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YouTube starts hiding public dislike counts on videos across its site to keep smaller creators from being targeted by dislike attacks, following a test in March — Creators will still be able to see how many people disliked their videos — YouTube has announced that it'll …
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| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils Business Essentials for SMBs, with device management, iCloud storage, and more, starting at $2.99 per month per user and launching in spring 2022 — Apple is introducing a new business offering called Apple Business Essentials that combines device management …
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| Ben Brody / Protocol: |
The US Justice Department sues Uber, alleging the company overcharged riders with disabilities in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act — The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday it filed a lawsuit against Uber, alleging the company charged disabled passengers a “wait time” fee when they were slow to enter their rides.
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| Ellen Milligan / Bloomberg: |
UK's Supreme Court dismisses a lawsuit against Google that sought $4B for allegedly tracking iOS Safari users without their consent between 2011 and 2012 — - Supreme Court sides with Google in case seeking $4 billion — Tech giant was accused of breaching its data-collection duties
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| Silvia Amaro / CNBC: |
EU's General Court upholds a €2.42B fine against Google, levied in 2017, for abusing search engine dominance by promoting its own shopping service — - Wednesday's verdict can be appealed and taken to the EU's highest court. — This is not the first time that the EU's General Court …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft and Meta partner, integrating Workplace content into Teams, and in early 2022, integrating Teams video meetings into Workplace groups — Microsoft Teams is integrating into Workplace — Microsoft is partnering with Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is testing Take a Break, an opt-in feature that reminds users to take a break after 10, 20, or 30 minutes — Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced today the comapny has begun testing a new feature this week called “Take a Break” which will allow users to remind themselves …
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Cerebras, which makes “wafer-scale” AI chips with 2.6T transistors, raises a $250M Series F at a $4B valuation, bringing its total funding to $720M — Every once in a while, a startup comes along with something out of left field. In the AI hardware generation, Cerebras holds that title, with their Wafer Scale Engine.| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google launches Project Relate, a beta Android app that English speakers with speech impairments can use as a voice assistant, in the US, NZ, Canada, Australia — It builds on Google's Project Euphonia — Google launched a beta app today that people with speech impairments can use …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
A look at NYC's growing VC scene as West Coast firms expand their presence, attracted by the congregation of fintech, crypto, and Web3 founders in the city — Covering venture capital, software and startups — In the 1980s, venture capital firm Sequoia set a tone for the tech investing industry …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Trend Micro report details the activities of hacker-for-hire group Void Balaur, which has targeted US telecom companies and others since the mid-2010s — Cyber-security firm Trend Micro has published today a 46-page report detailing the history and activity of a hacker-for-hire group …
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Daily, which offers APIs for developers to add video and audio features to apps and websites, raises a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $60M — We've all embraced video calls, whether it is with our work colleague or our physician, but for developers, it remains a challenge … | Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Valve delays Steam Deck from December 2021 to February 2022, citing supply chain issues — Valve has notified customers that it is delaying the Steam Deck for two months, pushing it to February 2022. — “We're sorry about this,” Valve wrote in emails to customers and on its blog.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Density, which sells occupancy-tracking tech to businesses including ML-powered radar sensors, raises $125M led by Kleiner Perkins, valuing it at $1.05B — Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Blink, launched in London as a productivity app for frontline workers, raises a $20M Series A led by Next47 at a $100M valuation, plans to relocate to NYC — Apps catering to frontline workers are seeing a surge of interest in the market these days, as businesses finally start to wake … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Moov, an online marketplace for used manufacturing equipment, raises a $41M Series A led by Tiger Global — Moov, a data-fueled marketplace for used manufacturing equipment, has closed a $41 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global. Investors joining the round include public … | Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Sandbox VR, which offers VR experiences at a dozen retail locations worldwide, raises a $37M Series B led by a16z, following its $68M Series A in 2019 — After a challenging year for location-based virtual reality startups due to COVID-19, Sandbox VR, a location-based VR startup … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Twitter will no longer crop photo previews on the web after a similar update on iOS and Android in May, following claims of bias in its auto-cropping algorithm — Say goodbye to inaccurate image previews — Twitter is dropping the crop on web. This is the same update …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Anker CEO on EU's proposed USB-C legislation, Apple's MFI program, taking bets on new tech like gallium nitride, building a D2C business on Amazon, and more — Anker is one of those companies that's endlessly fascinating to me — CEO Steven Yang founded it in 2011, and since then …
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| Lori Hawkins / Austin American-Statesman: |
ZenBusiness, which says 200K+ entrepreneurs use its automated tools to form and run businesses, raises $200M led by Oak HC/FT, valuing it at $1.7B — ZenBusiness — Austin's newest “unicorn” software company with a valuation of more than $1 billion — is ramping up for more growth.| The Verge: |
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform for AR glasses and full AR headsets, with hardware agnostic APIs, Unreal Engine 4 and Unity support — AR as a ‘second screen’ feature or through dedicated headsets and glasses — While a lot of talk about the metaverse has focused … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Workato, which lets companies automate repetitive processes, raises a $200M Series E at a $5.7B valuation, bringing its total funding to $421M — The race to automate the world of business is on, and today one of the bigger players in the market has picked up another major round of funding …
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| Helen Partz / Cointelegraph: |
Crypto exchange Huobi will shut down its global entity's operations in Singapore by March 31, 2022, and launch a new local entity to comply with regulations — All Huobi Global clients in Singapore should close active positions and withdraw their digital assets before March 31, 2022. — 3223 Total views
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Vimeo acquires Wibbitz, a short-form video creation service, and Wirewax, which builds tech to make objects in videos “shoppable” — Vimeo, the B2B video platform that spun out from IAC earlier this year, has made a pair of acquisitions aimed at building out the suite of features … | Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Affirm beats in Q1 with revenue of $269.4M, vs. $248.2M estimated, up 55% YoY, with 8.7M active consumers, up 124% YoY, GMV of $2.7B, up 84% YoY; stock up 25%+ — - Affirm shares soared in after-hours trading on Wednesday, after the company said it would expand its partnership with Amazon.
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Expensify, which offers an expense management app for personal and business use, raises $70.2M in its IPO, with shares closing up 52.07% on its trading debut — Expensify turned public while delivering GAAP profitability, a rarity in the world of tech — Shares of Expensify Inc. rocketed …
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