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Trump's Truth Social has been almost entirely inaccessible in its first few days due to technical glitches, a 13-hour outage, and a 300,000-person waitlist — Former president Donald Trump, a longtime critic of how Democrats debuted Healthcare.gov, is facing a bungled website launch of his own.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Truth Social, like Parler and Gettr, looks to be structured for mostly one-way communication, broadcast primarily to an audience of Trumpist dead-enders — Conservative alternative social networks keep making the same mistakes — I. — Today, let's talk about some of the less obvious ways … | Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
As Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and other right-wing commentators sour on Google, some push DuckDuckGo as an alternative, arguing Google suppresses results — The embrace by some conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists is part of a broader effort to shift people away from Big Tech.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel debuts 12th Gen Alder Lake P-series and U-series CPUs for thinner and lighter laptops, claiming up to 70% better multi-threaded performance over 11th Gen — Laptop P-series and U-series chips teased at CES 2022 will arrive in March — Intel launched the first wave of its 12th … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft adds Google Cloud support to its Defender for Cloud tool that finds and monitors security weak spots, three months after adding AWS support — Microsoft Corp. is expanding its product for finding and monitoring security weak spots in cloud-computing to include rival Alphabet Inc.'s Google Cloud Platform.| Stephen Totilo / Axios: |
SEC filing: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick would get $15M if Microsoft fires him without cause; Phil Spencer began acquisition talks three days after WSJ's exposé — There are big potential payouts ahead for controversial Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, according to an extensive SEC filing …
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Despite letting some employees permanently work from home, tech companies are spending billions of dollars expanding their office spaces across the US — Even as they allow some employees to change how often they come into the office, tech companies are rapidly buying and leasing properties around the country.| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
DappRadar: OpenSea's seven-day trading volume is down 37%, as active traders dropped 19% to ~227K, after a hacker used a phishing attack to steal 254 NFTs — Activity on OpenSea, the world's largest marketplace for digital collectibles, likely dropped precipitously after a phishing attack …
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| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
The EU unveils the Data Act, setting rules on how companies can access anonymized data; cloud providers like AWS and Azure would be forced to simplify switching — The European Union unveiled new rules that will make it easier for users to transfer data generated from products like Amazon.com Inc.'s Alexa or a Tesla Inc. vehicle.
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| Ash Parrish / The Verge: |
Twitch launches the Ad Incentive Program to pay select streamers a guaranteed monthly minimum ad revenue based on amount of ads run per hour and hours streamed — The Ad Incentive Program will pay streamers a guaranteed minimum amount of ad revenue per month
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Secureframe, which helps companies comply with HIPAA, SOC 2, and other standards, raises a $56M Series B led by Accomplice, bringing its total funding to $78.5M — Meeting compliance standards like HIPAA and SOC 2 can be a critical — and often mandatory — part of the matrix of boxes … Thanks:@switch__pr
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
BlueVoyant, which provides managed security and threat intelligence to SMBs, raises a $250M Series D at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $525.5M — Cybersecurity continues to be a pernicious and complex problem, for enterprises, and today a company that's building … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Mark Cuban's live video and audio app Fireside is in talks to raise a ~$25M Series A at a $125M valuation and plans NFTs and metaverse tools in 2022 — Mark Cuban's interactive platform Fireside, which helps creators reach audiences through live and virtual shows …
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| Trilby Beresford / Hollywood Reporter: |
Backbone, which makes game controllers for the iPhone, raises a $40M Series A led by Index Ventures — Amy Schumer and Sean “Diddy” Combs also backed the fundraise, along with top tech CEOs including Discord's Jason Citron and Rec Room's Nick Fajt.
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| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Milan-based BNPL startup Scalapay raises a $497M Series B led by Tencent and Willoughby, bringing its total funding to $1.2B and becoming Italy's first unicorn — It's been a long time coming, but Italy now has its first unicorn in Scalapay as the buy-now-pay-later company raises $497 million in a Series B round.
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
A court grants Waymo a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the California DMV, letting it keep autonomous vehicle tech and safety details secret — Waymo, the autonomous driving arm of Alphabet, was granted a win on Tuesday when a California court ruled it could keep certain details regarding its AV technology secret.| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Bloomreach, which helps e-commerce customers build websites, raises a $175M Series F led by Goldman Sachs at a $2.2B valuation, up from $900M in January 2021 — Bloomreach said it has raised $175 million in a funding round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, giving the e-commerce software business a $2.2 billion valuation.
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| Peter Wayner / VentureBeat: |
Redpanda, a data streaming service formerly known as Vectorized, raises a $50M Series B led by GV, bringing its total funding to $65.5M — Today, Redpanda Data, the data streaming platform formerly known as Vectorized, announced a successful $50 million series B round.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Aporia, a full-stack machine learning monitoring service, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global — Aporia, a Tel Aviv-based startup that helps businesses monitor and explain their AI-based services, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global.
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