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Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after reports surfaced about some developers capitalizing on the guessing game's popularity — Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Canalys: worldwide PC shipments grew 15% YoY in 2021 to 341M, the highest annual number since 2012; Apple shipped 28.3% more units, Acer 21.8%, and Dell 18% — It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong.
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Sources: Microsoft has hired a veteran semiconductor designer from Apple, as it seeks to develop its own chips for Azure servers — Microsoft Corp. lured away a veteran semiconductor designer from Apple Inc. as it looks to expand its own server-chips efforts, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Justin Hendrix / Tech Policy Press: |
Over 260 health professionals tell Spotify to implement a misinformation policy, after a Joe Rogan Experience episode featured a discredited scientist — More than 260 doctors, nurses, scientists, health professionals and others have signed an open letter calling on the streaming media platform Spotify to …
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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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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says no changes were made in iOS 15.2 that would've toggled iCloud Private Relay off, and no carriers have blocked its users from using it — Some iPhone users this week noticed that iCloud Private Relay suddenly stopped working with their cellular connections.
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Over 80 fact-checking organizations tell YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki that the company's misinformation policies are “proving insufficient” and propose solutions — Ms. Susan Wojcicki, — It's been almost two years since the COVID-19 pandemic started.
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| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
US Cyber Command says malware group MuddyWater is tied to Iranian intelligence, the first time the US government has publicly linked the group to Iranian regime — U.S. Cyber Command on Wednesday revealed that a hacking group reputed for its cyberespionage campaigns is actually part of Iran's intelligence apparatus.
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| Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Coinbase says it is acquiring FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, and plans to bring crypto derivatives and futures products to US customers — Coinbase is acquiring FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange. — The exchange company announced the move on Wednesday, saying …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
FCC proposes stricter data breach reporting rules, including a mandate to notify customers of “inadvertent” breaches, scrapping a one-week wait period, and more — The Federal Communications Commission is the next US regulator hoping to hold companies more accountable for data breaches.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Instagram became the world's most downloaded app in Q4 2021, its best quarter since 2014 with installs up 10% QoQ, followed by TikTok and Facebook — Instagram is benefiting from TikTok's ban in India, and has now reclaimed the top spot in terms of total global downloads as of the fourth quarter of 2021.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: consumers spent $170B on mobile apps globally in 2021, up 19% YoY, downloading 230B apps; the average American spent 4.1 hours in 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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| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
London-based Checkout.com, which offers payment processing tools, raises $1B in a share sale at a $40B valuation — The $1 billion deal vaults the digital-payments processor past all but a handful of other startups — Checkout.com didn't raise money from outside investors until 2019.
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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 — 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Locket, an iOS app and widget for sharing photos to friends' homescreens, hits #1 on the App Store after debuting on New Year's Day and going viral on TikTok — A new social app, Locket, popped to the top of the App Store charts in recent days thanks to its clever premise to put live photos … | Derek Decloet / Bloomberg: |
Boosted.ai, which offers machine learning tools for investment portfolio managers, raises a $35M Series B led by Spark Capital and Ten Coves Capital — Boosted.ai, a provider of artificial intelligence software to investment management firms, is raising $35 million in a series B round led …
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
BigPanda, an IT management startup that uses AI to detect and resolve outages, raises $190M led by Advent and Insight at a $1.2B valuation — San Francisco-based BigPanda, which helps IT departments keep their digital services running, hit a valuation of $1.2 billion after a $190 million raise …
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| Felix Onuah / Reuters: |
Nigeria will lift its ban on Twitter after suspending it on June 4 last year; Twitter has agreed to open an office in Nigeria, among other agreements — Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter (TWTR.N) from midnight after the social media platform agreed to open a local office … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based LEAD School, which is helping digitize affordable private schools, raises a $100M Series E at a $1.1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $170M — Despite the recent boom of consumer-focused education learning platforms in India, the vast majority of students in the South Asian nation remain unserved.
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| Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes: |
DeepScribe, which automates medical record transcription and digitization for doctors, raises a $30M Series A led by Index Ventures — Physician burnout was thrust into the limelight during Covid-19. But for many in the industry, it's been a problem since the HITECH act went into effect in 2009 … | Globes Online: |
Israeli startup Placer.ai, which offers location analytics and consumer foot traffic data, raises a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation — The company provides insights about foot traffic in malls and shopping centers, other retail centers, casinos, theme parks and stadiums and more.Sponsor Posts
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