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Australia says Facebook agreed to reinstate news content in Australia in the coming days after the government promised amendments to its proposed media bill — We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google announces new features for Android, including a way to schedule texts and a Password Checkup tool to notify users of compromised credentials — Google today announced the next set of features coming to Android, including a new password checkup tool, a way to schedule your texts …
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| Tim Copeland / Decrypt: |
Bitfinex and Tether agree to an $18.5M settlement with the New York AG and will stop operating in the state following a two-year probe — Bitfinex and Tether have agreed to stop all trading activity in the state of New York as part of a settlement announced today by New York Attorney General Letitia James.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Q&A with Spotify's Daniel Ek on growing the number of creators on the service and engaging with them, podcast success metrics, Clubhouse, and more — Spotify hosted an event on Monday to discuss its ambitions in audio, and one message came through loud and clear: the company wants to play …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple plans to release two new MacBook Pro models with an HDMI port and an SD card reader in the second half of 2021 — Apple plans to release two new MacBook Pro models equipped with an HDMI port and SD card reader in the second half of 2021, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo …
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| Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters: |
A 93-page report from French antitrust investigators says Google breached government orders on how to negotiate with news publishers over copyright — PARIS (Reuters) - French antitrust investigators have accused Google of failing to comply with the state competition authority's orders … | Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Reddit, which announced a $250 million Series E earlier this month, has added over $116M to the financing event — Reddit, which announced a $250 million Series E earlier this month, has added over $116 million to the financing event, upping the round's most recent total to $367 million, according to a new SEC filing.| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
After delaying its plans, Roblox says it will go public via direct listing on March 10; in January, the company was valued at $29.5B after raising $500M+ — Direct listing comes after videogame company delayed IPO late last year and recast financial reports in response to SEC| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Shippo, a shipping software and services startup, raises $45M led by D1 Capital at $495M valuation, says it doubled its gross postage volume last year — This morning Shippo, a software company that provides shipping-related services to ecommerce companies, announced a new $45 million investment.| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
TikTok's networks effects, largely driven by remixability of content and features that interconnect, cannot be easily cloned by rivals to recreate the ecosystem — I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And this is that, in part.
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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
Sony says it's developing a VR headset for the PlayStation 5 that will be much less cumbersome than its current PS VR setup, but the device won't launch in 2021 — The PlayStation 5 will have its own virtual reality headset, however, consumers may face ongoing difficulties obtaining a PS5 console given a supply chain shortfall.
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
FCC proposes using $3.2B in emergency funds to subsidize broadband services for low-income families with $50/month discounts and $75/month on tribal lands — A proposal released by the acting chairwoman of the commission is an attempt to close the digital divide.| Hirsh Chitkara / Protocol: |
Inside Chess.com's streaming success, with Twitch users watching 18.3M hours of chess content in January, nearly as much as they consumed throughout all of 2019 — There's something inherently perverse in calling chess “open source.” It's a bit like saying France “pivoted” …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Akamai finds a botnet using bitcoin transactions to put its control server's IP address on the blockchain, making it basically impossible to fully take down — Wallet transactions camouflage the IP address of the botnet's control server. — When hackers corral infected computers into a botnet … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Saltmine, which has developed a web-based workplace design service, raises $20M Series A after seeing 80% ARR growth and 350% YoY MAU growth in 2020 — What is working in the office going to look like in a post-COVID-19 world? — That's something one startup hopes to help companies figure out.
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Source: ~40%, or 40M, of Disney+ subscribers are in the US, and Disney has said 30% are in India, so Europe and LatAm seem to make up less than a third of subs — Disney's flagship video-streaming service, Disney+, has quickly emerged as the only true competitor to Netflix … | Tanzeel Akhtar / CoinDesk: |
Bottlepay, which lets users send bitcoin via messages on Twitter, Reddit, and Discord, raises £11M at a post-money valuation of £51M — The payments platform is built with the Lightning Network scaling solution, which enables cheaper and faster bitcoin transactions.
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| Mickey Rapkin / Esquire: |
Profile of Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, who has made millions of dollars by selling and auctioning his digital art on marketplaces for non-fungible tokens — He's a dad from Wisconsin who drives a “piece of shit” Corolla. And his brilliantly absurd artwork has made him the face of a crypto market you didn't know existed.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Wisetack, which provides buy-now-pay-later services for in-person business transactions, raises $19M across seed and Series A rounds — This morning Wisetack, a startup that provides buy-now-pay-later services to in-person business transactions, announced that is has closed a total … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
ScienceLogic, a startup developing IT infrastructure monitoring software and AI for IT operations, raises $105M Series E led by Silver Lake Waterman — ScienceLogic, a startup developing an AIOps and IT infrastructure monitoring platform, today announced that it raised $105 million.
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Epic will give Fortnite and Rocket League players who have bought loot boxes ~$8 worth of credits and set aside $26M+ for claims to settle a class action suit — The class action settlement also provides an additional $26 million in benefits — Epic Games will give Fortnite players 1,000 V-Bucks …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Quill, a messaging app that raised its Index Ventures-led $12.5M Series A in 2019, quietly comes out of stealth to take on Slack — Slack took the workplace communications landscape by storm after it launched its integration-friendly, GIF-tastic chat platform in 2013.
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Swedish payments startup Klarna says it is considering a direct listing; sources say the company is raising over $500M, after securing $650M in September — STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - Swedish payments firm Klarna may list on the stock market without raising money by selling new shares … Sponsor Posts
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