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| Devlin Barrett / Washington Post: |
The US DOJ arrests two people in New York and seizes ~$3.6B worth of bitcoin allegedly stolen in a 2016 Bitfinex hack, its “largest financial seizure ever” — The Justice Department announced Tuesday it had seized more than $3.6 billion in bitcoin allegedly stolen as part …
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Tweets: @bitfinex, @eamonjavers, @nkulw, @sgurman, @mattzeitlin, @silvermanjacob, @mylegacykit, @real_vijay, @bitcointina, @lorenzofb, @davidgura, @burgessct, @jon_christian, @ericgeller, @epro, @freddieraynolds, @pwnallthethings, @ldrogen, @fintechfrank, @fintechfrank, @saylor, @cobie, @ericgeller, @tuurdemeester, @susanlitv, @eamonjavers, @campuscodi, @joshdcaplan, @weldpond, @campuscodi, and @roshunpatel
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils Tap to Pay, letting US merchants accept payments with an iPhone and a partner-enabled app “later this year”; partners include Stripe and Shopify — Apple has officially announced a new Tap to Pay feature for iPhone. This feature, coming later this year …
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Tweets: @patrickc, @erenbali, @edwinwee, @deitaone, @jerrycap, @callumj, @collision, @patio11, @ishanagarwal24, @benedictevans, @markgurman, and @chancehmiller
| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Peloton CEO John Foley will step down and ex-Spotify and Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy will take over; Peloton will cut ~2,800 jobs and cancel its Ohio factory — Exercise-equipment maker to name former Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy as successor, overhaul board and cut costs
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Tweets: @silviakillings, @realbengilbert, @cararlombardo, @lisatozzi, @gwillowwilson, @asymco, @sam_l_shead, @stevekovach, @cararlombardo, @jeffnolan, @johnbiggs, @silviakillings, @feitsbarstool, @ldignan, @carnage4life, @joannastern, @carlquintanilla, @carnage4life, @parismartineau, @tomgara, @charlesarthur, @neilcybart, @carnage4life, @wsj, @film_girl, @stephenlweiss, and @0mgould
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is in talks to acquire cybersecurity research and incident response company Mandiant, whose stock closed up 17.86% on Tuesday — Microsoft Corp. is considering making a bid for cybersecurity-research and incident response company Mandiant Inc., according to a person familiar … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia and SoftBank call off Nvidia's Arm acquisition, following regulatory scrutiny; Arm CEO Simon Segars resigns, replaced by Arm IP group president Rene Haas — Nvidia's deal to acquire Arm is off, the two companies and Arm owner SoftBank announced Tuesday. — With this, there is also a major leadership change at Arm.
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Tweets: @nathanbenaich, @patrickmoorhead, @darrenpjones, @arm, @underfox3, @epro, @ryan_browne_, @thekenyeung, @sam_l_shead, @rdrv3, @bgurley, @cmagovuk, @inafried, and @iancutress
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple plans to improve benefits for full- and part-time US retail workers, including doubling paid sick days and increasing PTO, amid a tight labor market — Apple Inc. plans to significantly increase its benefits for U.S. retail store workers as it grapples with a tightening labor market …
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
As data centers grow, engineers at Meta, Google, and other companies worry about the reliability of ever-smaller chips and hardware failures with unclear causes — As the largest computer networks continue to grow, some engineers fear that their smallest components could prove to be an Achilles' heel.
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Beyond Search. Tweets: @doctorkarl, @heatwavekgns, @trippmickle, @nytimestech, @markoff, @nytimestech, and @hpcdan
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Journeys for Chrome on desktop, letting users revisit old browsing sessions, based on searches from the omnibar, organized by subject matter — Journeys groups your search history together by category — Google Chrome is rolling out Journeys, a feature that lets you revisit …
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, XDA Developers, Android Police, Android Central, TechRadar, Engadget, Tom's Guide, 9to5Google, AndroidGuys, Android Headlines, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @googlechrome
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok updates its policies to improve safety for LGBTQ users, including banning misgendering and deadnaming, adds tools for age-appropriate content, and more — Months after TikTok was hauled into its first-ever major congressional hearing over platform safety, the company is today announcing …
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TikTok, Protocol, Variety, The Verge, Insider, Engadget, Social Media Today, dot.LA, BBC, GLAAD, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @lesbiantech, @dickiminaj, @glaad, @mattnavarra, @tiktokcomms, @issielapowsky, and @issielapowsky
| CNBC: |
Amazon Care rolls out its telehealth service nationwide, expands in-person care to more US cities, and adds Whole Foods, Silicon Labs, and TrueBlue as customers — - Amazon is launching its telehealth program, known as Amazon Care, nationwide and has signed up a handful of new companies to use its services.
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Tweets: @daniel_kraft and @amazonnews
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A look at Apple's IAP changes for Dutch dating app developers: its proposal seemingly isn't compliant, reducing the commission by just 3% is spiteful, and more — The continuing saga of Apple's conflict with the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) — the Dutch equivalent …
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Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Protocol, Infrequently Noted, AdExchanger, and MediaNama
Tweets: @tolmasky, @tolmasky, @stroughtonsmith, @steipete, @tolmasky, @adhalls, @thijsniks, @mluisbrown, @tolmasky, @keleftheriou, and @daringfireball
| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Crypto infrastructure startup Alchemy raises a $200M Series C extension from Lightspeed and Silver Lake at a $10.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in October 2021 — Alchemy, a startup that provides blockchain tools, has been growing fast: It raised buckets of money last year and attracted dozens …
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Alchemy Blog, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, DeCential, Blockworks, PYMNTS.com, blog.alchemy.com, CNBC, Axios, The Block, Cointelegraph, Forbes, and Financial Times. Tweets: @fungibles3. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Airmeet, which offers online event hosting services, raises a $35M Series B, and says it helped 120K+ event organizers stream 150M minutes of video in 2021 — Delaware-based Airmeet is offering a dedicated platform to help enterprises make their big events truly virtual and interactive.
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Entrackr, FinSMEs, Airmeet HUB, and Tech in Asia
| Shiona McCallum / BBC: |
The UK's Online Safety Bill would mandate that porn websites verify users' ages or face fines; similar proposals were quietly dropped in 2019 after criticism — Porn websites in the UK will be legally required to verify the age of their users under new internet safety laws.
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GOV.UK, The Verge, VICE, TechCrunch, Engadget, infosecurity-magazine.com, The Register, KnowTechie, TechSpot, and ComputerWeekly.com
Tweets: @dcms, @doctorow, @paulbernaluk, and @mikestabile
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Netflix and Amazon had fewer Oscar nominations in 2022; half of the Best Picture nominees had little to no theater time and all major studios used hybrid models — This morning's Oscar nominations suggest a rethink — or at least a collective hitting of the pause button — on the status of streaming in the awards conversation.
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Apple, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Engadget, Cord Cutters News, The Hollywood Reporter, New York Times, Axios, Engadget, GeekWire, iMore, and The Hollywood Reporter
Tweets: @dadehayes and @tedhope
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A review of digital advertising in 2022, which has shifted from a Google-Meta duopoly to one where Amazon and potentially Apple are major forces — Six years ago tomorrow, in The Reality of Missing Out, I wrote that the digital advertising market was settled, and Google and Facebook won:
Tweets: @btsavage, @anthpb, @jonathankopnick, @anthpb, @anthpb, @jhstoneham, @stratechery, and @astaniscia86
| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Partech Partners report: African startups raised a record $5.2B in 2021 across 681 deals, up from $1.43B across 359 deals in 2020 — Last year was record-breaking for African startups. I know I'm probably starting to sound like a broken record, but the astronomical growth is worth highlighting again and again.| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Lyft Q4: revenue of $970M, vs. $940M est. and up from $570M YoY, average revenue per rider of $51.79, up 14% YoY, but 18.73M active riders, down from 18.94M QoQ — - Lyft reported fourth-quarter earnings after-the-bell on Tuesday. — Lyft reported 18.73 million active riders in the last quarter of 2021.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The EU details the Chips Act, which would make €43B in public and private funding available for R&D and chip production, seeking to compete with the US and Asia — Legislation could mobilize about $49 billion in government and private cash, though critics fear a subsidy race| Charles Mandel / BetaKit: |
Vancouver-based quantum computing startup D-Wave plans to go public via a SPAC on the NYSE in Q2 2022, expecting to raise ~$340M at a ~$1.2B valuation — Quantum computing startup aiming for a $1.5 billion valuation. — Vancouver quantum computing startup D-Wave is going public …
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TNW, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Business Wire, GeekWire, Dow Jones Newswires, and DCD. Thanks:@tron
| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
GlobalFoundries reports Q4 revenue of $1.85B, up 74% YoY, net income of $43M, up 108% YoY, and FY 2021 revenue of $6.59B, up 36% YoY — GlobalFoundries CEO Caulfield says company will produce “another year of strong growth in revenue and profitability in 2022.”
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
What to expect from Samsung's Unpacked event on February 9: Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+, Galaxy S22 Ultra, Galaxy Tab S8, Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra, and more — In a few short days, Samsung will host its first Unpacked of 2022. While the company is sure to stage many more events throughout the year …
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