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Stripe raises $600M from Sequoia Capital and others at a valuation of $95B, becoming the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley — Payments provider becomes Silicon Valley's most valuable private company — Stripe has become the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has produced …
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Internal docs: a Facebook study about US users' vaccine hesitancy finds “substantial harm” from content that doesn't violate the company's rules — Internal study finds a QAnon connection and that content that doesn't break the rules may be causing ‘substantial’ harm
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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook debuts tools to promote COVID-19 vaccinations: helping US users find slots, partnering with health authorities on WhatsApp, labeling all vaccine posts — Facebook said Monday it's releasing new tools to make it easier for people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 …
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Clubhouse says it won't require access to users' phone contacts anymore, and announces a creator accelerator program that will initially accept 20 participants — The voice chat app will provide users with resources and help them monetize their shows — During Clubhouse's weekly town hall on Sunday …
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Tencent shares fell 4% on Monday and 4.4% on Friday, wiping out $62B, as sources say China's regulators will focus on Tencent following Ant Group crackdown — - Its fintech, payments business worth $120 billion: Bernstein — Shares fall a second day on concern over regulatory scrutiny| New York Times: |
After US intel agencies, FBI, and DHS missed Chinese and Russian hacks, White House is looking to overhaul cyber defenses, including new industry partnerships — The intelligence agencies missed massive intrusions by Russia and China, forcing the administration and Congress to look for solutions …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple says App Store supports over 330K jobs in the UK, up 10% YoY, with £3.6B in total earnings, up 22% YoY; App Store supports 1.7M jobs in Europe, up 7% YoY — Apple says its App Store now supports more than 330,000 jobs in the U.K., a 10% increase over the past year …
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Kuo: Apple AirPods 3 will not enter mass production until Q3 2021; AirPods shipments will decline from 90M in 2020 to 78M in 2021 due to increasing competition — Despite a flurry of leaks surrounding next-gen AirPods in the last couple of weeks, Ming-Chi Kuo this morning said that new AirPods …
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| Reuters: |
Baidu says its AI chip unit Kunlun recently raised funding, source says at a $2B valuation led by Chinese PE firm CITIC Capital — BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese search giant Baidu Inc said on Monday that its artificial intelligence chip unit Kunlun recently completed a round of fundraising …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Centrical, a startup developing an employee engagement and performance management service, raises $32M led by Intel Capital and JVP — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Centrical, a startup developing an employee engagement …
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Adobe adds a new feature to Adobe Camera Raw called Super Resolution, which uses AI to double linear resolution of a photo, increasing its pixel count by 4x — Adobe has shipped the first version of Photoshop that can run natively on Macs equipped with Apple Silicon and also has announced …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
A look at issues arising around digital ownership and NFTs: while they can be a source of revenue for creators, they are spurring new forms of piracy — If there was a contest for acronym of the year, “NFT” would be the clear favorite for 2021. Short for non-fungible tokens …
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