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Facebook debuts tools to promote COVID-19 vaccinations: helping US users find slots, partnering with health authorities on WhatsApp, labeling all vaccine posts — Facebook said Monday it's releasing new tools to make it easier for people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Internal docs: a Facebook study about US users' vaccine hesitancy finds “substantial harm” from content that doesn't violate the company's rules — Internal study finds a QAnon connection and that content that doesn't break the rules may be causing ‘substantial’ harm
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Stripe raises $600M from Sequoia Capital and others at a valuation of $95B, becoming the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley — Payments provider becomes Silicon Valley's most valuable private company — Stripe has become the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has produced …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple AirPods 3 will not enter mass production until Q3 2021; AirPods shipments will decline from 90M in 2020 to 78M in 2021 due to increasing competition — Despite a flurry of leaks surrounding next-gen AirPods in the last couple of weeks, Ming-Chi Kuo this morning said that new AirPods …
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| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
AMD launches 3rd-gen EPYC Milan CPUs for enterprise and cloud computing workloads, a few weeks before Intel's expected debut of new Xeon Scalable chips — The new server processors come with big price-performance and total cost of ownership benefits over Intel's Xeon Scalable chips, according to AMD.| New York Times: |
After US intel agencies, FBI, and DHS missed Chinese and Russian hacks, White House is looking to overhaul cyber defenses, including new industry partnerships — The intelligence agencies missed massive intrusions by Russia and China, forcing the administration and Congress to look for solutions …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Microsoft stands to receive $150M in US cybersecurity spending, nearly 25% of cybersecurity funds from COVID-19 relief bill, angering some lawmakers — SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft stands to receive nearly a quarter of Covid relief funds destined for U.S. cybersecurity defenders …
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent shares fell 4% on Monday and 4.4% on Friday, wiping out $62B, as sources say China's regulators will focus on Tencent following Ant Group crackdown — - Its fintech, payments business worth $120 billion: Bernstein — Shares fall a second day on concern over regulatory scrutiny| Steven Bertoni / Forbes: |
Low-code database service Airtable raises $270M Series E at a $5.77B valuation led by Greenoaks Capital, following $185M Series D at a $2.5B valuation last year — Howie Liu, the cofounder and CEO of cloud software start-up Airtable, has raised a $270 million Series E round at a valuation of $5.77 billion.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Match Group invests in Garbo, a nonprofit that lets people run background checks with a first name and phone number, and will add the service to Tinder — Only a last name or phone number needed — Tinder and other Match Group-owned apps are going to let their users run background checks on possible dates.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple says App Store supports over 330K jobs in the UK, up 10% YoY, with £3.6B in total earnings, up 22% YoY; App Store supports 1.7M jobs in Europe, up 7% YoY — Apple says its App Store now supports more than 330,000 jobs in the U.K., a 10% increase over the past year …
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| Christoph Rauwald / Bloomberg: |
Inside Volkswagen's $30B plan to boost its software efforts, to compete with Tesla, hampered by internal battles, technical glitches, and a complex structure — Internal battles, technical glitches and a complex structure have hampered the German auto giant's software efforts
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| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
Survey of 1,504 tech employees across the US: 78% say the tech industry is too powerful, 40% say it does more harm than good, 73% support more AI regulation — Big Tech executives do a lot of talking. On their platforms, in interviews and on Capitol Hill.Sponsor Posts
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