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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
WhatsApp says Apple's privacy “nutrition labels” are anti-competitive because pre-installed apps like iMessage do not come with such labels — Facebook's global messaging service WhatsApp is protesting Apple's requirement that app owners submit information about the user data …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple's simplistic presentation of privacy trade-offs risks hurting the internet economy, where small businesses rely on Facebook, Stripe, others to reach users — Manage your Stratechery subscription. — In 1990, Congress passed the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act … | YouTube Official Blog: |
YouTube says it will remove any content published from today that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the 2020 US Presidential election outcome — Over the past weeks and months, we've seen people coming to YouTube to learn more about where and how to vote or learning more about a candidate or an issue.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Microsoft says its cloud gaming service, as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, will come to iOS via web browser in spring of 2021 — Microsoft has confirmed that Xbox cloud gaming is coming to iOS in 2021. In a new blog post today, the company says that cloud gaming as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate …
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Xbox Wire, The Verge, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, HotHardware.com News, Engadget, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Six Colors, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @onmsft
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
DoorDash opens at $182, a 75%+ rise over its IPO price — - Shares of DoorDash, a leading food delivery app, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. — The stock began trading at $182 per share. — The company trades under the symbol “DASH.”
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| Bloomberg: |
DoorDash sells 33M shares at $102, raising $3.37B and valuing the company at $38B fully diluted — - Food delivery company reaches more than $68 billion valuation — First-day pop makes company bigger than Lululemon, Ford Motor — Shares of food delivery platform DoorDash Inc. almost doubled …
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TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, The Guardian, Silicon Valley Business …, Business Insider, Washington Post, Financial Times, CNN, Axios, Crunchbase News, New York Post, Forbes, CNET, TheStreet, PYMNTS.com, Fortune, and coinspeaker.com
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Report: four former Apple employees say the company was aware of Chinese labor law violations by its suppliers but took no action to avoid product delays — Three former members of the Apple Supplier Responsibility team say Apple was complicit in labor law violations in China.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: FTC and 40+ state AGs to file antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday, alleging Instagram and WhatsApp purchases were made to kill competition — More than 40 attorneys general and the U.S. government are preparing to file antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday …
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
FireEye says some internal systems were hacked by nation state actors, compromising its Red Team tools, used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers — The cybersecurity company said the attack compromised its software tools used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers
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Atomico report: European tech startups are on track to receive a record $41B in VC funding in 2020, driven by fintech and SaaS startups — Despite the upheavals and uncertainties, 2020 is on track to be a record year for the amount of capital invested into European tech.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says it will compel Chrome extensions to display privacy practices and limit data that developers can collect from January 18, 2021, ahead of Chrome 88 — At Chrome Dev Summit 2020 today, Google announced it will change how extensions access data and how extension permissions work in 2021.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: consumers will have downloaded 130B apps globally in 2020, up 10% YoY, as spending rose 25% YoY to $112B; 65¢ of every $1 was spent on iOS — Consumers will have downloaded 130 billion apps in 2020 across iOS and Google Play, up 10% year-over-year, according to mobile data …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Just Eat says it will offer 1,000+ new UK workers an hourly wage, plus other benefits like sick pay, in a challenge to gig economy rivals Deliveroo and Uber — Meal delivery service will give benefits including sick pay and pension contributions to 1,000 new couriers| Bloomberg: |
Sources: C3.ai prices its IPO at $42 per share, above the marketed range of $36-$38, to raise $651M, giving the company a market value of ~$4B — C3.ai Inc., the software maker founded by former Oracle Corp. executive Tom Siebel, has priced its initial public offering above the marketed range … | Max Weinbach / Android Police: |
Sources: Samsung Unpacked will take place on January 14, and official marketing teasers for Galaxy S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra appear to have leaked — Samsung's next-gen Galaxy S21 series is just about a month away, and with that official debut coming up fast, renders of the device are inevitably … | Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Latin American crypto exchange Bitso raises $62M Series B led by QED Investors and Kaszek Ventures, following a $15M Series A in October 2019 — Latin American crypto exchange Bitso has raised a whopping $62 million funding round, the largest in the region for a digital asset firm.
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TechCrunch, Cryptonews, Forbes, Crunchbase News, Business Wire, The Defiant, Finextra, and The Block
Tweets: @zackseward and @arturo_p_a
| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
WorkRamp, which offers digital workplace training tools, raises $17M Series B led by OMERS Ventures and will focus on European and Indian growth — Enterprise learning platform WorkRamp has raised $17 million in a Series B round led by OMERS Ventures 1. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily
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TechCrunch, PRWeb, and OMERS Ventures
| Associated Press: |
Pornhub will no longer let users download videos or unverified users upload videos, after a NYT report alleged that it was hosting videos of rape, underage sex — NEW YORK (AP) — Pornhub said Tuesday it was halting unverified users from uploading video material after a report alleged …
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| David Jeans / Forbes: |
Wiz, which helps companies identify cybersecurity threats across a cloud network, raises $100M Series A led by Index Ventures at an estimated $500M valuation — In March, as the Covid-19 pandemic was sweeping the globe, Assaf Rappaport was pushing hard to convince major companies …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at Webull, a Chinese-owned no-fee stock trading app whose userbase in the US has grown tenfold this year to over 2M — Even in a year full of surprises on Wall Street, this one stands out: A Chinese-owned brokerage has quietly built one of the fastest-growing retail trading platforms in the U.S.
Tweets: @bw, @thestalwart, @miamicohen, and @jessefelder
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Amazon begins rolling out a new Fire TV UI with user profiles, a simpler design, and more — Back when Amazon announced its latest Fire TV products — namely, the third-generation Fire TV Stick ($40) and the Fire TV Stick Lite ($30) — it also said it was going to roll out a new Fire TV interface this year.
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The Verge, Gizmodo, Android Central, and Cord Cutters News
| Phil LeBeau / CNBC: |
Uber is selling its flying car project, Elevate, to Joby Aviation and is investing $75M into the company as part of the deal; terms were not disclosed — - The move will allow Joby to use Uber's app to offer air taxi rides when the company's aircraft eventually enters service, which could be as soon as 2023.
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The Guardian, BBC, New York Times, KnowTechie, PR Newswire, Intelligent Transport, Digital Trends, and ZDNet
Tweets: @doctorow, @drmtown, @maijapalmer, @edzitron, @cademetz, and @stevekovach
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Germany, France, and 11 other EU nations plan to invest in semiconductor manufacturing using some of the EU's €145B pandemic recovery funds for digital projects — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany, France, Spain and ten other EU countries have joined forces to invest in processors …
Tweets: @marietjeschaake and @adfichter
| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Twitch unveils new guidelines to crack down on hateful conduct and sexual harassment, following a yearlong review, which take effect in January — The livestreaming site announced new guidelines after contending with claims that its streamers were too easily abused.
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CNN, The Verge, Twitch Blog, Fast Company, GamesIndustry.biz, Kotaku, and Polygon
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