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Spotify is removing Neil Young's music after he gave the company an ultimatum between his music and Joe Rogan's podcast with COVID-19 vaccine misinformation — Folk-rock star had over six million monthly listeners on the service, which he blames for spreading fake info about vaccines
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working to let businesses accept payments on their iPhones without extra hardware, thanks to tech from Mobeewave, which it acquired in 2020 — Apple Inc. is planning a new service that will let small businesses accept payments directly on their iPhones without any extra hardware …
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Source: Meta-backed Diem Association is selling its technology to California bank Silvergate Capital, which serves crypto companies, for ~$200M — Diem Association is selling its technology to crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital for $200 million — Facebook's ambitious effort to bring cryptocurrency to the masses has failed.
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| Derrek Lee / Android Central: |
Meta rebrands Oculus Quest as Meta Quest, leading to criticism on social media; the rebrand was originally announced in October — “Meta Quest” is just so fetch. — What you need to know — Meta changes the social media accounts of its VR brand to Meta Quest.
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Meta says Messenger's e2ee chats and calls are now available to all users and adds screenshot notifications, GIFs, and other features to encrypted chats — You can flick a switch and turn on privacy-protecting encryption without losing features — Messenger added end-to-end encrypted …
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
A growing number of US mayors are embracing crypto and blockchain tech, hoping to create revenue streams with NFTs or mining, attract tech talent, and more — This new political breed accepts paychecks in Bitcoin. The mayors also want to use buzzy new tech like NFTs to raise money for public projects.
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| Jeff Benson / Decrypt: |
CoinTracker, which helps crypto investors track their tax liabilities and report earnings, raises a $100M Series A at a $1.3B valuation led by Accel — With a fresh $1.3 billion valuation, CoinTracker has achieved unicorn status right before tax time. — In brief — CoinTracker is crypto tax software.
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| Aisha Majid / Press Gazette: |
Ipsos: Apple News was the most widely used UK news app in December 2021 with 13.2M users and 1.2B minutes spent; BBC News had 12.5M users and 2.2B minutes spent — The Apple News app narrowly beat BBC News to take the spot of most popular news app in the UK in December, according to data from Ipsos iris.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Fanhouse, an OnlyFans-like service, adds iOS in-app purchases with a 50% surcharge after pushing back in 2021 against Apple's 30% commission on creator earnings — Fanhouse previously tried to push back against Apple's fees and was granted a six-month extension to come into compliance
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Sources: SoftBank COO Marcelo Claure is leaving as soon as today; reports said Claure wanted $2B in compensation and clashed with Son over his responsibilities — - SoftBank COO Marcelo Claure is leaving SoftBank today, sources say. — Claure took over running WeWork after founder Adam Neumann stepped down.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sigfox, a French startup that raised $300M+ to build a communications network for IoT devices, files for bankruptcy, citing slow sales and supply chain issues — We are continuing to see fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the tech industry, with one of the latest developments coming out from France.
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung reports Q4 operating profit of ~$11.6B, up 53% YoY, on revenue of ~$63.8B, up 24% YoY, but misses with ~$8.9B net income, below the ~$9.2B expected — Samsung Electronics Co. is stepping up spending on advanced chipmaking technology as it sees growing demand for its smartphones, displays and memory products.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
The EU approves Meta's acquisition of Kustomer, announced in November 2020, after Meta gave commitments on API access to rival CRM software providers — The EU has cleared Meta/Facebook's acquisition of CRM maker, Kustomer — The Commission said Meta had guaranteed non-discriminatory … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Adobe-led tech coalition finalizes standard for digital content provenance, identifying the source and edits of photos and videos, to help catch deepfakes — As part of its effort to fight deepfakes, a coalition of tech companies led by Adobe has finalized the details for a standard … | Reuters: |
WeRock, which runs WeTransfer, pauses its Amsterdam IPO, slated for January 28 and seeking to raise between €629M and €716M, citing market volatility — The company that owns the WeTransfer file service is cancelling its initial public offering (IPO), Europe's first prominent tech flotation … | Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Fireblocks, which lets users store, transfer, and issue digital assets, raises a $550M Series E at an $8B valuation, after raising $310M in July 2021 — Quick Take — The Series E round brings Fireblocks' total funding to date to over $1 billion. — Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple says it is rolling out a fix for a bug in CloudKit's backend that for months intermittently prevented third-party apps from syncing with iCloud — Apple is rolling out a fix for the months-old issue — Apple has identified and is rolling out a fix for the bug that intermittently …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q4 revenue of $19.5B, up 4% YoY vs. estimates of $18.31B, Data Center Group revenue of $7.3B, up 20% YoY, IoT Group revenue of $1.1B, up 36% YoY — - Intel reported fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday. — Intel's largest business, its Client Computing Group …
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| Brenda Goh / Reuters: |
China's market regulator conditionally approves AMD's $35B all-stock deal for Xilinx, announced in October 2020 — China's market regulator said on Thursday it had conditionally approved Advanced Micro Devices Inc's (AMD.O) $35 billion all-stock deal for peer Xilinx (XLNX.O).
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| Sam Shead / CNBC: |
Sam Altman ridicules the startup fundraising process, joking that OpenAI raised a $250M series A on the back of six other rounds — - Sam Altman, OpenAI's co-founder and CEO, announced the series A funding round on Twitter late Wednesday without disclosing the valuation or the specific investors.| Joshua Green / Bloomberg: |
As Congress works towards regulating Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Alphabet, filings show at least 95 lawmakers own shares in one or more of the companies — At a December press conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked her opinion of proposed restrictions on stock trading by members of Congress.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Oslo-based PortalOne, which is building a “hybrid” gaming platform, raises a $60M Series A led by Tiger Global, following a $15M seed in April 2021 — Gaming has been one of the most popular entertainment categories in the last two years of pandemic living.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Reddit is conducting a “small, internal test” of a feature that lets users set any NFT they own as their profile picture — Reddit is testing a feature that would allow its users to set any NFT they own as their profile picture — not only its own Ethereum-based NFTs, called … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Mayd, which offers rapid pharmacy deliveries, raises a €30M Series A led by Lightspeed, following a €13M seed in October 2021 — Berlin-based Mayd, a startup that's building an on-demand medicine delivery platform in Europe, has fast followed a chunky seed raise last fall …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Domestika, an online learning community that offers video tutorials and courses, raises a $110M Series D led by Zeev Ventures at a $1.3B valuation — The creative community has been a ripe target for startups building tools and services to serve their interests and needs as they transition …
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| Janice Bitters Turi / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: funding for early-stage Latinx-founded startups in the US has stalled; $205M was invested in angel, pre-seed, and seed in 2021, up from $185M in 2018 — Editor's note: This article is part of Something Ventured, an ongoing series by Crunchbase News examining diversity and access …
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