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| Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times: |
A Florida teen who hacked well-known Twitter accounts last summer and used them to ask for BTC, netting $100K+ worth, was sentenced to 3 years in a plea deal — Graham Ivan Clark, 18, agreed to plea guilty to fraud charges for a hack of several Twitter accounts last summer.
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| CNBC: |
SEC filing: Uber will reclassify its UK drivers as “workers”, granting them vacation pay, minimum wage, and pension plan access, but not full employee benefits — - Uber will reclassify all U.K.-based drivers as workers. — Under the new designation, more than 70,000 drivers …
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| Dara Khosrowshahi / London Evening Standard: |
Uber's thinking on UK driver rights has evolved and worker flexibility “should not come at the expense of social protections” — T — hree weeks after I became CEO of Uber in 2017, our licence to operate in London was revoked. It was not how I expected to start my new job …
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| Noam Cohen / Wired: |
Wikimedia Foundation debuts Wikimedia Enterprise, a premium service for delivering Wikipedia content to companies like Google, but a free option will remain — The Big Four all lean on the encyclopedia at no cost. With the launch of Wikimedia Enterprise, the volunteer project will change that—and possibly itself, too.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Facebook's interest in newsletters stems from its shift in product development to focus on private messaging and Groups, not the News Feed — Hint: it's all about Groups. PLUS: Substack fumbles — Today let's talk about platforms' growing interest in building newsletter tools …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Squarespace raises $300M in a round valuing it at $10B, two months after it filed confidentially to go public via a direct listing or an IPO — Squarespace has raised $300 million in a round of funding that values the company at a staggering $10 billion valuation.| The Verge: |
A group of 15 AGs update their antitrust complaint against Google, taking aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox and other privacy updates related to ad targeting — ‘Google is trying to hide its true intentions behind a pretext of privacy,’ say prosecutors — State antitrust watchdogs …
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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Internal FTC docs: 2013 decision not to pursue a Google antitrust investigation was based on faulty logic and a misunderstanding of the internet's potential — Few moments in the power struggle between Washington and Silicon Valley have inspired more anger and bafflement than one in January 2013 …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces second-generation Nest Hub with sleep tracking, powered by a Soli radar chip, for $100, shipping on March 30 — In deciding to not put a camera on what was initially called the Home Hub, Google made its first Assistant Smart Display ideal for nightstands.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it will publish an annual report detailing its impact on human rights, and will establish a fund to support human rights activists and journalists — - Social media giant to give board formal updates on the issue — Company has been criticized for role in Myanmar, Sri Lanka
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| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Leaked audio from a February 8 meeting reveals Parler's chief policy officer saying: “We are not going after misinformation in any way” — Leaked recordings of meetings detail role of Rebekah Mercer at social-media platform — Conservative donor Rebekah Mercer has been writing checks …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel's 11th Gen desktop chips launch, with the flagship Core i9-11900K sporting eight cores, two less than last gen, and boosted clock speeds of up to 5.3GHz — Rocket Lake-S looks to combine the best parts of Intel's 14nm process with its 10nm designs — Intel's next-generation desktop chips …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Sensor Tower: if reduced 15% commission was in place in 2020, Apple would have missed out on an estimated $595M or 2.7% and Google $587M or 5% in app store fees — - Apple and Google have announced changes to app store fees that impact app makers making less than $1 million per year.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
GoPro refreshes its main smartphone app, now called Quik, and adds new features, including a private feed for organizing media — Another new direction for the camera company's software — GoPro is releasing a new version of its main smartphone app that will now be called “Quik.”
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Instagram says it's introducing new policies to limit interactions between teenagers and adults, including banning adults from DMing teens who don't follow them — Teen users will also be shown safety prompts when messaging ‘suspicious’ adults — Instagram is introducing …
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About Facebook, Social Media Today, CNET, Neowin, SlashGear, TechSpot, MUO, Tubefilter, and Fortune
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Oregon-based Dutchie, an e-commerce platform for cannabis dispensaries, raised $200M Series C at a $1.7B valuation, up nearly eight times from last August — Dutchie, a nearly four-year-old, Bend, Oregon company that charges cannabis dispensaries a monthly fee to create and run their websites … | Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Dropbox says Dropbox Passwords, a management tool introduced in 2020 for businesses, will be free for Basic accounts starting in April, with a 50 password limit — Maybe an upsell, maybe a introduction to password security — Dropbox is adding a new feature on top of its usual offerings …
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| Billy Tallis / AnandTech: |
Micron says it is ceasing all R&D on its 3D XPoint memory, which it developed with Intel, and has listed its fab in Lehi, Utah for sale — In a sudden but perhaps not too surprising announcement, Micron has stated that they are ceasing all R&D of 3D XPoint memory technology.
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Micron Technology, HPCwire, Bloomberg, Forbes, Reuters, MarketWatch, and Tom's Hardware
| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
McAfee researchers detail a Chinese cyberespionage campaign targeting at least 23 telcos in the US, Europe, and SE Asia to steal data, including for 5G tech — Cybersecurity researchers at McAfee detail an ongoing cyber espionage campaign which is targeting telecoms companies around the world.
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McAfee Blogs, The Record, McAfee Blogs, Dark Reading, and TechRepublic
Tweets: @mcafee, @mcafee_labs, and @dannyjpalmer
| Bloomberg: |
Huawei says it will start charging Apple, Samsung, and other manufacturers royalties for 5G patents, a potentially lucrative scheme as US sanctions bite — - Executives pledge to charge rates below its competitors — Company is keen to expand its clout in global 5G networking
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CNBC, Huawei, Android Central, Pocketnow, SlashGear, iMore, The Verge, Redmond Pie, and Liliputing
Tweets: @benwood, @hdduncan, and @fosspatents
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
PatSnap, which offers an AI-powered service to help R&D teams analyze the intellectual property landscape, raises $300M Series E led by Tencent and SoftBank — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — PatSnap, which offers a patent …
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Telegraph, FinSMEs, Tech.eu, SiliconANGLE, PatSnap, Bloomberg, and Crunchbase News
| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
eToro, which lets users trade cryptocurrencies, commodities, stocks, and more, says it will go public via SPAC, valuing the company at $10.4B and raising $650M — Quick Take — The investment platform is merging with FinTech Acquisition Corp. V — The SPAC merger follows years …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Health care referral service Grand Rounds, which was last valued at $1.34B, is merging with Doctor On Demand, last valued at $875M, in an all-stock deal — - Grand Rounds and Doctor On Demand, two venture-backed digital health companies, are merging in a deal that will form a multibillion-dollar entity.| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
SEC charges a California trader for allegedly using misleading claims to promote penny stocks on Twitter to his ~13K followers and then selling his holdings — The agency says social media was used in an alleged pump-and-dump scam. — The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Docker raises $23M Series B led by Tribe Capital as a new developer focus takes shape for the company after it sold its enterprise business in 2019 — It was easy to wonder what would become of Docker after it sold its enterprise business in 2019, but it regrouped last year … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report: Apple will let the Russian government pre-install iOS apps in accordance with a new law; users can deselect the apps during setup or delete them after — Starting next month, Apple will allow the Russian government to pre-install apps on iPhones, iPads and other devices starting next month.
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