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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has delayed adding a blood pressure monitor to Apple Watch until 2024, possibly 2025, after difficulties with accuracy during testing — Apple Inc.'s plan to add a highly anticipated blood-pressure monitor to its smartwatch has hit some snags and the technology isn't expected …
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MacRumors, PCMag, XDA Developers, Macworld, BGR, Wccftech, AppleTrack, Digital Trends, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, The Shortcut, iThinkDifferent, Engadget, Tom's Guide, MobileSyrup, PhoneArena, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, iMore, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, iMore, and MacRumors
Tweets: @stevekovach, @business, @markgurman, and @ivanthek
| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
DuckDuckGo launches its privacy-focused browser on macOS in beta through a private waiting list — DuckDuckGo started out as a private search engine. Now its web browser is debuting on Macs to rival Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Brave. — When Google launched Chrome back in 2008, it changed the web overnight.
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Spread Privacy, Ars Technica, Macworld, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Computerworld, Protocol, TechSpot, MacRumors, TechCrunch, OnMSFT.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Liliputing, The Verge, Fossbytes, iMore, BetaNews, and Broadband TV News
Tweets: @duckduckgo, @jeremiahg, @beahbl, @alexhern, @byunfinished, @wired, and @mattburgess1
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
A profile of a16z VC Chris Dixon, who made early bets on crypto startups like Coinbase; sources: a16z plans to fold its crypto funds back into its central funds — The Andreessen Horowitz partner is the new no. 1 on Forbes' 21st annual Midas List of top venture investors, thanks to savvy bets on tokens …
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Forbes. Tweets: @alexrkonrad, @smdiehl, @killedbygoogle, @joshelman, @valaafshar, @rabois, @alexrkonrad, @brianjcho, @forbes, @alexrkonrad, @zck, @forbes, and @alexrkonrad
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Tweets: @thedextriarchy, @mattyglesias, @dannypage, @nkulw, @verge, @theolivenbaum, @thedextriarchy, @bigmeaninternet, and @reckless
| Zack Seward / CoinDesk: |
Circle, which maintains the USDC stablecoin, raises $400M from BlackRock, Fidelity, and others, after raising $440M in May 2021 — BlackRock and Fidelity headlined the stablecoin issuer's latest funding round, which follows a $440 million raise from last May.
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Circle, PR Newswire, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Blockworks, Bitcoinist.com, Axios, CryptoPotato, Crypto Briefing, TechCrunch, CoinGape, FinSMEs, Ethereum World News, Cointelegraph, and Finextra
Tweets: @jerallaire, @yueqi_yang, @jerallaire, @apompliano, and @mayazi
| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
RaidForums, used by Lapsus$, Babuk, and other extortion gangs, is seized in a US-led international operation; Europol says the hacking forum had 500K+ users — The RaidForums hacker forum, used mainly for trading and selling stolen databases, has been shut down and its domain seized …
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Krebs on Security, U.S. Department of Justice, Ars Technica, The Hill, PCMag, and DataBreaches.net
Tweets: @joetidy, @campuscodi, and @fbi
| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Data.ai: TikTok users spent $847M on in-app payments from January through March, up 184% YoY, a record for an app; TikTok had 1.6B MAUs at the end of March — Dubbing Russia's invasion of Ukraine “the first TikTok war” is by now a cliché, but we still have very little insight …
Tweets: @bloombergca, @caseynewton, and @atbwebb
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple updates iMovie for iOS and iPadOS with Magic Movie, for automatic movie creation from clips and photos, and storyboards for a template-guided approach — Apple is releasing an iMovie update today for iOS and iPadOS. iMovie 3.0 introduces two new major features — storyboards and Magic Movie.
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MacRumors, XDA Developers, Apple, appadvice.com, Macworld, AppleInsider, Engadget, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, PetaPixel, iPhone Hacks, iMore, Mashable, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, and MobileSyrup
Tweets: @chrismessina, @jgamet, @reneritchie, @stroughtonsmith, and @chinanderm
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify rebrands companion app Spotify Greenroom as Spotify Live and integrates its live audio capabilities in the main app minus the interactive features — As an earlier report had suggested, Spotify today announced it will integrate the live audio capabilities from its companion app …
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Spotify, XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, Android Police, Engadget, The Verge, Variety, Android Headlines, Neowin, iMore, and The Hollywood Reporter
Tweets: @spotifynews and @chrismessina
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok is rolling out Effect House, which lets creators make AR effects that others can use in videos, to all users after a closed beta test last fall — Last August, TechCrunch noted TikTok was working to build its own augmented reality (AR) development platform called Effect House …
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TikTok, Digital Trends, The Verge, Adweek, Android Headlines, iMore, Engadget, Neowin, afrotech.com, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @tomemrich
| Jill R Shah / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Meta spent $26.8M on Mark Zuckerberg's security in 2021, up 6% from 2020, far above other execs, such as Sundar Pichai ($4.3M) and Jeff Bezos ($1.6M) — The cost of keeping Mark Zuckerberg safe keeps going up for Meta Platforms Inc., far outstripping what similar technology companies with high-profile executives are spending.
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PCMag, Protocol, TechSpot, and New York Post
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @gregbensinger, @jackpullara, and @davidgura
| Nikkei Asia: |
Major iPhone manufacturer Pegatron, Mac manufacturer Quanta, and iPad maker Compal suspend factory operations near Shanghai amid strict COVID-19 measures — TAIPEI — Three key Apple suppliers have suspended production in and near Shanghai as strict COVID-19 lockdown measures show signs …
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The Verge, XDA Developers, AppleInsider, CNBC, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Bloomberg, iThinkDifferent, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, PCMag, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, South China Morning Post, iMore, and WRAL TechWire
Tweets: @chengtingfang and @mingchikuo
| Akshat Rathi / Bloomberg: |
A look at Stripe's $925M Frontier initiative, which funds carbon-removal startups and has received funding from Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, and others — Some of the world's largest companies will spend $925 million buying offsets from startups that remove carbon dioxide from the air.
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Protocol, CNBC, Silicon Republic, and South China Morning Post
| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: two weeks after the launch of CNN+, the premium streaming service has garnered under 10K DAUs, amid reports that CNN has spent ~$300M on the effort — - Fewer than 10,000 people are using CNN+ on a daily basis two weeks into its existence, sources said.
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Axios, The Verge, The Streamable, The Kitchen Pundit, and New York Post
Tweets: @brentscher, @richlightshed, @cnbc, @reckless, and @redsteeze
| Eric Migicovsky: |
On the 10th anniversary of smart watch maker Pebble's Kickstarter launch, its founder says Pebble failed as it tried to expand beyond a hacker user base — I've been giving a talk on the importance of learning from failure to every YC batch for last few years. I wrote this post in 2017 but never published it.| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Court docs: T-Mobile paid hackers ~$200K via a third party to stop an ongoing leak of stolen data on 30M customers, but the hackers kept selling it regardless — After hackers targeted T-Mobile in August, T-Mobile hired a third-party firm that went undercover and bought exclusive access to the data.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Ethereum developers launch the so-called mainnet shadow fork, a key stress test ahead of the proof-of-stake Merge upgrade, expected to reduce energy use by ~99% — Ethereum's network is inching closer toward its much-anticipated software upgrade known as the Merge, having just entered a key testing step.
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Fortune, CryptoSlate, Cointelegraph, The Block, the mesha tribe, GitHub, Cryptonews, CryptoPotato, and Micky
Tweets: @vdwijden, @vdwijden, @cory_eth, @bulldogholmes, and @monetarywonk
| Andi Ortiz / The Wrap: |
Last Week Tonight's John Oliver weighed in on data brokers, showing how easy it was to target members of Congress with ads after obtaining their personal info — John Oliver escalated his typical shenanigans on Sunday night's episode of “Last Week Tonight,” going from poking fun at politicians to outright blackmailing them.
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LastWeekTonight - YouTube, Techdirt, Rolling Stone, BGR, and HuffPost
| Bloomberg: |
KKR agrees to buy Barracuda, which helps companies manage and protect cloud data, from Thoma Bravo; sources: the deal values Barracuda at ~$3.8B including debt — KKR & Co. has agreed to to acquire cybersecurity company Barracuda Networks Inc. from Thoma Bravo.
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Reuters, CRN, Silicon Valley Business …, Barracuda Networks, and SecurityWeek
| New York Times: |
NFT avatar startup Genies raises $150M led by Silver Lake at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $250M — Silver Lake is leading a $150 million funding round for Genies, an avatar technology company that provides digital tools to create and sell online characters, clothes …
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CoinDesk, The Block, TechCrunch, Blockworks, SiliconANGLE, dot.LA, and VentureBeat
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Singapore-based fashion marketplace Zilingo suspends CEO Ankiti Bose, after attempts to raise $150M-$200M led to an investigation over its accounting — Zilingo Pte, one of Singapore's highest-profile startups, has suspended Chief Executive Officer Ankiti Bose after an effort …
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The Economic Times, DealStreetAsia, Inc42 Media, and Tech in Asia
Tweets: @sindhuhtoi, @pelstrom, @newley, and @chandrarsrikant
| Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: |
NFT and metaverse content creation company Infinite Reality announces an all-stock deal worth $470M to acquire esports company ReKT Global — ReKT is known for its ownership of the successful esports teams Team Rogue and the London Royal Ravens. — Metaverse company Infinite Reality …
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VentureBeat, PR Newswire, and sportsbusinessjournal.com
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Fitbit receives FDA clearance for passive heart rhythm monitoring to detect signs of atrial fibrillation (AFib) and will roll out the feature in the US soon — The Food and Drug Administration has given Fitbit the green light to monitor users' heart rhythms in the background.| Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk: |
Cryptocurrency lender Celsius, recently valued at ~$3B, says only accredited US investors will be able to add new assets and earn rewards starting April 15 — In the US, only accredited investors, and those with coins already in the Earn platform, will be able to earn rewards.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Observe.ai, which develops call center software that analyzes conversations, raises a $125M Series C led by Vision Fund 2, bringing its total funding to $213M — Contact centers play a key part in call a company engages with customers, amounting to what is a $400 billion market globally.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Some business customers say Microsoft's licensing rules make it harder and costlier to run Windows and Office on rival cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud — The current tide of antitrust scrutiny and regulations focused on big technology companies has conspicuously omitted one company …
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ZDNet, Windows Central, OnMSFT.com, Thurrott, and Benzinga
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