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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Google plans to bring Privacy Sandbox to Android, preserving its Ad ID system for two years, and says it'll be less disruptive than ATT for advertisers and devs — 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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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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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Mark Zuckerberg promotes Nick Clegg to President for Global Affairs, a new role reporting to Zuckerberg, likely reducing Sheryl Sandberg's involvement in policy — Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has promoted his top policy executive, Nick Clegg …
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Senators Blumenthal (D) and Blackburn (R) unveil the Kids Online Safety Act, requiring platforms offer extra safety and privacy tools for users under 16 — A bipartisan pair of senators on Wednesday unveiled a sweeping bill that aims to give parents more control over their children's time online …
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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 …
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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 … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft details changes to AltspaceVR to improve safety and moderation, including removing social spaces and making users sign in with a Microsoft account — You'll also need a Microsoft Account for AltspaceVR soon — Microsoft is removing all social hubs hosted in AltspaceVR …
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| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
CISA, FBI, and NSA say Russian state-sponsored hackers targeted US defense contractors for at least two years, acquiring export-controlled technology and more — The state-sponsored actors acquired information on weapons, aircraft design, and combat communications systems over a period of years
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| 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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| Ilena Peng / Bloomberg: |
Shopify beats with Q4 revenue up 41% YoY to $1.38B, as GMV rose 32% YoY to $54.1B, but says FY 2022 revenue growth will be below FY 2021; shares drop 15%+ — Shopify Inc. said it expects revenue growth to be lower in 2022 than it was last year as online spending resets after the Covid-19 induced boom …
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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.| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Uniphore, which uses AI to improve customer support in call centers, raises a $400M Series E at a $2.5B valuation led by NEA — When Umesh Sachdev was pitching at a 2017 MIT event in New Delhi, he stood out to an important visitor: John Chambers. After retiring from his decades-long stint …
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| 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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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based Temporal, an open source service for writing and running cloud apps, raises a $103M Series B at a $1.5B valuation, bringing total funding to $120M — The news: Temporal, a Seattle startup that helps companies write and run cloud applications, has reached unicorn status.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Spotter, which licenses YouTubers' back catalogs, raises a $200M Series D at a $1.7B valuation led by Vision Fund 2, bringing its total funding to $755M — How do YouTubers make a living? Usually, through a mixture of merch sales, membership programs or maybe even a custom product.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Next-day package delivery startup Veho raises a $170M Series B led by Tiger Global at a $1.5B valuation, two months after raising a $125M Series A — Two months after taking on a monster $125 million Series A that propelled the company into unicorn territory, package delivery company Veho …
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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
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