Alphabet breaks out revenue numbers for YouTube ads for the first time, says they generated $4.7B in Q4 revenue and $15.15B in fiscal 2019, up from $11.16B YoY
We've never before known how much money YouTube generates — YouTube generated nearly $5 billion in ad revenue in the last three months …
Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built Iowa caucus app used by workers that caused delays in reporting results
Shadow, a Democratic digital firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results.
Some users' Google Photos videos in Takeout backups were exported to strangers between November 21-25, 2019; those affected were notified by email
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Alphabet reports Q4 net income of $10.67B, up from $8.95B YoY, fiscal year 2019 revenues of $162B, up 18% YoY, discloses new Search, YouTube, and Cloud revenues
up 36 percent from 2018 and 86 percent compared to 2017. https://abc.xyz/... https://twitter.com/... Luther Lowe / @lutherlowe : Now we know why Google was making even more of its ads look like organi...
Twitter says it has suspended “a large network of fake accounts” and many others for abusing an API feature that let them match phone numbers to usernames
Twitter announced today that over the holidays it identified and shut down “a large network of fake accounts,” …
Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service launches from beta with Steam, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Uplay support, rivaling Google Stadia at $5/month
The BYOG cloud gaming service with Steam, Epic, Battle.net, and Uplay support — For the past eight years …
Facebook debuts more controls for parents in Messenger Kids like the ability to view recent chat history, a log of chat images, remote device logout, and more
We launched Messenger Kids in 2017 after meeting with thousands of parents, parenting organizations, child safety advocates …
Mastercard CEO details why the company pulled out of Libra, says he had concerns about how Libra went from an “altruistic idea” to Calibra, a proprietary wallet
- Money laundering questons on Facebook's digital currency — Banga does not understand how Libra makes money
Sundar Pichai says YouTube Music and YouTube Premium together have more than 20M paying subscribers, and YouTube TV has more than 2M subscribers in the US
Todd Spangler / Variety :
In its first revenue disclosure for Google's cloud division, Alphabet says it generated $2.61B Q4 revenue and $8.92B in fiscal 2019, up from $5.84B YoY
here's how it compares to Amazon and Microsoft Colm Gorey / Silicon Republic : Alphabet finally reveals how much YouTube earns in ad revenue Tweets: Ryan Browne / @ryan_browne_ : Wonder what YouTube c...
Sources: top antitrust official Makan Delrahim has recused himself from DOJ's Google probe over a conflict of interest related to his past work for the company
Makan Delrahim, the Justice Department's head of antitrust, removed himself from examining the search giant over a conflict of interest …
Tesla's stock, up ~15% today, has more than tripled in under 4 months, from $255 on Oct. 23 to ~$900; 12K+ Robinhood users bought TSLA for the first time Monday
Jim Cramer: Tesla is a tech company and must be valued as one — Yes, there's an entrenched short base that's getting torched …
Researchers detail EKANS ransomware, which is targeting industrial control systems and appears to be the work of cybercriminals rather than nation-state hackers
EKANS appears to be the work of cybercriminals, rather than nation-state hackers—a worrying development, if so.
Alphabet Q4: revenue of $46B, up 17% YoY; revenue from Other Bets, which includes Verily, Fiber, others, rose to $172M as losses jumped to $2B from $1.3B YoY
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Amid virus outbreak, authorities in China are using its vast surveillance network to identify potential carriers, ostracizing even those without the symptoms
The authorities hunt for people from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak, encouraging citizens to inform on others. Tweets: @paulmozur , @sugabelly , @jotted , @amyyqin , and @liyuan6 Tweets: @paulmozur...
HPE acquires zero-trust authentication startup Scytale, which was founded by the creators of open source projects SPIFFE and SPIRE and had raised $8M to date
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said that it has acquired Scytale Inc., a startup that develops so-called zero-trust security software …
Finix, a SaaS startup selling payments tech to other businesses, raises $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total raised to over $55M
This morning Finix, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup selling payments tech to other businesses, announced that it has raised …
Asana says it has confidentially filed to go public via a direct listing; the startup has raised about $213M to date and was last valued at ~$1.5B in 2018
Workplace productivity toolmaker Asana announced late Monday that they have confidentially filed their S-1 and said in a statement …
Toronto-based Top Hat, which makes software tools for teachers in higher education, raises $55M Series D co-led by Georgian Partners and Inovia Capital
Toronto-based Top Hat, a company that makes a number of software tools for teachers in higher education, today announced that it has raised …
Dropbox CEO and co-founder Drew Houston joins Facebook's board of directors, effective immediately
Good times https://twitter.com/... Dan Primack / @danprimack : Boston tech folks view @drewhouston and @finkd as the two who got away, so makes sense they'd team up. Julia Carrie Wong / @juliacarriew ...
A performance artist loaded 99 smartphones into a wagon and opened Google Maps on all of them, creating an artificial traffic jam that turned green streets red
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google :
Microsoft Teams was down for nearly three hours on Monday morning after Microsoft forgot to renew a security certificate
Tom Warren / The Verge :
The chip industry had its worst slump in almost two decades as revenue fell 12% to $412B in 2019, the biggest drop since 2001, due to the US-China trade war
The semiconductor industry last year suffered its worst annual slump in almost two decades, hurt by a trade war between the largest chip producer …
Sensor Tower: Byte, a short-form video app from Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann, had ~1.3M downloads during its first week, with 70% of installs happening in the US
New short-form video app Byte, heralded as Vine's successor, is off to a strong start despite its issues.
YouTube shows how it's cracking down on election disinformation: removing doctored and misleading videos, as well as those questioning a candidate's eligibility
and they're already supporting Republicans like John Cornyn, Cory Gardner, David Perdue, and Thom Tillis. Help us fight back and #FlipTheSenate in November: http://www.flipthesenate.com/ https://twitt...
BlackBerry says TCL Communications will stop manufacturing BlackBerry-branded phones on August 31, 2020 as its licensing deal comes to an end
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google :
As Apple closes its offices, stores, and contact centers in China, Ming-Chi Kuo lowers Q1 iPhone shipment forecasts by 10% due to Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors :
Danish startup Dixa, which aims to make customer service more personal, intelligent, and data-driven, raises €32.5M Series B led by Notion Capital
Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups :
Cresta, which uses AI to improve real-time customer interactions of call center workers, emerges from stealth by announcing $21M in funding from a16z and others
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch :
Utah-based SaaS company Aumni, which is developing a robotic process automation and data analytics platform for private capital investors, raises $10M Series A
Labelbox raises $25M Series B, led by a16z, to grow its data-labeling platform for AI model training
Delivering on the promise of AI …
UK's Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation recommends that the UK regulates how tech platforms use AI in targeting users
Ryan Browne / CNBC :
Instagram's search remains a haven of vaccine misinformation, a year after Facebook said it wouldn't show such content on Instagram Explore or hashtag pages
Jesselyn Cook / HuffPost : Tweets: @jessreports , @mosseri , and @tonyajoriley Tweets: Jesselyn Cook / @jessreports : Respectfully, people *do* search for vaccine info on Instagram. There's a very ac...
Sources: Apple supplier Wistron to assemble key iPhone component at its plant in Bengaluru, highlighting its push to expand manufacturing in India
Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters :
Koch Industries announces it's acquiring Infor, a provider of large-scale cloud ERP software founded in 2002, in a deal sources say is worth nearly $13B
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Uber suspends 240 accounts of users in Mexico who came into contact with two drivers who possibly had the coronavirus, to help contain its potential spread
Justin Villamil / Bloomberg :
Study that scanned public websites, apps, and code repositories shows that only three of the top 100 international airports pass basic cybersecurity checks
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @codermay Tweets: @codermay : “33.7% of the mobile apps outgoing traffic has no encryption” https://twitter.com/...
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