Cloud-to-cloud backup and restore vendor OwnBackup raises $23.25M Series C co-led by IVP and Vertex Ventures, bringing the total raised to ~$50M (kyle_l_wiggers / VentureBeat) venturebeat.com/2019/05/30/own… techmeme.com/190530/p30#a19…

Genstar Capital buys a majority stake in Prometheus Group, a Raleigh-based plant maintenance operations and optimization software company, at a $1B+ valuation (chantalallam / WRAL TechWire) wraltechwire.com/2019/05/30/ral… techmeme.com/190530/p31#a19…

Microsoft says devs can now bring Win32 games to the Microsoft Store, a shift away from the store's previous Universal Windows Platform requirement for games (tomwarren / The Verge) theverge.com/2019/5/30/1864… techmeme.com/190530/p32#a19…

Sources: Amazon is interested in buying prepaid cellphone wireless service Boost Mobile from T-Mobile and Sprint (Reuters) reuters.com/article/us-spr… techmeme.com/190530/p33#a19…

Dell reports Q1 net income of $329M on revenue of $21.9B, up 3% YoY, below analyst estimates of $22.24B, as server and networking revenue fell 9% YoY to $4.2B (ldignan / ZDNet) zdnet.com/article/dell-t… techmeme.com/190530/p34#a19…

VMware reports Q1 revenue of $2.27B, up 13% YoY, beating analyst estimates of $2.24B, and net income of $505M, including a gain of $132M from Pivotal (natalienoell / ZDNet) zdnet.com/article/vmware… techmeme.com/190530/p35#a19…

Intuit says it is acquiring Origami Logic, an Accel-backed marketing analytics startup that has raised over $64M in funding, in a deal expected to close Q4 2019 (Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE) siliconangle.com/2019/05/28/int… techmeme.com/190530/p36#a19…

Investigation: US universities, foundations, and retirement plans back funds that invest millions in Chinese surveillance tech companies Megvii and SenseTime (BuzzFeed News) buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanma… techmeme.com/190530/p37#a19…

Netflix and Amazon made £1.1B in revenue from ~17.7M UK subscribers in 2018, while streaming services of UK's four main commercial broadcasters made ~£530M (marksweney / The Guardian) theguardian.com/media/2019/may… techmeme.com/190530/p38#a19…

Foursquare buys location analytics service Placed from Snap, raises $150M led by Raine Group; Placed reportedly raised $13.4M before Snap acquired it in 2017 (jordanrcrook / TechCrunch) techcrunch.com/2019/05/30/fou… techmeme.com/190531/p1#a190…

In the age of music streaming, missing, bad, or inconsistent song metadata is estimated to have left billions on the table unpaid to artists and musicians (danideahl / The Verge) theverge.com/2019/5/29/1853… techmeme.com/190531/p2#a190…

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Q&A with Mark Cuban and Steve Case on investing in tech startups outside of Silicon Valley, how AI is changing the tech landscape, tech regulation, and more (karaswisher / Vox) vox.com/recode/2019/5/… techmeme.com/190531/p3#a190…

Report: ~2.3B files, including sensitive info like credit card and medical data, are exposed via publicly accessible online file storage servers, up 50% YoY (dannyjpalmer / ZDNet) zdnet.com/article/cybers… techmeme.com/190531/p4#a190…

Kiwibots, the "parallel autonomy" food delivery bots popular with students at UC Berkeley, are remotely piloted by workers in Colombia who are paid $2/hour (csaid / San Francisco Chronicle) sfchronicle.com/business/artic… techmeme.com/190531/p5#a190…

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BabbleLabs, which wants to use AI to improve speech quality, accuracy, and personalization in voice apps, raises $14M Series A (FinSMEs) finsmes.com/2019/05/babble… techmeme.com/190531/p6#a190…

Report: Apple to limit third-party tracking in apps for kids starting next week (cfisherwrites / Engadget) engadget.com/2019/05/31/app… techmeme.com/190531/p10#a19…

Coinbase COO Asiff Hirji is leaving the company, to be replaced by VP of business Emilie Choi; a number of execs, including the CTO, have left Coinbase recently (julieverhage / Bloomberg) bloomberg.com/news/articles/… techmeme.com/190531/p12#a19…