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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is developing a wall-mounted Echo device with a large touchscreen that serves as a smart home control panel, video chat device, and media player — - Lab126 unit developing new device with touchscreen and Alexa — Product to be thinner than Echo Show, come with video chat
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Tweets: @davemcclure, @adrianweckler, @counternotions, @markgurman, @ophirgottlieb, and @chrismartin17
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Twitter reports Q4 revenue of $1.29B, up 28% YoY, and average monetizable daily active usage growth of 27% to 192M, net income of $222M, up from $119M YoY — Revenue Engagement Q4 was a strong finish to the year with revenue of $1.29 billion, up 28% year over year, reflecting better …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at how Tim Cook has transformed Apple after Jobs into a more diversified company and successfully deflected political pressure — Trade war? Pfft. Trump? Please. Antitrust? Zuck's prob. (Ditto privacy.) Revenue? Endless.
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Michael Tsai, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, The Verge, and MacStories
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| Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers: |
Leaked images purportedly show mockups of Android 12, including major UI changes, a privacy indicator, conversation widget, new themes, and more — Google is set to release its next major version of Android — Android 12 — later this year, following a series of Developer Previews and Betas …
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| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
Shopify is bringing its checkout and payment processing service, Shop Pay, to Instagram today and to Facebook Shops in the next few weeks — Customers will be able to use the system, called Shop Pay, to complete purchases on the social platforms — Shopify Inc., a commerce platform for businesses …
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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
London-based Nothing, a consumer electronics startup from a OnePlus co-founder working on wireless headphones, raises $15M from GV — - Nothing will release headphones, other products this year — GV backs startup's ‘Series A’ funding round with $15 million
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Tweets: @natelanxon, @notalexlin, @kevinctofel, @gvteam, @business, and @technology
| Dexter Thomas / VICE: |
Police officers in Beverly Hills have played licensed music while being filmed by citizens, seemingly in an effort to trigger social networks' copyright filters — Police officers in Beverly Hills have been playing music while being filmed, seemingly in an effort to trigger Instagram's copyright filters.| Mikhail Klimentov / Washington Post: |
Riot Games CEO Nicolas Laurent has been accused of gender-based harassment in a lawsuit filed by a former executive assistant who was terminated in July 2020 — A lawsuit filed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court in January by Sharon O'Donnell, a former executive assistant at Riot Games …
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VICE, UniCourt, The Verge, VentureBeat, Polygon, GamesIndustry.biz, Kotaku, and Dot Esports
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Qualcomm unveils next-gen X65 5G modem, likely to appear in phones in 2022, and says it can download data at 10Gpbs speeds and has a better battery life — Qualcomm's new modem is here, it's blazing fast and it's not just for phones . The Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System can download data …
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| Maggie Miller / The Hill: |
Google expands its US election security efforts with free training for state campaigns, after providing Titan Security Keys to 140+ federal campaigns in 2020 — Google announced Tuesday it is expanding its efforts around election security by providing free training to state and federal campaigns in all 50 states.
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| Shawna Chen / Axios: |
Match Group to acquire South Korean social media company Hyperconnect for $1.73B in cash and stock; Hyperconnect's Azar 1-on-1 live chat app has 540M downloads — Online dating company Match Group announced Tuesday plans to acquire Korean social media company Hyperconnect for $1.73 billion.
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| Bloomberg: |
CA DMV filing: Apple's self-driving cars topped 18,800 test miles in 2020, up from 7,544 in 2019, with disengagements every 145 miles, up from every 118 miles — - Apple vehicles drove farther in 2020 without disengagements — Company won't launch its own consumer car for at least 5 years
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, PYMNTS.com, Patently Apple, MacDailyNews, and iClarified
Tweets: @markgurman, @patrickmcgee_, and @markgurman
| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft launches two new apps for Teams: Bulletins, where organizations can share news in one place, and Milestones, which tracks the status of work items — Two new apps for Microsoft Teams are here to help improve productivity and communication. — What you need to know| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Researchers: flaws in how some browsers cache favicons can lead to website visitors being tracked, even if they are in incognito mode or use script blockers — // Favicons can break through incognito mode, VPNs, and Pi-holes to track your movement online — Favicons are one of those things …
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Gizmodo and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @doctorow, @campuscodi, @vice, @motherboard, @jollyroger, and @nsiivola
| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
Lyft reports Q4 revenue of $569.9M, down 44% YoY, but slightly higher than Q3, as FY 2020 net losses narrowed to $1.8B from $2.6B thanks to aggressive cost cuts — Ride-hailing company's president points to $360 million in savings for fixed expenses last year
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Lyft, Inc., ZDNet, CNN, and CNBC
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Cisco reports Q2 revenue of $11.96B, nearly flat YoY, Security revenue of $822M, up 10% YoY, and Infrastructure Platforms revenue down 3% YoY to $6.39B — Cisco posted better-than-expected second quarter results, though revenue remained flat year-over-year.| Financial Times: |
Researchers estimate that the NHS contact tracing app has prevented the transmissions of ~600K coronavirus infections in England and Wales — Study finds link in areas of England and Wales between high app usage and lower case numbers — The NHS contact-tracing app has prevented …
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GOV.UK, The Alan Turing Institute, iMore, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, MacRumors, BBC, Daily Mail, and Sky News
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SentinelOne, which analyzes security data using AI, acquires Scalyr, a high-speed logging startup, for $155M in stock and cash — SentinelOne, a late-stage security startup that helps customers make sense of security data using AI and machine learning, announced today that it is acquiring Scalyr,
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ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, SecurityWeek, and CRN
Tweets: @danielsloeb1, @dscheinm, @kamislo, @dzimine, and @shasta
| Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg: |
Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt says it was hit by another ransomware attack, possibly leaking source code for upcoming games; stock drops as much as 6.3% — - Ransom note claims hacker obtained source codes of some games — Attack doesn't appear to include gamers' data, CD Projekt says
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Tweets: @ryan_browne_, @cnbci, and @campuscodi
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Salesforce says “the 9-to-5 workday is dead” and that after the pandemic most staff will work a flex schedule, going into the office 1-3 days per week — ‘It no longer makes sense to expect employees to work an eight-hour shift.’ — Cloud computing company Salesforce is joining … | Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Mexican online grocer Jüsto raises $65M Series A led by General Atlantic; PitchBook says it's the largest Series A raised in Latin America in the past decade — Jüsto, an online supermarket based in Mexico City, announced Tuesday it has raised $65 million in a Series A round led by General Atlantic.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Fabric, which offers a “headless” e-commerce platform for enterprises, raises $43M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners — Fabric, a startup powering e-commerce for companies like GNC and ABC Carpet and Home, has raised $43 million in Series A funding.
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PR Newswire, FinSMEs, GeekWire, and PYMNTS.com
| Bloomberg: |
Profile of Chinese venture investor Ruby Lu, a key figure behind VC firm DCM's $40M investment in Kuaishou, which is now worth ~$12B after Kuaishou went public — - Venture capitalist Lu behind DCM's decision to back video app — Stake bought for $40 million is now worth about $14 billion
Tweets: @davidinglestv, @pingroma, and @bloombergquint
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
RapidSOS, which builds tools to help emergency response teams, raises $85M Series C led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $200M — Emergency response services have been one of the unsung heroes of the last chaotic year, providing essential and urgent medical and other assistance during …
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FinSMEs, AlleyWatch, Government Technology News, PR Newswire, and RapidSOS
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