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Clubhouse has raised a Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz, with DST Global, Tiger Global, and Elad Gil participating — Since then we have grown faster than expected, as Clubhouse has expanded across hundreds of countries around the world. With millions of new users bouncing around the hallways …
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| Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters: |
Source: Clubhouse's latest round values the startup at $4B — Audio-chat app Clubhouse closed a new Series C round of financing, the company said during its weekly town hall on Sunday, without disclosing the amount raised. — A source familiar with the matter confirmed to Reuters …
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The Information, Insider, and The Economic Times
Tweets: @alexeheath, @benedictevans, @ryanhoulihan, @alexeheath, and @levynews
| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Sources: Facebook will announce a suite of audio products on Monday, including a Clubhouse-like app, a podcast discovery product connected to Spotify, and more — Announcements are coming on Monday, but some products won't show up for a while. — Facebook wants you to start talking, and listening, on Facebook.
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Reuters, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, and Mashable
| Fiona Kelliher / Mercury News: |
Charles “Chuck” Geschke, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with John Warnock and helped develop PDF technology, has died at 81 — Charles “Chuck” Geschke, co-founder of the iconic Silicon Valley company Adobe Inc. and prominent cheerleader of downtown San Jose, died Friday at age 81.
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The Verge, Adobe Press Releases, Associated Press, Gizmodo, BBC, PetaPixel, Engadget, Newser, Deadline, Los Altos Town Crier, Palo Alto Daily Post, Daring Fireball, Silicon Valley Business …, Silicon Valley Business …, and Slashdot
Tweets: @henrycooke, @padresj, @mikeindustries, @codeorg, @nbcbayarea, @ajay_bagga, @necn, and @donal888
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
A look back at the netbook explosion of the late 2000s and how iPads, Chromebooks, and appliance-like computers took the netbook's place — The sound of a slow processor screaming — There's an Apple event next week, and it's looking fairly likely that we'll see updated models of the iPad Pro and perhaps the iPad Mini.
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Android Police. Tweets: @reckless, @ricswi, @kilianvalkhof, @benkuchera, @chronic, @srasgon, @benbajarin, @starfire2258, @sascha_p, @kane, @edzitron, @scottssoapbox, @joewintergreen, @martinsfp, @dsilverman, and @mmasnick
| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
US investigators probing a breach at Codecov, a software auditing company, that affected some of its 29K customers; the breach was in Jan. but detected in April — U.S. federal investigators are probing an intrusion at San Francisco-based software auditing company Codecov that affected …
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Codecov, Engadget, Ars Technica, The Verge, BleepingComputer, Gizmodo, Decipher, CyberScoop, and SC Media
Tweets: @flugazi and @ihadrami_
| Will Goodbody / RTÉ: |
Newly filed Google Ireland Holdings accounts show $75B+ in profits moved through the subsidiary in 2019, the last year Google used the “double Irish” tax scheme — Newly filed accounts show that over $75bn in profits moved through a subsidiary of Google that was incorporated in Ireland in 2019 …
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The Irish Times, Sputnik News, and Geek News Central
| Todd Feathers / The Markup: |
A look at lobbying efforts by Facebook, Apple, Google and others in Connecticut, Texas, and other US states crafting consumer privacy bills — The Markup found industry fingerprints on at least five bills around the country—weak laws, experts say, that are designed to preempt stronger protections
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Hello World. Tweets: @themarkup, @leoniehaimson, @eff, @pjrvs, @joejerome, @wolfiechristl, @cjcolclough, @aclu_norcal, and @profcarroll
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
WordPress announces that it will treat Google's FLoC as a “security concern”, and will automatically disable the technology in its upcoming July release — WordPress announced today that they plan on treating Google's new FLoC tracking technology as a security concern and plans to block it by default on WordPress sites.
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Make WordPress Core, The Register, and Paramdeo Singh
Tweets: @thezedwards, @justincox, @paul, @rustybrick, @bleepincomputer, @chriswiegman, @garethr, and @magicroundabout
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
A former alt-right YouTuber details how he tailored videos for the “echo chamber”, including focusing squarely on confrontations to drive views on YouTube — Focus on conflict. Feed the algorithm. Make sure whatever you produce reinforces a narrative. Don't worry if it is true.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @markhurst, @jgreenblattadl, @frankpasquale, @nytmedia, @anthony, and @clearing_fog
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bangalore-based Razorpay, which helps SMBs manage digital payments, raises $160M Series E led by GIC and Sequoia Capital India at a valuation of $3B — Six-year-old Bangalore-based fintech Razorpay topped a $1 billion valuation late last year, becoming the first Y Combinator-backed Indian startup …
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The Economic Times and Livemint
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
What to expect from Apple's April 20 event: refreshed iPads, including Pro model with mini-LED display, Pencil, AirTags, iMacs in different colors, and more — Apple is planning to hold its first event of 2021 on Tuesday, April 20, and it's looking like it will be an iPad-centric event.
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Forbes, The Verge, Forbes, CNET, TWICE, Macworld, iMore, CNN, Wccftech, Yahoo Finance, Cord Cutters News, TechRadar, iPhone in Canada Blog, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @yahoofinance, @briefappconews, and @verge
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