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Twitter acquires newsletter publishing company Revue; the five-year-old Dutch company has six employees and has raised ~$318K — Twitter on Tuesday said it has acquired Revue, a newsletter platform for writers and publishers. — Why it matters: The deal marks Twitter's first step …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Sources: Signal's rapid growth following WhatsApp privacy changes has raised concerns from Signal staff who worry the service's new features will be misused — SHARE All sharing options — On January 6th, WhatsApp users around the world began seeing a pop-up message notifying …
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| Adam Weidemann / The Keyword: |
Google Threat Analysis Group details a suspected North Korean specialized campaign targeting infosec researchers with fake profiles, blogs and backdoor software — Over the past several months, the Threat Analysis Group has identified an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers working …
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Twitter debuts Birdwatch, in testing since last year, which lets select users flag and add notes about tweets they think are misleading or false — Twitter unveiled a feature Monday meant to bolster its efforts to combat misinformation and disinformation by tapping users in a fashion similar …
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| Apple: |
Apple says John Ternus will now lead its Hardware Engineering org as a member of the executive team; Dan Riccio to move to a role focusing on a “new project” — John Ternus will join the executive team as senior vice president of Hardware Engineering
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook News launches in the UK, partners with Axel Springer and Samsung-owned Upday for curation, and announces partnerships and payments for some publishers — As the United Kingdom prepares to sharpen its focus on how it regulates big tech companies, Facebook is taking a big step …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
In letter to creators, CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube has paid more than $30B to creators, artists, and media organizations over the last three years — The company still has work to do with creator transparency — YouTube has paid out more than $30 billion to creators, artists … | Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Clash acquires Byte, another short-form video app, and announces plans to release them together as one product with monetization tools for creators — Now they want to help users make money. — Clash, a short-form video app that became available in August, announced today that it had purchased Byte … | The Information: |
Sources: ByteDance revenue more than doubled last year to $37B, of which $7B was operating profit, up from $4B in 2019, despite India's TikTok ban — You might have thought TikTok's owner ByteDance had a tough year in 2020, what with President Trump trying to ban TikTok and India actually taking that step.| New York Times: |
Norwegian Data Protection Authority fines Grindr ~$11.7M for disclosing user location data to advertisers and effectively tagging users as LGBTQ without consent — The Norwegian Data Protection Authority said on Monday that it would fine Grindr, the world's most popular gay dating app …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Run:AI, which helps businesses orchestrate and optimize their AI compute infrastructure, raises $30M Series B led by Insight Partners — Run:AI, a Tel Aviv-based company that helps businesses orchestrate and optimize their AI compute infrastructure, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B round.
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter unveils a new “standalone, flexible” open source text editor API for iOS developers, similar to what's used in tweet and Fleet composers on its iOS app — Twitter announced today a new “standalone, flexible” open source API for iOS developers that provides a text editor for apps …
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Tweets: @twitteross, @georgeelsham, @dhmspector, @mergesort, @thelball, and @wongmjane
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Fast, which lets logged-in users purchase items without going into a shopping cart, raises $102M Series B led by Stripe and Addition Capital — - San Francisco-based Fast announced its $102 million funding round on Tuesday, just a few months after launching its first checkout product.| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Google says it will not make any donations via its PAC this cycle to members of Congress who voted against certifying results of presidential election — Google will not make contributions from its political action committee this cycle to any member of Congress who voted against certifying …
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Amazon launches a feature for allowing Alexa to proactively complete smart home tasks, an energy dashboard, and a $4.99/month ADT-like service, Alexa Guard Plus — New updates bring proactive hunches and Guard Plus to the smart assistant — Amazon is enabling a new feature today …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
W3C, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and others launch Open Web Docs, a new project for Web API documentation that will support MDN Docs following Mozilla's layoffs — Founding members include the W3C, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Samsung Coil, and Igalia — A coalition of tech companies announced today …
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Open Collective, Mozilla Hacks, WinBuzzer, W3C Blog, and TechRadar
Tweets: @m_ott, @mozdevnet, @awesomekling, @tedmielczarek, @msedgedev, and @campuscodi
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
TikTok has fixed a vulnerability that would have allowed hackers to access users' private information, including phone numbers, avatar pictures, and user IDs — ByteDance, the tech firm behind TikTok, has fixed a security vulnerability in the video-sharing social networking service … | Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
As farmers protested reforms in India, on Twitter, supporters of Modi encouraged police brutality against them, with “Shoot” trending for hours — Thousands of tweets encouraging police brutality against farmers protesting controversial agricultural reforms in India … Thanks:@pranavdixit
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram adds a new “professional dashboard” for creator and business accounts, a dedicated space for analytics, business tools, monetization features, more — Instagram is working on a new feature for business owners and influencers. The app is adding a new “professional dashboard” …
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