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WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government for its new social media regulations, saying they would break privacy protections — WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts …
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Sources say Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC that could launch by year's end — We can confirm some, but not all, of what's in store for the codenamed “SteamPal.” — Video game and hardware studio Valve has been secretly building a Switch-like portable PC …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon says it will acquire MGM Studios for $8.45B, its second-largest acquisition since it paid $13.7B for Whole Foods in 2017 — - Amazon is buying MGM Studios, the companies announced, marking Amazon's most ambitious move yet into the entertainment business.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
USB standards body unveils its USB-C 2.1 revision, which supports power up to 240W, up from 100W currently, aimed at devices like 4K displays and gaming laptops — An upgrade to the USB-C standard will accommodate levels of up to 240 watts, an improvement that could let you plug power-hungry devices …
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Tesla says deliveries of Model 3 and Y vehicles in North America will no longer be equipped with radar for Autopilot and instead rely on a camera-based system — Autopilot will rely on cameras from here on out in the Model 3 and Model Y — Tesla has stopped building forward-facing radar sensors …
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| Melanie Evans / Wall Street Journal: |
Google partners with US hospital chain HCA Healthcare to develop algorithms to improve operating efficiency, monitor patients, and guide doctors' decisions — Tech giant expands health-sector presence in latest deal to develop tools to improve medical care, as privacy concerns arise
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook and Instagram now give users options to hide Like counts across all posts and to hide their own public Like counts from others — Facebook this week will begin to publicly roll out the option to hide Likes on posts across both Facebook and Instagram, following earlier tests beginning in 2019.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Salt Security, which develops AI-based software to protect API libraries from malicious use, raises $70M led by Advent International — APIs make the world go round in tech, but that also makes them a very key target for bad actors: as doorways into huge data troves and services …
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Facebook says Russia is still the largest producer of disinformation, in a report that details 150 operations that the company has disrupted since 2017 — Report explores how issue has evolved in recent years — A Facebook report released Wednesday says that Russia is still the largest producer …
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: European Commission will open a formal antitrust probe into Facebook to investigate if it's undermining competition in the online classifieds market — European Commission will investigate if Facebook is undermining competition in the online classifieds market| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts Microsoft 365 updates, including tools for developers to integrate deeper into Teams, Graph updates, and Outlook message extensions on the web — Microsoft today announced a number of improvements across Microsoft 365, its line of subscription services offered as a part of Microsoft Office.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based Koo, a microblogging service that allows users to post in English and Indian languages, raises $30M at over $100M valuation led by Tiger Global — Investors are backing Koo, an Indian alternative to Twitter, with large size checks at a time when tension is brewing between the American social network and New Delhi.
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Xiaomi beats with Q1 profit of $1.2B, up 260.6% YoY, on revenue of $12B, up 54.7% YoY, and says it shipped 49.4M smartphones globally for a 14.1% market share — Smartphone giant Xiaomi's first-quarter profit beat market estimates to reach US$1.2 billion Revenue in the March quarter hit US$12 billion … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
DataDome, which helps secure e-commerce marketplaces against web scraping, account takeover, and payment fraud, raises $35M Series B led by Elephant — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Bot defense startup DataDome today announced that it raised $35 million …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Satya Nadella teases a “next generation of Windows” announcement “very soon”; the revamped Windows will likely have big UI changes, a new store, and more — Windows is getting big UI changes, a new store, and more — Microsoft isn't talking about its big Windows plans …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber plans to recognize a trade union for its 70K drivers in the UK giving them more power to collectively bargain, while preserving its worker model — - The GMB labor group will represent Uber's 70,000 U.K. drivers — Drivers will retain ability to choose where and when they work| Bloomberg: |
Chinese gaming company NetEase's music streaming arm files for an IPO in Hong Kong, that source says could raise ~$1B; filing shows it had 180M+ MAUs in 2020 — - CICC, Credit Suisse and BofA are working on the offering — Co. has secured licensing deals with Universal Music, Sony
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
After predicting autonomous vehicles would be commonplace by 2021, the industry is resetting expectations and committing to years of further R&D — Many in Silicon Valley promised that self-driving cars would be a common sight by 2021. Now the industry is resetting expectations and settling in for years of more work.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A breakdown of the different arguments pertaining to the App Store and how they were presented and discussed in the Epic vs Apple trial — Arguments in Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc. wrapped up yesterday; Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers noted she had thousands of documents to pore over …
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| Bloomberg: |
NYSE sets ZipRecruiter's reference price at $18 per share for its direct listing on Wednesday, which would give it a fully diluted valuation of about $2.4B — - Job search, recruiting company set for trading debut Wednesday — Year's 4th direct listing after Squarespace, Coinbase, Roblox
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| Lauren Hepler / San Francisco Chronicle: |
San Jose approves Google's plans for a downtown campus with 4K new homes, 7M+ square feet of office space, 15 acres of parks, and 500K of retail and other space — After more than three years of negotiations, San Jose officials voted late Tuesday to approve Google's plan for a sprawling downtown campus …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rewatch, which builds tools to index, transcribe, and store enterprise video content, raises $20M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz — We don't hear as much these days about “Zoom fatigue” as we did in the first months after the Covid-19 pandemic kicked off last year …
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| Tanzeel Akhtar / CoinDesk: |
OneOf, a music-focused NFT marketplace built on Tezos and backed by Quincy Jones, raises $63M in seed, claims it uses less energy to mint NFTs than others — The firm says that, by building on Tezos, it can provide a more environmentally sustainable marketplace.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Boston-based cloud security analytics service Uptycs raises $50M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners — Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. — Cloud security analytics platform Uptycs today announced that it raised $50 million in a series C funding round led …
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UK's Paysend, which offers international money transfers, global accounts, and business banking for SMBs, raises $125M Series B led by One Peak — With more people than ever before going online to pay for things and pay each other, startups that are building the infrastructure that enables …
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