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The Daily Download - tech news for 2019-01-31


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Sonos adds support for YouTube Music; premium users of the streaming
Nintendo delays its Mario Kart smartphone game until the summer; known
The FBI has accused a former Apple hardware developer of trying
Samsung ($275B market cap) FQ4 meets: $53.4B revenue, down 10 percent
The UAE has hired former US intelligence operatives to hack iPhones
Samsung’s North American president Tim Baxter announces he will retire from
Intel bids as much as $6B to acquire Israel-based chipmaker Mellanox
Devumi, a now-defunct firm that offered fake social media followers and
Google announces the consumer version of Google+ will close on April
Microsoft ($816B market cap) FQ2 mixed: $32.5B revenue, up 12 percent
Digital movie locker service Ultraviolet will shut down on July 31,
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook's priorities for 2019; he says the company
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will not combine the underlying architecture of
Latin American scooter rental firms Grin and Yellow merge, raise $150M
Tesla announces CFO Deepak Ahuja is stepping down; reasons for the
Facebook ($432B market cap) FQ4 beats: $16.9B revenue, up 30 percent
Grab raises $200M for its Thai operations from retail conglomerate Central
Hackers distribute five-part collection of stolen usernames and passwords for 2.2B
Tesla ($53B market cap) generated a record $7.2B in the fourth
Product returns platform Returnly raises $8M Series A led by Mundi
Israel-based cloud storage processor company Pliops raises $30M Series B led
Austin-based construction project financing company Billd raises $60M Series A (debt
Apple plans to launch iPhones with more powerful, longer-range 3D cameras
Google's Screenwise Meter for iOS and Android devices tracked users' data
Internal Facebook apps used by tens of thousands of employees disabled
European Union considers proposals to ban Huawei from contributing to telecom
Verizon pauses rollout of 5G Home fixed broadband service; currently live
Nintendo files to patent an eyeglass tracking system that would enable
Lyft to sue New York City to prevent the implementation of
Ad-supported video streaming service Tubi plans to invest $100M in content
Chinese electronics company Meizu launches Indiegogo campaign for
FBI charges Apple engineer and Chinese national Jizhong Chen with stealing
Apple revokes the Enterprise Certificate that enabled Facebook to distribute its
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The Daily Download - latest tech news, byte sized. Based on @launchtickerBy Peter Kuhar