Dropbox, Inc. S-1 SEC filing for IPO
This is an initial public offering of shares of Class A common stock of Dropbox, Inc. Dropbox, Inc. is offering to sell shares of Class A common stock in this offering. The selling stockholders ident...
Facebook removes a demo of a VR shooting game called Bullet Train at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference out of respect for Parkland victims
Facebook pulled a demo of Bullet Train, a virtual reality game that lets players use an imaginary gun to pretend shoot people in a train station …
Dropbox files for an IPO, says its 2017 revenues were $1.11B, up 31% YoY, losses were $111.7M, down from $210.2M in 2016; Dropbox now has 500M registered users
Cloud storage company Dropbox filed to raise $500 million in a public offering on Friday, giving investors a first look at the books …
HTC announces U.S. layoffs as smartphone and VR divisions merge
It looks like HTC's smartphone business may be shifting away from the U.S. Last week Chailin Chang, HTC's president of smartphone and connected devices, announced his resignation from the company.
Top five Dropbox shareholders: Drew Houston holds 25.3% stake, Sequoia has 23.2%, Arash Ferdowsi has 10.3%, Accel has 5%, and T. Rowe Price has 3.5%
- CEO Drew Houston and venture firm Sequoia Capital each own more than a 20 percent stake in Dropbox. — Dropbox has taken a very unconventional route to an IPO.
Dropbox has saved almost $75M since 2015 by moving from AWS to custom-designed infrastructure and software
After making the decision to roll its own infrastructure and reduce its dependence on Amazon Web Services, Dropbox reduced its operating costs by $74.6 million over the next two years …
Dropbox gave 3 top execs stock worth $190M in 2017: CEO Drew Houston got $109.6M, co-founder Arash Ferdowsi got $46.7M, engineering VP Quentin Clark got $34.1M
Dropbox Inc. granted about $190 million in stock awards to three top executives last year as the file-sharing company prepared for an initial public offering.
Bernstein analysts estimate that Bitmain made between $3B and $4B in operating profit in 2017 by selling bitcoin miners and mining cryptocurrencies
- Based on conservative estimates of gross margin of 75 percent and operating margin of 65 percent, Bernstein analysts calculate …
Analysis: out of 902 ICOs listed on Tokendata.io last year, 531 projects that raised a total of $233M in 2017 have either already failed or are dormant online
It has always been assumed that a large number of ICOs will fail, be it at the fundraising stage or when it comes to delivering the actual project. Tweets: @emollick Tweets: Ethan Mollick / @emollick ...
YouTube removed Infowars video from The Alex Jones Channel claiming Florida student was paid actor; source: first of 3 strikes before YouTube terminates account
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Google launches ARCore out of preview, says it works on 13 Android phone models, 100M devices, will expand Google Lens to iOS and more Android smartphones
Google brings ARCore to version 1.0 Geekologie : No Thank You: Developers Make Augmented Reality Girl From The Ring Crawling Out Of Television Jon Fingas / Engadget : Android's official augmented real...
California DMV says that autonomous vehicles with remote human operators could be tested on state roads as soon as early April
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Twitter investigates how cryptocurrency scammers changed handles on verified accounts and kept verified badges to trick users to send funds to scammer wallets
This is the Twitter account for Tron Foundation, the organization behind a cryptocurrency that has a current valuation of $2.8 billion. Tweets: @cwarzel , @buzzfeednews , @cwarzel , and @rmac18 Tweets...
Samsung relaunches Opera Max, the data-saving privacy-focused browser, as Samsung Max, which will work only on some Samsung Galaxy-branded handsets
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Sources: Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund in talks to invest up to $400M in Magic Leap at ~$6B valuation, would bring Magic Leap's funds raised to $2.3B
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Instacart says it has discovered and fixed a bug that withheld tips from shoppers and overcharged users since the end of 2017
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Facebook's mandatory anti-malware scan for flagged devices lacks transparency in how scanned data is used and has locked out an undisclosed number of users
WHEN AN OREGON science fiction writer named Charity tried to log onto Facebook on February 11, she found herself completely locked out of her account.
Twitter's annual report says it has written off $66.4M of its investments in private firms, most likely related to rumored $70M investment in SoundCloud in 2016
Twitter's lost almost all of the money it had invested in SoundCloud, the company disclosed as part of its 2017 annual report Friday.
Split raises $17M Series B led by Lightspeed, allows companies to test out new software features and deliver them in a targeted way to select groups of users
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Researchers say some security certificates are being sold and registered using stolen corporate identities, making traditional network security less effective
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BMW to recall 11,700 cars, says it installed wrong engine management software in some cars; move comes after reports of Volkswagen-like emissions manipulation
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Akamai: 43% of 17B login requests tracked via Akamai platform in November and December involved credential abuse, with bots using stolen login credentials
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