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Some GoDaddy employees are upset after the company sent a phishing email scam to test its employees, with the email promising a $650 one-time holiday bonus — GoDaddy surpassed 20 million customers this year and laid off or reassigned hundreds of employees during the coronavirus pandemic in Arizona, Iowa, and Texas.
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| Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
As streaming platforms like Netflix have grown, political films they used to seek out, like The Dissident, on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, are being shunned — Bryan Fogel's examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Bloomberg has acquired Second Measure, a data analytics firm offering consumer behavior and company performance insights; Second Measure previously raised ~$25M — Bloomberg today announced that it has acquired data analytics platform Second Measure, a San Mateo-based startup that leverages big data … | Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
In unsealed court docs, Facebook managers appeared to admit to major flaws in ad targeting capabilities in 2016 and wondered if they were misleading advertisers — Facebook is currently waging a PR campaign purporting to show that Apple is seriously injuring American small businesses through its iOS privacy features.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Citrix confirmed ADC networking equipment is being actively exploited to amplify DDoS attacks against a “small number of customers”; patch expected mid-January — Citrix says it's working on a fix, expected next year. — Threat actors have discovered a way to bounce …
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| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
CD Projekt sued in CA federal court by investor seeking class action status, claiming the company made “false and/or misleading” statements about Cyberpunk 2077 — A New York-based law firm filed the lawsuit on Thursday — After a rocky Cyberpunk 2077 launch earlier in December …
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| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
European tech executives and diplomats privately complain US sanctions on Huawei shut them out of the Chinese market while offering exceptions for US companies — Business says EU groups are losing out on licences to sell to blacklisted Chinese companies — European tech executives …
Tweets: @anupamchander, @marchofer, @j_b_c16, @peterkirkegaard, @c_szabla, @pastynome, @chadbown, @ftchina, @yuanfenyang, and @skellyceo
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
NewsGuard: 17% of engagement among the top 100 news sources on social media in 2020 was with sources NewsGuard considers unreliable, compared to 8% in 2019 — Unreliable news websites significantly increased their share of engagement among the top performing news sources on social media this year …
Tweets: @rpeddy, @shawnarchen, @jimwarren55, and @justinhendrix
| Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: |
Tencent-backed Meishubao Education, a Chinese startup providing online art classes to users aged 3 to 18, has raised $210M Series D led by TPG's The Rise Fund — Meishubao Education, a Tencent-backed Chinese online art education platform, announced on Thursday the completion of a Series D round … | Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: cybersecurity companies across the globe have raised $8.1B in 2020 and nearly $6.3B in the US, up from $7.4B globally and $4.7B in the US in 2019 — Despite a pandemic that raged around the globe for the better part of the year, the cybersecurity market retained investor interest … | Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Leaked docs show Nintendo carried out a surveillance operation, with a “carrot and stick” approach, on a hacker who was researching exploits for 3DS — Projects to protect the intellectual property rights of corporations are underway all around the world on a continual basis …
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| Dipayan Ghosh / Wired: |
Facebook's claims that SMBs will suffer from iOS's privacy changes seem exaggerated when examining the technical changes Facebook announced in response — The social media giant would have you believe that Apple's privacy update will hurt the little guys. But Facebook's motives aren't so altruistic.
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Mobile Dev Memo, Gizmodo, International Business Times, The Information, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @hypervisible, @carnage4life, @ghoshd7, and @icave_dave
| Financial Times: |
China's market regulator announces an antitrust investigation into Alibaba for alleged monopolistic practices, the first investigation of its kind in China — Probe into China's biggest tech group is one of the first of its kind for country's internet sector
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