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Sources: production of some MacBooks and iPads has been postponed due to the global component shortage, a sign that the chip shortage is growing more serious — US tech giant's headaches suggest even worse chip shortages lie ahead — TAIPEI — Production of some MacBooks and iPads …
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| Emi Nietfeld / New York Times: |
An ex-Google engineer says she endured harassment for over a year and that Google's positive external image led her to delay reporting it — I learned the hard way that no publicly traded company is a family. — Ms. Nietfeld is a software engineer. She worked at Google from 2015 to 2019.
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| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
Peter Thiel says he is a “pro-Bitcoin maximalist”, but BTC threatens fiat money and might be used by China to undercut the US dollar's reserve currency status — Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist and conservative political donor, urged the U.S. government to consider tighter regulations …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter discussed acquiring Clubhouse for around $4B but the talks fell apart; Clubhouse is now looking to raise funding at a $4B valuation — - Talks no longer active between Twitter, social media startup — Clubhouse is seeking to raise funding at a similar valuation
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| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Facebook says it did not notify users about the 2019 data leak affecting 533M accounts at the time and doesn't plan to do so now — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc did not notify the more than 530 million users whose details were obtained through the misuse of a feature before 2019 and recently …
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| Ian Carlos Campbell / The Verge: |
Lenovo's 6.92" Legion Phone Duel 2 has two 2,750 mAh batteries, two USB-C ports, two cooling fans, pop-up camera, Snapdragon 888, up to 18GB RAM, from €999 — Multiple ports, a pop-up camera, and yes — two fans — Lenovo's next gaming phone leaked earlier this week … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's NPE team launches Hotline, a web-based app to let creators stream and record live video or audio Q&As, in public beta — Facebook's internal R&D group, NPE Team, has today launched its latest experiment, Hotline, into public beta testing. The web-based application …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils a revamped Find My program with support for third-party devices and says devices from Belkin, Chipolo, and VanMoof will be first to work with it — Apple today announced the launch of its Find My network accessory program, which is designed to allow third-party Bluetooth devices …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook says it is adding contextual labels to posts by Pages like “satire page” and “public official” to reduce confusion about their origin — Facebook is adding labels to satire pages in the News Feed — Facebook is adding additional labels to posts from Pages …
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| Jonathan Keane / Silicon Republic: |
Dublin-based Tines, which helps automate mundane security tasks, raises $26M Series B led by Addition, at a $300M valuation — Tines, a Dublin-based cybersecurity start-up, has raised $26m in a new round of funding that values the company at $300m. — The Series B round was led by Addition …
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Matt Mullenweg denounces Wix's bizarre marketing campaign against WordPress and says Wix's business model “is getting customers to pay more and more every year” — Wix, the website builder company you may remember from stealing WordPress code and lying about it …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's conclusions of law in Epic case: App Store doesn't lead the gaming market, so consequently it cannot be considered a monopoly — Back in August 2020, Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store after an update that bypassed the App Store's in-app purchases system.
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| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Indian messaging service Gupshup raises $100M from Tiger Global at a $1.4B valuation, bringing its total raised to $150M — Conversational messaging platform Gupshup has raised $100 million from Tiger Global, pushing the company's valuation to $1.4 billion.
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TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Crunchbase News, SiliconANGLE, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @anmolm_. Thanks:@tsuvik
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
UK startup TrueLayer, which lets fintech apps connect with customers' bank accounts, raises $70M Series D led by Addition, bringing its total raised to $142M — - TrueLayer lets fintech apps like Revolut and Freetrade connect with customers' bank accounts using technology known as APIs.
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| Bloomberg: |
Box says KKR is leading a $500M investment in the company via preferred convertible stock; Aaron Levie will step down as chairman but will remain as CEO — - Levie would step aside as chairman after deal, remain as CEO — Box shares climb over past year to hit $3.9 billion market cap
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| Derrek Lee / Android Central: |
Google has started rolling out an updated UI for the Play Store, which moves the Play Store menu items to the profile thumbnail and removes the hamburger menu — The Play Store redesign is here whether you like it or not. — What you need to know — Google's new Play Store UI is rolling out now on Android devices.
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Tweets: @androidcentral, @backlon, and @247arjun
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Tasktop, which reduces time to market and increases the velocity of software development, raises $100M, bringing its total raised to $129M+ — Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. — Value stream management (VSM) platform Tasktop today announced …
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Ramp, which provides corporate cards and spend management software, raises $115M at a $1.6B valuation, and says it is nearing a transaction rate of $1B — This morning, Ramp, which provides corporate cards and spend management software, announced that it has closed $115 million across two investments …
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Not Boring by Packy McCormick, VentureBeat, Forbes, FinLedger, and Crunchbase News
| Amitai Ziv / Haaretz: |
Israel-based Cellebrite, known for its phone hacking tech, says it will go public on NASDAQ via SPAC, raising $480M at a $2.4B valuation — Cellebrite, which has faced criticism for sales of its tech to repressive regimes, heads to NASDAQ at 2.4 billion valuation through shell company| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
ShareChat, a social network offered in 15 Indian languages, raises $502M at a $2.1B valuation, says it has 160M MAUs and its short-video app Moj has 120M MAUs — Indian social media company raised $500m for short-video app Moj — Indian social media firm ShareChat has raised more than half …
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The Economic Times, Medium, The Economic Times, TechCircle, MediaNama, and Entrackr
Tweets: @ankushsach, @financialtimes, @kushalbhagia, @samidhas, @madhavchanchani, and @akm1410
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook open sources Casual Conversations, a data set with paid people who provided their age and gender, to help researchers evaluate fairness of AI models — Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. — Facebook today open-sourced …
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CNN, Facebook AI, and CNET
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Attensi, which uses a gamified approach to corporate training, raises $26M from investors including Lugard Road Capital and DX Ventures — Corporate training startup Attensi — which originally emerged out of Oslo, Norway — has raised $26 million from New York-based Lugard Road Capital …
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