Sources: Gov. Cuomo spoke to Amazon execs, including Bezos, to try to lure Amazon back to NYC; full-page ad by NY civic leaders in Friday's NYT urges the same
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who was staggered …
Twitter says in the coming months it will test a Hide Tweet feature that allows users to hide replies to their tweets that others can view through a menu option
Twitter has confirmed it's developing a new “Hide Tweet” option, but has yet to provide detail about its launch plans for the feature.
Revolut CFO Peter O'Higgins resigns this week in wake of allegations made against Revolut of allowing money laundering and using dodgy hiring practices
The CFO of Revolut has resigned as the fintech unicorn makes headlines for all the wrong reasons, with allegations surface over serious lapses …
Samsung Galaxy S10+ review: great display and a versatile camera but the in-screen fingerprint scanner is unreliable and hole-punch design is worse than a notch
The 10th Galaxy S phone feels familiar, but is still excellent — Every year for the past decade, Samsung has released a steady beat of new Galaxy S phones.
Amazon says it has decided to stop selling Amazon Dash buttons globally, but will continue supporting new orders made through existing Dash buttons
Amazon has come up with some pretty odd ideas over the years: delivery inside your car, a talking tablet for your kitchen counter …
Tesla says it is shifting all sales globally to online, resulting in some store closures and layoffs but allowing vehicle prices to be lowered by ~6% on average
Tesla is moving all of its sales online, a dramatic shift in its sales strategy that will result in the closure of stores …
Report: both Uber and Lyft plan to give some of their most-active or longest-serving drivers a cash award with an option to put it toward stock in their IPOs
Fred Imbert / CNBC :
RIAA: US revenue for recorded music grew 12% in 2018 to $9.8B largely due to a 30% surge in streaming revenue; subscriptions to services like Spotify topped 50M
The U.S. music industry posted its third consecutive year of double-digit growth, according to the RIAA's year-end revenue report issued today.
Lyft IPO: 2018 revenue of $2.2B up 100% YoY, gross bookings of $8.1B from 1B+ rides, loss of $911B, up 32% YoY, 39% market share in the US, up from 22% in 2017
- Lyft announced in December it had confidentially filed for an IPO, but declined to add financial specifics then.
LinkedIn suspends emails to connections when a European member has been mentioned in the news, after algorithm mixes up identities
LinkedIn has been forced to ‘pause’ a feature in Europe in which the platform emails members' connections when they've been ‘mentioned in the news’.
Sources: Hulu's live online TV service has about 2M subscribers while YouTube TV has crossed 1M
- Analyst says their services shine versus Sling, DirecTV Now — Slicker, modern-looking interfaces give upstarts a leg up — Hulu and YouTube together have signed about 3 million subscribers …
YouTube says it will disable comments on almost all videos featuring minors, improve classification of comments, and continue to ban harmful accounts
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In Japan, Disney and mobile carrier Docomo are launching a streaming service in March with the latest content from Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar, and Disney Studios
Content from all four Disney studios will be available next month in preparation for 5G. Japan's other two main carriers are already partnered with Netflix.
Dell reports Q4 revenue of $23.84B, up 9% YoY, in its first quarter as a newly public company, but a net loss of $287M, up from $133M in 2018
In its first quarter as a newly public company, Dell Technologies Inc. today reported marginally better-than-expected quarterly revenue growth but a higher-than-expected net loss.
Polestar, Volvo's brand for electric performance cars, unveils Polestar 2, the first car with built-in Android Auto, coming in 2020
Sean O'Kane / The Verge :
Amazon launches Amazon Day, a new option that lets Prime members pick a day of the week for delivery
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Amazon announces Project Zero, an invite-only program to let brands autonomously flag and remove counterfeit listings of their products from Amazon
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge :
Microsoft unveils Azure Sentinel, a new cloud service that allows customers to view and respond to security alerts and threats across corporate networks
Tom Krazit / GeekWire :
Inside Facebook's content policy team, which is made up of several dozen Facebook engineers, lawyers, and PR people, who decide what users can post
The company blew it on privacy and fake news. Can it do better against trolls and racists? An exclusive embed with Facebook's shadow government. Tweets: @etbrooking , @athertonkd , @antoniogm , and ...
Irish Data Protection Commission report: watchdog received 2,864 complaints in 2018 after May 25, when GDPR came into force, compared to 2,642 for all of 2017
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Thailand's government passes cybersecurity bill that has been criticized for vagueness and the potential to give the government sweeping access to user data
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped 22.5M Apple Watch units in 2018, accounting for about half of global smartwatch shipments
Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider :
Cybersecurity startup Contrast Security raises $65M Series D led by Warburg Pincus to expand internationally, bringing the total raised to $122M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Reddit is testing tipping users starting with a single user, shittymorph; the user, Reddit, and card processor Stripe receive 78.5%, 18.5%, and 3%, respectively
to one guy in one subreddit Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Reddit's Testing a Tipping Option to Pay Creators on the Platform James Loke Hale / Tubefilter : Reddit Is Testing Out Tipping With...
Facebook says Workplace by Facebook, its Slack rival, now has 2M paid users and is in use at 150 companies with over 10K users each including Walmart and Nestle
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Indian grocery delivery startup Grofers raises ~$60M from SoftBank Vision Fund, as part of a larger Series F round in progress, reportedly at a $425M valuation
Alnoor Peermohamed / The Economic Times : Tweets: @chupchap Tweets: @chupchap : Which means, we will get cashback, discounts etc for at least 6 months I guess http://twitter.com/...
Sources: autonomous vehicle startup Drive.ai is seeking potential buyers; Drive.ai was valued at around $200M in 2017
Amir Efrati / The Information :
In letter to Sen. Warner, Facebook says teens were ~18% of users of its Research app over its lifetime; Facebook had said publicly that teens were less than 5%
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Mozilla releases Common Voice, an open source collection of transcribed voice data comprising 1,400+ hours of samples from 42K contributors in 18 languages
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Chinese used-car trading platform Chehaoduo Group is raising $1.5B from SoftBank Vision Fund at a $9B+ valuation
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