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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Jack Dorsey says Trump ban was the right decision for Twitter, but reflects a “failure” to promote healthy conversation and sets a dangerous precedent — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explained in a tweetstorm that the company faced an ‘extraordinary and untenable circumstance’
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Snapchat says it will permanently ban Trump's account on January 20 in the interest of public safety and based on repeated violations of Snapchat's guidelines — Snapchat will permanently ban President Trump's account on Jan. 20, Axios has learned, after locking it indefinitely last week following the Capitol siege.
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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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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook says it's removing posts of fliers promoting events leading up to Biden's inauguration, echoing warnings from law enforcement about another attack — - Company says it's working with officials to flag gatherings — Terrorism, cyber experts helping find images calling for harm| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
In an interview, Parler CEO John Matze says he is not sure whether the social network will ever return after being cut off by service providers — (Reuters) - Social media platform Parler, which has gone dark after being cut off by major service providers that accused the app of failing …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Intel CEO Bob Swan will step down on February 15 and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger will replace him; Intel's stock is up 6%+, VMware's stock is down 6%+ — - 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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| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Global VC report 2020: overall funding rose 4% YoY to ~$300B, despite a slow Q1, with ~$13.6B seed, $88.4B early-stage, and $198.4B late-stage and growth — Startups closed out 2020 in a much stronger position than the one they started the year in, with global venture funding up 4 percent year over year to $300 billion.| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Crypto startup Anchorage says it has received a federal bank charter, making it easier for big banks to use Anchorage to offer cryptocurrencies to customers — A startup called Anchorage announced on Wednesday that it has become the first cryptocurrency company to receive a federal charter …
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Anchorage, Office of the Comptroller …, CoinDesk, Forbes, CoinGeek, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, and Decrypt
| 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 … | 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: |
Affirm began trading at $90.90 and closed at $97.24, up 98% 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, above its target range of $41 to $44 each.
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TechCrunch, The Information, PR Newswire, Fast Company, Protocol, Axios, Fortune, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Silicon Valley Business …, and Crunchbase News
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| 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.
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| John Callaham / Android Authority: |
Asus announces Chromebook Flip CX9 for enterprises, with Titan C security, and CX5 for students, both equipped with Intel 11th-gen Core i7 and Iris Xe graphics — - Asus announced new Chromebook Flip models today as part of CES 2021. — The Chromebook Flip CX5 Chromebook is targeting students … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Poshmark is pricing its IPO at $42 per share, raising $277M, up from its $35-$39 price initially noted in an earlier filing — - Online marketplace is raising $277 million in share sale — Poshmark IPO follows trading debut by consumer lender Affirm
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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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| The Guardian: |
Audio and chat logs of walkie-talkie app Zello reveal some Capitol rioters communicated via the app; Zello says it has now deleted 2K+ militia-related channels — Audio and chat logs show insurrectionists communicated via the app, which has avoided proactive content moderation
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Zello Blog and Gizmodo
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| Benjamin Powers / CoinDesk: |
Ledger offers a 10 bitcoin bounty for details on the hacker who stole info on 272K crypto wallet device owners and says 20K more user records have been exposed — Ledger was also targeted by hackers in Shopify's data breach. — Matt Johnson, Ledger's new Chief Information Security Officer …
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Ledger, CoinGeek, BetaKit, Crypto Briefing, The Block, and Decrypt
Tweets: @cryptogainz1, @ledger, @ledger, and @ledger
| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Google says it will pause political ads, and those referencing “impeachment, inauguration or protests at the US Capitol” on all its platforms starting Jan. 14 — - Google is suspending political ads along with any reference to “impeachment, inauguration or protests at the U.S. Capitol” beginning Thursday.
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New York Times, Search Engine Land, Bloomberg, and The Hill
Tweets: @ideafaktory and @sarafischer
| 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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Work in Progress, Neowin, Reuters, and SiliconANGLE
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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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| Mercedes Ruehl / Financial Times: |
Grab raises $300M led by Hanwha Asset Management for its financial services business, which spun out of Grab in 2018 and is now valued at $3B — New firepower comes as group faces an increasingly competitive landscape in south-east Asia — Grab, the south-east Asian ride-hailing and food delivery app …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Telehealth startup NeuroFlow, which uses applied AI to treat patients with behavioral health conditions, raises $20M Series B led by Magellan Health — NeuroFlow, a digital health company combining workflow automation, patient engagement solutions and services, and applied AI to promote behavioral health …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
What to expect from Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event: Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra, with S Pen support, Galaxy Buds Pro, SmartTag, and more — Three new phones, new earbuds, an item tracker, and more — Samsung's next Unpacked event is less than a day away, kicking off on January 14th at 10AM ET …
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| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Asus unveils 14- and 15-inch ZenBook Duo dual-screen laptops with a second display built into the keyboard; the 14-inch version ships this month from $1,000 — Preorders start tomorrow — Asus has announced two new dual-screen ZenBook Duo laptops as part of its slate of CES 2021 announcements.| Isabelle Kirkwood / BetaKit: |
Ontario-based Prodigy Education, which offers an e-learning platform and math-focused games for elementary and middle school students, raises $159M CAD Series B — Oakville, Ont.-based EdTech startup Prodigy Education, which offers an e-learning platform and math-focused games for elementary … | 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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