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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Jack Dorsey says Trump ban was the right decision for Twitter, but reflects a “failure” to promote healthy conversation and sets a dangerous precedent — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explained in a tweetstorm that the company faced an ‘extraordinary and untenable circumstance’
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Washington Post, The Verge, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Engadget, Cointelegraph, Vanity Fair, Deadline, and The Guardian
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Snapchat says it will permanently ban Trump's account on January 20 in the interest of public safety and based on repeated violations of Snapchat's guidelines — Snapchat will permanently ban President Trump's account on Jan. 20, Axios has learned, after locking it indefinitely last week following the Capitol siege.
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Politico, Business Insider, Bloomberg, USA Today, CNET, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Variety, Forbes, Reuters, The Wrap, and CNBC
Tweets: @epro, @natsecgeek, and @katiephang
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Airbnb says it is canceling and blocking reservations made for the week of Biden's inauguration in the Washington, DC metro area — - Airbnb is canceling and blocking future reservations in the Washington, D.C., metro area during the week of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, the company said Wednesday.
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Airbnb, New York Magazine, Engadget, New York Times, newsaf.cgtn.com, NPR, Axios, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Politico, and Business Insider
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it's removing posts of fliers promoting events leading up to Biden's inauguration, echoing warnings from law enforcement about another attack — - Company says it's working with officials to flag gatherings — Terrorism, cyber experts helping find images calling for harm| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Intel CEO Bob Swan will step down on February 15 and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger will replace him; Intel's stock is up 6%+, VMware's stock is down 6%+ — - Intel CEO Bob Swan is set to step down effective Feb. 15, the company announced. — VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger will take over the position.
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Intel Newsroom, The Information, Intel Newsroom, Medium, iTnews, AnandTech, Ars Technica, Oregonian, Liliputing, The Technology Letter, OSnews, CRN, PCMag, SiliconANGLE, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, New York Times, Channel Futures, TechSpot, SemiAccurate, Neowin, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Protocol, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, CNET, TechRadar, IT Management, and Axios
| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
In an interview, Parler CEO John Matze says he is not sure whether the social network will ever return after being cut off by service providers — (Reuters) - Social media platform Parler, which has gone dark after being cut off by major service providers that accused the app of failing …
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NBC News, The Desk, USA Today, Fox News, Business Insider, New York Post, The Wrap, Variety, Vox, and Newsweek
Tweets: @matthewkeyslive, @mmasnick, @ruchowdh, @karlhigley, @chrisalbon, @victorerikray, and @daveleeft
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Qualcomm acquires chip startup Nuvia for $1.4B, with plans to put the company's tech into its smartphone, laptop, and automotive processors — (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc on Wednesday said it will acquire Nuvia Inc, a chip startup founded by Apple Inc veterans, for $1.4 billion … | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Crypto startup Anchorage says it has received a federal bank charter, making it easier for big banks to use Anchorage to offer cryptocurrencies to customers — A startup called Anchorage announced on Wednesday that it has become the first cryptocurrency company to receive a federal charter …
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Anchorage, Office of the Comptroller …, CoinDesk, Decrypt, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, and Decrypt
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Ring says it is adding opt-in end-to-end encryption for eight cameras in technical preview for US users — Starting today in a ‘technical preview’ — Ring is starting to add support for end-to-end encryption to its cameras. The feature will keep video streams encrypted from the camera … | Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Affirm began trading at $90.90 and closed at $97.24, up 98% after pricing shares at $49; the company raised $1.2B after pricing shares above its $41-$44 range — - Shares of Affirm, an online payments company, began trading on the Nasdaq. — Affirm priced its shares at $49 apiece, above its target range of $41 to $44 each.
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TechCrunch, Protocol, The Information, PR Newswire, Fast Company, Protocol, Fortune, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Axios, Crunchbase News, Silicon Valley Business …, Fortune, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @hunterwalk, @ldrogen, @kifleswing, @sapochat, @alizhd, @getbenchmarkco, and @sean_oneill
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok makes accounts of users aged 13 to 15 private by default, limiting who can comment on the videos and how other users can download or remix their videos — TikTok is introducing a new set of “enhanced” privacy settings that restricts certain features for younger teens and changes …
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TikTok, Slashdot, Social Media Today, Lifehacker, USA Today, Input, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @_andyburrows, @tweetinjules, @tiktokcomms, @megancgraham, @seana_davis, @fosi, @olliebray, @matthewgmull, and @willguyatt
| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Global VC report 2020: overall funding rose 4% YoY to ~$300B, despite a slow Q1, with ~$13.6B seed, $88.4B early-stage, and $198.4B late-stage and growth — Startups closed out 2020 in a much stronger position than the one they started the year in, with global venture funding up 4 percent year over year to $300 billion.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Actions taken by Big Tech after violence at the Capitol may have sowed the seeds for Internet 3.0, which will be defined by open protocols and decentralization — Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man is, particularly relative to its prescience, one of the most misunderstood books of all time.
Tweets: @theannagat, @christse, @mdudas, @davewiner, @davewiner, @yanroux, @alex, and @mattrosoff
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Dropbox says it will cut about 11% of its global workforce, affecting about 315 employees, and COO Olivia Nottebohm will leave on February 5 — - Dropbox is cutting its global workforce by about 11%, the company said in an 8K filing released Wednesday. — The company's stock dropped more than 6% in the premarket.
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Work in Progress, Neowin, Reuters, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @film_girl, @carnage4life, @aloracpc, @carnage4life, @hiangelali, @fionaosaurusrex, @jmover, and @wesohaire
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces new projects related to its $100M pledge for racial equity and justice, including a developer academy focused on Black entrepreneurs — Last June, Apple committed $100 million to a Racial Equity and Justice Initiative (REJI). Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of environment …
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Tweets: @tim_cook, @bzamayo, @lisapjackson, @carnage4life, @caro_milanesi, @mkbhd, @jarridvtingle, @reneritchie, @lindadong, and @carnage4life
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Poshmark is pricing its IPO at $42 per share, raising $277M, up from its $35-$39 price initially noted in an earlier filing — - Online marketplace is raising $277 million in share sale — Poshmark IPO follows trading debut by consumer lender Affirm
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| The Guardian: |
Audio and chat logs of walkie-talkie app Zello reveal some Capitol rioters communicated via the app; Zello says it has now deleted 2K+ militia-related channels — Audio and chat logs show insurrectionists communicated via the app, which has avoided proactive content moderation
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blog.zello.com and Gizmodo
Tweets: @loisbeckett, @zello, @micahloewinger, @lizthegrey, @loisbeckett, @loisbeckett, and @kantrowitz
| Benjamin Powers / CoinDesk: |
Ledger offers a 10 bitcoin bounty for details on the hacker who stole info on 272K crypto wallet device owners and says 20K more user records have been exposed — Ledger was also targeted by hackers in Shopify's data breach. — Matt Johnson, Ledger's new Chief Information Security Officer …
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Ledger, CoinGeek, The Block, BetaKit, Decrypt, Bitcoinist.com, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @cryptogainz1, @ledger, @ledger, and @ledger
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Webflow, which helps businesses build no-code websites, raises $140M Series B led by Accel and Silversmith at a $2.1B+ valuation — This morning Webflow, a software company that helps businesses build no-code websites, announced that it has raised a $140 million Series B. The round …
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VentureBeat, FinSMEs, and Webflow Blog
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Asus unveils 14- and 15-inch ZenBook Duo dual-screen laptops with a second display built into the keyboard; the 14-inch version ships this month from $1,000 — Preorders start tomorrow — Asus has announced two new dual-screen ZenBook Duo laptops as part of its slate of CES 2021 announcements.| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Google says it will pause political ads, and those referencing “impeachment, inauguration or protests at the US Capitol” on all its platforms starting Jan. 14 — - Google is suspending political ads along with any reference to “impeachment, inauguration or protests at the U.S. Capitol” beginning Thursday.
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Axios, New York Times, Search Engine Land, The Hill, Bloomberg, Engadget, Business Insider, Boing Boing, and Reuters
Tweets: @ideafaktory and @sarafischer
| Mercedes Ruehl / Financial Times: |
Grab raises $300M led by Hanwha Asset Management for its financial services business, which spun out of Grab in 2018 and is now valued at $3B — New firepower comes as group faces an increasingly competitive landscape in south-east Asia — Grab, the south-east Asian ride-hailing and food delivery app …
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TechCrunch and Reuters
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Telehealth startup NeuroFlow, which uses applied AI to treat patients with behavioral health conditions, raises $20M Series B led by Magellan Health — NeuroFlow, a digital health company combining workflow automation, patient engagement solutions and services, and applied AI to promote behavioral health …
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| Rest of World: |
Profile of Russian online retail giant Wildberries, owned by Russia's richest woman, which grew by catering to low-income shoppers via offline collection points — Wildberries, the country's answer to Amazon, is a genuine success. But its corporate backstory involves a lot of mythmaking.
Tweets: @anupkaphle, @dlberes, and @restofworld
| Tony Connelly / RTÉ: |
EU's top court says a GDPR complaint against Facebook can be handled in any EU member state, which could lead to a flood of complaints against tech giants — The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice has issued an opinion that a privacy complaint against the US tech giant Facebook does …
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Fortune, noyb.eu, and Court of Justice of the European Union
Tweets: @tconnellyrte, @eucourtpress, @1br0wn, @carolinegreer, @johnnyryan, @left_eu, @left_eu, @johnnyryan, @tconnellyrte, @rtenews, @paddycosgrave, @tconnellyrte, and @jason_kint
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
WhatsApp clarifies its new data sharing policy with Facebook, which mostly concerns businesses, after recent backlash and surge in Telegram and Signal downloads — The company is trying to contain fallout over a privacy policy update — WhatsApp has published a new FAQ page …
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Financial Times, New York Times, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, iTnews, ZDNet, Fox Business, PCMag, Softpedia News, HotHardware.com News, Forbes, and BuzzFeed News
Tweets: @whatsapp, @tayhatmaker, @free_thinker, @zeynep, @alexhern, and @baxiabhishek
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Japan-based SODA, which operates sneaker reselling marketplace SNKRDUNK, raises $22M Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia — Tokyo-based SODA, which runs sneaker reselling platform SNKRDUNK, has raised a $22 million Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia.
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DealStreetAsia and Tech in Asia
| Bloomberg: |
Online therapy service Talkspace agrees to merge with a SPAC in a deal worth $1.4B that provides Talkspace with $250M in funding — - Hudson managing partner is former JPMorgan CFO Doug Braunstein — Firm raising $300 million to support the transactionSponsor Posts
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