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Sources: the value of Spotify's deal with Joe Rogan, which covers three and a half years, was at least $200M, twice the $100M that reports suggested at the time — The deal that brought his podcast to Spotify is said to be worth over $200 million, more than was previously known.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta's combined Horizon Worlds and Venues monthly user base grows to 300K people, up 10X since launching in December — That's a 10x increase in about three months. But can the growth continue? — Facebook has bet its future on virtual reality and the metaverse, rebranding to Meta …
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| Andrew Blok / CNET: |
YouTube details new efforts to stop misinformation, including stopping such content before it goes viral and limiting cross-platform sharing of misinformation — Stopping misinformation before it goes viral is a top goal for the video site. … YouTube outlined on Thursday new efforts it plans to undertake to tackle misinformation.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel says its discreet Arc GPUs for laptops will ship in Q1 2022, Arc GPUs for desktop will ship in Q2, and Arc GPUs for workstations will ship in Q3 — Intel has given an update on the timeline for its long-awaited entry into the discrete graphics game: Arc GPUs for laptops are set to ship soon in Q1 2022 …
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| Chris Strohm / Bloomberg: |
DOJ establishes the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team to investigate illegal schemes run by criminals and countries like North Korea and Iran — The Justice Department named a veteran cybersecurity prosecutor to lead a new team dedicated to investigating and prosecuting illicit …
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| Don Clark / New York Times: |
A profile of Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, who joined the company at 18, as he seeks to rejuvenate the beleaguered giant by building chip factories across the world — Patrick Gelsinger is back running a company he first joined at 18. The chip maker was a Silicon Valley titan that lost its luster.| Helen Coster / Reuters: |
Sources: Truth Social, Trump's new social media app, has about 500 beta testers, one year after Trump was banned from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube — Details about former U.S. President Donald Trump's new social media app are trickling out as about 500 beta testers have begun using an early version of …
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| Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo: |
An in-depth look at Privacy Sandbox for Android: a two-year transition with ad industry input, a marked change from Apple's ATT, which had little external input — plans to bring a Privacy Sandbox effort to Android. Google's — original Privacy Sandbox
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| Susan Dominus / New York Times: |
A look at tech recruitment issues as the US unemployment rate for tech workers is 1.7% and 0.2% for cybersecurity experts, well below 4% for the general economy — Recruiters in tech are desperate for workers. But candidates are the ones who hold all the power.
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| Nicole Wetsman / The Verge: |
Tandem Diabetes Care says one of its apps got FDA clearance to program insulin delivery for the company's pump, the first such app to receive approval — t:slim X2 insulin pump users can use the app to program doses rather than the pump itself — The Food and Drug Administration cleared …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sequoia Capital to raise $500M to $600M for a fund focused on liquid crypto investments, along with a $900M-$950M Ecosystem Fund and $3.2B-$3.5B Expansion Fund — Sequoia Capital last fall disclosed plans to blow up the traditional VC model, saying it would form a single fund to hold … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Roku Q4: revenue of $865.3M vs. $894M est., up 33% YoY, 60.1M active accounts, up 17% YoY, 19.5B streaming hours, up 15% YoY, stock down ~18% after hours — - Roku's revenue growth slowed to a rate that was lower than analysts had expected. — The company said during the quarter …
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USDC stablecoin developer Circle says its forthcoming SPAC deal now values the company at $9B, up from $4.5B when the deal was announced — Circle — the firm behind stablecoin USDC — announced on Thursday that it has scrapped its previous deal with special purpose acquisition company …
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Google creates a $100M skills training fund for low-income Americans, with loans repayable only once students obtain jobs paying at least $40K a year — The project is a big bet on scaling up programs that have proved effective in lifting low-income workers into middle-class jobs and careers.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Voltron Data, which builds tools based on the Apache Arrow open source project, raises a $22M seed and an $88M Series A — Voltron Data was launched last year by former employees from NVidia, Ursa Computing, BlazingSQL and the co-founder of Apache Arrow. The group came together to build … | Reuters: |
How a Pegasus infection on the iPhone of Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul revealed a zero-click exploit that turned the tide against NSO Group — A single activist helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the world's most sophisticated spyware companies now facing a cascade …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Mozilla warns that Firefox and Chrome 100 versions may break some sites, including HBO Go and Yahoo, due to user-agent strings with three-digit version numbers — Mozilla is warning website developers that the upcoming Firefox 100 and Chrome 100 versions may break websites …
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Tweets: @chromiumdev, @mozhacks, @pierrefar, @tomwarren, @glenngabe, @counternotions, @mikko, @zachleat, and @campuscodi
| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Some Australians say Domm Holland, CEO of one-click checkout startup Fast, “ripped off” a lot of people before moving to the US and remaking his identity — In 2010, Australian entrepreneur Domm Holland had an idea: he was going to punk the country's largest airline.
Tweets: @bobbyallyn, @kenwattana, and @davidgura
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