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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Sources say Discord is exploring a sale that could value it at $10B+, with one source saying it is in the final stage of negotiations — Discord is going through a sales process now that could result in a purchase of the communications and cha5t platform for much more than $10 billion, GamesBeat has learned.
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New York Times, The Next Web, Platformer, The Information, Reuters, Windows Central, GamesIndustry.biz, Pocketnow, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, and Gamasutra
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B; one source says Discord is more likely to go public than sell itself — Microsoft Corp. is in talks to acquire Discord Inc., a video-game chat community, for more than $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
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The Verge, Gizmodo, Windows Central, SlashGear, GameSpot, Engadget, MSPoweruser, IGN, dexerto.com, PC Gamer, Dot Esports, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, and Kotaku
Tweets: @matthewkeyslive, @bfod, @hardcoremetal89, @slasher, @business, and @devinkofsky
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Niantic announces a new partnership with Nintendo to develop mobile games built on Niantic's AR tech, starting with a game based on Nintendo's Pikmin franchise — Niantic and Nintendo announced a new partnership — Niantic, developer of the smash hit Pokémon Go, has announced a new partnership with Nintendo.
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Tweets: @msquinn, @nianticlabs, @louisgray, @zhugeex, @aliciastella, @domsplaying, and @martinsfp
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Biden announces his intent to nominate Lina Khan, a legal scholar and leading voice in the growing tech antitrust movement, to serve as an FTC commissioner — Khan brought Big Tech scrutiny mainstream — President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Lina Khan …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Judge certifies a class action suit against Apple that claims it knew for years that MacBooks' butterfly keyboards were flawed and small fixes were insufficient — The suit says Apple knew its thinner keyboard was rotten — A judge has certified a class action suit against Apple for its fragile butterfly keyboard design.
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Tweets: @reckless, @rsingel, @quinnypig, @joannastern, @dhh, and @zollotech
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Fitness company Peloton has recently acquired three startups, gaining expertise in wearable devices, voice assistants, and interactive workout mats — - Company quietly purchased Atlas Wearables, Otari and Aiqudo — Peloton Interactive Inc. recently acquired three companies … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft rebrands Xbox Live as Xbox network, says the change is to distinguish the online service from Xbox Live Gold membership — Xbox network is the future — Microsoft is rebranding Xbox Live to Xbox network. Instances of the new branding started appearing in the Xbox dashboard recently …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will begin a limited reopening of its Redmond HQ on March 29 and plans a future focus on hybrid workplaces — Microsoft is letting some employees back into the office — Microsoft is planning to start reopening its Redmond, Seattle headquarters later this month.
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Jack Dorsey's first tweet sold as an NFT for $2,915,835.47 on a service called Valuables; Dorsey says he sent all proceeds to GiveDirectly's Africa fund as BTC — The winning bidder for the Twitter CEO's first tweet was Sina Estavi — After it spent just over two weeks on the market …
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| R. Lawler / Engadget: |
Android apps like Gmail and Google Pay are crashing and “WebView” is to blame; Google says it is working on a fix — This afternoon, a number of Android users (self included) suddenly saw notifications pop up on their devices saying that apps had stopped running.
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| Joe Light / Bloomberg: |
Boston Fed officials and MIT researchers, who have been developing prototypes for a digital dollar platform, plan to unveil their research as soon as July — - Boston Fed, MIT researchers plan to unveil platform work soon — Project could threaten banks, credit cards, cryptocurrencies
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PYMNTS.com, The Block, and Decrypt
Tweets: @mazmhussain, @lisaabramowicz1, @anatocismos, @amlivemon, and @xrpcryptowolf
| Rand Fishkin / SparkToro: |
SimilarWeb: in 2020, ~65% of Google searches ended without a click, up from ~50% in June '19; mobile searches are far more likely to end without a click — In August of 2019, I published research from now-defunct clickstream data provider, Jumpshot, showing that 50.33% of all Google searches ended without …
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Search Engine Land. Tweets: @alexeheath, @carnage4life, @randfish, @ianlurie, @gfiorelli1, @cyrusshepard, @mikko, and @modestproposal1
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Samsung plans to release new Galaxy Z Flip and Fold phones this year and is working on a double-folding phone to be unveiled as early as this year — South Korean tech titan is working on new double-hinged model — TAIPEI/SEOUL — Samsung Electronics is betting heavily on foldable smartphones …
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Tweets: @nikkeiasia, @adammiarka, @jon_prosser, and @davezatz
| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
Facebook says it took down 1.3B fake accounts from October-December and 12M pieces of COVID-19 misinformation; Facebook has 35,000 staff tackling misinformation — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Monday it took down 1.3 billion fake accounts between October and December … | Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
YouTube confirms it is testing a feature in the US that automatically detects products in videos and provides related content links — As part of one of YouTube's latest experiments, the video-sharing platform looks to expand beyond the “Products in this Video” feature that auto-detects specific items …
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The Verge and The Next Web
Tweets: @lanceulanoff, @rakeshlobster, @mattcassinelli, @brianroemmele, @ohthatflo, and @seyitaylor
| Áine Cain / Insider: |
Report: Amazon has added 3,700 new sellers every day in 2021 so far for a total of 295,000; 26% of new sellers are in the US while 10.1% in India — - Research firm Finbold has found that Amazon is drawing in new sellers at a rapid rate. — In 2021, the online giant attracted 3,700 new merchants a day.| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
SCOTUS declined to hear Facebook's appeal to stop a proposed $15B class action lawsuit that accused Facebook of secretly tracking users via the “like” buttons — (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Facebook Inc's bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit accusing …
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Tweets: @riptari, @counternotions, @sp, and @kevinfiynn
| Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post: |
In a first, China defines the “necessary” info that apps can collect from users, closing a “bundled consent” loophole and limiting unauthorized data collection — Users of live-streaming, short video, news, browser and utility apps can access basic services … | Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Budget TV maker Vizio is planning a NYSE IPO and pitching investors on its growing ad and streaming businesses, driven by SmartCast, which has 12.2M accounts — - Vizio plans to sell shares in next week's IPO at $21 to $23 each, giving it a valuation of $4.2 billion at the top end of the range.| Reuters: |
Sources: Box is exploring a sale, discussing a potential deal with other companies and PE firms, amid pressure from hedge fund Starboard over stock performance — (Reuters) - U.S. cloud services provide Box Inc is exploring a sale amid pressure from hedge fund Starboard Value LP over its stock performance …
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InvestorPlace, Maropost Ventures, Insider, Silicon Valley Business …, and ZDNet. Tweets: @yoda
| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Richard Stallman says he has rejoined the Free Software Foundation's board; he resigned from the board and as president in 2019 after controversy over Epstein — The well-known founder of GNU software and free software resigned as president and board member of the FSF in 2019.
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Side, a real estate brokerage whose software helps agents with branding, marketing, and more, raises $150M, valuing it at $1B and bringing total raised to $200M — - Side reaches $1 billion valuation with $150 million round — San Francisco-based firm looks to expand to new states| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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