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Adam Mosseri says Instagram plans to test video more broadly, calls TikTok and YouTube competitors, and says Instagram is “no longer a photo-sharing app” — - Facebook's head of Instagram said the service plans to start showing users full-screen, recommended videos in their feeds.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| David Ingram / NBC News: |
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Florida's Stop Social Media Censorship Act from going into effect, which was scheduled for Thursday — A federal judge Wednesday put on hold a first-of-its-kind law in Florida that authorized the state to penalize social media companies …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google updates its Passes API to let users store COVID vaccine cards on Android devices, starting in the US; Google will not keep a copy of the user's info — Google has announced today that Google Pay is now capable of saving and displaying COVID-19 vaccination cards on Android, starting with select providers in the United States.
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Google Developers Blog, The Verge, PCMag, Engadget, TechSpot, Android Headlines, NFCW, phonearena.com, t3.com, BGR India, Tech Times, Gizchina, and Phandroid
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| Jonathan Zittrain / The Atlantic: |
A look at link rot, and projects like Perma, which are trying to give authors of enduring documents like scholarly papers a way to preserve links permanently — Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.| ACLU: |
Maine enacts the strongest statewide facial recognition law in the US, prohibiting the use of facial recognition tech in public schools and most police work — AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine has enacted the country's strongest statewide facial recognition law. Maine's law prohibits the use …
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| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: |
Amazon says it is seeking the recusal of FTC chair Lina Khan from matters related to the company, citing her history of criticism and antitrust arguments — - Online retail giant files petition saying Khan shows bias — FTC is reviewing Amazon's purchase of MGM movie studio
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New York Times, Protocol, Ars Technica, Financial Times, The Verge, and VICE
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
AT&T joins T-Mobile in making Google's Android Messages the default app for SMS and RCS services on Android phones; Verizon so far has not made the switch — Verizon is the last big carrier not to switch — AT&T and Google have announced that all Android phones on the network …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Articulate, which offers SaaS products that Amazon and other companies use to create training courses for employees, raises $1.5B Series A at a $3.5B valuation — Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. — Articulate, a software-as-a-service … | Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fines Robinhood $70M for misleading customers and system outages, the biggest fine it has ever imposed — Online brokerage faulted for missteps related to options trading and technology outages; company neither admits nor denies allegations
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
As iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 public betas arrive, an in-depth look at Focus, Safari's revamped UI, iPad multitasking, SharePlay, and other new features — For the past three weeks, I've been running the developer beta of iOS and iPadOS 15 on my iPhone 12 Pro Max and M1 iPad Pro, respectively.
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| Riley de León / CNBC: |
SentinelOne closed up 21% at $42.50 per share in its debut, valuing the company at $10B+; SentinelOne had the highest valued cybersecurity IPO in history — - Cybersecurity company SentinelOne made its market debut Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange and is now trading under the ticker symbol “S.”
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SentinelOne, Coinspeaker, and Insider
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| Patrick Clark / Bloomberg: |
Goldman Sachs leads $32M Series A in Entera, a SaaS provider helping real estate investors find, buy, and manage single-family homes in 24 markets across the US — - Entera helps investors find, buy and renovate rental houses — Investors used software to acquire nearly $1 billion in homes
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| BBC: |
Tim Berners-Lee sells an NFT for $5.4M that represents time-stamped files of the source code for the world wide web and other items, via a Sotheby's auction — The original source code for the world wide web has been sold as a non-fungible token, making $5.4m (£3.9m).
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Tweets: @navinblockchain, @financialtimes, @mikko, @gutomartino, @susanlitv, @grady_booch, and @mikko
| Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Business management software company Intapp raised $273M in its Nasdaq IPO at a ~$1.6B valuation; its stock rose nearly 8% in its first day of trading — Intapp Inc. raised $273 million in an initial public offering that hit the middle of its price targets on Tuesday.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Codat, which provides APIs to link financial software used by SMBs to external services, raises $40M round led by Tiger Global — This morning Codat, a startup that provides APIs to link small-business fintech data to external services, announced that it has closed a $40 million round led by Tiger Global.| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Micron announces that it has agreed to sell its 3D XPoint fab in Utah to Texas Instruments for $900M in cash — Micron announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Lehi, Utah fab to Texas Instruments for $900 million in cash.| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Shares of Didi Chuxing closed up 1% in its trading debut, giving it a market cap of $67.8B; stock spiked as much as 28.6% intraday — - Shares of Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing giant, began trading Wednesday in its initial public offering. — Didi was most recently valued …
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New York Times, PingWest, Nikkei Asia, The Economic Times, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Tweets: @cnbc, @asymco, @eeismann, @nytimestech, @asymco, and @madhavchanchani
| William Turvill / Press Gazette: |
Group M: Google, Facebook, Alibaba, ByteDance, and Amazon claimed 46% of global ad revenues in 2020; in 2010, the then top 5, including News Corp, claimed 17% — Five tech companies today account for nearly half of the world's advertising revenue, a report has found.| BBC: |
EU is rolling out its digital vaccine passport across all 27 member nations; it has a QR code and a signature key linking to an individual's vaccine info — The EU's vaccine passport, its Digital Covid Certificate, is being rolled out across all 27 nations.
Tweets: @nycjim and @annaholligan
| Nina Bambysheva / Forbes: |
Brazil's largest crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin raises $200M Series B from SoftBank Latin America Fund, valuing its parent company 2TM Group at $2.1B — I cover cryptocurrencies and other applications of blockchain — Brazil's leading cryptocurrency exchange, Mercado Bitcoin raised $200 million …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Czech on-demand grocery delivery service Rohlik raises €100M Series C led by Index Ventures at a €1B valuation — “Instant” grocery delivery has been a big theme among food startups in Europe, where customers can order from a limited assortment of items and get their purchases packed from …
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Silicon Republic, EU-Startups, Silicon Canals, Tech.eu, Sifted, and Forbes. Tweets: @molly_alter
| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Israel-based ironSource, provider of user acquisition tech for app devs, went public in the US on Tuesday via a SPAC merger that raised $2.15B at $11B valuation — Israeli mobile adtech firm ironSource went public on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday after closing its merger …
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Mergers & Acquisitions
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook, Google, Twitter, and TikTok sign up to pledge led by WWWF, to overhaul their moderation systems to tackle the abuse of women on their platforms — Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok commit to overhaul their platform's moderation systems — Four of the world's largest social networks …
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Techpoint Africa, CNET, and World Wide Web Foundation
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Slack releases Slack Huddles, an audio chat tool, and details new features, including video messages and an enhanced company directory — Slack started talking about a new set of communications tools to enhance the text-based channels at the end of last year.
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Slack and diginomica
Tweets: @slackhq, @jowyang, @eeismann, @kyleturman, @mgsiegler, @julieliegl, and @chrismessina
| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Content recommendation company Taboola closed down 2% in its first day of trading after going public via merger with a SPAC — - Digital ad company Taboola began trading on the Nasdaq Wednesday following its merger with ION Acquisition Corp. 1, a special acquisition corporation.| The Block: |
Twitter releases a set of seven NFTs, each available in 20 designs, and is auctioning them on marketplace Rarible — Quick Take — Twitter has released a set of seven NFTs, with 20 available in each design. — It's auctioning them on NFT marketplace Rarible.
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TNW, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, and Mashable
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