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Amazon is pursuing an increasingly aggressive PR strategy, picking fights with Democratic politicians such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on Twitter — Who is Amazon trying to convince? — Amazon is intensifying its bizarre online public relations strategy of picking increasingly petty …
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NY State launches first US “vaccine passport” app, Excelsior Pass, built on IBM's blockchain-based health pass platform, to be used initially at large venues — Starting Friday, New Yorkers will be able to pull up a code on their cell phone or a printout to prove they've … | Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Inside BitClout, the controversial service that tokenizes Twitter personalities, mostly without permission, and has $170M worth of BTC raised from a16z, others — Diamondhands greets me on the encrypted messaging app Signal. He can see me over video, but his own video is turned off …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says 92% of vulnerable Exchange servers had been patched/mitigated, and reiterates that patches do not necessarily remove the access of the attacker — If you're cleaning up a infected Exchange server, you need to look for traces of multiple threats, warns Microsoft.
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Report: close to half the tech M&A deals in the US included a stock consideration in 2020, the highest percentage since 2016, versus only 27% in 2019 — (Reuters) - Cash may be king, but stock is queen in the land of technology mergers and acquisitions during a pandemic-fueled tech boom.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 14.4.2 and iOS 12.5.2 to fix a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability in WebKit that “may have been actively exploited” — Apple today released iOS 14.4.2 for iPhone and iPad, and watchOS 7.3.3 for Apple Watch. The updates includes an important security fix for WebKit …
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| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Avanti, which wants to offer custody services for BTC and other digital assets as well as API-based payment services for wire transfers, raises $37M Series A — Avanti Financial Group, a fully compliant digital assets bank, has raised $37 million in a Series A funding round backed …
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Interviews and documents reveal that in the year before his death, Tony Hsieh was surrounded by people who lived off his fortune and enabled his risky lifestyle — The group that surrounded the late Zappos boss helped sustain his drug habit, protected him from outsiders and lived off his largess| Reggie Ugwu / New York Times: |
A look at Google's hands-off content moderation approach for Google Podcasts, where hate speech from white supremacists and pro-Nazi groups is easy to find — The platform's tolerance of white supremacist, pro-Nazi and conspiracy theory content pushes the boundaries of the medium.
Tweets: @uugwuu, @waltmossberg, @uugwuu, @nikkiusher, @gadyepstein, @ggreenwald, @jenniferm_q, and @razibkhan
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Report: Southeast Asian tech startups raised $8.2B in 2020, down 3.5% YoY, compared to a 31% drop in India and 38% in Africa; Indonesia drew 70% of the capital — - Fundraising remained at 2019 levels even as pandemic raged — Indonesian startups drew 70% of region's investments last year| Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg: |
China-based Q&A service Zhihu closed down 11% in its US trading debut on Friday, after raising $522.5M in an IPO; Zhihu had 75.7M MAUs in Q4 2020, up 33% YoY — - Zhihu falls 11% in U.S. trading debut after $522.5 million IPO — Alibaba, JD.com, Tencent join $250 million private placement
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Chinese food delivery giant Meituan reports revenue of $5.8B in Q4, up 35% YoY, and a loss of ~$300M as it continues to invest heavily in community group buying — Fierce competition in China's community group buying market took a toll as Meituan's profits plunged 250 per cent for the quarter Revenue …
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