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    • Roku says it is removing two Infowars channels on its platform after criticism from users and a rebuke from some Sandy Hook families (Rachel Yang/Variety)

    Rachel Yang / Variety: Roku says it is removing two Infowars channels on its platform after criticism from users and a rebuke from some Sandy Hook families  —  Roku has taken the Infowars channel off its platform after the streaming device faced criticism for carrying the controversial program hosted by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

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    • Data from Portland's 4-month scooter program, which capped the number of scooters to ~2K and recorded 700K+ rides, shows scooters often replaced short car trips (Kate Conger/New York Times)

    Kate Conger / New York Times: Data from Portland’s 4-month scooter program, which capped the number of scooters to ~2K and recorded 700K+ rides, shows scooters often replaced short car trips  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The e-scooter boom began in Santa Monica, Calif., about 16 months ago.  Electric scooters … Data from Portland's 4-month scooter

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    • Sources: Bytedance reached the lower end of its ~$7.4B to ~$8.1B revenue target for 2018, the first time in years it hasn't beaten its forecast (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Sources: Bytedance reached the lower end of its ~$7.4B to ~$8.1B revenue target for 2018, the first time in years it hasn’t beaten its forecast  —  – 2018 revenue said to hit lower-end of 50-55 billion yuan goal  — Tik Tok owner said hit by slowing economy, monetization delay Sources: Bytedance reached the lower

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    • Evan Spiegel says Snap CFO Tim Stone, who joined the company from Amazon eight months ago, has resigned but will remain until February 5 to help with transition (Heather Kelly/CNN)

    Heather Kelly / CNN: Evan Spiegel says Snap CFO Tim Stone, who joined the company from Amazon eight months ago, has resigned but will remain until February 5 to help with transition  —  San Francisco (CNN Business)Snap is losing another high-profile executive.  Chief Financial Officer Tim Stone told Snap … Evan Spiegel says Snap CFO

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    • Roku says it is removing two Infowars channels on its platform after criticism from users and a rebuke from some Sandy Hook families (Oliver Darcy/@oliverdarcy)

    Oliver Darcy / @oliverdarcy: Roku says it is removing two Infowars channels on its platform after criticism from users and a rebuke from some Sandy Hook families  —  InfoWars had previously been available on Roku, but it recently published an updated app, prompting tweets from users and a rebuke today from some Sandy Hook families

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    • Sources: PagerDuty, which makes performance monitoring tools for developers, has filed confidentially for an IPO; it was valued at more than $1B in September (Bloomberg)

    Bloomberg: Sources: PagerDuty, which makes performance monitoring tools for developers, has filed confidentially for an IPO; it was valued at more than $1B in September  —  – Startup had expected to generate $100 million in 2018 revenue  — PagerDuty is valued at more than $1 billion by mutual funds Sources: PagerDuty, which makes performance monitoring

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    • Nielsen: US homes receiving over-the-air broadcast channels without a traditional cable or satellite TV subscription increased 48% to 16M over the past 8 years (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

    Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Nielsen: US homes receiving over-the-air broadcast channels without a traditional cable or satellite TV subscription increased 48% to 16M over the past 8 years  —  The number of U.S. households without a traditional cable or satellite TV subscription that instead receive broadcast stations using … Nielsen: US homes receiving over-the-air broadcast

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    • Researcher finds that Voipo, a communications provider based in Lake Forest, CA, left a server with millions of call logs, texts, and more exposed for months (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

    Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Researcher finds that Voipo, a communications provider based in Lake Forest, CA, left a server with millions of call logs, texts, and more exposed for months  —  An unprotected server storing millions of call logs and text messages was left open for months before they were found by a security researcher.

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