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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils Tap to Pay on iPhone, letting US merchants accept contactless payments via partner-enabled apps later in 2022; partners include Stripe and Shopify — Apple has officially announced a new Tap to Pay feature for iPhone. This feature, coming later this year …
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Tweets: @patrickc, @erenbali, @callumj, @edwinwee, @deitaone, @jerrycap, @collision, @patio11, @ishanagarwal24, @benedictevans, @markgurman, and @chancehmiller
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia and SoftBank call off Nvidia's Arm acquisition, following regulatory scrutiny; Arm CEO Simon Segars resigns, replaced by Arm IP group president Rene Haas — Nvidia's deal to acquire Arm is off, the two companies and Arm owner SoftBank announced Tuesday. — With this, there is also a major leadership change at Arm.
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NVIDIA, Arm, SoftBank Group Corp., Bloomberg, Ars Technica, CNBC, ZDNet, BBC, Computerworld, Associated Press, Creative Strategies, Financial Times, iTnews, DCD, MarketWatch, CNBC, IoT World Today, Fortune, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Axios, PCWorld, New York Times, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, Windows Central, TechRadar, TNW, Thurrott, PYMNTS.com, ServeTheHome, MacRumors, SiliconANGLE, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @nathanbenaich, @patrickmoorhead, @underfox3, @epro, @ryan_browne_, @thekenyeung, @sam_l_shead, @rdrv3, @bgurley, @cmagovuk, @inafried, @tomwarren, @iancutress, and @benbajarin
| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Peloton CEO John Foley will step down and ex-Spotify and Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy will take over; Peloton will cut ~2,800 jobs and cancel its Ohio factory — Exercise-equipment maker to name former Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy as successor, overhaul board and cut costs
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Tweets: @realbengilbert, @cararlombardo, @silviakillings, @gwillowwilson, @lisatozzi, @asymco, @sam_l_shead, @stevekovach, @cararlombardo, @jeffnolan, @johnbiggs, @silviakillings, @feitsbarstool, @ldignan, @carnage4life, @joannastern, @carlquintanilla, @carnage4life, @parismartineau, @tomgara, @charlesarthur, @neilcybart, @carnage4life, @wsj, @film_girl, @stephenlweiss, and @0mgould
| Devlin Barrett / Washington Post: |
The US DOJ arrests two people in New York and seizes ~$3.6B worth of bitcoin allegedly stolen in a 2016 Bitfinex hack, its “largest financial seizure ever” — The Justice Department announced Tuesday it had seized more than $3.6 billion in bitcoin allegedly stolen as part …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple plans to improve benefits for full- and part-time US retail workers, including doubling paid sick days and increasing PTO, amid a tight labor market — Apple Inc. plans to significantly increase its benefits for U.S. retail store workers as it grapples with a tightening labor market …
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AppleInsider, The Verge, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, CNBC, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @markgurman and @zoeschiffer
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A look at Apple's IAP changes for Dutch dating app developers: its proposal seemingly isn't compliant, reducing the commission by just 3% is spiteful, and more — The continuing saga of Apple's conflict with the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) — the Dutch equivalent …
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Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Protocol, AdExchanger, Infrequently Noted, and MediaNama
Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @tolmasky, @tolmasky, @steipete, @tolmasky, @adhalls, @thijsniks, @mluisbrown, @tolmasky, @keleftheriou, and @daringfireball
| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Crypto infrastructure startup Alchemy raises a $200M Series C extension from Lightspeed and Silver Lake at a $10.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in October 2021 — Alchemy, a startup that provides blockchain tools, has been growing fast: It raised buckets of money last year and attracted dozens …
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Alchemy Blog, Crunchbase News, DeCential, Blockworks, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, blog.alchemy.com, CNBC, Financial Times, Axios, The Block, Cointelegraph, and Forbes. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok updates its policies to improve safety for LGBTQ users, including banning misgendering and deadnaming, adds tools for age-appropriate content, and more — Months after TikTok was hauled into its first-ever major congressional hearing over platform safety, the company is today announcing …
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TikTok, Protocol, Variety, Insider, Engadget, Social Media Today, BBC, Tubefilter, PhoneArena, GLAAD, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @tiktokcomms, @issielapowsky, and @issielapowsky
| John Markoff / New York Times: |
As data centers grow, engineers at Meta, Google, and other companies worry about the reliability of ever-smaller chips and hardware failures with unclear causes — As the largest computer networks continue to grow, some engineers fear that their smallest components could prove to be an Achilles' heel.
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Beyond Search. Tweets: @doctorkarl, @heatwavekgns, @trippmickle, @nytimestech, @markoff, @nytimestech, and @hpcdan
| CNBC: |
Amazon Care rolls out its telehealth service nationwide, expands in-person care to more US cities, and adds Whole Foods, Silicon Labs, and TrueBlue as customers — - Amazon is launching its telehealth program, known as Amazon Care, nationwide and has signed up a handful of new companies to use its services.
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About Amazon, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, GeekWire, hitconsultant.net, Bloomberg, Forbes, and The Verge. Tweets: @amazonnews
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Journeys for Chrome on desktop, letting users revisit old browsing sessions, based on searches from the omnibar, organized by subject matter — Journeys groups your search history together by category — Google Chrome is rolling out Journeys, a feature that lets you revisit …
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, Android Police, Engadget, 9to5Google, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, AndroidGuys, and Android Headlines. Tweets: @googlechrome
| Shiona McCallum / BBC: |
The UK's Online Safety Bill would mandate that porn websites verify users' ages or face fines; similar proposals were quietly dropped in 2019 after criticism — Porn websites in the UK will be legally required to verify the age of their users under new internet safety laws.
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GOV.UK, The Guardian, VICE, The Verge, The Register, Neowin, TechCrunch, Engadget, infosecurity-magazine.com, KnowTechie, TechSpot, Press Association, and ComputerWeekly.com
Tweets: @dcms, @doctorow, @paulbernaluk, and @mikestabile
| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Airmeet, which offers online event hosting services, raises a $35M Series B, and says it helped 120K+ event organizers stream 150M minutes of video in 2021 — Delaware-based Airmeet is offering a dedicated platform to help enterprises make their big events truly virtual and interactive.
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Entrackr, FinSMEs, Airmeet HUB, and Tech in Asia
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Netflix and Amazon had fewer Oscar nominations in 2022; half of the Best Picture nominees had little to no theater time and all major studios used hybrid models — This morning's Oscar nominations suggest a rethink — or at least a collective hitting of the pause button — on the status of streaming in the awards conversation.| Wall Street Journal: |
The EU details the Chips Act, which would make €43B in public and private funding available for R&D and chip production, seeking to compete with the US and Asia — Legislation could mobilize about $49 billion in government and private cash, though critics fear a subsidy race| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
What to expect from Samsung's Unpacked event on February 9: Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+, Galaxy S22 Ultra, Galaxy Tab S8, Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra, and more — In a few short days, Samsung will host its first Unpacked of 2022. While the company is sure to stage many more events throughout the year …
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CNET, PhoneArena, The Verge, Tom's Guide, The Verge, Mashable SEA tech, and The Indian Express
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Tinder says it will stop charging older users more for Tinder+, after a report found users aged 30 to 49 were charged 65.3% more on average in multiple markets — Tinder says it will no longer charge older users more to use Tinder+, following a new report questioning the dating app's practice …
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Tinder Newsroom, ZDNet, Consumers International, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Silicon Canals, and Input
| Charles Mandel / BetaKit: |
Vancouver-based quantum computing startup D-Wave plans to go public via a SPAC on the NYSE in Q2 2022, expecting to raise ~$340M at a ~$1.2B valuation — Quantum computing startup aiming for a $1.5 billion valuation. — Vancouver quantum computing startup D-Wave is going public …
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The Register, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, DCD, Business Wire, and Dow Jones Newswires. Thanks:@tron
| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Partech Partners report: African startups raised a record $5.2B in 2021 across 681 deals, up from $1.43B across 359 deals in 2020 — Last year was record-breaking for African startups. I know I'm probably starting to sound like a broken record, but the astronomical growth is worth highlighting again and again.
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Partech and KofiSiaw.Com
| Chris Duckett / ZDNet: |
Signal now lets users change the phone number associated with their account while retaining their messages, profile information, and groups — Users will still need to be able to send and receive Signal messages on their old number in order to port. — Signal has announced it will allow … | Blockworks: |
Blockchain game studio Gala Games allocates $5B over the next year to expand NFTs: $2B for gaming, $1B for music, $1B for movies, and $1B for theme parks — Gala Games is seeking to ramp up its presence in the NFT sector and will allocate billions of dollars to further its efforts in the coming year
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| Nikhil Subramaniam / Inc42 Media: |
Indian fintech unicorn BharatPe, backed by Sequoia, Coatue, Ribbit, and Beenext, faces allegations of embezzlement, impropriety in merchant dealings, and more — Calling CEO Suhail Sameer “a puppet of investors”, Grover has alleged a conspiracy behind sending him away and instituting a probe
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Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, The Economic Times, BGR India, and Tech in Asia
Tweets: @manicontrol2020, @digbijaymishra1, and @anantgoenka
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