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Google says it will shut down App Maker, G Suite's low-code environment for building custom business apps, on January 19, 2021 — Google today announced it is killing off yet another service: App Maker, G Suite's low-code environment for building custom business apps.| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Documents reveal that Avast has sold its users' internet browsing data, through a subsidiary called Jumpshot, to clients like Pepsi, Google, and Microsoft — An antivirus program used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is selling highly sensitive web browsing data …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Bird adds $75M to its Series D, bringing the total raised in the round to $350M, acquires European scooter-sharing startup Circ that was previously called Flash — The micromobility market consolidated a bit today in what might be a harbinger of contraction.
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| Tara Duggan / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Grubhub admits to adding restaurants without their permission, after restaurateur found her Thai restaurant had a page on Grubhub and its subsidiary Seamless — Pim Techamuanvivit was managing her Michelin-starred Thai restaurant in San Francisco, Kin Khao, around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday when she got an unexpected call.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
FCC unlocks 3.5GHz band of spectrum used by Citizens Broadband Radio Service, enhancing connectivity via “OnGo” services in the latest iOS and Android phones — Following six years of private and public collaboration to open up some of the United States' most valuable wireless spectrum …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
SuperAwesome, which offers tools for kid-safe advertising, parental controls, and more, raises $17M from Microsoft's M12, says it had $55M in revenue in 2019 — Kidtech startup SuperAwesome has raised an additional $17 million in funding, which includes a new strategic investment from Microsoft's venture fund, M12.
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| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Consumer IoT is in trouble because normal people can't be expected to manage a house full of smart things or keep track of their bugs and looming obsolescence — The everything-computerized-and-always- connected smarthome is a work in progress. This slow pace is a good thing because it gives us …
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| Financial Times: |
As France announces new rules that make it easier for startups to grant stock options to employees, a look at stock option taxation in other European countries — Emmanuel Macron likes to style himself as a different kind of politician. Fittingly for a former banker … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Gravyty, a Massachusetts-based fundraising platform that uses AI to analyze donor behavior in order to help nonprofits reach fundraising goals, raises $21M — Nonprofit organizations send an average of 3 email newsletters and 2 donation appeals monthly, and for every 1,000 emails sent to subscribers, they raise an average of only $42.
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| Gary Marcus / The Gradient: |
A critical look at OpenAI's GPT-2 text generation AI and why the knowledge acquired by systems like the GPT-2 has been superficial and unreliable — OpenAI's GPT-2 has been discussed everywhere from The New Yorker to The Economist. What does it really tell us about natural and artificial intelligence?
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
US mobile app subscription revenue jumped 21% in 2019 to $4.6B across the top 100 subscription apps in the Google Play and App Store — Outside of in-app purchases in mobile games, subscription revenue from non-game apps helped to boost 2019's mobile consumer spend — a figure …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Mural, a visual collaboration platform for enterprises, raises $23M Series A led by Radian Capital, with Gradient Ventures and Endeavor Catalyst participating — This morning Mural, a software startup focused on visual collaboration1, announced that it closed a $23 million Series A round of capital.
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| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
The protest of Amazon's business practices by 340+ staff openly challenges Amazon after two employees say they were threatened with firing over climate activism — Amazon employees are responding to threats of termination for their climate advocacy by intentionally violating the company's corporate communications policy.
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