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| New York Times: |
Robinhood says it raised an emergency infusion of over $1B from its existing investors, facing an onslaught of demands on its cash amid the stock market frenzy — The no-fee trading app, which is popular with young investors, has been strained by the high volume of trading this week in stocks such as GameStop.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Robinhood to allow “limited buys” on restricted stocks from Friday, says halting purchases was a risk-management decision and not a response to outside pressure — Halting purchases was ‘a risk management decision,’ the company said in a blog post
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Facebook took down the “Robinhood Stock Traders” Group with 157K users; a notification said the Group violated polices on “adult sexual exploitation” — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc took down a popular Wall Street discussion group, Robinhood Stock Traders …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Robinhood has drawn down some of its credit lines with banks, tapping at least several hundred million dollars — Robinhood Markets, the trading app that's popular with investors behind some of this month's wildest stock swings, has drawn down some of its credit lines with banks …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google deleted ~100K reviews for the Robinhood app on the Play Store, bringing its rating back to 4 stars, after users dropped its rating to 1-star — Robinhood is one of the most popular ways for consumers to get in on the stock market, but the app is in some hot water with its users currently.
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| Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC: |
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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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Robinhood says it didn't proactively sell shares of GameStop, AMC, or any other buzzworthy stocks without traders' permission, denying claims made by some users — Traders say they intended to keep holding — No, Robinhood tells The Verge, it didn't sell off full shares of GameStop … | Akane Otani / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of r/WallStreetBets founder Jaime Rogozinski, who hasn't moderated since April and says the GameStop surge is a “train wreck happening in real time” — Jaime Rogozinski likens recent surge in GameStop shares to a ‘train wreck happening in real time’| Tucker Higgins / CNBC: |
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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| Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou / Bloomberg: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook is developing newsletter tools for journalists and writers, including tools to help build followers, curate email lists, and offer paid subs — Facebook is working on newsletter tools for journalists and writers, according to three people familiar with the company's plans …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google Project Zero researcher discovers and details new security system on iOS 14 named BlastDoor, which provides an improved sandbox system for iMessage data — iOS 14 shipped with BlastDoor, a new sandbox system for processing iMessages data. — With the release of iOS 14 last fall …
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| Mike Peterson / AppleInsider: |
Canalys: iPad shipments grew 40% YoY to 19.2M in Q4 2020 and across all of 2020 Apple shipped an estimated 58.8M tablets, up 24% YoY from 2019 — Apple retained its top spot in the worldwide tablet industry during the fourth quarter of 2020, shipping an estimated 19.2 million iPad models in the period.| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Epic says its Games Store has 160M+ PC users, up from 108M in 2019, with DAUs up 192% YoY to 31.3M; gamers spent $700M+ in 2020, with $265M on 3rd-party games — And Epic confirmed it'll keep giving away games in 2021 — Epic Games Store released a bevy of stats to show off …
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Coinbase officially announces its intent to become a public company via direct listing — Coinbase has made official its plan to go public by way of a direct listing, according to a blog post released Thursday by the U.S.-based crypto exchange. — “Coinbase Global, Inc. today announced …
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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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Oversight Board, TIME, Washington Post, Lawfare, Oversight Board, SiliconANGLE, and MediaNama
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
A look at Global Privacy Control, a new web standard designed to let users opt out of data sharing with all third-party brokers globally with a single click — On today's internet, information is nearly impossible to control. It's become commonplace for a single website visit to spill …
Tweets: @jason_kint, @websmyth, @cyborgtribe, and @el33th4xor
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft reports it has “high confidence” the hacking campaign targeting infosec researchers is linked to ZINC, a DPRK-affiliated and state-sponsored group — Earlier this week, Google disclosed that a North Korean government-backed hacking group has been using social networks to target security researchers.
Tweets: @msftsecintel, @timothys, @epakskape, and @campuscodi
| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
In an apparent swipe at Zuckerberg, Tim Cook says 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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| Wall Street Journal: |
Investigators say suspected Russian hack extends far beyond SolarWinds, with ~30% of the victims having no connection to the software — Roughly 30% of victims are said to have no connection to the network-management company's tainted software — Investigators probing a massive hack … Sponsor Posts
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