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Coinbase, FTX, eToro, and other apps surge in popularity after multiple crypto Super Bowl ads; Coinbase rose from 186th to 2nd on US App Store after QR code ad — Crypto apps shot up App Store download charts in the US on Monday morning, after a Super Bowl studded with digital assets advertising.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft tells employees it will fully reopen its facilities in Washington state starting February 28, citing high rates of COVID-19 vaccination in King County — Updated below with information on Expedia reopening. — One of the longest “three weeks” in history will soon come to an end.| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
Texas sues Meta over its use of facial recognition from 2010 to late 2021 in the state; source: Texas seeks hundreds of billions of dollars in civil penalties — State says social-media giant violated privacy protections in lawsuit, seeks hundreds of billions of dollars in civil penalties
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A profile of Peter Thiel, who plans to leave Meta's board to focus on politics, funding far-right MAGA candidates who peddle conspiracies and deny Biden won — Peter Thiel, one of Donald J. Trump's biggest donors in 2016, has re-emerged as a prime financier of the Make America Great Again movement.
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| Billy Perrigo / TIME: |
Interviews and documents reveal traumatic working conditions at a Facebook content moderation facility in Kenya, run by Sama, with pay as low as $1.50/hour — This story is based on interviews with more than a dozen current and former Sama employees, as well as hundreds of pages …
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SEC fines crypto lending company BlockFi $100M, which will register its high-yield crypto savings product and offer it as a security as part of the settlement — The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that it fined crypto lending firm BlockFi $100 million …
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UK's HMRC tax authority seizes three NFTs in a £1.4M fraud case involving 250 alleged fake companies, the first UK law enforcement agency to seize an NFT — The UK tax authority has seized three Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) as part of a probe into a suspected a VAT fraud involving 250 alleged fake companies.
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| Yimou Lee / Reuters: |
Foxconn says it will invest $118.7M for a 40% stake in a joint venture with Indian conglomerate Vedanta to make semiconductors in India — Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW) said on Monday it had partnered with Indian conglomerate Vedanta Ltd (VDAN.NS) to make semiconductors in the South Asian country … | Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Snapchat is testing mid-roll ads in the Stories of some US creators, ahead of a wider rollout, and will share revenue based on engagement and other metrics — The feature is currently in beta testing — Snapchat is introducing a new way for creators on the app to earn money.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Tripledot, which makes a Solitaire app, Woodoku, and other casual mobile games, raises a $116M Series B led by 20VC at a $1.4B valuation — Casual mobile games have reached a fever pitch of interest with consumers, and so too with investors, who are rushing to back the biggest …
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
London-based Banked, which lets merchants accept payments without users creating an account or sharing data, raises $20M Series A led by BOA and Edenred — Banked is a FinTech startup that offers an alternative to card schemes. Consumers are able to pay without entering financial data … | David Gilbert / VICE: |
Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo is offline, possibly due to a hack, amid a leak of alleged personal info of ~92K donors to the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” — GiveSendGo, the Christian crowdfunding site that helped raise $8.7 million for the anti-vax “freedom convoy” in Canada, was hacked on Sunday night.
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