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A look at Parler, a social network with little moderation, which is backed by Robert and Rebekah Mercer and saw its user base double to 10M in under a week — The libertarian-minded platform aims to challenge tech giants through a focus on free speech; surge in users since the election
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Qualcomm has received a US license to sell some 4G smartphone chips to Huawei — (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc on Friday received a license from the U.S. government to sell 4G mobile phone chips to China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, an exemption to U.S. trade restrictions imposed amid rising tensions with China.
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| Max Weinbach / Android Police: |
Sources leak specs for Samsung Galaxy S21 series: the S21 Ultra will have a 108MP main camera sensor, and 3x optical and 10x “super” optical telephoto sensors — The Galaxy S21 launch is just a few months out, which means it's a great time for leaks.
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| Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire: |
Profile of Tom Alberg, an early investor in Amazon, the founder of Madrona Venture Group, and a key figure in shaping the Pacific Northwest's tech economy — It was the mid 1990s, and Tom Alberg had a decision to make. — Jeff Bezos had arrived in Seattle and was looking for investors for his nascent virtual bookstore.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it detected three APTs, from N. Korea and Russia, that launched attacks on at least seven companies developing a COVID-19 vaccine or treatments — The three state-sponsored hacker groups (APTs) are Russia's Strontium (Fancy Bear) and North Korea's Zinc (Lazarus Group) and Cerium.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
US regulators have levied $198M in fines against crypto firms to date, of which $175M came from SEC and $23M from CFTC — The top two U.S. market regulators — the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) — have hit crypto firms and founders … | Brandon Russell / XDA Developers: |
Amazon announces the GameOn app for Android, which lets mobile gamers record and share gameplay clips — Amazon has unveiled another gaming service, this time aimed at mobile users. Dubbed Amazon GameOn, the service makes it easy for users to capture and share mobile gameplay.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DoorDash files for IPO, says it had revenue of $1.9B and loss of $149M in the first nine months of 2020, vs. revenue of $587M and loss of $533M a year ago — - DoorDash, the leading food delivery app in the U.S., filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.
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Many Mac users experienced app slowdowns during the launch of Big Sur, possibly due to issues with Apple's OCSP service being unable to validate certificates — Even Macs that didn't upgrade to Big Sur had problems. — Mac users today began experiencing unexpected issues …
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| Rich Karlgaard / Forbes: |
Q&A with AI expert Kai-Fu Lee on China catching up to the US in AI, his investment philosophy, ethics in AI, China's natural advantages, and more — Any credible list of influential books about tech from the last decade would include AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee.
Tweets: @richardturrin, @hkanji, and @raam_beart
| Conor Hale / FierceBiotech: |
Digital stethoscope maker Eko raises $65M Series C to expand its remote disease screening programs, led by Highland Capital Partners and Questa Capital — As the use of telehealth continues to surge—promising a way to deliver distanced care in spite of the coronavirus … | Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Unity posted a net loss of $144.7M, up 218% YoY, on revenue of $200.8M, up 53.3% YoY, in its first earnings report since the company went public in September — - Video game software developer Unity Software's stock fell more than 6% in after-hours trading on Thursday as the company posted …
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| Chibuike Oguh / Reuters: |
Pharmapacks, an e-commerce company focused on health, personal care, and beauty products, raises $250M from Carlyle Group at a valuation of ~$1.1B — (Reuters) - Private equity firm Carlyle Group Inc said on Thursday it had invested more than $250 million in Pharmapacks …
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