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EU proposes two bills governing tech giants, focused on illegal content and anticompetitive behavior, to empower regulators to levy large fines or break them up — Proposed bills would be the bloc's most ambitious internet laws since GDPR — European officials want new powers …
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Sources: Apple plans to produce up to 96M iPhones for H1 2021, a nearly 30% YoY increase, and is also working on a new Apple TV for next year — Robust orders come as smartphone industry faces severe parts shortages — TAIPEI — Apple plans to produce up to 96 million iPhones for the first half of 2021 … | Jason Nelson / Decrypt: |
Pornhub appears to be only accepting cryptocurrency for its premium service after Visa and Mastercard cut off payments to the website last week — It appears that Pornhub, the world's largest adult website, is only accepting crypto for its premium service.
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Volexity researchers say they noticed SolarWinds hackers bypass MFA protections at a think tank previously but were subsequently undetected for several years — Hackers who hit SolarWinds compromised a think tank three separate times. — The hackers behind the supply chain attack … | Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Ireland fines Twitter €450K for failing to promptly declare and document a data breach, in Europe's first GDPR decision of its kind — Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has issued Twitter with a fine of €450,000 (~$547k) for failing to promptly declare and properly document …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos expands Memories, adding new collage designs and 3D Cinematic photos that simulate depth in a scene by adding a smooth panning effect — Google Photos is rolling out a series of updates to its Memories feature, which surfaces your best photos from years past.
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Facebook says people linked to France's military used fake accounts to meddle in African politics, tangling with similar efforts by Russia's IRA in some nations — It's the first time Facebook has identified people affiliated with a Western government for sanction
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Critics and competitors argue that Google's massive web index, far surpassing its rivals in size, should be the focus of antitrust scrutiny — As regulators seek ways to curb the company's power, there is more focus on the vast index — hundreds of billion of web pages — behind its search engine.
Tweets: @nkulw, @techwontsaveus, @dmccabe, @nytimesbusiness, @techwontsaveus, and @ryanlcooper
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
macOS Big Sur 11.1 for M1 Macs enables iPhone and iPad apps with non-resizable windows, like HBO Max, to enter full-screen mode — Apple yesterday released macOS Big Sur version 11.1, with headline new features including AirPods Max support, privacy labels in the Mac App Store …
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TikTok expands Community Guidelines to strengthen its existing policies in areas like harassment, self-harm, and violence, and unveils new well-being features — TikTok this morning announced a new set of Community Guidelines that aim to strengthen its existing policies in areas like harassment … | Bloomberg: |
Twitter says it has signed a multiyear deal to use AWS to power Twitter timelines, shifting away from its own infrastructure — - Deal may help speed service in certain parts of the world — Twitter also relies on its own data centers and Google's cloud
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Facebook will shift its UK users into user agreements with its HQ in California, instead of its Irish unit, moving them out of reach of EU's privacy laws — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will shift all its users in the United Kingdom into user agreements with the corporate headquarters …
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UK publishes its online safety legislation plans: tech companies will face fines of up to £18M or 10% of annual revenue if they fail to moderate illegal content — Long-awaited legislation will set out new duty-of-care requirements for online platforms
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton says TikTok banned him without warning, thinks it was after pressure from TikTok stars, with whom he's feuded; TikTok denies this — The celebrity blogger was banned from TikTok on Saturday in a move he said was influenced by the app's biggest stars.| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Workplace productivity and project management service ClickUp raises $100M at a $1B valuation led by Georgian and says Nike, Uber, and Airbnb are clients — Workplace productivity software startup ClickUp was valued at $1 billion in a $100 million investment, roughly five times its valuation in a funding round earlier this year.| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Alloy, a Reid Hoffman-backed political data startup for Democrats, imploded after four senior employees, who had all complained about a colleague, were fired — Alloy was once seen as Democrats' next great hope. But an implosion was waiting to happen. — SHARE All sharing options
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Parsec, which has built streaming tech for remote work and cloud gaming, raises $25M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz — Parsec, a startup that's built streaming technology for both work and play, is announcing that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding.
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Vise, which automates tasks for independent investment advisors while creating custom portfolios for clients, raises $45M Series B led by Sequoia Capital — So-called robo-advisers may be all the rage, but Sequoia Capital is betting that humans will still hold a prominent place in helping people make investment decisions.
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Public, a social-focused free stock trading service, raises $65M Series C led by Accel — Less than a year after it raised a $15 million Series B, Public, a social-focused free stock trading service, has raised a $65 million Series C. — The startup is not the only company to raise successive rounds this year.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Boston-based Tive, which helps companies track sensitive shipments like food or medicine in real time, raises $12M Series A led by RRE Ventures — Tive, a Boston-based startup, is building a hardware and software platform to help track the conditions of a shipment like say food or medicine …
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| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
Uhnder, a startup that has created a chip for digital imaging radar useful for autonomous transportation, raises $45M in a Series C led by Sensata Technologies — Uhnder, a startup looking to transform radar from analog to digital, raised $45 million in a Series C round of funding, the company announced Tuesday.
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