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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Apple says its own apps will include the privacy “nutrition labels” required of third-party developers, after WhatsApp criticizes the company — Facebook's global messaging service WhatsApp is protesting Apple's requirement that app owners submit information about the user data …
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Tweets: @martinsfp, @stevekovach, @sarafischer, @joannastern, @tonyromm, @fosspatents, @martinsfp, and @chrismessina
| 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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The Hill, blog.youtube, Ars Technica, Engadget, CNN, TechCrunch, NBC News, USA Today, The Keyword, BuzzFeed News, Reuters, The Wrap, 9to5Google, CNBC, CNET, Neowin, and New York Times
Tweets: @youtubeinsider, @b_fung, @hawleymo, @benyt, @youtubeinsider, @b_fung, @passantino, @brianklaas, @katestarbird, @asfleischman, @tiffkhsu, @tvietor08, and @richminer
| 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, The Verge, BBC, PCWorld, Macworld, 9to5Google, Engadget, TechCrunch, MacRumors, MSPoweruser, and Six Colors
Tweets: @aarongreenberg and @onmsft
| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
DoorDash opens at $182, a 75%+ rise over its IPO price — - Shares of DoorDash, a leading food delivery app, started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. — The stock began trading at $182 per share. — The company trades under the symbol “DASH.”
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Tweets: @danprimack, @amir, @sherman4949, @chloesorvino, @thestalwart, @ericjackson, @katie_roof, and @lesliepicker
| Bloomberg: |
DoorDash sells 33M shares at $102, raising $3.37B and valuing the company at $38B fully diluted — - Food delivery company reaches more than $70 billion valuation — First-day pop makes company bigger than Lululemon, Ford Motor — Shares of food delivery platform DoorDash Inc. almost doubled …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Internal memo: Sundar Pichai apologizes over the handling of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru's departure and says he will investigate — Google CEO Sundar Pichai apologized Wednesday for the company's handling of the departure of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru and said he would investigate …
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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Report: four former Apple employees say the company was aware of Chinese labor law violations by its suppliers but took no action to avoid product delays — Three former members of the Apple Supplier Responsibility team say Apple was complicit in labor law violations in China.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says it will compel Chrome extensions to display privacy practices and limit data that developers can collect from January 18, 2021, ahead of Chrome 88 — At Chrome Dev Summit 2020 today, Google announced it will change how extensions access data and how extension permissions work in 2021.
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Tweets: @campuscodi and @campuscodi
| 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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Axios, Gizmodo, CNET, USA Today, New York Times, and Politico
Tweets: @evan_greer, @karlbode, @rachelbovard, @jhoff10, @jannwolfe, @dannycrichton, @kantrowitz, @justinhendrix, @jason_kint, and @hypervisible
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: consumers will have downloaded 130B apps globally in 2020, up 10% YoY, as spending rose 25% YoY to $112B; 65¢ of every $1 was spent on iOS — Consumers will have downloaded 130 billion apps in 2020 across iOS and Google Play, up 10% year-over-year, according to mobile data …
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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.| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Amazon begins rolling out a new Fire TV UI with user profiles, a simpler design, and more — Back when Amazon announced its latest Fire TV products — namely, the third-generation Fire TV Stick ($40) and the Fire TV Stick Lite ($30) — it also said it was going to roll out a new Fire TV interface this year.| Kellen Browning / New York Times: |
Twitch unveils new guidelines to crack down on hateful conduct and sexual harassment, following a yearlong review, which take effect in January — The livestreaming site announced new guidelines after contending with claims that its streamers were too easily abused.
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Tweets: @twitch, @kerrymflynn, and @kellen_browning
| 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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Tweets: @nicoleperlroth, @dalperovitch, @dalperovitch, @dnvolz, @dnvolz, @bing_chris, @markwarner, @x0rz, @kennwhite, @malwarejake, @robertmlee, @joseph_marks_, @thomasareed, @bing_chris, @bing_chris, @jonathanmaze, @dnvolz, @eddiepereztx, @file411, @wylienewmark, @jameshohmann, @nakashimae, @nakashimae, @dalperovitch, @carolleonnig, @underthebreach, @bing_chris, @chey_cobb, @thegrugq, @campuscodi, @swiftonsecurity, @shanvav, @lobotc2dfw, @ivanthek, @gossithedog, @ericgeller, @iblametom, @journogeoffz, @jeremiahg, @evacide, @alex, @brianpkime, @dnvolz, @oliverdarcy, @stevebellovin, @dnvolz, and @dnvolz
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Career Karma raises $10M Series A to connect students with coding bootcamps — As edtech churns out more and more MasterClass copycats and coding bootcamps, it's becoming glaringly obvious that students need better ways to navigate the crowded world of online learning.
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Career Karma, The Plug, and EdSurge
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: C3.ai prices its IPO at $42 per share, above the marketed range of $36-$38, to raise $651M, giving the company a market value of ~$4B — C3.ai Inc., the software maker founded by former Oracle Corp. executive Tom Siebel, has priced its initial public offering above the marketed range … | Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Just Eat says it will offer 1,000+ new UK workers an hourly wage, plus other benefits like sick pay, in a challenge to gig economy rivals Deliveroo and Uber — Meal delivery service will give benefits including sick pay and pension contributions to 1,000 new couriers| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
WorkRamp, which offers digital workplace training tools, raises $17M Series B led by OMERS Ventures and will focus on European and Indian growth — Enterprise learning platform WorkRamp has raised $17 million in a Series B round led by OMERS Ventures 1. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Latin American crypto exchange Bitso raises $62M Series B led by QED Investors and Kaszek Ventures, following a $15M Series A in October 2019 — Latin American crypto exchange Bitso has raised a whopping $62 million funding round, the largest in the region for a digital asset firm.
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TechCrunch, Cryptonews, Crunchbase News, Forbes, Finextra, Business Wire, The Defiant, The Block, and Reuters
Tweets: @zackseward and @arturo_p_a
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Facebook removes at least nine Pages, including one with 16M+ followers, that spread coordinated health misinformation, after being flagged by a think tank — Facebook just took down prominent pages that were directing their millions of followers to false claims about the coronavirus, the flu vaccine, and other health issues.| 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
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Germany, France, and 11 other EU nations plan to invest in semiconductor manufacturing using some of the EU's €145B pandemic recovery funds for digital projects — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany, France, Spain and ten other EU countries have joined forces to invest in processors …
Tweets: @marietjeschaake and @adfichter
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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