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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Sources: Facebook will announce a suite of audio products on Monday, including a Clubhouse-like app, a podcast discovery product connected to Spotify, and more — Announcements are coming on Monday, but some products won't show up for a while. — Facebook wants you to start talking, and listening, on Facebook.
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| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Source: Clubhouse's latest round values the startup at $4B — Audio-chat app Clubhouse closed a new Series C round of financing, the company said during its weekly town hall on Sunday, without disclosing the amount raised. — A source familiar with the matter confirmed to Reuters …
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| Clubhouse: |
Clubhouse has raised a Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz, with DST Global, Tiger Global, and Elad Gil participating — Since then we have grown faster than expected, as Clubhouse has expanded across hundreds of countries around the world. With millions of new users bouncing around the hallways …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
WordPress announces that it will treat Google's FLoC as a “security concern”, and will automatically disable the technology in its upcoming July release — WordPress announced today that they plan on treating Google's new FLoC tracking technology as a security concern and plans to block it by default on WordPress sites.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
What to expect from Apple's April 20 event: refreshed iPads, including Pro model with mini-LED display, 3rd-gen Pencil, AirTags, iMacs in different colors, more — Apple is planning to hold its first event of 2021 on Tuesday, April 20, and it's looking like it will be an iPad-centric event.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
The Bank of England and the UK Treasury jointly create a taskforce to explore a potential central bank digital currency — Quick Take — The Bank of England and HM Treasury have jointly created a CBDC taskforce. — They will explore a potential digital currency in the U.K.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Zilch, a buy now pay later service, raises $80M Series B at a $500M+ valuation from Gauss Ventures, M&F Fund, and others — The buy now, pay later model, popularized by companies like Klarn and Affirm has been one of the big e-commerce winners in the last year …
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| Fiona Kelliher / Mercury News: |
Charles “Chuck” Geschke, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with John Warnock and helped develop PDF technology, has died at 81 — Charles “Chuck” Geschke, co-founder of the iconic Silicon Valley company Adobe Inc. and prominent cheerleader of downtown San Jose, died Friday at age 81.
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| Nina Nanji / BBC: |
Facebook says employees can continue permanently working from home, even after July 2021, subject to approval from managers — Facebook says its employees can continue working from home, even as other tech giants appear to be going off the idea. — The social media company told the BBC it thinks remote work is “the future”.| Will Goodbody / RTÉ: |
Newly filed Google Ireland Holdings accounts show $75B+ in profits moved through the subsidiary in 2019, the last year Google used the “double Irish” tax scheme — Newly filed accounts show that over $75bn in profits moved through a subsidiary of Google that was incorporated in Ireland in 2019 …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
A look back at the netbook explosion of the late 2000s and how iPads, Chromebooks, and appliance-like computers took the netbook's place — The sound of a slow processor screaming — There's an Apple event next week, and it's looking fairly likely that we'll see updated models of the iPad Pro and perhaps the iPad Mini.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based Razorpay, which helps SMBs manage digital payments, raises $160M Series E led by GIC and Sequoia Capital India at a valuation of $3B — Six-year-old Bangalore-based fintech Razorpay topped a $1 billion valuation late last year, becoming the first Y Combinator-backed Indian startup …
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