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PayPal reports Q4 revenue of $3.71B, up 24% YoY, vs. $3.63B est., processes $131B in total payments volume, up 32% YoY, and adds 8.7M customer accounts (Katie Roof/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Mark Zuckerberg says showing fewer viral videos reduced the total time people spent on Facebook by ~50M hours every day, as DAUs reach 2.13B, up 14% YoY (Richard Nieva/CNET) אסף מגידש

Qualcomm reports Q1 revenue of $6.04B, up 1% YoY, $6B tax reform charge, and 96% YoY operating profit decline as Apple and others withheld royalty payments (Eugene Kim/CNBC) אסף מגידש

AT&T reports Q4 revenue of $41.7B, vs. $41.8B last year, 4.1M total wireless net adds, and $19B net income, vs. $2.4B last year, boosted by tax reform benefit (Roger Cheng/CNET) אסף מגידש

Microsoft's Q2 productivity revenue up 25% YoY to $9B, Intelligent Cloud revenue up 15% YoY to $7.8B, personal computing revenue up 2% YoY to $12.2B (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Twitter now says 1.4M+ US users interacted with tweets from Russia-linked accounts during 2016 election, up from 670K previously announced, has notified them (Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed) אסף מגידש

Facebook Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2017 Results (Facebook) אסף מגידש

Microsoft Cloud Growth Fuels Second Quarter Results (Microsoft Investor Relations) אסף מגידש

PitchBook: female founders received $1.9B, or ~2.2%, of $85B total invested by VCs in 2017, up from 1.9% in 2016, as male-founded firms received $66.9B, or ~79% (Valentina Zarya/Fortune) אסף מגידש

Users around the world who infrequently log in to Facebook say it has been increasing re-engagement prompts via emails and text messages recently (Sarah Frier/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Venezuela's president says a pre-sale of its new "petro" cryptocurrency, with each token backed by one barrel of crude oil, will begin on February 20 (CNBC) אסף מגידש

As jury selection begins in Waymo-Uber trial, a rundown of both sides' core arguments on trade secrets, R&D, Anthony Levandowski's role, and more (Daisuke Wakabayashi/New York Times) אסף מגידש

Jack Dorsey says almost all Square Cash App users can now trade bitcoin on the platform; service isn't available for users in NY, Georgia, Wyoming, Hawaii (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC) אסף מגידש

Game broadcasting platform Caffeine, founded by two ex-Apple designers, raised $46M across two rounds led by Greylock in 2016 and a16z in 2017 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield says its Enterprise Grid service, launched one year ago, has 150+ customers (Salvador Rodriguez/Reuters) אסף מגידש

Uber partners with JUMP to begin piloting a bike-sharing service called Uber Bike in San Francisco starting next week (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Lyft opens its first European office in Munich, Germany where staff will work on localization and geometric mapping tech for autonomous vehicles (Stefan Nicola/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Google Flights says it will use historical data and AI to predict when planes may be delayed (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

SoftBank buys a 51% stake in Line's MVNO service in Japan, which allows unlimited data for Line services and social sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (Jon Russell/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Spotify is testing a separate Pandora-style music app called "Stations" on Android in Australia (Janko Roettgers/Variety) אסף מגידש

Big data business intelligence startup Trifacta raises $48M Series D from investors including Google, Ericsson, Accel, and others (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Fujifilm buys control of Xerox to form an $18B company, marking an end to the iconic American giant's independence (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Bytedance, operator of Chinese news app Toutiao, sues Baidu for unfair competition, claims Baidu deliberately places negative news about Toutiao in top results (Yimian Wu/China Money Network) אסף מגידש

South Korea says it has no plans to ban cryptocurrency exchanges, as it uncovers illegal cryptocurrency foreign exchange trading worth nearly $600M (Reuters) אסף מגידש

Samsung confirms it is manufacturing ASIC chips, which are used to mine cryptocurrencies; the ASIC industry is dominated by China's Bitmain and Canaan Creative (Jon Russell/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Nintendo beats expectations with Q3 revenue of $4.44B up 177% YoY, profit of $1.07B up 261% YoY, raises annual Switch sales forecast to 15M units from 14M (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) אסף מגידש

Webpass, the wireless home broadband company Google Fiber acquired in 2016, is exiting the Boston market, one of eight cities it served (Chris Welch/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Sources: Line Corp., creator of Japan's biggest messaging app, is expanding into cryptocurrency trading, insurance, and other financial services (Pavel Alpeyev/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Amazon rolls out SMS messaging feature for Alexa devices that lets users send text messages via voice, currently only available to Android users in US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

iOS 11.3, now in beta, allows parents to approve family purchases using Face ID, re-adding a feature that was possible with Touch ID (Guilherme Rambo/9to5Mac) אסף מגידש

EA reports Q3 revenue of $1.16B, up 1% YoY; net loss of $186M, $176M of which was charges due to US tax reform; stock up 7%+ after hours (Peter Wells/Financial Times) אסף מגידש

Microsoft updates iOS Office apps with real-time co-authoring, iPad drag and drop support, universal link support, and OneDrive support for the iOS Files app (Jeff Teper/Microsoft Tech Community) אסף מגידש

Red Hat to acquire Kubernetes and containers startup, CoreOS, for $250M (redhat.com) אסף מגידש

AMD reports Q4 revenue of $1.48B, up 34% YoY, vs $1.41B est., and is expecting $1.55B in revenue in Q1 2018, vs $1.25B est. (Jordan Novet/CNBC) אסף מגידש

Study: Google shows competitors' ads in just 2% of product-ad spots in Germany and 0.4% in the UK, following rollout of new ad bidding system after EU fine (Wall Street Journal) אסף מגידש

Study: Twitter cuts into Facebook's lead on traffic sent to publishers; this month FB sent 2.5 visitors for each one Twitter sent; in Oct '17, ratio was 4.7:1 (Alex Kantrowitz/BuzzFeed) אסף מגידש

Google says it removed 700,000+ apps from the Play Store last year for policy violations, up 70% YoY, credits new machine learning techniques for the increase (Emil Protalinski/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Google partners with MobileIron, which offers a cybersecurity tool for phones, to create a new marketplace for cloud services, to challenge Amazon (Nico Grant/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Facebook says it's banning all ads for cryptocurrencies, including ICOs, to avoid "misleading or deceptive promotional practices" (Kurt Wagner/Recode) אסף מגידש

Apple Pay accepted at 1 out of 2 U.S. stores, says Apple VP Jennifer Bailey (AppleInsider) אסף מגידש

Source: US Commodity Futures Trading Commission subpoenaed Bitfinex and Tether last week, amid lack of evidence of holdings and claims Tether is pegged to USD (Matthew Leising/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Microsoft makes its event routing service Azure Event Grid generally available in about 10 Azure regions (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Pinterest hires Chuck Rosenberg, Google's computer vision research lead, to be the company's head of computer vision and lead its visual search engineering team (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Popular rewards app Drop raises $21M Series A led by NEA (Danny Crichton/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Sources: US DoJ, SEC are investigating whether Apple violated securities laws concerning its disclosures about a software update that slowed older iPhone models (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Uber sells its Xchange Leasing portfolio to car leasing startup Fair; Fair becomes Uber's exclusive partner for leasing services for its drivers in the US (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Next Trucking, which matches shippers and truck carriers through an online marketplace, raises $21M Series B led by Sequoia Capital (Bérénice Magistretti/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Snap debuts new styles for its Bitmoji called Bitmoji Deluxe, now offers 40 skin tones, up from 25, twice as many hair colors, and 50 hair treatment options (Josh Constine/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Dog-walking app Wag accepts $300M in deal expected to give SoftBank 45% of the company and says cofounder Josh Viner will step aside as CEO (Theodore Schleifer/Recode) אסף מגידש

Source: TrackR, maker of Bluetooth trackers for physical objects, lays off 42 staff, in ongoing market contraction (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש