Archive for February 19th, 2009
emoticons, the early years
Posted by: amygdala on February 19, 2009
hi, my name is Bob…
Posted by: amygdala on February 19, 2009
links for 2009-02-18
Posted by: amygdala on February 19, 2009
- Getaround, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer car sharing service, raises $300M Series D led by SoftBank: source says at more than $800M post-money valuation (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)
- CoinDesk, a site which tracks news and info about digital currency like bitcoin, generated $20M in revenue in the first seven months of 2018 and is profitable (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)
- Santa Clara Fire Department says Verizon throttled "unlimited" data plan to a fire truck during Mendocino wildfire response; Verizon says it made a mistake (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
- Grocery e-commerce company Boxed raises $110M Series D led by Japanese retail chain Aeon Group; source says the startup is now valued at $600M (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
- Twitter says it has suspended 284 accounts for engaging in coordinated manipulation and that many of the accounts appeared to originate from Iran (Twitter Safety/@twittersafety)
- Facebook removes 652 Pages, groups, and accounts on Facebook and Instagram after a FireEye tip led it to investigate inauthentic behavior out of Iran and Russia (Facebook)
- In an interview, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Twitter should be built around following topics and interests, thinks an impartial product can exist (Charlie Warzel/BuzzFeed News)
- Google launches experimental feature for Assistant users in the US that shares stories from Solutions Journalism Network when asked "tell me something good" (Patricia Hernandez/The Verge)
- Google launches experimental feature for Assistant users in the US that shares stories from Solutions Journalism Network when asked "tell me something good" (Ryan Burke/The Keyword)
- Braavo, a startup that provides financing to mobile app developers and gets paid back with a fixed percentage of future earnings, raises $6M Series A (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
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