
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Facebook debuts PyTorch 1.0, which optimizes production performance and improves model compatibility with other AI frameworks, coming to beta in a few months — The path for taking AI development from research to production has historically involved multiple steps and tools …
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| Jerome Pesenti / Facebook Code: |
Summary of Facebook's AI-related announcements at F8: PyTorch 1.0 open source framework unveiled, expansion of Open Neural Network Exchange, updates on research — Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform lives, creating new digital experiences while safeguarding our existing online interactions.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is building Arcade, a social-gaming startup led by 21yo ex-Facebook staffer Michael Sayman, which will release a trivia-style app this summer — Michael Sayman, 21-year-old ex-Facebooker, said to be leading — Company will focus on mobile gaming with friends, Google says
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Square Q1: non-GAAP revenue of $307M, up 51% YoY, gross payment volume of $17.8B, up 31% YoY, net loss of $24M; stock down 5%+ after hours due to low guidance — The company posted a Q1 net loss of $24 million, or six cents a share, compared to a net loss of $15.1 million, or four cents a share, a year earlier.
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| Peggy Sito / South China Morning Post: |
Xiaomi files for an IPO in Hong Kong; sources say the Beijing-based company is seeking to raise $10B at a valuation of $100B — Xiaomi's 2017 sales jumped by two-thirds to 114.6 billion yuan, while operating profit tripled and adjusted net profit soared from a year earlier| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Zynga founder Mark Pincus reducing his voting power in the social gaming firm from a 70% to 10% stake, will remain on board but as non-executive chairman — In an unusual move, Pincus doesn't want the final say anymore and wanted more freedom. — In an unusual move for a Silicon Valley company …
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| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Telegram is calling off the public part of the ICO for the Telegram Open Network after raising $1.7B from 175 accredited investors via private deals — Telegram plans to put the money it raised into a new digital payment platform, Telegram Open Network, meant for a wide audience
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| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Google announces investment program for early-stage startups working on Google Assistant hardware or features, similar to Amazon's Alexa Fund — Funding the Google Assistant ecosystem — Today, Google is launching a new investment program for early-stage startups working to broaden Google Assistant hardware or features.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Coalition representing Apple, Google, Facebook, and others criticize law enforcement backdoors in devices, after Wired profile of Ray Ozzie's key escrow idea — The tech coalition includes Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Verizon and Yahoo's parent company Oath …
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Goldman Sachs to open a Bitcoin trading operation, will begin using its own money to trade Bitcoin futures contracts on behalf of clients in the next few weeks — SAN FRANCISCO — Most big banks have tried to stay far away from the scandal-tainted virtual currency Bitcoin.| Check Point Research: |
North Korea's state antivirus software, SiliVaccine, contained a decade-old copy of Trend Micro's scan engine and also came bundled with the Jaku malware — Revealed: In an exclusive piece of research, Check Point Researchers have carried out a revealing investigation into North Korea's home-grown anti-virus software, SiliVaccine.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook says it's partnering with RED to develop a professional-grade VR camera, as part of its Surround 360 platform; pricing and release TBD — We don't yet know what it looks like, or how much it will cost — Facebook is partnering with camera maker RED to develop …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Reflections on the shift to the Stories format, which will likely surpass other formats soon, as nearly a billion users consume stories across social networks — We're at the cusp of the visual communication era. Stories creation and consumption is up 842 percent since early 2016, according to consulting firm Block Party.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
LG announces G7 ThinQ with 6.1" QHD+ LCD display and notch, dual 16MP rear cameras, 3,000mAh battery, Snapdragon 845, Android Oreo, Assistant button, and more — Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge — After months of leaks, LG's new G7 ThinQ phone is officially here.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google streamlines its Maps API platform, renaming it Google Maps Platform and combining 18 APIs into three groups, Maps, Routes, and Places — Google is launching a major update to its Google Maps API platform for developers today — and it's also giving it a new name: the Google Maps Platform.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is offering to pass along discounts it gets on credit card fees to retailers if they use its payments service Amazon Pay — Move shows retailer is willing to sacrifice to grow Amazon Pay — It's another challenge to PayPal, big banks and card networks
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Hulu says it has surpassed 20M subscribers in the US, introduces offline mode, and inks animation deal with DreamWorks — Hulu now has over 20 million U.S. subscribers - that's up from the 17 million-plus it claimed in January. The news of its subscriber growth is being delivered alongside …
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Facebook confirms it has fired one of its security engineers who allegedly used privileged access to stalk women online — After a member of the information security community provided evidence to Facebook's chief information security officer, the company has terminated a security engineer …
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