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Robinhood says due to “recent volatility” it is restricting trading in some stocks, including GameStop, AMC, BlackBerry, and Nokia, to “position closing only” — Amid the flurry of speculative activity in GameStop, brokers took steps to restrict the trading …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Discord says r/WallStreetBets members have set up a new server and Discord is helping them with moderation and management of rapid growth — A surprising change of events — Discord is now helping the r/WallStreetBets team moderate its new server. The company originally banned …
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| Jordan Pearson / VICE: |
According to a pop-up on Robinhood's app homepage, 56% of its users own at least some GameStop stock — With the market in chaos, even Robinhood has now turned on retail investors pumping dark horse stocks. — Jordan Pearson — Robinhood, the fee-free investment app that has helped Redditors …
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Sources: Facebook is preparing an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for forcing developers to abide by App Store rules that Apple's own apps don't have to follow — A long-simmering public dispute between Facebook and Apple has neared a boiling point. With the aid of outside legal counsel … | Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook tells EU data protection conference that valuing engagement over privacy leads to “polarization” and “violence” and such businesses need reform — Speaking at the EU data protection conference CPDP today, Tim Cook gave the opening keynote with his talk entitled …
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| Dylan Byers / NBC News: |
Facebook's Oversight Board issues first-ever rulings, which Facebook said it will abide by, overturning four out of the five cases it reviewed — Facebook's Oversight Board on Thursday issued its first round of decisions, overturning several of the company's decisions to remove posts …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds opt-in biometric fingerprint, face, or iris scan authentication for WhatsApp on desktop or web — WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned popular messaging app with more than 2 billion users, has been getting a lot of heat and losing users in recent weeks after announcing (and then delaying) changes to how it uses your data.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Telegram launches a tool to let users import chat history from WhatsApp, Line, or KakaoTalk on Android and iOS — This year has seen a spike in interest for secure messaging apps and one of our favorites, Telegram, is seizing the oppurtunity. With its latest update, Telegram is introducing … | Michael McSweeney / The Block: |
Coinbase officially announces its intent to become a public company via direct listing — Coinbase has made official its plan to go public by way of a direct listing, according to a blog post released Thursday by the U.S.-based crypto exchange. — “Coinbase Global, Inc. today announced …
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Apple says its App Tracking Transparency feature, which will be enabled by default, will roll out with iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14 updates in early spring — Apple has shared a few more details about its much-discussed privacy changes in iOS 14. The company first announced at WWDC …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
IDC says Apple has shipped 90.1M iPhones in Q1, the largest number of shipments in a single quarter since IDC started tracking smartphones — - The iPhone is booming: Sales were up 17% year-over-year to a whopping $65.6 billion in a single quarter. — Research firm IDC estimates …
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Canalys.com, IDC, Counterpoint Research, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, The Verge, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechRepublic, SamMobile, MacRumors, and iMore
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| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
YouTube is testing the ability to make short clips, from 5 to 60 seconds, of livestreams or videos, starting today on desktop and Android devices — Another standard live-streaming feature makes its way over to the online video giant — YouTube is introducing clipping …
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support.google.com, 9to5Google, Engadget, dexerto.com, and Polygon
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| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Europol, the FBI, and other law enforcement agencies worldwide have seized control of malware botnet Emotet's infrastructure and disrupted it from the inside — Europol and FBI among agencies that have taken control of the botnet infrastructure used by cyber criminals behind some of the most prolific malware and ransomware attacks.| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
US and Bulgarian authorities seize a dark web site used to publish data stolen from victims of NetWalker, which has been among the most rapacious ransomware — U.S. and Bulgarian authorities this week seized the darkweb site used by the NetWalker ransomware cybercrime group to publish data stolen from its victims.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: WeWork is in talks to merge with a SPAC at a valuation of around $10B, more than a year after its high-profile failure to launch an IPO — A deal could value the company at some $10 billion — WeWork is in talks to combine with a special-purpose acquisition company …
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @eliotwb, @sokane1, @davecbenoit, @synopsi, @cgrantwsj, @jasonzweigwsj, @shiraovide, @grantspub, @thekenyeung, and @eringriffith
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Gowalla, now resurrected as a social AR startup, raises a $4M seed round co-led by Google's venture arm GV and Spark Capital — The newly resurrected Gowalla wants to realize its mobile dreams from the early-aughts in an augmented reality world, and they've raised some new funding to make it happen.
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Tweets: @gowalla, @piemonte, @kentgoldman, @nabeel, @mg, @jw, @yoda, and @benedictevans
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
HR software company Workday acquires Peakon, which provides SaaS tools for employee retention, in a $700M all-cash deal — Enterprise cloud software giant Workday has announced plans to acquire data-driven human resources (HR) startup Peakon in an all-cash deal worth $700 million.
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Peakon, FinSMEs, ZDNet, Tech.eu, TechCrunch, and Workday Blog
| Reuters: |
Samsung reports Q4 earnings with total revenue of ~$55.2B, up 3% YoY, and operating profit of ~$8.2B, up 26% YoY, but sees mobile sales drop 11% YoY to $19.3B — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday it expects its overall profit to weaken in the first quarter of 2021 …
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