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- Clutter, an on-demand physical storage company that manages the pickup, storage, and retrieval of your belongings, raises $200M Series D led by the Vision Fund (Jon Russell/TechCrunch)
- Source: Google is reorganizing its global lobbying operations, including adding resources to emerging markets, in response to global regulatory challenges (David McCabe/Axios)
- Lalamove, a Hong Kong-based on-demand delivery startup, has closed a $300M funding round split into two tranches, says it has been valued over $1B for some time (Jon Russell/TechCrunch)
- Qualcomm's ultrasonic fingerprint scanner in the Galaxy S10, integrated in one of the layers of the display, uses sound waves to take a 3D fingerprint image (Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)
- Galaxy Watch Active hands-on: a refined attempt at a fitness smartwatch with upgraded fitness tracking features; no rotating bezel is a change for the better (Mat Smith/Engadget)
- Apple's Shazam removes all third-party SDKs, except for Microsoft's HockeyApp, in latest iOS update; uninstalled SDKs include DoubleClick, Facebook Ads, AdMob (Ariel/Appfigures)
- Sources: Lyft plans to list its IPO shares on Nasdaq around the end of March and is expected to make its IPO filing public as early as next week (Wall Street Journal)
- Twitter opens applications for twttr, its beta program focused on conversations with rounded, indented, and color-coded replies, hidden engagement icons, more (TechCrunch)
- Investigation finds that YouTube is promoting anti-vaccine misinformation in search results and recommendations (BuzzFeed News)
- Samsung says the Bixby button on the Galaxy S10 can be remapped to open a third-party app with either a single or double press of the button (Chris Welch/The Verge)
- Sources: Lyft expects to be valued at between $20B and $25B in its IPO and plans to launch its IPO roadshow during the week of March 18 (Reuters)
- Samsung says the Galaxy S10 will include Samsung Knox alongside secure hardware-based storage for housing private blockchain keys (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
- Samsung says the Galaxy S10+ with 1TB of storage will cost $1,600, or about $53/month for 30 months (Stefan Etienne/The Verge)
- Samsung's head of mobile DJ Koh says its Galaxy Home smart speaker, originally unveiled in August 2018, will launch by April (Shara Tibken/CNET)
- Samsung doubles Bixby's supported languages, adding British English, German, Italian, and Spanish, coming to the S10, S9, S8, Note 9, and Note 8 (Shannon Liao/The Verge)
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- A major privacy advocacy group is calling on the FTC to force Google to divest the Nest business after it failed to let consumers know about a hidden microphone (GOOG, GOOGL)
- Elizabeth Holmes bought an un-potty trained Siberian husky as Theranos crumbled, and it was a poignant symbol of the messy situation
- The CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise tells us why the company is 'under-appreciated' and how it can beat Amazon in a market that's bigger than cloud computing (HPE)
- Trust is the main barrier to smart speaker adoption ? here's what companies can do about that
- These four charts show why Apple's China troubles aren't going away anytime soon (AAPL)
- Mark Zuckerberg has started his 2019 challenge of doing public debates ? here are the highlights from the first one (FB)
- BIG TECH IN HEALTHCARE: How Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are shaking up healthcare ? and what it means for the future of the industry (GOOGL, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT)
- Mark Zuckerberg said he doesn't want 'a camera in everyone?s living room,' but seemed to forget that Facebook sells a camera that goes in living rooms (FB)
- Three untapped opportunities wearables present to health insurers, providers, and employers
- SpaceX is about to launch an Israeli mission to the moon. If successful, it would be the world's first private lunar landing.
- Amazon decided to shut down HQ2 in New York but advertisers see no sign of the e-commerce giant slowing down its attack on Madison Avenue
- $650 billion asset manager Franklin Templeton is embedding data scientists in a key investment team, and it's a sign of how the industry is changing
- THE EDGE COMPUTING REPORT: How advances in edge computing will address key problems in the healthcare, telecommunications, and automotive sectors
- Samsung finally showed off its new foldable smartphone, the $1,980 Galaxy Fold
- Tesla is bleeding executives and it could create problems for the company, experts say (TSLA)
- The Samsung Galaxy S10 is one of the few major smartphones you can still buy with a headphone jack
- Users are reporting that Nike's new $350 self-lacing smart sneakers are breaking after they're updated (NKE)
- Samsung unveiled its Galaxy Fold ? here are the best features of the $1,980 foldable phone
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