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Daily Crunch: IBM names new CEO

How Dubsmash revived itself as #2 to TikTok

Even as Microsoft Azure revenue grows, AWS’s market share lead stays strong

Twitter suspends notorious UK hate preacher for violating abuse rules

Arvind Krishna will replace Ginni Rometty as IBM CEO in April

Daily Crunch: Facebook’s profits disappoint

Social media boosting service exposed thousands of Instagram passwords

Hyperledger Fabric, the open source distributed ledger, reaches release 2.0

OpsRamp raises $37.5M for its hybrid IT operations platform

Snapchat launches Bitmoji TV: zany 4-min cartoons of your avatar

Facebook will pay $550 million to settle class action lawsuit over privacy violations

Facebook hits 2.5B users in Q4 but shares sink from slow profits

How the world’s largest cannabis dispensary avoids social media restrictions

Greylock’s Reid Hoffman and Sarah Guo to talk fundraising at Early Stage SF 2020

HeyMama, a premium social network for working moms, raises $2 million

Product Hunt launches beta of YourStack, a home for your favorite things

Study of YouTube comments finds evidence of radicalization effect

All users can now access Facebook’s tool for controlling which apps and sites can share data for ad-targeting

Toothless: Facebook proposes a weak Oversight Board

Daily Crunch: Facebook expands privacy options

RealityEngines launches its autonomous AI service

Nutanix execs discuss how they built their 2016 IPO roadshow deck

Pinterest launches virtual makeup ‘Try On’ feature, starting with lipstick

ServiceNow acquires conversational AI startup Passage AI

Cooks Venture raises $4 million from Golden West Food Group to ramp up distribution

Chicago’s ActiveCampaign raises $100M for an all-in-one marketing and sales automation platform

Persona raises $17.5M for an identify verification platform that goes beyond user IDs and passwords

Pantheon bets on WebOps as it charts a course to an IPO

Kidtech startup SuperAwesome raises $17M, with strategic investment from Microsoft’s M12 venture fund

Get ready to see Spotify’s looping videos on Instagram

Vine reboot Byte officially launches

Facebook’s dodgy defaults face more scrutiny in Europe

As SaaS stocks set new records, Atlassian’s earnings show there’s still room to grow

Meet the b2b videoconferencing startup that’s gone crazy for online dating

Wikipedia now has more than 6 million articles in English

Xerox wants to replace HP board that rejected takeover bid

NBC partners with Snapchat on four daily shows for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Some tech I loved is getting worse and I’m mad

Crisp, the demand forecast platform for the food industry, goes live

Twitter DMs now have emoji reactions

In latest JEDI contract drama, AWS files motion to stop work on project

Proxyclick raises $15M Series B for its visitor management platform

Yo Facebook & Instagram, stop showing Stories reruns

Google Cloud gets a Secret Manager

IBM snaps out of revenue doldrums, breaking a five-quarter losing streak in Q4

Shared inbox startup Front raises $59 million round led by other tech CEOs

Octi launches a social network built around augmented reality

TriggerMesh scores $3M seed from Index and Crane to help enterprises embrace ‘serverless’

Descartes Labs launches its new platform for analyzing geospatial data

ServiceNow acquires Loom Systems to expand AIOps coverage

Thundra announces $4M Series A to secure and troubleshoot serverless workloads

Placer.ai, a location data analytics startup, raises $12 million Series A

LumApps raises $70M Series C led by Goldman Sachs

India likely to force Facebook, WhatsApp to identify the originator of messages

Corporate relocation startup Shyft raises $15M

Spotify’s new test lets influencers post Stories to introduce their own playlists

Google Cloud lands Lufthansa Group and Sabre as new customers

Canonical’s Anbox Cloud puts Android in the cloud

Snyk snags $150M investment as its valuation surpasses $1B

TechCrunch’s Top 10 investigative reports from 2019

Instagram drops IGTV button, but only 1% downloaded the app

Harvestr gathers user feedback in one place

Microsoft announces global Teams ad push as it combats Slack for the heart of enterprise comms

Zendesk launches Sell Marketplace to bring app store to CRM product

Cloud services provider DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected

Visa’s Plaid acquisition shows a shifting financial services landscape

44% of TikTok’s all-time downloads were in 2019, but app hasn’t figured out monetization

Epsagon scores $16M Series A to monitor modern development environments

Cyral announces $11M Series A to help protect data in cloud

Cloudinary passes $60M ARR without VC money

Google Cloud gets a premium support plan with 15-minute response times

Kadena fulfills hybrid blockchain vision with launch of public chain

Former Docker CEO Steve Singh joins Madrona

Customer data platform ActionIQ raises $32M

The crypto rich find security in Anchorage

Google acquires AppSheet to bring no-code development to Google Cloud

Instagram tests Direct Messaging on web where encryption fails

Equinix is acquiring bare metal cloud provider Packet

Atrium lays off lawyers, explains pivot to legal tech

Google brings IBM Power Systems to its cloud

Adobe Experience Manager now offered as cloud-native SaaS application

Zebra’s SmartSight inventory robot keeps an eye on store shelves

Salesforce announces new tools to boost developer experience on Commerce Cloud

Smasung launches the rugged, enterprise-ready Galaxy XCover Pro

Instagram’s Boomerang evolves with SloMo, Echo, & Duo effects

How to fix slow List updates in SwiftUI

Over two dozen encryption experts call on India to rethink changes to its intermediary liability rules

Zuckerberg ditches annual challenges, but needs cynics to fix 2030

Daily Crunch: Twitter will let you limit replies

How some founders are raising capital outside of the VC world

Sisense nabs $100m at a $1B+ valuation for accessible big data business analytics

Insight Partners acquires data management company Veeam for $5B

Facebook won’t ban political ads, prefers to keep screwing democracy

Twitter’s new reply blockers could let Trump hide critics

Facebook and eBay pledge to do more to tackle trade in fake reviews after pressure from UK regulator

What to expect in digital media in 2020

Daily Crunch: Facebook bans deepfakes

Facebook bans deceptive deepfakes and some misleadingly modified media

Douyin, TikTok app in China, hits 400 million daily active users

Despite JEDI loss, AWS retains dominant market position

Facebook data misuse and voter manipulation back in the frame with latest Cambridge Analytica leaks

BigID bags another $50M round as data privacy laws proliferate

Twitter offers more support to researchers — to ‘keep us accountable’