Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Friday.
- $4. Uber said it plans t0 hit profitability by the end of 2020, and shares soared as much as 10% following the new timeline.
- $4. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Bezos told him at a recent party that they would meet, and has since dodged him.
- $4. Starlink is "the right kind of business that we can go ahead and take public," SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell reportedly said on Thursday.
- $4. The company currently employs around 2,000 people in Bellevue, meaning the expansion would grow its total presence there more than eightfold.
- $4. Juul has been fighting off lawsuits, dealing with regulatory scrutiny, and adapting its business all while watching its valuation slide.
- $4. The suit is likely to exacerbate the tensions between Huawei and the US government, particularly in the light of Huawei's victory last month when the UK announced it would allow the tech giant to build some of its 5G network.
- $4. Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other platforms have sent cease-and-desist letters to Clearview AI instructing it to stop scraping peoples' images from their sites.
- $4. The results of the survey address the difficulties those in the LGBTQ community face in meeting people offline, whether that's due to a lack of queer spaces or queer visibility.
- $4. TikTok told Business Insider there was a "breakdown" in the process in which the company dealt with this video, and that it had since made changes to its review process, though it did not say what those changes are.
- $4. A recent forensic analysis concluded that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' phone was hacked via a malicious link sent on WhatsApp.
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