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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Facebook says the leaked 533M records are a different data set that attackers created by abusing a flaw in a Facebook contacts import feature, not by hacking — The company's explanations have been confusing and inconsistent, but there are finally some answers.
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| Politico: |
Data of EU privacy chief Didier Reynders, Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel, and dozens of EU officials found among Facebook's leaked data set of 533M records — Didier Reynders, Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel among European leaders whose data was leaked online. — EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
A first person narrative on the persistence of digital memories and how social media and photo apps that surface old photos make painful memories hard to forget — In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I'm forever getting married.| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Jeff Bezos says Amazon supports a rise in the corporate tax rate and making bold investments in US infrastructure, but stops short of supporting Biden's plan — - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday voiced support for raising the corporate tax rate but stopped short of saying he supports President Joe Biden's plan for the increase.
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| Maria Armental / Wall Street Journal: |
Patreon raises $155M Series F led by Tiger Global Management at a $4B valuation, up from $1.2B in September, bringing its total raised to $411M — Online company raises $155 million in latest round, led by new investor Tiger Global Management — Patreon Inc., an online platform …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Ahead of its April 14 direct listing, Coinbase reports a record quarter, with estimated profits of $730M-$800M in Q1 on revenue of ~$1.8B and 56M verified users — Coinbase announced its 2021 first quarter earnings on Tuesday, revealing that the crypto giant made a profit of between $730 million …
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| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Max Schrems' non-profit Noyb files a complaint with the French privacy watchdog, claims Google's Android Advertising Identifier violates EU's ePrivacy Directive — Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos Roam review: portable and rugged design, sound quality is good but bass is limited by form factor, charges wirelessly but battery life is not great — The tiny, lightweight speaker has a ton of functionality, but don't expect sound quality miracles — The Sonos Roam is the most focused, calculated product from Sonos yet.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Plaid, which helps connect users' bank accounts with fintech apps, raises $425M Series D led by Altimeter Capital, sources say at a valuation of ~$13.4B — Plaid, a unicorn that helps connect consumers' bank accounts to financial applications, has raised a $425 million Series D, it announced this morning.
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Alienware announces M15 R5, starting at $2,230, with AMD Ryzen 5000 H-series CPUs, the first Alienware laptop since 2007 to use AMD processors — Expect big performance boosts — Alienware has announced the latest revision to its flagship gaming laptop lineup, the 15-inch Alienware M15 R5.| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
T-Mobile launches its 5G home internet service, costing $60-$65/month with no data caps, hardware rental fees, or annual contracts — Once again putting Sprint's mid-band spectrum to work — After a long pilot period, T-Mobile is making its 5G home internet service a reality.| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Report: digital ad spending grew 12.2% YoY in 2020 to $139.8B, as H2 political ad spending offset the H1 falloff; top 10 companies held 78.1% share of revenues — - Despite an initial falloff due to the Covid pandemic, digital advertising spending grew 12.2% year over year in 2020 … | Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: |
Crunchbase data: global venture funding reached $125B in Q1, up 94% YoY, with an average of nearly two unicorns created every working day — In the first quarter of 2021, global venture investments reached $125 billion, a 50 percent increase quarter over quarter and a whopping 94 percent increase year over year, Crunchbase data shows.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Grab is set to go public in the US through a SPAC merger that will value it at ~$35B, as soon as this week — Deal with Altimeter Capital's blank-cheque vehicle will value technology start-up at $35bn — Grab, south-east Asia's most valuable start-up, is set for the largest merger between …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple details two ad measurements technologies that advertisers can use without tracking users, ahead of imminent rollout of App Tracking Transparency feature — Starting with iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, and tvOS 14.5, Apple will be requiring apps to receive a user's permission to track …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Bryter, which offers a no-code service to build enterprise apps, raises $66M Series B led by Tiger Global to expand in the US — No-code startups continue to see a lot of traction among enterprises, where employees — strictly speaking, non-technical, but still using software every day … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Interviews with three women working at NSA and Cyber Command highlight the progress made in gender equality in recent years and the work that still remains — WIRED spoke with three women working in cybersecurity in the US intelligence committee about the progress of recent years and the work that remains.
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| Ellery Roberts Biddle / Tech Policy Press: |
Facebook and Google's commitment to protecting human rights and the public interest is hamstrung by their ad-based profit models and absolute focus on growth — Facebook and Google have made broad-based commitments to protect human rights and the public interest, but only to the extent …
Tweets: @justinhendrix, @rankingrights, @ellerybiddle, @rankingrights, @rankingrights, and @rankingrights
| Evan Selinger / OneZero : |
Interview with researcher Luke Stark on the promises and pitfalls of emotion-sensing AI, and social media's attempt to translate emotive expression into data — A conversation with the professor who just turned down a $60,000 grant from Google — Emotion A.I., affective computing … | Amplifi Media: |
Apple podcast data indicates that there are 2M podcasts, but of those, 26% only have one episode, 44% have three or fewer, and only 36% have 10+ episodes — Today's post breaks down the numbers of how many podcasts you're actually up against. — It seems everyone has a podcast. Or do they?
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Pathlight, which provides a range of tools to visualize team and individual performance, raises $25M led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $35M — The longer we continue to work with either all or part of our teams in remote, out-of-physical-office environments … | Parmy Olson / Wall Street Journal: |
UK launches the Digital Markets Unit, a watchdog with limited powers, initially tasked with stopping big tech companies from exploiting market dominance — Digital Markets Unit to police how largest global technology firms wield their market power — LONDON—The U.K. launched …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Internal memo: Huawei is closing its core cloud and AI business after only 14 months, splitting the group into two — Change mirrors struggle to transition from hardware maker to service provider — Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies is closing its core cloud and artificial … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based Groww, which lets users invest in mutual funds, gold, stocks, and more, raises $83M Series D led by Tiger Global, at a valuation of $1B+ — More than 200 million people in India transact money digitally, but fewer than 30 million invest in mutual funds and stocks.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
YouTube says that 18 out of every 10K views in Q4 2020 were of videos that violate its policies, down from 72 out of every 10K views in Q4 2017 — ‘Violative View Rate’ fell steeply after 2017 — YouTube wants the world to know that it's doing a better job than ever of enforcing its own moderation rules.
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