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Twitter shows off features it is testing, including a way to tweet only to a group of trusted friends, ability to tweet under different “personas”, and more — Twitter has a history of sharing feature and design ideas it's considering at very early stages of development.
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Sources: Apple and Intel are the first adopters of TSMC's 3nm chips for the iPad and CPUs for Intel-powered notebooks and data centers — Taiwanese company remains vital partner for American tech giants — TAIPEI — Apple and Intel have emerged as the first adopters of Taiwan Semiconductor …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Robinhood files for long-awaited IPO, says it will set aside up to 35% of shares for retail investors — Popular trading app Robinhood on Thursday filed for its initial public offering, and disclosed that it will set aside up to 35% of shares for retail investors who rarely get to buy at a company's IPO price.
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NSA, FBI, and others say Russian hacking group Fancy Bear has been using Kubernetes to run brute force attacks on US and foreign organizations since mid-2019 — US and UK cybersecurity agencies said today that a Russian military cyber unit has been behind a series of brute-force attacks … | Oliver Darcy / CNN: |
New Facebook test prompt asks users if someone they know might be “becoming an extremist”; another notifies users who may have been exposed to extremist content — New York (CNN Business)Some Facebook (FB) users in the United States are being served a prompt that asks …
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Dozens of long-serving Amazon VPs left in the past 18 months, an unusual number for the company, with more expected to leave as Andy Jassy makes changes — An unusual number of vice presidents are leaving for prominent jobs at public companies or high-growth start-ups.| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
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Thailand SEC files criminal complaint against Binance alleging it has operated a cryptocurrency exchange business via its website without a license — ANTHONY KWAN/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES — Quick Take — Thailand's financial regulator has filed a criminal complaint against Binance over unregistered operations.
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In its diversity report, Google says it is hiring more Black people but rates of attrition are rising, especially among Black women; US workforce is 50%+ white — Google reported its best year yet for hiring Black employees, but rising departures of the same group highlights a risk to the company's plan to double its Black workforce.
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| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Nigeria-based neobank FairMoney raises $42M Series B led by Tiger Global, as it expands into India — Neobanks have led the charge as regards venture capital funding for consumer fintech startups. But while they have collectively dominated the fintech space, they don't operate a monolithic model.| CNBC: |
China announces a cybersecurity review of Didi, during which it won't be able to register new users; Didi shares fell 10%+ in premarket trading on Friday — - Shares of Didi fell Friday after China announced a cybersecurity review of the ride hailing company.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Swedish gaming giant Modern Times Group says it has acquired Indian startup PlaySimple for at least $360M, with 77% in cash and the rest in company shares — Swedish gaming giant Modern Times Group (MTG) has acquired Indian startup PlaySimple for at least $360 million, the two firms said Friday.
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Kakao Pay, South Korea's largest online payment service, seeks to raise as much as $1.4B in an IPO in Seoul, at a market capitalization of up to $11B+ — - Kakao Pay joins Krafton, Kakao Bank in filing for IPOs — The company is planning to offer securities trading, insurance| Politico: |
Former Trump spokesman Jason Miller leads GETTR, a Twitter-like service that bills itself as a “non-bias social network”, in the newest pro-MAGA tech venture — Former President Donald Trump's team quietly launched a new social media platform on Thursday, billing it as an alternative to Big Tech sites.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to test a hybrid in-store and work-from-home arrangement for retail employees later this year under a pilot program dubbed Retail Flex — - Company to pilot “Retail Flex” program for employees this year — Apple earlier asked office workers to return three days a week
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| Mark Haranas / CRN: |
HPE says it will acquire Zerto, developer of automated software for helping clients recover from unplanned data loss, for $374M in cash — 'Zerto's market-leading cloud data management and protection software expands HPE GreenLake cloud data services, allowing customers to protect their data …
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
As Apple releases macOS Monterey public beta, an in-depth look at Focus, iCloud Private Relay, Safari's revamped UI, FaceTime, SharePlay, and other new features — If there's a theme of Apple's operating-system releases in 2021, it's platform unification. This development is most significant …
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| Reuters: |
India selects Dell, Wistron's ICT, Flex Ltd, Foxconn's Rising Stars, and ten local firms for its $1B incentive plan to boost exports of laptops, tablets and PCs — India on Thursday named Dell Inc(DELL.N), Wistron Corp's (3231.TW) ICT, Flex Ltd(FLEX.O) and Foxconn's (2354.TW) … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
PitchBook: grocery companies have raised $10B globally so far in 2021, surpassing the $7B raised across 2020 — - Venture-backed grocery companies have already raised over $10 billion so far in 2021, according to data from Pitchbook. — In Europe, several “dark store” … Thanks:@ryan_browne_
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