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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
GSMA says it has canceled Mobile World Congress after the coronavirus made it “impossible” to hold the event — MWC 2020 is no more — The world's biggest phone show, Mobile World Congress, is no longer taking place this year. After coronavirus threatened to throw MWC into chaos …
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| New York Times: |
Andy Rubin's Essential Products, which raised $330M to build smartphones and was valued at $1B, says it is ceasing operations — The smartphone company founded by Mr. Rubin, a former Google executive, struggled to win over customers. — SAN FRANCISCO — Essential Products …
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| Financial Times: |
Facebook says it has banned a network of two dozen fake pages and accounts linked to two Southeast Asian telecoms for using disinformation against rivals — South-east Asian providers said to have used fake accounts to discredit rivals — Facebook has alleged that one of south-east Asia's …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Book excerpt from Steven Levy's Facebook: The Inside Story, with a look at Zuckerberg's lost handwritten journal, in which he noted plans for world domination — In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp says it now has 2B users worldwide, up from the 1.5B it announced two years ago — WhatsApp, the most popular messaging service, revealed today just how big it has become. The Facebook-owned app said it has amassed two billion users, up from 1.5 billion it revealed two years ago.
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| John Detrixhe / Quartz: |
Research: Apple Pay makes up about 5% of global card transactions and is on pace to double that share by 2025 — Future of Finance — New technology is upending everything in finance. — Apple's mobile wallet is gobbling up a growing chunk of card payments around the world.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
UK proposes plans to put media regulator Ofcom in charge of regulating social media, with a focus on removing illegal content and minimizing “harmful” content — Ministers unveil plans to block harmful content, while guaranteeing free speech — Ofcom will be put in charge …
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| Data Protection Commission: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission: Facebook has postponed launching Dating on Valentine's Day in Europe after DPC resorted to an inspection to procure docs — Facebook Ireland first contacted the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) in relation to its intention to roll-out a new Dating feature in the EU on Monday 3 February.
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Wall Street Journal, CNN, Digital Trends, Business Insider, PYMNTS.com, and Reuters
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| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Consumer advocacy group DoNotPay launches Robo Revenge, an app that fights robocallers by giving them burner credit card info and then helping users sue them — DoNotPay, the family of consumer advocacy services meant to protect people from corporate exploitation, is launching a new app aimed … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Reuters launches a new Reuters Fact Check business unit and blog and partners with Facebook to review news headlines, deepfakes, and user generated content — Eye-witness photos and videos distributed by news wire Reuters already go through an exhaustive media verification process.
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Reuters, CNET, Digital Trends, TechSpot, Yahoo Finance, Adweek, Variety, and Cointelegraph
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Emoji Kitchen, which mashes up two emojis into a sticker, for Gboard on Android — Compatible with WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, and more — There are already hundreds of emoji available to cover every emotion from yawning to being a straight-up drunk weirdo.
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Tweets: @android, @advil, @jenniferdaniel, and @lilnasx
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Regulators should be wary of unintended consequences as they look closer at acquisitions by big tech, because the current system usually works well for everyone — While primum non nocere — Latin for “First, do no harm” — is commonly associated with the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians …
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FBI says it received 467,361 cybercrime complaints in 2019, with attacks involving business email compromise causing about half of the estimated $3.5B in losses — Average loss per BEC scam amounted to nearly $75,000, per complaint, on average. — The FBI received 467,361 internet …
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Federal Bureau …, Dark Reading, Security Affairs, PYMNTS.com, Threatpost, HealthITSecurity, and TechPowerUp. Tweets: @fbi
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Shopify beats with Q4 revenue of $505.2M, up 47% YoY; sales on Shopify's platform from Black Friday through Cyber Monday rose 61% YoY to $2.9B+; stock up ~8% — - Shopify shares climbed more than 11.4% on Wednesday, hitting a new 52-week high, after the company beat expectations for the fourth quarter.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Habu, which offers analysis and management tools for marketing data, emerges from stealth with $15M Series A — Marketing startup Habu is emerging from stealth today and announcing that it has already raised $15 million in Series A funding. — The company comes out of super{set} … Thanks:@alexandrapaulv
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
GitHub launches a subsidiary in India, saying it's home to its third-largest community of developers and it saw 22% growth there over the past year — GitHub has launched an Indian subsidiary as it looks to capitalize on recent growth in the country. — The code-hosting platform … | The Verge: |
A look at online coding program Lambda School, which lets students defer tuition payments until they have jobs, but that many say is costly and under-delivers — Students at Lambda School say the program hasn't delivered on its promise — Bethany Surber was sleeping on friends' couches … | Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube continues to mirror Twitch, testing a new clap feature that lets fans donate to creators with animated applause for $2, of which YouTube takes a 30% cut — Clapping costs $2 on YouTube now — YouTube is trying to figure out how to help creators earn more revenue through alternative … | David Gelles / New York Times: |
Profile of Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf, who has led it through several crises since 2014, including Broadcom's failed takeover and a vicious spat with Apple — After a career spent working on “very important backup plans,” Steve Mollenkopf has steered Qualcomm through one rough patch after another.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @nytimesbusiness, and @nytimesbusiness
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Battery Ventures closes on $2B in commitments across two funds, a $1.2B flagship and another $800M companion vehicle, two years after its last fundraise — Battery Ventures, the now 37-year-old investment firm, just closed on two new funds that — at $2 billion in capital commitments …
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Silicon Valley Business …, Bloomberg, FinSMEs, Crunchbase News, and Digital Commerce 360. Tweets: @jasonlk
| Hired: |
State of Software Engineers 2019: global demand for AR/VR engineers up by 1,400%, gaming developers up 146%, security engineers up 49% but slower than in 2018 — Overview — The worldwide process of digital transformation, while something of a buzzword, reflects a critical truth: every company is now a technology company.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Nominet survey of CISOs at large US and UK companies finds 88% are “moderately or tremendously stressed”, resulting in an average tenure of 26 months — Report: The vast majority of interviewed CISO executives (88%) report high levels of stress, a third report stress-caused … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with McAfee CTO Steve Grobman on unusual types of ransomware, the state of AI in orchestrating and defending against cyberattacks, and deepfake detection — Artificial intelligence is sweeping through almost every industry, layering a new level of intelligence on the software used … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Radar, a location data startup that positions itself as privacy-focused, raises $20M Series B led by Accel to build out its platform — Pick any app on your phone, and there's a greater than average chance that it's tracking your location right now. — Sometimes, they don't even tell you.
Tweets: @vas
| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
SoftBank's Vision Fund posts an operating loss of $2.05B in Q4 compared to a $1.6B profit a year earlier; Vision Fund invested $74.6B in 88 companies as of Q4 — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's SoftBank Group Corp said on Wednesday its third-quarter operating profit fell 99%, well short of analyst estimates …
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| Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: |
A look at how Tala and other microfinance tech startups have exploded in Kenya, offering sky-high interest rates that have left some borrowers with nothing — Patricia Lele waits for nightfall to go to work. As the sun sets in Kitale, in western Kenya, she hikes up her 2-year-old daughter on her hip …
Tweets: @katiadmi, @ainsleyoc, @aawayne, and @silviakillings
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Meditation app maker Headspace raises $53M in equity, led by Blisce, and $40M in debt and will use the funds to build tools for users with chronic diseases — Meditation app maker Headspace has raised $53 million in new equity funding and another $40 million in debt.
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Profile of DOJ antitrust chief Makan Delrahim who has been privately telling people to expect a criminal antitrust case in Silicon Valley in the next few months — As Hollywood scales up to battle big tech, Makan Delrahim, the nation's top antitrust regulator (and a former movie producer) … Sponsor Posts
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