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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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| 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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| 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, MacStories, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, and The Verge
Tweets: @markgurman, @jcenters, @bhatnaturally, @silviakillings, @theron_mohamed, @alistairmbarr, @bw, and @bradstone
| 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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Softpedia News, TechSpot, 9to5Google, Input, XDA Developers, Droid Life, Android Authority, Android Headlines, Tom's Guide, Neowin, Tech.eu, Silicon Canals, SlashGear, TechRadar, Android Central, Engadget, The Economic Times, phonearena.com, and The Verge
Tweets: @natelanxon, @kevinctofel, @gvteam, @business, and @technology
| 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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Shopify, TechCrunch, Social Media Today, PYMNTS.com, BetaKit, TechRadar, Insider, Tubefilter, and ZDNet
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
Reddit raises $250M+ Series E led by Vy Capital at a $6B valuation, doubling in value since its last funding round in February 2019 — Its WallStreetBets community played a prominent role in recent stock-trading frenzy — Reddit Inc. doubled its valuation to $6 billion in a new round …
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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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| 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.
Tweets: @jason_koebler, @ahess247, @jason, @brianfagioli, @wyld, @mikaelthalen, @marick, @bobbylibby, @vice, @webmink, @k_trendacosta, and @maxkennerly
| 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 …
| 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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Tweets: @markgurman, @patrickmcgee_, and @markgurman
| Twitter - Investor Relations: |
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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| 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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| 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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SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, VentureBeat, SecurityWeek, and CRN
Tweets: @shasta, @danielsloeb1, @dscheinm, @kamislo, and @dzimine
| 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
| 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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FinSMEs, PR Newswire, GeekWire, and PYMNTS.com
| 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
| 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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
Survey of 1,000 registered US voters: 44% strongly agree and 41% somewhat agree that social media plays a role in radicalizing people — A majority of Americans think social media “has played a role in radicalizing people,” according to a new poll from Accountable Tech and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner shared exclusively with Axios.
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Tweets: @jesselehrich, @pkedrosky, @jesselehrich, @axios, @jesselehrich, and @jangles
| 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.| Bloomberg: |
Industry executives warn of severe shortages of chips for phones and game consoles, amid excessive stockpiling of chips by companies like Huawei and Apple — - The dearth of supply is deepening as Apple, China hoard chips — Worsening crunch could impact sectors well beyond automaking
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New York Times, FierceWireless, 9to5Mac, and Telecoms.com
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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.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Mighty Buildings, which aims to build homes with 3D printing tech and robotics, raises $40M Series B co-led by Khosla Ventures and Zeno Ventures — Once upon a time, the idea of 3D-printed homes felt like a thing of the future. — But as housing gets less and less affordable … | 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, RapidSOS, and PR Newswire
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Monte Carlo, which uses AI to monitor data reliability, raises $25M Series B, led by Redpoint Ventures and GGV Capital, bringing its total raised to $40M+ — San Francisco-based data reliability startup Monte Carlo today announced that it raised $25 million, bringing the company's total capital raised to date to over $40 million.
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Business Wire, Monte Carlo Data, and FinSMEs
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