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Microsoft announces Teams Essentials, a standalone version of Teams for SMBs with a simplified UI, focus on meetings, and no Office apps for $4 per user/month — This standalone version of Teams is even more of a Zoom competitor — Microsoft is creating its first standalone version of Microsoft Teams for small businesses.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok adds monetization tools for creators, including Stripe-powered Tips and Video Gifts, starting in the US, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain — TikTok is today introducing new ways for its creators to make money from their content. While already, the short-form video platform allowed creators … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Jack Dorsey joins other tech leaders who seem to have grown tired of managing their platforms, amid increasing political controversy and hard-to-fix problems — Jack Dorsey, who is stepping down after six years as Twitter's chief executive, is one of the tech leaders who seem to have grown tired of managing their empires.
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| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Meta selects AWS as its “long-term strategic cloud provider”, a partnership that includes helping AWS customers run the PyTorch framework more effectively — The company formerly known as Facebook built an impressive array of computing infrastructure over the last decade.
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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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| Stacy Mitchell / Institute for Local Self-Reliance: |
Research: Amazon revenue from third-party sellers will reach $121B in 2021, up from $60B in 2019, as seller fees reach 34%, up from 30% in 2018 and 19% in 2014 — Amazon's dominance of online retail means that small businesses have little choice but to rely on its site to reach consumers.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit announces real-time features, including live upvote, downvote, comment, and viewer counts, a typing indicator, and notifications for top-level comments — You'll see typing indicators, too — Reddit is introducing some big changes on Wednesday by adding new real-time features.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm plans to integrate Google's Vertex AI NAS into its Neural Processing SDK, starting with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, to automate the creation of AI models — The tech giants will collaborate on neural networking to speed up and optimize AI models. — KONA, HAWAII: Google Cloud … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China plans to ban companies from going public on foreign markets through variable interest entities, closing a loophole used by local tech companies — China is planning to ban companies from going public on foreign stock markets through variable interest entities …
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| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Crypto.com plans to acquire the North American Derivatives Exchange (Nadex) and a ~40% stake in Small Exchange from IG Group for $216M in cash — - Small Exchange is backed by Citadel, Peak6, Jump Capital — Cash deal is expected to be completed in first half of 2022| Robin Pogrebin / New York Times: |
A look at Particle, founded by an ex-Christie's exec and others, which plans to split Banksy's Love Is in the Air into 10,000 pieces to be sold as NFTs — A former Christie's executive has joined cryptocurrency experts to create a company that purchases art and sells the fragments as NFTs.
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Tweets: @investvoyager, @rpogrebin, @avalancheavax, @jayks17, @edzitron, and @shingolavine
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
1inch Network, which offers the popular DEX aggregator 1inch app, raises a $175M Series B led by Amber Group, bringing its total funding to $190M — Quick Take — 1inch Network has raised $175 million in a Series B funding round. — The project is looking to serve institutional customers …
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| Marty Swant / Forbes: |
The Facebook Papers offer glimpses into how users perceive Meta's ad products, like the impact of its reaction emojis, and the concerns raised by employees — The “Facebook Papers” have been revelatory when it comes to how the company formerly known as Facebook deals with content moderation and a wide variety of other issues.
Tweets: @martyswant, @martyswant, @franceshaugen, @joshsternberg, @forbes, and @martyswant. Thanks:@martyswant
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Frances Haugen on becoming a whistleblower, leaving Facebook after moving to Puerto Rico due to health, Meta, plans to run simulated social networks — When the Wall Street Journal launched a series of explosive articles based on internal Facebook documents in September, people naturally wondered about the source.
Tweets: @dlberes, @giladedelman, @parismarx, and @stevenlevy
| Matt Grossman / Wall Street Journal: |
Match Group will pay $441M to settle claims by Tinder founders and executives that Match avoided paying them up to $2B by undervaluing the app in mid-2017 — Company says it would pay $441 million to plaintiffs, including dating app's co-founders — Match Group Inc. has settled a lawsuit filed …
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Crypto trading volume in Indonesia this year reached ~$50B by October, up over 10x YoY, despite the government and the Ulema Council forbidding crypto payments — Crypto is booming on the archipelago. Its proponents aren't who you'd think — Ananda Badudu is 32 years old …
Tweets: @restofworld, @anxioushuxley, @blackamazon, @leomschwartz, @restofworld, and @lmatsakis
| Annie Njanja / TechCrunch: |
Anchor, which offers cloud-based autonomous billing tools for companies, raises a $15M seed led by Rapyd Ventures, Entrée Capital, and Tal Ventures — Companies often spend an incommensurate amount of time chasing overdue payments, which distracts them from their core businesses, and brings forth cash flow issues.
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Business Wire, PYMNTS.com, FinSMEs, and CTech
| Yinka Adegoke / Rest of World: |
A look at China's extensive tech investments in Africa, including undersea cables, data centers, and fintech apps, as part of its “Digital Silk Road” initiative — As the Chinese “tech stack” leads from undersea cables to smartphones and fintech apps, concerns grow for the digital future of ordinary Africans.| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Blockchain audit service CertiK raises an $80M Series B2, following $61M across B and B+ rounds, at a nearly $1B valuation led by Sequoia Capital — Quick Take — CertiK, a blockchain and smart contract auditing firm, has raised another $80 million. — The firm is now valued at nearly $1 billion.
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| Ross Young / Display Supply Chain Consultants: |
Foldable smartphone shipments reached a record 2.6M units in Q3, up 480% YoY, with Samsung accounting for a 93% share followed by Huawei at 6% — Austin, TX - — Q3'21 was a record quarter for foldable smartphone shipments as expected, given the successful launch of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 …
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Tweets: @dsccross, @dsccross, and @joshuaswingle
| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
In an internal Slack message, Marc Benioff says Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor will continue to report to him — Bret Taylor is co-CEO of Salesforce in name only, it turns out. The Information has learned that in his new role Taylor will continue to report to Marc Benioff, who is ostensibly his equal as co-CEO.| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Niels Juul, who produced Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, launches NFT Studios and hopes to raise $8M-$10M to fund a feature film by selling 10,000 NFTs — Niels Juul hopes to raise up to $10m and says he wants to ‘democratise’ antiquated funding system — The executive producer behind … | Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: |
The NY Federal Reserve launches an innovation center to support the agency's analysis of digital currencies, including CBDCs, and improve cross-border payments — Jerome Powell cited CBDCs and digital assets in his speech to open the New York Innovation Center at the Federal Reserve's local offices.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Frontegg, which helps SaaS companies track user data, raises a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners — Frontegg, a Tel Aviv-based startup that provides SaaS companies with the core user management tools they need to build their own services, today announced that it has raised …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
David Marcus, the co-creator of Diem and head of Novi, will leave Meta at the end of the 2021; current Novi VP of Product Stephane Kasriel will lead Novi — 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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