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| Apple: |
Livestream of Apple's “California Dreaming” event — Watch today at 10 a.m. PDT. View online at apple.com or on the Apple TV app.
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| The Verge: |
Live blog of Apple's event, where the iPhone 13, Apple Watch Series 7, and redesigned AirPods are expected — On such a winter's day — The time has come for yet another iPhone announcement — plus whatever else Apple might have up its sleeve. Sleeve's the right metaphor, actually …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Internal docs: Facebook's own research shows Instagram is harmful to a sizeable percentage of users, especially teen girls, but it has taken few remedial steps — Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public
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| Bloomberg: |
Last week's court ruling leaves the door open for Apple to still attempt to collect a 30% commission from app developers who use their own payment methods — - Judge questioned, but didn't lower iPhone maker's commission — Maximizing revenue poses logistical challenges, political risk| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A breakdown of Apple vs. Epic decision, which was a near total victory for Apple, and the limitations of the injunction on App Store's anti-steering provision — The vast majority of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decision in Epic v. Apple is both straight-forward and predictable …
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Marco.org, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, New York Times, and Pixel Envy
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
South Korea fines Google $177M for abusing market dominance, saying it prevented companies like Samsung from developing or using modified versions of Android — - Company said to have impeded development of competing software — Regulator orders change to Google contracts with manufacturers
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Citizen Lab says it found evidence of ForcedEntry on an activist's iPhone and the exploit worked on iPads, Macs, and Watches as well, prior to recent updates — Citizen Lab says the ForcedEntry flaw affects all iPhones, iPads, Macs and Watches — Apple has released security updates …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Ticketing company AXS adopts Amazon One palm scanner at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the first Amazon One partnership outside Amazon and Whole Food stores — Launching at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre — Amazon's palm-scanning technology, Amazon One, has always been about more than just fast payments.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Amazon rolls out an OS update with a new UI for Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Kindle Oasis, the first refresh since around 2016 — Refined look and feel coming to most Kindles released since 2015. — Amazon's Kindle e-readers get new software updates regularly, and they're mostly of the nondescript …
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
Christine Martinez files a suit against Pinterest claiming breach of implied contract, saying she co-created Pinterest but was never compensated — In a lawsuit, a woman who said she had helped create Pinterest claimed the founders had agreed to compensate her but never did.
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| Sun Yu / Financial Times: |
Chinese police are using a state-backed anti-fraud app, installed on 200M+ devices, to identify and question people who have viewed overseas financial news — Police identify and question people on back of software meant to prevent online scams — Chinese police are using …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Biden to nominate Georgetown law professor Alvaro Bedoya, who focuses on privacy issues, to be a commissioner at the FTC — Alvaro Bedoya has spearheaded pivotal research into how the government's use of facial recognition software hurts America's most marginalized| Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Researcher discovers an AI-powered service that makes it incredibly easy for users to generate nonconsensual deepfake porn by uploading a picture of a face — Deepfake researchers have long feared the day this would arrive. — The website is eye-catching for its simplicity.| Jack Poulson / American Prospect: |
A former AI research scientist at Google details how tech companies and the US government hide their surveillance projects in plain sight — Learning about the Pentagon's drone program through FOIA requests and public filings — An MQ-9 Sea Guardian unmanned maritime surveillance drone flies … | Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Intuit says it has agreed to acquire Mailchimp for $12B in cash and stock — - Intuit will buy email marketing company Mailchimp for $12 billion, the companies announced Monday. — Intuit said it will use the acquisition to accelerate growth among small business clients.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sendoso, which helps companies send customized physical gifts to clients at scale for a monthly fee, raises $100M Series C led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 — Corporate gift services have come into their own during the Covid-19 pandemic by standing in as a proxy for other kinds …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India and Singapore are working to link India's Unified Payments Interface and Singapore's PayNow by 2022, seeking to enable “instant, low-cost” transfers — India and Singapore are working to link their digital payments systems to enable “instant, low-cost fund transfers,” …
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Entrackr, rbi.org.in, mas.gov.sg, ZDNet, Tech in Asia, Bloomberg, DealStreetAsia, and Finextra. Tweets: @melissafrakman
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Parler CEO George Farmer, a British hedge fund partner married to Candace Owens, who says the social network is planning a relaunch after Capitol riots — George Farmer seeks to revive ‘free speech’ app that imploded after US Capitol riots — Parler, the “free speech” …
Tweets: @bondhack and @martinsfp
| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Amazon says it is increasing its average US hourly starting wage to $18 and plans to hire 125,000 more warehouse and transportation workers — Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) has increased its average starting wage in the United States to more than $18 an hour and plans to hire another 125,000 warehouse …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Interview with Will Cathcart on the criticism of humans reviewing reported WhatsApp content, encrypted backups, and the broader geopolitics of e2e encryption — After a contentious year, candid talk on encryption, privacy, and ProPublica — It has been a contentious year for WhatsApp.| Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Solana has been suffering a network outage for around 4 hours, which its engineers say is caused by “network exhaustion”; validators can “restart if necessary” — In brief — Blockchain network Solana has been down for nearly four hours as of this writing.
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Bloomberg, CryptoSlate, and The Block
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Jakarta-based payments infrastructure startup Xendit raises $150M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Tiger Global, following $64.6M Series B six months ago — There's a new entrant in Southeast Asia's growing list of unicorns. Jakarta-based Xendit, best known for its digital payment infrastructure … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based SkyKick, which builds software to help SMBs with their cloud infrastructure management, raises $130M, bringing total raised to date to $200M — The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation for companies across various industries. That's good news for SkyKick …
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CRN and Seattle Business Journal
| Cristiano Lima / Washington Post: |
Wikimedia Foundation names Maryana Iskander as CEO, starting January 2022; Iskander previously led a South African non-profit focused on youth unemployment — Maryana Iskander says she aims to increase diversity among Wikipedia's volunteer moderators when she takes the reins … | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Nextiva, a communications software company similar to RingCentral and Vonage, raises $200M from Goldman Sachs at a $2.7B valuation, its first outside funding — - First outside funding round for Arizona-based software startup — Nextiva clients include Taco Bell and the Buffalo BillsSponsor Posts
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