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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Robinhood files for long-awaited IPO, says it will set aside up to 35% of shares for retail investors — Popular trading app Robinhood on Thursday filed for its initial public offering, and disclosed that it will set aside up to 35% of shares for retail investors who rarely get to buy at a company's IPO price.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
NSA, FBI, and others say Russian hacking group Fancy Bear has been using Kubernetes to run brute force attacks on US and foreign organizations since mid-2019 — US and UK cybersecurity agencies said today that a Russian military cyber unit has been behind a series of brute-force attacks …
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NSA.gov, BleepingComputer, Wired, CNN, Gizmodo, The Independent, iTnews, The Register, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, SecurityWeek, The Hill, The Cloudflare Blog, NBC News, Security Affairs, and SC Media
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter shows off new features it is testing including a way to tweet only to a group of trusted friends, ability to tweet under different “personas”, and more — Twitter has a history of sharing feature and design ideas it's considering at very early stages of development.
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The Verge and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @macdoesit, @mylestanzer, @bstapies, @roslyntalusan, @mattophobia, @dr0ptopminivan, and @gchampeau
| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Documents and interviews detail how a junior Microsoft engineer exploited a bug to generate Xbox gift card codes worth $10.1M+ before his arrest in Nov. 2020 — The Xbox gift card came with a string of 25 letters and numbers. The digits, known as a 5x5 code, were sent in an email …
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PC Gamer, Gamasutra, The Verge, IGN, GameSpot, Game Rant, Windows Central, and SegmentNext
Tweets: @autumnmaetv, @grace_panetta, @mrjwells619, @business, @jasonschreier, @emilychangtv, @verge, @austincarr, @marypcbuk, and @shiraovide
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
TikTok is rolling out longer videos of up to three minutes, up from one minute, to all users over the coming weeks, after testing them since December — Now up to three minutes — TikToks are about to get longer. The app is now rolling out the ability for everyone to publish videos …
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TikTok, Japan Today, Livemint, Android Headlines, Engadget, PCMag, Input, Tubefilter, and MUO
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| Oliver Darcy / CNN: |
New Facebook test prompt asks users if someone they know might be “becoming an extremist”; another notifies users who may have been exposed to extremist content — New York (CNN Business)Some Facebook (FB) users in the United States are being served a prompt that asks …
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CNET, USA Today, PCMag, The Hill, RT, Engadget, Fox News, Neowin, Townhall, SlashGear, Heavy.com, The Post Millennial, and theepochtimes.com
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
As Apple releases macOS Monterey public beta, an in-depth look at Focus, iCloud Private Relay, Safari's revamped UI, FaceTime, SharePlay, and other new features — If there's a theme of Apple's operating-system releases in 2021, it's platform unification. This development is most significant …
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MacRumors, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, MacRumors, Michael Tsai, Key Discussions, Daring Fireball, MacStories, Forbes, The Verge, Tom's Guide, MacDailyNews, PCMag, and Thurrott
Tweets: @_inside, @tolmasky, @bdc, @maxwinebach, @lapcatsoftware, @johnvoorhees, and @tomwarren
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to test a hybrid in-store and work-from-home arrangement for retail employees later this year under a pilot program dubbed Retail Flex — - Company to pilot “Retail Flex” program for employees this year — Apple earlier asked office workers to return three days a week
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The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @creative_rants and @markgurman
| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Facebook makes its free cloud gaming service for desktop and Android available to 98% of mainland US, partners with Ubisoft to host its mobile gaming titles — Oculus VR and livestreams, Facebook's gaming ambitions also include the cloud. Today, the company is making free game streaming available …
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Facebook, Protocol, New York Times, PCMag, SlashGear, Neowin, Gizmodo, Reuters, IGN, 9to5Mac, and Digital Trends
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| Politico: |
Former Trump spokesman Jason Miller leads GETTR, a Twitter-like service that bills itself as a “non-bias social network”, in the newest pro-MAGA tech venture — Former President Donald Trump's team quietly launched a new social media platform on Thursday, billing it as an alternative to Big Tech sites.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Days before Bezos steps aside, Amazon adds two points to its 14 corporate values, requiring staff to consider welfare of coworkers and society at large — - Workers now required to consider employee welfare, society — Employees are hired, evaluated on how they conform to list
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About Amazon, GeekWire, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, Protocol, and Insider
| Eugene Kim / Insider: |
Sources: Amazon is discussing forming a “Rebel Alliance” with Slack and other companies to challenge Microsoft's dominance of the work-productivity app market — - Amazon has discussed creating a software bundle with other companies to compete with Microsoft.
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Bloomberg and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @tobi, @garrytan, @nichcarlson, @thetrentharvey, @parismarx, @eugenekim222, and @daviduberti
| Michelle F Davis / Bloomberg: |
Olive, which is developing AI bots to automate healthcare administrative tasks, raises $400M at a $4B valuation, seven months after being valued at $1.5B — Olive, a digital-health startup looking to use technology to help health-care firms automate tasks, has closed a funding round that values …
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PR Newswire, PYMNTS.com, medcitynews.com, Columbus Business Journal, MobiHealthNews, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, and afrotech.com
Tweets: @howard_dierking and @wallstreetpaper
| Mark Haranas / CRN: |
HPE says it will acquire Zerto, developer of automated software for helping clients recover from unplanned data loss, for $374M in cash — 'Zerto's market-leading cloud data management and protection software expands HPE GreenLake cloud data services, allowing customers to protect their data …
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Forbes, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, ZDNet, Globes Online, SiliconANGLE, Blocks and Files, and FierceTelecom
Tweets: @markharanas, @crn, and @crn
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Sources: IBM's company-wide email migration, 18 months in the making, has left many employees unable to use email or schedule calendar events for several days — IBM's planned company-wide email migration has gone off the rails, leaving many employees unable to use email or schedule calendar events.
Tweets: @garthk, @chuff_sf, @andrewnebus, @jalajboy, @darth, @mohamed, @markham, @film_girl, @cedfunches, @quinnypig, @leyrer, @benedictevans, @samuelwatkin, @chrisfralic, @guntruth, @jackbrewster, @achis, @chingedyching, @jonerp, @jeffnolan, and @stevekovach
| Reuters: |
Putin signs a law forcing foreign tech companies with a daily audience in Russia of over 500,000 people to open offices in the country by 2022 — President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that obliges foreign social media giants to open offices in Russia, a document published by the government …
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New York Post and The Verge
Tweets: @mbk_center, @xeni, @johnkoetsier, @ashoswai, and @gchampeau
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
FTC passes new measures expanding its power to regulate anti-competitive business practices, in its first open business meeting in more than 20 years — The first open business meeting of the Federal Trade Commission in more than 20 years — In an open meeting on Thursday … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Articulate, which offers SaaS products that Amazon and other companies use to create training courses for employees, raises $1.5B Series A at a $3.75B valuation — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out.
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Protocol and SiliconANGLE
| Politico: |
Around 130 countries, including all G20 nations, agree to a global tax deal, aimed at world's 100 biggest companies and setting minimum corporate rates at 15% — The world's largest economies agreed Thursday to sweeping changes to the global tax system, despite staunch opposition …
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CNBC, OECD.org, Axios, OECD, Politico, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Nikkei Asia, and U.S. Department …
| Nina Bambysheva / Forbes: |
Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin raises $200M Series B from SoftBank Latin America Fund, valuing its parent company 2TM Group at $2.1B — I cover cryptocurrencies and other applications of blockchain — Brazil's leading cryptocurrency exchange, Mercado Bitcoin raised $200 million … | Kristie Neo / DealStreetAsia: |
Singapore-based SCI Ecommerce, which helps customers like Unilever and Nestle build an ecommerce presence in Southeast Asia and China, raises $65.4M — Southeast Asia's cross-border e-commerce enabler SCI Ecommerce has closed an S$88 million ($65.4 million) financing round after raising fresh capital … | Jane Lee / Reuters: |
Online marketplace bolttech, which allows insurance companies to team up to offer products otherwise not possible, raises $180M Series A at $1B+ valuation — Insurance tech startup bolttech on Thursday said it raised $180 million in a funding round, led by private investment firm Activant Capital Group …
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| Cristiano Lima / Politico: |
As part of a previously undisclosed probe, DC AG subpoenas Facebook for docs on its handling of COVID misinfo, including an internal study on vaccine hesitancy — D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine has subpoenaed Facebook for records related to the platform's handling of coronavirus misinformation … Sponsor Posts
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