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Documents: Apple denied Parler reentry into the App Store, citing a lack of changes; source says Parler let its three remaining iOS developers go — - Apple's recent review found ‘Nazi symbols’ on the Parler site — Parler eliminates seven workers, most of whom were contractors
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Three former employees say that 100+ employees at Verkada could view the camera feeds of its thousands of customers via widely used super admin accounts — - Former employee said issue was raised with Verkada executives — Hackers gained access to 150,000 customer camera feeds
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Adobe rolls out a version of Photoshop optimized for Apple Silicon, claiming a 1.5X performance improvement over most Photoshop tasks on Intel Macs — Adobe says there are a ton of speed and performance gains — Lightroom was the first Adobe creative app to make the leap to Apple Silicon …
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Twitter says it is testing displaying large images, instead of cropped previews, on iOS and Android and will add support for 4K photo uploads — “Sometimes it's better said with a picture or a video.” — What you need to know — Twitter is testing new features that will let you see a single image in full on your timeline.
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Google says it will give an option to Google Pay users to share transaction data with the company to make personalized offers, starting next week — Three and a half years after launching Google Pay in India, the Android-maker is paving the way to tap its users' transaction data for monetization purposes … | Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it has filed motions to dismiss antitrust lawsuits brought by the FTC and state AGs, arguing its conduct did not harm competition or consumers — Action marks its first legal salvo since the FTC and 46 states sued the company in December — WASHINGTON— Facebook Inc … | CNBC: |
Roblox closes at $69.50, valuing it at $38.26B, after opening under RBLX at $64.50, up 43% from its January funding round — - Roblox held its stock market debut on Wednesday through a direct listing and is now trading under ticker symbol RBLX. — The company's stock closed at $69.50 apiece … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
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Experts say Russia accidentally blocked domains with the characters “t.co”, like Microsoft.com, as well as some government websites, while slowing down Twitter — Reminder: Internet censorship can have unintended consequences. — Russian internet users began noticing something strange … | Reuters: |
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Coupang priced its IPO at $35 per share, above its target range, to raise $4.2B and give the South Korean e-commerce giant a market value of about $60B — - South Korean e-commerce company sells shares for $35 each — Coupang shares set to begin trading Thursday on NYSE| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Data center operator OVH says a fire destroyed some of its sites in France, affecting cyber threat intelligence company Bad Packets, game maker Rust, and others — In a major unprecedented incident, data centers of OVH located in Strasbourg, France have been destroyed by fire.
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Q&A with Chris Sacca on his brief retirement, Trump and Biden, investing in climate startups, how investing has changed, NFTs, and more — In 2015, venture capitalist Chris Sacca was one of Silicon Valley's most influential investors, No. 3 on the Midas List with more than one million Twitter followers …
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Oppo unveils Find X3 Pro with Snapdragon 888, 6.7-inch 120Hz QHD+ AMOLED display, 12GB RAM, 256GB storage, 4,500mAh battery, 50 MP main and ultrawide camera — The covers have now been lifted from the Oppo Find X3 series with three models — X3 Lite, X3 Neo, and X3 Pro — all being showcased during a live-streamed launch event.
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Cloudera beats with Q4 revenue of $226.6M, up 7% YoY, subscription rev. of $206.8M, up 14% YoY, and ARR of $778M, up 10% YoY — Although Cloudera's January-quarter results beat expectations, the outlook for revenue this year was disappointing. — Data management software pioneer Cloudera …
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Kuo: all four iPhone 13 models will feature larger batteries with higher capacities, hence new models will also be heavier than iPhone 12 — Apple appears to be improving the iPhone's battery life with the iPhone 13 lineup, using a number of design changes, bigger batteries, and efficiency improvements.
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Filing: Facebook pulls out of the Hong Kong-Americas undersea fiber project amid US pressure, after putting its Pacific Light Cable Network on hold in August — China-California link is latest in a string of cables project derailed by pressure from U.S. national-security officials| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Twitter says it aims to let anyone start hosting Spaces in April, after testing with a select few — If you're wondering where those promised Spaces are — If you opened your phone this morning to see a Twitter app update, you might have been excited — and then confused …
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XDA Developers, TestingCatalog, Mashable, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, Social Media Today, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac
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Tetrate, which develops an app management platform for hybrid and multicloud environments, raises $40M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures — Tetrate, the company commercializing an open-source networking project that allows for easier data sharing across different applications, has raised $40 million.
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Tweets: @sapphirevc, @tetrateio, @delltechcapital, @caseynewton, and @cra
| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: EU regulators are struggling to gather enough evidence to bring antitrust charges against Amazon despite working on the case for nearly two years — Regulators face difficulties gathering evidence against tech giant nearly two years after probe was announced
Tweets: @carnage4life, @benedictevans, @aral, and @daveleeft
| Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
License plate scanning is ubiquitous in the US, with few privacy protections; one company, Vigilant Solutions, promotes a database of 9B+ license plate scans — Mass surveillance, warrantless searches help police track down stolen cars, suspected Capitol rioters despite scant public awareness of data troves| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Creators are monetizing through hyper-specific revenue streams like NewNew, which lets fans pay to vote to control a creator's day-to-day decisions — Digital stars are coming up with new ways to make money. Yet fans still hold the power. — A rash of new start-ups are making it easier … | Jon Swartz / MarketWatch: |
Asana beats with Q4 revenue of $68.4M, up 57% YoY, net loss of $61.5M, up from $25.2M in Q4 2020, and says it has 93K paying customers — Shares of Asana Inc. ASAN, -2.77% were initially up 9% in extended trading Wednesday after the maker of workflow-management software announced fiscal …
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TikTok gives users the ability to approve all new comments before they appear and adds in-app prompts to discourage nasty comments — TikTok is introducing new features meant to — reduce bullying and harassment on its platform: new comment controls and in-app prompts to discourage nasty comments.
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