MediaTek claims its 7nm chipset is the world's first SoC with an integrated 5G modem, will ship in devices in 2020 using Arm's Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU (andreif7 / AnandTech)
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Sorted Group, the Manchester-based delivery platform for retail companies, raises £15M, bringing the total amount raised to £22M (adegeler / Tech.eu)
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Profile of Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram who, sources say, argued for removing fake news and demoting Breitbart in News Feed in 2017 and early 2018 (sal19 / CNBC)
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Slack Q1 results show its revenue grew 67% YoY to $134.8M, losses grew 28% to $31.9M, says its shares traded at $26.38 on average in private markets recently (ericnewcomer / Bloomberg)
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Coinbase COO Asiff Hirji is leaving the company, to be replaced by VP of business Emilie Choi; a number of execs, including the CTO, have left Coinbase recently (julieverhage / Bloomberg)
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Tempus, a clinical data collection and analytics platform launched in 2015 by Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky, raises $200M Series F at a valuation of $3.1B (noah_kirsch / Forbes)
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Report: Apple to limit third-party tracking in apps for kids starting next week (cfisherwrites / Engadget)
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Amazon to buy Sizmek's Ad Server and Dynamic Creative Optimization units after the adtech company filed for Chapter 11 in March (megancgraham / CNBC)
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Report: Spotify is working on a new "Social Listening " feature that lets multiple people add songs to a play queue to listen to them together (mehedih_ / Thurrott)
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A deep dive into the 233-page antitrust ruling against Qualcomm, which said the company's aggressive licensing tactics had strangled competition for modem chips (binarybits / Ars Technica)
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BabbleLabs, which wants to use AI to improve speech quality, accuracy, and personalization in voice apps, raises $14M Series A (FinSMEs)
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Kiwibots, the "parallel autonomy" food delivery bots popular with students at UC Berkeley, are remotely piloted by workers in Colombia who are paid $2/hour (csaid / San Francisco Chronicle)
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Report: ~2.3B files, including sensitive info like credit card and medical data, are exposed via publicly accessible online file storage servers, up 50% YoY (dannyjpalmer / ZDNet)
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Q&A with Mark Cuban and Steve Case on investing in tech startups outside of Silicon Valley, how AI is changing the tech landscape, tech regulation, and more (karaswisher / Vox)
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In the age of music streaming, missing, bad, or inconsistent song metadata is estimated to have left billions on the table unpaid to artists and musicians (danideahl / The Verge)
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Foursquare buys location analytics service Placed from Snap, raises $150M led by Raine Group; Placed reportedly raised $13.4M before Snap acquired it in 2017 (jordanrcrook / TechCrunch)
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Netflix and Amazon made £1.1B in revenue from ~17.7M UK subscribers in 2018, while streaming services of UK's four main commercial broadcasters made ~£530M (marksweney / The Guardian)
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Investigation: US universities, foundations, and retirement plans back funds that invest millions in Chinese surveillance tech companies Megvii and SenseTime (BuzzFeed News)
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Intuit says it is acquiring Origami Logic, an Accel-backed marketing analytics startup that has raised over $64M in funding, in a deal expected to close Q4 2019 (Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE)
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VMware reports Q1 revenue of $2.27B, up 13% YoY, beating analyst estimates of $2.24B, and net income of $505M, including a gain of $132M from Pivotal (natalienoell / ZDNet)
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