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April 28, 2021, 10:25 AM

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Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify reports Q1 profit of €23M, up from €1M a year earlier, revenue of €2.15B, up 16% YoY, 356M MAUs, up 24% YoY, and 158M paid subscribers, up 21% YoY  —  Audio-streaming platform warns of uncertain growth as newer markets endure a surge in coronavirus cases
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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
YouTube is on pace to book between $29B and $30B in revenue in 2021, equaling Netflix's expected revenue of $29.7B for the year  —  - YouTube is on pace to bring in annual revenue comparable to Netflix's.  — The Google-owned video platform is seeing a rise in more traditional television advertisers.
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Interview with Senator Amy Klobuchar on her new book about antitrust, why she doesn't think reining in the App Store will harm the Apple ecosystem, and more  —  My guest today is Senator Amy Klobuchar, the Democrat from Minnesota who has taken up the role of antitrust enforcer in the Senate under the Biden administration.
Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan partners with Singapore's Temasek and DBS Group Holdings to create a blockchain-based platform for payments, trade, and foreign exchange settlement  —  JPMorgan Chase & Co. is teaming up with Singapore's Temasek Holdings Pte. and DBS Group Holdings Ltd. to create a new blockchain-based platform …
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Zomato files for $1.1B IPO in India and reports $91.8M in losses on revenue of $183.6M between April 1 and December 31, 2020  —  Indian food delivery startup Zomato on Wednesday filed for an initial public offering, becoming the first tech unicorn startup from the world's second largest internet market to do so.
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Interviews with Basecamp staff on how a “funny” customer names list sparked an internal reckoning and spurred Basecamp's societal and political discussion ban  —  How a list of “funny” customer names triggered an internal reckoning  —  I.  —  The controversy that embroiled …
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Toulouse, France-based EasyMile, which says its autonomous shuttles have driven ~800K kilometers across 300+ locations in 30 countries, raises $66M Series B  —  We may still be a long way off from Level 5, fully self-driving cars on the open road, but companies building autonomous vehicles …
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Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Huawei reports revenue of $23.5B in Q1, down 16.5% YoY, the second consecutive quarter in which Huawei's revenues declined  —  - Huawei said its revenues fell 16.5% year-on-year to 152.2 billion Chinese yuan ($23.5 billion) in the three months ending March 31.

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