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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Mark Zuckerberg outlines changes to Meta's corporate values, including “Move Fast Together”, “Live in the Future”, and “Meta, Metamates, Me” — Meta. Metamates. Me. — At a virtual all-hands meeting on Tuesday, Facebook escalated its attempts …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Google announces early access to Chrome OS Flex, a version of Chrome OS for businesses and schools that is designed to run on old PCs and Macs — It's made for schools and businesses — Google has announced early access to a new version of Chrome OS called Chrome OS Flex.
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Tweets: @kdrag0n, @sundarpichai, @suka_hiroaki, @conpower, @film_girl, @mishaalrahman, and @googleforedu
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Google search quality is declining because of too many ads, SEO, and “smart” AI, prompting people to append “reddit” to queries to get more authentic results — Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don't know that are the team at Reddit …
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Android Authority, Pixel Envy, and Luke's Newsletter
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Facebook rebrands News Feed to just Feed after more than 15 years — The ‘News Feed’ is now just the ‘Feed’ — Meta is changing the name of Facebook's News Feed, the primary part of the service that users scroll through to see what their friends and family have shared.
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Google says it plans to bring Privacy Sandbox to Android, limiting data sharing from smartphones, and promises the changes will be less disruptive than Apple's — It says it will give other companies plenty of time to adapt to changes to its Android software. Similar changes made by Apple affected big internet companies.
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| Financial Times: |
California lawmakers plan to introduce a bill, with bipartisan support, protecting the online data of children, similar to the UK's age appropriate design code — Bill aims to mirror 'children's code' as policymakers seek to rein in world's biggest tech companies| IEEE Spectrum: |
Blind patients with Second Sight's electronic retinal implants are in danger of losing their artificial vision as the tech becomes obsolete and unsupported — Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark — Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft rolls out the Amazon Appstore Preview, offering over 1,000 Android apps, in the Microsoft Store, alongside other tweaks to Windows 11 — Last October, Microsoft began testing Android apps on Windows 11 PCs in partnership with Amazon and its app store.
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Tweets: @film_girl and @panos_panay
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Roblox misses with Q4 revenue of $568.8M vs. $604M est., up 83% YoY, average DAUs of 49.5M, up 33% YoY, and average bookings per DAU of $15.57; stock down 14%+ — Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, reported its bookings for the fourth quarter ended December 31 were $770.1 million …
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Tweets: @johnbattelle and @lizkmiller
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Twitter says CEO Parag Agrawal will take “a few weeks” of parental leave, less than three months after taking the job, a rare move for a Silicon Valley CEO — Parag Agrawal, 37, is just getting started in one of the technology industry's highest-profile jobs …
Tweets: @willoremus, @carnage4life, @katiecollins, and @jareddipane
| Neil Munshi / Financial Times: |
Nigerian payments startup Flutterwave raises a $250M Series D at a $3B valuation, making it Africa's most valuable startup, led by B Capital — Payments company becomes the most valuable start-up in Africa as investors bet on continent's scene — Nigerian payments company Flutterwave has raised $250mn …
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TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Finextra, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Flutterwave Blog, Disrupt Africa, and TechCabal
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter expands a beta test of Safety Mode, which temporarily blocks accounts using harmful language in replies, to 50% of users in the US and 5 other markets — Twitter is broadening access to a feature called Safety Mode, designed to give users a set of tools to defend themselves …
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9to5Mac, Silicon Republic, PCMag, The Verge, Memeburn, PhoneArena, Waivly, Sobre Startups, BGR India, Engadget, Señales.co, and Social Media Today
Tweets: @twittersafety and @twittermktgau
| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
A coalition of crypto companies, including Coinbase, Circle, and Robinhood, announce TRUST, an anti-money laundering platform for securely sharing customer data — Quick Take — A coalition of US crypto firms has created a centralized solution to the information sharing requirements of the travel rule.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Genesis, which develops low-code tools for the financial industry, raises a $200M Series B led by Tiger Global, after raising $45M in March 2021 — Genesis, which has built a low-code/no-code application platform specifically for the financial markets, announced today it has landed …
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CSO, Finextra, SiliconANGLE, and PR Newswire
| Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: |
Akamai says it will acquire cloud hosting company Linode, which positions itself as an AWS alternative for SMBs and independent developers, for $900M — Akamai Technologies announced today it has reached an agreement to acquire infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform provider Linode …
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DCD, Silicon Republic, Linode, Telecoms.com, TechCrunch, Protocol, iTnews, SiliconANGLE, CRN, ZDNet, Slashdot, and IT Management
Tweets: @jordannovet, @lawik, @quinnypig, @quinnypig, @quinnypig, @anthonyspiteri, @thelinuxexp, @torresluzardo, and @cloudpundit. Thanks:@kylealspach
| Keerthi Vedantam / dot.LA: |
Terray Therapeutics, which specializes in AI-enabled drug discovery, emerges from stealth with a $60M Series A led by Madrona Venture Group — After three years in stealth mode, a Pasadena biotech startup has emerged with $60 million and, it believes, a new way to create drugs.
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PR Newswire, Madrona Venture Group, and FinSMEs
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK Home Office is seeking changes to the Online Safety Bill to require platforms monitor “legal but harmful” content, worrying the tech industry — Radical powers in online bill would increase liability of global internet groups beyond current global regulation
Tweets: @tim, @rasmus_kleis, @pmdfoster, @matthewlesh, @sjhmorris, @dom_hallas, @utilit_aria, @jimkillock, @webdevlaw, @martinsfp, @muradahmed, and @daveleeft
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber will let riders see a breakdown of their average ratings starting today and publishes data on US cities with the highest and lowest ratings — Also available: five-star ratings — For the first time, Uber is allowing its customers to see how many five-star ratings they've received from drivers …
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| Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg: |
Ericsson CEO says the company might have made payments to ISIS to gain access to transport routes in Iraq in 2018, causing shares to drop by over 8.5% — Ericsson may have made payments to the ISIS terror organization to gain access to certain transport routes in Iraq, in a shock admission following years of regulatory investigations.
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Engadget, ICIJ, Reuters, Financial Times, Yahoo Finance, and Reuters
Tweets: @emeyersson, @tbraithwaite, @nicfildes, @daniburgz, and @aggichristiane
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out Docs updates, including a pageless format announced in May 2021, AI-powered summaries, and Maps embedded previews — One of the first major announcements at I/O 2021 was Google's initiative to offer a more integrated and interactive Workspace experience.
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Fast Company and SiliconANGLE
| Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Canadian startup Paper, which offers educational tools to K-12 schools in the US and Canada, raises a $270M Series D, bringing its total funding to ~$391M — Paper doubled the number of students on its platform to two million since last year. — On a mission to “democratize access” …
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PR Newswire, Sapphire Ventures, Paper Blog, and FinSMEs
| Cissy Zhou / Financial Times: |
Chinese online streaming service Bilibili plans to hire 1,000 censors after the death of a 25-year-old worker; Bilibili had 2,413 censors at the end of 2020 — Content monitoring team to be increased 40% amid debate on overwork — Chinese online video streaming service Bilibili plans … Sponsor Posts
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