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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
At Apple's shareholder meeting, Tim Cook says Apple will open its online store in India this year, with physical stores in 2021, and addresses COVID-19 concerns — - CEO hints wearables sales $40 billion; equal to Marriott, Visa — Company plans to open retail stores in India next year
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Tweets: @sfthq, @yuanfenyang, @markgurman, @michaelsteeber, @businessinsider, @jacknicas, and @markgurman
| Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast: |
Clearview AI, in a letter to customers, says an intruder accessed its client list and the number of searches clients conducted, but not their search histories — Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Q&A with Steven Levy on his new book, “Facebook: The Inside Story”, Instagram, interviewing Facebook executives, and the company's future after Mark Zuckerberg — A Q&A with the author of one of our mostly hotly anticipated books of 2020 — People kept having the idea …
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
Declassified study: NSA system to analyze American domestic call and text logs cost $100M from 2015 to 2019 and yielded only one significant investigation — A disputed program that allowed the National Security Agency to gain access to logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts yielded …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Online gaming platform Roblox raises $150M led by a16z's Late Stage Venture fund, reportedly at a $4B valuation; Roblox was valued at $2.5B+ as of last year — Online gaming platform Roblox, now home to 115 million largely Gen Z players per month, announced today it has raised $150 million …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Bug in Cypress and Broadcom Wi-Fi chips meant billions of devices, many now patched, were left open to eavesdropping; Apple, Amazon, and others were affected — Cypress and Broadcom chip bug bit iPhones, Macs, Android devices, Echoes, and more. — SAN FRANCISCO — Billions of devices … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google adds five new languages to Translate, including Uyghur, Turkmen, and Tatar, its first additions in four years, bringing its total to 108 — Five new languages for a total of 108 — Google Translate is adding support for five new languages today, bringing its total to 108 languages.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft says it will likely miss its guidance for its More Personal Computing segment, which includes Windows, due to COVID-19's impact on its supply chain — Microsoft shares fell 2% on Wednesday after the company said it doesn't expect to meet the quarterly revenue guidance …
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| Karandeep Singh / Android Police: |
Samsung says the S20 series came with its first dedicated security chip, called the Secure Element, separating memory from main storage — Our mobile operating systems are protected with adequate software-based security measures to keep the miscreants away, but there's always more that can be done.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Jury convicts ex-Microsoft engineer of 18 felonies after he stole $10M in digital currencies from the company and used it to make extravagant purchases — A former Microsoft worker was convicted of 18 federal felonies after he stole $10 million worth of digital currency from his ex-employer …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Judge allows class action lawsuit against Ripple, which alleges the company misrepresented its XRP currency as a security, to proceed — A lawsuit claiming Ripple violated securities laws will be allowed to move forward - though with a caveat favorable to the San Francisco-based payments firm.
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| TechCrunch: |
Particle, a back-end IoT startup that raised $40M Series C in October 2019, says it laid off 10% of its staff, or 14 people, just weeks after co-founder left — San Francisco-based startup Particle was one of the rising stars in the Internet of Things space, raising more than $81 million … | Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
Profile of Downdetector, a resource for determining website and platform outages; Downdetector relies almost exclusively on user reports since 2001 — Downdetector is a simple, ugly utility, which becomes a weird little life raft for displaced communities when their websites crash.
Tweets: @kait_tiffany and @slaskow
| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
An in-depth look at what India's internet blackout looks like in Kashmir: social control with select media allowed, businesses crippled, the vulnerable isolated — Like the snowcapped mountains and grassy meadows, men with guns are part of the landscape in Kashmir.
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| Aaron Harris / Y Combinator: |
YC shares learnings across 190 Series A rounds, providing a term sheet that's the “fairest one possible”, an extensive Series A Guide, and more — We started YC's Series A Program two years ago to fix a problem faced by every startup raising an A: VCs understand how Series A's work and founders do not.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Square beats Q4 expectations with revenue of $1.31B, up 41% YoY, says its Cash App has 24M MAUs, up 60% YoY, with a profit of $144M; stock up ~6% after hours — The company reported its fourth quarter financial results on Wednesday. — Square reported its fourth quarter financial results on Wednesday.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
D-Wave launches Leap 2, the latest version of its quantum cloud service for developers that can handle problems with up to 10,000 variables — D-Wave today announced the launch of Leap 2, the latest version of its quantum cloud service that gives developers real-time access to its hardware quantum systems.
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| Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet: |
HackerOne reports hackers on its platform, which doubled to 600K in 2019, received $40M in bounties in 2019, $82M total since 2012, with 7 hackers passing $1M — The bug bounty platform doubled in size in just a year. Its new report shows that ethical hacking is becoming a lucrative pastime.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Box beats Q4 expectations with revenue of $183.6M, up 12% YoY, says its achieved first full year of non-GAAP profitability; stock is up ~8% after hours — Etsy and Nutanix also reported better-than-expected results for the last quarter — Cloud content management company Box achieved …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Invite Media reduced its assets before Google's $80M acquisition in 2010 to avoid requiring FTC approval, the kind of deal the FTC is now re-examining — The 2010 acquisition of Invite Media could come up for new scrutiny — Something unusual was underway in early 2010 at Invite Media …
Tweets: @mattrosoff, @jason_kint, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, and @alex
| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
Connected fitness startup Tempo, which uses AI to tailor workouts, raises $17.5M Series A from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and others — The connected fitness space just keeps growing. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily — Tempo is the latest company to join the pack …
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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Two programmer-musicians algorithmically generated every 8-note, 12-beat MIDI melody in one octave and openly licensed them to help others in copyright suits — Two programmer-musicians wrote every possible MIDI melody in existence to a hard drive, copyrighted the whole thing …
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The Atlantic, Input, ExtremeTech, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @martinsfp, @macwbishop, @can, @adrienneleigh, @tilbyqwyck, @20hz20khz, and @rubberbandits
| Salesforce: |
Salesforce says Keith Block has stepped down as co-CEO but will still advise Marc Benioff; Gavin Patterson named President and CEO of Salesforce International — Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) today announced that Keith Block has stepped down as co-CEO of Salesforce and Marc Benioff is Chair and CEO of the company.
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Business Insider, TechCrunch, Enterprise Times, ZDNet, TheStreet, Silicon Valley Business …, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @benioff, @sallyshin, @parkerharris, and @wsj
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Unqork, which develops a no-code platform for enterprise insurance and financial services, says it has extended its $80M Series B to $131M, led by CapitalG — Three-year-old New York-based software company Unqork, which is developing a no-code platform for enterprise insurance and financial services …
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