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 ~8% after hours
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: Square beats Q4 expectations with revenue of $1.31B, up 41% YoY, says...
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
Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft says it will likely miss its guidance for its More Personal...
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
Casey Newton / The Verge: Q&A with Steven Levy on his new book, “Facebook: The Inside...
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
TechCrunch: Particle, a back-end IoT startup that raised $40M Series C in October 2019, says it...
Bug in Cypress and Broadcom Wi-Fi chips meant billions of devices, many now patched, left comms open to eavesdropping; Apple, Amazon, and others were affected
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Bug in Cypress and Broadcom Wi-Fi chips meant billions of devices,...
Declassified study: NSA system to analyze American domestic call and text logs cost $100M from 2015 to 2019 and yielded only one significant investigation
Charlie Savage / New York Times: Declassified study: NSA system to analyze American domestic call and...
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
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: At Apple's shareholder meeting, Tim Cook says Apple will open its online...
YC shares learnings across 190 Series As for founders with a term sheet that's the “fairest one possible”, an extensive Series A Guide, and more
Aaron Harris / Y Combinator: YC shares learnings across 190 Series As for founders with a...
Google adds five new languages to Translate, including Uyghur, Turkmen, and Tatar, its first additions in four years, bringing its total to 108
Nick Statt / The Verge: Google adds five new languages to Translate, including Uyghur, Turkmen, and...
Clearview AI, provider of facial recognition search to police, says an intruder accessed its entire list of customers and how many searches they have conducted
Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast: Clearview AI, provider of facial recognition search to police, says...
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
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: An in-depth look at what India's internet blackout looks like in...
Samsung says the S20 series came with its first dedicated security chip, called the Secure Element, separating memory from main storage
Karandeep Singh / Android Police: Samsung says the S20 series came with its first dedicated security...
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
Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet: HackerOne reports hackers on its platform, which doubled to 600K in 2019,...
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
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: D-Wave launches Leap 2, the latest version of its quantum cloud service...
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
Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: Sources: Invite Media reduced its assets before Google's $80M acquisition in 2010...
NTSB says the driver in a 2018 Tesla accident was distracted by a game on his phone and that the NHTSA's hands-off approach to self-driving tech is “misguided”
Tom Krisher / NBC Bay Area: NTSB says the driver in a 2018 Tesla accident was...
Salesforce acquires Vlocity, a provider of cloud and mobile software built atop Salesforce, for $1.33B, reports Q4 revenue of $4.85B, up 35% YoY, vs $4.75B est.
Jordan Novet / CNBC: Salesforce acquires Vlocity, a provider of cloud and mobile software built atop...
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: Salesforce says Keith Block has stepped down as co-CEO but will still advise Marc Benioff;...