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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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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 … | 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.| 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 …
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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.| 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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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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 … | 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
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Sorare, an ethereum-powered marketplace for creating and trading soccer 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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| 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 … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
HP Inc. beats with Q1 revenue of $15.65B, up 7% YoY, and says its personal systems revenue was $10.6B, up 7% YoY, with consumer devices revenue up 34% — - HP stock was halted as shares suddenly rose. Then the company issued its quarterly earnings report, and shares moved higher when they resumed trading.| 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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