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Gizmodo plans to publish the Facebook Papers in batches, redacting sensitive information with help from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU — Independent experts from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU are partnering with Gizmodo to responsibly publish this historic leak.| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
In a filing, GoDaddy says a third-party gained access to info from up to 1.2M Managed WordPress accounts, including customer numbers and admin passwords — In disclosures to the Securities and Exchange Commission, web registrar and hosting company GoDaddy has revealed that it discovered it had been hacked.
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MoonPay, which lets users buy crypto with a credit/debit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and more, raises $555M led by Coatue and Tiger Global at a $3.4B valuation — Quick Take — MoonPay has closed a $555 million raise led by Coatue and Tiger Global. Existing investor Blossom Capital …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google is rolling out a Messages update that shows iMessage reactions as emojis — The latest update to Google Messages prepares for a new way to handle the annoying iMessage reaction messages often seen in mixed group chats. — Update: This feature has already begun rolling out for some, allowing us to see it in action.
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| Sujeong Lim / Counterpoint Research: |
Global smartwatch shipments in Q3 2021: Samsung's share rose to 17% with Galaxy Watch 4 series launch, retaking #2 behind Apple, whose share dropped 10% YoY — - Samsung achieved its highest quarterly shipments with the launch of the Galaxy Watch 4 series, narrowing the gap with Apple.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart will be the first to test Twitter's shoppable livestream platform, with a live Cyber Deals event on November 28 — Twitter's e-commerce initiatives now include livestream shopping and Walmart will be the first retailer to test the new platform. Over the past year … | Washington Post: |
Sources and internal docs show Facebook's race-blind policies around hate speech left minorities more likely to see derogatory and racist language on the site — Last year, researchers at Facebook showed executives an example of the kind of hate speech circulating on the social network …
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| Jennifer Meierhans / BBC: |
Spotify removes shuffle play as the default option on albums for premium users, so tracks play in the order artists intended, after Adele requests the change — Adele has persuaded Spotify to take the shuffle button off all album pages so tracks play in the artist's own order.
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| Martha Muir / Financial Times: |
Analysis: 14 of the world's biggest crypto mining companies moved 2M+ machines out of China following the country's ban in May, with a majority going to Russia — China's ban on cryptocurrency mining in May triggered an exodus of miners and a global race to relocate millions of the clunky …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Royal, which wants to help musicians create and sell NFTs, share royalties with fans, and more, raises $55M, following a $16M seed in August — NFTs are shaking up the world of art and video games. But it may be the music business where NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are poised to have an even bigger impact … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Jay Last, a pioneer who founded Fairchild Semiconductor, which laid the technical, financial, and cultural foundation for Silicon Valley, dies at 92 — He and seven others left the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to create their own silicon company, Fairchild Semiconductor …
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| Bloomberg: |
Paytm shares dropped ~13% after a 27% first-day fall after its $2.5B IPO, cutting its market value to ~$12B, in one of the worst debuts by a major tech company — - Founder Sharma draws comparison to early struggles of Tesla — Critics had questioned the company's valuation based on losses
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| Nicole LaPorte / Fast Company: |
A look at Spotify's podcast investments, including its push into advertising and video, as it appears poised to dominate the industry — With 3.2 million podcasts on its platform and more monthly active users than Apple, Spotify is the new heavy in podcasting. It's just getting started.
Tweets: @nicolelaporte1
| Simon Johnson / Reuters: |
Ericsson to buy cloud communications company Vonage for $6.2B, expects the deal to close in the first half of 2022 — Mobile telecoms equipment maker Ericsson (ERICb.ST) said on Monday it had agreed to buy cloud communications firm Vonage for $6.2 billion.
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| Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: |
Render, which offers cloud-based DevOps tools, raises a $20M Series A led by Addition, following a $4.5M seed in October 2020 — DevOps cloud platform Render, which won our Disrupt SF 2019 Startup Battlefield, announced today that it closed a $20 million Series A funding round led …
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Use of shopping bots that scour retail sites for hard-to-find items soared during the pandemic; one developer is selling such bots for $40 plus a $30/month fee — Use of programs that scour retail sites for hard-to-find items has soared since the start of the pandemic| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Nreal Light review: compact design and relatively affordable, but limited device and app support, inconsistent UX, and the mixed-reality mode is patchy — Through a glass, darkly — Nreal has sold me on the appeal of watching TV with a pair of glasses, and I wish I could recommend buying the glasses that did it.
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