Techmeme: Twitter is inserting tweets into the feeds of users that do not follow the accounts which posted them, sometimes inadvertently amplifying extremist rhetoric (Oliver Darcy/CNN)

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Pinterest generated $756M in revenue and $63M net loss in 2018, compared to $473M in revenue and $130M million net loss in 2017, according to public IPO filing — Pinterest, the social bookmarking platform, on Friday filed for an IPO that should result in its shares being traded next month on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Pinterest S-1: in Q4 2018, the company had $273.2M in revenue and $47M in profit and had $628M in cash and equivalents at the end of last year — On the heels of Zoom's S-1 filing, social giant and San Francisco unicorn Pinterest publicly filed to go public.

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

OpenSignal: AT&T's “5G E” phones get average speeds of 28.8Mbps, compared to T-Mobile's 29.4Mbps and Verizon's 29.9Mbps which use similar 4G LTE-Advanced tech — AT&T's so-called “5G E” lost to Verizon and T-Mobile 4G in new speed tests. — AT&T's “5G E” service …

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Oliver Darcy / CNN:

Twitter is inserting tweets into the feeds of users that do not follow the accounts which posted them, sometimes inadvertently amplifying extremist rhetoric — New York (CNN Business)Imagine opening up the Twitter app on your phone and scrolling through your feed.

Tweets: @clarajeffery, @oliverdarcy, @oliverdarcy, @dduart3, @jenmercieca, @alexhern, @chuckrossdc, and @cwarzel

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:

A consumer spyware vendor has left a server with 95K+ images and 25K+ audio recordings exposed, and has not fixed the leak yet, despite being warned weeks ago — A consumer spyware vendor left a lot of incredibly sensitive and private data, including intimate pictures and private call recordings …

More: Boing Boing. Tweets: @troyhunt, @jason_koebler, @zackwhittaker, and @lorenzofb

Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware:

Intel confirms it will not develop new Compute Card products — Intel will not develop new Compute Cards, the company has confirmed to Tom's Hardware. Compute Cards were Intel's vision of modular computing that would allow customers to continually update point of sale systems, all-in-one desktops, laptops and other devices.

More: NexDock, PCWorld, Engadget, Neowin, The Verge, Liliputing, TechSpot, Thurrott, and SlashGear. Tweets: @tomshardware. Thanks:@freedmanae

Julia Arciga / The Daily Beast:

GoFundMe says fundraising campaigns promoting misinformation about vaccines violate its ToS and will be removed — Activists have raised more than $170,000 for their anti-science message. — Anti-vaxxers have long used GoFundMe to raise money to spread their dangerous message …

More: Fortune, CNET, Washington Post, Gizmodo, New York Magazine, Daily Mail, Alternet.org, The Verge, Boing Boing, and Mashable

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Corbin Davenport / Android Police:

IFTTT says all Gmail triggers, except “Send an email” and “Send yourself an email”, will stop working on March 31 — IFTTT is an extremely powerful automation tool that combines hundreds of different online services. You can make your Hue lights flash when your phone gets …

More: IFTTT Help Center, Digital Trends, Mashable, and Engadget

Natasha Mascarenhas / Crunchbase News:

Berlin-based Spark Networks to acquire San Francisco-based dating startup Zoosk for ~$255M — Coming off of acquisitions like Christian Mingle, JSwipe and Jdate, Berlin-based Spark Networks SE swiped right yesterday for a new dating company: Zoosk. — Spark Networks is planning …

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Shopify and Mailchimp remove integration between their platforms after failing to agree about how to share customer data, blame each other for the breakup — Mailchimp today announced that the Mailchimp app, which let its users use their Shopify data to create targeted email campaigns …

More: Shopify Community, MediaPost, The Logic, and BetaKit

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Mozilla announces a new version of Firefox for iOS that has been optimized for iPad with support for split screen and keyboard shortcuts — Mozilla today announced a new iOS version of Firefox that has been specifically optimized for Apple's iPad. Given the launch of the new iPad mini this week, that's impeccable timing.

More: Engadget and The Firefox Frontier

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Apple iPad mini (2019) review: same specs as larger iPad Air, headphone jack, and solid performance, but has huge bezels and a Lightning port instead of USB-C

More: Daring Fireball, Digital Trends, iMore, and Macworld

Tweets: @smccready, @stevesi, @stevesi, @james_gross, @mgsiegler, @mgsiegler, @cnet, and @reckless

CNBC:

Video-conferencing software company Zoom files for an IPO, says it had $330.5M in revenue, up 118% YoY, and $7.6M in profits in its last fiscal year — Zoom, which provides video-conferencing software that can be used across devices, filed its IPO prospectus on Friday …

More: TechCrunch, Quartz, and SEC

Tweets: @dinvesting, @adamconner, @jordannovet, and @msquinn

Ali Breland / Mother Jones:

Since the Christchurch shooting, Reddit's r/CringeAnarchy and r/The_Donald have hosted anti-Muslim hate speech justifying the attack and violence toward Muslims — And the platform doesn't seem to care. — Days after the tragic shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand …

More: Gizmodo, Forbes, Business Insider, and SiliconANGLE

Tweets: @slpng_giants, @ayshabkhan, @motherjones, @alibreland, @rmac18, @karolcummins, @hshaban, and @raju

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Monojoy Bhattacharjee / What's New in Publishing:

Report: YouTube is now responsible for 37% of all mobile internet traffic, ahead of Facebook's 8.4%; media time spent on mobile in US rose from 21% to 24% YoY — Smartphones are the big gainers in media consumption year-over-year, according to the just-released Nielsen's Q3 2018 Total Audience Report.

More: KnowTechie, 9to5Google, and Nielsen

Tweets: @nielsen and @arkside. Thanks:@steverubel

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Dustin Childs / Zero Day Initiative:

Researchers hacked Mozilla's Firefox, a VMware Workstation client, and Microsoft Edge on the second day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019, earning $270K in cash awards — Day Two of Pwn2Own has come to an end, and the research presented was truly amazing. For Day Two, we awarded $270,000 for a total of nine unique vulnerabilities.

More: eWeek, Threatpost, MSPoweruser, CyberScoop, BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, and SecurityWeek

Emma Hinchliffe / Fortune:

Cleo, a parenting support app for working parents offered through employers, raises $27.5M Series B, says its app now reaches 475,000+ families in 50+ countries — When Jeff Immelt was running GE, he noticed that the company, like many, struggled with attrition.

Tweets: @forbeswomen

Nick Statt / The Verge:

Microsoft details xCloud tools to bring Xbox games to mobile, including a way to apply touchscreen controls to a game made for controllers or mouse and keyboard — xCloud members explain the company's new cloud gaming tools for developers — Google may have stolen the show …

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Indonesia-based trucking logistics startup Kargo comes out of stealth, raises a $7.6M seed round led by Sequoia with Travis Kalanick's 10100 participating — Travis Kalanick may be busy cooking up a cloud kitchen business, but that hasn't stopped the former Uber CEO's VC fund from making its first investment in Southeast Asia.

More: PYMNTS.com, FreightWaves, and Tech in Asia

Tweets: @jonrussell, @travisk, and @singh_sequoia

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

Source: Apple has signed up Vox for its upcoming news subscription service; other Vox Media properties will not participate initially — Apple Inc. signed Vox to be part of an upcoming subscription service for newspaper and magazine readers, according to a person familiar with the matter …

More: 9to5Mac, Reuters, Silicon Valley Business …, Cult of Mac, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac

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Peter Kafka / Recode:

Sources: Apple's new TV service to be unveiled Monday will be a storefront for other streaming services, with Apple hosting and serving the streams

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