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Yahoo Answers, one of the internet's most storied Q&A sites, will be shut down on May 4 and the company says a comprehensive archive will not be provided — The end of a long and storied internet era (of bad questions and even worse answers) — Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running … | James T. Areddy / Wall Street Journal: |
China is pitching the digital yuan as a way to soften the power of US sanctions, which are increasingly being used against Chinese companies and individuals — A cyber yuan stands to give Beijing power to track spending in real time, plus money that isn't linked to the dollar-dominated global financial system
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Clubhouse partners with Stripe to let its users send payments to other users without taking a cut; only selected users will be able to receive payments for now — From the earliest days of Clubhouse, a guiding principle has been to build a platform that puts the creator first.
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WhatsApp is testing the ability to easily migrate chat history between iOS and Android devices — Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry — This article shows a very interesting news about multi device: the possibility to transfer your chat history to a different WhatsApp platform in a future update.
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| Atul Bhattarai / Rest of World: |
A look at the rise and fall of India's missed call industry, which was transformed by Twitter-owned ZipDial that serviced 5M missed calls a day at its peak — In the age of expensive data, missed calls became more than just a cheap way to communicate. But in India, technology moves faster than you'd think.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's CRED, which rewards customers for paying their credit card bills on time, raises $215M Series D at a $2.2B post-money valuation, up from $800M in Jan. — Two-year-old CRED has become the youngest Indian startup to be valued at $2 billion or higher.
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Sources: Enjoy Technology, which runs mobile retail stores and is led by ex-Apple exec Ron Johnson, is in talks to go public via SPAC at a $1.6B valuation — Enjoy Technology Inc., a startup that has operated mobile retail stores for companies including Apple Inc., AT&T Inc. …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
tvOS 14.5 beta code suggests 120Hz refresh rate support could be available on the next gen Apple TV, rumored to have an HDMI 2.1 port for 4K 120Hz streaming — We've been hearing rumors about the next generation Apple TV for over a year now, and although more evidence has been found, Apple's plans for its set-top box remain unknown.
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| Tucker Higgins / CNBC: |
Supreme Court rules 6-2 in Google's favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Java APIs, overturning Oracle's win — - The Supreme Court on Monday sided with Google against Oracle in a long-running copyright dispute over the software used in Android. — The court's decision was 6-2.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
As the pandemic drags on, new shows are harder to come by for streaming services; report: the number of originals Netflix released so far in '21 is down 12% YoY — Streaming Services Have Finally Run Out of New Shows. Kind of. — Every couple weeks during the pandemic … | Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
A recent filing shows that Google acquired 3D audio startup Dysonics, whose employees now work on audio hardware at Google, in Dec.; terms of deal are not known — 3D audio startup Dysonics has been quietly acquired by Google, Protocol has learned. Some Dysonics staffers joined Google in recent months …
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Uber says driver price-naming and destination previewing policies it introduced last year in California have hurt its business, and is considering ending both — A year ago, Uber let its California drivers see ride destinations before picking up passengers and let them set pricing in an effort …
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