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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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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| 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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| 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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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, with improved camera and AI processing and up to 20% better performance and 30% better power efficiency over Snapdragon 888 — Faster performance, better cameras, improved AI, and more — Qualcomm has a new flagship smartphone processor …
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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 …
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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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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
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit announces real-time features, including live upvote, downvote, and comment counts, typing indicators, and viewership figures for posts — You'll see typing indicators, too — Reddit is introducing some big changes on Wednesday by adding new real-time features.
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TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Protocol, Reddit Upvoted Blog, and Mashable
Tweets: @martinsfp and @reddit
| 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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TechCrunch, CoinDesk, Forbes, Decrypt, Coinspeaker, Insider, Cointelegraph, and cryptodaily.co.uk
| 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
| 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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Axios and Business Wire
Tweets: @investvoyager, @shingolavine, @jayks17, @rpogrebin, @edzitron, and @avalancheavax
| 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: @joshsternberg, @martyswant, @martyswant, @franceshaugen, @forbes, and @martyswant. Thanks:@martyswant
| Annie Njanja / TechCrunch: |
Anchor, which offers cloud-based autonomous billing tools for companies, raises a $15M seed led by Rapyd Ventures and others — 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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| Matt Grossman / Wall Street Journal: |
Match Group says it will pay $441M to settle claims by Tinder founders and execs that Match undervalued the app to avoid paying up to $2B 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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| 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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Vox. Tweets: @stacyfmitchell, @stacyfmitchell, @stacyfmitchell, @stacyfmitchell, @stacyfmitchell, @stacyfmitchell, @stacyfmitchell, and @stacyfmitchell
| 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.| Rest of World: |
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
| Ross Young / Display Supply Chain Consultants: |
Foldable smartphone shipments reached a record 2.6M units in Q3, up 480% YoY, with Samsung accounting for 93% of shipments 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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TechSpot, Android Headlines, Android Central, MSPoweruser, and SamMobile
Tweets: @dsccross, @dsccross, and @joshuaswingle
| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Niels Juul, who produced Scorsese's The Irishman, launches NFT Studios and plans 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 blockbusters … | 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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Blockworks, CoinDesk, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, and Cointelegraph
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
The “omicron” crypto token soaring in value following news of the COVID-19 variant is yet another example of how cryptocurrencies create artificial scarcity — Also ghost kitchens, call spreads and RugSeekers. — Omicron — The basic innovation of crypto is the production of artificial scarcity.
Tweets: @matt_levine, @nathantankus, @jomicheii, @crypto, @mikeolson, and @pkafka
| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Adobe: US consumers spent $10.7B online on Cyber Monday, below expectations and down 1.4% from $10.8B in 2020, as many shoppers returned to physical stores — - Consumers logged online Monday and spent $10.7 billion, marking a 1.4% decrease from year-ago levels, according to data from Adobe Analytics.
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About Amazon, Adobe Blog, The Verge, Mashable, CNET, Digital Trends, BetaKit, Slashdot, TheStreet, ZDNet, International Business Times, 9to5Toys, New York Post, Thurrott, and Reuters
Tweets: @weaponoutfitter, @laurenthomas, @cnbc, @jaycarney, @cortessteve, @ritholtz, @ourmaninchicago, and @ron_miller
| 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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CTech, SiliconANGLE, and PR Newswire
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Spain-based Jobandtalent, a marketplace matching temps with employers, raises a $500M Series E at a $2.35B post-money valuation led by Kinnevik — Spain's Jobandtalent, a “workforce marketplace”-cum-digital temping agency which uses AI to match workers to casual labor gigs in sectors like warehousing …
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Sifted, Tech.eu, FinSMEs, and Silicon Canals
| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
GlobalFoundries reports Q3 net revenue rose 56% YoY to $1.7B as profit reached $5M, up from a $293M loss YoY, in its first post-IPO earnings report — The financial report was the company's first as a public company, which started trading publicly in October
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ZDNet, GlobeNewswire News Room, and TechSpot
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