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Some GoDaddy employees are upset after the company sent a phishing email scam to test its employees, with the email promising a $650 one-time holiday bonus — GoDaddy surpassed 20 million customers this year and laid off or reassigned hundreds of employees during the coronavirus pandemic in Arizona, Iowa, and Texas.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Bloomberg has acquired Second Measure, a data analytics firm offering consumer behavior and company performance insights; Second Measure previously raised ~$25M — Bloomberg today announced that it has acquired data analytics platform Second Measure, a San Mateo-based startup that leverages big data … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Citrix confirmed ADC networking equipment is being actively exploited to amplify DDoS attacks against a “small number of customers”; patch expected mid-January — Citrix says it's working on a fix, expected next year. — Threat actors have discovered a way to bounce … | Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
As streaming platforms like Netflix have grown, political films they used to seek out, like The Dissident, on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, are being shunned — Bryan Fogel's examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
In unsealed court docs, Facebook managers appeared to admit to major flaws in ad targeting capabilities in 2016 and wondered if they were misleading advertisers — Facebook is currently waging a PR campaign purporting to show that Apple is seriously injuring American small businesses through its iOS privacy features.
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| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
CD Projekt sued in CA federal court by investor seeking class action status, claiming the company made “false and/or misleading” statements about Cyberpunk 2077 — A New York-based law firm filed the lawsuit on Thursday — After a rocky Cyberpunk 2077 launch earlier in December …
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| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
An interview with Keith Rabois, who has championed Miami as a tech destination after moving there, and whose investment portfolio has seen major exits this year — Keith Rabois just moved to South Florida. Now he wants Silicon Valley to join him. — 15 hr ago — Keith Rabois is ubiquitous these days.
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| Dipayan Ghosh / Wired: |
Facebook's claims that SMBs will suffer from iOS's privacy changes seem exaggerated when examining the technical changes Facebook announced in response — The social media giant would have you believe that Apple's privacy update will hurt the little guys. But Facebook's motives aren't so altruistic.
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| Andy Maxwell / TorrentFreak: |
Leaked docs show Nintendo carried out a surveillance operation, with a “carrot and stick” approach, on a hacker who was researching exploits for 3DS — Leaked Nintendo documents have revealed a frightening surveillance operation carried out against a hacker who was researching exploits for the 3DS handheld.
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| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
UK cosmetic surgery chain The Hospital Group confirms a ransomware attack after hacker group REvil claims it has obtained more than 900GB of patient photographs — Hackers have stolen the data of a large cosmetic surgery chain and are threatening to publish patients' before and after photos, among other details.| Financial Times: |
China's market regulator announces an antitrust investigation into Alibaba for alleged monopolistic practices, the first investigation of its kind in China — Probe into China's biggest tech group is one of the first of its kind for country's internet sector
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| Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: |
Uniontech Software, a Chinese startup that makes Linux-based operating systems, raises $168.2M Series A led by state-owned investment firm Beijing E-Town — Chinese operating system (OS) startup Uniontech Software Technology has garnered 1.1 billion yuan ($168.2 million) … | Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia: |
Tencent-backed Meishubao Education, a Chinese startup providing online art classes to users aged 3 to 18, has raised $210M Series D led by TPG's The Rise Fund — Meishubao Education, a Tencent-backed Chinese online art education platform, announced on Thursday the completion of a Series D round … Sponsor Posts
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