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Sources: Nintendo plans to announce an upgraded Switch ahead of the June E3 conference and release it in September or October, for more than the original's $299 — - Announcement of new Switch could be made ahead of June's E3 — Suppliers say Nintendo likely to price new model above $299
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Sources detail Citizen's efforts to cash in on vigilantism, including flooding users with notifications to make them anxious enough to buy its premium service — Internal documents, messages, and roadmaps show how crime app Citizen is pushing the boundary of what a private, app-enabled vigilante force may be capable of.
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| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Amazon introduces coffin-sized AmaZen meditation booths in which warehouse employees can watch company videos about mindfulness to deal with stress — The AmaZen meditation booth is a small room where employees can watch company videos about mindfulness while a small fan moves the air around.
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| Sujeong Lim / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartwatch shipments rose 35% YoY in Q1 2021; market leader Apple grew 50% YoY to raise its market share by 3 percentage points and Samsung grew 27% YoY — - Apple registers a healthy 50% annual growth, capturing a third of the smartwatch market in terms of volumes.
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| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
Acer unveils four new Chromebooks, incuding an industry-first 17.3-inch Chromebook, available in June, with prices starting at $380 — There's also a big emphasis on enterprise Chromebooks., a whole raft of other new hardware, and a commitment to 100 percent renewable energy use.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Instagram's test to hide Like counts highlights a lesson that social networks are reluctant to learn: one-size-fits-all policies are making users miserable — PLUS: WhatsApp sues India — In April 2019, amid growing questions about the effects of social networks on mental health …
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| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Sources: a16z is targeting $2B for its third crypto fund; a16z raised $515M for its second crypto-focused fund in 2020 — Andreessen Horowitz's third crypto fund is in talks to raise $2 billion. — Andreessen Horowitz is in the process of tripling down on crypto, raising its third crypto fund since 2018.
Tweets: @jon_ftx, @mattzeitlin, and @ericnewcomer
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Google announces new tools and partnerships with Shopify, Square, GoDaddy, and WooCommerce to help merchants sell more easily in Search, Maps, and YouTube — - Sellers on Square, GoDaddy will get access to Google features — Marriage of Google and Shopify centers on two executives
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| Karan Deep Singh / New York Times: |
Twitter criticizes the Indian government's “intimidation tactics” and says it will push for changes to regulations that give it more authority over online media — The social media platform criticized what it called “intimidation tactics,” saying it would push back on new rules …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter says users can now join Spaces via desktop and mobile web browsers, but can't host rooms on the web just yet — You can't host rooms yourself on the web just yet, though — You'll be able to join Twitter's Clubhouse-like Spaces from desktop and mobile web browsers starting Wednesday …
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KnowTechie, iMore, mobilesyrup.com, TechCrunch, Android Central, Voicebot.ai, PCMag, SlashGear, Neowin, TNW, MSPoweruser, and MUO
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| CNBC: |
Source: Swedish payments startup Klarna is close to raising a new round at a $40B+ valuation, after raising $1B at a $31B valuation in March — - Klarna, a European buy-now-pay-later company, is close to securing a new funding round at a valuation of more than $40 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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| Aimee Chanthadavong / ZDNet: |
Lenovo reports revenue of $60B for FY20, up 20% YoY, net income of $665M, up 77% YoY, and says Q4 was its “fastest growing quarter in almost a decade” — Lenovo has celebrated what it has dubbed as achieving ‘historic highs’ for FY21. — Lenovo Group has seen revenue surge past …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Snowflake says it no longer has an HQ, and designates Bozeman, Montana, where its CEO and CFO live, as its executive office, because it's required by the SEC — - Snowflake said in its earnings release on Wednesday that it no longer has a corporate headquarters, as its workforce is “globally distributed.”
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| Bloomberg: |
As China cracks down on its tech giants, Tencent, Alibaba, and Meituan warn investors they will invest heavily in AI, cloud computing, and autonomous vehicles — - Tencent, Alibaba plan to plow back incremental profits — Meituan is set to report wider losses as it boosts investment
Tweets: @hancocktom, @hodlnator, and @briefnorris
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Clubhouse hires Justin Uberti, a Google engineer who created the WebRTC standard, Google Duo, and led engineering for Stadia, as head of streaming technology — Justin Uberti is joining Clubhouse — Clubhouse has hired Justin Uberti, creator of the WebRTC standard and the Google Duo video chat app.| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
VMware Q1: $2.99B revenue, up 9% YoY, Services revenue of $1.6B, Subscription and SaaS revenue of $741M, up 29% YoY; FY2022 revenue of $12.8B expected — Top and bottom line results were slightly ahead of market estimates, with subscription and SaaS revenue up 29 percent.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Industry groups representing Google, Facebook, and others sue Florida over its new social media law, calling it a “frontal assault on the First Amendment” — Yes, the one with the theme park exception — Two tech industry organizations have sued Florida over its newly passed rules for social networks.
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CNN, The Hill, Bloomberg Law, Protocol, Florida Politics, NetChoice, and CCIA
Tweets: @krissiegel and @davidafrench
| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
FBI says a foreign nation-state hacking group breached a US municipal government via an unpatched Fortinet VPN appliance — The Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that foreign hackers had breached the network of a local US municipal government after exploiting vulnerabilities in an unpatched Fortinet networking appliance.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Sources: TTYL, the company that created Poparazzi, is raising a Series A led by Benchmark that could swell up to $20M, at an implied valuation of $135M — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Days after reaching the top of Apple's App Store, Poparazzi and founders Alex … | Jon Swartz / MarketWatch: |
HP beats with Q2 revenue of $15.9B, up 27.3% YoY, Personal Systems net revenue of $10.6B, up 27% YoY, Printing net revenue of $5.3B, up 28% YoY — HP Inc. shares initially sank 5% in extended-trading Thursday after the PC giant announced what has become a familiar pattern: notebook sales continue to thrive in the age of COVID.| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Savings and investing app Acorns is merging with a SPAC to go public in a deal that values Acorns at roughly $2.2B, more than double its last private valuation — - Acorns will merge with with Pioneer Merger Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce Q1: revenue of $5.96B, up 23% YoY, vs est. of $5.89B, Platform and Other revenue of $1.75B, up 28%; full year guidance has $500M revenue from Slack — - Salesforce results exceeded estimates with quarterly results and higher full-year guidance. — The company's revenue growth …
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| Varsha Bansal / Wired UK: |
As India opens the API for its CoWin vaccine booking system to all amid a devastating second wave, profiteers are mass-booking vaccine slots using bots — The Indian government made its booking API free to everyone. Bots, profiteers and automation have made it impossible for people to book slots| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
Talos, which lets financial institutions provide digital asset trading services, raises $40M Series A led by a16z, with PayPal Ventures and others participating — Talos' services include liquidity access, direct market access, price discovery, automated execution, reporting, clearing and settlement.
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Andreessen Horowitz, Talos, and Finextra
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researcher details a WebKit flaw, which can lead to a RCE exploit, that remains unpatched by Apple despite the availability of an open source fix for 3 weeks — WebKit bug that was fixed upstream has yet to find its way into Apple products. — Apple has yet to patch a security bug found …
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The Register, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, iThinkDifferent, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @theori_io, @tjbecker_, and @campuscodi
| Reuters: |
BMW, Daimler, and Ford set up facilities in China to store data generated by their cars locally, as China plans new rules for automakers' handling of data — BMW, Daimler and Ford have set up facilities in China to store data generated by their cars locally, they told Reuters …
Tweets: @yilei000
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