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Electric autonomous vehicle startup Cruise raises $2B at a $30B valuation from Microsoft, GM, Honda, and others — Cruise has raised $2 billion in a new equity round that has pushed its valuation up to $30 billion and delivered Microsoft as an investor and partner.
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Data from Facebook users: 12 political groups were in the top 100 recommended in Jan.; FB said it would not recommend “political content or social issue groups” — According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political grouprecommendations
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FireEye releases a free tool that audits networks to determine whether certain techniques, known to be employed by SolarWinds hackers, were used — New Azure AD Investigator is now available via GitHub. — Cybersecurity firm FireEye has released today a report detailing the techniques used …
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Intel is in more danger than its profits suggest and should spin off its manufacturing business unless the US can subsidize it, ideally with purchase guarantees — One of the first Articles on Stratechery, written on the occasion of Intel appointing a new CEO, was, in retrospect, overly optimistic.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Brave becomes the first major browser to natively support IPFS protocol, useful for accessing censored content; Wikipedia and other sites offer IPFS versions — Brave users will now be able to seamlessly access ipfs:// links. — With the release of Brave 1.19 today … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India asks WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy over “grave concerns” and questions why users in the EU are exempt from it — India has asked WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy, posing a new headache to Facebook-owned service …
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Citrix acquires SaaS collaborative work management service Wrike for $2.25B in cash — Citrix has confirmed reports from earlier this week that it is buying enterprise-focused work management platform Wrike, in an all-cash deal worth $2.25 billion. — Founded in 2006, San Jose-based Wrike …
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WeChat says it facilitated ~$250B in annual transactions through its third-party “mini programs”, double the value of transactions in 2019 — WeChat continues to advance its shopping ambitions as the social networking app turns 10 years old. The Chinese messenger facilitated …
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Netflix reports Q4 revenue of $6.64B vs. $6.63B est., up 21.5% YoY, global streaming paid memberships 203.7M, up 8.5M vs. 6.5M est.; stock up 10%+ after hours — Netflix reported earnings for the fourth quarter of 2020 after the bell on Tuesday, announcing it is “very close” … | Douglas Soltys / BetaKit: |
Bold Commerce, which offers tools for e-commerce including checkout, subscriptions, and more, raises $27M Series B led by OMERS Ventures — Once known only as Shopify's largest app developer, Winnipeg-based Bold Commerce is hoping a $35 million CAD ($27 million USD) Series B round will help … | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers detail seven flaws in Dnsmasq, a popular open-source DNS forwarding and management suite; 1M+ networking devices are exposed online, patch available — Israel-based security consultancy firm JSOF disclosed today seven Dnsmasq vulnerabilities, collectively known as DNSpooq … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 870 with a similar design to the 865 and 865 Plus, clocked at 3.2GHz, making it about 10% faster than the 865 — A slightly faster refresh of last year's Snapdragon flagship — Qualcomm has announced a new mobile phone processor: the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 …
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Turkey bans ads on Twitter and Pinterest for not appointing local representatives as mandated by social media law, says their bandwidth will be cut 50% in April — ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Ankara has imposed advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest after they failed …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Quali, which offers tools to automate cloud management and deployment, raises $54M co-led by Greenfield Partners and JVP, bringing its total raised to ~$100M — Quali, a company developing sandbox software for cloud and DevOps automation, today announced it has raised $54 million.
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Content discovery platform Taboola rolls out Stories in beta, letting publishers add the format directly to their websites or mobile articles — Content can be added directly to publishers' websites or mobile articles — Content discovery platform Taboola became the latest platform …
Tweets: @kerrymflynn and @adamsingolda
| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Research: GDPR fines have risen ~40% to €159M in the past year vs. the first 20 months the law was in force; €272M has been levied since its introduction — Data protection penalties climbed 40% in the past year, according to research — Fines imposed under the General Data … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Forbes will launch a newsletter service, initially hiring 20-30 journalists to start paid newsletters, splitting revenue 50/50 and giving salaries and benefits — Forbes is launching a newsletter platform that will allow journalists to launch their own paid newsletters and split the revenue … Sponsor Posts
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Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
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