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Robinhood says due to “recent volatility” it is restricting trading in some stocks, including GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, and Nokia, to “position closing only” — Amid the flurry of speculative activity in GameStop, brokers took steps to restrict the trading …
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Under the Hood, Adweek, CNET, VICE, Laptop Mag, Gizmodo, CoinDesk, TechCrunch, VICE, IGN, The Verge, Reuters, CNBC, The Verge, BetaKit, PCMag, HotHardware.com News, Slate, The Verge, The Atlantic, Mashable, and SlashGear
Tweets: @robinhoodapp, @tedcruz, @arkhondh, @slasher, @aoc, @motherboard, @rashidatlaib, @jarule, @dellcam, @panzer, @casey, @austin_rief, @jason_koebler, @themaxburns, @vladtenev, @dellcam, @arjunsethi, @film_girl, @dellcam, @bgurley, @itsdansheehan, @arjunsethi, @gartenberg, @jasonaten, @jasonaten, @balajis, @emmakinery, @caseynewton, @rokhanna, @tedlieu, @poorlyagedstuff, @reckless, @mattzeitlin, @nycsouthpaw, @toadsanime, @samueloakford, @tyler, @rebeccajarvis, @artemr, @davidsacks, @dcseifert, @profgalloway, @tedlieu, @josephfcox, @paleofuture, @mims, @kysportsradio, @holysmkes, @cloud_opinion, @tomwarren, @sama, @aricohn, @matthew_d_green, @calbucci, @normative, @bhwags, @carnage4life, @mikeisaac, @jackholmes0, @freemaneric, @benthompson, @micsolana, @andyholloway, @micahgrimes, and @rubberninja
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord says r/WallStreetBets members have set up a new server and Discord is helping them with moderation and management of rapid growth — A surprising change of events — Discord is now helping the r/WallStreetBets team moderate its new server. The company originally banned …
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The Verge, New York Times, Forbes, Reuters, and Kotaku
Tweets: @josephpalbanese, @tomwarren, @slasher, @jefftutorials, @tomwarren, and @kressaty
| Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood is telling some users it may close out some of their positions as part of measures it is taking to reduce account risks — Robinhood Markets told users of its popular stock trading app that it may close out some of their positions as part of measures it's taking to reduce account risks.
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Bloomberg. Tweets: @jbillinson, @jbarro, @ashbennington, @ashbennington, @lklatt11, @devlinbarrett, @bw, @brianroemmele, @themaxburns, @themaxburns, and @justinkan
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Robinhood to allow “limited buys” on restricted stocks from Friday, says halting purchases was a risk-management decision and not a response to outside pressure — Halting purchases was ‘a risk management decision,’ the company said in a blog post
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Under the Hood, CNBC, SlashGear, and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @gamespot, @imranzomg, @tomgara, @justinkan, @michaelpachter, @mizteefranklin, @pascalbouvier, @maxwinebach, @mims, and @jeffjohnroberts
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Webull and Public, which restricted transactions of some stocks, cite costs of settling the trades with Apex as the cause and have now removed all restrictions — Three of the popular retail stock market trading apps that have hosted much of the activity related to the Wall Street Bets subreddit-spurred run …
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Forbes, Business Insider, and Politico
Tweets: @zguz, @public, @webullglobal, @webullglobal, @panzer, @jgreco, @cfarivar, @panzer, @matthewstoller, @alexeheath, @panzer, @panzer, and @fmanjoo
| Tucker Higgins / CNBC: |
Lawmakers, including AOC and Ted Cruz, criticize Robinhood; Reps. from both the Senate and House say they will hold hearings on the state of the stock market — - AOC, Ted Cruz, Ro Khanna and other lawmakers criticized Robinhood after it restricted trading in GameStop and other companies targeted …
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Protocol, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and NBC News
Tweets: @carolmassar, @senmikelee, @jalter, @hshaban, @rakeshlobster, @senwarren, @elwasson, @cnbc, and @iansherr
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
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TechCrunch, Markets Weekly, Slate, NPR, Business Insider, NBC News, Android Police, Cult of Mac, New York Magazine, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Variety, and Wall Street Journal
| The Information: |
Sources: Facebook is preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for forcing developers to abide by App Store rules that Apple's own apps don't have to follow — A long-simmering public dispute between Facebook and Apple has neared a boiling point. With the aid of outside legal counsel … | Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook tells EU data protection conference that valuing engagement over privacy leads to “polarization” and “violence” and such businesses need reform — Speaking at the EU data protection conference CPDP today, Tim Cook gave the opening keynote with his talk entitled …
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YouTube, CNBC, MacRumors, The Irish Times, MacDailyNews, Apple Must, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Mac Observer, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @jsnell, @jeffnesbit, @lanceulanoff, @herrmanndigital, @mikeelgan, @nat_droz, and @reneritchie
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The Verge, Washington Post, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, Business Insider, The Register, KnowTechie, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @kurtwagner8 and @reneritchie
| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Facebook's Oversight Board issues first-ever rulings, which Facebook said it will abide by, overturning four out of the five cases it reviewed — Facebook's Oversight Board on Thursday issued its first round of decisions, overturning several of the company's decisions to remove posts …
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Oversight Board, About Facebook, TIME, Financial Times, TechCrunch, Oversight Board, Gizmodo, Hollywood Reporter, Wired, Washington Post, BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Hindustan Times
Tweets: @oversightboard, @foxcahn, @jeffjarvis, @time, @rmac18, @carolecadwalla, @benioff, @mattnavarra, @martinsfp, @ceciliakang, @jonathanhaynes, @cbradleytweets, @seamushughes, @kurtwagner8, @kurtwagner8, @evan_rosenfeld, @hnsgr, @nabihasyed, @jeffjarvis, @emilybell, @axios, @dylanbyers, @rasmus_kleis, @fbnewsroom, @robpegoraro, and @evelyndouek
| TechCrunch: |
Apple says its App Tracking Transparency feature, which will be enabled by default, will roll out with iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 updates in early spring — Apple has shared a few more details about its much-discussed privacy changes in iOS 14. The company first announced at WWDC …
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Apple, Apple, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, AdExchanger, CNBC, GamesIndustry.biz, SlashGear, Tech Xplore, marketingdive.com, ZDNet, Macworld, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @hotlinejosh, @appleedu, @sdw, @halidecamera, @mrinaldesai, @gregjoz, @laurengoode, and @zackwhittaker
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds opt-in biometric fingerprint, face, or iris scan authentication for WhatsApp on desktop or web — WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned popular messaging app with more than 2 billion users, has been getting a lot of heat and losing users in recent weeks after announcing (and then delaying) changes to how it uses your data.
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The Verge, Engadget, Android Police, appleosophy.com, TalkAndroid.com, WinBuzzer, Windows Central, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, NextPit, and MakeUseOf. Tweets: @whatsapp
| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Coinbase officially announces its intent to become a public company via direct listing — Coinbase has made official its plan to go public by way of a direct listing, according to a blog post released Thursday by the U.S.-based crypto exchange. — “Coinbase Global, Inc. today announced …
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The Coinbase Blog, Crunchbase News, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, Axios, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, CNBC, NewsBTC, and Finextra
Tweets: @brianroemmele and @panzer
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Telegram launches a tool to let users import chat history from WhatsApp, Line, or KakaoTalk on Android and iOS — This year has seen a spike in interest for secure messaging apps and one of our favorites, Telegram, is seizing the oppurtunity. With its latest update, Telegram is introducing … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google pulls popular transit app New York Subway from Play store, after it was found sharing granular user location data with controversial data broker X-Mode — Apple and Google banned apps from sharing location data with a broker with links to U.S. military contractors.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: WeWork is in talks to merge with a SPAC at a valuation of around $10B, more than a year after its high-profile failure to launch an IPO — A deal could value the company at some $10 billion — WeWork is in talks to combine with a special-purpose acquisition company … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
IDC says Apple has shipped 90.1M iPhones in Q1, the largest number of shipments in a single quarter since IDC started tracking smartphones — - The iPhone is booming: Sales were up 17% year-over-year to a whopping $65.6 billion in a single quarter. — Research firm IDC estimates …
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Canalys.com, IDC, Counterpoint Research, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Business Wire, Pocketnow, The Verge, MacRumors, Ars Technica, Gizchina, TechRepublic, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @fjeronimo, @joannastern, and @benbajarin
| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
YouTube is testing the ability to make short clips, from 5 to 60 seconds, of livestreams or videos, starting today on desktop and Android devices — Another standard live-streaming feature makes its way over to the online video giant — YouTube is introducing clipping …
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support.google.com, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, GameSpot, Engadget, and Polygon
Tweets: @youtubegaming, @fwiz, and @valkyrae
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Gowalla, now resurrected as a social AR startup, raises a $4M seed round co-led by Google's venture arm GV and Spark Capital — The newly resurrected Gowalla wants to realize its mobile dreams from the early-aughts in an augmented reality world, and they've raised some new funding to make it happen.| CNBC: |
Qualtrics closes up 51% on its first day of trading, valuing the cloud software vendor at $27.3B, after raising $1.5B in its IPO — - Shares of Qualtrics began trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday at $41.85. — Qualtrics had priced its shares at $30 a piece, just above its expected target range of $27 to $29 per share.
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Crunchbase News, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, and CNBC
| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Europol, the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies worldwide have seized control of malware botnet Emotet's infrastructure and disrupted it from the inside — Europol and FBI among agencies that have taken control of the botnet infrastructure used by cyber criminals behind some of the most prolific malware and ransomware attacks.
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Europol, ZDNet, Krebs on Security, CNN, The Register, Threatpost, CyberNews, Check Point Software, Cybereason, BetaNews, and HealthITSecurity
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
HR software company Workday acquires Peakon, which provides SaaS tools for employee retention, in a $700M all-cash deal — Enterprise cloud software giant Workday has announced plans to acquire data-driven human resources (HR) startup Peakon in an all-cash deal worth $700 million.
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Peakon, SiliconANGLE, Workday Blog, FinSMEs, ZDNet, and Tech.eu
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