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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook updates a March blog post to say it stored passwords of millions of Instagram users in plain text, not tens of thousands as first announced — This number is much, much bigger than Facebook originally shared. — On the same morning Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report …
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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Amazon Music launches an ad-supported tier for Alexa-enabled devices in the US, allowing users to listen to Amazon Music's top playlists and stations for free — Amazon Music today basically soft-launched its free streaming tier, in which U.S. customers of its Alexa voice assistant …
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| YouTube Blog: |
Google Home and Assistant-powered speakers get a free ad-supported version of YouTube Music with limited functionality, in 16 countries including the US and UK — Listening to music on your Google Home speaker right out-of-the-box seems too good to be true, right? It's not!
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| Tom Huddleston Jr / CNBC: |
Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan, an immigrant from China who was denied a US visa eight times, is now a billionaire after his company debuted on Nasdaq — When Eric Yuan was in his early 20s, he heard a speech from then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates about the promise of the internet …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zoom closes up 72% on its first day of public trading, valuing the company at $15.9B after it raised $356.8M in its IPO — Videoconferencing software company Zoom made its debut Thursday on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ZM,” surging 80% to $65 and closing out the day up 72% at $62.
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| Bla1ze / CrackBerry.com: |
Emtek announces it will shut down BBM for consumers on May 31, but BlackBerry's enterprise-grade service, BBM Enterprise, will become available to individuals — Consumer BBM users encouraged to switch to BBM Enterprise — Back in 2016, BlackBerry announced a new partnership …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft acquires Express Logic, which claims its real-time operating system for IoT and edge devices called ThreadX RTOS has over 6.2B deployments worldwide — Microsoft today announced that it's acquired Express Logic, a 23-year-old San Diego, California-based developer of real-time operating systems …
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
A look at Apple's Material Recovery Lab, which houses Daisy, a robot that can disassemble 15 different iPhone models at a rate of 200/hour for parts recycling — Hidden not far from downtown Austin, Texas, a research lab is working to change the way we recycle electronics. And it's being run by Apple .| Apple: |
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Pinterest closes up 28% on its first day of trading after raising $1.43B in its IPO and is now valued at nearly $13B, above the $12B valuation at its last raise — - Pinterest begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “PINS,” debuting at $23.75, up 25% from its IPO price.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Super, a startup providing an online subscription service for home maintenance and repairs, raises $20M Series B led by Aquiline Technology Growth — Home owners in the US spend upwards of $300 billion annually on home repairs and maintenance — a huge sum that often comes with another …
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| Casey Johnston / The Outline: |
Apple's butterfly keyboard has failed and the company owes customers an apology, but it still claims that only a small percentage of users experience trouble — Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to substantially admit that it has made a very big mistake.
Tweets: @round, @kyliu99, @itsmarshallb, @caseyjohnston, and @seroude
| Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix is opening an NYC production hub, will lease about 161,000 square feet for six sound stages in Brooklyn and also will expand its Manhattan office — The streamer also will expand its Manhattan office and create 127 high-paying jobs by 2024. — Amazon's loss is Netflix's gain.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: 2019 iPhones will feature a 12MP front camera; the 6.5" and 5.8" OLED iPhones will have a rear-facing triple-camera system with a new super-wide 12MP lens — Kuo today said that Apple plans to upgrade the front camera in the 2019 iPhones from 7-megapixels to 12-megapixels.
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| Paulina Duran / Reuters: |
Life360, an SF-based startup that makes a family tracking app, announces IPO in Australia, plans to raise A$145M, valuing the company at ~A$689M — SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. family tracking app operator Life360 has launched a A$145 million ($104 million) initial public offering in Australia …
| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Google and Amazon end their streaming video spat: YouTube will come to Fire TV and Prime Video will work with Chromecast and Android TV — Google and Amazon haven't historically been the best of friends, at least when it comes to their respective streaming video services.
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @sarahintampa, @rjmarvin1, @backlon, @chriswelch, and @hiteshrajbhagat
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber is testing new push alerts and Lyft rolls out continuous driver background checks after a woman was murdered allegedly by a man posing as her Uber driver — In-app reminders to verify your driver's car and license plate — This week, Uber and Lyft rolled out new safety measures designed …
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| Marc Hochstein / CoinDesk: |
Winklevoss Capital settles with ex-BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem; Winklevoss Capital had alleged Shrem stole 5K bitcoin in 2012, worth ~$26M at today's prices — Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have settled their lawsuit against fellow early bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem …
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| Tom Wilson / Reuters: |
Report: VCs invested ~$850M in blockchain startups in Q1 2019; Coinbase UK had $173M in revenue in 2018, accounted for about a third of Coinbase's total revenue — LONDON (Reuters) - Major finance and tech firms are pouring money into startups building technology to develop the crypto market … Sponsor Posts
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