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Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built Iowa caucus app used by workers that caused delays in reporting results — Shadow, a Democratic digital firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results.
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Some users' Google Photos videos in Takeout backups were exported to strangers between November 21-25, 2019; those affected were notified by email — With Google Takeout, you can download your data from Google apps as a backup or for use with another service.
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Alphabet breaks out revenue numbers for YouTube ads for the first time, says they generated $4.7B in Q4 revenue and $15.15B in fiscal 2019, up from $11.16B YoY — We've never before known how much money YouTube generates — YouTube generated nearly $5 billion in ad revenue in the last three months …
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Alphabet reports Q4 net income of $10.67B, up from $8.95B YoY, fiscal year 2019 revenues of $162B, up 18% YoY, discloses new Search, YouTube, and Cloud revenues — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - February 3, 2020 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2019.
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Twitter says it has suspended “a large network of fake accounts” and many others for abusing an API feature that let them match phone numbers to usernames — Twitter announced today that over the holidays it identified and shut down “a large network of fake accounts,” … | Robert Armstrong / Financial Times: |
Mastercard CEO details why the company pulled out of Libra, says he had concerns about how Libra went from an “altruistic idea” to Calibra, a proprietary wallet — - Money laundering questons on Facebook's digital currency — Banga does not understand how Libra makes money
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Sources: top antitrust official Makan Delrahim has recused himself from DOJ's Google probe over a conflict of interest related to his past work for the company — Makan Delrahim, the Justice Department's head of antitrust, removed himself from examining the search giant over a conflict of interest … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Finix, a SaaS startup selling payments tech to other businesses, raises $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total raised to over $55M — This morning Finix, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup selling payments tech to other businesses, announced that it has raised … | Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Amid virus outbreak, authorities in China are using its vast surveillance network to identify potential carriers, ostracizing even those without the symptoms — The authorities hunt for people from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak, encouraging citizens to inform on others.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers detail EKANS ransomware, which is targeting industrial control systems and appears to be the work of cybercriminals rather than nation-state hackers — EKANS appears to be the work of cybercriminals, rather than nation-state hackers—a worrying development, if so.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Asana says it has confidentially filed to go public via a direct listing; the startup has raised about $213M to date and was last valued at ~$1.5B in 2018 — Workplace productivity toolmaker Asana announced late Monday that they have confidentially filed their S-1 and said in a statement …
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Toronto-based Top Hat, which makes software tools for teachers in higher education, raises $55M Series D co-led by Georgian Partners and Inovia Capital — Toronto-based Top Hat, a company that makes a number of software tools for teachers in higher education, today announced that it has raised … | Morgan Brown / About Facebook: |
Facebook debuts more controls for parents in Messenger Kids like the ability to view recent chat history, a log of chat images, remote device logout, and more — We launched Messenger Kids in 2017 after meeting with thousands of parents, parenting organizations, child safety advocates …
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| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
HPE acquires zero-trust authentication startup Scytale, which was founded by the creators of open source projects SPIFFE and SPIRE and had raised $8M to date — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said that it has acquired Scytale Inc., a startup that develops so-called zero-trust security software …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Labelbox raises $25M Series B, led by a16z, to grow its data-labeling platform for AI model training — Labelbox today announced the close of a $25 million Series B funding round to grow its data-labeling platform made to suppy customers with labeled data necessary to train AI systems.
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
The chip industry had its worst slump in almost two decades as revenue fell 12% to $412B in 2019, the biggest drop since 2001, due to the US-China trade war — The semiconductor industry last year suffered its worst annual slump in almost two decades, hurt by a trade war between the largest chip producer …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Byte, a short-form video app from Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann, had ~1.3M downloads during its first week, with 70% of installs happening in the US — New short-form video app Byte, heralded as Vine's successor, is off to a strong start despite its issues.
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| Michael Santoli / CNBC: |
Tesla's stock, up ~15% today, has more than tripled in under 4 months, from $255 on Oct. 23 to ~$900; 12K+ Robinhood users bought TSLA for the first time Monday — Jim Cramer: Tesla is a tech company and must be valued as one — Yes, there's an entrenched short base that's getting torched …
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