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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
DOJ announces charges against three North Korean hackers for conspiring to steal and extort over $1.3B in cash and cryptocurrencies from banks and businesses — The Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed charges against three North Korean hacker spies accused of conspiring to steal …
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Tweets: @ericgeller, @ariehkovler, @shanvav, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, @jvagle, @mikko, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, and @ericgeller
| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
NY AG sues Amazon, alleging it inadequately protected workers from COVID-19 in Staten Island and Queens, and retaliated against employees who raised concerns — The case focuses on two of the company's facilities in New York. — New York's attorney general, Letitia James …
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| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Internal docs: Amazon India has secretly favored big sellers, misrepresented its ties with them, and used them to circumvent tough foreign investment rules — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - It was early 2019, and senior Amazon.com Inc executive Jay Carney was preparing for an important meeting.
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| Babu Mohan / Android Central: |
Twitter starts testing voice DMs, which can be up to 140 seconds long, on iOS in India, Brazil, and Japan — Twitter is giving its users “more options to express themselves” in conversations. — What you need to know — Twitter is testing a voice messaging feature for direct messages.
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The Verge, Android Police, The Economic Times, Mashable, Wccftech, Inc42 Media, XDA Developers, iPhone Hacks, The Next Web, Fossbytes, Pocketnow, BGR India, Firstpost Tech, and International Business Times
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Researcher finds one of the first examples of malware written to run natively on Apple's M1 chips; the GoSearch22 adware installs itself as a Safari extension — A security researcher found one of the first examples of malware written to run natively on Apple's M1 processors. — Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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Objective-See's Blog, Wired, AppleInsider, Tom's Hardware, Engadget, Gizmodo, Forbes, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, Wccftech, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @wired and @lorenzofb
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google Maps now lets users pay for public transportation and parking by integrating Passport and ParkMobile services into its app, available in 400+ US cities — Fill your meter or get a train ticket — Google Maps is adding a couple of new useful features: the ability to pay for parking or buy a train ticket right from the app.
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The Keyword, CNET, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, USA Today, TechCrunch, KnowTechie, SlashGear, Android Central, Pocketnow, Neowin, CNBC, MSPoweruser, and Mashable. Tweets: @epro
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Epic Games files a formal antitrust complaint against Apple with the European Commission, claiming that Apple imposes commercially unviable burdens on rivals — Filing is latest shot in escalating feud between ‘Fortnite’ developer and Silicon Valley giant — Epic Games has filed … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says it will expand Shorts, its TikTok rival in beta, to the US soon, add 4K and DVR to YouTube TV, expand in-video shopping, and more in 2021 — YouTube has a host of big product updates coming this year, and it just detailed a lot of them in a blog post from Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan.
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YouTube Official Blog, The Verge, The Verge, Engadget, The Economic Times, Android Police, Bloomberg, 9to5Google, CNET, Android Central, Android Headlines, Pocketnow, Variety, Fortune, Deadline, and Tubefilter. Tweets: @fwiz
| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Amazon announces Build It, a Kickstarter-like program that lets customers vote on products and says it will build those that get enough support within 30 days — - A new program from Amazon called Build It lets customers choose to back a new product, and if it gets enough support within 30 days, Amazon will build it.
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About Amazon, TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, TechHive, Engadget, USA Today, CNN, Input, chainstoreage.com, and SlashGear
| Emil Protalinski / GeekWire: |
IDC: Chrome OS market share passed macOS for the first time in 2020, up 4.4 points YoY to 10.8%; Windows fell 4.9 points to 80.5%, macOS rose 0.8 point to 7.5% — New numbers show 2020 was the first year that Chromebooks outsold Macs, posting impressive market share gains at the expense of Windows.
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Windows Central, 9to5Google, Gizchina, 9to5Mac, MUO, iMore, Notebookcheck.net, TechRadar, Android Central, About Chromebooks, and Phandroid. Tweets: @kevinctofel. Thanks:@toddbishop
| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
Source: Stripe is valued at $115B in “secondary market” transactions, up 3x from $36B valuation in April 2020, and is planning a round at a $100B+ valuation — Investors are valuing Stripe at a $115 billion valuation in “secondary market” transactions, where shares … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Reddit publishes its 2020 transparency report: 233M pieces of content were removed out of 3.4B total; 82,858 subreddits were removed, up 4x from 2019 — Reddit has published its transparency report for 2020, showing various numbers relating to removed content, government requests, and other administrative actions.| Peter Smith / Blockchain.com: |
Blockchain.com raises $120M growth round from Moore Strategic Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and others and says 65M wallets have been created — Today we're excited to share that Blockchain.com has closed on a strategic financing round, securing $120M from some of the world's leading macro investors.
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Decrypt, CoinDesk, Bitcoin News, Cryptonews, The Block, Cointelegraph, and Crypto Briefing
| Phil Muncaster / Infosecurity Magazine: |
YouTube takes down nearly 3,000 channels and accounts that were part of Chinese state coordinated influence operation — UK / EMEA News Reporter , Infosecurity Magazine — YouTube has taken down almost 3000 channels and accounts deemed to part of separate Chinese and Russian state coordinated influence operations.| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Twitter has told employees that they will receive just 57% of their 2020 bonus target after the company missed internal revenue and profit goals — Twitter has told its employees that they will receive a sliver of their corporate bonus target for 2020—just 7% …
Tweets: @alexeheath and @anthony
| Danielle Bochove / Bloomberg: |
Shopify beats estimates with Q4 revenue of $977.7M, up 94% YoY, profit of $504.4M, up 91% YoY, and Gross Merchandise Volume of $41.1B, up 99% YoY — - Company says it will ‘aggressively’ reinvest in products — Gross merchandise value nearly doubles in 4Q to $41.1 billion
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Benedict Evans, Financial Times, Shopify, and ZDNet
Tweets: @amasad, @glenngabe, @business, @carnage4life, and @aghose
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Stock trading service Public.com raises $220M Series D at a $1.2B valuation from Greycroft, Accel, Tiger Global, and others — The day before Robinhood goes under the the Congressional hammer, domestic rival Public.com announced this morning that it has closed a $220 million funding round at a $1.2 billion valuation.
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Insider, FinLedger, Reuters, Business Wire, WRAL TechWire, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @yoda and @briannekimmel
| Cathy Applefeld Olson / Forbes: |
20 music streaming services have paid $424M+ in historical unmatched royalties to Mechanical Licensing Collective; Apple paid $163M, Spotify $153M, Amazon $42M — The Mechanical Licensing Collective has received a total of $424.38 million in accrued historical unmatched royalties …
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Mechanical Licensing Collective, Variety, 9to5Mac, Apple Must, Music Ally, iMore, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @kevinbrennanmp, @nadineshah, @dinalapolt, @legrandnetwork, @clara1cullen, and @davidclowery
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Uber hires author and labor researcher Alex Rosenblat, who wrote a book criticizing Uber's treatment of workers, to help improve its relations with drivers — - The “Uberland” author will advocate for drivers internally — The company has a strained relationship with academics
Tweets: @joedunman, @brodyford_, @natematias, @aaschapiro, and @parismarx
| Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: |
A look at the new 217 new emojis coming in iOS 14.5, including a syringe without blood, couples with a mix of skin tones, AirPod Max headphones, and more — New emojis have arrived on iOS as part of the latest iOS 14.5 beta. These include a heart on fire, exhaling face, and gender options for the people with beards.
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CNN, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, BBC, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, The Guardian, iDownloadBlog.com, MUO, iMore, TechRadar, Insider, iPhone Hacks, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @viticci, @stevemoser, @rcalo, @emojipedia, @ballmatthew, @cnn, @4theculture____, and @reneritchie
| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
NPD Group: PC gaming hardware and accessory sales reached $4.5B in the US in 2020, up 62% YoY, and PC gaming content sales rose 19% YoY to $7.5B — PC gaming hardware and accessories saw a huge leap in sales in 2020, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group.| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Standard Cognition, which is developing tools for cashierless stores, similar to Amazon Go, raises $150M at a $1B+ valuation — A startup selling Amazon Go-like checkout technology to retailers has raised money from investors at a $1 billion valuation, minting a new unicorn a year into a pandemic … | David Welch / Bloomberg: |
Lidar startup AEye says it is going public via SPAC, valuing the new company at $2B and raising $455M — - Company nets $455 million to develop self-driving technology — Its software will also be used in driver assistance systems — AEye Inc., a startup that makes lidar systems …
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TechCrunch, PR Newswire, and Wccftech
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Profile of Corey Quinn, a “cloud economist” who consults for AWS clients like WaPo and Epic on cloud computing costs and often lampoons Amazon on Twitter — Corey Quinn has made it his business to understand Amazon's cloud-computing charges and have some fun at the company's expense.
Tweets: @mattdrange, @sbisson, @quinnypig, @daiwaka, @mike_julian, @tomkrazit, @quinnypig, and @petecheslock
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Peak AI, which helps retailers and other companies use AI to make decisions, raises $21M Series B led by Oxx, bringing its total raised to $43M — One of the biggest challenges for organizations in modern times is deciding where, when, and how to use the advances of technology …
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FinSMEs, supplychaindive.com, Tech.eu, VentureBeat, and Silicon Canals
| Kotaku: |
Sources: Google's Stadia VP Phil Harrison sent an email to Stadia's game studios lauding their “great progress”, despite knowledge of its impending shutdown — Developers at Google's recently formed game studios were shocked February 1 when they were notified that the studios would be shut down …
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Insider, Dot Esports, OnMSFT.com, Game Rant, ExtremeTech, Beyond Search, PC Gamer, GamingBolt, Wccftech, IGN, PC Games Insider, GamesIndustry.biz, VG247, MSPoweruser, and Gamasutra
Tweets: @isotopp, @senninsage, @yoda, @brianfagioli, @tiedtiger, @evilprimate, @sanatanamishra, and @mm2k
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Comscore: Google's share of the top 15 US mobile apps has increased from 33% to 46% since 2015; Facebook has retained 20% of the market from 2015 to 2021 — Google and Facebook's share of the top 15 mobile apps by reach in the U.S. has increased in the past few years, despite the fact …
Tweets: @sarafischer
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