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Robinhood says due to “recent volatility” it is restricting trading in some stocks, including GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, and Nokia, to “position closing only” — Amid the flurry of speculative activity in GameStop, brokers took steps to restrict the trading …
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| Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
According to a pop-up on Robinhood's app homepage, 56% of its users own at least some GameStop stock — With the market in chaos, even Robinhood has now turned on retail investors pumping dark horse stocks. — Jordan Pearson — Robinhood, the fee-free investment app that has helped Redditors …
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Mediaite, Bloomberg, theblockcrypto.com, The Hill, Business Insider, CNET, 9to5Mac, Forbes, Finextra, Techdirt, CoinGeek, Reclaim The Net, GameSpot, Game Rant, and GamesIndustry.biz
Tweets: @motherboard and @jason_koebler
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
r/WallStreetBets was made private by moderators for about an hour, but is back online; Discord banned r/WallStreetBets' server, claiming hate speech violations — It went dark for nearly an hour — The r/WallStreetBets subreddit's own moderators made it private for a little less than an hour …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
As r/WallStreetBets causes GameStop, BlackBerry, and others to surge, online trading platforms like Robinhood and WeBull have rapidly climbed US app store ranks — - The flurry of Redditors taking on Wall Street appears to have resulted in a usage boom for share trading apps.
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| The Information: |
Sources: Facebook is preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for forcing developers to abide by App Store rules that Apple's own apps don't have to follow — A long-simmering public dispute between Facebook and Apple has neared a boiling point. With the aid of outside legal counsel … | Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook tells EU data protection conference that valuing engagement over privacy leads to “polarization” and “violence” and such businesses need reform — Speaking at the EU data protection conference CPDP today, Tim Cook gave the opening keynote with his talk entitled …
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YouTube, MacRumors, The Irish Times, CNBC, Wccftech, iDownloadBlog.com, and iMore
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Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @reneritchie, @dylanbyers, @fintwitfb, @gartenberg, and @jason_kint
| TechCrunch: |
Apple says its App Tracking Transparency feature, which will be enabled by default, will roll out with iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 updates in early spring — Apple has shared a few more details about its much-discussed privacy changes in iOS 14. The company first announced at WWDC …
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| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Facebook's Oversight Board issues first-ever rulings, which Facebook said it will abide by, overturning four out of the five cases it reviewed — Facebook's Oversight Board on Thursday issued its first round of decisions, overturning several of the company's decisions to remove posts …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds opt-in biometric fingerprint, face, or iris scan authentication for WhatsApp on desktop or web — WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned popular messaging app with more than 2 billion users, has been getting a lot of heat and losing users in recent weeks after announcing (and then delaying) changes to how it uses your data.
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Engadget, The Verge, The Next Web, Android Authority, appleosophy.com, USA Today, AppleInsider, WinBuzzer, Windows Central, 9to5Mac, Pocketnow, NextPit, and 9to5Google. Tweets: @whatsapp
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
IDC says Apple has shipped 90.1M iPhones in Q1, the largest number of shipments in a single quarter since IDC started tracking smartphones — - The iPhone is booming: Sales were up 17% year-over-year to a whopping $65.6 billion in a single quarter. — Research firm IDC estimates …
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Tweets: @fjeronimo, @munster_gene, @fjeronimo, @benbajarin, and @vladsavov
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| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Europol, the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies worldwide have seized control of malware botnet Emotet's infrastructure and disrupted it from the inside — Europol and FBI among agencies that have taken control of the botnet infrastructure used by cyber criminals behind some of the most prolific malware and ransomware attacks.
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Europol, ZDNet, Krebs on Security, The Register, Threatpost, Cybereason, Security Boulevard, HealthITSecurity, CyberNews, BBC, Check Point Software, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @europol, @joetidy, @hatr, @dannyjpalmer, @modernhomesla, @bobbychesney, @malwaretechblog, and @ergobtc. Thanks:@steveranger
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
US and Bulgarian authorities seize a dark web site used to publish data stolen from victims of NetWalker, which has been among the most rapacious ransomware — U.S. and Bulgarian authorities this week seized the darkweb site used by the NetWalker ransomware cybercrime group to publish data stolen from its victims.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
HR software company Workday acquires Peakon, which provides SaaS tools for employee retention, in a $700M all-cash deal — Enterprise cloud software giant Workday has announced plans to acquire data-driven human resources (HR) startup Peakon in an all-cash deal worth $700 million.
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FinSMEs, ZDNet, Tech.eu, Peakon, TechCrunch, and Workday Blog
| Reuters: |
Samsung reports Q4 earnings with total revenue of ~$55.2B, up 3% YoY, and operating profit of ~$8.2B, up 26% YoY, but sees mobile sales drop 11% YoY to $19.3B — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday it expects its overall profit to weaken in the first quarter of 2021 …
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Samsung Global Newsroom, Laptop Mag, Ars Technica, CNET, Neowin, The Verge, and Android Central
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Gowalla, now resurrected as a social AR startup, raises a $4M seed round co-led by Google's venture arm GV and Spark Capital — The newly resurrected Gowalla wants to realize its mobile dreams from the early-aughts in an augmented reality world, and they've raised some new funding to make it happen.| Jonathan Browning / Bloomberg: |
UK's CMA launches a formal investigation into Facebook's $400M Giphy acquisition over competition in the supply of video clips and animated images — - CMA to look at how $400 million takeover changes market — Agency sets March 25 deadline for initial decision in review
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TechCrunch, Associated Press, PYMNTS.com, and CNBC
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Ireland-based “buy now, pay later” service Scalapay raises $48M in seed led by Fasanara Capital — Fintech startup Scalapay secured $48 million in a seed round that included debt and convertible notes to roll out its “buy now, pay later” platform in Europe. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily
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TechCrunch, Tech.eu, and EU-Startups
| Facebook: |
Facebook reports Q4: $28.1B revenue, up 33% YoY, 1.84B DAUs, up 11% YoY, 2.6B people used a Facebook service daily, up 15% YoY; headcount up 30% YoY to 58,604 — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2020.
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