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Researcher: Twitter is working on Twitter Blue, a $2.99/month subscription offering with “Collections” to organize favorite tweets and an “undo tweet” function — Twitter has been working on its subscription service for a while now.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
NBCU-owned Rotten Tomatoes launches a streaming channel, currently available on The Roku Channel and which will later expand to Peacock and Comcast's Xumo — Rotten Tomatoes is continuing on its quest to grow into something substantially bigger than its Tomatometer movie and TV rating scores.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple has informed its US retail stores that a mask mandate and other COVID-19-related procedures remain, as it continues to evaluate health and safety measures — Apple Inc. has informed its U.S. retail stores that a mask mandate and other Covid-19-related procedures remain in place for now …
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| Adriana Hamacher / Decrypt: |
Q&A with Dogecoin developer Ross Nicoll about its coming upgrade, and working with Elon Musk, who Nicoll says has been in touch with Doge developers since 2019 — They are working with him to make the cryptocurrency a cheaper, greener alternative to Bitcoin. — Dogecoin — In brief
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| Josh Sisco / The Information: |
Sources: DOJ's criminal antitrust prosecutor Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel is expected to lead FTC's antitrust enforcement unit handling Facebook and Amazon cases — A little-known criminal antitrust prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice, Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel …
Tweets: @joshua_sisco and @amir
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches miniTV, an ad-supported free video streaming service that is available within the Amazon shopping app in India — Amazon has long maintained that its video streaming service, Prime Video, helps it drive more sales on the shopping app. Now the e-commerce giant is testing …
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| AJ Dome / Manhattan Mercury: |
PE firm Insight Partners invests $290M for a majority stake in CivicPlus, which provides software and other technology to more than 4,000 municipal governments — A Manhattan software business owner says a multimillion-dollar investment into the company will not change the company's makeup.
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Wired: |
Top gamers are quitting esports to become Twitch and YouTube influencers as esports organizations and game publishers reallocate resources to streamers — Top players have left pro leagues to pursue streaming full-time as the industry veers more toward content creators.
Tweets: @epro, @wiredculture, @rukizzel, @unitedtalent, @fairchild, @jacobwolf, @danasissons, @cecianasta, and @taylorlorenz
| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
China ordered domestic app stores to remove 90 apps, including Maimai, a LinkedIn rival, following a new regulation on what types of user data apps can collect — The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology removed 90 apps from app stores on Thursday over the “irregular collection …
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| Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: |
An examination of Chamath Palihapitiya-sponsored SPACs, including Clover Health, which have plunged 50% on average after the SPAC market hit its peak in mid-Feb — One morning last October, as wildfires raged across Northern California, President Donald Trump convalesced from Covid‑ …
Tweets: @hkanji, @bw, @lopezlinette, @eliotwb, @wadhwa, @business, @bw, @pitdesi, and @venkatananth
| Stephanie Chan / Sensor Tower Blog: |
After WhatsApp's privacy policy changes, in the first four months of 2021, Telegram's installs rose 98% YoY and Signal's first-time downloads were up 1,192% YoY — Popular mobile messenger WhatsApp encountered backlash in January when it was announced that users would need to accept … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
A look at apps promising 10-minute grocery delivery in Europe, where VC-backed grocery delivery firms have raised $1.56B in 2021 so far, according to PitchBook — - Turkey's Getir, Germany's Gorillas and Britain's Dija are just a few of the apps promising users 10-minute grocery deliveries.
Tweets: @ryan_browne_
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DarkSide, the gang behind Colonial attack, claims it lost control of web servers and funds, as researchers wonder whether a US takedown or exit scam is to blame — A day after US President Joe Biden said the US plans to disrupt the hackers behind the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack …
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The Security Ledger …, Krebs on Security, The Hill, Insider, Neowin, Intel471.com, DataBreaches.net, HackRead, BleepingComputer, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, blog.chainalysis.com, CyberScoop, The Mac Observer, New York Post, and PCMag
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