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    • Atlassian beats with Q2 revenue of $299M, up 39% YoY, and subscription revenue of $152.5M vs. $150M estimated by analysts; stock up 9%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

    Jordan Novet / CNBC: Atlassian beats with Q2 revenue of $299M, up 39% YoY, and subscription revenue of $152.5M vs. $150M estimated by analysts; stock up 9%+ after hours  —  Atlassian shares rose more than 10 percent in extended trading on Thursday after the provider of collaboration software reported better … Atlassian beats with Q2

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    • A disorienting interview with Jack Dorsey on his Myanmar tweets, right-wing extremism, and what he'd do if Trump called on his followers to murder journalists (Ashley Feinberg/HuffPost)

    Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost: A disorienting interview with Jack Dorsey on his Myanmar tweets, right-wing extremism, and what he’d do if Trump called on his followers to murder journalists  —  A Q&A with Twitter’s CEO on right-wing extremism, Candace Owens, and what he’d do if the president called on his followers to murder journalists. A

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    • Mortal Kombat 11 might include time travel and just finish me, please

    WB Interactive Entertainment today revealed the first gameplay footage of Mortal Kombat 11, the latest installment in the venerated fighting game franchise in a splashy reveal event, and I’m already dreading the continuation of the story. In terms of what you’d expect from Mortal Kombat reveals, the show delivered. The new game looks incredibly gory and weighty, and the

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    • Mastercard says its updated policy to end automatic billing after free trials is only for physical products not digital services (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

    Sean Hollister / The Verge: Mastercard says its updated policy to end automatic billing after free trials is only for physical products not digital services  —  A misleading blog post is currently being updated  —  Ever sign up for a free trial, only to get slapped with a monthly fee when you forget to cancel

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    Ice missiles, careening buses and falling trees: The Weather Channel virtually previews Winter Storm Harper

    Combining real-life anchors with vivid, digital simulations, the Weather Channel’s mixed-immersive-reality clips have been pitched as an educational tool that brings extreme weather events to life. The latest previews an ice storm that is expected to strike the East Coast this weekend. Ice missiles, careening buses and falling trees: The Weather Channel virtually previews Winter

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    • Twitter says a bug led to the "Protect your Tweets" setting being disabled for some Android users for almost five years, making their tweets public (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter says a bug led to the “Protect your Tweets” setting being disabled for some Android users for almost five years, making their tweets public  —  Twitter accidentally revealed some users’ “protected” (aka, private) tweets, the company disclosed this afternoon. Twitter says a bug led to the "Protect your Tweets" setting

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    • Fortnite vulnerability could have left millions of credit cards exposed

    Just as triumphant reports come in about Fortnite‘s success, the world’s most popular game is forced to contend with stories about security vulnerabilities that could have exposed its millions of players to hackers. Data analysis firm SuperData today reported that Fortnite earned $2.4 billion in revenue last year, topping the list of games for the year (and probably

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    • Facebook says it will ask its employees to take down their reviews of Portal devices on Amazon after three employees were caught leaving 5-star reviews (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

    Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Facebook says it will ask its employees to take down their reviews of Portal devices on Amazon after three employees were caught leaving 5-star reviews  —  Whoops  —  Facebook’s Portal smart displays have had an uphill battle, trying to convince people to willingly give … Facebook says it will ask

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    • April Underwood, promoted to the role of chief product officer at Slack 10 months ago, is leaving the company to focus on investing (Kate Clark/TechCrunch)

    Kate Clark / TechCrunch: April Underwood, promoted to the role of chief product officer at Slack 10 months ago, is leaving the company to focus on investing  —  Slack is losing its chief product officer April Underwood ahead of a direct listing expected in 2019.  —  Underwood joined Slack, the provider … April Underwood, promoted

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    • Sources: Walmart has abandoned plans to launch a new streaming service after talks with the former CEO of Epix fell apart, will instead concentrate on Vudu (Alex Sherman/CNBC)

    Alex Sherman / CNBC: Sources: Walmart has abandoned plans to launch a new streaming service after talks with the former CEO of Epix fell apart, will instead concentrate on Vudu  —  – Talks with veteran media executive Mark Greenberg fell apart last year, according to people familiar with the matter. Sources: Walmart has abandoned plans

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    • Google to pay Fossil $40M for IP related to smartwatch tech that Fossil has developed following its Misfit acquisition in 2015 (Paul Lamkin/Wareable)

    Paul Lamkin / Wareable: Google to pay Fossil $40M for IP related to smartwatch tech that Fossil has developed following its Misfit acquisition in 2015  —  New smartwatch innovation is promised from the big deal  —  The Fossil Group and Google have exclusively revealed to Wareable that Google will pay Fossil $40 million … Google

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