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Box reports Q1 revenue of $117M, up 30% YoY, vs $115M expected, and an operating loss of $40M, or 34% of revenue, compared to 43% a year ago (Matthew Lynley/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Sources: Apple's Siri-controlled speaker enters production, will feature virtual surround sound, could debut at WWDC and ship later this year (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Source: Tim Cook called Trump to express support for Paris accord as Musk tweets he'll drop advisory role if US leaves, Intel, Microsoft sign ad supporting deal (Jennifer A Dlouhy/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Gmail adds new security features for businesses, including malicious link and phishing detection, using machine learning techniques claimed to be 99.9% accurate (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Oculus adds Chromecast support to the Samsung Gear VR headset, letting users stream their VR experiences to TVs, ahead of Daydream support for Chromecast (Adi Robertson/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Leaked documents show Uber burned $1M+/week in San Francisco in 2015 to subsidize UberPool as it battled Lyft (Priya Anand/BuzzFeed) אסף מגידש

Brendan Eich's browser startup, Brave, raises $35M via its initial coin offering, selling out in under 30 seconds (Jonathan Keane/CoinDesk) אסף מגידש

Mary Meeker's 2017 internet trends report: smartphone sales and internet growth slowing, more (Rani Molla/Recode) אסף מגידש

Cisco and IBM announce partnership to tackle cybercrime, will integrate security products, services, and threat intelligence (Larry Dignan/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Researcher finds 60K+ files from government consulting firm Booz Allen on public Amazon server, including US government passwords, security credentials, more (Dell Cameron/Gizmodo) אסף מגידש

Waze says it's expanding its carpooling service to all of California beginning June 6 after successful tests in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Monterey (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

As China prepares to implement its new cybersecurity law that requires firms to store data in China and more, some experts and businesses worry about its scope (Sui-Lee Wee/New York Times) אסף מגידש

Sources: Samsung's Bixby virtual assistant won't debut in the US at least until late June, as it is struggling to comprehend English syntax and grammar (Timothy W. Martin/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Yandex debuts first self-driving car prototype; currently limited to closed-circuit driving, with public tests expected in 2018 (Jon Fingas/Engadget) אסף מגידש

Microsoft Garage launches Your News, a curated news app for Xbox One that streams personalized content from MSN (Dan Thorp-Lancaster/Windows Central) אסף מגידש

Digital drug marketing firm Outcome Health raises nearly $600M from Goldman Sachs, Capital G, and others (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Bicycle-sharing is challenging Didi's car-sharing business as China's most popular mode of last-mile transportation (Li Tao/South China Morning Post) אסף מגידש

Sony's XZ Premium is available to preorder starting June 12, and goes on sale unlocked from June 19, for $799 (James Vincent/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Microsoft says "Always Connected" Windows 10 ARM PCs are coming from Asus, HP, and Lenovo, and shows Asus and Dell Windows Mixed Reality headsets (Peter Han/Windows Blog) אסף מגידש

Reddit now lets users tag their posts with location, powered by Foursquare data, coming first to mobile (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Nest unveils Cam IQ, a smart home camera with a 4K video sensor that uses Google's AI for facial recognition; preorders open now for $299, ships end of June (Vlad Savov/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Tech and advertiser trade groups helped Congress dismantle Obama-era internet privacy rules (Kimberly Kindy/Washington Post) אסף מגידש

Essential began with a $30M investment from Playground and Redpoint and raised a second round; Tencent, VY, Altimeter, Access Tech logos also visible on site (Ina Fried/Axios) אסף מגידש

Andy Rubin talks about the Essential PH-1 smartphone and Home at Code Conference (Meghann Farnsworth/Recode) אסף מגידש

Twitter creates Requests inbox that filters DMs from people you don't follow, rollout for iOS and Android apps today, coming to web within months (Andrew Dalton/Engadget) אסף מגידש

Uzbekistan bans the import and distribution of 34 computer games, including The Sims to GTA, it deems are "distorting values" (BBC) אסף מגידש

BlackBerry KEYone will be available in the US May 31 at select Best Buy stores and online from $549.99 (Matthew Miller/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

EU agrees to set aside €120M to bring WiFi to 6,000-8,000 municipalities, which currently have limited internet access, by 2020 (Reuters) אסף מגידש

Google quietly announces it will no longer update or add features to its Nik Collection of free photo editing apps (Michael Zhang/PetaPixel) אסף מגידש

As Uber proceeds with Eric Holder-led harassment probe, several employees hire personal attorneys amid the mandatory interviews (Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Amazon cancels its QVC-like shopping show "Style Code Live", which launched in March 2016 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Uber fires VP and star engineer Anthony Levandowski for refusing to cooperate in the Uber vs Waymo case, according to an internal email (Mike Isaac/New York Times) אסף מגידש

In printer cartridge case, US Supreme Court curbs patent-holders' power to block resale of items (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Researchers find 41 apps from a single developer with several million downloads that fraudulently click on ads, now removed from Play Store (Kbeneven/Check Point Blog) אסף מגידש

CrowdJustice raises $2M to expand its public interest litigation crowdfunding platform from UK to US, having seen success in supporting cases challenging Brexit (Steve O'Hear/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Samsung debuts the Notebook 9 Pro with 360-degree hinge, 13.3" and 15" versions, embedded S-Pen, USB-C, more; pricing and release date TBD (Tom Warren/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Sources shed light on how the talks about partnership between Ford and Google on autonomous car technology fell apart under former Ford CEO Mark Fields (Sharon Silke Carty/Automotive News) אסף מגידש

Essential Home announced as a privacy-focused Amazon Echo competitor, to have a round "auto-display" and be less cloud dependent, reportedly coming late summer (Thomas Ricker/The Verge) אסף מגידש

FOIA documents show how Sheryl Sandberg personally lobbied Irish PM Enda Kenny on two issues of interest to Facebook, taxation and data protection (Brian Carroll/Independent.ie) אסף מגידש

Indian food delivery startup Swiggy raises $80M Series E led by Naspers (Sayan Chakraborty/Livemint) אסף מגידש

Andy Rubin's Essential debuts phone with top-of-the line specs, edge-to-edge display, dual camera, but no 3.5mm headphone jack; preorders open today for $699 (Dieter Bohn/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Intel unveils Core X series of high-end processors, with up to 18 cores and 36 threads, from $242 to $2000 (Peter Bright/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Sony announces its 13.3" E Ink tablet, with 1,650 x 2,200 resolution and NFC unlocking, will be available in the US in June for $700 (Jon Fingas/Engadget) אסף מגידש

Mobile payments in China reached $5.5T last year, more than half the nation's GDP and 50x that of $112B in US, as the country sees an increase in QR code use (Stephen Chen/South China Morning Post) אסף מגידש

NYSE seeks SEC approval to change rules regarding direct listings that will allow unicorns like Spotify to go public without raising money (Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Giphy, which has raised $150M and has 150M+ users watching 4M+ hours of GIFs every day, weighs various revenue models (Alex Heath/Business Insider) אסף מגידש

Major hotel chains launch marketing campaigns to woo customers away from travel-booking sites, which take commissions of up to 30% for each reservation (Chris Kirkham/Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

ASUS' Tango-powered ZenFone AR, which will also support Daydream, to hit US as soon as end of June; currently about 50 Tango AR apps run stably on the device (Richard Lai/Engadget) אסף מגידש

Study: after switching exclusively to HTTPS, Wikipedia saw fewer instances of government censorship (Daniel Oberhaus/Motherboard) אסף מגידש

Demandbase raises $65M Series H to boost AI capabilities of its targeted B2B marketing cloud service (Allison Schiff/AdExchanger) אסף מגידש