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El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after lawmakers voted by a “supermajority” in favor of its new Bitcoin Law — - El Salvador's has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. — Lawmakers in the South American country's Congress voted …
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| Adam Mosseri / Instagram: |
In the first of a series of blog posts, Instagram explains how it ranks Feed, Stories, Explore, and Reels, and addresses “shadowbanning” accusations — It's hard to trust what you don't understand. We want to do a better job of explaining how Instagram works.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook and Instagram will now reward influencers with cash bonuses for hitting certain milestones, like selling a set number of badges in an Instagram stream — new tools to help its creators earn more money from the platform. At its first Creator Week event, Mark Zuckerberg introduced …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Ad-supported and subscription-only newsletters both have ways to understand audiences without the tracking pixels blocked by Apple's Mail Privacy Protection — How Mail Protection Privacy will force the email economy to adapt — Today, let's talk about one of Apple's many announcements …
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| Jackie Borchardt / The Columbus Dispatch: |
Ohio's AG files lawsuit with Delaware County Court alleging that Google's search business is anticompetitive and asks court to declare Google a public utility — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has filed a lawsuit asking a court to declare Google a public utility that should be regulated as such.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Music debuts Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio and adds Spatial Audio playlists, says Spatial Audio support is “coming soon” for Android devices — Last month, Apple announced it would soon add lossless audio streaming and Spatial Audio with support for Dolby Atmos to its Apple Music subscription at no extra charge.
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| Christina Wilkie / CNBC: |
Biden admin announces steps to bolster US supply chains, including for chips and rare earth metals, and a “strike force” to combat unfair trade practices — - The Biden administration announces new actions designed to strengthen critical U.S. supply chains.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple opens up the ShazamKit framework to third-party apps, including on Android, allowing them to use Shazam's audio recognition tech — Apple in 2018 closed its $400 million acquisition of music recognition app Shazam. Now, it's bringing Shazam's audio recognition capabilities to app developers in the form of the new ShazamKit.
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
An inside look at how Google's Ethical AI team fell apart following the contentious departure of Timnit Gebru and then Margaret Mitchell — She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
As Uber and Lyft aim to become profitable this year, it seems like a golden era of VC-subsidized services, from Uber to Bird and MoviePass, is coming to an end — The price for Ubers, scooters and Airbnb rentals is going up as tech companies aim for profitability.
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| Aoife White / Bloomberg: |
Google will show more mobile search apps to choose from on new Android phones in Europe and make participation free for search providers — - Company will show more mobile search apps and get rid of a fee — Google has faced criticism over compliance with an EU order
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| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Blockdaemon raises $28M Series A to scale up enterprise blockchain infrastructure, with BlockFi Lending, Goldman Sachs, Greenspring Associates among investors — Blockdaemon Inc., a distributed ledger blockchain infrastructure node management startup, today announced it closed a $28 million funding round led by Greenspring Associates.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
In a huge sting operation, FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat service AN0M for 3+ years to intercept messages between criminals globally — The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform and intercepted secret messages between criminal gang members …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Apple's tight integration is how it creates great experiences like SharePlay, but the advantage is imperiled by anticompetitive App Store rules like the 30% cut — Apple acquired Dark Sky, the popular weather app and weather API provider, in March of 2020; the Android version was shut down in July, and the API in December.| Meaghan Tobin / Rest of World: |
Facebook says it fixed a proxy error in its Discover app after researchers found it removed images from other websites more frequently than Facebook's services — Researchers found the new connectivity app favored Facebook's own products. The company said it fixed the issue after Rest of World asked about it.
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| Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes: |
Grabango, which develops computer vision-based check-out free tech for existing grocery and convenience stores, raises $39M Series B led by Commerce Ventures — In 2016 Will Glaser was consulting for tech companies and found himself increasingly immersed in autonomous vehicles …
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| Ankit Ajmera / Reuters: |
Chinese grocery delivery app Dingdong Maicai, which is backed by Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management, has filed for a US IPO; it has raised $1B+ total — (Reuters) - Chinese grocery app Dingdong Maicai, backed by investors including Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management …
| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Chainalysis: American bitcoin traders made $4.1B in profits last year, 3x more than Chinese traders, followed by Japan, UK, Russia, and Germany — - Chainalysis ranks top 25 countries by biggest realized gains — China comes in second, with $1.1 billion in Bitcoin profits
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sinch acquires MessageMedia, which provides SMS and other messaging services for businesses, for $1.3B, to compete with Twilio in business SMS services — Sinch — the Swedish company that provides a suite of services for companies to build communications and specifically “customer engagement” … | Isabel Woodford / Sifted: |
Scalable Capital, a Germany-based neo-broker and wealth management service, raises $180M Series E led by Tencent at a $1.4B valuation — The round is led by Tencent, continuing a trend of Chinese funds investing in European fintech. — Scalable Capital fundraise gives Germany its sixth fintech unicorn| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based Refyne, which works with employers to let workers access their earned salaries in real-time, raises $16M Series A after a $4.1M seed in Dec. — A young Indian startup that is betting that earned wage access solutions will take off in the South Asian nation said on Wednesday …
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