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| Ethan Diamond / Bandcamp Updates: |
Epic Games acquires Bandcamp, which will continue operating as a standalone marketplace and music community; Bandcamp has paid nearly $1B to artists and labels — I'm excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple announces a digital-only event dubbed “Peek performance” will be held on March 8 at 10am PT; a 5G iPhone SE, revamped iPad Air, and new Macs are expected — Apple today announced that it will be holding its first event of 2022 on Tuesday, March 8 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Ukrainian vice PM calls for game companies to ban all Russian and Belarusian accounts during the invasion, calling on Sony, Ubisoft, Microsoft, and others — Vice PM says move “will motivate the citizens of Russia” to rise up in protest. — Mykhailo Fedorov, the vice prime minister …
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| Washington Post: |
A profile of Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's youngest cabinet minister, who is using his Twitter account to pressure tech giants to shut down Russian propaganda — Six months ago, Mykhailo Fedorov, one of Ukraine's deputy prime ministers, made a pilgrimage to Silicon Valley to discuss his country's digital transformation.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
A look at Twitter's internal support for decentralization, led by Parag Agrawal, seeking to give users control, avoid regulation, and open new revenue streams — The company is undertaking a far-reaching effort to change how it works. For some, it is an echo of their early idealism and a vision for what the internet could have been.
Tweets: @kateconger, @kateconger, and @anildash
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon plans to close 68 brick-and-mortar retail locations across the US and the UK, including all of its Amazon Books, 4-star, and Pop Up stores — - Amazon plans to close all locations of its Pop Up, Books and 4-star stores, the company confirmed to CNBC.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Snowflake reports Q4 revenue of $383.8M vs. $372.6M est., up 101% YoY, and projected product revenue growth of 65% to 67% across FY 2023; stock is down 25%+ — - Snowflake's forecast calls for slowing growth in product revenue growth, which makes up most of total revenue.
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Snowflake, Bloomberg, ZDNet, Benzinga, Seeking Alpha, and MarketWatch. Tweets: @techjournalist
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Several US state AGs launch a probe into TikTok, focusing on whether the app's design and operations negatively impact young users' physical and mental health — - TikTok is under investigation by a bipartisan group of state attorneys general to determine if the popular short-form video …
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Mass.gov, State of California, The Verge, Protocol, New York Times, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, Axios, abc10.com, WFXRtv, WCIV, News 12, Wall Street Journal, and Mashable. Tweets: @kantrowitz
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Google will remove RT News and Sputnik News from the Play Store, after removing Russian state outlets from its news features, following a similar move by Apple — Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Tuesday that it has blocked mobile apps connected to RT and Sputnik from its Play store …
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The Verge, Engadget, CNN, Above Avalon, Variety, TechCrunch, iMore, Michael Tsai, Thurrott, Crowdfund Insider, IGN, Protocol, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Independent, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @ngleicher, @irgarner, @fedorovmykhailo, @occupydemocrats, @alexstamos, and @stephennellis
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel, AMD, Arm, TSMC, Samsung, and others introduce the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) consortium to standardize die-to-die interconnects — A broad range of blue-chip industry promoters, like Intel, AMD, Arm, TSMC, and Samsung, among others, introduced the new Universal … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
The US CPSC and Fitbit recall Fitbit Ionic smartwatches after receiving 118 reports of burn injuries; Fitbit sold ~1M units in the US and 693K internationally — Fitbit has issued a voluntary recall for Ionic smartwatches that it manufactured and sold from 2017 through 2020.
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Tweets: @uscpsc, @richontech, @dcrainmakerblog, and @mhbergen
| Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: |
Meta releases its Widely Viewed Content report for Q4, showing the most viewed Facebook Page was removed for violating policies; Meta would not reveal its name — Safe to say that Meta's efforts to refute the idea that Facebook amplifies divisive political content are not going exactly as it would have hoped.| Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: |
Netflix acquires Finnish mobile game developer Next Games for ~$72M; the studio specializes in games based on entertainment franchises, such as Stranger Things — Next Games had released ‘Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales’, a role-playing game based on the streaming giant's hit 80s horror drama series in October last year.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Berlin-based Tier Mobility acquires Spin, Ford's e-scooter unit, in an all-stock deal, for an undisclosed price; Ford acquired Spin in November 2018 for $100M — The automaker had been mulling a sale for almost a year — Ford is selling its electric scooter operation Spin to one of Europe's top shared mobility companies.| Stephen Harrison / Slate: |
How Russia's war with Ukraine is playing out on Wikipedia; Russian Wikipedia editors decided to call an invasion what it is, rejecting the Kremlin's narrative — On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin issued the order for Russian forces to invade Ukraine. Since then, Russians …
Tweets: @b_fung, @molly0xfff, and @photos_floues
| @oracle: |
Oracle says it has “already suspended all operations” in Russia, following Ukrainian minister Mykhailo Fedorov's request of Oracle and SAP to do so — @FedorovMykhailo @SAP On behalf of Oracle's 150,000 employees around the world and in support of both the elected government of Ukraine and for the people of Ukraine, Oracle Corporation has already suspended all operations in the Russian Federation.
| Ciaran Martin / Lawfare: |
An in-depth look at Russia's offensive cyber capabilities, their potential use in Ukraine, the limitations of cyber power, and implications for the West — It turns out that the next war was not fought in cyberspace after all. Or at least the start of it has not been.
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The Register and Forbes
| Matt Robinson / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the SEC is probing the NFT market to determine if tokens are like securities, focusing on fractional NFTs, in which a token is broken and sold in units — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is scrutinizing creators of NFTs and the crypto exchanges where they trade to determine … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: sports e-commerce startup Fanatics has raised $1.5B at a $27B valuation, up from $18B in August 2021 — Investors in latest round include Fidelity Management & Research, funds managed by BlackRock and Michael Dell's family office — Fanatics Inc. has raised $1.5 billion from a group … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta to shut down Campus, its college student social network launched in September 2020 that was accessible alongside Facebook verticals like Watch, on March 10 — Facebook attempted a return to its roots as a college-focused social network with the fall 2020 launch of Campus … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Melbourne-based neobank Zeller, which offers fintech tools for SMBs, raises a A$100M Series B led by Headline, bringing its valuation to A$1B+ — Zeller, the Australian neobank for SMBs, has raised a $100 million AUD Series B (about $72.7 million USD), doubling its valuation to more than $1 billion AUD (about $727 million USD).
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Australian Financial Review and Finextra
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