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Uber files for an IPO, says it had $11.27B in revenue, up 42% YoY, and an EBITDA loss of $1.85B in 2018 — - Uber will list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “UBER,” the company said in a filing released publicly on Thursday. — The company posted net income of $997 million in 2018 …
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Uber's S-1 reveals that Uber paid Google ~$58M to use Google Maps from 2016-2018 and that Uber uses Google's public cloud in addition to AWS — - The two companies have a tangled history - Google was an early investor, but the companies fought a bitter court battle over self-driving technology.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
In his annual shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos challenges retail rivals to match or raise their minimum wage above Amazon's $15 per hour — Target plans to move to $15 per hour by end of 2020 while Walmart lags behind at $11 an hour — In his annual letter to shareholders …
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Interviews with Wisconsin residents about Foxconn's slow progress with its investments in the state seem to indicate Foxconn has no idea what it's doing — Last summer, Foxconn announced a barrage of new projects in Wisconsin — so we went looking for them
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Acer announces Helios 300 and 700 gaming laptops, starting at $1,200, new business-focused Chromebooks, and ConceptD, a premium lineup of laptops and desktops — Acer today announced new PCs and Chromebooks aimed at consumers, education, business, gaming, and creative professionals at its [email protected] event in New York.
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PagerDuty closes at $38.25, up 59%, on its first day of trading, valuing the company at around $2.8B — - PagerDuty is the first notable software company to go public this year, and comes ahead of Zoom's expected offering next week. — PagerDuty shares jumped 59% in their opening …
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Google's VP of Diversity Danielle Brown says she has left after joining in 2017 and will become chief people officer at payroll and benefits startup Gusto — Google's chief diversity officer, Danielle Brown, has left the company. Brown, who became Google's CDO in June 2017 after serving … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
DOJ charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for allegedly assisting Chelsea Manning in an attempt to crack a DOD password — For years, it has been publicly reported that Julian Assange offered to help Chelsea Manning break into a classified computer system.
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Apple says it now has 44 suppliers, including Foxconn and TSMC, that have committed to run their Apple production on 100% clean energy — Company Spends $2.5 Billion in Environmental Initiatives — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced it has nearly doubled the number of suppliers …
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Rasa, which is building an open source platform to design and manage AI chat bots, raises $13M Series A led by Accel — Conversational AI and the use of chatbots have been through multiple cycles of hype and disillusionment in the tech world. You know the story: first you get a launch … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Archive.org says European agencies sent it 500+ takedown notices falsely identifying terrorist content, showing pitfalls of proposed EU terrorist content law — Update: The Internet Archive has issued a minor correction to its original story, noting that it was not actually Europol who sent the demand …
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Sources: YouTube has introduced two new internal metrics in the past two years: total time spent on site and the murkier “quality watch time” — YouTube is changing the way it measures success on the world's biggest video site following a series of scandals.| CNN: |
Sources: Bezos to meet with federal prosecutors, signaling an escalation of the inquiry into whether Saudi Arabia gained private information from his phone — (CNN)Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is scheduled to meet with federal prosecutors in New York as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Triplebyte, which offers personalized online coding tests and technical interviews to help employers screen candidates, raises $35M Series B — LinkedIn, with nearly 600 million users, dominates the market today for recruiters headhunting suitable candidates for knowledge worker roles.
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Walmart says it has bought Polymorph Labs and will use its technology to deliver more relevant ads to online shoppers — Amazon has a large and growing advertising business, but rival Walmart's own ad business is much smaller. It's now working to change that.
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Dutch antitrust authority will examine whether Apple abuses a dominant market position by giving preferential treatment to its own apps, may widen it to Google — - Probe focuses on Apple and news apps, may be widened to Google — EU is separately weighing Spotify complaint on Apple| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Lemonade, which uses an AI-powered bot to digitize the insurance buying experience for renters and homeowners, raises $300M Series D led by the SoftBank Group — Lemonade, the insurance startup founded by Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger, has today announced a $300 million Series D financing led …
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Interview with Daniel Ek about Spotify's history, running a $25B company, Sweden's subsidies for internet and computers, Napster, his love of music, and family — Listen now: — Daniel Ek, a 23-year-old Swede who grew up on pirated music, made the record labels an offer they couldn't refuse …
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Security researchers disclose Dragonblood, a group of vulnerabilities impacting WiFi Alliance's recently launched WPA3 WiFi security and authentication standard — Dragonblood vulnerability discovered by the same security researcher who discovered the KRACK attack on WPA2.
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Millions are using deletion services like TweetDelete, raising the question: why doesn't Twitter easily let users mass-delete tweets? — Twitter borrows most of its best ideas from users. Except the idea to set our feeds on fire. — The most generous interpretation of Twitter's history …
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| Gretchen McCulloch / Wired: |
A brief look at why most programming languages are based on English and why on a technical level it doesn't have to be that way — THIS YEAR MARKS the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, so there's been a lot of pixels spilled on “the initial promises of the web”—one of which was the idea …
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Sources describe Amazon Alexa's AI-training process, where workers transcribing voice clips see customer account numbers and hear private conversations — Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia.
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