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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Sources: at least 30K US organizations have been hacked by an aggressive Chinese espionage group exploiting unpatched flaws in Microsoft's Exchange Server — At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Jack Dorsey has listed his original tweet, “just setting up my twttr”, as an NFT on auction site Valuables — Apparently you can actually sell your tweets as NFT — Jack Dorsey, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Twitter, a man who stans bitcoin right on his Twitter bio …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple has removed all build-to-order configurations of iMac Pro from its store, signaling discontinuation; only base model is available “while supplies last” — The iMac Pro does not seem to be long for this world as the Apple Store on Friday removed all build-to-order configurations for the product.
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| Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime: |
US indicts John McAfee for fraud and money laundering over an alleged $13M cryptocurrency “pump-and-dump” scheme — Antivirus software mogul John McAfee, who has been awaiting extradition from Spain on tax evasion charges since late last year, just had his legal woes compounded …
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| Riley de León / CNBC: |
Online learning provider Coursera files its S-1, reports 2020 net losses widened to $66.8M, up 46% YoY, on revenue growth of $293.5M, up 59% YoY — - Coursera filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “COUR.”
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Screenshots of a beta version of Fireside, Mark Cuban's podcasting app, suggest it will be a hybrid between Spotify's Anchor and Clubhouse — The app is in beta on iOS — Last month, The Verge broke news of Mark Cuban and Falon Fatemi's new app Fireside, which promises to deliver a … | Benjamin Pimentel / Protocol: |
With Tidal, Square may give artists more control over the revenue streams they create, offer advances, royalty processing, and more traditional label services — It was a big week for Jack Dorsey, who started by turning heads in Wall Street, and then went Hollywood with an unexpected music-streaming deal.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Tencent, China's most valuable company at ~$900B, with a powerful ecosystem including WeChat, and local and overseas startup investments worth ~$259B — The tech giant has investments worth an estimated $259 billion in Chinese and overseas startups| Agence France-Presse: |
Internal email: Google has told customers in France and Spain that it will raise ad rates 2% from May, to help offset costs of digital taxes in those countries — Google has told customers that it will raise the rates for advertisements on its French and Spanish platforms by two percent …
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| Kevin Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin mining startup Bitfury merges with a SPAC to create a US-based company called Cipher Mining, raising $595M at a valuation of $2B — The mining SPAC has an expected value of $2 billion. — Cipher Mining Technologies, a newly formed U.S.-based bitcoin mining operation formed … | Will Oremus / OneZero : |
Q&A with Twitter's senior director of curation Joanna Geary on how her team decides which trends to summarize and how to contextualize them, more — ‘Twitter description guy’ isn't a guy. It's Twitter's curation team, and I talked to the woman who runs it.| Annabelle Williams / Insider: |
Report: 96.9% of Bay Area tech startups remained in the region in 2020; of those that moved, 21% moved to New York, 21% to other parts of CA, and 12% to TX — - A survey from Telstra Ventures shows that the majority of startups stayed in San Francisco in 2020.| Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: |
A look at Tim Wu's work on tech policy issues, from coining the term “net neutrality” to stints at NY AG's office, the FTC and Obama's NEC, and more — For Big Tech and its supporters, President Biden's decision to put Tim Wu on the National Economic Council is the most ominous sign yet … | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
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