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| Moxie Marlinspike: |
How Web3 apps and wallets inevitably depend on centralized services like OpenSea, Infura, and Alchemy, which don't even provide authenticated responses — Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don't think I've ever actually said the words …
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| Bloomberg: |
PayPal confirms it is exploring launching its own stablecoin, after code in its iOS app showed it is working on a “PayPal Coin” backed by USD — PayPal Holdings Inc. is exploring the launch of its own stablecoin as part of its cryptocurrency push, according to the company …
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| Patrick McGee / Financial Times: |
How Tim Cook's supply chain expertise and diplomacy helped grow Apple's annual revenue from $108B in 2011 to $365B in 2021, and profits up 3.7x to $95B — Two years after the death of Steve Jobs, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison claimed it was inevitable Apple would struggle under Tim Cook.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
A California court orders Twitter to reveal the identity of a user who tweeted photos mocking a billionaire, after the user didn't respond to a copyright claim — Back in November we wrote about a very bizarre attempt to abuse copyright law to uncover who was behind a Twitter account, @CallMeMoneyBags.
| Ben Horowitz / Andreessen Horowitz: |
Andreessen Horowitz raises $9B across three funds: a $1.5B Bio Fund, a $5B Growth Fund, and a $2.5B Venture Fund — I am excited to announce that Andreessen Horowitz just raised a fresh $9B to invest via our Venture, Growth, and Bio Funds. We are grateful to our Limited Partners …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out a new version of Facebook's Privacy Center to some US desktop users, putting the onus on users to learn about its security and privacy controls — The new Privacy Center includes guides and controls — Meta (the company formerly known as Facebook) has announced a new version …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Signal employees worry anonymous transactions could appeal to criminals, which would attract regulatory scrutiny and aid lawmakers who want to end encryption — A push into untraceable payments could put end-to-end encryption at risk — Today, let's talk about a little-discussed story … | Aman Sethi / BuzzFeed News: |
A look at Meta's covert push to build a data center in the Netherlands, including codenaming the project, in an attempt to minimize public scrutiny and backlash — By the time the villagers knew Facebook was coming to town, it was already too late. Three weeks later their local councilors … | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Twitter says it is testing “Quote Tweet with reaction”, an option to let iOS users retweet and attach a video reaction — Twitter on Thursday launched a new feature in its iOS app for a small group of users. With this option, it's now possible to retweet someone's post and add your own video reaction using your camera.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Reddit could go public as soon as March 2022 at a valuation of up to $15B; the company was last valued at $10B in August 2021 — - Social media company could go public as soon as March — Reddit could be valued at as much as $15 billion in listing| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
Deliveroo plans to open a restaurant in London, its first, to better understand restaurateurs; the company currently operates ~300 “dark” kitchens globally — U.K.-based food-delivery company hopes running a single-location pizza parlor in London will help it better understand the restaurateurs using its platform
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| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung expects Q4 operating profit of $11.4B, up 52% YoY, on revenue of $63B, up ~24%, thanks to demand for memory chips and its contract chip-making business — South Korean company benefits from continued strength of the semiconductor business — SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co …
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| Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Shenzhen police send Walmart a warning for not quickly fixing 19 cybersecurity loopholes, days after China slammed Walmart for removing Xinjiang-made products — Public security authorities in Shenzhen found 19 cybersecurity loopholes in November in the online network of Walmart's China …
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| Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch: |
Draftea, a fantasy sports app focused on Latin America, raises $13.2M led by Kaszek with participation from Sequoia, Bullpen, and FanDuel founder Nigel Eccles — Founder Alán Jaime Misrahi grew up devoted to soccer, eventually playing in Mexico's third division.
Tweets: @anitaramaswamy
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Following the US ITC's ruling in favor of Sonos, Google changes Assistant device setup and Speaker Groups, which now require adjusting speakers individually — Following the US ITC ruling in favor of Sonos, Google this afternoon announced a series of changes to how Speaker Groups and its Assistant devices work.
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
John Pinette, Meta's VP of Global Communications, leaves the company; he had overseen the company's public relations teams since 2019 — John Pinette ran the company's public relations teams since 2019 — Meta Platforms Inc.'s head of communications said he is leaving the company … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Mozilla pauses accepting crypto donations following a widespread backlash, mostly over carbon emissions, including from co-founder Jamie Zawinski — Mozilla is the latest company to take heat for its involvement with cryptocurrency — Mozilla, the nonprofit organization that makes …
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