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| Stephanie Chan / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Consumers worldwide spent $407.6M across the App Store and Google Play on Christmas, up 34.5% YoY; mobile games rose 27% YoY to $295.6M, led by Honor of Kings — 2020 has been a record-setting year for worldwide spending on mobile apps and games, which passed $100 billion in a single year for the first time ever in November.
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| Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg: |
Over Christmas holiday, Apptopia says HBO Max had ~554K app signups; Sensor Tower says Disney+ had ~2.3M global app installations, up 28% from prior weekend — AT&T Inc.'s HBO Max streaming platform set a single-day record for downloads of its mobile app following the release of the superhero sequel …
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Tweets: @stevesi, @snazzyq, @jonyiveparody, @somegadgetguy, @andruedwards, @stroughtonsmith, and @khoi
| Amazon: |
Amazon plans to acquire podcast network Wondery, which will join Amazon Music — We've signed an agreement to acquire Wondery, a top-rated podcast creator and producer that entertains and educates listeners. — We're pleased to announce that Wondery—an innovative podcast publisher …
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Analysis of internal data at Coinbase through 2018 highlights pay inequity for women and Black employees; Coinbase says it implemented a new compensation plan — An analysis of internal pay data at the San Francisco company Coinbase shows disparities that were much larger than those in the tech industry.| CoinDesk: |
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Tweets: @ripple, @coinbase, @cypheriumchain, @dclblogger, @nebraskangooner, @ldrogen, @bitboy_crypto, @marcvanderchijs, and @kieranmlkelly
| Rohit Prasad / Fast Company: |
The head scientist for Alexa argues that Turing Test, designed as a thought experiment, is no longer relevant for building AIs that are designed to help humans — This year marks 70 years since Alan Turing published his paper introducing the concept of the Turing Test in response to the question, “Can machines think?”
Tweets: @edbott, @gavinsbaker, and @carnage4life
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google is testing an expansion of its “Short Videos” feature at the top of mobile search that will surface TikTok and Instagram videos in a dedicated carousel — Google is testing a new feature that will surface Instagram and TikTok videos in their own dedicated carousel …
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Tweets: @type_seo, @chrismessina, @glenngabe, @joshconstine, @eddie_childs, and @rustybrick
| Golan Hazani / CTech: |
Sources: SimilarWeb is planning a Nasdaq IPO in Q2 2021, aiming for a $2B+ valuation; the company has raised $240M in total, including $120M in October — The market intelligence company joins list of Israeli firms set to embark on a U.S. IPO in the coming months which already includes eToro … | Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
Researcher: Get Schooled, an education charity setup by Bill Gates and Viacom, left personal details of hundreds of thousands of US students exposed — Database at charity set up by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was ‘open and accessible’ during website revamp
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| Kevin Helms / Bitcoin News: |
New York regulators have authorized a subsidiary of Japan's GMO Internet to issue the world's first publicly available stablecoin backed by the Japanese yen — The New York State Department of Financial Services, the Bitlicense regulator, has authorized GMO to issue U.S. dollar and Japanese yen-pegged stablecoins.
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PR Newswire, CoinDesk, Coin Journal, TechCrunch, and Modern Consensus. Tweets: @modernconsensus
| Elizabeth A. Harris / New York Times: |
Association of American Publishers: audiobooks revenue is up 17%+ YoY, e-book sales are up 16%+; NPD BookScan says US print book sales are up ~8% in 2020 — With people stuck at home and so many other activities shut down, a lot of reading — or at least a lot of book buying — happened this year.
Tweets: @nytimesbooks, @nytimesbooks, @pamelapaulnyt, @fidmart85, and @mariskreizman
| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
eMarketer: US e-commerce sales, up 12%-16% in recent years, will have grown by 30%+ in 2020 and Amazon's US retail business grew an estimated 39% YoY in 2020 — When we look back at 2020 in the business world, we'll remember it as the year online shopping stopped being the future of retail and became the present.| Wall Street Journal: |
France says it has resumed collecting its digital services tax, as the UK and Italy prepare to collect their own; France's 3% levy brought in €400M in 2019 — Dispute centers on cross-border revenue at Google, Facebook, Amazon and other tech firms — Detente is ending in the global fight over tech taxes.
Tweets: @samschech
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