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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Visa is buying Plaid, which helps popular fintech apps connect to users' bank accounts, for $5.3B — - Visa is buying Plaid in a deal worth $5.3 billion — roughly double the start-up's last private valuation. — Plaid's API software lets start-ups connect to users' bank accounts and works with Venmo …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Justin Kan's legal tech startup Atrium, which has raised $75M, is laying off most of its lawyers and will now focus on tech it made for attorneys and law firms — Atrium, a law firm for startups led by Twitch co-founder Justin Kan, is laying off most of its attorneys and paralegals.
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| Max Weinbach / XDA Developers: |
Leaked photos confirm the name Galaxy S20 for the next Samsung flagship and a large four-camera setup on the back — The next major smartphone launch event for Samsung, Samsung Unpacked 2020 is just a few weeks away. On February 11th, Samsung is expected to unveil the Galaxy S20 trio …
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| Helen Warrell / Financial Times: |
Ahead of Boris Johnson's expected decision on Huawei equipment in the UK, the US showed his government a dossier with allegedly damning info on the company — Senior US officials have presented Boris Johnson's government with a new dossier of intelligence challenging the UK's claim …
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The Guardian, The Guardian, International Business Times, Quartz, Forbes, Light Reading, Telecoms.com, and Business Insider
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: TikTok is considering a Snapchat Discover-style curated feed, which could allow it to charge more for ads by giving brands a safe space — Viral video app TikTok is considering the introduction of a curated feed of content that will provide a safe space for brands to advertise … | Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Q&A with Twitter's head of product Kayvon Beykpour about how Twitter is trying to stop incentivizing toxic behavior, giving users a “troll score”, more — Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter's head of product, admits the platform can still incentivize toxic behavior.
Tweets: @jason_pontin, @tobiaschneider, @ppmerino, @dsheehy100, @nxthompson, @jenlucpiquant, @carnage4life, and @mattnavarra
| New York Times: |
Security experts say Russia's GRU phished login credentials, accessed servers for Burisma, a gas company on whose board Hunter Biden served, starting Nov. 2019 — With President Trump facing an impeachment trial over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr …
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| Reuters: |
India's competition commission orders antitrust probe against Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart citing exclusive arrangements with mobile phone brands — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's antitrust body has ordered an investigation into alleged competition law violations by Amazon.com Inc … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers: AT&T, T-Mobile, Tracfone, US Mobile, and Verizon use vulnerable procedures for customer support that put users at risk of SIM swapping attacks — Researchers find that 17 of 140 major online services are vulnerable to SIM swapping attacks.| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
London-based higher ed startup Jolt raises $14.1M Series A to expand its modular, self-designed, pay-as-you-go curriculum across the UK, Israel, and the US — Jolt, the London-based edtech offering a flexible business school alternative, has raised a $14.1 million Series A to expand its program.
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TechCrunch, EU-Startups, Financial Times, Sifted, NoCamels, and PYMNTS.com
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report from Intrusion Truth, a group of anonymous analysts known for doxxing APTs, claims it has found 13 front companies that China is using to recruit hackers — A group of anonymous security analysts have tracked down 13 front companies operating in the island of Hainan through …
Tweets: @campuscodi
| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
HP Spectre x360 13 (2019) review: an excellent high-end laptop with nice port selection, good performance, and great battery life, but its trackpad is narrow — There wasn't a lot to fix, so HP added a few features to make this convertible even better. — There was a lot to love …
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