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| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
Trump signs an executive order banning transactions with Ant Group's Alipay, Tencent's WeChat Pay and QQ, and five other Chinese payment apps — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese software applications, including Ant Group's Alipay.
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Tweets: @secretaryross, @commercegov, @chriskeall, @niubi, @mdudas, and @niubi
| Jesse Pound / CNBC: |
In a reversal, NYSE says it will go ahead with its plan to delist China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom, following Mnuchin criticism — The New York Stock Exchange will delist three Chinese telecommunication giants after all. — The stock exchange will remove U.S.-traded shares of China Telecom …
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| Will Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI introduces two new GPT-3 models: CLIP, which classifies images into categories from arbitrary text, and DALL·E, which can generate images from text — With GPT-3, OpenAI showed that a single deep-learning model could be trained to use language in a variety of ways simply by throwing it vast amounts of text.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says App Store users spent $1.8B on goods and services between December 24 and New Year's Eve and $540M on New Year's Day alone; Books has 90M MAUs — Apple has announced today that App Store customers spent a record amount throughout the holiday season.
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| Pranob Mehrotra / XDA Developers: |
WhatsApp updates its Terms and Privacy Policy to mandate data sharing with Facebook, including transaction data, mobile device information, IP address, and more — WhatsApp users are receiving an in-app notice today regarding the service's new terms and privacy policy.
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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook updates Pages with a cleaner design, tools for hosting text-based Q&As, a dedicated News Feed, removes the total amount of “likes”, and more — The social network will also remove the total amount of “likes” a Page receives.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google plans to add privacy labels across its iOS app catalog this week or next, after a report claimed none of Google's iOS apps have been updated since Dec. 7 — Contrary to reports, Google is not delaying updates to its iOS apps because it doesn't want to comply with Apple's recently announced App Store Privacy Labels policy.
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Open source developer David Recordon named Biden's director of technology, returning to the White House after serving as its first director of IT under Obama — With a background in open source, open standards, and security, Recordon may be ideal for President Joe Biden's White House.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FBI, CISA, and ODNI, with support from NSA, say an APT “likely Russian in origin” is responsible for all or most of the recently discovered hacks of US agencies — Joint statement from the FBI, CISA, ODNI, and NSA says SolarWinds hack was “likely Russian in origin.”
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will shut down Minecraft Earth, which let users play Minecraft in real life through AR, on June 30, due to the pandemic — The ambitious project to cover the world in blocks is over — Microsoft is closing down its Minecraft Earth mobile game in June, due to the ongoing pandemic.
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| Nicole Friedman / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon commits $2B+ over five years to create and preserve affordable housing in three of its employment hubs, Seattle, Arlington, VA, and Nashville, Tenn. — Tech giant to make investments over next five years in and around Seattle, Arlington, Va., and Nashville, Tenn.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Atlanta-based SalesLoft, which provides AI-based tools to help salespeople run their sales process virtually, raises $100M at a $1.1B post-money valuation — The Covid-19 pandemic and specifically need for social distancing to slow the spread of the virus have continued to keep many of us away from the office.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Dremio, which offers tools for companies to help streamline and curate data, raises $135M Series D led by Sapphire Ventures at a $1B post-money valuation — Dremio, a startup offering tools to help streamline and curate data, today announced that it raised $135 million in series D funding at a post-money valuation of $1 billion.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
CIRP: iPhone 12 mini made up 6% of total iPhone sales in US during Oct. and Nov., while the 6.1" iPhone 12 garnered 27% and 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max each took ~20% — A new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) today seen by 9to5Mac highlights the continued success of the iPhone 12 lineup.
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Tweets: @reneritchie, @alexhcranz, @mcwm, @bradleychambers, and @lukemiani
| Freya Pratty / Sifted: |
EU makes its first direct equity investment in startups, with €178M invested across 42 companies, from a new European Innovation Council Fund — Under the new European Innovation Council Fund, each of the companies will receive between €500,000 and €15m, with €178m invested overall.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's Udaan, which operates a B2B marketplace, adds $280M to its $585M Series D, bringing its total raised to $1.15B, source says at a valuation of $3.1B — Business-to-business marketplace Udaan has raised $280 million from new and existing investors as the Indian startup builds a war-chest …
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| Matt Grossman / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM names Gary Cohn, former Goldman Sachs executive and economic adviser to Trump, as its vice chairman and member of its executive leadership team — Past Goldman Sachs president named vice chairman as tech icon develops stronger growth strategy — International Business Machines Corp …
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Tweets: @gary_d_cohn, @gary_d_cohn, @danielnewmanuv, @jstrauss, @eisingerj, @mattegancnn, @davidenrich, and @edleafe
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Kahoot, a game-based online learning service, says it had revenues of $45.2M in 2020, up 247% YoY, and plans to list on the main Norwegian stock market — - Kahoot is a game-based online learning service that lets players create and engage in multiple-choice quizzes.Thanks:@ryan_browne_
| Mike Dano / Light Reading: |
Verizon says that it will indefinitely delay the shutdown of its 3G network, after pushing the shutdown from the end of 2019 to the end of 2020 — Verizon has backtracked on its plan to turn off its 3G network by the end of 2020. — In response to questions from Light Reading …
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The Verge, Engadget, MakeUseOf, TechRadar, TalkAndroid.com, phonearena.com, SlashGear, Android Police, Liliputing, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocketnow, and MacRumors. Tweets: @thethomaspauls1
| Anthony Wood / Roku Blog: |
Roku says it now has 51.2M active user accounts, up by about 14M in 2020, and users streamed 58.7B hours in 2020 — Today, we shared a significant milestone for Roku and the industry. We announced preliminary estimated data for the fourth quarter ending Dec. 31, 2020, of 51.2 million active accounts … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based autonomous vehicle startup Oxbotica raises $47M Series B led by BP Ventures, bringing total raised to $80M, to deploy its tech in industrial use cases — While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers …
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FinSMEs, Silicon Canals, The Robot Report, VentureBeat, and Reuters. Tweets: @ccavgovuk. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
UK's competition authority launches an investigation into Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm, after rivals raised concerns — CMA probe comes after rivals raised concerns over acquisition — The UK's competition regulator is preparing to launch a probe of Nvidia's $40bn acquisition of UK chip designer Arm …
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| Evan Selinger / Pando: |
Q&A with Frank Pasquale on his new book “New Laws of Robotics”, engaging with science fiction, ethics in AI, big tech, professionalism, and more — Four years ago, Frank Pasquale, Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, catalyzed a debate over algorithmic and corporate power …
Tweets: @pandodaily, @iethics, @evanselinger, and @allison_pugh
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook says it will resume its political ad ban in Georgia after the polls close in the Georgia runoff elections — Following the Georgia runoff elections, the Facebook ban that restricts ads on social issues, elections and politics nationwide will be reimplemented in the state, the company said on Tuesday.| Corin Faife / The Markup: |
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