| 6:40 PM • | David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: During Senate hearing, Spotify and Match said Apple abuses its power over app developers, leveraging its user base; Spotify said the goal is to hurt rivals |
| 5:20 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Twitter rolls out the option to upload and view 4K images on Android and iOS to all users, after testing the feature earlier this year |
| 4:30 PM • | Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal: FTC nominee Lina Khan appeared on track to be confirmed after she signaled support for an aggressive approach to Big Tech during her hearing |
| 4:20 PM • | Ari Levy / CNBC: UiPath closes at $69 on its debut, valuing the company at $35.8B, after pricing shares at $56 and raising $1.34B |
| 3:50 PM • | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Unlike Apple's App Store IAPs and subscriptions, Podcast Subscriptions competes with other podcast players and ways to consume premium feeds in the Podcasts app |
| 3:10 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Files from REvil, which is extorting Apple supplier Quanta, appear to confirm new MacBook Pros with MagSafe, USB-C, HDMI, SD card slot, and no Touch Bar |
| 2:30 PM • | Senate Judiciary Subcommittee: Recording of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing to examine competition in app stores, with testimony from Apple, Google, Spotify, Tile, and others |
| 2:25 PM • | Craig Welch / National Geographic: An in-depth look at Project CETI, a research effort that seeks to use AI to understand the vocalizations of sperm whales off the coast of Dominica |
| 2:10 PM • | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: Collaborative design service Figma launches whiteboarding tool FigJam and adds voice chat to all of its products |
| 2:05 PM • | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: Signal's CEO says he analyzed a Cellebrite device, used to extract data from phones, that fell off a truck, and it is full of easily exploitable security flaws |
| 1:35 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Google's Ethical AI group was in turmoil long before the ouster of Gebru and Mitchell, after friction over handling of harassment and bias allegations |
| 1:30 PM • | Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: US startups raised $69B in Q1 2021, up 41% from the previous record in Q4 2018, as the average late stage valuation tripled to $1.6B from last year |
| 1:05 PM • | Evelyn Douek / The Atlantic: Facebook's recent steps to curb toxic content in Minneapolis following Derek Chauvin's trial raises the question of why the company doesn't do so all the time |
| 12:55 PM • | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple Support article says lost AirTags will be readable by any NFC-enabled device, including Android devices, when in Lost Mode |
| 12:40 PM • | Tim Culpan / Bloomberg: Charts show TSMC's challenges: unstable output, need for more debt, higher costs hurting margins, foreign currency swings, droughts, and more |
| 12:15 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Google announces updates to Meet, rolling out next month on desktop, including a new UI, improved presentation features, and background replacement |
| 12:05 PM • | Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: Welcome Tech, which offers digital tools for immigrants to navigate financial and other services in the US, raises $35M Series B, bringing total raised to $50M |
| 11:55 AM • | Ronan Shields / Adweek: Outbrain confidentially files for an IPO, seeking a $2B valuation, after the abandonment of its earlier attempted merger with rival Taboola |
| 11:50 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Aisera, which helps companies automate operations across IT, sales, and customer service, raises $40M Series C, bringing its total raised to $90M |
| 11:40 AM • | Joseph Cox / VICE: Bipartisan lawmakers introduce Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act to address police surveillance, including banning warrantless location data purchases |
| 11:00 AM • | Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: Internal memo: DOJ has formed a taskforce to combat the proliferation of ransomware attacks, targeting the entire ecosystem with prosecutions and more |
| 10:50 AM • | Jason Snell / Macworld: The new iPads have great hardware, led by M1 and mini-LED, but iPadOS lacks proper second display support and pro apps like Final Cut Pro, Xcode, and Logic Pro |
| 10:25 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Researchers: fraudsters spoofed an average of 650M online ad placements per day by infecting ~1M mobile devices with software that mimicked streaming apps |
| 10:20 AM • | Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: Mavenir, which makes tools for 250+ wireless service providers in 120+ countries, raises $500M from Koch Strategic Platforms for a minority stake |
| 10:10 AM • | Sami Fathi / MacRumors: Tim Cook says Apple is now selling more M1 Macs than Intel-based models, despite them only being released in November |
| 9:55 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: RapidAPI, an API marketplace that covers everything from file storage to COVID-19 statistics, raises $60M Series C led by Green Bay Ventures |
| 9:50 AM • | Matt Novak / Gizmodo: Amazon brings its palm reader payment system to a Whole Foods location in Seattle and will roll it out to seven more stores in the coming months |
| 9:45 AM • | Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: Hive, which offers cloud-hosted machine learning models that interpret unstructured data, raises $85M over two rounds at a $2B valuation |
| 9:40 AM • | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Deel, which helps companies comply with local hiring laws around the world, raises $156M at a $1.25B valuation, up from $225M last year |
| 9:35 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: AppOmni, which offers SaaS app management and security tools, raises $40M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners, bringing its total raised to $53M+ |
| 9:30 AM • | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Perception Point, which offers interception of content-based attacks in collaboration channels like email, raises $28M Series B, bringing total raised to $38M |
| 9:25 AM • | Deena Shanker / Bloomberg: Misfits Market, an online grocer specializing in delivering food that would otherwise be wasted, raises $200M Series C, source says at a $1.1B valuation |
| 9:20 AM • | Alina Tugend / New York Times: Researchers and therapists say VR has shown great promise for physical and occupational therapy, including pain management and relieving PTSD |
| 9:00 AM • | Matthew Leising / Bloomberg: Digital Asset Holdings, which develops blockchain-based apps for banks and other businesses, raises $120M from 7Ridge and Eldridge |
| 8:50 AM • | Wall Street Journal: EU proposes strict AI rules, regulating “high-risk” uses such as loan applications, with noncompliant companies to be fined up to 6% of annual global revenues |
| 8:40 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: ActiveCampaign, which helps businesses automate email marketing, CRM, and ad campaigns, raises $240M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $3B+ valuation |
| 8:15 AM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: How Kosta Eleftheriou became a one-man App Store fraud squad, by looking for top grossing apps with fake user reviews and ridiculously high subscription prices |
| 7:45 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Belgium-based Deliverect, which helps restaurants manage orders from various delivery services in one app, raises $65M, bringing its total raised to $90M |
| 7:30 AM • | Haroon Siddique / The Guardian: Former children's commissioner for England sues TikTok, alleging that it illegally collects the personal info of child users because “kids can't give consent” |
| 7:10 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Instagram is rolling out tools to filter out abusive DMs based on keywords and emojis, and to block users along with any new accounts they may create |
| 6:00 AM • | Stack Overflow Blog: Stack Overflow: 25% of its visitors copy text within 5 minutes of hitting one of its pages and 40.6M copies were made across 7.3M posts from March 26 to April 9 |
| 4:40 AM • | Anna Kramer / Protocol: Google data center contractors say they sign up for two year contracts, but to keep the same job they are required to leave for six months before reapplying |
| 2:35 AM • | Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Beijing-based Laiye, which develops robotic process automation software, raises $50M Series C+ |
| 11:20 PM • | Joseph Cox / VICE: Facebook said a vulnerability that let attackers find a Facebook profile given an email address was still active after being “erroneously closed out” |
| 10:35 PM • | Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes: Archipelago, an AI-driven data analytics company focused on commercial property risk management, raises $34M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners |
| 9:20 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft introduces new settings in Outlook to allow breaks between back-to-back meetings after its own research showed that “digital overload is real” |
| 8:05 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: UiPath priced its IPO at $56 per share, above its target range, raising $1.3B and giving it a $29B valuation |
| 7:45 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google says it will audit WebView and implement a WebView “Safe Mode” after a bug impacting WebView and Chrome caused many Android apps to crash last month |
| 7:00 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: REvil ransomware gang says it has hacked Apple contractor Quanta Computer; source says it's demanding $50M ransom or it will leak more Apple product schematics |
| 6:50 PM • | Jon Porter / The Verge: Apple's new Siri Remote will be sold separately from the new Apple TV 4K for $59 and is backwards compatible with previous Apple TV 4Ks and Apple TV HD |
| 6:00 PM • | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: French startup BlaBlaCar, known for its long distance carpooling marketplace, raises $115M led by VNV Global and has added a bus marketplace |
| 5:35 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple tells developers that on April 26 all iPhone, iPad, and Watch apps submitted to the App Store must adhere to Apple's App Tracking Transparency rules |
| 4:50 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Ahead of its congressional testimony, Tile shares concerns of unfair competition regarding AirTag, which is tightly integrated with Apple's Find My network |
| 4:20 PM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Cerebras Systems launches the Wafer Scale Engine 2 processor for supercomputing with 2.6T transistors and 850K AI-optimized cores, made with a 7nm process |
| 4:13 PM • | Netflix - Investors: Netflix reports Q1 revenue of $7.16B, up 24% YoY, and 208M paid memberships, up 14% YoY but below its forecast of 210M; stock down 8%+ |
| 3:35 PM • | David Katzmaier / CNET: 12.9" iPad Pro's mini-LED display features 1.6K nits peak brightness, 1K nits full-screen brightness, and 2,596 local dimming zones for a 1M-to-1 contrast ratio |
| 3:10 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Discord has ended talks to sell itself, including rejecting a $12B bid from Microsoft, as it resumes planning for a potential IPO |
| 3:05 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Apple debuts Apple Card Family to let spouses build credit together and extend access to family members over 13, with optional controls, coming to US in May |
| 3:00 PM • | Peter Kafka / Vox: Apple will take a 30% cut of revenue generated through Podcasts Subscriptions, dropping to 15% after a year; pricing options start at 49 cents a month in the US |
| 2:50 PM • | Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: FTC warns companies over “the sale or use of ... racially biased algorithms”, which could violate federal laws, including the fair credit acts FCRA and ECOA |
| 2:30 PM • | Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: Apple announces accessories for the M1 iMac, including a Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad, all available in seven color options |
| 2:15 PM • | Apple: Apple says the updated M1 iPad Pro starts at $799 for the 11-inch and $1,099 for the 12.9-inch; pre-orders open April 30, shipping in second half of May |
| 2:10 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple says iOS 14.5 is coming to iPhone and iPad “next week” with app tracking protections, new Siri voices, redesigned Podcasts, and more |
| 1:55 PM • | Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Apple unveils AirTag accessories that cost more than the device itself, including an AirTag Hermès line starting at $299 with handcrafted leather holders |
| 1:50 PM • | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple updates 11" and 12.9" iPad Pros with M1, 8-core GPU, Thunderbolt, up to 2TB storage, 5G, 1080p FaceTime HD camera, and a mini-LED screen on 12.9" model |
| 1:44 PM • | Apple: iMac with M1 starts at $1,299 for 8-core CPU/7-core GPU in four colors and $1,499 for 8-core GPU in seven colors with Touch ID keyboard, shipping late May |
| 1:33 PM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Apple updates iMac with M1, slimmer design with two small fans, seven colors, 1080p webcam, six speakers, beamforming three-mic array, and 24-inch 4.5K display |
| 1:30 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Discord Ends Deal Talks With Microsoft |
| 1:25 PM • | Dan Seifert / The Verge: Apple refreshes Apple TV 4K with A12 Bionic, high frame rate HDR video, revamped remote with new click pad and buttons, coming in May for $179 and $199 |
| 1:17 PM • | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple officially announces Apple Card Family for sharing with family members |
| 1:13 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Apple officially launches AirTag, an item tracker that works with Apple's Find My app, with one unit for $29 and four units for $99, launching April 30 |
| 1:13 PM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple announces a purple iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini, arriving on April 30 with pre-orders starting on Friday |
| 1:10 PM • | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple announces Podcasts Subscriptions for new premium and ad free content and a new Podcasts app design with channels, launching next month in 170 regions |
| 12:57 PM • | Apple: Livestream of Apple's “Spring Loaded” event |
| 12:53 PM • | The Verge: Spring Loaded live blog: Apple announces new iPad Pro models, iMac, AirTag, new TV 4K, new remote, Podcasts Subscriptions, purple iPhone 12 models, Card Family |
| 12:40 PM • | Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: DataRails, which offers financial planning and analysis tools that integrate with Excel, raises $18.5M Series A, bringing its total raised to $28.5M |
| 12:33 PM • | Benjamin Powers / CoinDesk: Aleo, a data privacy service for app developers that leverages a cryptographic technique known as zero-knowledge proofs, raises $28M led by a16z |
| 12:22 PM • | Michael McSweeney / The Block: Andreessen Horowitz leads $28 million round for zero-knowledge private applications platform |
| 12:10 PM • | Reuters: FireEye and networking company Pulse Secure say two China-linked hacking groups used a flaw in its VPN devices to target customers in the US defense industry |
| 12:00 PM • | Adam Janofsky / The Record: Biden launches a 100-day plan to boost electric utilities' cybersecurity; officials say more cyber initiatives for other key infrastructure sectors will follow |
| 11:30 AM • | Wall Street Journal: An in-depth look at the reasons behind the chip shortage, including a focus on higher-margin, cutting-edge chips, and stockpiling due to US-China trade tensions |
| 11:00 AM • | Janko Roettgers / Protocol: Q&A with Magic Leap CEO on its enterprise pivot and Magic Leap 2, 50% smaller and 20% lighter than its last AR headset, coming Q4 via an early adopter program |
| 10:40 AM • | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft is revamping its Store app on Windows 10 and will let devs submit unpackaged Win32 apps, use third-party commerce platforms in apps, and more |
| 10:30 AM • | Sohini Podder / Reuters: Classy, which builds fundraising software for non-profit institutions, raises $118M led by Norwest Venture Partners |
| 10:00 AM • | Linda Sui / Strategy Analytics: Strategy Analytics: global smartphone shipments rose to 340M units in Q1 2021, up 24% YoY, representing the highest growth since 2015 |
| 9:55 AM • | Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: Daily Mail owner files antitrust suit against Google alleging it punishes publishers in search if they don't sell enough ad space through Google's marketplace |
| 9:45 AM • | Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: Clearbanc, which provides capital to e-commerce companies for a share of their revenue, rebrands as Clearco, and raises $100M Series C at a $2B valuation |
| 9:35 AM • | Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: Internal Facebook emails, accidentally sent to a journalist, show its “long-term strategy” for data scraping incidents, framing it as a “broad industry issue” |
| 9:30 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Era Software, which created EraDB to help enterprises manage hyperscale, cloud-native workloads, raises $15.25M led by Playground Global |
| 9:25 AM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Cape Privacy, which helps companies share sensitive data in a secure and encrypted way, raises $20M Series A led by Evolution Equity Partners |
| 9:20 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Taiwan's leading DRAM maker Nanya Technology announces plans to build a $10B chip plant to alleviate global chip shortage and capture demand for 5G components |
| 9:10 AM • | Monica Chin / The Verge: Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 (15-inch) review: big performance gains, excellent battery life, and very light, but not many ports and no Thunderbolt support |
| 9:05 AM • | New York Times: Governments around the world are moving to limit the power of tech companies with an urgency and breadth that no single industry has experienced before |
| 9:00 AM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Mantl, which helps customers open accounts digitally at community banks and credit unions, raises $40M Series B led by CapitalG |
| 8:55 AM • | Ryan Browne / CNBC: Source: Facebook-backed Diem is aiming to launch a pilot with a single stablecoin pegged to the US dollar later this year |
| 8:45 AM • | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Octopus Deploy, which develops a deployment automation tool, raises $172.5M from Insight Partners |
| 8:40 AM • | Saqib Shah / Engadget: Amazon is opening a hair salon in London, where customers can try on virtual hair colors using an AR color bar and shop beauty products using QR codes |
| 8:20 AM • | Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: Dogecoin rose ~10% in the past 24 hours driven by the #DogeDay hashtag for 4/20; it jumped 400%+ in the past week and now has a market cap of $53B+ |
| 8:10 AM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Chargebee, which helps enterprises with billing, subscriptions, revenue operations, and compliance, raises $125M at a $1.4B valuation |
| 7:55 AM • | Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: Binance hires Brian Brooks as CEO, starting May 1; he was previously acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under the Trump administration |
| 7:50 AM • | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Nextdoor is introducing an anti-racism notification, which asks users to reconsider posting content if the app thinks it may be offensive |
| 7:40 AM • | Avaaz: Research: 56% of fact-checked COVID-19 misinformation content in major non-English European languages is not acted upon by Facebook |
| 7:35 AM • | John Seabrook / New Yorker: As NYC selects Bird, Lime, and Veo for its e-scooter pilot program, a look at why NYC is seen as an invaluable proving ground for the scooter-sharing concept |
| 7:20 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Venmo adds support for buying, holding, and selling four types of cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash |
| 6:30 AM • | Ed Caesar / New Yorker: An in-depth look at North Korea's extensive and expanding hacking operations, almost always focused on generating revenue for the closed-off country |
| 5:55 AM • | Kit Gillet / Sifted: Bucharest-based FintechOS, which helps digitize legacy banks and insurers, raises €51M Series B led by Draper Esprit |
| 4:35 AM • | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: European on-demand scooter service Dott raises $85M Series B in a mix of equity and debt financing, led by Belgium-based investment company Sofina |
| 2:50 AM • | Rachel Levin / Outside Online: As a disproportionate number of people who purchased homes in Tahoe in 2020 were tech employees from the Bay Area, locals worry about “Aspenification of Tahoe” |
| 1:45 AM • | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: PayPal to launch a local wallet in China focused on cross-border payments; PayPal is the first foreign firm with 100% ownership of a payments platform in China |
| 12:45 AM • | E.B. Solomont / The Real Deal New York: Boston-based HqO, which offers a SaaS platform to connect office buildings' tenant-facing tech and amenities, raises $60M Series C |
| 11:35 PM • | Liz Lee / Reuters: Microsoft to establish its first data center region in Malaysia as part of its Bersama Malaysia initiative, which aims to skill 1M Malaysians by the end of 2023 |
| 8:36 PM • | Joe Walsh / Forbes: Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe, whose account Twitter blocked last week, sues Twitter in NY accusing the company of “false and defamatory” statements |
| 8:20 PM • | Kat Tenbarge / Insider: YouTube says it has temporarily demonetized James Charles' channel, which has 25.5M+ subscribers, after 15+ sexual misconduct accusations from men and boys |
| 7:40 PM • | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Payhawk, a SaaS startup helping businesses issue corporate cards, manage invoices, and track payments, raises a $20M round led by QED Investors |
| 6:50 PM • | Sean Burch / The Wrap: Sensor Tower: Clubhouse was downloaded 2.7M times in March, a 72% decline from February's 9.5M+ |
| 5:30 PM • | Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: President Biden's decision to punish Russia for the SolarWinds hack broke with years of US foreign policy that tolerated cyber espionage |
| 5:20 PM • | Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: Fitbit unveils Luxe, a $150 fashion-focused fitness tracker coming this spring with a wide range of bands, up to 5 days of battery life, and an OLED touchscreen |
| 4:30 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: IBM reports Q1 revenue of $17.73B, up 1% YoY, vs. $17.35B est., after four quarters of declines; total cloud revenue was $6.5B, up 21% YoY, Red Hat was up 17% |
| 4:20 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Geico, the 2nd-largest US auto insurer, says hackers could steal customer driver's license numbers from its site from Jan. 21 through March 1; bug now patched |
| 3:10 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: Researchers find a malvertising operation nicknamed Tag Barnakle has breached 120+ ad servers in the past year, potentially pushing malicious ads to 100M+ users |
| 2:40 PM • | About Facebook: Facebook says it will start testing Live Audio Rooms in Groups and expects to roll out the feature to everyone on the Facebook app by the summer |
| 2:10 PM • | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Zuckerberg says Facebook is working with Spotify on a music integration project codenamed Project Boombox |
| 2:00 PM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Zuckerberg says Facebook is planning a short-form audio product called Soundbites, a podcast discovery tool, and more audio products for the next 3 to 6 months |
| 1:15 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Sony backtracks on removing PS3 and Vita digital stores, saying it was “the wrong decision”; PSP store will still shut down on July 2 |
| 12:25 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit shares a preview of Reddit Talk, a Clubhouse-like social audio feature for subreddits coming to iOS and Android; moderators can join a waitlist to try it |
| 11:50 AM • | Amy Lewin / Sifted: Alan, a health insurance company with 155K members using its “healthcare super app” in France, Belgium, Spain, raises €185M led by Coatue at a €1.4B valuation |
| 11:25 AM • | Katie Jennings / Forbes: Virta, a telehealth startup that helps people manage diabetes with frequent monitoring and dietary counseling, raises $133M Series E, valuing the startup at $2B |
| 11:00 AM • | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: Mastercard says it will buy digital identity verification company Ekata for $850M |
| 10:55 AM • | Paresh Dave / Reuters: Researchers say Google Translate and other tools could be contributing to misunderstandings of legal terms with conflicting meanings such as “enjoin” |
| 10:44 AM • | Brian Fung / CNN: In a letter to Congress, Apple says it has approved Parler's return to the App Store, following moderation improvements by Parler |
| 10:35 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft says xCloud game streaming service will launch on iOS and PC Tuesday as an invite-only beta via browsers, available to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers |
| 10:32 AM • | Adi Robertson / The Verge: Facebook details moderation steps around the trial of Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering George Floyd, including designating Minneapolis a “high-risk location” |
| 10:15 AM • | Reuters: How US banks are using AI to analyze customer preferences, monitor workers, identify people sleeping near ATMs, and more, despite civil liberties concerns |
| 9:50 AM • | Bloomberg: As antitrust scrutiny grows, Tencent founder Pony Ma pledges $7.7B for tackling societal ills and lifting China's countryside out of poverty |
| 9:35 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Druva, which provides SaaS tools for data protection and management, raises $147M at a $2B+ post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $475M |
| 9:30 AM • | Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero: Q&A with a former vendor manager at Amazon on what her job was like and how vendor managers moved into different roles after their jobs were automated by ML |
| 9:20 AM • | Jay Greene / Washington Post: Union that lost its bid to represent Amazon workers in AL files objections with NLRB, claiming the company improperly pressured workers to oppose unionization |
| 9:15 AM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Zoom announces a $100M investment fund, which will invest $250K to $2.5M each in promising startups that use Zoom's toolkits |
| 9:10 AM • | Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: How Apple supply chain is evolving, gradually reducing its dependence on China, and expanding in countries like Vietnam, India, and Malaysia |
| 8:55 AM • | Julia Fioretti / Bloomberg: Leaked terms: Meituan seeks to raise $10B via share placement, $400M from Tencent, about $3B from convertible bonds for R&D of autonomous vehicles, and more |
| 8:50 AM • | Reuters: UK says it will intervene in SoftBank's sale of ARM to Nvidia on national security grounds |
| 8:35 AM • | Nina Nanji / BBC: Facebook says employees can continue permanently working from home, even after July 2021, subject to approval from managers |
| 8:20 AM • | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Facebook expands a tool to let users export posts and notes to Blogger, Google Docs, and WordPress and calls for new guidelines on data flows between services |
| 8:00 AM • | Niclas Rolander / Bloomberg: Volvo will provide hundreds of SUVs with driverless tech for Didi Chuxing's fleet of robo-taxis and will integrate with Didi's self-driving hardware platform |
| 7:25 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK-based Zilch, a buy now pay later service, raises $80M Series B at a $500M+ valuation from Gauss Ventures, M&F Fund, and others |
| 7:05 AM • | Yogita Khatri / The Block: The Bank of England and the UK Treasury jointly create a taskforce to explore a potential central bank digital currency |
| 2:50 AM • | Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: Interview with Intel's VP of Xeon, Lisa Spelman, on the new features in its 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Scalable chips, its data center processor roadmap, and more |
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