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Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website — - The app's creators had been warned user data was vulnerable — An unidentified user streamed audio chats to their own website
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Gartner: in Q4 2020, Apple sold 80M new iPhones globally, overtaking Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor, increasing its market share by ~15% — Apple overtook Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2020, a feat not achieved by Apple since 2016 …
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| Anton Troianovski / New York Times: |
Russian officials are trying to lure people onto social networks tied to the government, in an attempt to keep dissent from going viral at moments of crisis — The Kremlin has constructed an entire infrastructure of repression but has not displaced Western apps. Instead, it is turning to outright intimidation.
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| Ben Smith / New York Times: |
Russian investigative journalism is flourishing alongside “probiv”, the buying of data on phone calls, cell location, or air travel off Telegram or the dark web — A new wave of news outlets has used conventional, and unconventional, methods to pierce the veil of Putin's power.| Alex Barker / Financial Times: |
Microsoft says it will work with Europe's four largest news publishing lobbying groups to “mandate payments” for content used by “gatekeepers” — Seattle-based company aligns with press industry and exploits difficulties of rivals — Microsoft has joined forces …
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| Basil Kronfli / WIRED UK: |
A look at Xiaomi, known to copy others and skimp on traditional R&D, as it successfully undercuts rivals on everything from smartphones to pens and backpacks — Xiaomi has been launching low-cost, occasionally half-baked tech for years. Now it's time everyone took it seriously
Tweets: @basil_knows and @neiltwitz
| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: Zuckerberg's personal intervention to reduce the severity of Alex Jones' ban in 2019 slowed down Facebook's efforts to deal with dangerous content — In April 2019, Facebook was preparing to ban one of the internet's most notorious spreaders of misinformation and hate, Infowars founder Alex Jones.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Toast, a cloud-based restaurant management software provider, is planning an IPO that could value it at ~$20B; in Feb. 2020 it was valued at $4.9B — Toast taps Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase to underwrite a possible listing later this year — Toast Inc. is planning … | Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Boston-based Creatio, which offers low-code customer relationship and process management tools, raises $68M, its first outside funding since launching in 2014 — Boston-based Creatio has received its first outside funding, a $68 million minority stake the company hopes to use to allow …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Seattle-based Highspot, which makes software for training and managing sales employees, raises $200M led by Tiger Global at a $2.3B valuation — New investments from Tiger, Bain value the sales software maker at $2.3 billion — Salesforce.com Inc.-backed Seattle startup Highspot …
Tweets: @alex
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Splice, which makes tools for musicians and offers royalty-free samples, raises $55M at a ~$500M valuation, bringing its total raised to $150M — Growing up in County Cavan, Ireland, Shane Codd dreamed of performing at huge nightclubs on the Spanish island of Ibiza, the global epicenter of electronic music.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Internal email: Google tells ad partners that it will lift its ban on all political ads starting Wednesday, after banning them following the Capitol riot — Google informed its advertising partners Monday that its platforms will resume accepting all political ads starting Wednesday … Sponsor Posts
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