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Sources: Spotify to announce an Apple Podcasts Subscriptions competitor next week that will let podcasters set prices without charging them or taking a cut — Podcasts exploded in popularity during the lockdown and are on track to bring in more than $1 billion in U.S. ad revenue this year
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Tweets: @srussolillo, @danbobkoff, @alexcartaz, @benmullin, and @shiraovide
| Andrew Griffin / The Independent: |
Interview with Apple's marketing head Greg Joswiak and hardware chief John Ternus on why the company has no plans to merge iPad and Mac product lines — In an exclusive interview, the company's marketing and hardware chiefs explain the creation of the tablet - and why they don't want you to call it that
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| Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech: |
Apple's M1 chip, used in computers ranging from $699 to $1699, and tablets, upends decades of x86 OEM marketing and segmentation centered around CPU performance — On Tuesday, Apple updated the iMac with new SKUs, display panels, and various color options.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Sources: the new 12.9" iPad Pro, which is 0.5mm thicker than its predecessor, is incompatible with the original $349 Magic Keyboard folio case for older models — Looking to upgrade? You'll have to shell out an extra $349 for a new keyboard — Apple's new 12.9-inch iPad Pro has a big catch … | Technical University of Darmstadt: |
Researchers: an AirDrop user's phone number and email address can be learned via nearby Wi-Fi-capable devices when the user opens an iOS or macOS sharing pane — TU-Researchers discover significant privacy leak in Apple's file-sharing service — Apple users can share files with each other using AirDrop.
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| BBC: |
After decades of legal battles, 39 former UK postmasters who were convicted of fraud due to faulty accounting software from Fujitsu have their names cleared — Judges have quashed the convictions of 39 former postmasters after the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice.
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| Bloomberg: |
Turkish crypto exchange Thodex halts operations amid local media reports that its CEO has fled the country and its losses may be as high as ~$2B — - Government blocks bank accounts of crypto exchange Thodex — Whereabouts of 27-year-old CEO Faruk Fatih Ozer unknown
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
A digital coins sell-off, including bitcoin's plunge below $50K, wipes $200B+ in value from crypto markets, on reports Biden will seek a capital gains tax hike — - Bitcoin and other digital coins plunged on Friday wiping over $260 billion of the value of the cryptocurrency market.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Click Studios, maker of the enterprise password manager Passwordstate, notified its 29K customers about a supply chain attack deployed via an update of the app — A mysterious threat actor has compromised the update mechanism of enterprise password manager application Passwordstate …
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Federal judge rejects motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Apple that alleges the “Buy” option in iTunes is deceptive as Apple can still terminate access — Rejecting a motion to dismiss, a federal judge says it is plausible that consumers don't know that access to purchased content can be revoked.
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| Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal: |
SmartRent, which provides smart home automation to building owners and developers, to go public through a merger with a SPAC that values the startup at $2.2B — Seller of smart home technology also books a $155 million investment from a group including Blackstone and Lennar
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PYMNTS.com and Crunchbase News
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Unsupervised, which offers an analytics service that automates tasks like data aggregation, feature engineering, and insight discovery, raises $35M Series B — Self-described automated analytics startup Unsupervised Inc. said today it has raised $35 million in a new round of funding led by Cathay Innovation and SignalFire.
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| Mark Kleinman / Sky News: |
Sources: Mapbox is in talks to go public through merger with a SPAC backed by SoftBank, in a deal that could value the mapping company at between $1.5B and $2B — A New York-listed blank cheque company set up by SoftBank is in merger talks with Washington-based Mapbox, Sky News learns.| Ed Zitron / Where's Your Ed At: |
Clubhouse lacks opportunities for virality and monetization that Twitch, Snapchat, and Discord have, and its product is one feature that has been copied easily — Clubhouse, an app which allows you to join audio conversations with other people (a function unavailable in any other app or device), is now worth $4 billion.
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Defector. Tweets: @edzitron, @film_girl, @counternotions, @jeffnolan, @thekenyeung, @jboogie, @davidgerard, @caylenb, @mylesudland, and @jsnknght
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google is rolling out a “App install optimization” Play Store feature, enabled by default, which makes apps faster to install and run using crowdsourced data — Over the past several years, Google has been working to make Android apps smaller in size by optimizing what code and resources are downloaded to devices.
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