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Apple announces Best of 2020 apps and most downloaded apps: home workout app Wakeout! won App of the Year for iPhone, Zoom for iPad, Disney+ for Apple TV — Apple today released its highly anticipated annual list of the best apps and games of 2020. As in previous years …
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Apple, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, App Store, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Variety, and CNET
Tweets: @tim_cook, @willsmith, @joshmobleymusic, and @endelsound
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Researcher details a now patched zero-click iOS device exploit using Apple's AWDL protocol which would grant attackers access to device hardware and data — A Google Project Zero researcher found a stunning vulnerability — Ever watch that movie, or play that video game …
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Ars Technica, Project Zero, BBC, Forbes, HotHardware.com News, TechRadar, CNET, Input, iDownloadBlog.com, VICE, Naked Security, AppleInsider, Threatpost, SecurityWeek, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, Mashable, CyberScoop, The Hacker News, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @kennwhite, @rgb_lights, @chey_cobb, @reflectingman, @rayredacted, @jvagle, @zehavoc, and @bmcclendon
| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Visa says it's connecting its global network of 60M merchants to the US Dollar Coin, a stable coin created by Circle Internet Financial on ethereum's blockchain — Credit card giant Visa today announced it is connecting its global payments network of 60 million merchants to the U.S. Dollar Coin …
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SlashGear, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, CoinDesk, Cryptonews, CryptoGlobe, The Block, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @simplyianm, @rhhackett, @andrewdarmacap, @spencernoon, @arpit, and @forbescrypto
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon is in exclusive talks to buy Wondery, in a deal valuing the podcast network at $300M+; Wondery's on track to increase revenue to $40M+ this year — Venture-backed podcast company is in talks to be sold with a valuation of more than $300 million
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Tweets: @benmullin, @wsj, and @asharma
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Trump threatened in a tweet on Tuesday to veto the annual defense bill, which authorizes nearly $1T in military spending, unless Congress repeals Section 230 — President Trump on Tuesday threatened to veto an annual defense bill authorizing nearly $1 trillion in military spending unless Congress opens …
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Ars Technica, Business Insider, Axios, Wall Street Journal, Politico, International Business Times, The Verge, Financial Times, NPR, Telecoms.com, and Agence France-Presse
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Telegram tests letting iOS users listen and reply to new messages via Siri, seemingly the first 3rd-party dev to support the Siri API announced over a year ago — The latest beta of messaging app Telegram supports Apple's Announce Messages with Siri feature on AirPods …
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| Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to release two new MacBook Pros with an all-new design in 2021 and a more affordable MacBook Air in 2022, all with mini LED panels — Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that as part of Apple's mini LED push, the company will release a pair of new MacBook Pro models …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google says News Showcase will soon add free access to select paywalled articles, and it has doubled publisher partners to ~400 since its launch in October — Google News Showcase visitors will soon be able to read select paywalled articles at no extra charge.
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, and XDA Developers
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
TikTok appears to be experimenting with allowing three-minute videos, up from its current 60-second limit — The beauty of TikToks is that they're (usually) never long enough to overstay their welcome, but a new report suggests the company behind the app is mulling a big change.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify says Anchor powered 80% of its new podcasts, or 1M+ shows, in 2020; overall, Anchor powers 70% of Spotify's total podcast catalog of over 1.9M shows — Anchor powered more than 1 million show launches in 2020 — Spotify's $100 million-plus Anchor acquisition is seemingly paying off.
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Tweets: @backlon, @alexwolfco, @mattnavarra, @ashleyrcarman, and @spotifynews
| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
NLRB says in a complaint that Google violated US labor laws by spying on workers who organized staff protests before firing two of them in late 2019 — Company policies violated labor law, according to the complaint — Google violated US labor laws by spying on workers … | Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
DHS's IG says it's probing the department's practice of tracking Americans via the purchase of brokered cellphone data, after a letter from Democratic senators — Inspector general to investigate legality of tracking Americans without a warrant — WASHINGTON—The Department … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Step, a mobile banking service aimed at teens, raises a $50M Series B led by Coatue after growing to 500,000+ users only two months after its official launch — Step, a mobile banking service aimed at teens, announced this morning it has raised $50 million in Series B funding after growing …
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FinSMEs, Forbes, PYMNTS.com, VentureBeat, dexerto.com, Crowdfund Insider, Finextra, and Tech News. Tweets: @kateclarktweets
| Michelle Gao / CNBC: |
Discovery to launch its streaming service, Discovery+, in Jan. 2021, with a $4.99 per month ad-supported tier and a $6.99 per month ad-free tier — - Discovery will launch its streaming service, Discovery+, in Jan. 2021. — The service will include a $4.99 per month ad-supported tier and a $6.99 per month ad-free tier.
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Gizmodo, Android Police, TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, The Streamable, Droid Life, and Cord Cutters News
Tweets: @scottporch, @dan_gusz, and @brianfagioli
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Apple's MagSafe Duo charger is now available to order online for $129, charging brick not included — Don't forget the power brick — Apple's MagSafe Duo charger is now on sale online, after initially having been announced without a release date as part of this year's iPhone launch.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, TechSpot, MakeUseOf, Macworld, Laptop Mag, phonearena.com, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, iMore, and PhoneDog
Tweets: @markgurman, @whatthebit, and @reneritchie
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube upgrades Premieres, which gives scheduled videos a landing page, with trailers, themes, and live stream pre-shows that later redirect to the main event — YouTube today is launching three new features designed to improve its “Premieres” experience, including trailers, themes …
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The Verge, 9to5Google, and Tubefilter
| David Bloom / Forbes: |
GreenPark Sports, a mobile game and sports fan “world” from Chad Hurley and Zappos founder Nick Swinmurn, raises $14M Series A and announces NBA partnership — GreenPark Sports, a novel combination of sports fan experience and mobile game whose founders include former YouTube and Zappos CEOs …
Tweets: @chad_hurley
| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
AWS quietly makes a multicloud push with new versions of AWS' managed containers services, ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere, that can work on Azure or Google Cloud — It was easy to miss a line on two slides presented during AWS CEO Andy Jassy's Tuesday morning keynote at re:Invent 2020.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Varjo unveils new VR/XR headsets promising 115° field of view; VR-3 costs $3,195 with $795/year subscription and XR-3 costs $5,495 with $1,495/year subscription — The VR-3 and XR-3 will ship in early 2021 — Virtual reality company Varjo, known for its unusual dual-resolution displays …
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VentureBeat, Gizmodo, and VRScout
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Hulu's Watch Party feature is now expanding to all subscribers, allows up to seven other subscribers to join, and will have a “click to catch up button” — Hulu was first among the big streamers to embrace the co-watch trend during quarantine — Hulu was first among …
Tweets: @hulu_support
| Manuel Vonau / Android Police: |
Google begins rolling out the ability to schedule sending messages in its Google Messages app — You can already schedule messages in Gmail and Telegram (among others), and now Google's Messages app is joining the club. The functionality showed up for a few people as part of an a/b test …
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Android Headlines and AndroidGuys
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Insight Partners says it has acquired a majority stake in CommerceHub, which connects retailers like Walmart to suppliers, in a deal valuing it at $1.9B — - Investment values e-commerce provider at $1.9 billion — GTCR and Sycamore Partners retain minority ownership| PYMNTS.com: |
Stripe extends its business lending service Stripe Capital to online platforms, offering an “end-to-end lending API” to provide customers with financing options — Payments giant Stripe is taking Stripe Capital, its push into online business finance and lending, to the next level.
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Financial Times. Tweets: @patrickc, @stripe, @itsjoeco, @avibryant, @jess, @stripe, @ay_o, @patio11, @jeremiahdillon, @rohitdotmittal, and @alexh_johnson
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Slack reports Q3 revenue of $234.5M, up 39% YoY, added 12K net new paid customers, up 140% YoY, has over 520K connected endpoints on Slack Connect, up 240% YoY — The acquisition sets up a showdown with Microsoft and its Teams platform over the future of collaboration and digital work.
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Tweets: @euanrellie and @shiraovide
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Tweets: @stewart, @slackhq, @stewart, @levie, @stewart, @salesforce, @stewart, @slackhq, @dhh, @dhh, @jerrychen, @danpriceseattle, @jerrychen, @tenderlove, @duncansmithnba, @wolfiechristl, @seldo, @nyse, @mattyglesias, @stewart, @spencerrascoff, @benioff, @alexrkonrad, @morningbrew, @marshallk, @mikebutcher, @levie, @markberman, @joedmarti, @digiphile, @backlon, @loudmouthjulia, @matthewstoller, @eringriffith, @profcarroll, @chrismessina, @stilgherrian, @stocktwits, @patrickmoorhead, @jbillinson, @lubchansky, @metaltxt, @axios, @amyxzh, @caseynewton, @mgsiegler, @om, @chriskeall, @tomwarren, @danprimack, @bdsams, and @caseynewton
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