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Binance is investing $200M in Forbes to help the publisher with its plan to merge with a SPAC in Q1 — - Binance, the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange, is making a $200 million strategic investment in Forbes, the 104-year old magazine and digital publisher, CNBC has learned.
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Tweets: @rmac18, @cz_binance, @hugh_son, @claireatki, @justinsuntron, @ahcastor, @yangcliu, @curvecap, @tante, @graceonfootball, @halhod, @rmac18, @anthonyha, @jyarow, @stokel, @marchochstein, @pt, @silvermanjacob, @sub8u, @brianmcc, @binance, @timccopeland, @timccopeland, @alex, @asilbwrites, and @ryanlawler
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter misses as Q4 revenue rose 22% YoY to $1.57B, net income dropped to $182M; mDAUs hit 217M, up from 192M YoY; FY 2021 revenue rose 37% YoY to $5.08B — - Twitter reported earnings for the fourth quarter of 2021 Thursday that missed analyst estimates on earnings, revenue and user growth.
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Tweets: @jyarow, @twitterir, @stevekovach, @kantrowitz, @twitterir, @twitterir, @sfiegerman, @megancgraham, @twitterir, and @megancgraham
| Catie Keck / The Verge: |
YouTube details updates for creators: new editing and monetization tools for Shorts, expanded Shopping across the app, improvements to Studio, and more — A lot of new features are in the works for 2022 — YouTube is expanding the ways creators can monetize their content, interact with viewers …
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The Verge, YouTube Official Blog, TechCrunch, Blockworks, Agence France-Presse, 9to5Google, Bloomberg, Appleosophy, and iMore
Tweets: @fwiz, @reckless, and @camdasilva
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn says there will be a major improvement in component shortages in Q1; TSMC and others have indicated shortages will continue through 2022 — The biggest assembler of iPhones said component shortages that have plagued electronics production for more than a year are showing signs of easing …
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MacRumors, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, iThinkDifferent, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, iClarified, iMore, and Livy's Newsletter
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Kioxia and WD report contamination at two NAND production factories, impacting up to 6.5EB of storage; TrendForce says NAND prices could rise 5%-10% in Q2 — Update 2/10/2022, 3am PT: Analyst firm TrendForce has now reported that the incident could cause NAND flash prices to spike 5 to 10% in Q2 … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Code from Apple Music on Android beta suggests Apple's forthcoming classical music streaming service could be called Apple Classical — The latest beta version of Apple Music is rolling out on Android this evening with a very sizable upgrade to homescreen widgets, while possibly also revealing … | Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
France's CNIL data regulator says Google Analytics fails to sufficiently protect EU citizens' data from illegal US government surveillance — Alphabet Inc.'s Google Analytics doesn't sufficiently protect European Union citizens' data from potentially illegal U.S. surveillance and could be banned altogether.
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cnil.fr, TechCrunch, Euractiv, The Register, Forbes, Silicon Republic, AppleInsider, noyb.eu, and Reuters
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Apple confirms it changes the job title of every ex-employee to “associate” in job verification services, after #AppleToo leader Cher Scarlett's SEC complaint — In job databases used by employers to verify resume information, every former Apple employee's title gets erased and replaced with a generic title
Tweets: @cherthedev, @cherthedev, @geek_news, @aweyenberg, @ramblinpeck, @nate_petersen, and @tedivm
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
References to “realityOS” appear to have briefly shown up again in Apple's code, this time in a GitHub repo; reports of a new AR headset OS date back to 2017 — The long-rumored Apple headset could have a new OS — Apple's long-rumored virtual or augmented reality headset might …
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XDA Developers, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tom's Guide, PhoneArena, Mike's List, Ars Technica, AppleTrack, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, OnMSFT.com, SlashGear, Developer Tech News, iClarified, iThinkDifferent, and Appleosophy
Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @nicolas09f9, @iammatthewdavis, @stroughtonsmith, @rachelmercer, @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, @sadlyitsbradley, @stroughtonsmith, @simonbs, @krzyzanowskim, @davegillis, @sadlyitsbradley, @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, @wholemarsblog, @stroughtonsmith, @sadlyitsbradley, @stroughtonsmith, @firt, @dalmaer, @stroughtonsmith, @nicolas09f9, @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, @stroughtonsmith, @mgsiegler, @stroughtonsmith, and @tomwarren
| Mars W. Mosqueda Jr / DealStreetAsia: |
Philippine Digital Asset Exchange raises a $50M+ Series B led by Tiger Global and says it has 500,000 users — Editor's note: An earlier version of this story pegged Tiger Global's latest investment in PDAX at $28.93 million and the Series B funds it has raised so far at $41 million based on regulatory filings.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's ShareChat and MX Player agree to merge their short-video apps, Moj and MX TakaTak; source says the deal is worth $900M — Tiger Global-backed ShareChat and Times Internet-owned on-demand video streaming service MX Player have agreed to “strategically merge” their short video apps Moj and MX TakaTak …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Salt Security, an API vulnerability and protection service, raises a $140M Series D led by CapitalG at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total funding to $271M — Salt Security, an API vulnerability and protection platform used by companies such as Equinix and Telefónica, has raised $140 million in a series D round of funding.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French buy now, pay later startup Alma raises a €115M Series C and €95M debt from Tencent and others, bringing its total equity funding to €185M — French startup Alma is trying to build a new “buy now, pay later” giant in Europe. The company has closed a $130 million Series C round (€115 million).
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
LinkedIn is testing a no-politics setting for some US users' feeds that filters out content about political parties and candidates, election outcomes, and more — CEO Ryan Roslansky lays out new features arriving on the professional networking platform, including a no-politics button and live video and audio events
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Micropsi, which trains industrial robots to perform actions using human demonstrations, raises $30M led by Metaplanet, bringing its total raised to $45M — As the pandemic places an increasing strain on the supply chain, manufacturers and warehouse operators are piloting … | Marc Wojno / ZDNet: |
Bitcoin payment processor OpenNode raises a $20M Series A led by Kingsway at a $200M valuation; Twitter, Tim Draper, and Avon Ventures also invested — Proceeds from the Series A financing will go toward OpenNode's global expansion plans. — Bitcoin payment processor …
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| Nikita Richardson / New York Times: |
How The Sims, which lets Sims eat or cook 300+ different dishes, has evolved into a world where players can learn about the many ways people experience food — The 22-year-old life-simulation video game has evolved into a world where players can farm, forage, cook and learn about the many ways people experience food.
Tweets: @zoescaman, @tanyasic, @nikitarbk, @hamburger, @lilsimsie, @bykatherineross, @juliey4, and @thesims
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Superconductive, which is planning to release a commercial version of its Great Expectations open source data quality tool this year, raises a $40M Series B — Data quality — the practice of testing and ensuring that the data and data sets you are using are what you expect them to be …
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| Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg: |
Israeli VC firm Cyberstarts, which bets on early-stage cybersecurity startups, has posted a 300% internal rate of return since its fund's inception in 2018 — Israeli venture capital investor Cyberstarts has generated top returns by betting on cybersecurity entrepreneurs at the early stages …
Tweets: @middleeast and @ivanlevingston
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Vodafone Portugal is working to recover from a “deliberate and malicious cyberattack” that also affected businesses, ambulances, fire departments, and hospitals — Ambulance and emergency services are among those suffering from “deliberate” hack.
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The Record, Reuters, Metacurity, Silicon Republic, ECO News, lusa.pt, BleepingComputer, DataBreaches.net, and ZDNet
Tweets: @martijn_grooten and @campuscodi
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
How the feds caught Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein as they allegedly attempted, rather sloppily, to launder bitcoin from the Bitfinex hack — Bitfinex laundry — In her public life, Heather Morgan seems to have been the cringiest imaginable sort of crypto-adjacent hustle-bro.
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Tweets: @kashhill, @billspacman, @ommiii_, @matt_levine, @techemist, @gerritd, @sub8u, @jessysaurusrex, @rklau, @samir_madani, @larsen_espn, @robertjdenault, @maxlynch, @lanceroberts, @etbrooking, @deantak, @sokane1, @chriscillizza, @jchervinsky, @ntaylor963, @business, @s_m_i, @pkafka, @petergleick, @kosherhotdogz, and @sandofsky
| Rhiannon Hoyle / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: KoBold Metals, which uses AI to find earth metals needed in EVs, raises a $192.5M Series B from Apollo Projects, Bond Capital, and others — Investors participating in Series B funding round include Apollo Projects, BHP, and Canada's largest pension fund
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