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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Chinese state broadcaster says Xi Jinping ordered regulators to increase oversight on internet companies, crack down on monopolies, and promote fair competition — - Comments from top leader follows fintech, antitrust actions — Regulators are said to set their sights on Tencent after Ant| Financial Times: |
Huawei, Xiaomi, Tencent, and other Chinese internet companies remove Alibaba's popular UC Browser from app stores, following Xi's warning of a crackdown — Group accused over misleading advertising as Xi Jinping warns tech crackdown will continue — Chinese internet companies have pulled …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Hacker paid a company called Sakari $16 to reroute a reporter's texts and used SMS 2FA to break into his accounts, 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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Medium, The Verge, and The Overspill
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases one-click Exchange On-Premises Mitigation Tool to help businesses, who don't have expertise, easily patch recently disclosed vulnerabilities — Microsoft has released a one-click Exchange On-premises Mitigation Tool (EOMT) tool to allow small business owners to easily mitigate …
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Microsoft Security …, GitHub, ZDNet, Engadget, The Hacker News, Petri, The Record, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @carmencrincoli, @kimzetter, @briankrebs, and @gossithedog
| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Report: iPhone 12 lineup lags behind 25 Android phones in 5G download speeds; Samsung accounts for 60% of top 25 5G performers with Galaxy S21 5G at the top — A new report from Opensignal paints a rough picture for how 5G performance on the iPhone 12 lineup stacks up against Android smartphones in the US.| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Signal app and website are unavailable in China but the app is still available in the App Store; Greatfire says Signal's website was banned on March 15 — Chinese users of the instant messenger Signal knew that the good times wouldn't last long. The app, which is used for encrypted conversations …
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Washington Post, MacRumors, Engadget, Reuters, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, iMore, The Economic Times, Protocol, and CNBC
Tweets: @ritacyliao, @greatfirechina, @zackwhittaker, and @csuwildcat
| 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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| 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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Reports claim that an Nvidia test driver for developers to test the Windows Subsystem for Linux can unlock the RTX 3060's Ethereum cryptomining performance — Nvidia probably didn't mean to do this — Nvidia implemented a special system to reduce the hash rate of Ethereum mining on its new RTX 3060 graphics card last month.
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Gumroad, which helps creators sell their works, raised $5M via the SEC's new rules, which raised equity crowdfunding from $1.07M to $5M per year on March 15 — New SEC equity crowdfunding rules open the door to welcome non-accredited investors — Gumroad, a startup that helps creators sell their work …
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Crunchbase News, Protocol, Crowdfund Insider, and Axios
Tweets: @nmasc_, @pierce, @aaronpk, @nmasc_, @gogoslava, @shl, @kateclarktweets, and @nmasc_
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Tencent and ByteDance are a testing a new tool called CAID, developed by the China Advertising Association, to bypass Apple's IDFA ad privacy changes — ByteDance and Tencent see if they can keep tracking iPhone users with solution created by state-backed group
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No IDFA? No Problem and Pixel Envy
Tweets: @thezedwards, @patrickmcgee_, @marietjeschaake, @jason_kint, @profcarroll, @eddiedu5, and @karolcummins
| Brianna Provenzano / Gizmodo: |
California approves new regulations under CCPA to prohibit the use of “dark patterns”, tricks deployed by websites and apps to frustrate or mislead users — New regulations were approved under California's Consumer Privacy Act on Monday that will prohibit the use of so-called dark patterns … | 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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Voyage, SiliconANGLE, The Robot Report, Los Angeles Times, PYMNTS.com, Silicon Valley Business …, SlashGear, VentureBeat, and Engadget
Tweets: @olivercameron, @lukesbeard, @kvogt, and @olivercameron
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Vienna-based trading platform Bitpanda raises $170M Series B led by Valar Ventures at $1.2B valuation, making it Austria's first unicorn — One of the bigger startups in Europe operating a trading platform for cryptocurrency has closed a big round of funding on the heels of very rapid growth …
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CoinDesk, The Block, Silicon Republic, Tech.eu, and Cointelegraph
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based SumUp, which helps companies manage card payments, raises ~$895M from Goldman Sachs and others and says it has 3M customers — SumUp, a London-based startup that helps businesses power revenues through card payments — by way of physical readers, online payments …
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Tech.eu
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A growing number of Apple device owners say they are receiving FaceTime group calls from spammers and the built-in tools to deal with such spam are inadequate — Apple doesn't provide tools that effectively ease a major headache for FaceTime users. — FaceTime users are getting bombarded …
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MacRumors, iMore, 9to5Mac, and AppleInsider
| Yonhap News Agency: |
Sources: Google will lower its commission on all in-app purchases from 30% to 15% in South Korea for developers with less than $1M annual sales, starting July 1 — Global tech giant Google pushs to lower its planned commission rate for app developers, parliamentary and industry sources said Monday …
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| 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 …
Tweets: @tylersonnemaker, @diptidesaisf, @justkelly_ok, @ekp, @kf, @blackamazon, @grahamstarr, @ekp, @projectinclude, and @kimcrayton1
| Bloomberg: |
Huawei says it will start charging Apple, Samsung, and other manufacturers royalties for 5G patents, a potentially lucrative scheme as US sanctions bite — - Executives pledge to charge rates below its competitors — Company is keen to expand its clout in global 5G networking
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9to5Mac, Reuters, CNBC, and Nikkei Asia
| IDC: |
Wearable device shipments for 2020 grew 28.4% to 444.7M units globally, led by Apple which grew 27.2% in Q4 and has 36.2% marketshare, followed by Xiaomi at ~9% — Worldwide shipments of wearable devices reached 153.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2020 (4Q20), a year-over-year increase …
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phonearena.com, CNET, iMore, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, 9to5Mac, Neowin, Patently Apple, and iClarified
| BuzzFeed News: |
Researchers found that on Amazon, COVID-19 conspiracy books have appeared on the first page of search results for terms like “covid”, “covid-19”, and “vaccine” — Conspiracy theorist David Icke's lies about COVID-19 caused Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Spotify to ban him.
Tweets: @slpng_giants, @stephaniecarvin, and @elastigirlvotes
| Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Report: UK tech startups raised a record $15B in 2020, higher than any country besides US ($144B) and China ($44.6B), and $8B in the first three months of 2021 — Tech sector pulls away from France and Germany despite pandemic and Brexit challenges — The UK tech sector attracted record investment …
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Tech Nation. More:
Dealroom, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, and Kane Fulton
Tweets: @technation, @technation, @technation, @technation, and @technation
| 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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About Facebook, Techpoint Africa, Insider, CNN, Financial Times, BGR, Social Media Today, Tom's Guide, MobiHealthNews, SiliconANGLE, and Fast Company
Tweets: @urocklive1, @coldchrisfiles1, @giselapereztv, @vinnieantoneli, @nicolamen, @hypervisible, @_karenhao, @facebook, @alexvoica, and @fbnewsroom
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
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