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Sources: Apple cuts iPhone 12 mini orders by 70%, targets producing 75M iPhones in H1 and 230M units for all of 2021, reschedules new MacBook production to H2 — Total iPhone target for 2021 still at 230m units despite global parts shortage — TAIPEI — Apple is slashing its planned production …
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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Data center operator OVH says a fire destroyed some of its sites in France, affecting cyber threat intelligence company Bad Packets, game maker Rust, and others — In a major unprecedented incident, data centers of OVH located in Strasbourg, France have been destroyed by fire.| Bloomberg: |
Documents: Apple denied Parler reentry into the App Store, citing a lack of changes; source says Parler let its three remaining iOS developers go — - Apple's recent review found ‘Nazi symbols’ on the Parler site — Parler eliminates seven workers, most of whom were contractors
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Roblox closes at $69.50, valuing it at $38.26B, after opening under RBLX at $64.50, up 43% from its January funding round — - Roblox held its stock market debut on Wednesday through a direct listing and is now trading under ticker symbol RBLX. — The company's stock closed at $69.50 apiece … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
By bringing disparate parts of gaming into one place, Roblox has created the conditions for interlocking feedback loops that typify transformational products — The degree to which Stratechery Weekly Articles are pre-planned varies; Eddy on Twitter, though, had this article pegged:
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Adobe rolls out a version of Photoshop optimized for Apple Silicon, claiming a 1.5X performance improvement over most Photoshop tasks on Intel Macs — Adobe says there are a ton of speed and performance gains — Lightroom was the first Adobe creative app to make the leap to Apple Silicon …
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| Stephen Warwick / iMore: |
Twitter says it is testing displaying large images, instead of cropped previews, on iOS and Android and will add support for 4K photo uploads — “Sometimes it's better said with a picture or a video.” — What you need to know — Twitter is testing new features that will let you see a single image in full on your timeline.
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Creators are monetizing through hyper-specific revenue streams like NewNew, which lets fans pay to vote to control a creator's day-to-day decisions — Digital stars are coming up with new ways to make money. Yet fans still hold the power. — A rash of new start-ups are making it easier … | Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it has filed motions to dismiss antitrust lawsuits brought by the FTC and state AGs, arguing its conduct did not harm competition or consumers — Action marks its first legal salvo since the FTC and 46 states sued the company in December — WASHINGTON— Facebook Inc …
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Tweets: @wbm312, @caseynewton, @epro, @alexeheath, @ceciliakang, @ceciliakang, and @mshannahmurphy
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Instagram Lite, an Android app that takes up just 2MB of storage space, in 170 countries, and says Facebook Lite has 200M+ MAUs — Growth for Facebook is coming from the developing world, and so the social network today made another key move to cater better to consumers in those countries.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple says it will invest €1B in Germany over the next three years and will make Munich its European Silicon Design Center — Apple will make Munich its European Silicon Design Center, the company announced today. Work already being undertaken by Apple in Bavaria's capital is contributing … | Reuters: |
Russia says it is slowing down Twitter for not removing 3K+ posts containing “illegal content” and threatens a total block if Twitter ignores deletion demands — MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it was slowing down the speed of Twitter in retaliation for its alleged failure …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok gives users the ability to approve all new comments before they appear and adds in-app prompts to discourage nasty comments — TikTok is introducing new features meant to — reduce bullying and harassment on its platform: new comment controls and in-app prompts to discourage nasty comments.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Q&A with Chris Sacca on his brief retirement, Trump and Biden, investing in climate startups, how investing has changed, NFTs, and more — In 2015, venture capitalist Chris Sacca was one of Silicon Valley's most influential investors, No. 3 on the Midas List with more than one million Twitter followers …
Tweets: @sacca, @hkanji, @alexrkonrad, and @teddyschleifer
| Geoffrey Fowler / Washington Post: |
Amazon is the only major publisher that withholds its digital books from public libraries, preventing people from downloading over 10,000 e-books and audiobooks — Its monopoly is stopping public libraries from lending e-books and audiobooks from Mindy Kaling, Dean Koontz, Dr. Ruth Westheimer … | Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
Cloudera beats with Q4 revenue of $226.6M, up 7% YoY, subscription rev. of $206.8M, up 14% YoY, and ARR of $778M, up 10% YoY; stock down ~10% on weak Q1 outlook — Although Cloudera's January-quarter results beat expectations, the outlook for revenue this year was disappointing.
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| Tim Ferriss / The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss: |
Interview with Vitalik Buterin on ETH2, scaling plans and timelines, NFTs, the Ethereum Name Service, quadratic funding, more — Join 1.5M+ subscribers and receive exclusive tools, tips, and resources sent directly by Tim: — Type your email address — Yes, sign me up for Tim's free email newsletter.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Twitter says it aims to let anyone start hosting Spaces in April, after testing with a select few — If you're wondering where those promised Spaces are — If you opened your phone this morning to see a Twitter app update, you might have been excited — and then confused … | New York Times: |
To ease its dependence on US, China's new five-year plan calls tech development a matter of national security and pledges to raise R&D spending by 7% annually — Beijing's leaders plot a path to go it alone, vowing to spend big to fill gaps in innovation and avoid dependence on the United States and others.
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| Shiyin Chen / Bloomberg: |
Epic Games sues Google in Australia, arguing Google forces developers to use its payments system, expanding on lawsuits in US and UK against Google and Apple — - Fortnite maker has already sued Google in the U.S. and U.K. — Dispute centers around fees charged by app store operators
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Tweets: @nickstatt, @hoeglaw, @dhh, and @dhh
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Dependency confusion attacks, where package managers override local packages with global ones, are flourishing, impacting Microsoft, Zillow, Lyft, and others — New dependency confusion attacks take aim at Microsoft, Amazon, Slack, Lyft, and Zillow. — A new type of supply chain attack unveiled …
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Tweets: @ax_sharma, @sambreed, @tfsbuck, @naupliustrevor, @arstechnica, @adam_baldwin, @ckstechnews, and @llkkat
| Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: Facebook pulls out of the Hong Kong-Americas undersea fiber project amid US pressure, after putting its Pacific Light Cable Network on hold in August — China-California link is latest in a string of cables project derailed by pressure from U.S. national-security officials
Tweets: @drewfitzgerald
| Jon Swartz / MarketWatch: |
Asana beats with Q4 revenue of $68.4M, up 57% YoY, net loss of $61.5M, up from $25.2M in Q4 2020, and says it has 93K paying customers; stock up ~6% after hours — Shares of Asana Inc. ASAN, -2.77% were initially up 9% in extended trading Wednesday after the maker of workflow-management …
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| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Big data integrator Talend says it has been acquired by PE firm Thoma Bravo for $2.4B; Talend went public in 2016 — Talend, which went public in 2016, said the deal will position the company for long-term growth and provide the necessary capital and resources to execute its market strategy.
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| Rich Mendez / CNBC: |
Bumble reports Q4, its first earnings since its IPO in February: $165.6M revenue beats estimates, net loss of $26.1M, and paying users increased to 2.7M — - Bumble on Wednesday logged $165.6 million in revenue, topping Wall Street forecasts, for its first quarterly report since going public in February.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q3 revenue of $10.1B, up 3% YoY and beating estimates, and cloud services and license support revenue of $7.3B, up 5% YoY — - While Oracle surpassed estimates on the top and bottom lines, earnings guidance for the current quarter was soft. — The company's Barclays …
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| Rosalie Chan / Insider: |
Flatfile, which helps businesses with onboarding customer data, raises $35M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners at a $185M valuation — - Flatfile announced Wednesday that it raised $35 million in funding led by Scale Venture Partners. — Flatfile's founders worked together at Envoy and started the software as a side project.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Tetrate, which develops an app management platform for hybrid and multicloud environments, raises $40M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures — Tetrate, the company commercializing an open-source networking project that allows for easier data sharing across different applications, has raised $40 million.
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Tweets: @delltechcapital, @sapphirevc, @tetrateio, and @cra
| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
As part of the $1.9T American Rescue Plan, Congress voted to give $1B to the Technology Modernization Fund, focusing on improving government IT systems — On Wednesday, Congress voted to give $1 billion to the Technology Modernization Fund, an unprecedented cash infusion that will go a long …
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