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The US DOJ arrests two people in New York and seizes ~$3.6B worth of bitcoin allegedly stolen in a 2016 Bitfinex hack, its “largest financial seizure ever” — The Justice Department announced Tuesday it had seized more than $3.6 billion in bitcoin allegedly stolen as part …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils Tap to Pay, letting US merchants accept payments with an iPhone and a partner-enabled app “later this year”; partners include Stripe and Shopify — Apple has officially announced a new Tap to Pay feature for iPhone. This feature, coming later this year …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is in talks to acquire cybersecurity research and incident response company Mandiant, whose stock closed up 17.86% on Tuesday — Microsoft Corp. is considering making a bid for cybersecurity-research and incident response company Mandiant Inc., according to a person familiar …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony's second PS5 beta adds a “Hey PlayStation” voice command feature, for US and UK accounts at first, alongside party chat changes and new UI settings — Sony is also making changes to the way parties work — Sony announced that it will begin rolling out its second PS5 software beta …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
As Meta dips under a $600B market cap, it may avoid antitrust liability since it falls below the threshold set by recent US House bills as a “covered platform” — - Facebook owner Meta closed with a market cap below $600 billion on Tuesday for the first time since May 2020.
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| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Peloton CEO John Foley will step down and ex-Spotify and Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy will take over; Peloton will cut ~2,800 jobs and cancel its Ohio factory — Exercise-equipment maker to name former Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy as successor, overhaul board and cut costs
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple plans to improve benefits for full- and part-time US retail workers, including doubling paid sick days and increasing PTO, amid a tight labor market — Apple Inc. plans to significantly increase its benefits for U.S. retail store workers as it grapples with a tightening labor market …
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| Darren Loucaides / Wired: |
A deep dive into the CEO and history of Telegram, which has about 30 core employees, minimal content moderation, and, until recently, no ongoing revenue — Hundreds of millions of users. No algorithm. No ads. Courage in the face of autocracy. Sound like a dream? Careful what you wish for.| CNBC: |
Amazon Care rolls out its telehealth service nationwide, expands in-person care to more US cities, and adds Whole Foods, Silicon Labs, and TrueBlue as customers — - Amazon is launching its telehealth program, known as Amazon Care, nationwide and has signed up a handful of new companies to use its services.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Lyft Q4: revenue of $970M, vs. $940M est. and up from $570M YoY, average revenue per rider of $51.79, up 14% YoY, but 18.73M active riders, down from 18.94M QoQ — - Lyft reported fourth-quarter earnings after-the-bell on Tuesday. — Lyft reported 18.73 million active riders in the last quarter of 2021.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
GiveSendGo, the main donation service used by Freedom Convoy supporters, fixes a flaw that exposed thousands of donor ID documents via an exposed AWS S3 bucket — The donation site used by truckers in Ottawa who are currently protesting against national vaccine mandates has fixed a security lapse … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Journeys for Chrome on desktop, letting users revisit old browsing sessions, based on searches from the omnibar, organized by subject matter — Journeys groups your search history together by category — Google Chrome is rolling out Journeys, a feature that lets you revisit … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A review of digital advertising in 2022, which has shifted from a Google-Meta duopoly to one where Amazon and potentially Apple are major forces — Six years ago tomorrow, in The Reality of Missing Out, I wrote that the digital advertising market was settled, and Google and Facebook won:| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Twitter tells US Senator Wyden that it's “transitioning” away from using Mitto for passcodes, as the text message services firm faces surveillance accusations — Twitter Inc. told a U.S. senator it is cutting ties with a European technology company that helped it send sensitive passcodes to its users via text message.| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
GlobalFoundries reports Q4 revenue of $1.85B, up 74% YoY, net income of $43M, up 108% YoY, and FY 2021 revenue of $6.59B, up 36% YoY — GlobalFoundries CEO Caulfield says company will produce “another year of strong growth in revenue and profitability in 2022.”
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| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Netflix and Amazon had fewer Oscar nominations in 2022; half of the Best Picture nominees had little to no theater time and all major studios used hybrid models — This morning's Oscar nominations suggest a rethink — or at least a collective hitting of the pause button — on the status of streaming in the awards conversation.
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Tweets: @jasmynbeknowing, @mattbelloni, @filmupdates, @dadehayes, and @tedhope
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Promethium, an AI-powered augmented data management provider for data and analytics teams, raises a $26M Series A led by Insight Partners — Data fabric solutions startup Promethium Inc. announced today that it has raised $26 million in new funding to scale up new customer growth with additional hiring and build out its product.
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| Emily Olsen / MobiHealthNews: |
Trialjectory, which uses AI to match cancer patients to clinical trials, raises a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners — The company helps patients find clinical trials and works with pharma companies to limit barriers to enrollment. — Trialjectory, a startup that matches cancer patients …
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Tweets: @sid_healthcare, @ct_innovate, and @freddytn
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A look at Apple's IAP changes for Dutch dating app developers: its proposal seemingly isn't compliant, reducing the commission by just 3% is spiteful, and more — The continuing saga of Apple's conflict with the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) — the Dutch equivalent …
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
As data centers grow, engineers at Meta, Google, and other companies worry about the reliability of ever-smaller chips and hardware failures with unclear causes — As the largest computer networks continue to grow, some engineers fear that their smallest components could prove to be an Achilles' heel.| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Crypto infrastructure startup Alchemy raises a $200M Series C extension from Lightspeed and Silver Lake at a $10.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in October 2021 — Alchemy, a startup that provides blockchain tools, has been growing fast: It raised buckets of money last year and attracted dozens … | Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Partech Partners report: African startups raised a record $5.2B in 2021 across 681 deals, up from $1.43B across 359 deals in 2020 — Last year was record-breaking for African startups. I know I'm probably starting to sound like a broken record, but the astronomical growth is worth highlighting again and again.
Tweets: @partechpartners and @jakerbright
| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
ID.me says it will make automated facial recognition verification optional for its government partners and let users delete their face scans starting on March 1 — The major reversal comes one day after the IRS ended its use of ID.me's facial recognition service and amidst an outpouring of public pushback.
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