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Apple sues NSO Group in US federal court, seeking to ban NSO from using Apple products and alleging NSO illegally targeted Apple users with surveillance tools — Apple accused NSO Group, the Israeli surveillance company, of “flagrant” violations of its software, as well as federal and state laws.| Apple: |
Apple plans to notify targets of state-sponsored spyware attacks like NSO's ForcedEntry and commits $10M to cybersurveillance researchers and advocates — Apple also announced a $10 million contribution to support cybersurveillance researchers and advocates
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| Reuters: |
Italy's antitrust regulator fines Amazon and Apple a total of $225M+ for alleged anti-competitive cooperation to sell Apple and Beats products — Italy's antitrust authority has fined U.S. tech giants Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and Apple Inc (AAPL.O) a total of more than 200 million euros … | Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung plans to build a ~$17B chip factory in Taylor, Texas, in 2024, with an announcement expected today; Samsung says location is not finalized — The announcement is expected at Tuesday event to be attended by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, sources say
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| Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: |
EU lawmakers approve measures in the draft Digital Markets Act, including mandating messaging or social app interoperability and banning ad targeting to minors — - Competing messaging apps may have to be interoperable — Companies would have to stop targeting some ads to minors
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Location tracking service Life360 acquires Tile, which makes Bluetooth-based tracking accessories that compete with Apple's AirTag, for $205M — Tile, known for its range of Bluetooth-based tracking accessories that compete with the AirTag, is being acquired by location tracking service Life360, Tile announced today.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify debuts Netflix Hub, collecting official soundtracks, playlists, and podcasts for top Netflix content, in seven countries including the US, UK, and India — Looking for the soundtrack from your favorite Netflix show? Now, it will be easier to find thanks to an expanded partnership between Netflix and Spotify.
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| David Thiel / @elegant_wallaby: |
[Thread] A former Facebook employee says Meta announced an “absurdly accelerated timeline” for e2ee messaging to preempt antitrust action and generate good PR — Please stop with this. Child safety is not FUD, nor disingenuous. Here is what happened with Facebook's haphazard E2EE plan, from someone who was there and familiar with the underlying systems. 1/
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Source: Japan is allocating ~$5.2B in fiscal 2021 to support semiconductor manufacturers, including ~$3.5B for TSMC — Micron and Kioxia set to get subsidies for domestic memory chip factories — The Japanese government has made plans to ensure a stable domestic supply of microchips.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Reddit is shutting down the Dubsmash app on February 22, after its acquisition in December, as the Dubsmash team adds video creation tools to Reddit's main app — You can now try out Reddit-exclusive lenses — Reddit will shut down its short-form video platform, Dubsmash, on February 22nd, 2022.| VICE: |
ConstitutionDAO faces existential questions as a “core team” makes key decisions; high transaction fees mean ~50% of “investors” may lose the money they put in — ConstitutionDAO tried to buy the Constitution. Now it has a $40 million mess on its hands and entire refunds are being wiped out by high fees.
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| Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times: |
Two former Netflix employees, one who just resigned, at the center of protests over Chappelle's special withdraw their NLRB charge against the company — Two former Netflix employees who raised concerns about transphobic remarks in Dave Chappelle's latest special “The Closer” … | Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Verbit, which offers voice transcription services using AI and freelancers, raises a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation, after hitting a $1B+ valuation in June — Less than six months after raising a $157 million Series D round, AI-powered transcription and captioning platform Verbit announced today …
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| Ronan Shields / Digiday: |
Outbrain announces a $55M acquisition of Video Intelligence, an ad tech company that matches video with text content, as it aims to differentiate from Taboola — Ad tech's spate of public listings over the last 12 months has helped spur a further round of mergers and acquisitions in the space …
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| Dennis Schaal / Skift: |
Peek, which offers tools to manage tours and activities, raises a $80M Series C led by WestCap, bringing its total funding to ~$120M — Skift Take — Peek survived the pandemic when so many tours and activities' operators went into hibernation or worse, and now it has another $80 million in the bank for expansion.| Rich Woods / XDA Developers: |
Sources: Qualcomm has an exclusivity deal with Microsoft for Windows on ARM that is set to expire soon, opening up chip vendor competition — Last week, we reported that MediaTek is planning to build a chipset for Windows on ARM. As it turns out, the Windows on ARM chipset space …
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Budapest-based Bitrise, which helps companies build and operate mobile apps, raises a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners — As more of the world shifts to doing everything from their smartphones, the ability to build better iOS and Android apps has to move with it.
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| Nick Harris / The Mail on Sunday: |
Analysis: 17 of 20 English Premier League clubs have signed commercial deals with cryptocurrency companies, drawing criticism for potentially exploiting fans — - A number of top-flight clubs have been criticised for monetising fan interaction — Fears deals could replace top-flight clubs' relationship with gambling companies
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Analysis: 597 VC firms have invested in Indian startups this year, with 211 of them making their debut investments; hedge funds invested $4.3B, up ~3x from 2020 — BENGALURU — Hundreds of venture capital firms from around the world are investing in India for the first time …
Tweets: @prasannavishy
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
São Paulo-based buy now, pay later startup TruePay raises a $32M Series A led by Addition, three months after raising an $8.5M seed — Global investors continue to be drawn to LatAm. — TruePay, a one-year-old São Paulo-based “buy now, pay later” startup …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Vercel, which develops the Next.js framework, raises a $150M Series D at a $2.5B valuation, after raising a $102M Series C at a $1B valuation in June 2021 — Only a few months ago, Vercel, the company behind the popular Next.js framework for front-end developers, announced … | Jonathan Haidt / The Atlantic: |
Regulators and legislators should mitigate Instagram's harmful effects on teen girls by toughening COPPA and forcing Facebook and others to share data — Social media gets blamed for many of America's ills, including the polarization of our politics and the erosion of truth itself.
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