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Box reports Q4 revenue of $136.7M, up 24% YoY, in line with estimates, and has 82K+ customers but forecasts revenue of $142-143M vs $144.3M est; stock down 11%+ (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Salesforce reports Q4 revenue of $2.85B, up 24% YoY, vs. $2.81B est., and raises full fiscal 2019 revenue guidance by $150M to $12.6-$12.65B (Stephanie Condon/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Spotify listing shows it has allocated its co-founders 379.2M "beneficiary certificates", which have outsized voting power, giving them 80%+ of the voting power (Alex Morrell/Business Insider) אסף מגידש

Spotify had 159M MAUs in December 2017, up 29% YoY, of which 71M were premium subs; CEO Daniel Ek owns 23.8% of the firm, co-founder Martin Lorentzon has 12.4% (TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

How Spotify shareholders TPG and Dragoneer used convertible debt notes, which entitled them to more shares if listing was delayed, to force listing by July 2 (Theodore Schleifer/Recode) אסף מגידש

Spotify says it eventually plans to move remaining computing and storage workloads to Google Cloud Platform, after beginning backend migration in 2016 (Jordan Novet/CNBC) אסף מגידש

A look at how Spotify's direct stock listing will work: no set price range, no underwriters, no roadshow, and no bar on existing shareholders selling shares (Matt Turner/Business Insider) אסף מגידש

Spotify says operating loss was $461.2M in 2017, up from $425M in 2016; average user streams 25 hours of audio a month, playlists generate 31% of all listening (Janko Rottgers/Variety) אסף מגידש

Spotify Technologies S.A. F-1 SEC filing for public listing on NYSE (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) אסף מגידש

Spotify files paperwork with SEC for $1B IPO, using a direct listing (Dan Primack/Axios) אסף מגידש

Venezuela's "petro" cryptocurrency is a joke that uses blockchain to hide debt for the government, while giving nothing in return, especially to Venezuelans (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says he'll invest an extra $125M into his nonprofit AI research lab over three years in attempt to teach machines "common sense" (Cade Metz/New York Times) אסף מגידש

Asus ZenBook Flip 14 review: looks good, great battery, and has good performance aided by discrete GPU, but keyboard is poor and speakers are muffled (Stefan Etienne/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Microsoft Teams adds guest support for users with any email address (Mehedi Hassan/Thurrott.com) אסף מגידש

Twitter begins rolling out its Bookmarks feature, which lets users privately save tweets and has been in testing since October 2017, to all mobile users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

NSA director says Russia hasn't been dissuaded from meddling in US elections, and Trump hasn't given him new authority to strike at Russian cyber-operations (Washington Post) אסף מגידש

Google brings Hangouts Chat, its Slack competitor, out of beta and adds it to G Suite with deeper integration with other Google and third-party tools (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Inside the informal coalition of tech companies, experts, industry groups, and more who meet weekly in Washington to discuss protecting net neutrality rules (Brian Fung/Washington Post) אסף מגידש

Baidu's video streaming service iQiyi files for US IPO with $1.5B placeholder target; reports suggest it's aiming for a public market valuation of ~$10B (Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

Leaked images and sources detail Fitbit's next smartwatch, set for spring launch, that will appeal to female market, have 50M water resistance, no GPS, more (Hugh Langley/Wareable) אסף מגידש

Microsoft announces four new services aimed at healthcare professionals, including Microsoft Genomics for genetic analyses and AI-based Empower MD platform (Clare McGrane/GeekWire) אסף מגידש

Apple says it will let developers making apps for Watch Series 3 track ski and snowboard activities through APIs in watchOS 4.2 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) אסף מגידש

Poll of 3,574 US adults shows 55% are in favor of the government regulating big tech companies, up from only 40% in November last year (Kim Hart/Axios) אסף מגידש

Facebook is rolling out job ads to 40 more countries; businesses can post job openings to a Jobs tab on their Page, Facebook Marketplace, and the News Feed (Josh Constine/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Sources: Palantir has been secretly testing predictive policing technology in New Orleans since 2012 that identifies individuals at risk of committing crime (Ali Winston/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Study: top 3% of most-viewed YouTube channels receive ~85% of all views, attract 1.4M+ views/month, but could bring only ~$17K/year each in advertising revenue (Chris Stokel-Walker/Bloomberg) אסף מגידש

eBay to acquire Japanese ecommerce platform Qoo10.jp, an arm of Singapore-based Giosis, report says for ~$700M (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat) אסף מגידש

Self-driving car startup Aurora raises $90M Series A, with participation from Greylock Partners and Index Ventures (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Duo Security reports SAML vulnerability affecting single sign-on systems, allows attackers with authenticated access to log in as other users without a password (Zack Whittaker/ZDNet) אסף מגידש

Inside Amazon's $1M Alexa Prize competition, which challenged students to build socialbots that could chat coherently with Alexa users in the US for 20 minutes (James Vlahos/Wired) אסף מגידש

Amazon Music launches in India as a free service for Prime members, available on Android, iOS, and the web (Akhil Arora/NDTV Gadgets 360) אסף מגידש

India-based music streaming service Gaana raises $115M led by Tencent for creating more personalized services and features for listeners using AI (Jon Russell/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Princeton researchers show some analytics firms are still accidentally collecting user passwords, including Mixpanel, which issued fixes after earlier findings (Lily Hay Newman/Wired) אסף מגידש

US House votes 388-25 on a bill that aims to make it easier to penalize operators of websites that facilitate online sex trafficking (Tom Jackman/Washington Post) אסף מגידש

Square says that in December 7M customers used the Cash app and that Cash customers spent more than $90M using virtual and physical Cash cards (Jason Del Rey/Recode) אסף מגידש

Asus announces 6.2" Zenfone 5 and $499+ flagship 5Z with iPhone X-like design and notch, Snapdragon 636 and 845 respectively; 5 available in April, 5Z in June (Vlad Savov/The Verge) אסף מגידש

Etsy quarterly gross merchandising sales hit $1B for the first time, up 17.8% YoY, and Q4 revenue was $136.3M, vs. $132.5M estimated; stock up 13%+ after hours (Michelle Castillo/CNBC) אסף מגידש

Cloudflare says it's spotted massive DDoS amplification attacks that abuse Memcached servers and the UDP protocol, has mitigated attacks of up to 260Gbps (Marek Majkowski/Cloudflare Blog) אסף מגידש

Square reports Q4 revenue of $283M, up 47% YoY, versus estimates of $266.3M, and 2017 subscription and services-based revenue of $253M, up 95% from 2016 (Matthew Lynley/TechCrunch) אסף מגידש

Ford chooses Miami to test autonomous ride-hail and delivery businesses, including a pilot with Postmates and Dominos, and is setting up fleet-management center (Johana Bhuiyan/Recode) אסף מגידש

Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth shares chart that shows the Trump campaign paid slightly higher CPM prices compared to Clinton in 2016 election, disputing reports (John Shinal/CNBC) אסף מגידש

Source: Amazon to acquire Ring video doorbell maker, with an announcement from the companies expected today (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) אסף מגידש

Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth shares chart that shows the Trump campaign paid slightly higher CPM prices compared to Clinton in 2016 election, disputing reports (Boz/@boztank) אסף מגידש

Entertainment Software Rating Board says "in the near future" all physical, boxed games that contain in-game purchases will include a label notifying purchasers (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

Uber's SVP of leadership and strategy, Frances Frei, departs after joining the company in June 2017 to run program aimed at leadership development (Kara Swisher/Recode) אסף מגידש

Facebook is notifying more users about facial recognition, which it says refers to feature announced last December that scans photos for faces of untagged users (Russell Brandom/The Verge) אסף מגידש

T-Mobile and Sprint announce the 30 and six cities respectively they plan to build out 5G for, including Dallas and LA, which will be available next year (Nat Levy/GeekWire) אסף מגידש

AT&T describes post-net neutrality plans for paid prioritization, to "enable innovative new technologies" like autonomous cars, remote surgery, and VR services (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica) אסף מגידש

US Supreme Court wrestles with Microsoft data privacy fight, with justices Roberts and Alito hinting support for DoJ's stance; ruling is due by the end of June (Reuters) אסף מגידש

Venmo reaches FTC settlement over bad security and transaction practices, with FTC Chairman Maureen K. Ohlhausen noting "consumers suffered real harm" (Russell Brandom/The Verge) אסף מגידש