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Apple became the first company to reach a $3T market cap when its stock hit $182.86, tripling its valuation in under four years, before closing at $182.01 — - Apple hit a market cap of $3 trillion, tripling in valuation in under four years. — The milestone is mostly symbolic …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Samsung says its 2022 TVs will support browsing, displaying, and purchasing NFTs, as well as viewing their history and blockchain metadata — Learn about an NFT's blockchain history from the comfort of your couch — Staring at your non-fungible tokens on a smartphone or laptop screen is fine and all …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils Samsung Gaming Hub, coming to select 2022 Samsung TVs, offering support for Google Stadia, Nvidia's GeForce Now, and Utomik cloud gaming — Plus a mysterious way to pass through your game console's controller signals — Samsung is revealing a new lineup of smart TVs at CES 2022 today …
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| Daniel Victor / New York Times: |
A look at Wordle, a viral once-a-day word guessing game created by a Brooklyn-based engineer as a side project that has amassed 300,000 players in two months — The word game has gone from dozens of players to hundreds of thousands in a few months. It was created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his partner.
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| David Lumb / CNET: |
AT&T and Verizon agree to delay the launch of their upgraded 5G networks for two weeks over aviation safety concerns from the FAA and the airline industry — The companies were poised to roll out the so-called C-band airwaves this week, which promise to bring improved speed and coverage to their 5G networks.
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Tweets by 8VC's Joe Lonsdale about “woke” tech diversity prompt swift criticism from tech investors as he attempts to recontextualize his earlier statements — Last week, in response to someone who tweeted that VCs were racist, venture capitalist and entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale …
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| Park Jae-hyuk / The Korea Times: |
South Korea's ruling party announces an NFT presidential election fundraiser; Lee Jae-myung, the DPK's presidential nominee, supports NFTs in gaming — The ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) is set to become the world's first political party to issue non-fungible tokens (NFTs) …
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| Brian Newar / Cointelegraph: |
After a reported theft, OpenSea freezes 16 Bored Ape and Mutant Ape NFTs, worth ~$2.3M, leading some to point out the NFT space's lack of decentralization — Art gallery owner Todd Kramer had his valuable NFT collection stolen from his hot wallet yesterday, so OpenSea froze the stolen assets worth about $2.2 million.| Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Blackbaud, a cloud software provider to nonprofits, acquires Everfi, which offers organizations cloud-based learning services, for $750M — The social impact technology company is being acquired in a cash and stock deal. — Cloud software giant Blackbaud has acquired social impact …
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils Galaxy S21 FE, with a 6.4-inch display, Snapdragon 888, 120Hz refresh rate, triple-lens rear camera, and a 32MP selfie camera, starting at $699 — There's now even less room between the ceiling of the A-series and the floor of the S-series — After a year of will-they-or …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bengaluru-based Exotel, which offers customer engagement tools like contact center, APIs, and chat bots, raises a $40M Series D led by Steadview Capital — Exotel said on Tuesday it has raised $40 million in a financing round, just three months after securing $35 million in funding …
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The US takes Kremlin insider Vladislav Klyushin into custody; sources say he has documents related to Russia's hack of DNC servers during the 2016 US election — IT executive Vladislav Klyushin's journey into U.S. custody is a blow to the Kremlin, say people familiar with a Russian intelligence assessment of what he may have to offer
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