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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the company is on track for a 2019 IPO; source says the company has not started interviewing banks — - Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told CNBC that the ride-hailing company is on track to go public in 2019. — The company is in a “good position” …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says that his company is in discussions to have Waymo self-driving cars added to its network — “It's up to them.” — Speaking today at the Code Conference, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says that his company is in “discussions” to have Waymo self-driving cars added to its network.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google's Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL coming in fall, will keep single rear camera; Pixel 3 XL has two front cameras and near edge-to-edge display with notch — - Company is said to talk with Foxconn as potential manufacturer — More predictive version of Android software coming next year
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| Rani Molla / Recode: |
Mary Meeker's annual internet trends: e-commerce sales grow, time online rises, and smartphone shipments stagnate as average selling price drops — Here's a first look at the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley. — It's that time of year again, when Mary Meeker unloads …
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Xiaomi announces 6.21-inch Mi 8 Explorer Edition flagship with Snapdragon 845, 6GB RAM, 3D face scanner, transparent back, and dual-frequency GPS for ~$420 — Xiaomi may have already released the Mi Mix 2S earlier this year, but it's actually kept its true 2018 flagship, the Mi 8 … | Bloomberg: |
SenseTime has raised $620M at a valuation of over $4.5B from Fidelity International, Silver Lake, others, after raising $600M in April at around $3B valuation — - Fidelity, Tiger lead another round for China's SenseTime — The outfit says the latest funding values it at $4.5 billion
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google has launched its popular Android storage management app Files Go in China via four third-party app stores operated by Tencent, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Baidu — Google has continued its slow and steady China strategy after it launched Files Go, a files management service for Android devices.| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
SEC filing: electronics maker Monster files for an ICO, aims to raise $300M, plans to sell “monster money tokens” to build an e-commerce site for its products — Monster Products, Inc. has been losing money for years, but a $300 million initial coin offering (ICO) may be what it takes to turn the company around.| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Ubiquitous code repository project Git patches two flaws, including one letting an attacker execute code on systems that recursively cloned a malicious Git repo — The developers behind Git and various companies providing Git repository hosting services have pushed out a fix to patch … | Shirin Ghaffary / Recode: |
CEO Brian Chesky says experience economy will be a “massive business” for Airbnb, envisions a global travel community with lines of business beyond home rentals — Chesky's vision? To be a “global travel community.” — Most people think of Airbnb as a real estate rental business … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Hulu CEO says its internet pay-TV service Hulu With Live TV has signed up 800K subscribers since its launch over a year ago — Hulu, in a little over a year since launching its $40 monthly internet-streaming “skinny bundle,” has signed up 800,000 customers for the service, according to CEO Randy Freer.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Zynga buys Turkey-based mobile game studio Gram Games for $250M in cash; its 77 employees will stay on and operate as an independent studio inside Zynga — Zynga has acquired 1010 mobile game maker Gram Games for $250 million in cash plus other considerations.| Andrew Wallenstein / Variety: |
CEO Daniel Ek talks about Spotify's content policy, its direct-listing IPO, and removing R. Kelly's music from its playlists, at Code Conference — Spotify CEO Daniel Ek admitted his company fumbled the deployment of a new content policy that sparked considerable controversy within the music industry.| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Advertisers use smartphone location info to send personal injury lawyer ads during and after ER visits, target Planned Parenthood visitors with pro-life ads — Patients sitting in emergency rooms, chiropractors, and pain clinics in the Philadelphia area may start noticing the kind …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Government investigation finds 73% of federal agencies at risk of being unable to detect data access attempts, 84% fail at encrypting data at rest, more — The Office of Management and Budget reports that the federal government is a shambles — cybersecurity-wise, anyway.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Google's Project Fi adds support for three new handsets: LG G7 ThinQ, the newly announced LG V35 ThinQ, and Moto G6 — More choices at last — Google announced today that Project Fi users will soon have a few more device choices. Three new phones will work with Google's wireless service … | Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS' cloud graph database product Amazon Neptune is generally available in both US East regions, US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland), more coming later this year — After showing it off last year at AWS re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday that its new cloud graph database …
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US district judge dismisses Kaspersky Lab lawsuits objecting to the ban on US government using its products — Two lawsuits filed by the Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab were dismissed Wednesday, ending the Moscow-based company's attempt to lift the U.S. government's ban on its products.| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
AdDuplex report: Windows 10 April 2018 Update is installed on ~50% of Windows 10 PCs worldwide, significantly faster adoption than previous Windows 10 updates — An astonishing new report from AdDuplex shows that the Windows 10 April 2018 Update has rolled out at a historically fast rate.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Box reports Q1 revenue of $140.5M, up 20% YoY, vs. $139.7M est., and billings revenue of $116.7M, up 17% YoY, vs. $113.1M est., and an operating loss of $35.9M — Box investors came into Wednesday's quarterly report with high expectations after the stock's 32 percent rally this year.
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