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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Federal judge rules FTC's amended suit alleging Meta has a monopoly can move forward, after a ruling last year threw out FTC's complaint over lack of evidence — The decision is a reversal of fortune for the agency after its first complaint was thrown out last year
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
The FTC's suit against Meta comes too late to really matter, but its scrutiny of Meta's VR acquisitions shows it's determined not to make the same mistake twice — Why an FTC inquiry into the company's VR ambitions matters more than today's lawsuit ruling — Just over 13 months ago … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
T-Mobile says it has “not broadly blocked” iCloud Private Relay, blaming a bug in iOS 15.2, but says customers with content filtering plans won't have access — T-Mobile has officially acknowledged a bug that has blocked some subscribers from using iCloud Private Relay when connected to cellular networking.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Wordle clones are starting to disappear from Apple's App Store, after reports surfaced about many capitalizing on the guessing game's popularity — It seems Apple has taken action — Has Apple taken action against apps that cloned the popular web game Wordle?
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| Meta: |
Meta elects DoorDash co-founder and CEO Tony Xu to its board of directors; Zuckerberg says Xu has experience “solving complex challenges in commerce” — Meta today announced that Tony Xu, co-founder and CEO of DoorDash, Inc., has been elected to the company's board of directors, effective immediately.
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
PCI Special Interest Group finalizes its PCIe 6.0 specification, doubling PCIe 5.0's speeds and reaching 128GBps in x16 slots; it is expected in servers in 2023 — This morning the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) is releasing the much-awaited final (1.0) specification for PCI Express 6.0.
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| Talal Ansari / Wall Street Journal: |
Celebrities including Kim Kardashian are being sued in a class action suit for allegedly leading investors into an EthereumMax cryptocurrency pump-and-dump scam — Lawsuit alleges celebrities made false or misleading statements to investors about EthereumMax; company disputes allegations
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Citadel Securities, an electronic trading firm that works with Robinhood and others, raises $1.15B from Sequoia Capital and Paradigm, valuing it at ~$22B — Sequoia Capital's and Paradigm's $1.15 billion investment values the electronic-trading firm at around $22 billion
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Samsung, which had announced a January 11 event for the Exynos 2200, didn't show up to its own product launch and has yet to provide an explanation — The Exynos 2200 was supposed to launch on January 11. It didn't. Nobody knows why. — So here's a crazy story.
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| Mike Colias / Wall Street Journal: |
GM plans to launch an online used vehicle marketplace this summer called CarBravo, which will leverage its dealer network to compete with CarMax and Carvana — The Detroit auto maker is rolling out CarBravo, a new business that helps dealers put their used-car lots online| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox players are frustrated with forced crossplay, arguing PC users are cheating; Phil Spencer rejected crossplay in 2016, saying a mouse and keyboard is faster — Xbox players can't escape some PC cheaters — Xbox players are growing increasingly frustrated at being forced to play against PC gamers.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Envoy raises a $111M Series C at a $1.4B valuation, after pivoting from office visitor sign-in systems to hybrid workplace management tools — Envoy, a workplace management platform that caters to the burgeoning hybrid workforce, has raised $111 million in a series C round of funding at a $1.4 billion valuation.
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FinSMEs, Business Wire, Envoy, PYMNTS.com, and Insider
| Jessica Mathews / Fortune: |
Arkansas-based AcreTrader, an online farmland investment portal, raises a $40M Series B led by Anthemis Group, bringing its total funding to $58M — This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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Business Wire, Talk Business & Politics, FinSMEs, and Complex
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
PassiveLogic, which enables customers without programming expertise to develop autonomous systems for buildings and projects, raises a $34M Series B — Commercial building systems often require engineering teams with years of training to maintain. Even retrofitting old buildings with technology …
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Tweets: @finledgernews, @bradlarson, @annebonnerdata, @passivelogic, @venturebeat, and @aoproptech
| PYMNTS.com: |
Germany-based Alasco, which offers cloud-based financial management tools for real estate projects, raises a $40M Series B led by Insight Partners and Lightrock — Alasco, the cloud-based financial management platform for real estate projects, has raised $40 million in Series B funding …
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| Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Check Point: the number of cyber attacks per week on corporate networks in 2021 grew 50% YoY, peaking towards the end of the year, largely due to the Log4j flaw — Check Point Research said that among its customers, there was a 50% increase in overall attacks per week on corporate networks compared to 2020.
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