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Twitter announces Super Follow feature to let users charge for tweets, and a Communities feature to let users create and join groups based on specific interests — It's also planning a groups feature — Twitter announced a pair of big upcoming features today: the ability for users to charge …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter says it is planning a safety mode that would let users automatically block and mute accounts that “might be acting abusive or spammy” — The company is also working on a new ‘safety mode’ — Twitter plans to introduce a way for you to automatically block and mute abusive accounts …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Coinbase files its S-1, reveals profit of $322M in 2020 on $1.2B in revenue, up from a loss of $30M in 2019 on $533M in revenue — The recent Bitcoin bull run helped Coinbase pull in a profit of $322 million on revenues of over $1.2 billion in 2020, putting the cryptocurrency giant …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
As part of Epic lawsuit, judge orders Valve to tell Apple how much money 436 Steam games made but narrows the amount of info Valve has to provide overall — Apple subpoenaed Valve for the data — Valve has been compelled by a California court to provide sales data on more than 400 Steam games … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Facebook responds to the Oversight Board's 17 recommendations and commits to action on 11 of them, most of which focus on increasing transparency — has agreed to tweak some of its policies in response to recommendations from the Oversight Board. The board issued its
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Airbnb posts a $3.9B loss in first quarterly report since IPO, with revenues of $859M, down 22% YoY, but blames much of the loss on charges related to the IPO — - Airbnb reported a loss of $3.89 billion in its first earnings report since its IPO late last year. — However, the company beat expectations for revenue.
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook's Andrew Bosworth told staff that Facebook is considering building facial recognition into future smart glasses products, weighing legal implications — Facebook is discussing building facial recognition into its upcoming smart glasses product and has been weighing the legal implications …
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Facebook launches a TV, radio, and digital ad campaign in support of personalized ads called Good Ideas Deserve to be Found, ahead of Apple's IDFA changes — - Facebook is launching a new ad campaign called “Good Ideas Deserve to be Found,” which makes a case for personalized advertising.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Smart TVs running Google TV will come with a Basic mode that strips smart features from the TV — Google TV is the company's next effort to rule the living room, picking up on the progress that Android TV made over half a decade. The first smart TVs running on top of Google TV have yet to hit the market …
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| Matthew Gault / VICE: |
Amazon-owned Twitch bans Amazon's anti-union ads, saying they should never have been allowed to run on the service — “These ads should never have been allowed to run on our service,” Twitch said. — Matthew Gault — Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama are voting on unionization … | Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Eleven current and ex-Mailchimp employees say company executives knew about allegations of racism and sexism at the company, some as early as 2014 — Alejandra Luaces had only worked at Mailchimp for four months when she got a surprising anonymous email. “Oliver* is in an open marriage …
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| Cynthia Littleton / Variety: |
AT&T and PE firm TPG reach a deal to make DirecTV a standalone company with TPG owning 30%; the deal is valued at $16.25B, includes DirecTV, AT&T TV, U-verse — The sides have been in talks for months as AT&T has sought to find a solution to the problem of DirecTV's subscriber losses dragging …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue of $5.82B, beating estimates of $5.68B, subscription and support revenues of $5.48B, up 20% YoY, and 14K net new paid customers — In spite of the solid performance for the quarter, Salesforce shares were down slightly in after-hours trading.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DoorDash reports Q4 revenue of $970M, up 226% YoY, in its debut earnings report, with a loss of $312M, up from $134M YoY; stock down 11%+ after hours — - DoorDash reported its Q4 2020 earnings after the bell on Thursday that beat analyst revenue estimates but included a large net loss in its first release as a public company.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India issues tougher rules for tech firms and streaming services like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Netflix over resolving user complaints and more — India announced sweeping rules to regulate social media firms, streaming services, and digital news outlets, joining a handful of other nations …
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| Rachel Lerman / Washington Post: |
Sources: Parler investor Rebekah Mercer, who controlled 2 of 3 board seats in early February, is increasingly exerting control since the founding CEO's exit — Mercer, whose family also invested in right-wing news site Breitbart, controls two of the three board seats at the company
Tweets: @janemayernyer
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Cybersecurity experts and US lawmakers criticize Amazon for a lack of public transparency about the SolarWinds hack, which was likely launched using AWS — Tech giant says it wasn't breached, but it is seen as having valuable data on the attack — As lawmakers and security researchers continue … | Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
ViacomCBS says Paramount+ will cost $5/month with ads and $10/month without ads; the ad tier will be available in June while the ad-free tier starts on March 4 — ViacomCBS has a ‘mountain of content’ on the way to streaming, including a ‘Halo’ series and ‘Beavis and Butthead.’| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
First House antitrust hearing of the new Congress saw bipartisan agreement on antitrust reforms, including on reforming burden of proof in merger cases — During the first House antitrust hearing of the new Congress, Democratic chairman David Cicilline and Republican ranking member Ken Buck …
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| Robinhood: |
Robinhood says it has added 6M new crypto customers so far in 2021; Robinhood averaged ~200K new crypto customers a month in 2020 — Since we launched nearly three years ago, Robinhood Crypto has been central to our efforts to expand access to financial services and democratize finance for all.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Terminus, a B2B marketing service that combines sales and marketing functions, raises $90M Series C, sources say at a valuation of around $400M — Sales and marketing are often considered a single category on a business plan, but ironically, when it comes to building apps and services to help with them … | Reuters: |
ByteDance has agreed to a $92M class action settlement over data privacy claims from some US TikTok users, according to court documents — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - ByteDance has agreed to a $92 million class-action settlement to settle data privacy claims from some U.S. TikTok users …
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Hyas, which maps the “command and control” structure and communication patterns of bad actors to intercept cyberattacks, raises $16M Series B — After launching its Hyas Protect service last year, threat detection company Hyas today announced a $16 million round to accelerate growth.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Sorare, an ethereum-powered marketplace for creating and trading NFTs related to soccer, raises $50M Series A led by Benchmark — Quick Take — NFT marketplace Sorare has raised $50 million in Series A. — The round was led by Benchmark, with participation from Accel …
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