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| William Easton / About Facebook: |
Facebook will “restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content”, in response to proposed media law — In response to Australia's proposed new Media Bargaining law, Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia …
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Financial Times, Axios, Protocol, The Verge, Engadget, CNBC, Variety, New York Times, New York Times, SlashGear, and news.com.au
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| News Corp: |
News Corp announces a multi-year, global partnership with Google to provide content from its news sites “in return for significant payments by Google” — Long-term Deal Involves Payment For Premium Content For Google News Showcase; — Will Yield Substantial Benefits For Journalism And Society
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Tweets: @jeffjarvis, @jeffjarvis, @sarafischer, @jilliancyork, @noahshachtman, @benyt, @jeffjarvis, @jeffjarvis, @joshsternberg, @b_fung, @mmasnick, and @slpng_giants
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Epic Games files a formal antitrust complaint against Apple with the European Commission, claiming that Apple imposes commercially unviable burdens on rivals — Filing is latest shot in escalating feud between ‘Fortnite’ developer and Silicon Valley giant — Epic Games has filed … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google Maps now lets users pay for public transportation and parking by integrating Passport and ParkMobile services into its app, available in 400+ US cities — Fill your meter or get a train ticket — Google Maps is adding a couple of new useful features: the ability to pay for parking or buy a train ticket right from the app.
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The Keyword, CNN, Android Police, PCMag, XDA Developers, Android Authority, International Business Times, CNET, Gizmodo, CNBC, 9to5Google, USA Today, TechCrunch, SlashGear, MSPoweruser, Mashable, Android Central, Neowin, and Pocketnow. Tweets: @epro
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
DOJ announces charges against three North Korean hackers for conspiring to steal and extort over $1.3B in cash and cryptocurrencies from banks and businesses — The Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed charges against three North Korean hacker spies accused of conspiring to steal …
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U.S. Department of Justice, CyberScoop, us-cert.cisa.gov, NPR, Engadget, BBC, CoinDesk, CNET, ZDNet, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Bloomberg, The Block, Reuters, Associated Press, Finextra, NBC News, Deadline, ComputerWeekly.com, SecurityWeek, Politico, BleepingComputer, and CNBC
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| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Internal docs: Amazon India has secretly favored big sellers, misrepresented its ties with them, and used them to circumvent tough foreign investment rules — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - It was early 2019, and senior Amazon.com Inc executive Jay Carney was preparing for an important meeting.
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New York Times, TechCrunch, The Economic Times, Telecoms.com, VCCircle, and Inc42 Media
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Researcher finds one of the first examples of malware written to run natively on Apple's M1 chips; the GoSearch22 adware installs itself as a Safari extension — A security researcher found one of the first examples of malware written to run natively on Apple's M1 processors. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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Objective-See's Blog, Wired, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Tom's Hardware, Engadget, Gizmodo, Forbes, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Wccftech, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @wired and @lorenzofb
| Babu Mohan / Android Central: |
Twitter starts testing voice DMs, which can be up to 140 seconds long, on iOS in India, Brazil, and Japan — Twitter is giving its users “more options to express themselves” in conversations. — What you need to know — Twitter is testing a voice messaging feature for direct messages.
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The Verge, Android Police, MUO, Mashable, Wccftech, iPhone Hacks, The Next Web, Inc42 Media, Fossbytes, and XDA Developers
Tweets: @twitterindia, @mathewi, @chrismessina, @quinnypig, @wichsp, @aimeepearcy_, @imavip, @shobz, and @mikeelgan
| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
NY AG sues Amazon, alleging it inadequately protected workers from COVID-19 in Staten Island and Queens, and retaliated against employees who raised concerns — The case focuses on two of the company's facilities in New York. — New York's attorney general, Letitia James … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says it will expand Shorts, its TikTok rival in beta, to the US soon, add 4K and DVR to YouTube TV, expand in-video shopping, and more in 2021 — YouTube has a host of big product updates coming this year, and it just detailed a lot of them in a blog post from Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan.
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YouTube Official Blog, The Verge, The Verge, The Economic Times, Android Police, Bloomberg, Android Central, 9to5Google, Android Headlines, CNET, Pocketnow, Variety, Fortune, Tubefilter, and Deadline. Tweets: @fwiz
| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Amazon announces Build It, a Kickstarter-like program that lets customers vote on products and says it will build those that get enough support within 30 days — - A new program from Amazon called Build It lets customers choose to back a new product, and if it gets enough support within 30 days, Amazon will build it.
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About Amazon, TechCrunch, PCMag, The Verge, TechHive, Engadget, Input, USA Today, CNN, chainstoreage.com, and SlashGear
| Emil Protalinski / GeekWire: |
IDC: Chrome OS market share passed macOS for the first time in 2020, up 4.4 points YoY to 10.8%; Windows fell 4.9 points to 80.5%, macOS rose 0.8 point to 7.5% — New numbers show 2020 was the first year that Chromebooks outsold Macs, posting impressive market share gains at the expense of Windows.
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Windows Central, 9to5Google, Gizchina, iMore, MUO, Android Central, 9to5Mac, About Chromebooks, Phandroid, and TechRadar. Tweets: @kevinctofel. Thanks:@toddbishop
| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
Source: Stripe is valued at $115B in “secondary market” transactions, up 3x from $36B valuation in April 2020, and is planning a round at a $100B+ valuation — Investors are valuing Stripe at a $115 billion valuation in “secondary market” transactions, where shares … | Peter Smith / Blockchain.com: |
Blockchain.com raises $120M growth round from Moore Strategic Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and others and says 65M wallets have been created — Today we're excited to share that Blockchain.com has closed on a strategic financing round, securing $120M from some of the world's leading macro investors.
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Decrypt, Bitcoin News, Cryptonews, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, and The Block
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Reddit publishes its 2020 transparency report: 233M pieces of content were removed out of 3.4B total; 82,858 subreddits were removed, up 4x from 2019 — Reddit has published its transparency report for 2020, showing various numbers relating to removed content, government requests, and other administrative actions.| Phil Muncaster / Infosecurity Magazine: |
YouTube takes down nearly 3,000 channels and accounts that were part of Chinese state coordinated influence operation — UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine — YouTube has taken down almost 3000 channels and accounts deemed to part of separate Chinese and Russian state coordinated influence operations.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Stock trading service Public.com raises $220M Series D at a $1.2B valuation from Greycroft, Accel, Tiger Global, and others — The day before Robinhood goes under the the Congressional hammer, domestic rival Public.com announced this morning that it has closed a $220 million funding round at a $1.2 billion valuation.
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Insider, FinSMEs, FinLedger, Reuters, Business Wire, WRAL TechWire, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @yoda and @briannekimmel
| Danielle Bochove / Bloomberg: |
Shopify beats estimates with Q4 revenue of $977.7M, up 94% YoY, profit of $504.4M, up 91% YoY, and Gross Merchandise Volume of $41.1B, up 99% YoY — - Company says it will ‘aggressively’ reinvest in products — Gross merchandise value nearly doubles in 4Q to $41.1 billion
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Benedict Evans, Shopify, Financial Times, and ZDNet
Tweets: @amasad, @glenngabe, @business, @carnage4life, and @aghose
| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Twitter has told employees that they will receive just 57% of their 2020 bonus target after the company missed internal revenue and profit goals — Twitter has told its employees that they will receive a sliver of their corporate bonus target for 2020—just 7% …
Tweets: @alexeheath and @anthony
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Uber hires author and labor researcher Alex Rosenblat, who wrote a book criticizing Uber's treatment of workers, to help improve its relations with drivers — - The “Uberland” author will advocate for drivers internally — The company has a strained relationship with academics
Tweets: @joedunman, @brodyford_, @natematias, @aaschapiro, and @parismarx
| Cathy Applefeld Olson / Forbes: |
20 music streaming services have paid $424M+ in historical unmatched royalties to Mechanical Licensing Collective; Apple paid $163M, Spotify $153M, Amazon $42M — The Mechanical Licensing Collective has received a total of $424.38 million in accrued historical unmatched royalties …
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Mechanical Licensing Collective, Variety, Apple Must, and Music Ally
Tweets: @kevinbrennanmp, @nadineshah, @dinalapolt, @legrandnetwork, @clara1cullen, and @davidclowery
| Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: |
A look at the new 217 new emojis coming in iOS 14.5, including a syringe without blood, couples with a mix of skin tones, AirPod Max headphones, and more — New emojis have arrived on iOS as part of the latest iOS 14.5 beta. These include a heart on fire, exhaling face, and gender options for the people with beards.
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9to5Mac, CNN, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, BBC, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, The Guardian, MUO, iMore, iDownloadBlog.com, and TechRadar
Tweets: @viticci, @stevemoser, @rcalo, @emojipedia, @ballmatthew, @cnn, @4theculture____, and @reneritchie
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Standard Cognition, which is developing tools for cashierless stores, similar to Amazon Go, raises $150M at a $1B+ valuation — A startup selling Amazon Go-like checkout technology to retailers has raised money from investors at a $1 billion valuation, minting a new unicorn a year into a pandemic … | David Welch / Bloomberg: |
Lidar startup AEye says it is going public via SPAC, valuing the new company at $2B and raising $455M — - Company nets $455 million to develop self-driving technology — Its software will also be used in driver assistance systems — AEye Inc., a startup that makes lidar systems …
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TechCrunch, PR Newswire, and Wccftech
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Profile of Corey Quinn, a “cloud economist” who consults for AWS clients like WaPo and Epic on cloud computing costs and often lampoons Amazon on Twitter — Corey Quinn has made it his business to understand Amazon's cloud-computing charges and have some fun at the company's expense.
Tweets: @mattdrange, @sbisson, @quinnypig, @daiwaka, @mike_julian, @quinnypig, @tomkrazit, and @petecheslock
| The Block: |
Sources: Coinbase facilitated Tesla's $1.5B bitcoin purchase during the first week of February; source says Coinbase has 5+ Fortune 500 companies as clients — Coinbase, the U.S.-based crypto exchange, has been helping large companies invest in bitcoin. The Block has learned that Tesla … Thanks:@saniyamore
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Peak AI, which helps retailers and other companies use AI to make decisions, raises $21M Series B led by Oxx, bringing its total raised to $43M — One of the biggest challenges for organizations in modern times is deciding where, when, and how to use the advances of technology …
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FinSMEs, supplychaindive.com, Tech.eu, VentureBeat, and Silicon Canals
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Comscore: Google's share of the top 15 US mobile apps has increased from 33% to 46% since 2015; Facebook has retained 20% of the market from 2015 to 2021 — Google and Facebook's share of the top 15 mobile apps by reach in the U.S. has increased in the past few years, despite the fact …
Tweets: @sarafischer
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