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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
First American Financial's site exposed 885M files that included bank account numbers, mortgage and tax records, SSNs, wire transactions, drivers license pics — The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions …
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| Szu Ping Chan / BBC: |
Sources: Facebook is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency and a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by Q1 2020 — Facebook is finalising plans to launch its own crypto-currency next year. — It is planning to set up a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by the first quarter of 2020.
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| iFixit: |
MacBook Pro keyboard tweaks include a membrane from a new nylon-like material that may better repel dust and minor changes to key switches that register presses — Teardown of the 2019 MacBook Pro 15" with Touch Bar, performed on May 22, 2019.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube announces API changes that will hide live subscriber counts starting in August, sparking YouTuber protests to save analytics providers like Social Blade — Why one analytics site matters — To those outside of YouTube, Social Blade is just another analytics site that tracks subscriber growth or loss.
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Palantir's 2018 revenue grew ~40% YoY to ~$1B, as losses fell to ~$30M; Palantir wants to show two consecutive years of growth before expected 2020 IPO — Palantir is among the world's most richly valued and most powerful tech startups, after spending 15 years on the private markets …
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| CNBC: |
Apple acquired Tueo Health, a small startup developing an app that works with commercial breathing sensors to help manage asthma symptoms in sleeping children — KEY POINTS — Apple bought Tueo Health, which was working on a solution to help parents monitor asthma symptoms in children using …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's xCloud game streaming service, in testing among its employees, can stream 3,500+ Xbox games without developers making any changes to their titles — Still no date for public trials — Microsoft is revealing some of the more finer details about its upcoming xCloud game streaming service today.
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| Nikkei: |
Wi-Fi Alliance, semiconductor standards body JEDEC, and SD Association suspend Huawei's membership, limiting Huawei's future ability to shape these standards — Membership limited or suspended in associations for Wi-Fi, SD cards and chips — NEW YORK/TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies …
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| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Source: Robinhood is close to raising $200M+ in new funding in a round valuing the company at $7B+; it last raised $363M in May 2018 at a valuation of $5.6B — - Round values the fintech startup at more than $7 billion — Talks with investors are ongoing and the round could grow
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Facebook decides to let the misleading Nancy Pelosi video remain on its platform indefinitely, but with a fact check, says it will limit the video's reach — Nancy Pelosi, the 79-year-old speaker of the House of Representatives, has been a frequent target for President Donald Trump and his political allies.
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
SEC filing: Ryan Graves, Uber's first employee and first CEO, is leaving the company's board on Monday, May 27 — Ryan Graves was Uber's first full-time CEO and employee, who was last senior vice president of global operations before announcing he would step down in August 2017.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Source: Snap in talks to license the catalogs of Sony Music, Universal Music, and Warner Music, which will allow Snapchat users to include songs in their posts — Snap wants to up Snapchat's music game. — The company has been in negotiations with music companies including the big three …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
GnosticPlayers claims to have hacked graphic design service Canva and stolen names, usernames, email addresses of 139M users, and 61M strongly hashed passwords — Hacker claims to have stolen the data of 139 million Canva users. — Canva, a Sydney-based startup that's behind …
Tweets: @krishnan and @campuscodi
| Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
Proxima Media, founded by Hollywood producer Ryan Kavanaugh, says it has raised $100M for Proxicoin, a token that enables fractional ownership of film projects — Proxima Media, a firm founded by film producer Ryan Kavanaugh, has raised $100 million for a token that allows investment in media content.| FinSMEs: |
Motionsoft, a SaaS platform used by 2,900+ fitness and wellness clubs and 8M+ club members, raises $17M; Motionsoft has raised $60M to date, per Crunchbase — Motionsoft, a Rockville, Md.-based Software-as-a-Service platform for member-based organizations in the fitness and wellness markets, secured a $17M round of financing.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
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