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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Reddit has raised a Series E of over $250M led by Vy Capital at a $6B valuation, doubling in value since its last funding round in February 2019 — Its WallStreetBets community played a prominent role in recent stock-trading frenzy — Reddit Inc. doubled its valuation to $6 billion …
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Tweets: @moneyries, @megancgraham, @srussolillo, @kenwattana, @jyarow, @jhanlon, @minimaxir, @scottnover, @alexweprin, and @mikeisaac
| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
Barcode Scanner, a now-removed Google Play Pass app that was installed 10M+ times, issued a malicious update; its developer has other apps in the Play Store — Google's reign over the Play Store often feels arbitrary, with legitimate apps disappearing for bogus reasons like out-of-context words or images while malware is striving.| Jason Koebler / VICE: |
Police say a computer in a water treatment plant in FL, set up for remote access, was breached; the intruder tried raising sodium hydroxide levels in the water — The hacker tried to drastically increase sodium hydroxide levels in the water, Pinellas County, Florida, officials said on Monday.
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Tweets: @marcorubio, @peterpham, @martinsfp, @lachlan, @henrykrinkie, @tb_times, @zackwhittaker, @milleridriss, @a_greenberg, @garygrumbach, @jesserodriguez, @_ainikki, @zackwhittaker, @stephenmendez_, @lorenzofb, @wthrcom, @briankrebs, @zackwhittaker, @spauldingsez, @chrislhayes, @scontorno, and @kimzetter
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Sources: Mark Cuban is co-founding Fireside, a podcast app where hosts can talk to fans live and monetize their conversations, with plans to launch this year — Fireside is launching this year — Mark Cuban is getting in on the audio and podcasting hype.
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Programming language Rust is now backed by the Rust Foundation, a new independent organization that will make it easier to accept financing beyond Mozilla — The Rust programming language now has its own foundation that's independent from Mozilla. — Programming language Rust now has the backing …
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| Taha Broach / The 8-Bit: |
In the iOS 14.5 beta, Apple has finally added the ability to set a default music streaming service, including Spotify, when using Siri to play songs — Apple launched the initial beta versions of iOS 14.5 to developers and public beta testers last week. Among the list of new features …
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @bzamayo, @viticci, @backlon, and @caseynewton
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
A developer is exposing scam lookalike apps that are flourishing on the App Store, fueled by lax enforcement and fake reviews, after his own app was targeted — Over the last several weeks, developer Kosta Eleftheriou has been highlighting many apparent scam applications on the App Store.
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| Financial Times: |
EU lawmakers are considering regulations that would force Facebook and Google to pay for news content on their platforms, echoing a similar move in Australia — Move by MEPs would strengthen hand of publishers against Google and Facebook — EU lawmakers overseeing new digital regulation …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Facebook expands policies to take down more posts with vaccine-related misinformation, including assertions that vaccines cause autism — Facebook said on Monday that it plans to remove posts with erroneous claims about vaccines from across its platform, including taking down assertions …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter is building subscription products to ease its dependence on ads, including “tipping” for exclusive content and charging for TweetDeck — - Internal groups are researching options users might pay for — Social network says ‘revenue durability’ is now top priority
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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Universal Music Group unveils a global agreement with TikTok, days after pulling its music catalog from TikTok-rival Triller — Via the agreement, which covers recorded music from artists at UMG's labels and songwriters with Universal Music Publishing Group, “TikTok users will be more empowered … | Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Electronic Arts to acquire Glu Mobile, best known for its popular game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, in $2.4B deal, a 36% premium to Glu's closing price on Friday — The videogame giant looks to expand its presence in mobile gaming, where it has had mixed success
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Tweets: @serkantoto and @anshelsag
| Bloomberg: |
Industry executives warn of severe chip shortages to make phones and game consoles, amid excessive stockpiling of chips by companies like Huawei and Apple — - The dearth of supply is deepening as Apple, China hoard chips — Worsening crunch could impact sectors well beyond automaking| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Documents show Binance dropped the defamation lawsuit against Forbes it filed in November 2020, but did not give a reason for the withdrawal — The exchange did not say in its latest filing why it withdrew the case, at least for now. — Binance Holdings, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange … | Steve Kovach / CNBC: |
Filing: Tesla has bought $1.5B worth of bitcoin and says it will start accepting bitcoin as a payment method for its products in the future — - Tesla announced in an SEC filing Monday that it has bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin. — The company also said it would start accepting bitcoin as a payment method for its products.| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Steam is now officially available in China; the Chinese version of the platform has around 40 gaming titles and another 10 or so listed as coming soon — Room for a billion more gamers — Though the international version of Steam has been available in China for years … | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet: |
An EU-commissioned study estimates that in 2018, the economic impact of open source software on the bloc stood between €65B and €95B — A new report finds that open-source technologies have huge potential, but it is still largely untapped. — For most developers who are familiar … | Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
DOJ drops out of a lawsuit seeking to block CA from enacting its own net neutrality law; the case will still proceed with backing from various industry groups — In a signal of things to come from the Biden administration, the Justice Department on Monday dropped out of a lawsuit that seeks …
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| Gareth Corfield / The Register: |
UK Court of Appeal rules that UK prosecutors can use messages uncovered when French and Dutch police hacked EncroChat as evidence against criminal defendants — That's the Snoopers' Charter in action for you — British prosecutors can make use of evidence gathered by the French …
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Liverpool Echo, BBC, and ComputerWeekly.com
| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank's Vision Fund hires Nagraj Kashyap, the head of Microsoft's M12 VC fund, as managing partner, its first major addition following a spate of departures — SoftBank Group Corp.'s Vision Fund is hiring the head of Microsoft Corp.'s venture capital business as managing partner …
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Wall Street Journal, Axios, GeekWire, and Tech in Asia
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's Dan Riccio is focusing on future VR and AR devices, and the group working on in-house screens and cameras is now under chip chief Johny Srouji — - Apple moves team working on own screens, cameras to Srouji — Riccio left top hardware job recently to work on ‘new project’
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Pocket-lint, BGR, Ars Technica, Input, Redmond Pie, and MUO
Tweets: @markgurman, @colinplamondon, @j_shepz, @raywongy, and @lanceulanoff
| Rest of World: |
The possible Grab-Gojek merger has alarmed SE Asian labor groups, who fear the merger will provide little incentive to improve the working conditions of drivers — When Grab drivers in Ho Chi Minh City gathered late last year to protest against the ride-hailing company's new fee structure …
Tweets: @_meher and @findingsen
| TechCrunch: |
Clubhouse is now blocked in China after an uncensored period during which it grew rapidly — Thousands of Chinese users suddenly found themselves unable to access Clubhouse on early Monday evening as the country prepared to start the week-long Lunar New Year holiday.
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New York Times, globaltimes.cn, SupChina, Slashdot, The Hill, MediaNama, and Medium
Tweets: @ceciliakang, @amyyqin, @crtejada, @msmelchen, @tculpan, and @hkglobalconnect
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Dixon Technologies, an India-based electronics manufacturing company that is valued at $2.8B+ and has the capacity to produce 50M smartphones in 2021 — - Dixon Technologies has increased phone sales with local demand — Prime minister has made manufacturing a cornerstone of agenda
Tweets: @sunandavashisht, @saritharai, @jaskiratsb, and @business
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