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Sony confirms PlayStation 4 production will continue in 2022, which sources claim will help the company offset some PlayStation 5 production pressure — Sony Group Corp. will continue producing PlayStation 4 consoles throughout 2022 as it navigates disruptions to the global supply chain …
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Jack Dorsey and others propose a legal defense fund for Bitcoin developers, citing “multi-front litigation” and “threats” — The main purpose of the fund will be to defend developers from from lawsuits regarding their activities in the Bitcoin ecosystem …
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| Kim Eun-jin / BusinessKorea: |
After failing to show up at its launch event, Samsung says the Exynos 2200 will be unveiled alongside a new smartphone, likely in late January or early February — Samsung Electronics has decided to put off the Exynos 2200 unveiling, which was initially scheduled for Jan. 11, in consideration of the customer's schedule.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Samsung, which had announced a January 11 event for the Exynos 2200, didn't show up to its own product launch — The Exynos 2200 was supposed to launch on January 11. It didn't. — So here's a crazy story. Samsung was supposed to have a big SoC launch today, but that launch did not happen.
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| Poynter: |
Over 80 fact-checking organizations tell YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki that the company's misinformation policies are “proving insufficient” and propose solutions — Ms. Susan Wojcicki, — It's been almost two years since the COVID-19 pandemic started.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Canalys: worldwide PC shipments grew 15% YoY in 2021 to 341M, the highest annual shipments since 2012; Apple's market share grew by 28.3%, Acer's by 21.8% — It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: consumers spent $170B on mobile apps globally in 2021, up 19% YoY, downloading 230B apps; the average American spent 4.1 hours in apps per day — Consumer spending on mobile apps reached $170 billion in 2021, according to App Annie's newly released “State of Mobile 2022″ report …
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| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
London-based Checkout.com, which offers payment processing tools, raises $1B in a share sale at a $40B valuation — The $1 billion deal vaults the digital-payments processor past all but a handful of other startups — Checkout.com didn't raise money from outside investors until 2019.
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| Lucy Harley-Mckeown / The Block: |
Coinbase says “nearly the entire company will shut down” across four separate “recharge weeks” for employees in 2022 — Quick Take — Coinbase is giving employees four ‘recharge weeks’ off in 2022 in order to counteract what it called an intense working environment.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Instagram became the world's most downloaded app in Q4 2021, its best quarter since 2014 with installs up 10% QoQ, followed by TikTok and Facebook — Instagram is benefiting from TikTok's ban in India, and has now reclaimed the top spot in terms of total global downloads as of the fourth quarter of 2021.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Locket, an iOS app and widget for sharing photos to friends' homescreens, hits #1 on the App Store after debuting on New Year's Day and going viral on TikTok — A new social app, Locket, popped to the top of the App Store charts in recent days thanks to its clever premise to put live photos … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Wordle clones are starting to disappear from Apple's App Store, after reports surfaced about many capitalizing on the guessing game's popularity — It seems Apple has taken action — Has Apple taken action against apps that cloned the popular web game Wordle?
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
The FTC's suit against Meta comes too late to really matter, but its scrutiny of Meta's VR acquisitions shows it's determined not to make the same mistake twice — Why an FTC inquiry into the company's VR ambitions matters more than today's lawsuit ruling — Just over 13 months ago …
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
BigPanda, an IT management startup that uses AI to detect and resolve outages, raises $190M led by Advent and Insight at a $1.2B valuation — San Francisco-based BigPanda, which helps IT departments keep their digital services running, hit a valuation of $1.2 billion after a $190 million raise …
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| Justin Hendrix / Tech Policy Press: |
Over 260 health professionals tell Spotify to implement a misinformation policy, after a Joe Rogan Experience episode featured a discredited scientist — More than 260 doctors, nurses, scientists, health professionals and others have signed an open letter calling on the streaming media platform Spotify to …
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| Bloomberg: |
Alphabet Workers Union complains that contract workers receive COVID-19 testing that is inferior to the $949 Cue Health devices given to full-time WFH employees — - Full-time employees at home get instant results from Cue — Contractors in office are offered cheaper mail-in tests
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Magic Leap pivots toward health care, defense, and manufacturing markets with Magic Leap 2, which will cost “slightly” more than the $2,295-$2,995 Magic Leap 1 — The company has enlisted companies such as heart-mapping startup SentiAR and neurotech business SyncThink to try out its new technology| Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes: |
DeepScribe, which automates medical record transcription and digitization for doctors, raises a $30M Series A led by Index Ventures — Physician burnout was thrust into the limelight during Covid-19. But for many in the industry, it's been a problem since the HITECH act went into effect in 2009 … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
SeekOut, which uses GitHub, academic papers, and other sources to help recruit diverse talent, raises a $115M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1B+ valuation — The news: Seattle-area startup SeekOut just landed an additional $115 million to propel its valuation past $1 billion, earning it the coveted unicorn label.| Globes Online: |
Israeli startup Placer.ai, which offers location analytics and consumer foot traffic data, raises a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation — The company provides insights about foot traffic in malls and shopping centers, other retail centers, casinos, theme parks and stadiums and more.
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| Chanyaporn Chanjaroen / Bloomberg: |
Singapore's crypto strategy has welcomed and then disillusioned many companies, including Binance, as the city-state tries to protect its citizens against risks — Binance Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Changpeng Zhao was putting on a brave face. — An affiliate of the world's … | Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: |
Enterprise travel management startup TravelPerk raises $115M led by General Catalyst and Kinnevik at a $1.3B valuation, bringing its total funding to $409M — - General Catalyst joins Kinnevik in latest funding round — Company plans expansion in key markets including U.S., Europe| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Swiss digital asset banking service Seba Bank raises a ~$118.6M Series C led by Altive, Ordway Selections, Summer Capital, and DeFi Technologies — Digital asset banking platform SEBA Bank has raised 110 million Swiss francs ($118.6 million) in a Series C funding round co-led …
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