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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 shows that it spent $457M last year on research and development of autonomous vehicles, flying cars, and other “technology programs” — Uber spent $457 million last year on research and development of autonomous vehicles, flying cars (known as eVTOLs) and other …
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Uber's S-1 says the company had 91M average monthly active users, including for ride-hailing and Uber Eats, at the end of 2018, up 33.8% YoY — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc has 91 million users, but growth is slowing and it may never make a profit, the ride-hailing company …
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Disney says Disney+ will support 4K and HDR video, all content on Disney+ can be downloaded and viewed offline, and that the app will be on Roku, PS4, and more — In the fall of 2017 Disney announced plans for a subscription streaming service of its own that could compete with the likes of Netflix.
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| Sarah Whitten / CNBC: |
Disney+ will be available starting November 12 for $6.99 a month or $69.99 per year — - Disney announced Thursday at the company's investor day that Disney+ will be available starting on November 12 for $6.99 per month or $69 per year — Disney has already confirmed a number …
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Disney chief Bob Iger says Apple TV will probably get Disney+ and suggests he plans to stay on Apple's board despite the companies becoming streaming rivals — - Disney CEO Iger suggests has plans to stay on Apple's board — New streaming service will take on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon| 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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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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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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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.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
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 …
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Nintendo Labo VR kit review: fun but the novelty wears off quickly, and interactive manual is easy to follow but assembling cardboard pieces is time-consuming — Nintendo's belated VR entry is as weird and fun as you'd expect — For the last few years, it's seemed like every major tech …
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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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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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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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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Online used car marketplace Shift raises an additional $40M, bringing the total raise of its Series D to $180M, as it aims to double its revenue this year — Online used car startup Shift Technologies has tacked on another $40 million in equity funding, hired a new COO with Amazon and Enjoy roots … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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 … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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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Ars Technica, Wi-Fi Alliance, SiliconANGLE, The Register, XDA Developers, Android Police, Gizmodo, WeLiveSecurity, Forbes, and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @thehackersnews
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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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