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UK's CMA orders Meta to sell Giphy, after finding the deal could harm rival platforms by denying access to GIFs, social media users, and UK advertisers — After its investigation found it could harm competition — The UK's competition regulator has officially ruled that Facebook parent …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Possible reasons Dorsey stepped down, including activist investors and disinterest in the role, and what to expect from Parag Agarwal, who has focused on crypto — Theories on why now, and what to expect from Parag Agrawal's Twitter — This story is part of a group of stories called
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Profile of Twitter's new CEO Parag Agrawal, little known to the public and a Jack Dorsey confidant who has been involved in many big strategic initiatives — A longtime Twitter insider and a confidant of co-founder Jack Dorsey, Mr. Agrawal takes over as the social media company confronts various challenges.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey resigns, CTO Parag Agrawal takes over effective immediately; Dorsey to quit the board in 2022, Salesforce's Bret Taylor to become chair — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief of the social media company, effective immediately.
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Twitter bans sharing private images and videos without consent, with exceptions for newsworthiness and public figures, and will remove content that users report — Twitter has expanded its private information policy to include media, banning users from sharing photos or videos of a private individual without their permission.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
David Marcus, the co-creator of Diem who spent the last few years building the Novi wallet, is leaving Meta at the end of 2021 to pursue other projects — Marcus, who joined the tech giant in 2014, has struggled to get the Diem currency off the ground — David Marcus, one of the top executives …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches its ARM-based Graviton 3 processor, claiming it will be 25% faster than Graviton 2 and three times faster for ML workloads — At its annual re:Invent conference, AWS today announced the newest generation of its Arm-based Graviton processors: the Graviton 3.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Amazon unveils AWS Private 5G, a service providing hardware, software, and SIMs to help deploy private mobile networks quickly without per-device charges — At Amazon's AWS re:Invent conference this morning, the company announced the preview of “AWS Private 5G,” which is a new service … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
SEC filing: last week Satya Nadella sold half his Microsoft stock, worth more than $285M, weeks before Washington state implements its new capital gains tax — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sold half of his stake in the company in a series of transactions last week, divesting about 840,000 shares … | Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Privacy-focused cryptocurrency startup Iron Fish, which launched its IRON coin in April 2021, raises a $27.6M Series A led by a16z — Elena Nadolinski grew up in Volgograd, Russia playing on the shells of abandoned tanks and decommissioned battleships, following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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| Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg: |
Finland is working to stop millions of text messages spreading the FluBot malware via links, which started late last week, declaring a “severe alert” — Finland is working to stop a flood of text messages of an unknown origin that are spreading malware.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find Google Play apps with 300K+ downloads that stole bank credentials, posing as QR and PDF scanners, exercise apps, and cryptocurrency wallets — Crooks find new ways to prevent Google from detecting malicious packages. — Researchers said they've discovered a batch … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon unveils SageMaker Canvas, a visual, no-code ML service aimed at business analysts, following similar offerings by Azure and others — AWS today announced a new machine learning service, Amazon SageMaker Canvas. Unlike its existing machine learning services, the target audience …
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| Charity L. Scott / Wall Street Journal: |
Adobe: online US consumers spent $7.1B by 9PM ET on Cyber Monday, below expectations and down from $10.8B in 2020, as many shoppers return to physical stores — Online retailers offered fewer discounts because of limited inventory, while more shoppers returned to stores
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| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
South Korean company Naver, which runs the popular Zepeto metaverse platform for 3D avatars, raises a $150M Series B at a $1B valuation from Vision Fund 2 — Naver's Zepeto, boasting a base of young female users, attracts $150 million SoftBank investment, valuing it at more than $1 billion
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| Sheelah Kolhatkar / New Yorker: |
Profile of FTC Chair Lina Khan, as some longtime staffers worry she is underestimating the risks of pursuing aggressive antitrust cases that are likely to fail — As monopolies and other large companies gain increasing control of our daily lives, Khan is Joe Biden's pick to do something about it.
Tweets: @davidmwessel, @michaelluo, @sheelahk, @econliberties, and @daviduberti
| Amy Dobson / Forbes: |
Lessen, which offers a marketplace for property services, raises a $170M Series B at a $1B+ valuation led by Fifth Wall — The home services marketplace Lessen, which is geared towards facilitating the logistics for every stage of home services and repair for both residents and service professionals …
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Chicago-based ThreeFlow, which offers tools to insurance brokers selling employee benefits, raises $45M Series B led by Accel, after an $8M Series A in January — ThreeFlow, which provides software for insurance brokers selling employee benefits, announced today that it raised $45 million in Series B funding.
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Fundbox, which offers lines of credit up to $150K to SMBs using AI to automate loan decisions, raises a $100M Series D at a $1.1B valuation — Fundbox, a company that offers loans to small businesses, announced today it has raised $100 million in a Series D round at a valuation of $1.1 billion.| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Mainframe Industries, which develops cloud-native MMOs, raises a $23M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total funding to $33.7M — Mainframe Industries, the startup behind the first cloud-native massively multiplayer online game, today announced it has raised $23 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Developer productivity service Raycast, which helps manage SaaS tools, raises a $15M Series A led by Accel and Coatue — Developer-focused productivity tool Raycast has raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Accel and Coatue. Also participating in the round were angel investors Johnny Boufarhat … | BBC: |
FIFA will use 10 to 12 cameras, collecting up to 29 data points per player 50 times per second, to make semi-autonomous offside decisions at the Arab Cup — The use of technology to help officials make more accurate offside decisions will be tested at the Fifa Arab Cup, which starts on Tuesday.| Finextra: |
London-based Plum, a money management app, raises a $24M Series A from dmg ventures and others, bringing its total funding to $43M — Plum, Europe's ultimate money management app, has successfully raised a total of $24 million from a Series A funding round that will help propel …
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Israeli DevOps security startup Cycode, which helps protect source code, raises a $56M Series B led by Insight Partners, following a $20M Series A in May 2021 — Israeli DevOps security startup Cycode Ltd. announced today it has raised $56 million in new funding to fuel sales growth …
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