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Sources: Life360, a family safety app with 33M users, has sold users' precise location since 2016 and is one of the location data broker industry's top sources — The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people's movements
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Intel plans to take its Mobileye unit public, sources say at a $50B+ valuation; Intel acquired the self-driving car company in 2017 for about $15B — Move could value Mobileye at more than $50 billion, according to people familiar with the matter — Intel Corp. is planning to publicly list shares …
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WhatsApp now lets users set all one-to-one chats to disappear by default after 24 hours, seven days, or 90 days — Its disappearing messages feature is getting an upgrade — WhatsApp is adding new functionality to its disappearing messages feature, which lets users set messages in a chat … | Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Microsoft seizes 42 domains allegedly used by a Chinese cyber espionage group that targeted organizations in the US and 28 other countries — Microsoft said today that its legal team has successfully obtained a court warrant that allowed it to seize 42 domains used by a Chinese cyber-espionage group …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Lyft CFO Brian Roberts, who joined the company in 2014 and took it public, leaves to become CFO at NFT marketplace OpenSea — Lyft's long-time CFO Brian Roberts, who took the company public, announced Monday that he was departing the ride share company that he joined in 2014 to take the same role at NFT marketplace OpenSea.
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| Ben Smith / New York Times: |
A document from TikTok's engineering team in Beijing details the app's addictive algorithm, which pursues DAUs by optimizing for “retention” and “time spent” — It's the most successful video app in the world. Our columnist has obtained an internal company document …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Report: the DOJ has asked Roblox why it changed “games” to “experiences” on its website, and asked Roblox and other devs about the difference between the words — The United States Justice Department is investigating Apple for antitrust issues, and Roblox is an area …
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| Bloomberg: |
Investigation: Swiss company Mitto, which offers text message services to companies in 100+ countries, helped governments surveil phones; Mitto denies the claim — Mitto AG's network used to track people via mobile phones, former employees say. — The co-founder of a company that has been trusted …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Facebook Gaming announces a Play with Streamer feature that lets creators invite audience members to join a game, debuting alongside Pac-Man Community's launch — Mark Zuckerberg unveiled that Pac-Man Community is debuting on Facebook Gaming as one of the first games where audiences can play together while spectating.
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| Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times: |
US investigators traced ransomware payments back to companies in the Moscow skyscraper Federation Tower East, suggesting Russia tolerates ransomware operators — Cybersecurity experts tracing money paid by American businesses to Russian ransomware gangs found it led to one of Moscow's most prestigious addresses.
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| Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: |
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile all have programs that collect additional customer data, like app usage, location, and web history, and they are generally opt-out — Verizon says it's to better “understand your interests” — The My Verizon app might be collecting information about your browsing history …
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| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
DoorDash shifts from its gig worker model and hires 60 couriers as full-time employees, starting at $15/hour, to launch sub-15-minute grocery deliveries in NYC — Delivery app says outdated employment law prompted new structure in break with gig worker model
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
MongoDB reports Q3 revenue of $227M, up 50% YoY, a net loss of $81.3M, up from $72.7M YoY, and Atlas cloud database revenue up 84%; stock up 17%+ — - Revenue growth accelerated, including in the fast-growing Atlas cloud service category. — Sales and marketing expenses continue to mount.| Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: |
Helsinki-based Enfuce, which offers an API-first card issuing and payments processing service, raises a €45M Series C led by Vitruvian Partners — Centred around its card-as-a-service offer, Enfuce has raised €45 million in a Series C funding round.
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Amazon's extensive supply chain investments, mostly focused on domestic US logistics, make it increasingly attractive to third-party merchants and customers — It seems like a Christmas miracle. From CNBC: … The intended takeaway of this article — which originated as a digital special report …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Platzi, which offers classes to Latin American professionals on coding, design, and more raises a $62M Series B, says 60% of its students spend $300 annually — When it comes to scaling online communities, Platzi CEO Freddy Vega thinks that edtech can take a few notes from the video game industry.
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Entrepreneur, PYMNTS.com, and FinSMEs
| Chainalysis Insights: |
Analysis: users have spent $26.9B+ on NFTs in 2021, most transactions are under $10K, and CryptoPunks is the most popular collection with $3B sales since March — This blog is a preview of our 2021 NFT Market Report. Click here to download the whole thing!
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Blockchain infrastructure technology startup Mysten Labs, founded by four former Facebook crypto engineers, raises a $36M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz — - Andreessen Horowitz led a $36 million funding round of Mysten Labs, a crypto and blockchain infrastructure technology start-up founded by four former Facebook engineers.
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The Block, Cointelegraph, and CoinDesk
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
YouTube publishes its first Copyright Transparency Report, showing H1 2021 had 2.2M+ videos hit with incorrect copyright claims and 729M total copyright claims — Creators have complained about the claims and appeal process — Over 2.2 million YouTube videos were hit with copyright claims …
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YouTube Official Blog, Engadget, and PCMag
Tweets: @redbardiscool, @mattnavarra, @xoxolizza, @glassbottommeg, and @glenngabe
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft tells its partners that enterprise customers will be charged 20% more for Office subscriptions if they don't switch to an annual plan in 2022 — - Microsoft is telling partners that customers will soon be charged 20% more for Office subscriptions if they prefer to keep paying by the month.| Financial Times: |
Researchers detail Meta's roadblocks, like pre-publication review and restrictive contracts, and how it stifles research that might cast it in a negative light — Last March, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, a researcher at Princeton University, applied to use a special data access tool that allows academics to do research on Facebook.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Source: Japan's FSA to propose legislation that would let only banks and wire transfer services issue stablecoins as it plans a yen-based digital currency — Only banks, wire transfer companies would issue currency-backed coins like Tether — Stablecoins are linked to such assets …
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