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| Henry Updegrave / Chainalysis: |
A record $14B flowed to criminal crypto addresses in 2021, up from $7.8B in 2020, driven by DeFi scams; total crypto transaction volume hit $15.8T, up 567% YoY — This blog is a preview of our 2022 Crypto Crime Report. Sign up here to reserve your copy and we'll email you the full report when it comes out in February!
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| Maria Shen / Electric Capital: |
Research: with 4,000+ monthly active developers, Ethereum has the largest open-source crypto ecosystem, followed by Polkadot, Cosmos, Solana, and Bitcoin — Executive Summary — Web3 developers are at an all-time high and growing faster than ever. — 18,000+ monthly active developers commit code …
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Sources: IBM is trying again to sell its unprofitable Watson Health division, potentially for $1B+; IBM spent $4B+ on M&A to build Watson Health — IBM has resurrected its sale process for IBM Watson Health, with hopes of fetching more than $1 billion, people familiar with the situation tell Axios.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify introduces Call-to-Action Cards, a visual ad format for podcasts that puts clickable cards inside show and episode pages — Spotify is today introducing is introducing a new ad format aimed at podcasters which it's calling “Call-to-Action Cards” — or CTA cards, for short.| Steven Zeitchik / Washington Post: |
On the January 6 riot anniversary, data scientists say AI models can help forecast similar events, as some question their accuracy and potential for misuse — A year after the attack on the Capitol, data scientists say artificial intelligence can help forecast insurrection — with some caveats
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| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Instagram tests the ability to switch between a Home feed, a Favorites feed, and a Following chronological feed, rolling out to all users in H1 2022 — Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, announced today that the app is rolling out for some users the ability to switch between different feeds.
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Tencent's WeChat plans to add support for China's digital yuan, e-CNY, to WeChat Pay, which has 800M+ MAUs — - Tencent-owned WeChat, China's largest messaging app and one of the country's biggest payment services, will begin supporting the digital yuan. — The People's Bank of China …
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| Elisa Braun / Politico: |
France's data regulator, the CNIL, fines Google €150M and Meta €60M for failing to let French users easily reject cookie trackers — PARIS — French data regulator the CNIL is set to fine Google €150 million and Facebook €60 million for violating EU privacy rules.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Meta says it is still working on a “highly specialized OS” for its AR/VR devices, and it is not “halting or scaling back” operations in building a reality OS — It's still interested in a custom OS — Meta reportedly pulled the plug on a custom operating system …
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Kazakhstan faces internet disruptions since Tuesday evening and a nationwide blackout on Wednesday afternoon, amid protests over energy price increases — Network data from NetBlocks confirm a significant disruption to internet service in Kazakhstan from the evening of Tuesday 4 January 2022 …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Google partners with Acer, HP, and Intel to bring Fast Pair to select Windows PCs later in 2022 and announces improvements to Phone Hub on Chromebooks — Google wants to do for Android and Chrome users what Apple does for people in its ecosystem. It's announcing a set of news today …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
HTC announces the Vive Wrist Tracker, a watch-like controller that tracks hand-to-elbow positions for its Vive Focus 3 VR headset, launching in Q1 2022 for $129 — Set to launch later this quarter — HTC is announcing a new wrist-based controller for its Vive Focus 3 virtual reality headset.
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| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
PitchBook: US startups raised a record $329.8B in 2021, up from a record $166.6B in 2020; over half, or $190.8B, came from $100M+ rounds — Sum nearly doubles from 2020 in a financing rush one fund manager deems ‘not rational’ — Investors poured a record $330bn into private start-ups … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based iProov, which offers face authentication and verification tools to governments and other organizations, raises $70M from Sumeru Equity Partners — Biometrics, and specifically facial recognition, have seen a surge of usage in the last several years, first as a tool … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn plans to launch interactive, audio-only live events this month in beta for some creators and a video version in the spring — LinkedIn, now with more than 800 million people listing their professional profiles to build out their careers, is taking its next steps to get them to spend more time on the platform.
Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Brave Browser: |
Brave reports 15.5M+ DAUs and 50M+ MAUs at the end of 2021, up from 24M MAUs at the end of 2020, 10M+ mobile downloads in 2021, and Brave Ads revenue up 4x YoY — Brave Search now at 2.3 billion annualized queries — Key new products from Brave this year included Brave Search …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Signal quietly made its MobileCoin-based cryptocurrency payments feature available to all users globally in November 2021, after a test in the UK — A beta “payments” feature now lets some users of the popular encrypted messaging app send MobileCoin around the globe.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Rupifi, which works with Flipkart, Jumbotail, and other e-commerce companies in India to offer a buy now, pay later service for mom-and-pop shops, raises $25M — Rupifi has raised $25 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup, which currently provides buy now … Sponsor Posts
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