Pinterest generated $756M in revenue and $63M net loss in 2018, compared to $473M in revenue and $130M million net loss in 2017, according to public IPO filing
Pinterest, the social bookmarking platform, on Friday filed for an IPO that should result in its shares being traded next month on the New York Stock Exchange.
Source: Apple has signed up Vox for its upcoming news subscription service; other Vox Media properties will not participate initially
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg :
DHS watchdog report says FEMA exposed personal info of ~2.3M US disaster survivors, including some personal addresses and banking info, to a federal contractor
The Federal Emergency Management Agency shared personal addresses and banking information of more than 2 million U.S. disaster survivors …
Netflix's absence from Apple's media bundle portends a fight in content distribution; Goldman Sachs says the bundle could add $12B+ to Apple's Services business
The first skirmishes have already been fought in what could turn into a tech cold war. “The game is on,” said the Netflix chief executive, Reed Hastings.
Source: Apple's planned game subscription service for iOS will only include paid, not freemium, titles, pay developers based on time users spend on their games
- Devices take a back seat to video, news, gaming subscriptions — Company tries biggest strategy change since the iPhone in 2007
What to expect from Apple on March 25: a paid news service, a video service with original content, a content hub in the TV app, a credit card, and no hardware
iPhones, iMacs, and other hardware are likely to take a backseat to news and entertainment at Apple's first big product event of 2019.
Finland to investigate HMD after report found some Nokia 7 Plus phones sent user data to a Chinese server; HMD says it was a software packaging error, now fixed
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's data protection ombudsman said on Thursday he would investigate whether Nokia-branded phones …
Mozilla announces a new version of Firefox for iOS that has been optimized for iPad with support for split screen and keyboard shortcuts
Mozilla today announced a new iOS version of Firefox that has been specifically optimized for Apple's iPad. Given the launch of the new iPad mini this week, that's impeccable timing.
OpenSignal: AT&T's “5G E” phones get average speeds of 28.8Mbps, compared to T-Mobile's 29.4Mbps and Verizon's 29.9Mbps which use similar 4G LTE-Advanced tech
but it's not 5G Rich Woods / Neowin : AT&T's fake 5G network isn't as fast as competitors' 4G, since it's 4G Buster Hein / Cult of Mac : AT&T's ‘5G E’ speeds are slower than LTE on other networks Anto...
Pinterest S-1: in Q4 2018, the company had $273.2M in revenue and $47M in profit and had $628M in cash and equivalents at the end of last year
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A look at the early version of Microsoft's new Chromium-powered Edge browser
This could be your new default browser on Windows — Microsoft is rebuilding its Edge browser on Chromium. The software maker has been testing versions of this browser internally at Microsoft …
Shopify and Mailchimp remove integration between their platforms after failing to agree about how to share customer data, blame each other for the breakup
Mailchimp today announced that the Mailchimp app, which let its users use their Shopify data to create targeted email campaigns …
A profile of Citizen, a crime tracking app that notifies users in NYC, SF Bay Area, Baltimore, and LA when a crime or a major incident is reported near them
An app called Citizen promises “awareness” of nearby danger. What it provides is more complicated.
GoFundMe says fundraising campaigns promoting misinformation about vaccines violate its ToS and will be removed
Julia Arciga / The Daily Beast :
Researchers hacked Mozilla's Firefox, a VMware Workstation client, and Microsoft Edge on the second day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019, earning $270K in cash awards
Dustin Childs / Zero Day Initiative :
DHS warns of two vulnerabilities affecting about 750,000 Medtronic implantable defibrillators worldwide, which could allow hackers to take control of devices
Joe Carlson / Star Tribune :
IFTTT says all Gmail triggers, except “Send an email” and “Send yourself an email”, will stop working on March 31
Corbin Davenport / Android Police :
A look at Chinese tech workers' struggle with burnout and work-life balance, as many are expected to work a “996” schedule, or 9am to 9pm six days a week
He is so focused on keeping his start-up alive that he can't sleep at night. She was asked in an interview if she would be willing … Thanks: @chuakongho
Inside the rivalry between Southeast Asia's Grab and Go-Jek, the ride-hailing services evolving to provide everything from groceries to mortgages
The rival ride-hailing services are now dueling to deliver everything from groceries to mortgages to Southeast Asia's middle class.
Microsoft details xCloud tools to bring Xbox games to mobile, including a way to apply touchscreen controls to a game made for controllers or mouse and keyboard
Nick Statt / The Verge :
Intel confirms it will not develop new Compute Card products
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware :
Court filing by DC AG: Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica data misuse months before it was first reported; Facebook says it did not mislead about timeline
Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian :
Video-conferencing software company Zoom files for an IPO, says it had $330.5M in revenue, up 118% YoY, and $7.6M in profits in its last fiscal year
A consumer spyware vendor has left a server with 95K+ images and 25K+ audio recordings exposed, and has not fixed the leak yet, despite being warned weeks ago
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard :
In a lawsuit over $10B contract, Oracle claims an Amazon staffer who had a stint at the Pentagon, and now is back at AWS, shaped the contract in Amazon's favor
New York Times : Tweets: @thomaskaplan , @carter_pe , @economictimes , @nytimesatwar , @defensebaron , @economictimes , and @nytimes Tweets: Thomas Kaplan / @thomaskaplan : The founder of a start-up ...
Berlin-based Spark Networks to acquire San Francisco-based dating startup Zoosk for ~$255M
Natasha Mascarenhas / Crunchbase News :
Twitter is inserting tweets into the feeds of users that do not follow the accounts which posted them, sometimes inadvertently amplifying extremist rhetoric
Oliver Darcy / CNN : Tweets: @oliverdarcy , @clarajeffery , @oliverdarcy , @dduart3 , @jenmercieca , @alexhern , @chuckrossdc , and @cwarzel See also Mediagazer Tweets: Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy : ...
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