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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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The Verge, New York Times, Reuters, and GamesIndustry.biz
Tweets: @josephpalbanese, @slasher, @tomwarren, @jefftutorials, @tomwarren, and @kressaty
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Webull and Public, which restricted transactions of some stocks, cite costs of settling the trades with Apex as the cause and have now removed all restrictions — Three of the popular retail stock market trading apps that have hosted much of the activity related to the Wall Street Bets subreddit-spurred run …
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Forbes, Business Insider, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @zguz, @public, @webullglobal, @webullglobal, @panzer, @panzer, @jgreco, @cfarivar, @matthewstoller, @alexeheath, @panzer, @panzer, and @fmanjoo
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
The Play Store rating for Robinhood's Android app has dropped to 1-star based on ~300K ratings; its iOS app still reflects a rating of over 4 stars — Robinhood is one of the most popular ways for consumers to get in on the stock market, but the app is in some hot water with its users currently.
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Bloomberg, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, VICE, and Gamasutra
| Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood is telling some users it may close out some of their positions as part of measures it is taking to reduce account risks — Robinhood Markets told users of its popular stock trading app that it may close out some of their positions as part of measures it's taking to reduce account risks.
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Bloomberg. Tweets: @jbillinson, @jbarro, @brianroemmele, @themaxburns, @themaxburns, and @justinkan
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
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Margins, CNET, TechCrunch, Markets Weekly, Slate, NPR, Business Insider, Android Police, Bloomberg, NBC News, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, New York Magazine, Bloomberg, and Variety
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Bloomberg, NBC News, and Data Driven Investor
Tweets: @carolmassar, @senmikelee, @hshaban, @rakeshlobster, @senwarren, @elwasson, @cnbc, and @iansherr
| The Information: |
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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CNBC, YouTube, MacRumors, The Irish Times, MacDailyNews, Apple Must, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Mac Observer, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @jsnell, @dhh, @nat_droz, and @reneritchie
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The Verge, The Keyword, Washington Post, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, KnowTechie, The Register, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @kurtwagner8 and @reneritchie
| 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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Oversight Board, About Facebook, TIME, Financial Times, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, Bloomberg, and Hindustan Times
Tweets: @oversightboard, @foxcahn, @jeffjarvis, @time, @rmac18, @carolecadwalla, @benioff, @mattnavarra, @kurtwagner8, @jeffjarvis, @emilybell, @hnsgr, @marietjeschaake, @evan_rosenfeld, @carolecadwalla, @martinsfp, @ceciliakang, @jonathanhaynes, @cbradleytweets, @seamushughes, @kurtwagner8, @nabihasyed, @axios, @dylanbyers, @rasmus_kleis, @fbnewsroom, @robpegoraro, @evelyndouek, and @shannonpareil
| TechCrunch: |
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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Apple, Apple, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, AdExchanger, AppleInsider, CNBC, GamesIndustry.biz, marketingdive.com, The Hill, Business Insider, Macworld, ZDNet, iDownloadBlog.com, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @appleedu, @sdw, @halidecamera, @mrinaldesai, @gregjoz, @laurengoode, and @zackwhittaker
| 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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The Coinbase Blog, Crunchbase News, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, Bloomberg, Axios, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, CNBC, and NewsBTC
Tweets: @brianroemmele, @panzer, and @eringriffith
| 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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The Verge, Engadget, Android Police, appleosophy.com, TalkAndroid.com, MakeUseOf, iPhone in Canada Blog, USA Today, WinBuzzer, Windows Central, iPhone Hacks, and NextPit. Tweets: @whatsapp
| 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 … | 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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IDC, Canalys.com, Counterpoint Research, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, The Verge, Pocketnow, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, TechCrunch, TechRepublic, iMore, and Gizchina
Tweets: @fjeronimo, @joannastern, and @benbajarin
| 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 … | 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, GameSpot, dexerto.com, and Polygon
Tweets: @youtubegaming, @fwiz, @valkyrae, @brainengineer, and @carthusdojo
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google pulls popular transit app New York Subway from Play store, after it was found sharing granular user location data with controversial data broker X-Mode — Apple and Google banned apps from sharing location data with a broker with links to U.S. military contractors.
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| 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.| 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.| 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.
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Europol, ZDNet, Krebs on Security, CNN, The Register, Threatpost, CyberNews, Check Point Software, Cybereason, BetaNews, and HealthITSecurity
Tweets: @thejusticedept, @joetidy, @hatr, @dannyjpalmer, @modernhomesla, and @bobbychesney. Thanks:@steveranger
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Hands-on with Samsung's $30 Bluetooth-enabled SmartTag, which has a button that can be used to ring a connected Galaxy phone and to control smart home devices — Samsung recently came out with Bluetooth-enabled item trackers called SmartTags, beating Apple's rumored AirTags to market.
Tweets: @dsilverman
| 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, SiliconANGLE, Workday Blog, FinSMEs, ZDNet, and Tech.eu
| CNBC: |
Qualtrics closes up 51% on its first day of trading, valuing the cloud software vendor at $27.3B, after raising $1.5B in its IPO — - Shares of Qualtrics began trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday at $41.85. — Qualtrics had priced its shares at $30 a piece, just above its expected target range of $27 to $29 per share.
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