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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook attacks Apple in full-page newspaper ads, claiming upcoming iOS 14 changes that limit data gathering and targeted ads are bad for small businesses — - Ads criticize Apple's plan to restrict some data gathering — Facebook placed ads in the NYT, WSJ and Washington Post
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
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| Washington Post: |
SolarWinds' top investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sold a combined $286M worth of stock in the company on Dec. 7, six days before the hack was made public — The timing of the trades raises questions about whether major shareholders used inside information to avoid stark losses after the attack.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sources: Microsoft and industry partners seize key command and control domain used in SolarWinds hack — By seizing the domain, Microsoft and its partners hope to identify all victims, but are also preventing attackers from escalating intrusions in currently infected networks.
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Tweets: @msftsecintel, @chicagocyber, @ravivtamir, and @campuscodi
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is rolling out native M1 support for many Microsoft 365 Mac apps, iCloud account integration in Outlook, and updated collaboration tools — Microsoft's new ‘Universal’ Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps for Mac will work on both Apple's M1 Arm silicon and Intel processors.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Mozilla releases Firefox 84 with native support for Apple M1 Macs, saying the browser launches over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive — Mozilla today released Firefox version 84 with native support for Apple Silicon Macs with the M1 chip, touting …
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
At an end-of-year, company-wide meeting, Facebook said it is working on TLDR, an AI tool that would summarize longform articles in bullet points — Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them.
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| Periscope: |
Twitter says it will discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021, after bringing most of the core capabilities of Periscope into Twitter — Today, we're sharing that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021.
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| Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: |
Vercel, which provides a platform to build front-end applications using open source Next.js, raises $40M Series B led by GV, bringing its total raised to $61M — Vercel, which provides a platform for building front-end applications, today announced an additional $40 million in series B funding …
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| CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin crosses $20K to reach an all-time high after doubling in the past three months — After testing investor patience for three weeks, bitcoin has finally crossed above $20,000 to reach fresh all-time highs. — The number one cryptocurrency by market value jumped …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Australian regulator sues Facebook for allegedly using its Onavo VPN app to spy on users for commercial purposes in 2016 and 2017 — Yet more trouble brewing for Facebook: Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing the tech giant over its use, in 2016 and 2017 …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google says its new Chromecast with Google TV will get an Apple TV app in early 2021, giving users access to TV+ originals and iTunes purchases — Coming in early 2021 to the Chromecast with Google TV — Google's latest Chromecast with Google TV is filling in one of its biggest missing apps … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple AirPods Max review: high-luxury design, terrific sound quality, and very effective noise cancellation, but they are heavy and the case is an abomination — Apple's over-ear headphones have tremendous build quality and sound, but there's no denying they're expensive
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Tweets: @maxwinebach, @ourielohayon, @tomwarren, @chriswelch, and @neilcybart
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Zoomin, which unifies the manuals and other technical documentation of companies to make them more accessible to their employees and customers, raises $21M — Zoomin, a so-called “knowledge orchestration” platform that helps users extract answers from enterprise documentation …
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TechCrunch, TechCrunch, and Tech.eu
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Coalition for App Fairness says Digital Content Next, representing NYT, NPR, WaPo, and others, has joined; the coalition calls for the regulation of app stores — A group of major U.S. news publishers have joined the Coalition for App Fairness (CAF), the advocacy group pushing … | Hirsh Chitkara / Protocol: |
Interview with Stanford comp lit professor Adrian Daub on the naiveté of undergrads eager to work in tech, “useless” VC Twitter, and challenges to SV narratives — In the early 2010s, professor Adrian Daub began noticing changes in some Stanford undergraduates that troubled him.
Tweets: @toddwalker, @dancharvey, @issielapowsky, @protocol, and @chrmanning
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook is building a video product called Super that will let people pay content creators or celebrities to interact with them during a live broadcast — - New product ‘Super’ is still being tested at social network — Facebook is developing more video features during the pandemic
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Substack launches Substack Reader, an RSS reader for tracking newsletter subscriptions and other feeds, in beta — Substack Reader is now available in beta — If you're worried about all your newsletter subscriptions getting lost in your inbox, Substack may have a solution.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos expands Memories, adding new collage designs and 3D Cinematic photos that simulate depth in a scene by adding a smooth panning effect — Google Photos is rolling out a series of updates to its Memories feature, which surfaces your best photos from years past.| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Facebook will shift its UK users into user agreements with its HQ in California, instead of its Irish unit, moving them out of reach of EU's privacy laws — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will shift all its users in the United Kingdom into user agreements with the corporate headquarters …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Neverware, which helps schools and enterprises resurrect old PCs with its Chromium-based CloudReady OS, gets acquired by Google, which invested in its Series B — Neverware lets you turn old PCs and Macs into Chromebook-esque devices through its CloudReady OS.
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cloudreadykb.neverware.com, PCWorld, Computerworld, ZDNet, XDA Developers, Ubergizmo, and SlashGear
Tweets: @neverware, @mishaalrahman, @chromeunboxed, @frankcatalano, and @kevinctofel. Thanks:@technacity
| Caitlin McCabe / Wall Street Journal: |
Leaked doc: Massachusetts securities regulators are expected to file a complaint against Robinhood claiming it exposed investors to “unnecessary trading risks” — The wildly popular trading platform exposed Massachusetts investors to ‘unnecessary trading risks,’ according to the complaint
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CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, PYMNTS.com, and Crowdfund Insider
Tweets: @michaelsantoli, @jeffjohnroberts, @davidgerard, and @timsteno
| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
StockX, an online marketplace for sneakers, raises $257M Series E led by Tiger Global at a $2.8B post-money valuation — StockX today announced its Series E funding led by Tiger Global. The $275 million funding round values the company at $2.8 billion at a post-money valuation.
Tweets: @mi_investments
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