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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Malwarebytes says it was hacked by group that breached SolarWinds, via Azure and Office 365 exploits, but attackers only accessed a subset of internal emails — Malwarebytes becomes fourth major security firm targeted by attackers after Microsoft, FireEye, and CrowdStrike.
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| Zoë Bernard / The Information: |
Sources: Andreessen Horowitz to launch an opinion section on its website that will publish articles related to technology and business from outside contributors — Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz, which once courted attention from the news media, is ramping up its own media efforts.
Tweets: @amir, @quinnypig, @gaberivera, @nxthompson, @john__rosevear, @zebulgar, and @wadhwa
| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
A look at a16z's communication efforts over the years, as the firm expands its own media operations and has largely stopped cooperating with reporters — Why media whisperer Margit Wennmachers is going direct. — Benedict Evans, Andreessen Horowitz's former in-house analyst … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Brave becomes the first major browser to natively support IPFS protocol, useful for accessing censored content; Wikipedia and other sites offer IPFS versions — Brave users will now be able to seamlessly access ipfs:// links. — With the release of Brave 1.19 today …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q4 revenue of $6.64B vs. $6.63B est., up 21.5% YoY, global streaming paid memberships 203.7M, up 8.5M vs. 6.5M est.; stock up 12%+ after hours — - Netflix reported fourth quarter 2020 earnings Tuesday that beat analyst expectations on revenue and net subscriber additions but fell below EPS estimates.
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Tweets: @cartoonbrew, @mylesudland, @levynews, @cnbcnow, @loudmouthjulia, @charliebilello, and @charliebilello
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix says its “Shuffle Play” feature, which lets Netflix's algorithm choose what you watch next, will roll out globally to all users in H1 2021 — Netflix is always in search of a better way to instantly connect users to something to watch, instead of having them waste … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Intel is in more danger than its profits suggest and should spin off its manufacturing business unless the US can subsidize it, ideally with purchase guarantees — One of the first Articles on Stratechery, written on the occasion of Intel appointing a new CEO, was, in retrospect, overly optimistic.
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| The Markup: |
Data from Facebook users: 12 political groups were in the top 100 recommended in Jan.; FB said it would not recommend “political content or social issue groups” — According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political grouprecommendations
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Biden picks former CFTC chairman Gary Gensler, who taught courses on cryptocurrencies and blockchain at MIT, to head the SEC — Gary Gensler's nomination to head the U.S. Securities and Exchange is welcome news for the cryptocurrency industry given his ongoing and deep interest in the technology.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FireEye releases a free tool that audits networks to determine whether certain techniques, known to be employed by SolarWinds hackers, were used — New Azure AD Investigator is now available via GitHub. — Cybersecurity firm FireEye has released today a report detailing the techniques used …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Instagram head Adam Mosseri on keeping users safe at scale, content moderation, Facebook's actions against Trump, future regulation, Reels, and more — Adam Mosseri has a broad view of Facebook, its capabilities, and its challenges. And Facebook has a lot of challenges right now …
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Electric autonomous vehicle startup Cruise raises $2B at a $30B valuation from Microsoft, GM, Honda, and others — Cruise has raised $2 billion in a new equity round that has pushed its valuation up to $30 billion and delivered Microsoft as an investor and partner.
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Tweets: @alex, @msftnews, @cruise, and @kirstenkorosec
| Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
South Korean search engine company Naver Corp. has acquired online self-publishing platform Wattpad for an estimated ~$600M — Wattpad is set to be acquired by South Korean internet company Naver Corp. for an estimated $754 million CAD ($600 million USD). — Naver announced the deal early before market open in South Korea.
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| Douglas Soltys / BetaKit: |
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Douyin, ByteDance's Chinese version of TikTok, has launched e-wallet “Douyin Pay” to compete with China's dominant e-payment services WeChat Pay and Alipay — Tencent's WeChat Pay and Alibaba's affiliate Alipay have long dominated digital payments in China, but they have always faced new challengers.
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Reuters, Gizmochina, South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, PYMNTS.com, coinspeaker.com, Finextra, and Tech Xplore
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail seven flaws in Dnsmasq, a popular open-source DNS forwarding and management suite; 1M+ networking devices are exposed online, patch available — Israel-based security consultancy firm JSOF disclosed today seven Dnsmasq vulnerabilities, collectively known as DNSpooq … | Richard Nieva / CNET: |
YouTube says it will extend its suspension of Trump's channel for another week over “ongoing potential for violence” — YouTube on Tuesday said it's extending its suspension of President Donald Trump's channel for another week over “ongoing potential for violence,” …
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| Macarena Munoz Montijano / Bloomberg: |
Spanish delivery app Glovo raises $121M from Swiss real estate firm Stoneweg to build out delivery-only convenience stores for sub-30 minute delivery times — - Stoneweg will build, refurbish property to help Glovo expand — Glovo's orders for convenience items have surged 300%
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Tech.eu, The Spoon, Tech.eu, TechCrunch, Sifted, Forbes, EU-Startups, and Silicon Canals
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 870 with a similar design to the 865 and 865 Plus, clocked at 3.2GHz, making it about 10% faster than the 865 — A slightly faster refresh of last year's Snapdragon flagship — Qualcomm has announced a new mobile phone processor: the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 …
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Tweets: @qualcomm, @greengart, @gsmarena_com, @frankie_tech, @lanceulanoff, @ronamadeo, and @somegadgetguy
| Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post: |
ByteDance says it has suspended development of its own smartphone under Smartisan, and will fold Smartisan's R&D team into ByteDance's educational hardware unit — Entrepreneur Luo Yonghao, founder of Smartisan, once boasted of surpassing Apple's innovation in smartphones and other devices By 2019 … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India asks WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy over “grave concerns” and questions why users in the EU are exempt from it — India has asked WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy, posing a new headache to Facebook-owned service …
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NDTV.com, Android Police, XDA Developers, The Economic Times, Hindustan Times, The Hindu BusinessLine, ANI News, WION, Neowin, Softpedia News, Tech Xplore, MediaNama, Business Insider, Tech in Asia, Inc42 Media, Firstpost Tech, TechRadar, and TechCircle
Tweets: @alex and @alexbrooks
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Citrix acquires SaaS collaborative work management service Wrike for $2.25B in cash — Citrix has confirmed reports from earlier this week that it is buying enterprise-focused work management platform Wrike, in an all-cash deal worth $2.25 billion. — Founded in 2006, San Jose-based Wrike …
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Business Wire, Silicon Valley Business …, Wrike, Reuters, TechRadar, Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, ZDNet, TechCrunch, and Silicon Republic
| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
WeChat says it facilitated ~$250B in annual transactions through its third-party “mini programs”, double the value of transactions in 2019 — WeChat continues to advance its shopping ambitions as the social networking app turns 10 years old. The Chinese messenger facilitated …
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Tech in Asia and TechNode
| Reuters: |
Turkey bans ads on Twitter and Pinterest for not appointing local representatives as mandated by social media law, says their bandwidth will be cut 50% in April — ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Ankara has imposed advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest after they failed …
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