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Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 870 with a similar design to the 865 and 865 Plus, clocked at 3.2GHz, making it about 10% faster than the 865 — A slightly faster refresh of last year's Snapdragon flagship — Qualcomm has announced a new mobile phone processor: the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 …
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Electric autonomous vehicle startup Cruise raises $2B at a $30B valuation from Microsoft, GM, Honda, and others — Cruise has raised $2 billion in a new equity round that has pushed its valuation up to $30 billion and delivered Microsoft as an investor and partner.
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Turkey bans ads on Twitter and Pinterest for not appointing local representatives as mandated by social media law, says their bandwidth will be cut 50% in April — ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Ankara has imposed advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest after they failed … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India asks WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy over “grave concerns” and questions why users in the EU are exempt from it — India has asked WhatsApp to withdraw the planned change to its privacy policy, posing a new headache to Facebook-owned service …
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PPRO, which offers e-commerce players tools to support a variety of payment models, raises $180M at a $1B+ valuation — The pandemic hastened a shift of most commerce becoming e-commerce in the last year, and that has brought a new focus on startups that are helping to enable that process.| Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan / Financial Times: |
Research: GDPR fines have risen ~40% to €159M in the past year vs. the first 20 months the law was in force; €272M has been levied since its introduction — Data protection penalties climbed 40% in the past year, according to research — Fines imposed under the General Data … | Los Angeles Times: |
Amateur digital sleuths have joined massive crowdsourcing efforts on social media to track violent Capitol rioters, passing the evidence to authorities — The digital sleuths take to their computers in the moments when they can peel away from their real-world responsibilities — jobs …
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Citrix acquires SaaS collaborative work management service Wrike for $2.25B in cash — Citrix has confirmed reports from earlier this week that it is buying enterprise-focused work management platform Wrike, in an all-cash deal worth $2.25 billion. — Founded in 2006, San Jose-based Wrike … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Swimlane, which develops security operations management software, raises $40M led by EIP, bringing its total raised to $80M+ — Swimlane, a Denver-based security operations management software provider, today announced it raised $40 million. The funding will be put toward accelerating partnerships …
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Cloud backup service Rewind raises $15M Series A led by Inovia Capital — Ottawa-based Rewind has closed a $19 million CAD ($15 million USD) Series A round of financing as it looks to capitalize on and expand its “backup-as-a-service” business. — The almost six-year-old startup has developed … | David Cohen / Adweek: |
Content discovery platform Taboola rolls out Stories in beta, letting publishers add the format directly to their websites or mobile articles — Content can be added directly to publishers' websites or mobile articles — Content discovery platform Taboola became the latest platform … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
StackPulse, which offers tools for incident response automation, raises $20M Series A led by GGV — As companies rely more heavily on cloud-based services, software outages can be much more painful and detrimental. — StackPulse wants to help. The Portland, Ore.-based startup came … Sponsor Posts
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