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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Shortly after Basecamp debuted its email service, HEY, it says its next iOS app update was rejected because Apple wasn't getting its cut of subscription revenue — Right around the time the team at Basecamp was launching their Hey email service to the public on Monday, Zach Waugh …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
The distinction of business vs. consumer as a justification for Apple's rejection of HEY from the App Store for not using in-app purchases is flimsy — This statement is paraphrased by Pierce, not a direct quote, but on its surface this business/consumer distinction seems untenable.
Tweets: @benedictevans, @sam_l_shead, @beirutspring, @film_girl, @dhh, @dhh, @firstadopter, @dhh, @jasonfried, @zachwaugh, and @ashleygullen
| Mark Zuckerberg / USA Today: |
Facebook launches Voting Information Center for accurate election information and tools for voter registration, aims to help register 4M people via its apps — The 2020 election is going to be unlike any other. It was already going to be a heated campaign, and that was before the pandemic …
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @kevinroose, @mikeisaac, @tvietor08, @mosseri, @marwilliamson, @robleathern, @thekenyeung, @ruskin147, and @donnabrazile. Thanks:@thekenyeung
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Facebook and Instagram will allow some US users to turn off political ads starting Wednesday; the feature will roll out to all US users over the next few weeks — - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced the social network will allow its users to turn off seeing political ads.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Trump admin official says US DOJ to propose limiting Section 230 legal protections for online platforms like Facebook and Twitter — The action follows President Trump's executive order seeking to weaken broad immunity enjoyed by Facebook, Twitter and other platforms
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple's head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith, who joined Apple in 2017, is leaving — - Apple VP of Diversity and Inclusion Smith had joined in 2017 — Company planning $100 million initiative to promote equality — Apple Inc.'s head of diversity and inclusion Christie Smith is leaving the iPhone company.
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Tweets: @caro_milanesi and @markgurman
| Aaron Holmes / Business Insider: |
Google cracks down on The Federalist and ZeroHedge for violating policies on race-related content and may permanently suspend their access to Google Ads revenue — - Google is cracking down on two right-wing outlets, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, for violating its policies on race-related content.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Boston Dynamics says Spot, its quadruped robot, is now available to businesses in the US as part of a developer kit for $74,500 — Boston Dynamics today opened commercial sales of Spot, its quadruped robot that can climb stairs and traverse rough terrain. Businesses can purchase …
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Graphika report details a Russia-based influence campaign, known as Secondary Infektion, that ran over 6 years and 300 sites, but failed to win a large audience — Group known as Secondary Infektion used multiple languages, burner accounts to circumvent attempts to detect it
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Upgrade, a digital bank focusing on personal loans and credit cards, raises $40M Series D led by Santander InnoVentures at a $1B valuation — This morning Upgrade, a credit-focused fintech startup, announced that it has raised a $40 million Series D round that the company says gives it a $1 billion valuation.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft details efforts to increase Azure durability amid pandemic by increasing submarine cable bandwidth, server scaling changes, capacity forecasting, more — Microsoft has been making lots of under-the-covers changes to how it runs its cloud services, including Azure-based Teams, to meet demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cloud Computing Services, Microsoft, Protocol, Bloomberg, Silicon Republic, TechRadar.com, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @markrussinovich and @maryjofoley
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Civil rights groups including the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP, are encouraging big advertisers to pull spending from Facebook — Anti-Defamation League, NAACP and others seek protest of what they say is company's failure to make its platform a less-hostile place
Tweets: @dseetharaman, @scottnover, and @jason_kint
| Bloomberg: |
Being a Black CEO in Silicon Valley can be humiliating, from being advised to have a white wingman in meetings, to being judged on a different rubric by VCs — Will Hayes has grown accustomed to an awkward start to business meetings. On numerous occasions, venture capitalists would confuse Hayes … | Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: |
Robert Farkas, co-founder of Centra Tech, a celebrity-backed crypto startup, pled guilty to securities and wire fraud after raising $25M+ in a fraudulent ICO — Robert Joseph Farkas, the co-founder of crypto startup Centra Tech, which raised more than $25 million in an initial coin offering … | Shruti Srivastava / Bloomberg: |
Facebook's purchase of a 10% stake in Reliance Jio is being reviewed by the Competition Commission of India, the country's antitrust regulator — Follow Bloomberg on LINE messenger for all the business news and analysis you need. — India's antitrust watchdog is reviewing Facebook Inc.'s purchase … | Megan Molteni / Wired: |
Profile of Public Good Projects, a nonprofit that tracks public health misinfo online, as it launches a new volunteer-led initiative to tackle vaccine disinfo — Anti-vaccine messages on social media have tripled since the pandemic began. One public health group wants to teach pro-vaccine Americans to fight fire with fire.
Tweets: @wiredscience and @ugagrady
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Headless CMS company Contentful raises $80M Series E led by Sapphire Ventures, bringing its total raised to $158.3M — Headless CMS company Contentful today announced that it has raised an $80 million Series E funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
San Francisco's district attorney sues DoorDash for allegedly misclassifying workers as contractors instead of employees despite California's AB5 law — The largest food delivery service in the US is accused of misclassifying workers — DoorDash, the high-flying food delivery startup …
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TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Eater SF, Mission Local, Engadget, Business Insider, and LAW.com
Tweets: @chesaboudin, @gigworkersrise, @openfilesite, @davidminpdx, @djlouise, @lorenaad80, and @drtecoyportersr
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Bose is shutting down its AR program, saying its technology couldn't be commercialized as planned, with current AR apps ceasing to function within 30 days — Bose has become the latest company to throw in the towel on immersive computing, shutting down its ambitious Bose AR program.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Uptycs, a SQL-based security analytics startup, raises $30M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures, bringing its total raised to $43M — Structured Query Language-based security analytics firm Uptycs Inc. said today it has raised a new round of $30 million. — The Series B round of funding brings …
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Uber to sell the software that powers its ride-hailing business, starting with public transit agencies; California Marin county is first to buy Uber's software — - Ride-hailing giant partners with California county officials — Program is Uber's first software sale with a third party| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Unbounce, which builds optimized landing pages for SMBs using automation, raises ~$38.4M led by Crest Rock Partners — Landing page optimization company Unbounce is announcing that it has raised $52 million Canadian (approximately $38.4 million in US dollars).| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q4 revenue of $10.44B, down 6% YoY, missing expectations of $10.65B, cloud and on-premises license revenue fell 22% to $1.96B — - Revenue declined more than the company had predicted in the quarter — The company won business from video-calling software provider Zoom in the quarter.
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Tweets: @jordannovet, @danielnewmanuv, @lamonicabuzz, and @jordannovet
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers disclose 19 flaws in a TCP/IP library, first released in 1997, found in many IoT products; patches are available but unlikely to be widely applied — Security researchers disclose 19 vulnerabilities impacting a TCP/IP library found at the base of many IoT products.
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BleepingComputer, JSOF, TechRadar.com, US-CERT, SiliconANGLE, and SC Media
Tweets: @reverseics, @a_greenberg, and @mikedecesare
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