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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's first VR headset, planned for 2022 with a focus on gaming, video, and communication but with limited AR features, faces development hurdles — Apple Inc.'s first crack at a headset is designed to be a pricey, niche precursor to a more ambitious augmented reality product …
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| Nick Clegg / About Facebook: |
Facebook is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend Trump's accounts to the Oversight Board and says the accounts will remain suspended in the meantime — Today, Facebook is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend former US President Donald Trump's access to his Facebook …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 Pico, a tiny microcontroller for hardware projects that uses Raspberry Pi's own RP2040 chip — Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico, a tiny little microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects with some code running on the microcontroller.
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| April Glaser / NBC News: |
Profile of Jessica Rosenworcel, the second woman to lead the FCC as acting chair and a big proponent of net neutrality and expanding broadband access — President Joe Biden has picked Jessica Rosenworcel to run the Federal Communications Commission in an interim position.
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| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
Biden designates Jessica Rosenworcel, currently a Democratic commissioner at the FCC, as acting chairwoman of the agency — President Biden has designated Jessica Rosenworcel as acting chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission, according to an agency statement.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Federal judge rejects Parler's demand to be reinstated on AWS — Ruling calls Parler's antitrust evidence ‘dwindlingly slight’ — A Washington judge has denied social network Parler's demand to be reinstated on Amazon Web Services. Following a hearing last week, Judge Barbara Rothstein declined …
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| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Instacart cuts 1,877 jobs, including its only union roles, as it shifts to new models, like selling its tech to retailers to have their staff prepare orders — Instacart Inc. plans to terminate about 1,900 employees' jobs, including the only unionized positions in the U.S., representing a fulsome embrace of the gig economy.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Google signs an agreement with French publishers to create a framework of payment for snippet reuse and has reached agreements with three major newspapers — Google has reached an agreement with an association of French publishers over how it will be pay for reuse of snippets of their content.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra review: beautiful screen with high refresh rate and a great camera system but let down by software with ads and subpar Bixby — Samsung's “Ultra” phones are meant to be the absolute pinnacle of the company's (non-folding) mobile technology.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Pebble founder launches Beeper, a $10/month universal chat app, promising to bring 15 chat service into a single UI, including iMessage on Android and Windows — Beeper brings 15 chat apps together into one interface — Beeper is a new universal chat app that's an attempt …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Bluesky, Twitter's decentralized social networking project, releases a review of the existing decentralized web ecosystem, says it still seeks a project lead — Bluesky is still seeking a project lead — Bluesky, Twitter's decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Hackers and hobbyists have deployed facial recognition on Parler videos taken at the Capitol on Jan. 6, showing the democratization of facial recognition tech — It demonstrates the democratization of facial recognition, but comes littered with ethical issues. — Joseph Cox
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
TripActions, a booking and management service with insights into business travel and expenses, raises $155M Series E co-led by a16z — TripActions, a booking and management platform that offers enterprises real-time data, automated reporting, and insights into business travel and expenses …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel beats with Q4 revenue of $20B, down 1% YoY, vs $17.49B est., and Data Center Group revenue of $6.1B, down 16% YoY; stock up 6%+ after hours — - Intel's earnings report on Thursday is the last with Bob Swan in the CEO role. — Former VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger takes over as Intel CEO in February.
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Intel. Tweets: @quinnypig, @markhachman, @markhachman, @markhachman, @markhachman, and @markhachman. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Podcasters say Anchor's sponsorship feature seems to be seriously lacking in sponsors, and they've received few, if any, ads beyond Anchor or Spotify itself — John Newman is the type of person companies like Spotify want to get involved in podcasting. He has a niche interest …
Tweets: @quinnypig, @thebyroncraig, @jake_k, @mattnavarra, and @ashleyrcarman
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Soci, which offers tools to help businesses with “localized marketing” across search and social media, raises $80M Series D, bringing its total raised to $110M — Soci, a startup focused on what it calls “localized marketing,” is announcing that it has raised $80 million in Series D funding.
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
A large number of laptop flagships in H1 2021 will ship with 16:10 or 3:2 displays, signalling an industry-wide shift toward laptops with taller aspect ratios — For lovers of tall screens, it's a great time to be alive — One of the biggest trends coming out of this year's CES …
Tweets: @raywongy, @stevesi, @stanhoraczek, and @dcseifert
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
IBM reports Q4 revenue of $20.37B, down 6% YoY, vs $20.67B est., Cloud and Cognitive Software revenue, which includes Red Hat, was $6.84B, down 5% YoY — - IBM's revenue fell more than analysts were expecting. — The company's revenue has now declined for four consecutive quarters.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Omnipresent, which helps companies hire remote workers in 150 countries, raises $15.8M Series A, five months after raising a $2M seed round — Omnipresent, which helps companies employ remote-working local teams worldwide, has closed a $15.8 million Series A funding round.| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Singapore-based iSTOX, a digital securities service that lets users make private equity investments as small as $75.50, raises $50M Series A — ISTOX, a digital securities platform that wants to make private equity investment more accessible, has added new investors from Japan to its Series A round, bringing its total to $50 million.
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| Bloomberg: |
Polish postal locker service InPost prices shares at €14 to €16, suggesting a valuation of €7B-€8B, as it seeks to raise as much as €3.2B in its Amsterdam IPO — - Company marketing shares at 14 euros to 16 euros apiece — Price range equals valuation of 7 billion to 8 billion euros
Tweets: @jareelskaj
| The Information: |
Sources: Patreon is considering an IPO as soon as this year and has recently passed $100M in annualized revenue — Patreon, the online service that allows podcasters, musicians and other artists to receive direct financial support from fans, is considering a public listing as soon as this year … Sponsor Posts
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