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- JumpCloud raises $50M from General Atlantic, Foundry Group, and OpenView Partners for its SaaS platform that centralizes and simplifies identity management (FinSMEs)
- YouTube announces API changes that will hide live subscriber counts starting in August, sparking YouTuber protests to save analytics providers like Social Blade (Julia Alexander/The Verge)
- Motionsoft, a SaaS platform used by 2,900+ fitness and wellness clubs and 8M+ club members, raises $17M; Motionsoft has raised $60M to date, per Crunchbase (FinSMEs)
- Proxima Media, founded by Hollywood producer Ryan Kavanaugh, says it has raised $100M for Proxicoin, a token that enables fractional ownership of film projects (Yogita Khatri/CoinDesk)
- SEC filing: Ryan Graves, Uber's first employee and first CEO, is leaving the company's board on Monday, May 27 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
- Source: Robinhood is close to raising $200M+ in new funding in a round valuing the company at $7B+; it last raised $363M in May 2018 at a valuation of $5.6B (Julie Verhage/Bloomberg)
- Facebook decides to let the misleading Nancy Pelosi video remain on its platform indefinitely, but with a fact check, says it will limit the video's reach (Bryan Menegus/Gizmodo)
- First American Financial's site exposed 885M files that included bank account numbers, mortgage and tax records, SSNs, wire transactions, drivers license pics (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
- Apple acquired Tueo Health, a small startup developing an app that works with commercial breathing sensors to help manage asthma symptoms in sleeping children (CNBC)
- GnosticPlayers claims to have hacked graphic design service Canva and stolen names, usernames, email addresses of 139M users, and 61M strongly hashed passwords (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
- Wi-Fi Alliance, semiconductor standards body JEDEC, and SD Association suspend Huawei's membership, limiting Huawei's future ability to shape these standards (Nikkei)
- Microsoft's Windows Defender Application Guard extensions, which open untrusted web pages in a virtual container, now generally available for Chrome and Firefox (Eric Avena/Microsoft Security)
- Sources: Palantir's 2018 revenue grew ~40% YoY to ~$1B, as losses fell to ~$30M; Palantir wants to show two consecutive years of growth before expected 2020 IPO (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
- Microsoft's xCloud game streaming service, in testing among its employees, can stream 3,500+ Xbox games without developers making any changes to their titles (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- China's biggest chip maker SMIC says it has notified NYSE of its intention to apply on June 3 to delist from the exchange after 15 years (Zhang Shidong/South China Morning Post)
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- Samsung could emerge as the big winner from Huawei's miserable week (GOOG, INTC)
- Uber's first employee and one of Travis Kalanick's last allies has left the company's board just 2 weeks after IPO (UBER)
- The Boeing 737 Max's return to the air has reportedly been delayed by regulators looking into emergency procedures on older Boeing jets (BA)
- Palantir was expected to IPO in 2019, but that dream is now reportedly on hold until next year
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