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Source: Sequoia Capital recently bought shares of online automation firm Zapier from its founders on the secondary market, with the sale valuing Zapier at $4B+ (Kate Clark/The Information)

Kate Clark / The Information:Source: Sequoia Capital recently bought shares of online automation firm Zapier from its founders on the…

2 years ago

Zoom Q4: revenue of $882M, up 369% YoY, vs. $812M est., 467K customers with 10+ employees, projected Q1 revenue of $900M-$905M, vs. $829M est.; stock jumps 9%+ (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC:Zoom Q4: revenue of $882M, up 369% YoY, vs. $812M est., 467K customers with 10+ employees, projected…

2 years ago

A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as parole apps replacing GPS ankle bracelets (Todd Feathers/The Guardian)

Todd Feathers / The Guardian:A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as…

2 years ago

Intel unveils four chip families, including Intel Core H-series for laptop gaming and Core vPro focused on hardware-based security, for the enterprise market (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:Intel unveils four chip families, including Intel Core H-series for laptop gaming and Core vPro focused on…

2 years ago

Muslim prayer app Salaat First, with 10M+ Android downloads, tracks users’ location in the UK, Germany, France, and Italy and sells it to data broker Predicio (Joseph Cox/VICE)

Joseph Cox / VICE:Muslim prayer app Salaat First, with 10M+ Android downloads, tracks users' location in the UK, Germany, France,…

2 years ago

Mynt, the fintech arm of Filipino carrier Globe Telecom, says it has raised $175M in multiple tranches, bringing it post-money valuation close to $1B (Miguel Cordon/Tech in Asia)

Miguel Cordon / Tech in Asia:Mynt, the fintech arm of Filipino carrier Globe Telecom, says it has raised $175M in…

2 years ago

Chinese Startup Unitree Begins Selling a Headless Robot Dog for $2,700

Long-time Slashdot reader cusco shares an interesting report from IEEE Spectrum:In 2017, we first wrote about the Chinese startup Unitree…

2 years ago

Valve and five PC games publishers fined $9.4M for illegal geo-blocking

A four-year antitrust investigation into PC games geo-blocking in the European Union by distribution platform Valve and five games publishers…

2 years ago

Months-long Twitter Backlash Had Zero Impact on WhatsApp’s User Base

An anonymous reader shares a report: It's safe to say WhatsApp didn't have the ideal start to 2021. Less than…

2 years ago

CBP scanned 23M+ people with facial recognition tech at airports, seaports, and pedestrian crossings in 2020, and reveals it caught zero imposters at airports (Dave Gershgorn/OneZero)

Dave Gershgorn / OneZero:CBP scanned 23M+ people with facial recognition tech at airports, seaports, and pedestrian crossings in 2020, and…

2 years ago