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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple confirms it'll discontinue iMac Pro after supplies end, says 27" iMac introduced in August is the preferred choice for the vast majority of pro iMac users — Apple on late Friday evening added a “while supplies last” notice to its iMac Pro product page worldwide …
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| Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime: |
US indicts John McAfee for fraud and money laundering over an alleged $13M cryptocurrency “pump-and-dump” scheme — Antivirus software mogul John McAfee, who has been awaiting extradition from Spain on tax evasion charges since late last year, just had his legal woes compounded …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
After Jack Dorsey promoted an auction on the site Valuables for an NFT of his very first tweet, the bids for “just setting up my twttr” reach $2M — Apparently you can actually sell your tweets as NFT — Jack Dorsey, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Twitter …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Interview with Qualcomm's incoming CEO Cristiano Amon on the global chip shortage, why it won't build its own fabs, and opposition to the Nvidia-Arm deal — Cristiano Amon, incoming CEO of chipmaker Qualcomm, warns in an interview with CNET that the shortage may not end until late 2021.| Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Tencent, China's most valuable company at ~$900B, with a powerful ecosystem including WeChat, and local and overseas startup investments worth ~$259B — The tech giant has investments worth an estimated $259 billion in Chinese and overseas startups
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: four consortia, comprised of companies like Reliance, Paytm, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Visa, are preparing bids to operate India's digital payments — - Big tech, credit-card giants to compete for payment licenses — India's digital transactions set to reach $1 trillion in 2023
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| Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero : |
Q&A: WhatsApp's Will Cathcart on the Facebook-Apple feud, WhatsApp's new privacy policy, competing apps, and the debate over message “traceability” in India — 'If you're talking about break encryption, it's really hard for me to imagine being comfortable with it'
Tweets: @dlberes, @mattnavarra, and @profcarroll
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Sources: at least 30K US organizations have been hacked by an aggressive Chinese espionage group exploiting unpatched flaws in Microsoft's Exchange Server — At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns …
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| Benjamin Pimentel / Protocol: |
With Tidal, Square may give artists more control over the revenue streams they create, offer advances, royalty processing, and more traditional label services — It was a big week for Jack Dorsey, who started by turning heads in Wall Street, and then went Hollywood with an unexpected music-streaming deal.
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| Annabelle Williams / Insider: |
Report: 96.9% of Bay Area tech startups remained in the region in 2020; of those that moved, 21% moved to New York, 21% to other parts of CA, and 12% to TX — - A survey from Telstra Ventures shows that the majority of startups stayed in San Francisco in 2020.
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Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @lenny_mendonca, @producercities, @jaycuthrell, and @abrams
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Leaked interface shows that Twitter is testing an “undo send” feature which may be a button that doubles as a progress bar — A work-in-progress interface has been unearthed — A potential animation for Twitter's long-rumored “undo send” feature has been discovered …
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| Riley de León / CNBC: |
Online learning provider Coursera files its S-1, reports 2020 net losses widened to $66.8M, up 46% YoY, on revenue growth of $293.5M, up 59% YoY — - Coursera filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “COUR.”
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