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Australia says Facebook agreed to reinstate news content in Australia in the coming days after the government promised amendments to its proposed media bill — We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work.
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Microsoft partners with EU publishing lobbyists to push for payment for news content amid Australia's effort to force Facebook and Google to share their revenue — Seattle-based company aligns with press industry and exploits rivals' difficulties — Microsoft has joined forces …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple plans to release two new MacBook Pro models with an HDMI port and an SD card reader in the second half of 2021 — Apple plans to release two new MacBook Pro models equipped with an HDMI port and SD card reader in the second half of 2021, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Q&A with Spotify's Daniel Ek on growing the number of creators on the service and engaging with them, podcast success metrics, Clubhouse, and more — Spotify hosted an event on Monday to discuss its ambitions in audio, and one message came through loud and clear: the company wants to play …
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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
Sony says it's developing a VR headset for the PlayStation 5 that will be much less cumbersome than its current PS VR setup, but the device won't launch in 2021 — The PlayStation 5 will have its own virtual reality headset, however, consumers may face ongoing difficulties obtaining a PS5 console given a supply chain shortfall.
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| Tim Copeland / Decrypt: |
Bitfinex and Tether agree to an $18.5M settlement with the New York AG and will stop operating in the state following a two-year probe — Bitfinex and Tether have agreed to stop all trading activity in the state of New York as part of a settlement announced today by New York Attorney General Letitia James.| Eugene Wei / Remains of the Day: |
TikTok's networks effects, largely driven by remixability of content and features that interconnect, cannot be easily cloned by rivals to recreate the ecosystem — I promised one final piece on TikTok, focused primarily on the network effects of creativity. And this is that, in part.
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Epic will give Fortnite and Rocket League players who have bought loot boxes ~$8 worth of credits and set aside $26M+ for claims to settle a class action suit — The class action settlement also provides an additional $26 million in benefits — Epic Games will give Fortnite players 1,000 V-Bucks …
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| Mickey Rapkin / Esquire: |
Profile of Mike Winkelmann, aka Beeple, who has made millions of dollars by selling and auctioning his digital art on marketplaces for non-fungible tokens — He's a dad from Wisconsin who drives a “piece of shit” Corolla. And his brilliantly absurd artwork has made him the face of a crypto market you didn't know existed.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Electric, which lets one admin manage devices, software subscriptions, permissions, and more via the cloud, raises $40M Series C led by Greenspring Associates — It would be an understatement to say that enterprise-focused startups have fared well during the pandemic.
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A look at the state of 5G in the US, which despite being fairly widespread is only offering 4G-like speeds; true high-speed 5G is still a work in progress — After an introduction from Consumer Technology Association president Gary Shapiro, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg takes the stage.| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
FCC proposes using $3.2B in emergency funds to subsidize broadband services for low-income families with $50/month discounts and $75/month on tribal lands — A proposal released by the acting chairwoman of the commission is an attempt to close the digital divide.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Saltmine, which has developed a web-based workplace design service, raises $20M Series A after seeing 80% ARR growth and 350% YoY MAU growth in 2020 — What is working in the office going to look like in a post-COVID-19 world? — That's something one startup hopes to help companies figure out.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers say China used NSA's EpMe exploit to attack Windows devices for years before the Shadow Brokers leaked the agency's zero-day toolkit online — The hackers used the agency's EpMe exploit to attack Windows devices years before the Shadow Brokers leaked the agency's zero-day arsenal online.
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| Tanzeel Akhtar / CoinDesk: |
Bottlepay, which lets users send bitcoin via messages on Twitter, Reddit, and Discord, raises £11M at a post-money valuation of £51M — The payments platform is built with the Lightning Network scaling solution, which enables cheaper and faster bitcoin transactions.
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Swedish payments startup Klarna says it is considering a direct listing; sources say the company is raising over $500M, after securing $650M in September — STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) - Swedish payments firm Klarna may list on the stock market without raising money by selling new shares … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
ScienceLogic, a startup developing IT infrastructure monitoring software and AI for IT operations, raises $105M Series E led by Silver Lake Waterman — ScienceLogic, a startup developing an AIOps and IT infrastructure monitoring platform, today announced that it raised $105 million.
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| Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: |
VidMob, which provides tools to create and improve digital ads, raises $50M Series C with Shutterstock, Adobe among investors; source: VidMob is valued at $290M — Investors in funding round include ad industry veterans, Adobe, Shutterstock and Prefix Capital| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
SoundCommerce raises $15M Series A for its service that analyzes retailers' data from across sources like GCP, Snowflake, AWS, Tableau, Azure, Looker, Power BI — SoundCommerce, a platform that unifies retailers' data from across multiple systems, has raised $15 million in a series A round of funding led by Emergence Capital.
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