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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils $799 Galaxy S21, $999 Galaxy S21 Plus, and $1,199 Galaxy S21 Ultra, available to preorder on January 14 and launching on January 29 — Samsung's latest flagships are here: the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21 Plus, and the Galaxy S21 Ultra. The first two — which start at $799 and $999 …
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Tweets: @backlon, @verge, @stshank, @dcseifert, @stshank, @backlon, @jake_k, and @tomwarren
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung announces, Galaxy SmartTag, a $29.99 Tile competitor that works only with Samsung Galaxy devices, available on January 29 — It uses Bluetooth Low Energy and will arrive on January 29th — Alongside the new Galaxy S21 phones and Galaxy Buds Pro, Samsung is announcing …
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| David Carnoy / CNET: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Buds Pro with a new design, active noise cancelation, an Ambient mode, and 360 Audio, available now for $200 — The latest earbuds from Samsung feature active noise canceling and a totally new design. … While most of the details of Samsung's …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
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| Rick Osterloh / The Keyword: |
Google completes Fitbit acquisition, vows to protect users' privacy, says “deal has always been about devices, not data” — Google has completed its acquisition of Fitbit. Together, we can make health and wellness more accessible to more people.
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Jack Dorsey says Trump ban was the right decision for Twitter but reflects a “failure” to promote healthy conversation and sets a dangerous precedent — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explained in a tweetstorm that the company faced an ‘extraordinary and untenable circumstance’
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Sandberg deflected blame for Capitol riot, but fliers and hashtags promoting the pro-Trump rally circulated on Facebook and Instagram weeks beforehand — Fliers and hashtags promoting the pro-Trump rally circulated on Facebook and Instagram in the days and weeks beforehand
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| New York Times: |
Review of public posts of dozens of Facebook users sharing extreme right-wing views shows how Facebook rewards their lies and helped incubate the insurrection — Right-wing influencers embraced extremist views and Facebook rewarded them. — Mr. Thompson is a writer and editor in Opinion.| Wall Street Journal: |
Internal docs: in hours ahead of Capitol riot, user reports of violent content on Facebook jumped 10x, and false news surged to ~40K reports/hour, 4x daily peak — Following surge in reports of violent content ahead of Capitol attack, executives took their most aggressive steps yet to rein in the president and his supporters
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| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Axios says it will launch AxiosHQ, which lets companies write internal memos styled like Axios newsletters, next month, starting at $10K a year — AxiosHQ communications platform to launch with Delta Air Lines and AT&T among early customers — Punchy news startup Axios is betting … | Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
In an interview, Parler CEO John Matze says he is not sure whether the social network will ever return after being cut off by service providers — (Reuters) - Social media platform Parler, which has gone dark after being cut off by major service providers that accused the app of failing …
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
A group of health and tech companies, including Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle, says it is developing a digital COVID-19 vaccination “passport” — - A digital Covid vaccination passport is being jointly developed by a group of health and technology companies who anticipate that governments …
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Business Wire, Financial Times, The Hill, TechCrunch, Business Insider, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @whatthebit
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
BMW announces Digital Key Plus, a keyless access system that uses the UWB chip in iPhones to let users unlock select BMW cars without taking out their phones — Using the ultra wideband chip that debuted in the iPhone 11 — BMW has announced an upgraded version of its mobile car key technology dubbed Digital Key Plus.
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BMW Group, BMW BLOG, Engadget, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, and iMore
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A leak of a near-final version of Windows 10X shows a strong similarity to Chrome OS, with the Start button centered on the taskbar, lack of Live Tiles, more — A new lightweight version of Windows to take on Chromebooks — After years of waiting, it looks like Microsoft now has a true answer to Chrome OS.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
New research details iOS and Android issues that may allow third parties and law enforcement to access user data and suggests mitigation techniques — New research has dug into the openings that iOS and Android security provide for anyone with the right tools.
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and securephones.io
Tweets: @z3r0trust, @wired, and @matthew_d_green
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Ring says it has fixed a security flaw in its Neighbors app that was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app — A security flaw in Ring's Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Cloud for Retail opens for preview, combining services and features from Microsoft Advertising, Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform — Microsoft's new retail cloud bundle is its second vertical cloud offering, following on the heels of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
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Microsoft Industry Blogs, WinBuzzer, Cloud Computing News, TechRadar, and SiliconANGLE
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| The Guardian: |
Audio and chat logs of walkie-talkie app Zello reveal some Capitol rioters communicated via the app; Zello says it has now deleted 2K+ militia-related channels — Audio and chat logs show insurrectionists communicated via the app, which has avoided proactive content moderation
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Zello Blog, Forbes, and New York Post
| David Jeans / Forbes: |
Sources: TPG invested $47M in HR software startup Greenhouse and spent around $450M buying shares from existing investors including Benchmark and Thrive Capital — Private equity giant TPG has closed on a $500 million investment into HR software startup Greenhouse, taking a majority stake … | Shaun Walker / The Guardian: |
After denouncing the deactivation of Donald Trump's social media accounts, Poland plans to make it illegal for tech companies to take similar actions there — Following Trump's Twitter ban, Polish government wants to protect posts that do not break nation's laws
Tweets: @monicalewinsky and @visegrad24
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Poshmark opens up more than 130% on its first day of trading, valuing the company at more than $3B, after raising $277M in its IPO — - Poshmark opened its first day of trading on the Nasdaq. — On Wednesday, Poshmark priced its IPO at $42 a share, giving it an initial valuation of more than $3 billion.| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Airbnb says it is canceling and blocking reservations made for the week of Biden's inauguration in the Washington, DC metro area — - Airbnb is canceling and blocking future reservations in the Washington, D.C., metro area during the week of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, the company said Wednesday.
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| Bloomberg: |
Customer service software provider LiveVox to go public through a merger with a SPAC in a transaction valued at $840M — - Software company is backed by private equity firm Golden Gate — LiveVox, Crescent transaction to be valued at $840 million — Customer-service software provider LiveVox … | Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Swedish startup Minna, developer of a subscription management app, raises €15.5M Series B round led by Element Ventures, bringing its total funding to €23M+ — Swedish startup Minna, creator of an eponymous subscription management app, has raised €15.5 million in a Series B round led … | Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
Experts say widespread adoption of RISC-V, which was partly developed with DARPA's backing, could help China reduce its dependence on Western chip technology — New approach to semiconductors, developed partly with the Pentagon's backing, could threaten Intel and Arm's dominance| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Harness, a continuous app delivery and integration platform for engineering and DevOps teams, raises $85M Series C led by Alkeon at a $1.7B valuation — Harness, the startup that wants to create a suite of engineering tools to give every company the kind of technological reach … | Mary Ann Azevedo / FinLedger: |
LendingPoint, which provides lending software tools for e-commerce, merchants, lending institutions, and other customers, raises $125M from Warburg Pincus — Online lender LendingPoint announced Thursday morning that it has received a $125 million preferred equity investment from private equity giant Warburg Pincus.| Reuters: |
PayPal has become the first foreign operator with 100% control of a payment platform in China, after buying the remaining 30% stake in GoPay on December 31 — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - PayPal Holding Inc has become the first foreign operator with 100% control of a payment platform in China … Sponsor Posts
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