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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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Twitter announces it is opening up its full tweet archive to academic researchers for free and ups the monthly tweet volume cap for approved applicants to 10M — To help researchers better study online discourse and platform trends — Twitter on Tuesday announced a significant shift …
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Microsoft reports Q2 net income of $15.5B, up 33% YoY, Intelligent Cloud revenue of $14.6B, up 23% YoY, More Personal Computing revenue of $15.1B, up 14% YoY — Microsoft Cloud Strength Drives Second Quarter Results REDMOND, Wash. — January 26, 2021 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
AMD reports Q4 revenue of $3.24B, up 53% YoY, with its Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom segment revenue up 176% YoY to $1.28B — AMD's first-quarter revenue forecast of $3.1 billion to $3.3 billion is as much as six hundred million higher than analysts' expectations.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Calendly, a popular meeting scheduling service, raises $350M from OpenView Venture Partners and Iconiq at a $3B+ valuation — We're all meeting virtually, and Calendly has raised $350M to help us plan and track it all — One big theme in tech right now is the rise of services …
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Firefox 85 launches with network partitioning, a new feature to block supercookies by partitioning Firefox's browser cache on a per-website basis — Firefox now joins Chrome and Edge, both of which removed support for Flash earlier this month. — Mozilla has released today Firefox 85 …
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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 …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Google announces it is shutting down internal development of Tilt Brush VR and is open sourcing it, a month after shutting down Poly, a 3D object library — As Facebook and Apple begin to fire up more projects in the AR/VR world, Google has spent the last year shutting down most of their existing projects in that space.
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| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
A look at content moderation on Clubhouse, where discussions have included homophobia, anti-Semitism, harassment, and the like, as media increases its scrutiny — When Clubhouse, a private social app, debuted in March of last year, it was hard for most people to score an invitation.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Intel launches its first Iris Xe desktop graphics cards targeting SMBs and mainstream PCs, after debuting its Iris Xe Max laptop cards in October — Intel's first desktop GPUs in 20 years aren't designed for gaming just yet — Intel is launching its first Iris Xe desktop graphics cards today.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
In today's iOS 14.4 update, Apple fixes three 0-days, tipped by an anonymous researcher, and acknowledges a report that they may have been exploited in the wild — Fixes come after Apple patched another set of three zero-days last November. — Apple has released today security updates …
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Chris DeRusha, an ex-Obama staffer and Biden campaign's CISO, announces he has been appointed as the US CISO, responsible for coordinating cybersecurity policy — The former top cybersecurity official on Joe Biden's presidential campaign said late Monday that he is now in charge of helping protect …
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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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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Clash acquires Byte and announces plans to release the companies' short-form video apps together as one product, alongside 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 …
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| 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 … | 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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Vectorized launches Redpanda, an open source tool to help developers build streaming data applications, and announces $3M seed and $12.5M Series A — Streaming data is not new. Kafka has existed as an open source tool for a decade. Vectorized was founded on the premise that the existing tools … | Penelope Blackwell / Protocol: |
At the World Economic Forum, 13 tech companies, including Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, join coalition to improve racial and ethnic justice in the workplace — The World Economic Forum, or “digital Davos” since moving its convention online, announced that 48 companies joined a coalition committed …
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Samsung says its latest OLED screen tech, launching in the Galaxy S21 Ultra, reduces the display's power consumption by up to 16% — When Samsung launched the Galaxy S21 Ultra, it talked about how the device's screen supports refresh rates of 120Hz at both full HD and Quad HD resolutions.
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SoftBank-backed travel booking service Klook raises $200M led by Aspex Management, says bookings have reached near pre-COVID levels in Singapore, HK, and Taiwan — Klook, the Hong Kong-based travel activities platform backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, announced the closure of $200 million …
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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.
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