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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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| 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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| Alex Stamos / Washington Post: |
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Financial Times. Tweets: @lisaeinstein, @lisaeinstein, @lisaeinstein, @lisaeinstein, @alexstamos, and @mcfaul
| 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 … | 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.
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Substack Blog. Tweets: @substackinc, @silviakillings, @pjvogt, @can, @ebencuya, @jake_k, @edbott, @tim_stevens, and @joannastern
| 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.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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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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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google's Stadia arrives on iOS and iPadOS in beta for mobile web, letting users access their game library on Apple devices — Playing Cyberpunk 2077 on an iPad is pretty great — Google Stadia has finally made its way to iOS over a year after launch. The company's mobile web beta … | 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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Tweets: @michaelsantoli, @jeffjohnroberts, @davidgerard, and @timsteno
| 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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Vercel News, Crunchbase News, and DevOps.com
| 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
| 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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Business Insider, The Verge, KnowTechie, help.twitter.com, Digital Trends, Axios, and phonearena.com
| Alex Heath / The Information: |
Sources: Facebook is building a tool within Marketplace that lets users find and book services like home repairs, competing with Fiverr, TaskRabbit, and others — Facebook is planning to let its users find and book services through its app, a move that could position the social media giant … | 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, ZDNet, Computerworld, XDA Developers, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @neverware, @mishaalrahman, @chromeunboxed, @frankcatalano, and @kevinctofel. Thanks:@technacity
| Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes: |
CloudTrucks, which helps truck drivers find work and advises them on which loads to take to increase revenue, raises $20.5M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital — CloudTrucks, a platform helping truck drivers find work and organize their business announced today that it has raised $20.5 million …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
E-commerce marketplace Wish falls after its public debut, dropping 8%+ to under $22 after pricing shares at $24 — - Wish is an online marketplace that features a variety of discounted goods, ranging from cheap home wares and apparel to electronics and toys.| Joe Tidy / BBC: |
Dutch prosecutors find researcher Victor Gevers did successfully log into Donald Trump's Twitter account; the White House and Twitter denied the incident — Dutch prosecutors have found a hacker did successfully log in to Donald Trump's Twitter account by guessing his password - “MAGA2020!”
Tweets: @zackwhittaker
| William Boston / Wall Street Journal: |
Germany says it will permit the use of Huawei's 5G tech after receiving assurances from the company about its safety, pending parliamentary approval — New network-security legislation is latest rebuke to U.S. effort to rein in Chinese tech giant — BERLIN—The German government …
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Tweets: @baldingsworld, @stuwoo, @thorstenbenner, @niubi, and @wsj
| Bloomberg: |
Nigeria's telecoms regulator orders mobile phone users to link devices to national IDs by Dec. 31 or be cut off; Nigeria had ~196M active phones as of June 2020 — - Order could result in four out of five lines being blocked — Subscribers given until Dec. 31 to comply with regulation| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Dallas-based Bestow, which offers life insurance policies through a mobile app without a doctor's visit, raises $70M Series C, following $50M Series B in April — Life insurance startup Bestow brought in its second investment in 2020, this time a $70 million Series C funding round.
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FinLedger and Dallas Business Journal
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Discord says iOS and Android users will now be able to share their screens — The super popular chat app Discord is getting a much-requested feature starting today: mobile screen sharing. — As the name suggests, mobile screen sharing lets users capture and broadcast everything …
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