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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest sets IPO price range at $15-$17 per share, valuing it at $11.3B at the top of the range, below its last valuation of $12.3B when it raised privately — After dropping its IPO filing two weeks ago, today Pinterest, the social media platform where people can discover and share ideas …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos and Ikea unveil a $179 Symfonisk table lamp and a $99 bookshelf speaker, both of which can be controlled with Sonos' app, shipping in August — They look very Ikea and should sound very Sonos — Sonos and Ikea have fully unveiled the pair of speakers that the two companies have collaborated on for years.| BBC: |
UK whitepaper proposes “code of best practice” for how internet platforms should deal with harmful content, suggests expanding liability to tech company execs — Internet sites could be fined or blocked if they fail to tackle “online harms” such as terrorist propaganda and child abuse, under government plans.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Monzo is close to raising £100M from Y Combinator, which would give the UK-based digital bank a pre-money valuation of £2B, up from £1B in October — Just 5 months after announcing £85 million in Series E funding, Monzo is already gearing up to raise additional funding …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Viber launches Viber Local Number, a new $4.99/month subscription service to give users a phone number that anyone can call or text, in the US, UK, and Canada — Viber, the chat and messaging app acquired by Japanese ecommerce titan Rakuten for $900 million five years ago …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012 which says it has 12,000 customers, raises $150M Series B from Summit Partners — Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012, went about building its email marketing business the old fashioned way.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
With Snap Kit, Snap moves on from being a “Camera company” and becomes a camera platform, enabling developers to embed, not copy, its best features — Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg's army of clones. For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried …
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The Next Web. Tweets: @joshconstine, @arjawn, @db, @mattnavarra, @bhavikmodi_bts, @joshconstine, and @techcrunch. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Emily Bell / The Guardian: |
Facebook and Google have placed op-eds and dozens of paid “native ad” articles across major publications, amid other media efforts, to steer future regulations — Three years on from the US election, tech firms are seeking rules that won't hit their profits| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Upstart, a peer-to-peer lending platform which uses AI to make credit decisions and to eliminate fraud, raises $50M Series D, bringing the total raised to $160M — Upstart, a startup founded by ex-Googlers that uses AI to identify who should get a loan and of what size, said today it has raised $50 million.
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| Eileen Yu / ZDNet: |
Dropbox pays out $319,300 in bug bounties for a HackerOne event in Singapore that focused on the file sharing service and its subsidiary HelloSign — Cloud storage vendor forks out $319,300 in a one-day bug bounty programme that galvanised 45 HackerOne members in Singapore … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft changes the default removal policy for external storage like USB thumb drives in Windows 10 from “Better performance” to “Quick removal” — The default removal policy for external storage media was changed by Microsoft in Windows 10 version 1809 from …
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Microsoft, Digital Trends, ZDNet, BetaNews, gHacks Technology News, TechSpot, SlashGear, Slashdot, Windows Latest, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @con_sigliere and @vessonsecurity
| Steven Melendez / Fast Company: |
Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion gather “alternative” credit data like rental payments to expand credit to more people, but it may hurt those same people, too — Take a look at a credit report from one of the big three credit reporting agencies, and you're likely to see certain types …
Tweets: @pasternack
| Jason Kint / Nieman Lab: |
Survey: fewer than 50% of US adults expect Google to collect data on users' activities on its platforms or apps, track personal browsing for ad targeting, more — Numerous privacy scandals over the past couple of years have fueled the need for increased examination of tech companies' data tracking practices.Sponsor Posts
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