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LinkedIn says it will change its algorithm to favor posts that cater to niche professional interests as opposed to elevating viral content — Linkedin will today announce algorithm changes made over the past 12-18 months to favor conversations in its Feed that cater to niche professional interests …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the OneDrive Personal Vault, which protects a folder with 2FA access, coming by the end of the year — Available to everyone by the end of the year — Microsoft is adding a new secured storage area to OneDrive where users can store more sensitive files.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, TechCrunch, Windows Central, GeekWire, Thurrott, and VentureBeat
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Cameo, which lets fans pay for personalized videos from celebrities, raises $50M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins; reports suggest valuation is $300M — Instead of emailing a term sheet, Ilya Fushman paid $150 to have ‘Deep Blue Sea’ actor Michael Rapaport send the Cameo founders Steven Galanis …
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Researchers say hackers have been stealing massive amounts of call records from over ten cell network providers worldwide to conduct targeted surveillance — At least 10 cell networks have been hacked over the past seven years — Security researchers say they have uncovered …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Showpad, a sales enablement platform for presentations and other collateral, raises $70M Series D co-led by Dawn Capital and Insight Partners — Sales teams have long turned to tech solutions to help improve how they source leads, develop relationships and close deals.
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SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, VentureBeat, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @ingridlunden. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Orderful, which aims to modernize supply chain management through an API-based cloud service, raises $10M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz — The march of globalization continues unabated, and with it comes a growing demand for companies of all sizes to communicate with and sell to each other … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Israeli police arrest two brothers in connection with a multi-year crypto-focused phishing campaign and the 2016 hack of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange — Two brothers arrested in Israel last week have been linked to the massive 2016 Bitfinex hack. — Two Israeli brothers …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Amid Huawei ban, FedEx sues US over mandate that it monitor all shipments, saying it violates due process and is unfeasible on the scale the government desires — FedEx has already been accused of diverting Huawei's shipments, and it's not keen on dealing with more complaints.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
MX, which develops a suite of aggregation and analysis tools for financial institutions, raises $100M Series B led by Battery Ventures — MX, a Utah-based software firm developing a suite of aggregation and analysis tools for financial institutions, today revealed that it's secured $100 million …
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FinSMEs, PE Hub Blog, and Crowdfund Insider
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
FTC and DOJ announce their latest crackdown on robocallers, taking 94 actions against several companies and people blamed for a recent wave of spam calls — Federal authorities have announced its latest crackdown on illegal robocallers — taking close to a hundred actions against several companies … | Lane Sainty / BuzzFeed: |
Australian judge allows man to sue media companies for defamation over Facebook comments written by their readers — Former youth detainee Dylan Voller is suing News Corp, Fairfax Media and Sky News. — BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia — Dylan Voller, the Aboriginal man …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
iPads have the potential to become serious portable gaming devices, as Apple is adding Xbox and PlayStation controller support to iOS, tvOS, and iPadOS — iOS 13 and iPadOS take a big step toward gaming on the go — Apple is bringing Xbox and PlayStation 4 controller support to the iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV this fall.| Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters: |
French digital affairs minister says Facebook has agreed to share with judges the identity of French users suspected of hate speech, claiming it's a world first — PARIS (Reuters) - Facebook has agreed to hand over the identification data of French users suspected of hate speech on its platform to judges … | Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: |
Crypto exchange Kraken, a regulated platform for spot and futures trading, raises $13.5M from 2,263 participants in an online round at a $4B+ valuation — Regulated spot and futures crypto exchange Kraken has completed a $13.5 million round of financing on Bnk To The Future (BF), an online investment platform.
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UK-based used car marketplace Motorway raises £11M Series A led by Marchmont Ventures — Motorway, the U.K. used car marketplace, has raised £11 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Marchmont Ventures, the fund managed by Hugo Burge and Alan Martin …
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FinSMEs and PE Hub Blog
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Monzo, a UK-based digital bank, raises ~$144M Series F led by Y Combinator's Continuity fund at a ~$2.5B post-money valuation, about double from October — Monzo, the fast-growing U.K.-based challenger bank with more than two million account holders, has raised £113 million (~$144m) in additional funding.
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