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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Mark Zuckerberg outlines changes to Meta's corporate values, including “Move Fast Together”, “Live in the Future”, and “Meta, Metamates, Me” — Meta. Metamates. Me. — At a virtual all-hands meeting on Tuesday, Facebook escalated its attempts …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Google says it plans to bring Privacy Sandbox to Android, limiting data sharing from smartphones, and promises the changes will be less disruptive than Apple's — It says it will give other companies plenty of time to adapt to changes to its Android software. Similar changes made by Apple affected big internet companies.
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| DKB: |
Google search quality is declining because of too many ads, SEO, and “smart” AI, prompting people to append “reddit” to queries to get more authentic results — Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don't know that are the team at Reddit …
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Android Authority, Pixel Envy, and Luke's Newsletter
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| Aislinn Keely / The Block: |
A coalition of crypto companies, including Coinbase, Circle, and Robinhood, announce TRUST, an anti-money laundering platform for securely sharing customer data — Quick Take — A coalition of US crypto firms has created a centralized solution to the information sharing requirements of the travel rule.| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Facebook rebrands News Feed to just Feed after more than 15 years — The ‘News Feed’ is now just the ‘Feed’ — Meta is changing the name of Facebook's News Feed, the primary part of the service that users scroll through to see what their friends and family have shared.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D) and Marsha Blackburn (R) unveil the Kids Online Safety Act, requiring platforms offer users under 16 extra safety and privacy tools — A bipartisan pair of senators on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping bill that aims to give parents more control over their children's time online … | Neil Munshi / Financial Times: |
Nigerian payments startup Flutterwave raises a $250M Series D at a $3B valuation, making it Africa's most valuable startup, led by B Capital — Payments company becomes the most valuable start-up in Africa as investors bet on continent's scene — Nigerian payments company Flutterwave has raised $250mn …
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| IEEE Spectrum: |
Blind patients with Second Sight's electronic retinal implants are in danger of losing their artificial vision as the tech becomes obsolete and unsupported — Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark — Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour … | Monica Chin / The Verge: |
Google announces early access to Chrome OS Flex, a version of Chrome OS for businesses and schools that is designed to run on old PCs and Macs — It's made for schools and businesses — Google has announced early access to a new version of Chrome OS called Chrome OS Flex.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter expands a beta test of Safety Mode, which temporarily blocks accounts using harmful language in replies, to 50% of users in the US and 5 other markets — Twitter is broadening access to a feature called Safety Mode, designed to give users a set of tools to defend themselves …
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Twitter says CEO Parag Agrawal will take “a few weeks” of parental leave, less than three months after taking the job, a rare move for a Silicon Valley CEO — Parag Agrawal, 37, is just getting started in one of the technology industry's highest-profile jobs …
Tweets: @willoremus, @carnage4life, @katiecollins, and @jareddipane
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Roblox misses with Q4 revenue of $568.8M vs. $604M est., up 83% YoY, average DAUs of 49.5M, up 33% YoY, and average bookings per DAU of $15.57; stock drops 20%+ — Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, reported its bookings for the fourth quarter ended December 31 were $770.1 million …
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GamesIndustry.biz, PC Gamer, Roblox, Bloomberg, thegamer.com, San Francisco Business Journal, Yahoo News, StreetInsider.com, Benzinga, and MarketWatch
Tweets: @johnbattelle and @lizkmiller
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft rolls out the Amazon Appstore Preview, offering over 1,000 Android apps, in the Microsoft Store, alongside other tweaks to Windows 11 — Last October, Microsoft began testing Android apps on Windows 11 PCs in partnership with Amazon and its app store.
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Windows Experience Blog, YouTube, The Register, 9to5Google, Tech Advisor, developer.amazon.com, TechSpot, Tom's Guide, gHacks Technology News, Pocket-lint, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Android Headlines, Softpedia News, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, and SlashGear
Tweets: @film_girl and @panos_panay
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber will let riders see a breakdown of their average ratings starting today and publishes data on US cities with the highest and lowest ratings — Also available: five-star ratings — For the first time, Uber is allowing its customers to see how many five-star ratings they've received from drivers …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Genesis, which develops low-code tools for the financial industry, raises a $200M Series B led by Tiger Global, after raising $45M in March 2021 — Genesis, which has built a low-code/no-code application platform specifically for the financial markets, announced today it has landed …
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CSO, Finextra, SiliconANGLE, and PR Newswire
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK Home Office is seeking changes to the Online Safety Bill to require platforms monitor “legal but harmful” content, worrying the tech industry — Radical powers in online bill would increase liability of global internet groups beyond current global regulation
Tweets: @tim, @rasmus_kleis, @matthewlesh, @martinsfp, @jimkillock, @webdevlaw, @sjhmorris, @utilit_aria, @muradahmed, @pmdfoster, @dom_hallas, and @daveleeft
| Rafaela Lindeberg / Bloomberg: |
Ericsson CEO says the company might have made payments to ISIS to gain access to transport routes in Iraq in 2018, causing shares to drop by over 8.5% — Ericsson may have made payments to the ISIS terror organization to gain access to certain transport routes in Iraq, in a shock admission following years of regulatory investigations.
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Engadget, ICIJ, Reuters, Financial Times, Yahoo Finance, and Reuters
Tweets: @emeyersson, @tbraithwaite, @nicfildes, @daniburgz, and @aggichristiane
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Australian HR service Employment Hero raises A$181M at a A$1.25B valuation led by Seek Investments and says it is used by 80K SMBs, after raising A$140M in July — Human resources platform Employment Hero announced today it has raised $181 million AUD (or about $129 million USD) …
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Australian Financial Review and Finextra
| Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: |
Akamai says it will acquire cloud hosting company Linode, which positions itself as an AWS alternative for SMBs and independent developers, for $900M — Akamai Technologies announced today it has reached an agreement to acquire infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform provider Linode …
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DCD, Linode, Telecoms.com, Silicon Republic, TechCrunch, iTnews, Protocol, SiliconANGLE, CRN, and ZDNet
Tweets: @jordannovet, @lawik, @quinnypig, @quinnypig, @quinnypig, @anthonyspiteri, @thelinuxexp, @torresluzardo, and @cloudpundit. Thanks:@kylealspach
| Farah Elbahrawy / Bloomberg: |
Digital security company Elm, owned by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, rises 30% in its Riyadh trading debut to $44.30 after raising $820M in its IPO — Elm Co., a digital security firm owned by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, surged 30% in its trading debut.
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Arab News
| Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
Canadian startup Paper, which offers educational tools to K-12 schools in the US and Canada, raises a $270M Series D, bringing its total funding to ~$391M — Paper doubled the number of students on its platform to two million since last year. — On a mission to “democratize access” …
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Sapphire Ventures, PR Newswire, Paper Blog, and FinSMEs
| Cissy Zhou / Financial Times: |
Chinese online streaming service Bilibili plans to hire 1,000 censors after the death of a 25-year-old worker; Bilibili had 2,413 censors at the end of 2020 — Content monitoring team to be increased 40% amid debate on overwork — Chinese online video streaming service Bilibili plans … | Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Funding Societies, a digital financing platform for SMBs in Southeast Asia, raises a $144M Series C+ led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and $150M in debt — Small businesses are the backbone of Southeast Asia's economy, but many struggle to secure working capital loans because they don't have …
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Finextra, Nikkei Asia, Bloomberg, DealStreetAsia, Tech in Asia, and Tech in Asia
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