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Twitter reveals Super Follow, a feature that will let users get exclusive content, deals, and community access to creators for $4.99/month, and a groups feature — During an Analyst event today, Twitter revealed at least part of the paid subscription service it's been working on for some time.
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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 …
Tweets: @tommercerap and @dieter
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
SEC filing: Twitter says it aims to have 315M monetizable DAUs by the end of 2023 and to at least double annual revenue to $7.5B by then; stock up 7%+ — - Twitter said on Thursday it aims to have 315 million monetizable daily active users by the end of 2023. — It also aims to at least double its annual revenue in that year.| 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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| 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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| Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal: |
Biden signs an EO mandating a 100-day review of supply chains, including for semiconductors and rare-earth metals, amid chip shortages — The president signed an executive order with the aim of eventually increasing domestic production of critical materials
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| 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.’
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| Daniel Van Boom / CNET: |
Australia passes news bargaining code that requires Facebook, Google, and other digital platforms pay local media outlets and publishers for their content — Australia on Wednesday passed a new media law that had generated noisy pushback from internet giants Google and Facebook …
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| 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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| 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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| 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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
BetterUp, which helps clients provide employees with career coaches and mental health counseling, raises $125M Series D at a $1.73B valuation — - $125 million Series D funding round led by Iconiq Growth — BetterUp offers coaching, counseling as well as mentorship| 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 …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Sorare, an ethereum-powered marketplace for creating and trading football NFTs, 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, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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 …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Tech retailer Fry's Electronics announces it will cease operations effective immediately, blaming industry changes and the pandemic — Your best buys are no longer at Fry's, guaranteed — Fry's Electronics, one of the last big brick-and-mortar electronics store chains in the United States …
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| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
Payments startup Klarna reports 2020 results: operating income rose 40% YoY to $1B, net loss widens to $167M; 18M app MAUs and 87M shoppers used its services — Klarna, the Swedish payments company that was Europe's most valuable private fintech firm until Checkout.com overtook it late last year … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Stockholm-based Memmo.me, which allows users to pay celebrities for personalized video messages, raises $10M Series A — Memmo.me, a startup allowing users to pay celebrities for personalized video messages, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding.
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| 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 … | Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Amazon is sending postal mail to warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama urging them to “VOTE NO” on unionization, and has also pushed anti-union ads on Twitch — A mysterious new USPS mailbox has appeared on Amazon property amid a historic union drive in Bessemer, Alabama.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Crypto startup Anchorage, which recently became the first federally chartered digital asset bank, raises $80M Series C led by GIC — Cryptocurrency custodian and banking company Anchorage announced Thursday that it raised $80 million in a Series C funding round.
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| Rafael Frankel / About Facebook: |
Facebook says it is banning all Myanmar military and military-controlled entities from Facebook and Instagram, and ads from military-linked commercial entities — Myanmar military banned from Facebook and Instagram with immediate effect. — Today, we are banning the remaining Myanmar military …
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