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| Katherine Rosman / New York Times: |
Square acquires a majority stake in Jay-Z's streaming service Tidal for $297M; Jay-Z will join Square's board — What did Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey talk about when they went yachting around the Hamptons together last summer? Perhaps only Beyoncé knows. — Maybe now we do, too.
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| Bloomberg: |
UK antitrust authorities say they plan to investigate Apple's App Store to probe whether it is abusing its market power to restrict competition — - CMA taking into account Apple's ‘dominant’ position in apps — Apple probe prompted by complaints from some developers
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Tweets: @richardhavell, @dhh, @geradinlaw, @benedictevans, @dhh, and @cmagovuk
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU is set to press antitrust charges against Apple over App Store rules for competing music streaming services, following a complaint by Spotify — Brussels set to formally press charges alleging tech company used its dominance to squeeze out App Store rivals
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple clarifies that users can't actually set a default music service in iOS 14.5 but has a feature that lets Siri attempt to learn preferred listening apps — Apple has clarified that the iOS 14.5 beta is not actually allowing users to select a new default music service, as has been reported.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Leaked images show Sonos Roam, the company's smallest portable speaker, expected to ship on April 20 for $169 — You're looking at the first images of the next speaker from Sonos. Set to be priced at $169, the new device — it's called the Sonos Roam — is much smaller than the Sonos Move …
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @dcseifert, @chriswelch, @jonporty, @backlon, and @reckless
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rolls out new features for Edge, including vertical tabs and a feature that it says can improve startup times by 29% to 41% after a device reboots — Microsoft Edge gets some new features for March — Microsoft is rolling out some new improvements to its Edge browser this month.
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Windows Blog, Windows Blog, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Thurrott, XDA Developers, PCWorld, The Next Web, Windows Central, Liliputing, Digital Trends, Windows Latest, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @microsoftedge
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds one-to-one voice and video calling to the WhatsApp desktop app, but the browser version, WhatsApp Web, is not getting this feature at the moment — WhatsApp is rolling out support for voice and video calling to its desktop app, the Facebook-owned messaging service said Thursday … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google says it is speeding up the Chrome release cycle and will ship a new milestone every four weeks instead of the current six weeks — Google today announced that its Chrome browser is moving to a faster release cycle by shipping a new milestone every four weeks instead of the current six-week cycle …
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Chromium Blog, Thurrott, Android Police, BetaNews, 9to5Google, Neowin, Chrome Developers, and Droid Life. Tweets: @ronamadeo
| Gilad Edelman / Wired: |
Study: far-right pubs get 65% more engagement on Facebook when they publish fake news; liberal and centrist pubs get less engagement if they publish misinfo — Far-right pages that publish misinformation get the most interactions by far compared to other news sources, new research shows.
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Cybersecurity for Democracy, USA Today, Protocol, and CNN
Tweets: @randfish, @niemanlab, and @caitlin__kelly
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
In the past month, three of the longest-running Russian cybercrime forums have been hacked, leaking their users' email addresses, login metadata, and more — Over the past few weeks, three of the longest running and most venerated Russian-language online forums serving thousands of experienced cybercriminals have been hacked.
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Flashpoint, The Record, BleepingComputer, DataBreaches.net, Graham Cluley, and ZDNet
Tweets: @flashpointintel and @briankrebs
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Virtual events startup Hopin raises $400M at a $5.65B valuation, more than double its valuation in its November round — - Hopin says it's raised $400 million at a $5.65 billion valuation, more than double what it was worth in a November investment round. — The latest financing round …
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Tweets: @ryan_browne_, @sriramk, @andrewchen, @a16z, @davidu, @franzschrepf, and @sriramk. Thanks:@ryan_browne_
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stream, which lets developers build chat and activity streams into apps and other services with a few lines of code, raises $38M Series B — A lot of our communication these days with each other is digital, and today one of the companies enabling that — with APIs to build chat experiences into apps …
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| MK Manoylov / theblockcrypto.com: |
Amazon Web Services announces that Ethereum is now available on its Amazon Managed Blockchain service, allowing its users to set up Ethereum nodes — Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform providing subsidiary out of the multinational technology company Amazon …
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Amazon Web Services, Inc., SiliconANGLE, Crypto Briefing, The Defiant, InsideBitcoins.com, and IT Management
Tweets: @alwaysbcoding and @coindesk
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
After two Black Salesforce staff pointed to workplace issues in resignation letters, Salesforce's LinkedIn account posted a now-deleted message supporting BLM — - A person who gained access to Salesforce's LinkedIn account published a post saying that “BLACK LIVES STILL F— G MATTER.
Tweets: @caseynewton
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says its new AI model SEER, which was trained with self-supervision on a billion public Instagram images, outperformed advanced fully supervised models — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Facebook today announced …
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CNET, Facebook AI, CNBC, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Engadget, Wired, and New Scientist
Tweets: @mattlargey and @katienotopoulos
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nintendo plans to unveil a new Switch model in 2021 that will come with 7-inch 720p Samsung OLED display, and support 4K graphics when docked with TVs — - Samsung Display will start production of 7-inch panels in June — Gaming giant aims to propel Switch against the Xbox and PS5
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Tweets: @morsgames, @splatoon2inkbot, @okami13_, @rogersbase, @jogribbin, @rereztv, and @wario64
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Whatnot, a livestreaming service for buying and selling Pokémon cards and other collectibles, raises $20M Series A led by a16z — When I first wrote about Whatnot in February of last year, they were just getting started. Aiming to be the GOAT of collectible toys … | New York Times: |
Amazon has significantly expanded its footprint in NYC, where ~2.4M packages are delivered daily, adding at least nine warehouses in the city in the past year — The e-commerce giant added at least nine new warehouses in the city over the past year as 2.4 million packages a day strained the nation's largest urban delivery system.
Tweets: @rachelholliday, @matthewhaag, @awinston, and @justinhendrix
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Sources: Microsoft president Brad Smith will testify before a House antitrust subcommittee hearing next Friday about tech antitrust and the news media — Microsoft president Brad Smith will testify before a House antitrust subcommittee hearing next Friday about tech antitrust and the news media … | Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Snapcommerce, which lets companies offer customer service through conversational tools like SMS and Facebook Messenger, raises $107M CAD led by Inovia Capital — Snapcommerce (formerly Snaptravel) has secured $107 million CAD ($85 million USD) in growth funding, signalling confidence …
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| Samantha Hissong / Rolling Stone: |
Kings of Leon to be one of the first bands to debut an album as part of an NFT package, with tokens unlocking perks like limited-edition vinyl and concert seats — The band's revolutionary tokens will unlock special perks like limited-edition vinyl and front row seats to future concerts
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Forbes, The Guardian, cryptodaily.co.uk, BTCMANAGER, BitcoinExchangeGuide, and The Block
Tweets: @hiattb, @trillmoregirls, @ljungman, @raoulgmi, @uhshanti, @_johnoshea, @swedewhite, @briansolis, @albertwenger, and @novenacarmel
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Zimperium analysis: 14% of Android and iOS apps connecting to cloud services like AWS or Azure, totaling ~19K apps, have misconfigurations that expose user data — It's the digital equivalent of leaving your windows or doors open when you leave the house—and in some cases, leaving them open all the time.
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Zimperium Mobile Security Blog and AppleInsider
| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Sound, an initiative to enhance the wireless sound experience by lowering latency and improving connection issues — Just days after it unveiled its project to bring — advanced haptics to Android, Qualcomm has announced another ambitious venture aimed at bridging the gaps in device performance.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
TytoCare, which uses AI-trained devices to collect patient health data and alert them of abnormalities, raises $50M led by Insight Partners — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — The demand for triaging technologies like conversational bots … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Netflix plans to release 41 Indian films and shows this year, spending three times more on the Indian catalog this year than the past two years combined — Netflix said on Wednesday it will roll out 41 Indian films and shows this year, its biggest annual roster of Indian content to date …
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Hollywood Reporter, Screen, Techpoint Africa, Livemint, NDTV Gadgets 360, Forbes, and PCMag. Tweets: @techcrunch
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