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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft is revamping its Store app on Windows 10 and will let devs submit unpackaged Win32 apps, use third-party commerce platforms in apps, and more — Microsoft wants to bring life back to the Store app on Windows 10. — What you need to know — Microsoft is working on a new Store app for Windows 10.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Venmo adds support for buying, holding, and selling four types of cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash — Venmo is adding support for cryptocurrency, starting today. The company says it will begin to roll out the ability for Venmo's more than 70 million users to buy …
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| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Amazon is opening a hair salon in London, where customers can try on virtual hair colors using an AR color bar and shop beauty products using QR codes — Amazon reinvented supermarket shopping with its — checkout-less Go stores, now the e-commerce giant is applying its tech prowess to hairdressing.
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| Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: |
Binance hires Brian Brooks as CEO, starting May 1; he was previously acting head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under the Trump administration — Brian Brooks, an acting head of Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under Trump, will become CEO of Binance.US| Wall Street Journal: |
An in-depth look at the reasons behind the chip shortage, including focus on higher-margin, cutting-edge chips, and stockpiling due to US China trade tensions — Semiconductor producers are trying to increase output, but the small gains are unlikely to fix the shortfalls hampering production …
Tweets: @wsj, @chinarealtime, @dimartinobooth, @pstasiatech, and @emilyzfeng
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Internal Facebook emails, accidentally sent to a journalist, show its “long-term strategy” for data scraping incidents, framing it as a “broad industry issue” — More scraping incidents are “expected” in the future. — An internal email accidentally leaked by Facebook …
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| New York Times: |
Governments around the world are moving to limit the power of tech companies with an urgency and breadth that no single industry had experienced before — Never before have so many countries, including China, moved with such vigor at the same time to limit the power of a single industry.
Tweets: @satariano, @nytimes, @ron_fournier, @katieharbath, @uniglobalunion, @davidakaye, and @patrickgaspard
| Reuters: |
FireEye and networking company Pulse Secure say two China-linked hacking groups used a flaw in its VPN devices to target customers in the US defense industry — At least two groups of China-linked hackers have spent months using a previously undisclosed vulnerability in American networking devices …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Source: Facebook-backed Diem is aiming to launch a pilot with a single stablecoin pegged to the US dollar later this year — - The Diem Association is aiming to launch a pilot with a single stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar in 2021, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Daily Mail owner files antitrust suit against Google alleging it punishes publishers in search if they don't sell enough ad space through Google's marketplace — Publisher says its U.K. royals coverage was played down in search results; claims it was punished for not steering sufficient ad space to Google
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| Adam Janofsky / The Record: |
Biden launches a 100-day plan to boost electric utilities' cybersecurity; officials say more cyber initiatives for other key infrastructure sectors will follow — The Biden administration announced today a 100-day plan aimed at enhancing the security of electric utilities' industrial control systems …
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Tweets: @threatintel, @therecord_media, and @olivia_gazis
| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Q&A with Magic Leap CEO on its enterprise pivot and Magic Leap 2, 50% smaller and 20% lighter than its last AR headset, coming Q4 via an early adopter program — Magic Leap is getting ready to release the next version of its augmented reality headset through an early adopter program during … | Linda Sui / Strategy Analytics: |
Strategy Analytics: global smartphone shipments rose to 340M units in Q1 2021, up 24% YoY, representing the highest growth since 2015 — According to the latest research from Strategy Analytics, global smartphone shipments were 340 million units in Q1 2021, up +24% YoY representing the highest growth since 2015.
| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Nextdoor is introducing an anti-racism notification, which asks users to reconsider posting content if the app thinks it may be offensive — It calls the feature the anti-racism notification — Nextdoor is introducing a new anti-racism notification, which asks users to reconsider posting content …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Chargebee, which helps enterprises with billing, subscriptions, revenue operations, and compliance, raises $125M at a $1.4B valuation — A startup that enables businesses to set up and manage their billing, subscription, revenue operations and compliance has become the newest firm to earn the much coveted unicorn status.
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| Rachel Levin / Outside Online: |
As a disproportionate number of people who purchased homes in Tahoe in 2020 were tech employees from the Bay Area, locals worry about “Aspenification of Tahoe” — Rachel Levin is a San Francisco-based journalist who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Clearbanc, which provides capital to e-commerce companies for a share of their revenue, rebrands as Clearco, and raises $100M Series C at a $2B valuation — The fintech company raises a $100 million Series C — After five years of providing non-dilutive financing for founders, Clearbanc is tired of being only a bank.| Ed Caesar / New Yorker: |
An in-depth look at North Korea's extensive and expanding hacking operations, almost always focused on generating revenue for the closed-off country — The country's cyber forces have raked in billions of dollars for the regime by pulling off schemes ranging from A.T.M. heists to cryptocurrency thefts.| John Seabrook / New Yorker: |
As NYC selects Bird, Lime, and Veo for its e-scooter pilot program, a look at why NYC is seen as an invaluable proving ground for the scooter-sharing concept — Fleets of electric scooters have taken over city streets worldwide. With New York finally climbing aboard, do they represent a tech hustle or a transit revolution?
Tweets: @newyorker, @micromobilityco, @newyorker, @patrickmorgan, and @catgioino
| Sohini Podder / Reuters: |
Classy, which builds fundraising software for non-profit institutions, raises $118M led by Norwest Venture Partners — Classy, a technology company which builds fundraising software for non-profit institutions, has raised $118 million in fresh capital from venture capital firm Norwest Venture Partners …
| Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 (15-inch) review: big performance gains, excellent battery life, and very light, but not many ports and no Thunderbolt support — Microsoft's newest Surface Laptop brings better battery life and a better chip — In look and feel, very little has changed from the last generation.
Tweets: @dcseifert, @tomwarren, and @scaryifliteral
| Sean Burch / The Wrap: |
Sensor Tower: Clubhouse was downloaded 2.7M times in March, a 72% decline from February's 9.5M+ — After pulling in 9.5 million downloads in February, Clubhouse only had 2.7 million downloads in March, according to new data from Sensor Tower — Is the party on Clubhouse already dying out?
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| Liz Lee / Reuters: |
Microsoft to establish its first data center region in Malaysia as part of its Bersama Malaysia initiative, which aims to skill 1M Malaysians by the end of 2023 — KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Microsoft Corporation will invest $1 billion over the next five years in Malaysia as part …
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ZDNet, Microsoft, The Register, ZDNet, OnMSFT.com, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @bradsmi, @maryjofoley, and @maryjofoley
| Benjamin Powers / CoinDesk: |
Aleo, a data privacy service for app developers that leverages a cryptographic technique known as zero-knowledge proofs, raises $28M led by a16z — Aleo's pitch is about building out a web platform that leverages zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs). — In its effort to launch a platform …
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The Block, Andreessen Horowitz, and Decrypt
| Joanna Ossinger / Bloomberg: |
Dogecoin rose ~10% in the past 24 hours driven by the #DogeDay hashtag for 4/20; it jumped 400%+ in the past week and now has a market cap of $53B+ — - DogeDay trends on social media, pushing prices near 42 cents — ‘Dogecoin is symptomatic of the zeitgeist,’ says Trenchev
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