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Hacker pays a company called Sakari $16 to reroute a reporter's texts, using SMS 2FA to break into accounts and showing the need for regulation of SMS tools — A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes,by simply paying a company to reroute text messages. — Joseph Cox
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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
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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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Report: Amazon is expanding FC Games, “mini-games” that let workers compete for digital rewards like virtual pets by finishing warehouse tasks, across 20 states — The program, FC Games, is expanding to at least 20 fulfillment centers in the US| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Cruise acquires Voyage in another autonomous vehicle startup merger; Voyage focuses on fleets of low-speed vehicles making trips to retirement communities — Dense, urban testing meets low-speed retirement community testing — Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors …
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| Ben Klayman / Reuters: |
GM says that due to the global chip shortage it will build certain 2021 pickups without a fuel management module, hurting those trucks' fuel economy performance — DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Monday that due to the global semiconductor chip shortage the U.S. automaker … | 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.
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| News Corp: |
News Corp says it has reached a three-year deal with Facebook to provide news to Facebook users in Australia through the Facebook News product — Expands News Corp-Facebook Connection, Which Began With Deal In US — New York, NY (March 15, 2021) - News Corp announced today that it has reached …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Adobe data on US e-commerce: consumers spent $844B online from March 2020 to February 2021, up $183B YoY, and are on track to spend over $1T annually by 2022 — The COVID-19 pandemic boosted U.S. online shopping by $183 billion, according to a new report by Adobe's e-commerce division, released this morning.| 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| Tyler Sonnemaker / Business Insider Australia: |
30 current and former Mailchimp staffers detail the conditions that led to a “mass exodus” of women and people of color, including high profile execs, directors — - Women and people of color have left Mailchimp in droves in recent months. — Those who spoke to Insider …
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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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| 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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| Avery Hartmans / Insider: |
A look at the high-profile athletes, especially NBA stars, investing in tech startups like Marqeta, Brigit, Whoop, Tonal, and more over the past few years — - NBA stars have been investing in Silicon Valley startups since as far back as 2015. — Now it's rapidly increasing …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
WeLeakInfo, which sold access to 12B+ stolen credentials before the FBI seized its domain, leaked account and payment info of over 24,000 of its own customers — A little over a year ago, the FBI and law enforcement partners overseas seized WeLeakInfo[.]com, a wildly popular service … | AnandTech: |
Review of the 3rd-gen EPYC Milan chips shows AMD continues to strengthen and maintain a very stark one-sided performance advantage against its main rival, Intel — The arrival of AMD's 3rd Generation EPYC processor family, using the new Zen 3 core, has been hotly anticipated.
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| Jackie Snow / New York Times: |
Amazon, Facebook, others work to make e-commerce livestreaming popular in the US, chasing a trend seen in China, where livestreaming drives ~9% of online sales — Amazon Live is a prominent example of how interactive video shopping, popularized by TV networks like QVC, has moved online.
Tweets: @jackiesnow and @juokaz
| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple, Google, and others hire lobbyists to counter proposed legislation in Arizona, Maryland, Virginia, and Texas aimed at privacy, app store fees, and ads — Google, Apple, Facebook and others are targets of proposals in Texas and Arizona aimed at issues beyond privacy
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| 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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Sources: Indian fintech startup CRED is in talks to raise about $200M at a ~$2B valuation, following its $81M Series C that valued it at ~$806M in January — Bangalore's fintech startup ecosystem is inching closer to delivering a new unicorn: CRED. — Two-year-old CRED is in advanced stages … Sponsor Posts
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