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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Zuckerberg opens F8 reiterating Facebook's new focus on a “privacy-focused communications platform” prioritizing end-to-end encryption and interoperability — Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is doubling down on privacy. — At F8, the social network's annual developer conference …
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @alfredwkng, @kevinroose, @willoremus, @hbarra, @mikeisaac, @ow, @jason_rubin, @alexeheath, and @ow
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Dating launches in 14 more countries, will come to US in 2019, adds Secret Crush feature to let users select up to 9 friends for Tinder-like matching — Facebook built Dating to be privacy-safe, hoping to avoid the awkwardness of friends or family checking out your romance profile.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook unveils plans for Messenger app for Windows and macOS, a new social video-watching feature, a lightweight and full-featured version of Messenger, more — Ahead of its annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Facebook has offered a glimpse into some of the things it's cooking …
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Tweets: @stefansamne, @errorinn, and @tonyromm
| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook launches a major redesign that ditches the blue bar at the top, features Groups and Stories more prominently, and debuts Meet New Friends feature — - Facebook is getting a major redesign. — The social network has ditched its iconic blue bar and now looks more similar to Messenger and Instagram.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Instagram is launching a camera redesign to make it easier to make high quality posts without importing media, adds dedicated shopping tags for creators — Turning Instagram into a more robust commerce platform — Instagram is announcing a couple of new features today that are designed …
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| Apple: |
Apple reports Q2 revenue of $58B, down 5% YoY, with international sales accounting for 61% of Q2 revenue, record services revenue of $11.5B; stock up 5%+ — Services Revenue Reaches New All-Time High of $11.5 Billion — Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2019 second quarter ended March 30, 2019.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple reports Q2 iPhone revenue of $31.1B, vs $30.5B est., down from $37.6B YoY, Mac revenue of $5.5B, down from $5.8B, iPad revenue of $4.9B, up from $4B YoY — iPhone and Mac sales down, iPad and services way up — Apple just reported its second quarter financial results …
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| Alphabet Investor Relations: |
Alphabet says Eric Schmidt and Diane Greene will not seek re-election to Alphabet's board; Schmidt will continue his role as a technical adviser to Alphabet — Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced it has appointed Robin L. Washington to its Board of Directors.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Facebook relaunches Oculus for Business, coming this fall, with a new software suite and UX customized for business use cases, adds support for the Oculus Quest — At F8, Facebook announced a launch date for the Oculus Quest and Rift S, as well as completely new enterprise-grade Oculus for Business software.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
In a letter to creators, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube wants to have half of the videos in its trending tab come from YouTube creators — YouTube wants to have half of the featured videos in its trending tab come from streams originating on the company's own site going forward …
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Tweets: @susanwojcicki, @mhbergen, @youtubeinsider, @metadevgirl, and @samsheffer
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
IDC: 310.8M smartphones were shipped in Q1, down 6.6% YoY; Samsung was the top vendor with 23.1% marketshare, followed by Huawei with 19% and Apple with 11.7% — The battle for second rages on. — While Samsung held the top smartphone spot all four quarters last year … | Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google employees plan to hold a “sit-in” on May 1 to protest the alleged retaliation against staff from management over previous activism — Google workers are staging a sit-in Wednesday to protest alleged retaliation from management toward employee organizers at the company.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
General counsel to both Bitfinex and Tether says in an affidavit that the USDT stablecoin is only 74% backed by cash and equivalents as of April 30 — The USDT stablecoin is only about 74 percent backed by fiat equivalents as of April 30, says its issuer's general counsel.
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Supreme Court of the State …, SiliconANGLE, Ethereum World News, Bitcoin Magazine, and NewsBTC
Tweets: @coindesk, @krugermacro, @vinnylingham, @patio11, @iamjosephyoung, @crypto, @bitfinexed, @technology, @thrillmex, and @n_maio
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Facebook will make Portal and Portal+ available outside of the US, starting with Canada this June and following with a European expansion in the fall — Facebook's Portal video chat devices are about to become much easier to find, not to mention more useful.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Ford says it is bringing Amazon Key's in-car delivery service to select Ford and Lincoln vehicles — The automaker said eligible Ford and Lincoln vehicles from 2017 onward will have the ability to link up to Amazon's Key delivery service. — Ford Motor Company said on Tuesday …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Denver-based Pana, a startup with an online service that helps companies coordinate business travel, has closed a $10M Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners — Your last 10 emails with a recruiter before an onsite interview probably shouldn't be about rebooking your canceled flight.| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Rappi, an on-demand delivery startup operating in Latin America, has raised up to $1B from SoftBank, the largest ever round for a Latin American tech startup — Rappi represents a new era for Latin American technology startups. — Based in Bogotá, Colombia, the on-demand delivery startup …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Facebook says it will allow patients to post sensitive health-related info anonymously by letting Facebook Group admins post questions on a patient's behalf — KEY POINTS — Facebook has provided a way for patients to post their questions anonymously, via administrators who will share it on their behalf.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Examity, a platform for online course providers that offers student ID verification and automated exam proctoring, raises $90M round led by Great Hill Partners — Examity, a platform that serves online course providers with proctoring services to authenticate the identity of students …
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PE Hub Blog, PR Newswire, EdSurge, Business Insider, FinSMEs, and Xconomy
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Built Technologies, which provides cloud-based construction lending software, raises $31M Series B led by Goldman Sachs Investment Partners — Built Technologies, a Nashville, TN-based construction lending company, completed a $31m Series B financing round.
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American Banker and HousingWire
| Sage Lazzaro / OneZero: |
Residents of a rent-controlled Manhattan building are suing smart lock startup Latch for providing data about tenants and their guests to landlords — Great for landlords. Not so great for you. — atch is on a mission to digitize the front door, offering apartment entry systems …
Tweets: @sagelazzaro, @r_chirgwin, @karlbode, and @medium
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