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Sources: Twitter discussed acquiring Clubhouse for around $4B but the talks fell apart; Clubhouse is now looking to raise funding at a $4B valuation — - Talks no longer active between Twitter, social media startup — Clubhouse is seeking to raise funding at a similar valuation
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| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
Peter Thiel says he is a pro-Bitcoin maximalist, but Bitcoin threatens fiat money and might be used by China to undercut the US dollar's reserve currency status — Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist and conservative political donor, urged the U.S. government to consider tighter regulations …
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| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Facebook says it did not notify users about the 2019 data leak affecting 533M accounts at the time and doesn't plan to do so now — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc did not notify the more than 530 million users whose details were obtained through the misuse of a feature before 2019 and recently …
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BuzzFeed News, Politico, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Graham Cluley, Pixel Envy, CNET, equalocean.com, New York Post, and Business Insider Australia
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
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VICE, The Overspill, fossbytes.com, Input, MacRumors, OneZero , Pocketnow, and PCMag
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils a revamped Find My program with support for third-party devices and says devices from Belkin, Chipolo, and VanMoof will be first to work with it — Apple today announced the launch of its Find My network accessory program, which is designed to allow third-party Bluetooth devices …
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Tweets: @rsgnl, @reneritchie, @jonyiveparody, @armadsen, @reneritchie, @producthunt, @fredericjacobs, @leaksapplepro, @brandonbutch, @fosspatents, @briantong, @benedictevans, @bzamayo, @rsgnl, @rsgnl, @rsgnl, @sdw, @stevemoser, @bzamayo, and @rsgnl
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's NPE team launches a public beta for Hotline, a web-based app letting creators stream live video or audio-only Q&As; events are recorded automatically — Facebook's internal R&D group, NPE Team, has today launched its latest experiment, Hotline, into public beta testing.| Emi Nietfeld / New York Times: |
An ex-Google engineer says she endured harassment for over a year and that Google's positive external image led her to delay reporting it — I learned the hard way that no publicly traded company is a family. — Ms. Nietfeld is a software engineer. She worked at Google from 2015 to 2019.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: production of some MacBooks and iPads has been postponed due to the global component shortage, a sign that the chip shortage is growing more serious — US tech giant's headaches suggest even worse chip shortages lie ahead — TAIPEI — Production of some MacBooks and iPads …
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The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Patently Apple, and iPhone Hacks
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| Melissa Repko / CNBC: |
Best Buy is piloting Best Buy Beta, a new membership program with perks including unlimited tech support and free shipping for $200/yr, starting in IA, OK, PA — - Best Buy is piloting an annual membership program in select stores in Iowa, Oklahoma and eastern Pennsylvania.
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Best Buy Corporate, Bloomberg, The Verge, Engadget, CNN, Bring Me The News, TheStreet, SlashGear, Ars Technica, PYMNTS.com, PCMag, and Insider
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| Quint Forgey / Politico: |
Twitter says it won't let the US National Archives make @realDonaldTrump's old tweets available publicly via Twitter's platform, citing his permanent suspension — Twitter will not allow the National Archives to make former President Donald Trump's past tweets from his @realDonaldTrump account available …
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Insider, BetaNews, and Mashable
Tweets: @quintforgey, @janeymurph, @pinboard, @pinboard, @devinkofsky, @wexler, @reptomcoleman, @davetroy, @th3j35t3r, @doughenwood, @pinboard, and @b52malmet
| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Facing a shortage of drivers, Uber will spend $250M on a one-time “stimulus” for US drivers and Lyft is offering $800 bonuses for referring former drivers — Ride-sharing apps turn to bonuses and extra pay as they struggle to meet a rebound in demand
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The Verge, Uber Newsroom, The Next Web, coinspeaker.com, CNBC, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, and Ars Technica
Tweets: @daveleeft, @oscar, @king_kaufman, @peterpham, and @dkhos
| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Twitch expands its misconduct policy to ban users who harass members of its community, even when that harassment takes place off Twitch — It's a major expansion of the platform's misconduct policy — Twitch will now ban users who harass members of its community — even when that harassment takes place off Twitch.
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Twitch Blog, Platformer, Hollywood Reporter, Washington Post, CNBC, Engadget, GeekWire, GameSpot, Dot Esports, GamesIndustry.biz, The Hill, Kotaku, Polygon, Game Rant, and dexerto.com
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces a virtual I/O from May 18 to May 20, with registration opening soon; the date was hidden behind a puzzle — After canceling entirely last year, Google today announced that I/O 2021 will be virtual and free to attend. The conference is historically held …
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Ubergizmo, OnMSFT.com, Pocket-lint, AppleInsider, SiliconANGLE, and XDA Developers
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
T-Mobile launches its 5G home internet service, costing $60-$65/month with no data caps, hardware rental fees, or annual contracts — Once again putting Sprint's mid-band spectrum to work — After a long pilot period, T-Mobile is making its 5G home internet service a reality.
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PCMag, PCMag, Light Reading, T-Mobile, WRAL TechWire, Business Wire, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, TmoNews, SlashGear, Android Headlines, FierceWireless, BGR, and AppleInsider. Tweets: @trengriffin
| Derrek Lee / Android Central: |
Google has started rolling out an updated UI for the Play Store, which moves the Play Store menu items to the profile thumbnail and removes the hamburger menu — The Play Store redesign is here whether you like it or not. — What you need to know — Google's new Play Store UI is rolling out now on Android devices.| Tate Ryan-Mosley / MIT Technology Review: |
An in-depth look at the impact, often negative and not fully understood, of AR beauty filters on social media, especially on girls and young women — Veronica started using filters to edit pictures of herself on social media when she was 14 years old. She remembers everyone in her middle school …
Tweets: @beebrookshire, @drewharwell, @techreview, and @techreview
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Indian social media startup ShareChat raises $502M from investors including Tiger Global, Snap, and Twitter, at a valuation of $2.1B, and says it has 160M MAUs — Indian social media company raised $500m for short-video app Moj — Indian social media firm ShareChat has raised more than half …
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Medium, The Economic Times, Entrackr, TechCircle, MediaNama, and Reuters
Tweets: @ankushsach, @kushalbhagia, and @akm1410
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Pew: YouTube usage grew from 73% of US adults in 2019 to 81% in 2021, with 95% of 18- to 29-year-olds using the service; 69% use Facebook and 21% use TikTok — - YouTube saw the most significant growth of any social media app among American users during the pandemic, according to the Pew Research Center.| Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Mobile ad tech company AppLovin aims to raise up to $2.13B via its IPO, pricing shares at $75-$85 for a $30B+ valuation; S-1 showed a net loss of $126M in 2020 — Mobile app and gaming company AppLovin Corp. set targets Wednesday for an initial public offering that could value it at more than $30 billion.| Kelsey Cheng / Pandaily: |
China-based online grocery delivery service Dingdong Maicai raises $700M Series D; Dingdong Maicai was reportedly valued at $2B after raising $300M in May 2020 — Chinese grocery platform Dingdong Maicai has raised $700 million in a series D round of financing co-led by investment firms DST Global …
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Caixin Global, Reuters, CHINAdaily, and Yicai Global
| Reuters: |
Autonomous trucking startup TuSimple is aiming to raise ~$1.3B in its US IPO, with expected share price between $35-$39, and is targeting a valuation of $8B+ — (Reuters) -Self-driving truck startup TuSimple Holdings Inc said on Wednesday it was targeting a valuation of more than $8 billion in its U.S. initial public offering (IPO).
| Bloomberg: |
How Intel's missteps let competitors surpass it in key areas, driven by cultural complacency, a manufacturing shift to Asia, and missed mobile opportunities — The statement, conveyed as the third bullet point of a quarterly earnings release, was both mind-numbingly technical and inscrutably terse …
Tweets: @dinabass, @markhachman, @dinabass, @chafkin, @tsgiles, @scottlincicome, and @chafkin
| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Alienware announces M15 R5, starting at $2,230, with AMD Ryzen 5000 H-series CPUs, the first Alienware laptop since 2007 to use AMD processors — Expect big performance boosts — Alienware has announced the latest revision to its flagship gaming laptop lineup, the 15-inch Alienware M15 R5.
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XDA Developers, The Verge, and Ars Technica
| Nikkei Asia: |
Internal memo: Huawei is closing its core cloud and AI business after only 14 months, splitting the group into two — Change mirrors struggle to transition from hardware maker to service provider — Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies is closing its core cloud and artificial … Sponsor Posts
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