- Apple says its App Tracking Transparency feature, which will be enabled by default, will roll out with iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 updates in early spring (TechCrunch)
- US and Bulgarian authorities seize a dark web site used to publish data stolen from victims of NetWalker, which has among the most rapacious ransomware strains (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
- Europol, the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies worldwide have seized control of malware botnet Emotet's infrastructure and disrupted it from the inside (Danny Palmer/ZDNet)
- SAP to acquire Signavio, a Berlin-based business process automation company, reportedly for $1.2B (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
- IDC says Apple has shipped 90.1M iPhones in Q1, the largest number of shipments in a single quarter since IDC started tracking smartphones (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
- Tencent-backed Chinese online education startup Huohua Siwei, which offers K-12 math and science courses, closes its $400M Series E at a $1.5B valuation (Emma Lee/TechNode)
- Samsung reports Q4 earnings with total revenue of ~$55.2B, up 3% YoY, and operating profit of ~$8.2B, up 26% YoY, but sees mobile sales drop 11% YoY to $19.3B (Reuters)
- r/WallStreetBets has been made private, after Discord banned the r/WallStreetBets server for hate speech violations (Jay Peters/The Verge)
- Zuckerberg says Apple is one of Facebook's "biggest competitors" and uses its dominant position to preference apps like iMessage against WhatsApp and Messenger (Megan Graham/CNBC)
- Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will stop recommending civic and political groups to users permanently and is considering reducing political content in News Feeds (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
- In an interview, Tim Cook says Apple has an active installed base of 1.65B devices, up from 1.5B a year ago, including an installed base of over 1B iPhones (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
- Apple's Q1 net income was $28.8B, up from $22.2B YoY; revenue for iPhone was $65.6B, up from $56B YoY, Mac was $8.7B, up from $7.2B, and Services grew to $15.8B (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
- Apple Reports First Quarter Results (Apple)
- Squarespace says it filed confidentially for an IPO in the US; the company was valued at $1.7B in December 2017 (Bloomberg)
- Facebook says it has authorized an additional $25B share buyback, ARPU was $10.14, and reiterates that Apple's iOS 14 privacy changes could impact ad targeting (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
