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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
WhatsApp says Apple's privacy “nutrition labels” are anti-competitive because pre-installed apps like iMessage do not come with such labels — Facebook's global messaging service WhatsApp is protesting Apple's requirement that app owners submit information about the user data …
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
FireEye says some internal systems were hacked by nation state actors, compromising its Red Team tools, used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers — The cybersecurity company said the attack compromised its software tools used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Microsoft says its cloud gaming service, as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, will come to iOS via web browser in spring of 2021 — Microsoft has confirmed that Xbox cloud gaming is coming to iOS in 2021. In a new blog post today, the company says that cloud gaming as part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate …
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Xbox Wire, Windows Central, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, MacRumors, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @onmsft
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: FTC and 40+ state AGs to file antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday, alleging Instagram and WhatsApp purchases were made to kill competition — More than 40 attorneys general and the U.S. government are preparing to file antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday …
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| YouTube Official Blog: |
YouTube says it will remove any content published from today that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the 2020 US Presidential election outcome — Over the past weeks and months, we've seen people coming to YouTube to learn more about where and how to vote or learning more about a candidate or an issue.
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Atomico report: European tech startups are on track to receive a record $41B in VC funding in 2020, driven by fintech and SaaS startups — Despite the upheavals and uncertainties, 2020 is on track to be a record year for the amount of capital invested into European tech.| Associated Press: |
Pornhub will no longer let users download videos or unverified users upload videos, after a NYT report alleged that it was hosting videos of rape, underage sex — NEW YORK (AP) — Pornhub said Tuesday it was halting unverified users from uploading video material after a report alleged …
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| Max Weinbach / Android Police: |
Sources: Samsung Unpacked will take place on January 14, and official marketing teasers for Galaxy S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra appear to have leaked — Samsung's next-gen Galaxy S21 series is just about a month away, and with that official debut coming up fast, renders of the device are inevitably … | Bloomberg: |
A look at Webull, a Chinese-owned no-fee stock trading app whose userbase in the US has grown tenfold this year to over 2M — Even in a year full of surprises on Wall Street, this one stands out: A Chinese-owned brokerage has quietly built one of the fastest-growing retail trading platforms in the U.S.
Tweets: @bw, @thestalwart, @miamicohen, and @jessefelder
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: as Bob Mansfield retires, Apple puts AI chief John Giannandrea in charge of self-driving car project Titan; Doug Field runs the project day to day — - Company has been developing autonomous vehicle tech for years — AI executive Giannandrea takes lead after Bob Mansfield leaves
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| Phil LeBeau / CNBC: |
Uber is selling its flying car project, Elevate, to Joby Aviation and is investing $75M into the company as part of the deal; terms were not disclosed — - The move will allow Joby to use Uber's app to offer air taxi rides when the company's aircraft eventually enters service, which could be as soon as 2023.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple announces AirPods Max, over-ear headphones with noise cancellation, adaptive EQ, spatial audio, and audio sharing, available from December 15 for $549 — The first over-ear headphones with an Apple logo on them — It turns out Apple has one more major hardware announcement …
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| D'Arcy Coolican / Andreessen Horowitz: |
Any consumer product that has a social component baked in has fundamental and asymmetric advantages over competing non-social products in that category — Social Strikes Back is a series exploring the next generation of social networks and how they're shaping the future of consumer tech.
Tweets: @laurenmurrow and @a16z
| Ryan Beene / Bloomberg: |
Defense tech company Northrop Grumman will sell its IT services unit to Veritas Capital for $3.4B; the cash deal is expected to close in first half of 2021 — Northrop Grumman Corp. agreed to sell a technology-services business to Veritas Capital for $3.4 billion as part of the contractor's effort …
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| Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: |
A proposed Australian bill to force Google and Facebook to pay publishers for news now recognizes the monetary value of traffic that platforms send publishers — Google and Facebook Inc. won a key concession in Australia as the government unveiled details of a world-first law to force … | Amy Feldman / Forbes: |
Supply chain and logistics cloud software startup Stord has raised $31M Series B at a ~$200M valuation led by Founders Fund, bringing its total funding to $46M — Sean Henry, 24, and Jacob Boudreau, 22, founded flexible warehousing startup Stord while in college at Georgia Tech in 2015.| Bloomberg: |
DoorDash begins trading at $102, raising $3.37B and valuing the company at $38B fully diluted — - Food delivery company reaches value of $38 billion in listing — Airbnb seeks to raise up to $3.09 billion in its IPO Wednesday — DoorDash Inc. is making its trading debut Wednesday …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches a preview of HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service for health organizations to store, transform, and analyze life science data in AWS — During its re:Invent 2020 virtual keynote today, Amazon launched Amazon HealthLake, a service that enables health care organizations to store …
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| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
AT&T CEO says HBO Max now has 12.6M subscribers in the US, up from 8.6M at the end of Q3; ~30% of HBO subscribers have exercised their right to access HBO Max — HBO Max, which closed the third quarter at 8.6 million activated subscribers in the U.S., has added another four million … | Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
Square commits $10M to fund efforts to mine bitcoin with renewables; Dorsey believes “that cryptocurrency will eventually be powered completely by clean power” — Payments company Square has launched a Bitcoin Clean Energy Investment Initiative.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Truecaller: 31.3B spam calls were received between Jan. and Oct. globally, up 18% YoY, with the average American getting 28.4 spam calls/month, up from 18.2 YoY — Despite several efforts from carriers, telecom regulators, mobile operating system developers, smartphone makers and a global pandemic …
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Truecaller Blog
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google says it is opening up its open source Fuchsia OS to outside developers, the first formal announcement about the project — For the past four years, Google has been developing a new operating system, Fuchsia, from the ground up. Starting today, Google's Fuchsia OS is now being developed more openly …
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The Verge, Forbes, BGR, Fuchsia, Pocket-lint, CNX Software, TechRadar, and ZDNet
Tweets: @ziromr, @ohmdee, @chrismessina, @stshank, @adambarth, @suka_hiroaki, @googleoss, and @backlon
| Karl Bode / VICE: |
Senate votes 49-47 to appoint Trump ally Nathan Simington to the FCC for a five-year term, which could mire the FCC in partisan gridlock — Nathan Simington's was chosen to attack free speech and net neutrality. He could gridlock internet policy for the next five years.
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Tweets: @ryangirdusky, @rob_sheridan, @chuckwendig, @karlbode, and @karlbode
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