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Samsung says it is considering skipping launch of a new Note this year to streamline its lineup and warns of a “serious imbalance” in semiconductors globally — - It's seeing a ‘serious imbalance’ in global semiconductors — The warning suggests shortages may spread beyond autos
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Samsung updates its mid-range Galaxy lineup: 6.5" A52 and A52 5G, from ~$415, and 6.7" A72, from ~$535, with 90Hz or 120Hz displays, better cameras, and more — The A-series phones will also include IP67 ratings, brighter screens, and expandable microSD storage
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Clubhouse co-founder Paul Davison, who previously had built social apps like Highlight and Shorts that nudged people to share more by default — “He's got more momentum than force,” says a former colleague. “Paul is just always moving forward.”
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| Shaan Puri / @shaanvp: |
[Thread] Why Clubhouse will fail: most of the content is “meh” and users will struggle to find interesting live content, leading to low user retention — So... everyone seems to think clubhouse is the “next big thing” - but I think it's going to fail. Here's how I think it all goes down..
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Sensor Tower: if a 15% commission was in place in 2020, Apple would have missed out on app store fees of ~$595M, or 2.7% of the total, and Google ~$587M, or 5% — - Apple and Google have announced changes to app store fees that impact app makers making less than $1 million per year.| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it will expand Amazon Care, a telehealth service piloted on its employees in Seattle, to other companies and the rest of its US employees this year — Amazon.com Inc. is expanding digital medical consultations to its employees across the U.S. and says it will start offering the service to other companies later this year.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook outlines multiple changes for Groups: probation for rule-breaking users, limiting civic and political groups' reach, and requiring more moderation — Ultimately culminating in a ban — Facebook is trying to clean up its Groups experience and limit the reach of potentially problematic users and communities.
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| Jonty Wareing / @jonty: |
[Thread] Most NFTs' JSON metadata files point to normal URLs or IPFS gateway URLs run by an NFT startup; if the startups shutter, those NFTs will likely break — Out of curiosity I dug into how NFT's actually reference the media you're “buying” and my eyebrows are now orbiting the moon
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| Substack Blog: |
Substack shares details on its Pro program after criticism, saying 30+ writers with a “diverse set of viewpoints” have signed up, none of whom are anti-trans — In recent days, we've heard from some people who are concerned that we might have been using Substack Pro …
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Apple says it has generated 1.2 GW of clean energy and removed an average of 921K metric tons of carbon emissions annually, as part of its $4.7B Green Bond — In a press release today, Apple touted the significant progress it has made as part of its $4.7 billion Green Bond.
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
France says Apple's upcoming IDFA ad privacy changes are not abusive but will investigate if Apple has stricter rules for third-party apps than for its own apps — French competition authority says Apple's changes 'don't appear to be abusive' — France's competition regulator rejected …
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| Bloomberg: |
FCC votes 4-0 to set rules for the sale of more 5G spectrum tracts, covering millions of people, in October; most recent 5G auction raised $81B — - Vote at FCC establishes conditions for October airwaves sale — FCC votes on rules as carriers race to accumulate frequencies
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Document: surveillance contractor Ulysses Group marketed a tool that tracks 15B car locations using data from automakers and third parties to the US military — 15 billion car locations. Nearly any country on Earth. ‘The Ulysses Group’ is pitching a powerful surveillance technology to the U.S. government.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Snap says it acquired Berlin-based Fit Analytics, which helps shoppers find the right-sized apparel and footwear online and works with 18K retailers — “Snap, Inc. is a camera company,” Snap notes on its homepage, and while a lot of its effort up to now have been about using that camera ethos …
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| Financial Times: |
How Stripe became Silicon Valley's most valuable private company by being capital efficient at scale and having a self-sustaining core payments business — Underpinning $95bn valuation is investors' belief that payments digitisation still has some way to run
Tweets: @benedictevans, @financialtimes, @tim, @carnage4life, @trengriffin, @patrickc, and @katie_roof
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Stripe's Patrick Collison, Microsoft's Brad Smith, Google's Thomas Kurian, and Cloudflare's Matthew Prince discuss moderation in internet infrastructure — Manage your Stratechery subscription. — It was Patrick Collison, Stripe's CEO, who pointed out to me that one of the animating principles …
Tweets: @tomgara, @mathewi, @mattzeitlin, @seanrose, @marklittlenews, @sarthakgh, @alecstapp, @scottew, and @stratechery
| Will Bedingfield / WIRED UK: |
For the first time, Netflix details its carbon footprint using DIMPACT tool, claiming one hour of streaming equates to a 75W ceiling fan running for four hours — Streaming platforms finally have a tool to evaluate the size of their carbon footprint. Now they need to take action and go green
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
CB Insights: education tech startups raised $12.58B globally in 2020, up from $4.81B in 2019; as in-person teaching returns, remote services may see usage drop — Start-ups hope there's no turning back for online learning, even as more students return to the classroom.
Tweets: @mit_cmsw and @nytimesbusiness
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Coinbase investors, including a16z, registered for 114.9M shares to trade during its direct listing; shares traded at $200-$375 in private transactions — - Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures may trade stock — Offering is latest test of alternative way to come to market| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
FCC fines two Texas-based telemarketers a record $225M for making around 1B automated robocalls in 2019 — - The Federal Communications Commission fined two Texas-based telemarketers $225 million on Wednesday for making automated sales phone calls, or robocalls, in 2019.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Facebook's interest in newsletters stems from its shift in product development to focus on private messaging and Groups, not the News Feed — Hint: it's all about Groups. PLUS: Substack fumbles — Today let's talk about platforms' growing interest in building newsletter tools …
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| Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: |
Pinduoduo's founder and chairman has stepped down; its 788.4M annual active buyers in 2020 exceeded Alibaba's 779M, making it China's largest e-commerce company — Mr. Huang's departure comes as Pinduoduo overtakes Alibaba as China's biggest e-commerce company
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Tweets: @qizhai and @briefnorris
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Coalition, which offers security tools and cybersecurity insurance against data breaches, raises $175M led by Index Ventures — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Coalition, an enterprise-grade cybersecurity platform that specializes in insurance …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Stack Overflow says it will add a free tier to its Teams service, limited to 50 users, and it added 1,500 Teams customers in 2020, including Microsoft and Box — Stack Overflow is the default Q&A site for programmers (though the overall Stack Exchange network goes well beyond helping you answer your basic PHP questions).| CNBC: |
SEC filing: Uber will reclassify its UK drivers as “workers”, granting them vacation pay, minimum wage, and pension plan access, but not full employee benefits — - Uber will reclassify all U.K.-based drivers as workers. — Under the new designation, more than 70,000 drivers …
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| Joanne Chiu / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese streaming service Bilibili will start a secondary listing in Hong Kong on March 29, expected to raise $2.8B, after listing on the Nasdaq in March 2018 — Video-app operator capitalizing on run-up in shares with plan for secondary listing — Bilibili Inc., the operator … | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet: |
Mozilla's AI ethics advocacy group proposes algorithmic bias detection program modeled on bug bounty programs — Deborah Raji is researching ways to apply the models that underpin bug bounty programs to algorithmic harm detection. — When it comes to detecting bias in algorithms … Sponsor Posts
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