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Sensor Tower: if a 15% commission was in place in 2020, Apple would have missed out on an estimated $595M, or 2.7%, and Google $587M, or 5%, in app store fees — - Apple and Google have announced changes to app store fees that impact app makers making less than $1 million per year.| Dan Sullivan / Tampa Bay Times: |
A Florida teen who hacked well-known Twitter accounts last summer and used them to ask for BTC, netting $100K+ worth, was sentenced to 3 years in a plea deal — Graham Ivan Clark, 18, agreed to plea guilty to fraud charges for a hack of several Twitter accounts last summer.
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Tweets: @nytmedia, @rachelmetz, @harrymccracken, @tb_times, @briankrebs, @nktpnd, @chrismessina, @lanceulanoff, @williamturton, @puiwingtam, and @kimzetter
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SEC filing: Uber will reclassify its UK drivers as “workers”, granting them vacation pay, minimum wage, and pension plan access, but not full employee benefits — - Uber will reclassify all U.K.-based drivers as workers. — Under the new designation, more than 70,000 drivers … | Dara Khosrowshahi / London Evening Standard: |
Uber's thinking on UK driver rights has evolved and worker flexibility “should not come at the expense of social protections” — T — hree weeks after I became CEO of Uber in 2017, our licence to operate in London was revoked. It was not how I expected to start my new job …
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it is considering skipping launch of a new Note this year to streamline its line-up and warns of a “serious imbalance” in semiconductors globally — - It's seeing a ‘serious imbalance’ in global semiconductors — The warning suggests shortages may spread beyond autos
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @business, @caro_milanesi, @johnpharmd, @alexdobie, and @tracyalloway
| Noam Cohen / Wired: |
Wikimedia Foundation debuts Wikimedia Enterprise, a premium service for delivering Wikipedia content to companies like Google, but a free option will remain — The Big Four all lean on the encyclopedia at no cost. With the launch of Wikimedia Enterprise, the volunteer project will change that—and possibly itself, too.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it will publish an annual report detailing its impact on human rights, and will establish a fund to support human rights activists and journalists — - Social media giant to give board formal updates on the issue — Company has been criticized for role in Myanmar, Sri Lanka
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Facebook's interest in newsletters stems from its shift in product development to focus on private messaging and Groups, not the News Feed — Hint: it's all about Groups. PLUS: Substack fumbles — Today let's talk about platforms' growing interest in building newsletter tools …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Squarespace raises $300M in a round valuing it at $10B, two months after it filed confidentially to go public via a direct listing or an IPO — Squarespace has raised $300 million in a round of funding that values the company at a staggering $10 billion valuation.
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| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
McAfee researchers detail a Chinese cyberespionage campaign targeting at least 23 telcos in the US, Europe, and SE Asia to steal data, including for 5G tech — Cybersecurity researchers at McAfee detail an ongoing cyber espionage campaign which is targeting telecoms companies around the world.
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Tweets: @mcafee_labs, @mcafee, @mcafee_labs, and @dannyjpalmer
| The Verge: |
A group of 15 AGs update their antitrust complaint against Google, taking aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox and other privacy updates related to ad targeting — ‘Google is trying to hide its true intentions behind a pretext of privacy,’ say prosecutors — State antitrust watchdogs …
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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Stripe's Patrick Collison, Microsoft's Brad Smith, Google's Thomas Kurian, and Cloudflare's Matthew Prince discuss moderation in internet infrastructure — It was Patrick Collison, Stripe's CEO, who pointed out to me that one of the animating principles of early 20th-century Progressivism …
Tweets: @stratechery, @tomgara, @mathewi, @mattzeitlin, @seanrose, @marklittlenews, @sarthakgh, @alecstapp, and @scottew
| William Turton / Bloomberg: |
Leaked audio from a February 8 meeting reveals Parler's chief policy officer saying: “We are not going after misinformation in any way” — Leaked recordings of meetings detail role of Rebekah Mercer at social-media platform — Conservative donor Rebekah Mercer has been writing checks …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
A book excerpt provides a look at how Google edged out Baidu, Microsoft, and DeepMind to acquire DNNresearch, which was founded by AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton — How the shape of deep learning—and the fate of the tech industry—went up for sale in Harrah's Room 731, on the shores of Lake Tahoe.
Tweets: @pmddomingos, @hardmaru, @wired, and @ankurhandos
| Billy Tallis / AnandTech: |
Micron says it is ceasing all R&D on its 3D XPoint memory, which it developed with Intel, and has listed its fab in Lehi, Utah for sale — In a sudden but perhaps not too surprising announcement, Micron has stated that they are ceasing all R&D of 3D XPoint memory technology.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Oregon-based Dutchie, an e-commerce platform for cannabis dispensaries, raised $200M Series C at a $1.7B valuation, up nearly eight times from last August — Dutchie, a nearly four-year-old, Bend, Oregon company that charges cannabis dispensaries a monthly fee to create and run their websites … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Profile of Katie Moussouris, a pioneer of the bug bounty model, who sees her failed lawsuit against Microsoft as a test case for pay equity claims in tech — When she thinks of pay equity these days, Katie Moussouris thinks of her mother Anuncia. — “The fact that she was never …
Tweets: @jwgoerlich, @verge, @_noid_, and @webjedi
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Baidu is set to raise $3.1B in its Hong Kong secondary listing, after pricing its shares at ~$32.45 each — New York-listed search group sells shares closer to home as US-China tensions rise — Baidu is set to raise more than $3bn in a Hong Kong stock market listing …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces second-generation Nest Hub with sleep tracking, powered by a Soli radar chip, for $100, shipping on March 30 — In deciding to not put a camera on what was initially called the Home Hub, Google made its first Assistant Smart Display ideal for nightstands.
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Tweets: @joannastern, @aldatweets, @jetscott, @jasonhowell, @jank0, @balloob, @edgeimpulse, @googleai, @alexzfinley, @erickschonfeld, @dankim, @ianhlake, @richontech, @reckless, @joannastern, and @jjvincent
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
PatSnap, which offers an AI-powered service to help R&D teams analyze the intellectual property landscape, raises $300M Series E led by Tencent and SoftBank — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — PatSnap, which offers a patent …
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
France says Apple's upcoming IDFA ad privacy changes are not abusive but will investigate if Apple has stricter rules for third-party apps than for its own apps — French competition authority says Apple's changes 'don't appear to be abusive' — France's competition regulator rejected …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, MacRumors, iMore, equalocean.com, and Patently Apple. Tweets: @privacymatters
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