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After a flurry of tweets from Elon Musk in recent weeks, dogecoin, which launched in 2013 as a joke, has jumped in price from half a cent on Jan. 1 to ~8 cents — Cryptocurrency that started in 2013 as a joke is suddenly worth a total of more than $6 billion
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| Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics: |
Analysis: in 2020, Amazon's capital expenditure grew 69% YoY to $54B, Microsoft's grew 14% YoY to $20.6B, and Google's declined over 5% YoY to $22.3B — It is time for our annual bulletin to CAPEX obsessives (previous updates from 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 as well as earlier installments).
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Review: in 200+ charging docs filed in relation to the Capitol siege, 73 reference Facebook, 24 reference YouTube, 20 mention Instagram, and 8 mention Parler — Just after the Capitol Hill riots on January 6, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook chief operating officer admitted the company's ability to enforce its own rules was “never perfect.”
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| Julia Chan / Sensor Tower Blog: |
Sensor Tower data on top apps worldwide: Telegram led with 63M downloads in Jan. 2021, as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger downloads fell from Dec. 2020 — Telegram was the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for January 2021 with more than 63 million installs, 3.8 times its downloads in January 2020.
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| Reuters: |
China issues new anti-monopoly rules putting more pressure on its local tech giants like Alibaba, Tencent, and JD.com — BEIJING (Reuters) - China's market regulator released new anti-monopoly guidelines on Sunday that target internet platforms, tightening existing restrictions faced by the country's tech giants.
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| Michael Vizard / VentureBeat: |
Vendia, which offers a serverless SaaS product to share data and associated code across multicloud environments, raises $15.5M Series A led by Canvas Ventures — Vendia revealed it has raised $15.5 million to advance development of a Vendia Share service that enables IT teams to share data and code … | Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Study of 130+ facial recognition data sets compiled over 43 years: driven by ML's data needs, researchers gradually abandoned asking for people's consent — The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy. — hide
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Commsor, which gives companies insights about employees using data from tools like Slack and GitHub, raises $16M Series A at a valuation “well north of $100M” — Community is at the heart of many businesses, whether we're talking about customers, coders, or brand superfans.
Tweets: @justiacom
| Bloomberg: |
Dialog Semiconductor, whose clients include Apple and Samsung, is in advanced talks to sell the company to Japan's Renesas Electronics Corp. for ~$5.9B — - Renesas prepared to offer EU67.50 per share in cash for Dialog — Dialog comments on bid in statement after Bloomberg report
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
A look at Metalenz, which aims to replace multiple lens elements in smartphone cameras with a single lens system that utilizes optical metasurfaces technology — The optics in your smartphone have been pretty much the same for more than a decade. That's about to change.
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IEEE Spectrum and Forbes
| Carolina Milanesi / Fast Company: |
Interview with Samsung VP Jaeyeon Jung on the new Galaxy SmartTag and how it fits into the SmartThings ecosystem, which as of December had 66M active users — While the Apple world waits patiently for an “AirTags” announcement, Samsung is already shipping its remote location device, the Galaxy SmartTag.| Financial Times: |
Analysis: Vision Fund, which posted a record annual loss last March, returned ~$18B to investors by the end of 2020, up from $13.4B it reported in Q3 2020 — After posting a record loss last year, fortunes have changed for the Saudi-backed tech investment fund
Tweets: @arashmassoudi
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Myanmar's new military government orders local telecom operators and ISPs to block Twitter and Instagram, days after imposing a similar blackout on Facebook — Updated at 1.46AM PT February 6: Telenor says Myanmar Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC) has directed all mobile operators …
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