Tech Releases

After removing some conspiracy and pro-gun videos and channels, YouTube says it will reinstate videos, which may have been removed in error by moderators (Paris Martineau/The Outline)

Genesis Global Trading launching digital currency lender Genesis Capital to allow investors to borrow bitcoin, ether, other cryptocurrencies for a fixed time (Seema Mody/CNBC)

Mist, a startup that offers an AI-powered self-learning wireless LAN for enterprises, raises $46M Series C led by Kleiner Perkins (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Sources: SEC increases scrutiny of ICOs, issuing "scores" of subpoenas and information requests to companies and advisers about structure of sales and pre-sales (Wall Street Journal)

YouTube says some moderators misapplied policies, mistakenly removed some conspiracy and pro-gun videos and channels, will reinstate videos removed in error (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Google unveils Learn with Google AI site for AI and machine learning resources, posts free 15-hour Machine Learning Crash Course used by 18K Google employees (Chaim Gartenberg/The Verge)

San Francisco-based Triplebyte, which develops online tools to assess engineers' skills and match them to jobs, raises $10M Series A led by Initialized Capital (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)