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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
