|
January 26, 2021, 2:35 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
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 …
More:
Twitter, New York Times, TechCrunch, Stratechery, getrevue.co, SiliconANGLE, palfinger.ag, TechRadar, The Economic Times, Protocol, Neowin, PCMag, CNET, KnowTechie, International Business Times, Variety, Engadget, Protocol, Input, Tech.eu, Android Central, The Verge, Bloomberg, and Android Headlines
| 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 …
More:
Platformer, TIME, Business Insider, CoinDesk, iPhone in Canada Blog, CyberScoop, Cointelegraph, 9to5Mac, Decrypt, and The Next Web
| 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 … | 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 …
More:
YouTube Official Blog, CNBC, TechSpot, Bloomberg, CNET, and KnowTechie
Tweets: @youtubeinsider and @dylanbyers
| 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 … | 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 …
More:
VICE, ZDNet, The Verge, Gizmodo, One Night in Norfolk, HotHardware.com News, Fortune, Bloomberg, Comae, The Hacker News, Android Headlines, SC Media, Engadget, ComputerWeekly.com, Security Affairs, CNBC, Threatpost, Forbes, CyberScoop, TechRadar, Neowin, Help Net Security, iTnews, BleepingComputer, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @shanehuntley, @kevinperlow, @bushidotoken, @jsrailton, @swiftonsecurity, @evacide, @steventseeley, and @0xcharlie
| 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.
More:
VentureBeat, Geektime, CRN, SiliconANGLE, Tech.eu, and Run:AI
| 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.| 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 … | 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 …
More:
noyb.eu, Forbrukerrådet, BBC, The Verge, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, Bloomberg, and Tech News
Tweets: @daniellecitron, @finnmyrstad, @danielollecto, @nytimesbusiness, @brankamarijan, @daphnehk, @privasense, and @natashanyt
| 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
More:
9to5Mac, Ars Technica, Macworld, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Engadget, KnowTechie, Computerworld, iMore, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, iLounge, GSMArena.com, Reuters, Neowin, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, The Loop, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @markgurman, @benedictevans, @neilcybart, @raywongy, @ismh, @markgurman, @panzer, @stroughtonsmith, @benedictevans, and @reneritchie
| 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 … | NBC News: |
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 …
More:
Twitter, Windows Central, The Guardian, New York Post, Tom's Guide, Telecoms.com, WRAL TechWire, Tech.co, OnMSFT.com, NextPit, Android Headlines, Neowin, BGR, Silicon Republic, Engadget, Android Police, SlashGear, KnowTechie, Pocket-lint, Reclaim The Net, Gizmodo, and Android Central
Tweets: @twittersupport, @wongmjane, @twittersupport, @heytammybruce, @sharylattkisson, @saliltripathi, @tressiemcphd, @mtracey, @sameer_singh17, @jess, @thisislaurat, @pogue, @imani_barbarin, @eoinhiggins_, @jeffveillette, @cassandrarules, @nbcnews, @nathanblawrence, @twittersupport, @oneunderscore__, @mariannaspring, @b52malmet, @911corlebra777, @sethcotlar, @samharrelson, @wongmjane, @lydiaburrell, @jonah, @b_fung, @tiffanycli, @larakate, @kayvz, @peterjhasson, @oneunderscore__, @oneunderscore__, @oneunderscore__, @brandyzadrozny, @caseynewton, @ow, and @ow
| 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 …
More:
CNBC, Reuters, Politico, New York Post, and The Hill
Tweets: @ddayen, @sayssimonson, and @noahpinion
| 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.| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
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.
More:
Business Wire, Laptop Mag, SamMobile, and Mashable
| 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 …
More:
Adweek. Tweets: @twitteross, @dhmspector, @georgeelsham, @mergesort, @thelball, and @wongmjane
| Dan Berthiaume / Chain Store Age: |
Amazon says it reviewed ~10K product listings each day in 2020 and removed 2M+ in total for violating its policies and guidelines, 1.5M+ via automated tools — Amazon is using a combination of automated and manual review of products and content on its site to flag and remove offensive items.| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
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 … | Swetha Gopinath / Bloomberg: |
UK-based online greetings card retailer Moonpig plans to raise £384M in its London IPO, pricing shares at £3.10 to £3.50 and valuing the company at £1B-£1.2B — - Shares in the IPO are being marketed at 310 pence to 350 pence — Price range values the company at up to 1.2 billion pounds
More:
Financial Times and GlobalCapital
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Vectorized launches Redpanda, an open source tool to help developers to 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 …
More:
GlobeNewswire and Quickapplabs
| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
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 …
More:
Tech in Asia and Skift
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Ringover, a SaaS-based cloud service for voice, video, messaging, and SMS customer communication, raises €10M Series A led by Expedition Growth Capital — Ringover, a cloud communication platform for businesses, has raised €10 million ($12 million) in a series A round of funding …
More:
Silicon Canals, FinSMEs, and Tech.eu
| 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 …
More:
PCMag, XDA Developers, The Ambient, HotHardware.com News, Gizmodo, Android Headlines, Slashdot, Neowin, and SlashGear. Tweets: @mdrndad
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Zoho:
Enhancements to Zoho Writer's automation flow designer: New PDF operations, password protection, and more — Once we rolled out the automation flow designer in Zoho Writer's merge templates …
Enhancements to Zoho Writer's automation flow designer: New PDF operations, password protection, and more — Once we rolled out the automation flow designer in Zoho Writer's merge templates …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
2025 In Review, 2026 Predictions — With Reed Albergotti
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Podcast Pioneer PJ Vogt's Second Act: Less Budget, More Control
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
BG2 Pod:
AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean
Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner.
Subscribe to BG2 Pod.
Great Chat:
The stories we told ourselves in 2025
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Grit:
How Brands Stay Visible When AI Decides | Profound CEO James Cadwallader
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Ted Sarandos: Netflix and how tech changed storytelling
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:35 PM ET, January 26, 2021.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Todd Spangler / Variety:Zachary Leeman / Mediaite:
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
More:
Instagram for Business and Neowin
Tweets: @youngfullye, @medvidekpu, @todmaffin, @christinasbg, and @vishalshahis
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
More:
About Facebook and The Verge
Tweets: @korolova, @markwarner, @amelia_acker, @lizzadwoskin, @jessreports, @megancgraham, @fboversight, @geoffreyfowler, and @issielapowsky
| Margit Wennmachers / Andreessen Horowitz: |
More:
Business Insider. Tweets: @wennmachers, @jessicalessin, @a16z, @mattyglesias, @balajis, @alexisohanian, @antoniogm, @jason_kint, @obrien, @jason, @ricmac, @vijaypande, @asalyers3, @chaykak, @saschasegan, @taylorlorenz, @geoffreyfowler, @jorgecondebio, @kantrowitz, @andrewchen, @panzer, @wennmachers, @wennmachers, @wennmachers, @wennmachers, and @wennmachers
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
More:
CNET, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Slate, Paranoid Enough, YouTube, Finbold, Bloomberg, CNBC, Business Insider, The Information, Vox, and IGN
Tweets: @delk, @zhugeex, @thestalwart, @ivanthek, @kevinroose, @quill18, @thekouk, @theneedledrop, @paultassi, @andrearene, @vinncent, @jdickerson, @bopinion, @thestalwart, @thestalwart, @josh_wingrove, @marketstream_io, @molleindustria, @film_girl, @carnage4life, @jasonschreier, @ericgeller, @flglmn, @alecstapp, @thestalwart, @lisaabramowicz1, @garrytan, @ceonyc, @patrickmcgee_, @dbrauer, @jessefelder, @jamesrbuk, @michaelbkelley, @mccabe_caitlin, @bloombergtv, @prvncher, @aaronmehta, @zhugeex, @thestalwart, @nycsouthpaw, @thestalwart, @nkulw, @arielbogle, and @shiraovide