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Microsoft and Sony announce a strategic partnership to explore development of future cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure for game and content-streaming services — An unusual partnership — Microsoft and Sony are announcing an unusual partnership today, allowing the two rivals to partner on cloud-based gaming services.
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| Jonathan Hillman / Axios: |
Trump's actions against Huawei limit its 5G tech in US, but Huawei continues to build or improve ~100 undersea cables; ~380 cables carry most international data — President Trump's executive order and the Commerce Department's “Entity List” create new challenges for Huawei's 5G wireless technology …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Researchers: NYPD used edited suspects' photos and photos of celebs, when witnesses said the suspects looked like them, to generate facial recognition matches — In one case, a photo of the actor Woody Harrelson was used to locate a suspect — A new report from Georgetown Law's Center …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Sources: Quora, which has 300M+ MAUs, is raising a $60M round led by Valor Equity Partners at a valuation of $2B, and told investors it had $20M in 2018 revenue — According to some, the financing round for the question-and-answer platform speaks to the high valuation for virtually everything these days in the tech sector.| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
DOJ says that it has indicted 10 members of the criminal network that used the GozNym malware to attempt to steal an estimated $100M from 41,000+ victims — Law enforcement officials from the U.S. and some European allies say they have broken up a criminal network that used banking malware … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Sources: acceptance rates for Facebook job offers among graduates of top US schools like Stanford fell from nearly 90% in late 2016 to around 50% in early 2019 — KEY POINTS — Among top schools, Facebook's acceptance rate for full-time positions offered to new graduates has fallen …
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| Julian Chokkattu / Digital Trends: |
Tests of Verizon's 5G in Chicago on the Galaxy S10 5G show download speeds of up to 1.35 Gbps, but speeds were inconsistent, though never fell below 550 Mbps — I'm in Chicago. Again. It's my second trip to the windy city in the past month, and I don't expect it to be my last. — Why? 5G!
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google to add the ability to save transcriptions in Live Transcribe and will include indicators for sounds like door knocks, dog barks, and phones ringing — [Clapping] — When Google released Live Transcribe this past February, it was a hugely important accessibility feature for people …
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: DoorDash is finalizing a major round that would value the food delivery app at $10B-$12B, just three months after it raised at a $7B valuation — DoorDash is finalizing a fundraising round likely to value the U.S. food delivery app between $10 billion to $12 billion after the investment … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: TikTok had the most App Store downloads for the fifth quarter in a row, with 33M+ in Q1; WhatsApp had the most on Google Play, with nearly 199M — Despite a $5.7 million FTC fine and changes to restrict its use by under 13-year-olds, TikTok retained its No. 1 position … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon say they've stopped selling customer geo-location data to third parties, according to letters they all sent the FCC — Reports emerged a year ago that all the major cellular carriers in the U.S. were selling location data to third party companies … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
DJI launches the Osmo Action, an action camera that can shoot 4K videos at up to 60fps, has a 2.25" rear touchscreen and a 1.4" front display, out now for $349 — For a brief time, DJI and GoPro were partners — or at least uncomfortable allies. Way back in 2014, the companies … | Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Google recently hasn't investigated high-profile leaks with its past tenacity, including leaks about Project Dragonfly and Andy Rubin's exit package — OVER THE PAST couple of years, Google employees have helped expose a steady stream of information about the company's operations.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Stack Overflow says hackers breached its systems on May 11 but that there is no evidence of customer data being accessed, promises more info when probe ends — Stack Overflow said it detected a security breach over the weekend. — Stack Overflow, the internet's largest Q&A site for programming …
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| Chloe Taylor / CNBC: |
Deliveroo announces that Amazon is leading a $575M funding round for the UK-based food delivery service, bringing total raised to $1.53B — KEY POINTS — Deliveroo is a British company that allows users to order food deliveries from nearby restaurants using an app.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is updating the News Feed algorithm to include data from user surveys about which links users find most worthwhile and who their closest friends are — Facebook is updating the News Feed ranking algorithm to incorporate data from surveys about who you say are your closest friends and which links you find most worthwhile.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Pinterest reports Q1 2019 revenue of $202M, up 54% YoY, net loss of $41.4M, down 21% YoY, global MAUs were up 22% YoY to 291M; stock down 16%+ after hours — KEY POINTS — Pinterest shares fell 15% Thursday after the company released its first-quarter 2019 earnings report, its first report as a public company.
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu reports Q1 revenue of $3.5B, up 15% YoY, and a net loss of $47.5M, its first net loss since going public in 2005; stock down 9%+ after hours — - Company's American depository receipts drop more than 7% — Board authorizes new $1 billion share repurchase program
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| Becky Peterson / Business Insider: |
Freelance services marketplace Fiverr files for a US IPO, says it had losses of $36M in 2018, up from $19M in 2017 and a revenue of $75.5M in 2018, up 44.9% YoY — - Fiverr, an Israel startup backed by Bessemer and Accel, has filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google clarifies Works with Nest shutdown, says connections will continue to work beyond Aug. 31 until they are replicated in new Works with Assistant program — Works with Nest moves from fully dead to on life support — Google has issued a response to the criticisms of its recent announcement …
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