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Sources: Meta is working on plans to let users create and sell NFTs on Facebook and Instagram, show NFTs on user profiles, and is considering an NFT marketplace — Facebook's parent draws up plans to allow users to create and sell non-fungible tokens, seeking to enter hype-fuelled $40bn market
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google launches a limited beta of Google Play Games, which brings Android games to Windows 10 and Windows 11, in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan — You'll need a relatively powerful computer for now. And for once, the US isn't getting a Google thing first
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon will launch Amazon Style, its first physical fashion store, in Los Angeles later this year; customers can use an app to send items to the fitting room — Move over books and groceries, Amazon's latest foray into physical retail is focused on fashion.
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| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
This summer the IRS will require users to log in via ID.me, which uses facial recognition in its authentication process, to file taxes, make payments, and more — You will have to submit sensitive government documents, your Social Security number, credit history, and a face scan to ID.me, a third-party company.
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Krebs on Security, Insider, PCMag, Reclaim The Net, KnowTechie, AppleInsider, and Input
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| Andrew Asmakov / Decrypt: |
Crypto.com says its breach affected 483 users, resulting in unauthorized withdrawals of ~$33.84M in cryptocurrencies and cash but says users were reimbursed — Cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com has lost roughly $34 million in a recent security incident, according to a post-mortem released on Thursday.
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Tweets: @bloomberglive, @kris_hk, @cryptocom, @kris_hk, @arossp, and @chrisblec
| Miles Kruppa / Financial Times: |
Sources: a16z plans to raise $3.5B for its latest cryptocurrency fund and up to $1B for a fund focused on seed investments in digital asset startups — Planned fundraising illustrates how Silicon Valley firms are fuelling boom in cryptocurrency start-ups — Andreessen Horowitz plans …
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Russian's central bank proposes banning the trading, use, and mining of cryptocurrencies on Russian territory, citing threats to financial stability — Russia's central bank on Thursday proposed banning the use and mining of cryptocurrencies on Russian territory, citing threats to financial stability … | Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Profile of Hemant Taneja, who became the sole managing partner of General Catalyst in 2021, as the firm raises a seed, venture, and growth fund totaling $4.6B — General Catalyst's idealist investor Hemant Taneja is quietly running the firm — Hemant Taneja somehow finds time to be an idealist and an operator.
Tweets: @ericnewcomer and @ericnewcomer
| Mark Mulligan / MIDiA Research: |
Research finds the base of global music subscribers grew to 523.9M by the end of Q2 2021, up 26.4% YoY; Spotify's market share dropped from 33% to 31% — MIDiA's annual music subscriber market shares report is now available here (see below for more details of the report). Here are some of the key findings.| Sean Lyngaas / CNN: |
Red Cross says a cyberattack on a vendor for over 60 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies compromised the personal data of 515,000+ “highly vulnerable people” — (CNN)A cyberattack on a contractor used by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has compromised … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
AT&T begins its 5G C-band rollout in eight US metro areas, including Austin and Chicago, after delaying rollouts around airports due to safety concerns — The company is lighting up towers in just eight locations amidst pushback from airlines — AT&T is lighting up its expanded 5G service …
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| Mahira Dayal / The Information: |
TikTok says it is testing allowing creators to charge subscriptions for their content — TikTok is testing the idea of allowing its creators to charge subscriptions for their content, a spokesperson told The Information. Earlier Wednesday, rival Instagram announced it was offering paid subscriptions to a small group of influencers.
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: in recent weeks, CEO Bobby Kotick suggested Activision Blizzard make an acquisition, including of trade publications like Kotaku and PC Gamer — After a lawsuit and a Journal report, the company's stock was falling, board members were getting anxious—and the tech giant was ready to take a gamble
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Apple countersues Ericsson, seeks a US import ban on mobile base stations and proposes that both parties withdraw all patent infringement actions — The flurry of Ericsson-Apple filings with the United States International Trade Commission (USITC, or just ITC), a U.S. trade agency …
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MobileSyrup, The Mac Observer, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, and iMore
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Google's AR headset will be powered by a custom processor, resemble ski goggles, and won't require a tethered connection to an external power source — Meta may be the loudest company building AR and VR hardware. Microsoft has HoloLens. Apple is working on something, too.
Tweets: @alexeheath, @willoremus, and @mhbergen
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will transition organizations using G Suite legacy free edition to an upgraded Google Workspace paid subscription starting on July 1 — In 2020, G Suite became Google Workspace as part of a mass reorganization of the company's apps for the “future of work.”
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Ars Technica, TNW, JOMO, cloudpro.co.uk, BetaNews, Pocketnow, The Register, ZDNet, Protocol, How-To Geek, Chrome Unboxed, and Android Headlines
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Internal email: Google is creating a unit under its Labs division for blockchain and other distributed tech, led by engineering VP Shivakumar Venkataraman — Google is forming a group dedicated to the blockchain and related technologies under a newly appointed executive who has spent …
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XDA Developers, Insider, Bitcoin Magazine, Blockchain News, CryptoSlate, 9to5Google, and Bitcoinist.com
Tweets: @jowyang, @mhbergen, @davidclinchnews, and @mhbergen
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Atom Computing, which aims to build a quantum computer based on neutral atom tech that uses lasers to manipulate individual qubits, raises a $60M Series B — Investors keep throwing money at the quantum computing market, and this time around it's Atom Computing Inc.'s turn.| Reuters: |
Sources: ByteDance revenue grew 70% YoY to around $58B in 2021, slower than a year earlier when its revenue grew by 100%+ to $34.3B — TikTok owner ByteDance saw its total revenue grow by 70% year on year to around $58 billion in 2021, according to two people familiar with the matter … | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Vienna-based PlanRadar, which digitizes construction and real estate documents and communication, raises a $70M Series B — Back in March Vienna-based PlanRadar snapped up a €30 million Series A to digitize construction and real estate. The Austrian startup - a platform for documentation …
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FinSMEs, FinLedger, and EU-Startups
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Current and former members of Google's site reliability group Borg SRE say managers, including the team's leader Pierre Aubert, fostered a toxic environment — When Chewy Shaw left Google's site reliability group in April, he told colleagues in a memo that interactions with his managers had made him depressed and suicidal.
Tweets: @nicoagrant, @nicoagrant, and @nicoagrant
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Mercedes-Benz will use Luminar's lidar tech in future vehicles as part of a deal that includes data sharing and the automaker taking a small stake in Luminar — Mercedes-Benz said Thursday it plans to use Luminar's lidar technology in future vehicles as part of a broader deal …
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Meta launches gamified activities on Messenger Kids to help kids learn how to safely use the internet, developed with guidance from online safety experts — Meta (formerly Facebook) knows it has to attract younger users — Facebook parent company Meta has launched new activities … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
SaaS Labs, which offers business automation tools for sales and support teams at SMBs, raises a $42M Series B, and acquires CallPage and Atolia — SaaS Labs has raised $42 million in a new financing round, less than three months after closing its previous funding, and acquired two startups …
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| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
South Korea's Greenlabs, which wants to digitize the entire value chain of agriculture space from crop production to distribution, raises a $140M Series C — Greenlabs, a South Korean agtech startup, announced this week it has closed a $140 million Series C led by BlueRun Ventures …
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| Josh Scott / BetaKit: |
Montreal-based Shakepay, which lets Canadians buy and sell bitcoin, raises a ~$35M Series A at a $313M valuation led by Virginia VC firm QED Investors — The round gives the Montréal crypto startup a $313 million valuation. — Montréal-based cryptocurrency startup Shakepay … | Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: |
Virtru, which offers encryption for data shared over email, SaaS apps, and more, raises a $60M Series C, bringing its total funding to $136.8M — Data security and privacy firm Virtru, which today announced raising a $60 million series C funding round, said that usage of its encryption platform …
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