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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
GoDaddy confirms some of its staff fell for a social engineering scam, after hackers changed the email and DNS records for a number of crypto trading platforms — Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week.
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Engadget, Gizmodo, and Slashdot
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| Drew Armstrong / Bloomberg: |
A look at Covid Tracking Project, a website run mostly by volunteers, which has become one of the most trusted sources on the spread of COVID-19 in the US — At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs. Her mother had died about a year earlier, and she'd taken time off to help settle her affairs.| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Inside YouTube Music's plans to compete with Spotify and others by putting the entire music business, including livestreams and tickets, onto a single platform — For the last eight months, musicians and bands haven't been able to tour, play festivals or go much of anywhere.| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
A look at the growing world of virtual HQs on services like Branch, Gather, and Huddle, which are using spatial tech to create a metaverse dedicated to work — ‘The future of transportation is no transportation’ — In retrospect, 2019 feels like the working world's last dance with spontaneity.
Tweets: @nmasc_, @azeem, @rossdawson, @drorpoleg, @zck, and @joshelman
| Max Kim / Rest of World: |
Critics of Coupang, South Korea's online retail giant, describe the COVID-19 outbreak at a warehouse as an inevitable outcome of putting efficiency over safety — South Korea's Coupang promised to make e-commerce lightning fast. A Covid-19 outbreak at one of its warehouses shows that its workers paid the price.
Tweets: @sidhubaba, @longreads, @restofworld, @restofworld, @deepnews_ai, @anupkaphle, @maxsoeunkim, @restofworld, @lmatsakis, @anupkaphle, and @peterguest
| Forbes: |
Profile of Vishal Garg, CEO of Better.com, who is fighting lawsuits that accuse him of fraud and misappropriation of funds at previous business ventures — The $4 billion fintech startup is hurtling towards an IPO. But its volatile leader is fighting multiple lawsuits that could complicate his ambitions.
Tweets: @forbes, @forbes, @edzitron, @noah_kirsch, @forbes, @kenwattana, @kerrydolan, @zoeschiffer, and @alexrkonrad
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
A year in, Stadia's free-to-play and added phone support are great, but it needs a successful Cyberpunk 2077 launch to be seen as a true console alternative — Firing up a big-budget modern video game inside a Chrome browser window for the first time feels like you're tapping into some arcane magic … | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Fourteen states and DC released their contact tracing apps so far, with CA and others to follow, but adoption has been uneven due to politicization of COVID-19 — Exposure notification technology, now available to more Americans, shows promise — Covid-19 contact-tracing apps from Apple Inc … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Canvas, which develops machine learning-powered robots for installing drywall at construction sites, emerges from stealth with $19M in funding — Canvas, a company that uses machine learning to install drywall at construction sites, emerged from stealth today.
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San Francisco Business Journal and Wired
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
A look at Google Pay redesign as an all-encompassing money app with P2P payments, personal finance insights, deals, and banking services, rolling out in the US — Today, Google Pay for both Android and iOS is relaunching with a giant array of new features.
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9to5Google, VentureBeat, Fintech Today, iLounge, FinLedger, and NFCW
Tweets: @gavinsbaker, @epro, and @brianmcc
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
LA-based Credit Key, which offers a B2B buy-now, pay-later service for e-commerce merchants, raises $33.85M Series A from Greycroft, Bonfire Ventures, others — Bringing the buy-now pay-later model that transformed companies like Klarna and Affirm into billion dollar businesses …
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| FinSMEs: |
CAIS, an alternative investment service that also offers an AI-powered training system for independent financial advisors, raises $50M Series B from Eldridge — Cais, a NYC-based alternative investment platform, raised $50M in Series B equity funding. — Eldridge made the investment …
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