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Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down in February and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger will replace him; Intel's stock is up 5%+ — - Intel CEO Bob Swan is set to step down effective Feb. 15, the company announced. — VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger will take over the position.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces new projects related to its $100M pledge for racial equity and justice, including a developer academy focused on Black entrepreneurs — Last June, Apple committed $100 million to a Racial Equity and Justice Initiative (REJI). Lisa Jackson, Apple's vice president of environment …
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YouTube says it has taken down newly posted videos from Trump for violating its policies against inciting violence and bans new uploads for a week — YouTube said Tuesday that it has taken down newly posted video content from President Trump for violating its policies against inciting violence.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Airbnb says it is canceling and blocking reservations made for the week of Biden's inauguration in the Washington, DC metro area — - Airbnb is canceling and blocking future reservations in the Washington, D.C., metro area during the week of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, the company said Wednesday.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Internal email: Google has informed its ad partners that it will block all political ads on all its platforms beginning January 14 — Google informed its advertising partners Wednesday that beginning Jan. 14, its platforms will block all political ads, as well as any related to the Capitol insurrection … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Qualcomm acquires chip startup Nuvia for $1.4B, with plans to put the company's tech into its smartphone, laptop, and automotive processors — (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc on Wednesday said it will acquire Nuvia Inc, a chip startup founded by Apple Inc veterans, for $1.4 billion …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Ring says it is adding opt-in end-to-end encryption for eight cameras in technical preview for US users — Starting today in a ‘technical preview’ — Ring is starting to add support for end-to-end encryption to its cameras. The feature will keep video streams encrypted from the camera …
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Dropbox says it will cut about 11% of its global workforce, affecting about 315 employees, and COO Olivia Nottebohm will leave on February 5 — - Dropbox is cutting its global workforce by about 11%, the company said in an 8K filing released Wednesday. — The company's stock dropped more than 6% in the premarket.
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Affirm begins trading at $90.90, up over 80% after pricing shares at $49; the company raised $1.2B after pricing shares above its $41-$44 range — - Shares of Affirm, an online payments company, began trading on the Nasdaq. — Affirm priced its shares at $49 apiece … | Tony Connelly / RTÉ: |
EU's top court issues an opinion allowing GDPR complaints in any member state, which could lead to a flood of complaints against tech giants — The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice has issued an opinion that a privacy complaint against the US tech giant Facebook does …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Webflow, which helps businesses build no-code websites, raises $140M Series B led by Accel and Silversmith at a $2.1B+ valuation — This morning Webflow, a software company that helps businesses build no-code websites, announced that it has raised a $140 million Series B. The round …
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| Bloomberg: |
Online therapy service Talkspace agrees to merge with a SPAC in a deal worth $1.4B that provides Talkspace with $250M in funding — Online therapy provider Talkspace has agreed to merge with Hudson Executive Investment Corp., the blank-check firm run by former JPMorgan Chase & Co. executive Doug Braunstein.| Gaurav Laghate / The Economic Times: |
Amazon launches a mobile-only Prime Video plan in India starting at Rs. 89, or ~$1.30, per month, in partnership with Bharti Airtel — MUMBAI: Amazon Prime Video is set to launch mobile-only subscription plans in India for its streaming service in a global first, offering Indian consumers …
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| Jeff Stone / CyberScoop: |
Europol says it has shut down DarkMarket, the largest online marketplace for illicit goods with 2,400+ vendors, and apprehended a suspect, an Australian man — German law enforcement has shut down an internet market where users bought and sold narcotics, stolen data and hacking tools, authorities said Tuesday.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
TikTok makes accounts of users aged 13 to 15 private by default, limiting who can comment on the videos and how other users can download or remix their videos — TikTok is introducing a new set of “enhanced” privacy settings that restricts certain features for younger teens and changes …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
WhatsApp clarifies its new data sharing policy with Facebook, which mostly concerns businesses, after recent backlash and surge in Telegram and Signal downloads — The company is trying to contain fallout over a privacy policy update — WhatsApp has published a new FAQ page …
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Report: GitHub fired an employee who used the term “Nazis” in an internal Slack during the US Capitol riot; ~200 staff signed a letter questioning the firing — Roughly 200 employees have signed an open letter asking for answers — GitHub reportedly fired a Jewish employee …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google says it is urgently investigating issues with Android apps that use the Android Exposure Notifications System to track the spread of COVID-19 — The Android issues are affecting coronavirus tracking apps worldwide — Google says it's working quickly to investigate issues … | Maggie Miller / The Hill: |
European Medicines Agency says that hackers leaked third-party documents on COVID-19 vaccines and medicines as part of a breach discovered late last year — The European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced Tuesday that hackers had leaked information on COVID-19 vaccines stolen as part of a breach discovered late last year.
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| Gizmodo: |
GPS metadata from videos posted to Parler on Jan. 6 shows several users deep inside the Capitol; source: FBI has expressed interest in examining the data — At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the hoard of rioters that managed to penetrate deep inside …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rapyd, which provides an API-based “fintech-as-a-service” platform, raises $300M Series D at a $2.5B post-money valuation — A wave of organizations — propelled by global Covid-19 pandemic circumstances — are moving their commercial and financial interactions online …
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Interview with Dr. Lisa Su, AMD's CEO, on the new Ryzen 5000 Series Mobile lineup, Apple's M1 chip, supply shortages, AMD's acquisition of Xilinx, and more — Following the keynote press conference, AMD invited a number of key press partners for some Q&A time with Dr. Lisa Su.| Mary Ann Azevedo / FinLedger: |
Blend, which offers a digital lending service to banks and others, raises $300M Series G at a $3.3B valuation led by Coatue and Tiger Global Management — The round comes just five months after a $75 million Series F financing — Blend, which has developed a digital lending platform … | Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Actions taken by Big Tech after violence at the Capitol may have sowed the seeds for Internet 3.0, which will be defined by open protocols and decentralization — Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man is, particularly relative to its prescience, one of the most misunderstood books of all time.| Will Oremus / OneZero: |
Facebook has long embraced a “view from nowhere”, favoring political neutrality, but comments from Instagram's head suggest that agnostic stance is changing — Trump's extremism is forcing tech companies to abandon the pretense of political objectivity — for now| Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: |
Internal report: DoD halts deployment on classified networks of its $2B+ cybersecurity system for detecting intrusions and stopping attacks, citing poor results — - Deployment to classified systems halted, test office reveals — It couldn't stop a ‘realistic attack,’ testing chief reports
Tweets: @techjournalist and @acapaccio
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup Vdoo, which helps detect and fix vulnerabilities in IoT devices, extends its Series B by $25M to $57M — It's estimated that there were some 50 billion connected devices globally in 2020, and while that really says a lot about how far we've come in tech …
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