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Coinbase says it will suspend trading of XRP on January 19, 2021, following the SEC's suit against Ripple — Coinbase said it will suspend trading of XRP, the cryptocurrency the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claimed last week is really a security.
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| Emma Court / Bloomberg: |
Los Angeles County partners with Healthvana to allow COVID-19 vaccine recipients to be able to show their vaccination status in services like Apple Wallet — - Key is getting people their second dose, official says — Longer-term, the software will be a way to verify vaccinations
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, PYMNTS.com, and The Mac Observer
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
FAA issues rules requiring some drones, like those flying over people, to be remotely identifiable and night flying drones to have anti-collision lights — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Monday said it is issuing long-awaited rules to allow …
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| Anthony G. Attrino / New Jersey Online: |
Lawsuit claims a New Jersey man was jailed for 10 days based on an erroneous facial recognition match, and prosecutors kept pursuing him for nearly a year — Editor's note: This article has been updated to include a statement from the New Jersey Attorney General's Office.
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| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Xiaomi announces Mi 11, its new flagship, with 6.81" 120Hz display, Snapdragon 888, Android 11, and up to 256GB storage, available in China for ~$611 on Jan. 1 — Today Xiaomi held the Chinese launch announcement of the new Mi 11 - the company's new mainstream flagship phone for 2021.
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| Bloomberg: |
China's central bank tells Ant it must overhaul its lending, insurance, and wealth management businesses and come up with a timetable as soon as possible — - Authorities require Ant to overhaul business, set up timetable — Ant was blasted over governance, disdain toward compliance| Coco Liu / Bloomberg: |
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon says during this holiday season, third-party sales grew 50% globally, compared to the same time period in 2019 — Amazon said it delivered billions of products globally this holiday season as it wraps up what is expected to be a record fourth fiscal quarter amid the ongoing pandemic.
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aboutamazon.com, The Hill, and PYMNTS.com
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Qualtrics files for an IPO, plans to sell an undetermined number of shares for $20-$24, could be valued as much as $14.4B — - IPO may give software maker fully diluted value of $14 billion — Silver Lake to invest $550 million in a private placement
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ZDNet, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, GeekWire, Reuters, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, KSL-TV, and MarketWatch
| Jesper Starn / Bloomberg: |
A huge drop in power prices has made Sweden and Norway lucrative for mining cryptocurrencies, giving big miners alternatives to China, Kazakhstan, and Canada — - Wet and mild weather pushed up output from hydro power plants — Lower input costs for making Bitcoin coincided with price rise
Tweets: @fin24 and @bloombergnrg
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
A look at challenger search engines like UK-based Mojeek, You.com, and Neeva, founded by former Google execs, all targeting Google as it fights antitrust suits — Challengers such as Neeva bet on alternative approaches as tech giant faces regulatory scrutiny
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Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @jranck, @martinsfp, @paulnemitz, @sachinrekhi, @francesca_bria, @psb_dc, and @aghose
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
NY Post source for Hunter Biden laptop stories sues Twitter for defamation, alleging Twitter falsely labeled him a hacker after blocking NY Post content in Oct. — A Delaware computer repair shop owner sued Twitter, alleging the social network defamed him by labeling him a “hacker” … | Coco Liu / Bloomberg: |
Zuoyebang, which offers live-streamed classes and other remote study services and has 170M MAUs, raises $1.6B from Alibaba, Tiger Global, and others — - Zuoyebang's fundraising follows a $750 million round in June — Online learning has turned red-hot this year since pandemic
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TechCrunch, The Economic Times, caixinglobal.com, Crunchbase News, Reuters, Nikkei Asia, and DealStreetAsia. Tweets: @grapefruitgals
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
A look at the worst hacks of 2020: SolarWinds, Twitter, Blueleaks, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Vastaamo, and Garmin — From ransomware schemes to supply chain attacks, this year melded classic hacks with extraordinary circumstances. — WHAT A WAY to kick off a new decade.
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