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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to launch a public preview of Android apps for Windows 11, taskbar improvements, redesigned Notepad and Media Player apps, and more in February — New Notepad and Media Player apps also on the way — Microsoft is planning to launch a public preview of its Android apps … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta-backed Diem Association is talking to investment bankers about selling its IP to return capital to investors and giving its engineers a new home — The controversial cryptocurrency project that Mark Zuckerberg once defended in front of Congress is unraveling after regulatory pressure.
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The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Ars Technica, Fortune, Blockworks, Attack of the 50 Foot …, Protocol, Crypto Daily, CNBC, Web3 News, Engadget, KnowTechie, Coinspeaker, TechCircle, Decrypt, Finextra, Cointelegraph, South China Morning Post, Crowdfund Insider, ZeroHedge, and CoinDesk
Tweets: @jack, @mshannahmurphy, @davidmarcus, @sarahfrier, @jamespmcleod, @ivanthek, @mdudas, @mathewi, @terronk, @ryan_browne_, @thinkingcrypto1, @alexeheath, @om, @finplankaluaja1, @lopp, @pt, @gladstein, @fintechfrank, @ggollerk, @bitfinexed, @iamdcinvestor, @ansonzeall, @amerliberal, and @caseynewton
| Ivan Lam / Counterpoint Research: |
Chinese smartphone sales fell 9% YoY in Q4 2021 as full-year sales dropped 2% YoY; Apple became China's top vendor in Q4 after six years with 23% marketshare — - Smartphone sales in China declined (9% YoY) for the third consecutive quarter in Q4 2021. — Full-year smartphone sales declined …
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Reuters, 9to5Mac, Reuters, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, Bloomberg, PhoneArena, iMore, AppleInsider, Patently Apple, MacDailyNews, Apple Must, and iClarified
Tweets: @arjunkharpal, @neiltwitz, @neiltwitz, and @firstsquawk
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon has abandoned its much-maligned campaign of paying warehouse employees to share positive messages on social media after embarrassing backfires — Paying warehouse workers to tweet positive comments is dropped after poor reach and embarrassing backfires
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Insider. Tweets: @ashleygjovik, @martinsfp, @patrickmcgee_, @muradahmed, @carnage4life, @quinnypig, and @counternotions
| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find a 12-year-old vulnerability in Polkit that local attackers can use to gain root privileges on all major Linux distributions; an exploit is out — A vulnerability in Polkit's pkexec component that is present in the default configuration of all major Linux distributions …
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Qualys Security Blog. More:
BleepingComputer, CSO, Security Affairs, Hackaday, Ars Technica, ComputerWeekly.com, WinBuzzer, The Hacker News, Neowin, iTnews, and The Register
Tweets: @marcan42, @bsdphk, @alyssam_infosec, and @__phantomderp
| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Crypto exchange FTX's American affiliate, FTX.US, raises $400M at an $8B valuation from Paradigm, SoftBank, and others, its first outside funding — FTX's American affiliate, FTX.US, has joined the crypto unicorn club after closing its first-ever fundraising round.
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Reuters, CNBC, SiliconANGLE, PR Newswire, Bitcoinist.com, Bloomberg, CryptoSlate, CoinDesk, Crypto Daily, Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, CoinGape, and Tech News
Tweets: @fintechfrank and @ryan_browne_
| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
The White House instructs agencies to move towards a zero trust cybersecurity strategy, including using hardware-based authentication tools — Federal departments will have two months to outline their response — The White House released a new cybersecurity strategy Wednesday aimed …
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The White House, CNN, BleepingComputer, and The Record
Tweets: @jimlangevin, @adam_k_levin, @cisajen, @cisagov, and @b_fung
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Ryan Wyatt, YouTube's gaming head who oversaw big deals to poach Twitch's star streamers, leaves to grow Ethereum scaling startup Polygon's developer ecosystem — Ryan Wyatt will be at YouTube until the end of February — Ryan Wyatt, YouTube's head of gaming who oversaw some of its big deals …
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Android Central, New York Post, Tubefilter, Waivly, South China Morning Post, and Decrypt
Tweets: @fwiz, @alexisohanian, @artjonak, @cagyjan1, @tehmoonwalker, @0xrooter, @cdixon, @johnlilic, @zachbussey, and @mhbergen
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
After reports of AirTags being used for stalking, Apple releases a Personal Safety User Guide, covering AirTags alerts, information for Android users, and more — Apple has launched a new “Personal Safety User Guide” that aggregates details and support documents that can help users “when your personal safety is at risk.”
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Apple. More:
TechCrunch, Apple Support, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, MacStories, PhoneArena, Trusted Reviews, MacRumors, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @evacide, @mishimakitan, @hondanhon, @andrewmohawk, and @mattahorton
| Eric Martin / Bloomberg: |
The IMF's board urges El Salvador to strip Bitcoin of its status as legal currency due to its large risks, a major obstacle to the country's $1.3B loan request — The International Monetary Fund's board urged El Salvador to strip Bitcoin of its status as legal currency due to its large risks …
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International Monetary Fund. More:
ZDNet, CNBC, CryptoSlate, TechSpot, Cryptopolitan, Blockchain News, International Business Times, Cryptonews, Coinspeaker, Notebookcheck.net, CoinQuora, The Verge, Forbes, BullRun Forever, CoinDesk, BBC, Benzinga, and Bitcoin Magazine
Tweets: @gladstein, @kr00ney, @excellion, @nouriel, @sentletse, and @pt
| Kim Zetter / The Verge: |
How hacker Joe Grand used a fault-injection attack to crack a Trezor One hardware wallet to recover $2M in cryptocurrency for two friends who forgot the PIN — In early 2018, Dan Reich and a friend decided to spend $50,000 in Bitcoin on a batch of Theta tokens, a new cryptocurrency then worth just 21 cents apiece.
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Crypto Daily, Decrypt, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @kimzetter, @fleming77, @nick_kapur, @0xcharlie, @kimzetter, @kimzetter, @kimzetter, and @cmwdotme
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup Firebolt, which offers warehouse data storage and analytics, raises a $100M Series C at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M — Israeli startup Firebolt has been taking on Google's BigQuery, Snowflake and others with a cloud data warehouse solution …
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VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, CTech, Reuters, and Database Trends …
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft will keep Activision Blizzard agreements for three new Call of Duty games on PlayStation in the next two years, but long-term plans are hazy — Activision Blizzard Inc., which is being bought by Microsoft Corp., will release at least the next three games in its hit Call …
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Dexerto, iPhone in Canada Blog, Dannycoverstech's Newsletter, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, KnowTechie, Tom's Guide, TrueAchievements, Game Rant, Pocket-lint, GameRevolution, OnMSFT.com, Gameranx, Ubergizmo, TechRadar, TechCircle, GamingBolt, The Verge, and Gamereactor UK
Tweets: @jasonschreier, @domsplaying, @danstapleton, @tomwarren, and @jasonschreier
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Satya Nadella says Microsoft Teams topped 270M MAUs in the December quarter, up from 250M MAUs in July 2021 — Microsoft's Teams communications and collaboration platform topped 270 million monthly active users in the December quarter, continuing to add users but at a much slower pace than in the initial months of the pandemic.| Microsoft Investor Relations: |
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Search Engine Land, The Verge, CNBC, The Verge, TrueAchievements, Coinspeaker, Telecoms.com, Cloud Computing News, The Register, PCWorld, TechRadar, Reuters, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @levynews, @lanceulanoff, @zhugeex, @dinabass, @tomwarren, @patrickmoorhead, @daniel_rubino, and @tomwarren
| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
President Biden backs consumers' right to repair and acknowledges the anticompetitive practices of electronics manufacturers — “Too many areas, if you own a product, from a smartphone to a tractor, you don't have the freedom to choose how or where to repair that item you purchased.”
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The Register, ZDNet, and The Hill
Tweets: @potus, @glytchtech, @carnage4life, @wavesblog, @vice, @linustech, @mkolken, @motherboard, @sensusaneggman, @patriciafahy109, @karlbode, @stevesi, @whitehouse, @kellymakena, and @digiphile
| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
EU General Court overturns a record €1.06B fine for Intel, levied in 2009 over allegedly squeezing out AMD, saying the EU made key errors — Intel Corp. won a historic victory in its court fight over a record 1.06 billion-euro ($1.2 billion) competition fine, in a landmark ruling …
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EU General Court, CRN, HotHardware.com News, Windows Central, Politico, Thurrott, Ars Technica, CNET, Associated Press, TheStreet, Reuters, Tech Xplore, Barron's Online, Silicon Republic, and CNBC
Tweets: @lewis_crofts and @lewis_crofts
| Chainalysis: |
Criminals laundered $8.6B in cryptocurrency in 2021, up from $6.6B in 2020 but below $10.9B in 2019; exchanges received 47% of the funds and DeFi received 17% — This blog is a preview of our 2022 Crypto Crime Report. Sign up here to reserve your copy and we'll email you the full report when it comes out in February!| Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
Activision Blizzard declines to voluntarily recognize a union formed by 34 QA testers at Raven Software, after failing to reach an agreement with the CWA — Activision Blizzard did not respond to workers' request for recognition of a union formed by quality assurance testers at Raven Software, the workers said Tuesday evening.
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TechCrunch, Polygon, Kotaku, Insider, Bloomberg, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Neowin, GamesIndustry.biz, GameSpot, dot.LA, PC Games Insider, thegamer.com, PC Gamer, Engadget, Reuters, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @futterish, @shannon_liao, @shannon_liao, @shannon_liao, @kellen_browning, @kellen_browning, and @shannon_liao
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
VR game studio Alta raises a $12.4M seed led by Makers Fund and a16z at a $62M valuation after releasing a popular Oculus game — Alta, a virtual reality metaverse studio, announced today it has raised a 12.4 million seed funding co-led by Makers Fund and Andreessen Horowitz.
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VentureBeat, Australian Financial Review, and Road to VR
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
CaptivateIQ, a no-code service for creating sales commission plans, raises a $100M Series C at a $1.25B valuation, after raising a $46M Series B in April 2021 — Less than 10 months after raising a $46 million Series B, CaptivateIQ announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series C round at a $1.25 billion valuation.
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VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, and PR Newswire
| Sarah Rappaport / Bloomberg: |
Live events service Fever raises $227M led by Goldman Sachs at a $1B+ valuation as it plans an IPO — Live events platform Fever raised $227 million in a funding round led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., a sign that post-pandemic live events can attract investor interest.
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PYMNTS.com and Tech.eu
| George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
MinIO, which offers popular open source tools for multi-cloud storage, raises a $103M Series B at a $1B valuation — MinIO, the de facto open source standard for multi-cloud storage, took an early bet in the cloud. The bet is paying off. — Back in 2014, the world was a different place.
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SiliconANGLE, CRN, FinSMEs, MinIO Blog, Insider, and GlobeNewswire News Room
| Financial Times: |
A look at the dispute between Muslim marriage matchmaking app Muzmatch, which has 5M global users, and Match, which says Muzmatch benefits from a similar name — Since launching Muzmatch out of his bedroom in north London a decade ago, Shahzad Younas has worked 18-hour days to build the Muslim marriage app with 5m users worldwide.
Tweets: @muradahmed and @fqure
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 15.3 with a fix for the IndexedDB API bug in Safari, as well as iPadOS 15.3, watchOS 8.4, tvOS 15.3, HomePod 15.3, and macOS Monterey 12.2 — Apple's latest round of software updates is now rolling out to the public. iOS 15.3 is now available to iPhone users with performance improvements … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Klarna launches its Visa-based Klarna Card in the UK, expanding on Sweden and Germany where it has 800,000 users; the card includes Klarna's “Pay in 30” feature — - Klarna is launching a physical card in the U.K. that lets users delay payments on their purchases, both in-store as well as online.
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Klarna, Crowdfund Insider, PYMNTS.com, Coinspeaker, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Finextra, London Evening Standard, altfi.com, and The Times
Tweets: @ryan_browne_ and @sam_l_shead
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Spanish e-commerce delivery service Paack, which offers software tools that integrate with robotics, raises a €200M Series D led by Vision Fund 2 — By now, many of us are familiar with the warehouse robots which populate those vast spaces occupied by the likes of Amazon and others.Sponsor Posts
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