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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
Jack Dorsey and others propose a legal defense fund for Bitcoin developers, citing “multi-front litigation” and “threats” — The main purpose of the fund will be to defend developers from from lawsuits regarding their activities in the Bitcoin ecosystem …
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bitcoin-dev mailing list. More:
The Block, Engadget, CryptoPotato, Decrypt, TechCircle, InsideBitcoins.com, Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, Crypto Daily, Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, Cryptopolitan, FX Empire, and CryptoSlate
Tweets: @zackvoell, @caitlinlong_, @kanzure, @hosekiapp, and @leowandersleb
| Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: |
London-based Checkout.com, which offers payment processing tools, raises $1B in a share sale, sources say at a $40B valuation — The $1 billion deal vaults the digital-payments processor past all but a handful of other startups — Checkout.com didn't raise money from outside investors until 2019.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Samsung, which had announced a January 11 event for the Exynos 2200, didn't show up to its own product launch — The Exynos 2200 was supposed to launch on January 11. It didn't. — So here's a crazy story. Samsung was supposed to have a big SoC launch today, but that launch did not happen.
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SamMobile, XDA Developers, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, Wccftech, Android Headlines, Neowin, Phandroid, Android Police, GSMArena.com, and VideoCardz.com
Tweets: @universeice, @ronamadeo, @quinnypig, @ravi_711, @praaatiiik, and @ravi_711
| Bloomberg: |
Sony confirms PlayStation 4 production will continue in 2022, which sources claim will help the company offset some PlayStation 5 production pressure — Sony Group Corp. will continue producing PlayStation 4 consoles throughout 2022 as it navigates disruptions to the global supply chain …
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Forbes, PCMag, Thurrott, Laptop Mag, GamesIndustry.biz, PC Gamer, Gameranx, Game Rant, thegamer.com, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Digit, Video Games Chronicle, Wccftech, Pocket-lint, Destructoid, BGR India, t3.com, Livy's Newsletter, IGN, and GameSpot
Tweets: @benjisales, @xboxwins1, @keemamr, and @wario64
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Federal judge rules FTC's amended suit alleging Meta has a monopoly can move forward, after a ruling last year threw out FTC's complaint over lack of evidence — The decision is a reversal of fortune for the agency after its first complaint was thrown out last year
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DocumentCloud. More:
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
App Annie: consumers spent $170B on mobile apps globally in 2021, up 19% YoY, with 230B app downloads; the average American spent 4.1 hours on apps per day — Consumer spending on mobile apps reached $170 billion in 2021, according to App Annie's newly released “State of Mobile 2022″ report …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Wordle clones are starting to disappear from Apple's App Store, after reports surfaced about many capitalizing on the guessing game's popularity — It seems Apple has taken action — Has Apple taken action against apps that cloned the popular web game Wordle?
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TechCrunch, Daring Fireball, AppleInsider, The Verge, NPR, MacRumors, TechRadar, The Guardian, AppleInsider, Macworld, Protocol, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Club386, iMore, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, IGN, Kotaku, PhoneArena, 9to5Mac, UPROXX, CNET, Daring Fireball, iMore, NME, Gawker, appadvice.com, and Bloomberg
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| Lucy Harley-Mckeown / The Block: |
Coinbase says “nearly the entire company will shut down” across four separate “recharge weeks” for employees in 2022 to avoid burnout — Quick Take — Coinbase is giving employees four ‘recharge weeks’ off in 2022 in order to counteract what it called an intense working environment.
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Tweets: @lanceulanoff, @carnage4life, @alex, @overdrev, @emiliemc, @viktorbunin, and @iampaulgrewal
| Talal Ansari / Wall Street Journal: |
Kim Kardashian and other celebrities are facing a class action lawsuit for allegedly leading investors into an EthereumMax cryptocurrency pump-and-dump scam — Lawsuit alleges celebrities made false or misleading statements to investors about EthereumMax; company disputes allegations
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CNBC, Finbold, Gizmodo, CNET, BGR India, Reuters, TechSpot, Fortune, Benzinga, Blockchain News, Engadget, MarketWatch, The Block, Rolling Stone, and UPROXX
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| Bloomberg: |
Alphabet Workers Union complains that contract workers receive COVID-19 testing that is inferior to the $949 Cue Health devices given to full-time WFH employees — - Full-time employees at home get instant results from Cue — Contractors in office are offered cheaper mail-in tests
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New York Times. Tweets: @kadish_josh, @jzux, @alphabetworkers, @dmccabe, @waywardwinifred, @prismxp, @kat_blaque, @acvalens, @luckytran, @jessicacalarco, @stevanzetti, @thrasherxy, @mcmillen, @alphabetworkers, @alphabetworkers, @alphabetworkers, @alphabetworkers, @sarahfrier, @thrasherxy, @william_fitz, @nicoagrant, and @ivanthek
| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
BigPanda, an IT management company that uses AI to detect and resolve outages, raises $190M led by Advent and Insight at a $1.2B valuation — San Francisco-based BigPanda, which helps IT departments keep their digital services running, hit a valuation of $1.2 billion after a $190 million raise …
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BigPanda, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, CTech, TechCrunch, and GlobeNewswire News Room
| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
SeekOut, which uses GitHub, academic papers, and other sources to help recruit diverse talent, raises a $115M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1B+ valuation — The news: Seattle-area startup SeekOut just landed an additional $115 million to propel its valuation past $1 billion, earning it the coveted unicorn label.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Magic Leap has pivoted towards health care, defense, and manufacturing markets with Magic Leap 2, which will cost more than the Leap 1's $2,295-$2,995 price tag — The company has enlisted companies such as heart-mapping startup SentiAR and neurotech business SyncThink to try out its new technology
Tweets: @stevekovach
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
LA-based VR concert service AmazeVR raises $15M led by Partners Investment and Murex Partners, bringing its total funding to $30.8M, ahead of a Series B in 2022 — AmazeVR, a virtual reality concert platform that enables users to experience their favorite artists' VR concerts through content …
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FinSMEs, Road to VR, Music Ally, PRWeb, and dot.LA
| Poynter: |
Over 80 fact-checking organizations tell YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki that its measures to combat misinformation are “proving insufficient” and propose solutions — Ms. Susan Wojcicki, — It's been almost two years since the COVID-19 pandemic started.
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BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and CNN
Tweets: @rasmus_kleis, @politifact, @factcheckdotorg, and @justinhendrix
| Meta: |
Meta elects DoorDash co-founder and CEO Tony Xu to its board of directors; Zuckerberg says Xu has experience “solving complex challenges in commerce” — Meta today announced that Tony Xu, co-founder and CEO of DoorDash, Inc., has been elected to the company's board of directors, effective immediately.
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Bloomberg, Silicon Republic, Dow Jones Newswires, Adweek, Wall Street Journal, Protocol, Insider, and TechCrunch
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @t_xu, @cityofthetown, @eliotwb, @rabois, @kennystoltz, @peterpham, @kurtwagner8, @danpriceseattle, @ericnewcomer, @warmoth, @mikeisaac, @sarthakgh, and @post_market
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
PCI Special Interest Group finalizes its PCIe 6.0 specification, expected in servers in 2023, doubling PCIe 5.0's speeds and reaching 128GBps in x16 slots — This morning the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) is releasing the much-awaited final (1.0) specification for PCI Express 6.0.
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The Register, Business Wire, The Verge, Wccftech, TechSpot, PCMag, and YouTube
Tweets: @anandtech, @appleinsider, and @thomrabe
| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Swiss digital asset banking service Seba Bank raises a ~$118.6M Series C led by Alameda Research and DeFi Technologies — Digital asset banking platform SEBA Bank has raised 110 million Swiss francs ($118.6 million) in a Series C funding round co-led by crypto-focused firms Alameda Research …
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Bloomberg, Blockworks, The Block, Finextra, and Cointelegraph
| Globes Online: |
Israeli startup Placer.ai, which offers location analytics and consumer foot traffic data, raises a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation — The company provides insights about foot traffic in malls and shopping centers, other retail centers, casinos, theme parks and stadiums and more.
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TechCrunch, CTech, Silicon Valley Business …, and VentureBeat
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
T-Mobile says it has “not broadly blocked” iCloud Private Relay, blaming a bug in iOS 15.2, but says customers with content filtering plans won't have access — T-Mobile has officially acknowledged a bug that has blocked some subscribers from using iCloud Private Relay when connected to cellular networking.
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Ars Technica, Redmond Pie, The Verge, IT Management, Ubergizmo, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechRadar, MSPoweruser, Neowin, KnowTechie, MacDailyNews, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @markgurman, @dsilverman, and @chancehmiller
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