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Thursday, October 24, 2019 • By Anthony Ha

Happy Thursday Twitter reports a big revenue miss, Mark Zuckerberg defends Facebook’s plans for Libra and we’ve got the full agenda for Disrupt Berlin. Here’s your Daily Crunch for October 24, 2019.

Twitter Q3 misses big on revenues of $824M and EPS of $0.05 on the back of adtech glitches Twitter said the huge drop in performance "was impacted by revenue product issues, which we believe reduced year-over-year growth by approximately 3 or more percentage points, and greater-than-expected seasonality.” The company has made a significant shift in the last year to tracking a new user metric of its own making — monetizable daily active users, which is the number of users who are being served ads. More established metrics like daily and monthly active users have stagnated and even declined in recent years. Read more

Webinar: Bringing automation to the forefront of drug development Sponsored by TransCelerate BioPharma Inc. To get the best minds in technology involved with transforming clinical trial start-up, we are hosting a webinar on November 5, 2019 for tech experts with metadata optimization and automation experience. Sign up here: Read more

Lowlights from Zuckerberg's Libra testimony in Congress "I don't control Libra" was the central theme of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony yesterday, while the House of Representatives unleashed critiques of his approach to cryptocurrency, privacy, encryption and running a giant corporation. Read more

Announcing the Disrupt Berlin 2019 agenda Disrupt Berlin will run on December 11 and December 12, when we'll sit down with CEOs from big-name companies such as Away, UIPath and Naspers, as well as leading investors from Atomico, SoftBank and GV. (Tickets are available here.) Read more

By tweeting from a SCIF, House lawmakers put national security at risk If you thought storming into a highly secured government facility with your electronics but without permission was a smart idea, you'd be wrong. But that didn't stop Rep. Matt Gaetz and close to three-dozen of his Republican colleagues from doing exactly that. Read more

Virgin Galactic becomes the first public space tourism company on Monday The company's shareholders have approved a merger with Chamath Palihapitiya's special Social Capital Hedosophia holding company, with a debut on the NYSE for the newly merged public entity scheduled for Monday. Read more

Cybersecurity automation startup Tines scores $4.1M Series A led by Blossom Capital Tines automates many of the repetitive manual tasks faced by security analysts so they can focus on other high-priority work. The founders have bootstrapped the company until now. Read more

Bill McDermott aims to grow ServiceNow like he did SAP During the company’s earnings call, outgoing CEO John Donahoe said that McDermott met all of the board's criteria for its next leader — all in the service of building toward a $10 billion revenue goal. (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more

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