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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google launches a limited beta of Google Play Games, which brings Android games to Windows 10 and Windows 11, in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan — You'll need a relatively powerful computer for now. And for once, the US isn't getting a Google thing first
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Subscriptions launches as an alpha, initially letting 10 US creators offer their followers paid access to exclusive Instagram Live videos and Stories — Instagram is giving creators more ways to make money with today's launch of Instagram Subscriptions.
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| Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
Red Cross says a cyberattack on a vendor for over 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies compromised the personal data of 515,000+ “highly vulnerable people” — (CNN)A cyberattack on a contractor used by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has compromised … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
AT&T begins its 5G C-band rollout in eight US metro areas, including Austin and Chicago, after delaying rollouts around airports due to safety concerns — The company is lighting up towers in just eight locations amidst pushback from airlines — AT&T is lighting up its expanded 5G service …
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| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
This summer the IRS will require users to log in via ID.me, which uses facial recognition in its authentication process, to file taxes, make payments, and more — Users will have to submit sensitive government documents, their social security number, credit history, and a facial scan to third-party company ID.me.
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| Bloomberg: |
Crypto.com confirms it suffered a cybersecurity breach, says it reimbursed the ~400 affected customer accounts, and plans to share more in the coming days — Crypto.com has not received any “outreach” from regulators following a cybersecurity breach earlier this week of about 400 customer accounts …
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon will launch Amazon Style, its first physical fashion store, in Los Angeles later this year; customers can use an app to send items to the fitting room — Move over books and groceries, Amazon's latest foray into physical retail is focused on fashion.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will transition organizations using G Suite legacy free edition to an upgraded Google Workspace paid subscription starting on July 1 — In 2020, G Suite became Google Workspace as part of a mass reorganization of the company's apps for the “future of work.”
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta is working on plans to let users create and sell NFTs on Facebook and Instagram, show NFTs on user profiles, and is considering an NFT marketplace — Facebook's parent draws up plans to allow users to create and sell non-fungible tokens, seeking to enter hype-fuelled $40bn market
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Internal email: Google is creating a unit under its Labs division for blockchain and other distributed tech, led by engineering VP Shivakumar Venkataraman — Google is forming a group dedicated to the blockchain and related technologies under a newly appointed executive who has spent …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
SaaS Labs, which offers business automation tools for sales and support teams at SMBs, raises a $42M Series B, and acquires CallPage and Atolia — SaaS Labs has raised $42 million in a new financing round, less than three months after closing its previous funding, and acquired two startups …
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Biden signs a memorandum expanding the NSA's role in protecting sensitive government networks, and mandating cybersecurity practices at DoD and spy agencies — White House order mandates cybersecurity practices at Defense Department, spy agencies, contractors| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Autograph, an agency co-founded by Tom Brady that helps celebrities get involved with NFTs, raises a $170M Series B co-led by a16z and Kleiner Perkins — Autograph, an NFT agency co-founded by athlete Tom Brady with a particularly deep bench of star power, has banked new funding …
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CB Insights: global fintech funding in 2021 jumped to a record $131.5B across 4,969 deals, up from $49B raised across 3,491 deals in 2020 — The global startup fundraising boom has lifted nearly every sector you can name: Edtech took off during the pandemic, software in general got a lift … | Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
Sources: a16z plans to raise $3.5B for its latest cryptocurrency fund and up to $1B for a fund focused on seed investments in digital asset startups — Planned fundraising illustrates how Silicon Valley firms are fuelling boom in cryptocurrency start-ups — Andreessen Horowitz plans … | Patricia Allen / EU-Startups: |
Berlin-based EMnify, which offers a cloud-based platform for cellular connectivity in the IoT stack, raises €50M from One Peak, bringing total funding to €70M — With its cloud-based platform for cellular connectivity in the IoT stack EMnify has just secured a €50 million investment from One Peak.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Chennai-based M2P Fintech, which provides payment APIs to legacy banks and fintech startups in India, raises a $56M Series C at a $605M valuation — M2P Fintech, a payments infrastructure startup that has established market dominance in India, has raised $56 million in a new financing round …
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
South Korea's Greenlabs, which wants to digitize the entire value chain of agriculture space from crop production to distribution, raises a $140M Series C — Greenlabs, a South Korean agtech startup, announced this week it has closed a $140 million Series C led by BlueRun Ventures … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in recent weeks, CEO Bobby Kotick suggested Activision Blizzard make an acquisition, including of trade publications like Kotaku and PC Gamer — After a lawsuit and a Journal report, the company's stock was falling, board members were getting anxious—and the tech giant was ready to take a gamble
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Vienna-based PlanRadar, which digitizes construction and real estate documents and communication, raises a $70M Series B — Back in March Vienna-based PlanRadar snapped up a €30 million Series A to digitize construction and real estate. The Austrian startup - a platform for documentation …
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