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Snap announces Spotlight, a vertically scrollable TikTok-like feed inside Snapchat, and will pay $1M everyday to users who create the top Snaps through 2020 — After taking on TikTok with music-powered features last month, Snapchat this morning is officially launching a dedicated place within …
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A look at Sugon, a Chinese company at the heart of the country's surveillance efforts, and how it uses Intel and Nvidia chips to analyze video feeds at scale — Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government suppresses minorities …
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Sources: Facebook's charm offensive to repair ties with Biden's administration includes News Feed vaccine promotion and relying on Nick Clegg to mend relations — Social media giant to roll out vaccine promotion and give higher profile to Nick Clegg — Facebook is plotting a charm offensive … | Laura Forman / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: Facebook and Instagram ads appear to be reaching a saturation point after rising by a ~30% quarterly average since Q3 2015 — Spending big money to make big money in the ad business may no longer be on the table inside Facebook's network — Facebook Inc.'s platforms are starting to feel like homes with too much furniture.| Peter Grant / Wall Street Journal: |
CoStar, which provides commercial real estate information and analytics, says it will buy Homesnap, an app that improves real estate agent workflows, for $250M — Purchase would mark the company's first significant step into residential data — CoStar Group, Inc., one of the world's largest providers …
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| Nikki Sun / Nikkei Asia: |
China orders that streamers and gift givers on livestreaming services must use real names, and the services must limit amount of tips and ban teens from tipping — Hosts and gift givers must provide real name, after accusations of abuse — HONG KONG — China's media watchdog on Monday ordered … | New York Times: |
As bots plague everything from Tinder to Twitter, a look at how generative adversarial networks create images and videos of fake people, sold on many websites — There are now businesses that sell fake people. On the website Generated.Photos, you can buy a “unique, worry-free” fake person for $2.99, or 1,000 people for $1,000.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Gatik, which is developing level 4 autonomous short-haul delivery trucks, raises $22.5M Series A and says it has signed a deal with Canadian retailer Loblaw — Gatik, a startup developing an autonomous vehicle stack for B2B short-haul logistics, today closed a $22.5 million series A round.
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How the open source movement and early version control systems like CVS, Subversion, and Git paved the way for today's remote development processes — How the early open-source movement and version control paved the way for today's remote software development processes. — Remote
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
AvePoint, which develops cloud governance tools for Microsoft's software, says it will go public via a merger with Apex Technology SPAC in a deal worth ~$2B — - Microsoft partner valued at $2 billion in the transaction — The agreement includes a $140 million private investment
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Sydney-based Metigy, which helps SMBs automate online ad campaigns, raises ~$14.6M led by Cygnet Capital and says it has 26,000 businesses on board — Metigy, a marketing platform created to help small businesses automate more of the decision making in their online ad campaigns … | FinSMEs: |
Switzerland-based Kandou, a fabless semiconductor company developing USB-C hardware that supports USB4, Thunderbolt 3, and more, raises $92.3M Series C — Kandou, a Lausanne, Switzerland-based fabless semiconductor company, raised $92.3M in Series C funding.
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