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Venmo adds support for buying, holding, and selling four types of cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash — Venmo is adding support for cryptocurrency, starting today. The company says it will begin to roll out the ability for Venmo's more than 70 million users to buy …
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| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Binance hires Brian Brooks as CEO, starting May 1; he was previously acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under the Trump administration — Brian Brooks, an acting head of Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under Trump, will become CEO of Binance.US
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Facebook says it will start testing Live Audio Rooms in Groups and expects to roll out the feature to everyone on the Facebook app by the summer — Storytelling helps people build meaningful bonds: we all have stories to share with our friends, our communities, and the world at large.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Nextdoor is introducing an anti-racism notification, which asks users to reconsider posting content if the app thinks it may be offensive — It calls the feature the anti-racism notification — Nextdoor is introducing a new anti-racism notification, which asks users to reconsider posting content …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
PayPal to launch a local wallet in China focused on cross-border payments; PayPal is the first foreign firm with 100% ownership of a payments platform in China — - PayPal plans to set up a local wallet in China focused on cross-border payments. — In January, the U.S. fintech became …
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| Sean Burch / The Wrap: |
Sensor Tower: Clubhouse was downloaded 2.7M times in March, a 72% decline from February's 9.5M+ — After pulling in 9.5 million downloads in February, Clubhouse only had 2.7 million downloads in March, according to new data from Sensor Tower — Is the party on Clubhouse already dying out?| Ed Caesar / New Yorker: |
An in-depth look at North Korea's extensive and expanding hacking operations, almost always focused on generating revenue for the closed-off country — The country's cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts.
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| John Seabrook / New Yorker: |
As NYC selects Bird, Lime, and Veo for its e-scooter pilot program, a look at why NYC is seen as an invaluable proving ground for the scooter-sharing concept — Fleets of electric scooters have taken over city streets worldwide. With New York finally climbing aboard, do they represent a tech hustle or a transit revolution?
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Sony backtracks on removing PS3 and Vita digital stores, saying it was “the wrong decision”; PSP store will still shut down on July 2 — The PSP store is still shutting down on July 2nd — Sony has announced that it'll be keeping its PS3 and PlayStation Vita digital storefront open “for the foreseeable future.”
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Octopus Deploy, which develops a deployment automation tool, raises $172.5M from Insight Partners — Founded almost a decade ago, Octopus Deploy has grown to serve 25,000 organizations, including Microsoft, NASA, Xero, Disney and Stack Overflow, through bootstrapping.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Source: Facebook-backed Diem is aiming to launch a pilot with a single stablecoin pegged to the US dollar later this year — - The Diem Association is aiming to launch a pilot with a single stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar in 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Chargebee, which helps enterprises with billing, subscriptions, revenue operations, and compliance, raises $125M at a $1.4B valuation — A startup that enables businesses to set up and manage their billing, subscription, revenue operations and compliance has become the newest firm to earn the much coveted unicorn status.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Payhawk, a SaaS startup helping businesses issue corporate cards, manage invoices, and track payments, raises a $20M round led by QED Investors — Fintech startup Payhawk has raised a $20 million funding round. QED Investors is leading the round with existing investor Earlybird Digital East also participating.| New York Times: |
Governments around the world are moving to limit the power of tech companies with an urgency and breadth that no single industry had experienced before — Never before have so many countries, including China, moved with such vigor at the same time to limit the power of a single industry.| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Fitbit unveils Luxe, a $150 fashion-focused fitness tracker coming this spring with a wide range of bands, up to 5 days of battery life, and an OLED touchscreen — It features up to five days of battery life per charge — Fitbit has announced its new Luxe fitness tracker that looks like a more fashion-focused take on the Inspire 2.
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| Avaaz: |
Research: 56% of fact-checked COVID-19 misinformation content in major non-English European languages is not acted upon by Facebook — As Europe enters a third COVID-19 wave, our research finds that Facebook is failing to protect Europeans from dangerous misinformation.
Tweets: @sociogeeks_ and @verajourova
| Kat Tenbarge / Insider: |
YouTube says it has temporarily demonetized James Charles' channel, which has 25.5M+ subscribers, after 15+ sexual misconduct accusations from men and boys — - James Charles' channel has been demonetized, YouTube confirmed. — YouTube told Insider Charles had been “temporarily removed” from the Partner Program.
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| Kit Gillet / Sifted: |
Bucharest-based FintechOS, which helps digitize legacy banks and insurers, raises €51M Series B led by Draper Esprit — FintechOS, founded in Bucharest in 2017, is considered one of the rising stars of the eastern Europe fintech scene. — Its main selling point is its ability … | Rachel Levin / Outside Online: |
As a disproportionate number of people who purchased homes in Tahoe in 2020 were tech employees from the Bay Area, locals worry about “Aspenification of Tahoe” — Rachel Levin is a San Francisco-based journalist who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker …
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
President Biden's decision to punish Russia for the SolarWinds hack broke with years of US foreign policy that tolerated cyber espionage — Administration said Moscow breached bounds of acceptable online spying with hack's size and attack on U.S. private sector
Tweets: @campuscodi and @dnvolz
| Liz Lee / Reuters: |
Microsoft to establish its first data center region in Malaysia as part of its Bersama Malaysia initiative, which aims to skill 1M Malaysians by the end of 2023 — KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Microsoft Corporation will invest $1 billion over the next five years in Malaysia as part … | Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 (15-inch) review: big performance gains, excellent battery life, and very light, but not many ports and no Thunderbolt support — Microsoft's newest Surface Laptop brings better battery life and a better chip — In look and feel, very little has changed from the last generation.Sponsor Posts
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