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Uber reports Q4 revenue of $4.1B, up 37% YoY, gross bookings of $18.1B, up 28%, and net loss of $1.1B; gross bookings from Uber Eats were $4.37B, up 71% YoY — Revenue of $4.1 billion, growing 37% year-over-year or 39% on a constant currency basis — Rides Adjusted EBITDA of $742 million, with continued margin expansion
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| Dane Glasgow / The Keyword: |
Google Maps turns 15 and updates its app with five tabs: Explore, Commute, Saved, Contribute, and Updates, new transit features, and more — In 2005, we set out to map the world. Since then we've pushed the limits of what a map can do: from helping you easily navigate from point A to B …
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| David Kirton / Reuters: |
Sources: Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, and Vivo are creating a platform to let developers outside China upload apps onto all of their app stores simultaneously — SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - China's Xiaomi, Huawei Technologies, Oppo and Vivo are joining forces to create a platform for developers outside China …
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Tweets: @cmschroed, @ishanagarwal24, @chrismlacy, @elliottzaagman, @somospostpc, @ronamadeo, @bryanbma, and @fjeronimo
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped 30.7M Watches globally in 2019, up 36% YoY, outselling entire Swiss watch industry, which shipped 21.1M units, down 13% YoY — The Apple Watch continues to dominate the market — The Apple Watch wasn't just the best-selling smartwatch last year …
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Tweets: @counternotions, @mikeelgan, @alistairmbarr, @osteslag, @benbajarin, @chrislundkvist, @natisho, and @brij
| Bloomberg Law: |
FCC announces proposals to pay satellite companies $9.7B to quickly free up C-band spectrum for 5G, and another $3.3B-$5.2B to pay for costs — Listen — Intelsat SA and other satellite providers would share as much as $14.9 billion under a proposal from federal regulators to compensate … | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
SEC commissioner proposes a three-year grace period from a startup's first token sale to achieving a level of decentralization sufficient to pass SEC evaluation — SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce wants to give legitimate crypto projects a shot at success without running afoul of U.S. securities laws.
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Nuro receives a two-year driverless exemption for its new delivery vehicle called R2 and says it is the first company to receive such an exemption from NHTSA — Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup that raised $940 million in financing from Softbank Vision Fund last year …
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| Reuters: |
US Attorney General William Barr says the US and its allies should consider investing in Nokia and Ericsson to counter Huawei — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday stressed the threat posed by Huawei Technologies and said the United States and its allies …
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Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Light Reading, Wccftech, Android Central, and The Verge
Tweets: @g_ratnam, @reckless, @campuscodi, @geoffreygertz, @sgurman, and @paulvieira
| Joe DeBlasio / Google Online Security Blog: |
Google says starting with Chrome 82 in April, it will gradually start blocking “mixed content downloads”, which are non-HTTPS downloads started on secure pages — Today we're announcing that Chrome will gradually ensure that secure (HTTPS) pages only download secure files.| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: ViacomCBS is building a new ad-supported streaming service that will build on CBS All Access, and an ad-free version that includes Showtime — - ViacomCBS is preparing to throw its hat into the streaming wars after consummating a merger on Dec. 31.
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The Verge, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Variety, 9to5Mac, Yahoo Finance, Tom's Guide, and The Streamable
Tweets: @sherman4949, @stevekovach, @tvgrimreaper, @frankpallotta, @great_katzby, @loudmouthjulia, @sherman4949, @getfandom, @richlightshed, and @azalben. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Biz Carson / protocol: |
Sweat Equity Ventures, which trades operational and recruiting expertise for equity instead of cash, launches publicly, backed by $30M from Reid Hoffman — Launching from stealth, Sweat Equity Ventures is a new venture concept that trades operational and recruiting expertise for equity in startups.
Tweets: @jank0, @joshconstine, @jenn_rtr, @kylebrussell, @bizcarson, @issielapowsky, @bizcarson, @triketora, @edbyrne, @kateclarktweets, @bizcarson, and @sfshag
| Maddie Stone / VICE: |
Leaked contract shows Apple wants repair shops signing up to its Independent Repair Program to agree to audits and inspections, even after leaving the program — Last August, in what was widely hailed a victory for the right-to-repair movement, Apple announced it would begin selling parts …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, The Mac Observer, Michael Tsai, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, and AppleInsider
| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it plans to expand its headcount in Bellevue, WA to more than 15,000, an increase of more than 7x over the 2,000 Amazon staff in the city today — Amazon said it plans to expand its headcount to more than 15,000 people in Bellevue, Wash., the growing city 10 miles east of Seattle …
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The Amazon Blog, The Seattle Times, Business Insider, CNET, SiliconANGLE, and CNBC. Tweets: @taylor_soper
| VICE: |
Pornhub claims it has systems in place to flag harmful videos like Girls Do Porn but an investigation finds even light editing allows such videos to be uploaded — On May 1, 2016, in the middle of final exams, a young woman got a text message that would change her life forever.
Tweets: @lisavaas, @thottonmather, and @carolineha_
| Huawei: |
Huawei says it does not include backdoors into its products, including HiSilicon, after recent reports of security issues in HiSilicon chips — HiSilicon is a global leading fabless semiconductor and IC design company that is dedicated to providing comprehensive connectivity …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Netflix says users can now turn off the autoplay preview feature on its homepage — Browsing the homepage isn't an annoying problem anymore — Netflix customers have complained for years about the frustrating and annoying autoplay feature that occurs on its homepage.
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Gizmodo, Android Police, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, Vox, The Next Web, Game Rant, TechRadar.com, TidBITS, Tubefilter, Polygon, Variety, and Tom's Guide
Tweets: @backlon, @evren__7, @mikeyil, @jasoninquires, @jm77, @raymondcamden, @hshaban, and @loudmouthjulia
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Q4: revenue of $1.01B, up 11% YoY, net income of $119M, down from $255M in Q4 2018, monetizable DAU of 152M compared to 126M a year ago — As Twitter continues to try to find the right balance between making its platform easier to use while also less prone to toxicity and abuse …
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Tweets: @carnage4life, @mattrosoff, @cnbc, @stevekovach, @joshelman, @benbajarin, @ingridlunden, @megancgraham, @stevekovach, and @markmuro1
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Elliott Management has quietly built up a $2.5B+ stake in SoftBank and is pushing for changes like stock buybacks and improved corporate governance — Activist fund pushes for stock buybacks and for the tech giant to improve corporate governance to boost share price
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| The Information: |
Sources: Amazon has considered selling Twitch's live-streaming technology to other companies as a service — Twitch hasn't turned into the advertising powerhouse Amazon might have expected when it bought the live-streaming gaming service in 2014. But Amazon may have found a new way to generate … Sponsor Posts
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