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Irish DPC launches inquiry into Facebook after the company reported millions of Facebook Lite and Instagram user passwords were stored in plain text internally — The Data Protection Commission was notified by Facebook that it had discovered that hundreds of millions of user passwords …
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Sources: as it weighs constraints for Facebook, the FTC has discussed stronger monitoring of Facebook's privacy practices and direct punishment of Zuckerberg — Regulators on four continents are preparing for a long-awaited showdown with Facebook, after years of disinterest and half-steps.
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Slack files for an IPO via direct listing, reports loss of $138M on $400M revenue for FY 2019 ending Jan. 31, compared to $140M loss and $220M revenue for 2018 — - Slack follows several tech companies that have already debuted on the public market in 2019, including Lyft, PagerDuty, Pinterest and Zoom.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iFixit says it has removed its Samsung Galaxy Fold teardown at Samsung's request through a “trusted partner” who supplied iFixit with the phone — The drama is unfolding with increasing strangeness — What in the world is going on over at Samsung in the wake of the Galaxy Fold delay?
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| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
NY State AG sues Bitfinex for allegedly using Tether reserve funds to cover withdrawals, after the loss or theft of ~$851M from Bitfinex's payments processor — The New York State Attorney General (NYSAG) is suing Bitfinex, the cryptocurrency exchange, and affiliated firm Tether, the company behind the stablecoin of the same name.
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Magic Leap raises $280M from NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest cellphone service provider, and says it will reopen its most recent round for more funding — Magic Leap, the maker of augmented-reality goggles, has already raised $2.3 billion, an extraordinary amount for a start-up.
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Three veteran designers from Apple's industrial design team are leaving as the famously close-knit team under Jony Ive undergoes a series of changes — Three designers will have recently left the prestigious, two-dozen member team responsible for the iPhone's design
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| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Huawei tried to explain its ownership structure after a report accused it of being misleading about the matter, but questions remain — SHENZHEN, China — For one of the world's largest technology companies, it should be a simple question: — Who owns Huawei?
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Uber sets IPO price range of $44 to $50 per share, plans to raise up to $10.35B at a valuation of up to ~$84B — Uber on Friday morning disclosed that it plans to raise upwards of $10.35 billion in its IPO, at a market cap that could approach $84 billion. — The ride-hail giant …
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| Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter: |
Vimeo launches Showcase, a toolkit allowing creators to launch portfolio sites with access controls, branded smart TV channels on Roku and Amazon Fire, and more — Vimeo has unveiled today a new toolkit dubbed Showcase that arms professional creators and business owners with the ability … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Report: Intel CEO Bob Swan says the chip company decided to exit the mobile 5G business after Apple and Qualcomm announced their settlement — Which came first, the chicken or the egg? — Intel has clarified that it bowed out of the mobile 5G marketplace earlier this month, and now we know why …
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| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Google removed 46 Android apps from Chinese developer DO Global that were committing large-scale ad fraud; source says Google is moving to ban DO Global overall — Google has begun the mass removal of apps from a major Chinese Android developer following a BuzzFeed News investigation … | Mark Wilson / Fast Company: |
A free Chrome extension from Gmail's former lead designer cuts out the visual noise and extraneous UI elements for a simple and clean interface — Michael Leggett is even more annoyed with Gmail than you are. — “It's like Lucky Charms got spewed all over the screen,” he says to me, as he scrolls through his inbox.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
In a chat with the historian Yuval Noah Harari, Zuckerberg says Facebook will not comply with the laws of authoritarian countries requiring local data centers — If free nations demand companies store data locally, it legitimizes that practice for authoritarian nations which can then steal … | Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Amazon says it's working to offer free one-day shipping as the default for Prime customers but that it will take “a significant amount of time to achieve” — Amazon revealed today that it's working to offer free one-day shipping as the default for Amazon Prime customers …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: Rep. Ilhan Omar asked Jack Dorsey in a call why Twitter didn't pull Trump tweet with a video prompting death threats; Dorsey said it didn't break rules — Twitter did not take down the tweet, despite Omar's request, a source said. — Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey phoned Democratic …
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