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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Federal judge rules FTC's amended suit alleging Meta has a monopoly can move forward, after a ruling last year threw out FTC's complaint over lack of evidence — The decision is a reversal of fortune for the agency after its first complaint was thrown out last year
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
The FTC's suit against Meta comes too late to really matter, but its scrutiny of Meta's VR acquisitions shows it's determined not to make the same mistake twice — Why an FTC inquiry into the company's VR ambitions matters more than today's lawsuit ruling — Just over 13 months ago … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Samsung, which had announced a January 11 event for the Exynos 2200, didn't show up to its own product launch — The Exynos 2200 was supposed to launch on January 11. It didn't. Nobody knows why. — So here's a crazy story. Samsung was supposed to have a big SoC launch today, but that launch did not happen.
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| Kim Eun-jin / BusinessKorea: |
After failing to appear at its launch event, Samsung says the Exynos 2200 will be unveiled alongside a new smartphone, likely in late January or February — Samsung Electronics has decided to put off the Exynos 2200 unveiling, which was initially scheduled for Jan. 11, in consideration of the customer's schedule.
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Jack Dorsey and others propose a legal defense fund for Bitcoin developers, citing “multi-front litigation” and “threats” — The main purpose of the fund will be to defend developers from from lawsuits regarding their activities in the Bitcoin ecosystem …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sony confirms PlayStation 4 production will continue in 2022, which sources claim will help the company offset some PlayStation 5 production pressure — Sony Group Corp. will continue producing PlayStation 4 consoles throughout 2022 as it navigates disruptions to the global supply chain …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Wordle clones are starting to disappear from Apple's App Store, after reports surfaced about many capitalizing on the guessing game's popularity — It seems Apple has taken action — Has Apple taken action against apps that cloned the popular web game Wordle?
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| Talal Ansari / Wall Street Journal: |
Kim Kardashian and other celebrities are facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly leading investors into an EthereumMax cryptocurrency pump-and-dump scam — Lawsuit alleges celebrities made false or misleading statements to investors about EthereumMax; company disputes allegations
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| Meta: |
Meta elects DoorDash co-founder and CEO Tony Xu to its board of directors; Zuckerberg says Xu has experience “solving complex challenges in commerce” — Meta today announced that Tony Xu, co-founder and CEO of DoorDash, Inc., has been elected to the company's board of directors, effective immediately.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: consumers spent $170B on mobile apps globally in 2021, up 19% YoY, with 230B app downloads; the average American spent 4.1 hours on apps per day — Consumer spending on mobile apps reached $170 billion in 2021, according to App Annie's newly released “State of Mobile 2022″ report …
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| Lucy Harley-Mckeown / The Block: |
Coinbase says “nearly the entire company will shut down” across four separate “recharge weeks” for employees in 2022 to avoid burnout — Quick Take — Coinbase is giving employees four ‘recharge weeks’ off in 2022 in order to counteract what it called an intense working environment.
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
PCI Special Interest Group finalizes its PCIe 6.0 specification, expected in servers in 2023, doubling PCIe 5.0's speeds and reaching 128GBps in x16 slots — This morning the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) is releasing the much-awaited final (1.0) specification for PCI Express 6.0.
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Tweets: @anandtech, @appleinsider, and @thomrabe
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
T-Mobile says it has “not broadly blocked” iCloud Private Relay, blaming a bug in iOS 15.2, but says customers with content filtering plans won't have access — T-Mobile has officially acknowledged a bug that has blocked some subscribers from using iCloud Private Relay when connected to cellular networking.
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Tweets: @markgurman, @chancehmiller, and @dsilverman
| Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: |
European enterprise travel management startup TravelPerk raises $115M led by General Catalyst and Kinnevik at a $1.3B valuation, bringing total funding to $409M — - General Catalyst joins Kinnevik in latest funding round — Company plans expansion in key markets including U.S., Europe| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bengaluru-based Refyne, which works with employers to let workers access their earned salaries in real-time, raises an $82M Series B led by Tiger Global — Refyne has raised a new financing round, just seven months after securing its previous funding, as the Bengaluru-based startup scales …
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| Bloomberg: |
Alphabet Workers Union complains that contract workers receive COVID-19 testing that is inferior to the $949 Cue Health devices given to full-time WFH employees — - Full-time employees at home get instant results from Cue — Contractors in office are offered cheaper mail-in testsSponsor Posts
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