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- Uncertainty grows for Chinese workers in Silicon Valley after trade war tensions, the Huawei controversy, and cases of Chinese accused of stealing trade secrets (Yuan Yang/Financial Times)
- Judge dismisses Sidecar's 2018 lawsuit against Uber; Sidecar, a ride-hailing company that closed in 2015, had accused Uber of using anti-competitive practices (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
- GM's Cruise unveils Origin, its first driverless vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals, says it will share more info about its production plans in the future (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
- Sources: Quibi's CEO Meg Whitman, in an internal meeting, compared reporters' friendly rapport with their sources to how sexual predators groom their targets (The Information)
- Stillfront Group, a Sweden-based group of gaming studios, is acquiring mobile gaming studio Storm8 for $300M, of which $75M will be in Stillfront shares (Mike Minotti/VentureBeat)
- Source: the new low-cost iPhone, which looks like iPhone 8 and has a 4.7" screen, will enter production in February and may be announced as early as March (Bloomberg)
- How social networks cite the Stored Communications Act, a privacy law from the '80s, to withhold information that might exonerate defendants in criminal cases (Megan Cassidy/San Francisco Chronicle)
- Corporate moving services startup Shyft, which claims its tech is 95% accurate at identifying volume and weight of the move via video call, raises $15M Series A (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
- Analysis: Netflix now boasts 1,211 originals and has been adding one show a day on average over the past eight months (Joshua Fruhlinger/Thinknum)
- IBM's Q4 revenue grew slightly, to $21.77B, beating expectations after five quarters of declines, with Red Hat revenue up 24% YoY; stock up 4%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
- Sources: analysis shows a message from Saudi Crown Prince MbS' WhatsApp account to Jeff Bezos in 2018 included file "highly" likely to have hacked Bezos' phone (Stephanie Kirchgaessner/The Guardian)
- Netflix Q4 revenue grew 31% YoY to $5.467B and net income rose to $587M, surpassing 100M paid memberships outside the US; global paid net additions totaled 8.8M (Netflix IR)
- Facebook says it plans to hire 1,000 workers in the UK this year, with over half in technology, bringing its total in the UK to over 4,000 (Reuters)
- Google debuts experimental wellbeing apps including Activity Bubbles, which slowly fill the screen after unlocking, and wallpaper showing phone usage time (Garrett Bridges/Android Police)
- SCOTUS declines to review Facebook facial recognition case, meaning FB will likely face a class-action suit alleging its photo-tagging feature violated IL law (Emily Birnbaum/The Hill)
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- Six months after IBM spent $34 billion to acquire an open source software company, IBM's Q4 results showed that 'Red Hat goodness is kicking in' (IBM)
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