| 11:10 PM • | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Digital health startup Everlywell has raised $175M Series D at a $1.3B valuation to expand its virtual care options, after a $25M funding round in February |
| 10:20 PM • | Reuters: In an internal email, Google's head of AI says that Gebru threatened to resign unless she was told which colleagues deemed her draft paper as unpublishable |
| 10:15 PM • | Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: Twitter starts applying its Synthetic and Manipulated Media policy in India, as it labels a video tweeted by BJP's head of social media as “manipulated media” |
| 9:00 PM • | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: JD Health, the digital health care unit of JD.com, has raised $3.5B in a Hong Kong IPO; the company is expected to start trading on December 8 |
| 8:00 PM • | Campbell Kwan / ZDNet: White House issues another executive order aiming to guide federal development of AI, focusing on nine principles to build public trust in the technology |
| 7:40 PM • | M.G. Siegler / 500ish: Despite Microsoft's present-day sales power, a wave of product-focused enterprise companies inspired by Slack and its peers will ultimately disrupt the giant |
| 7:15 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: the DOJ is in talks with Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou that would allow her to return to China in exchange for admitting wrongdoing in ongoing case |
| 7:00 PM • | Reuters: The DOD has added China's largest chipmaker SMIC to its blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies |
| 6:30 PM • | David McLaughlin / Bloomberg: Sources: Facebook's VR business practices have attracted the attention of the DOJ, which is talking to developers about their interactions with Facebook |
| 5:55 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Users can now share in-app purchases and subscriptions via Apple's iCloud Family Sharing, if developers enable the option in their apps |
| 5:15 PM • | Alex Heath / The Information: Facebook is reorganizing its unit focused on its role in global elections, moving staff into a larger organization called Central Integrity, led by Guy Rosen |
| 3:35 PM • | Charlie Savage / New York Times: In a letter to Sen. Wyden, ODNI says FBI used Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect website visitor logs without a warrant, but not keywords from searches |
| 3:20 PM • | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple opens enrollment for its App Store Small Business Program with a reduced commission of 15%; deadline is Dec. 18 to qualify for a reduced rate on Jan. 1 |
| 3:10 PM • | Washington Post: Parler's lax moderation policies have helped it become a magnet for porn and escort services, which might complicate its hopes of expanding into advertising |
| 3:00 PM • | Wall Street Journal: DOJ sues Facebook, accusing it of improperly reserving jobs for H-1B workers by not sufficiently advertising open positions and overlooking US residents |
| 2:30 PM • | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Report: data of 243M Brazilians was exposed for at least six months after the password for a database was left inside source code of a health ministry website |
| 2:05 PM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Thoma Bravo buys Flexera, a Chicago-based IT asset management company, sources say for $2.85B; Thoma Bravo previously bought Flexera in 2008 and sold it in 2011 |
| 1:55 PM • | Julia Alexander / The Verge: Warner Bros. says it will release every single movie in 2021 simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max in the US and stream them for one month |
| 1:45 PM • | Julia Alexander / The Verge: YouTube will warn users before they post comments that “may be offensive to others” and adds better content filter systems for creators |
| 1:40 PM • | Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: Affirm to acquire Canada-based PayBright, which offers a buy-now, pay-later service for both e-commerce and in-store transactions, for around $340M CAD |
| 1:25 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Twitter says it is turning off threaded replies because they made conversations hard to read, and shuts down its prototype twttr app |
| 1:10 PM • | Casey Newton / Platformer: Timnit Gebru says she was fired as co-lead of Ethical AI at Google due to an email to colleagues; leaked email details her struggles as a Black leader at Google |
| 12:40 PM • | Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: SF-based Shop-Ware, which offers cloud-based management software for independent repair shops, raises $15M Series A led by Insight Partners |
| 12:25 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Amazon introduces a feature that lets users text Alexa on iOS to ask for things instead of only using their voice, now available in public preview |
| 11:35 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft launches Azure Purview, a unified data governance service that automates the discovery, cataloging, mapping, and tracking of data, in public preview |
| 10:55 AM • | Peter Rudegeair / Wall Street Journal: Stripe launches Treasury to let its customers offer checking accounts and other business-banking services; Shopify will offer the services from early next year |
| 10:15 AM • | Anna Irrera / Reuters: S&P Dow Jones Indices says it will launch cryptocurrency indices in 2021, using data from crypto company Lukka on more than 550 of the top traded coins |
| 10:05 AM • | Ryan Browne / CNBC: Facebook says it will start removing false claims about coronavirus vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts |
| 9:55 AM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Google will let users with ARCore-compatible Android phones submit Street View imagery, starting in Toronto, NYC, Austin, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Costa Rica |
| 9:45 AM • | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Pigment, which builds a dashboard in real-time through charts, simulations, and continuous modeling for business forecasting, raises $25.9M Series A |
| 9:20 AM • | Brian Barrett / Wired: IBM researchers say a sophisticated global phishing campaign is targeting the companies involved in the “cold chain” needed to distribute COVID-19 vaccines |
| 8:25 AM • | Washington Post: Leaked docs: Facebook to start policing anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White comments, reversing years of “race-blind” practices |
| 8:15 AM • | Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: Interview with Qualcomm's Alex Katouzian on the launch of Snapdragon 888, working with mmWave and Sub-6 5G networks, Apple's M1, Windows on Snapdragon, and more |
| 7:55 AM • | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Bizay, which has created a marketplace for highly customized products for SMBs, raises €32M Series C co-led by Indico Capital and the European Investment Bank |
| 7:45 AM • | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: GitHub: JavaScript, Python, and Java remain the most popular languages on GitHub in 2020, followed by TypeScript; open source project creation jumped up 40% YoY |
| 7:20 AM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Ultimate.ai, which develops virtual customer service agents to automate customer service interactions, raises $20M Series A led by Omers Ventures |
| 6:15 AM • | Nick Statt / The Verge: Alphabet transitions its navigation system for its fleet of Loon high-altitude balloons to one controlled by AI, a first for commercial aerospace systems |
| 4:05 AM • | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: A look at MANRS, a group of ~600 participants including Google, which aims to add safeguards to the Border Gateway Protocol, improving internet routing security |
| 2:15 AM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: PhonePe is partially spinning off, reducing Flipkart's stake from 100% to 87%, and raises $700M led by Walmart at a post-money valuation of $5.5B |
| 1:20 AM • | Caitlin Dewey / OneZero : How Americans are using Cash App and Venmo to practice direct giving to one another in a new way, as an alternative to giving through charitable institutions |
| 11:25 PM • | Casey Newton / Platformer: Slack's struggles to succeed as a standalone company mirror the fortunes of other one-time innovators in enterprise productivity who struggled with distribution |
| 11:15 PM • | Reuters: Source: a group of more than 40 US states, led by New York, plans to file an antitrust suit against Facebook next week |
| 10:45 PM • | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft buys Smash.gg, a company that organizes esports tournaments, founded in 2015 by a team of amateur players and esports fans |
| 9:00 PM • | Thomas Black / Bloomberg: FedEx has agreed to buy e-commerce shipping service ShopRunner, which will operate as a subsidiary of FedEx Services, for an undisclosed sum |
| 8:15 PM • | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Google is shutting down its Poly 3D object library for AR/VR development platforms on June 30, 2021, after discontinuing most of its other AR/VR tools |
| 7:40 PM • | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Three Democratic lawmakers introduce a bill that would require stablecoin issuers to obtain a banking charter, approval from the Federal Reserve and FDIC, more |
| 7:25 PM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: ESET researchers detail Crutch malware, used by Russian APT Turla to steal sensitive docs from an EU foreign ministry and exfiltrate them via Dropbox accounts |
| 6:15 PM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Amazon adds webcam support to the 2nd-gen Fire TV Cube, enabling video calls with Alexa-enabled devices, rolling out in the coming weeks in US, UK, elsewhere |
| 5:30 PM • | Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: GroupM expects marketers to spend $110.1B on digital ads in the US this year, accounting for more than half of the year's total ad spend for the first time |
| 4:20 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google Authenticator for iOS gets dark theme redesign and the ability to transfer 2FA accounts in bulk, useful when migrating to a new phone |
| 3:55 PM • | Karissa Bell / Engadget: Twitter expands its hate speech policies to “prohibit language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin” |
| 3:40 PM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Hulu's Watch Party feature is now expanding to all subscribers, allows up to seven other subscribers to join, and will have a “click to catch up button” |
| 2:50 PM • | Chris Velazco / Engadget: TikTok appears to be experimenting with allowing three-minute videos, up from its current 60-second limit |
| 2:40 PM • | David Bloom / Forbes: GreenPark Sports, a mobile game and sports fan “world” from Chad Hurley and Zappos founder Nick Swinmurn, raises $14M Series A and announces NBA partnership |
| 1:50 PM • | Tom Krazit / Protocol: AWS quietly makes a multicloud push with new versions of AWS' managed containers services, ECS Anywhere and EKS Anywhere, that can work on Azure or Google Cloud |
| 1:40 PM • | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Insight Partners says it has acquired a majority stake in CommerceHub, which connects retailers like Walmart to suppliers, in a deal valuing it at $1.9B |
| 1:30 PM • | Manuel Vonau / Android Police: Google begins rolling out the ability to schedule sending messages in its Google Messages app |
| 1:25 PM • | Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: Telegram tests letting iOS users listen and reply to new messages via Siri, seemingly the first 3rd-party dev to support the Siri API announced over a year ago |
| 1:11 PM • | Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: NLRB says in a complaint that Google violated US labor laws by spying on workers who organized staff protests before firing two of them in late 2019 |
| 1:10 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon is in exclusive talks to buy Wondery, in a deal valuing the podcast network at $300M+; Wondery's on track to increase revenue to $40M+ this year |
| 12:30 PM • | Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: DHS' IG says it's probing the department's practice of tracking people without a warrant by buying brokered cellphone data, after Democratic senators' request |
| 12:10 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube upgrades Premieres, which gives scheduled videos a landing page, with trailers, themes, and live stream pre-shows that later redirect to the main event |
| 11:40 AM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / FinLedger: Amount, which helps banks modernize and provide mobile experiences, raises $81M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Growth, after being spun off from Avant this year |
| 11:30 AM • | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Google says News Showcase will soon add free access to select paywalled articles, and it has doubled publisher partners to ~400 since its launch in October |
| 11:25 AM • | Michael del Castillo / Forbes: Visa says it's connecting its global network of 60M merchants to the US Dollar Coin, a stablecoin created by Circle Internet Financial on ethereum's blockchain |
| 11:18 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Google announces it is acquiring Actifio, a data management and continuity company that was valued at over $1B in 2014 and has raised over $460M |
| 11:10 AM • | John Tozzi / Bloomberg: Virta Health, a telehealth startup that helps people manage diabetes with frequent monitoring and dietary counseling, raises $65M, valuing the company at ~$1.1B |
| 11:05 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Step, a mobile banking service aimed at teens, raises a $50M Series B led by Coatue after growing to 500,000+ users only two months after its official launch |
| 10:45 AM • | Ashley Carman / The Verge: Spotify says Anchor powered 80% of its new podcasts, or 1M+ shows, in 2020; overall, Anchor powers 70% of Spotify's total podcast catalog of over 1.9M shows |
| 10:41 AM • | Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider: Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to release two new MacBook Pros with an all-new design in 2021 and a more affordable MacBook Air in 2022, all with mini LED panels |
| 9:55 AM • | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: ShipMonk, which provides fulfillment services and inventory management software to small and midsized ecommerce businesses, raises $290M led by Summit Partners |
| 9:45 AM • | Michelle Gao / CNBC: Discovery to launch its streaming service, Discovery+, in Jan. 2021, with a $4.99 per month ad-supported tier and a $6.99 per month ad-free tier |
| 8:40 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Israel-based Bizzabo, which helps organizers plan and run both virtual and in-person events, raises $138M Series E led by Insight Partners |
| 8:15 AM • | João Carrasqueira / Neowin: Nvidia unveils RTX 3060 Ti, the cheapest member of the RTX 30 family, available Dec. 2 for $399, claims it is faster than the $699 RTX 2080 SUPER |
| 7:10 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple announces Best of 2020 apps and most downloaded apps: home workout app Wakeout! won App of the Year for iPhone, Zoom for iPad, Disney+ for Apple TV |
| 6:20 AM • | Adi Robertson / The Verge: Varjo unveils new VR/XR headsets promising 115° field of view; VR-3 costs $3,195 with $795/year subscription and XR-3 costs $5,495 with $1,495/year subscription |
| 4:00 AM • | Gene Park / Washington Post: Rival Peak, a new Facebook cloud game which incorporates adventure and reality TV, will debut on Wednesday, and let users decide what “contestants” will do |
| 2:20 AM • | PYMNTS.com: Stripe extends its business lending service Stripe Capital to online platforms, offering an “end-to-end lending API” to provide customers with financing options |
| 11:35 PM • | Tony Romm / Washington Post: Trump threatened in a tweet on Tuesday to veto the annual defense bill, which authorizes nearly $1T in military spending, unless Congress repeals Section 230 |
| 10:55 PM • | Ryan McMorrow / Financial Times: Chinese food delivery giant Meituan had sales of $5.4B in Q3, up 29% YoY; Meituan's stock has nearly tripled in 2020, bringing its market value to ~$220B |
| 10:10 PM • | Sam Byford / The Verge: Apple's MagSafe Duo charger is now available to order online for $129, charging brick not included |
| 9:05 PM • | Sean Hollister / The Verge: Researcher details a zero-click iOS device exploit using Apple's AWDL protocol, now patched, which could have granted access to device hardware and data |
| 8:25 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft is testing smaller feature updates with Windows Insiders, giving Microsoft a new way to update parts of Windows 10 not directly controlled by the OS |
| 7:50 PM • | The Citizen Lab: Report details the use of telecom snooping tools provided by Circles, an NSO Group affiliate, by 25 nations, some of which have a history of human rights abuses |
| 7:40 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Adobe: Cyber Monday online spending in the US was at the lower end of expectations at $10.8B, but 15.1% higher YoY, with 37% of sales made on smartphones |
| 7:25 PM • | Patrick McGee / Financial Times: Advocacy group Euroconsumers sues Apple in Belgium and Spain over the iPhone throttling, with additional lawsuits in Italy and Portugal planned |
| 7:20 PM • | TechCrunch: Massachusetts lawmakers have voted to pass a police reform bill banning the use of facial recognition technology by police departments and public agencies |
| 7:05 PM • | Chris Davies / SlashGear: Waymo is opening two new autonomous vehicle R&D facilities, one in Menlo Park, and one in East Liberty, Ohio in partnership with Transportation Research Center |
| 6:35 PM • | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Payments software company Lightspeed POS says it has acquired restaurant software company Upserve for $430M, in a mixed stock and cash deal |
| 6:20 PM • | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: Slack reports Q3 revenue of $234.5M, up 39% YoY, added 12K net new paid customers, up 140% YoY, has over 520K connected endpoints on Slack Connect, up 240% YoY |
| 5:45 PM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: IT security company Ivanti has acquired enterprise mobile security firm MobileIron for $872M in stock and corporate VPN provider Pulse Secure for an unknown sum |
| 5:20 PM • | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Google Maps rolls out a new community feed section within Explore tab, featuring posts from local experts, food and drink merchants, and publishers you follow |
| 4:55 PM • | Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: HPE beats estimates with Q4 revenue of $7.2B, flat YoY, vs. est. of $6.88B, High Performance Compute and Mission Critical Systems revenue of $975M, up 25% YoY |
| 4:50 PM • | Wallace Witkowski / MarketWatch: Salesforce reports Q3 revenue of $5.42B, up 20% YoY, vs. $5.23B est., net income of $1.08B vs. a $109M loss YoY, ups FY21 revenue guidance to $21.1B, up 23% YoY |
| 4:30 PM • | Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: HPE announces it will relocate its headquarters from San Jose, CA, to Houston, TX, that it's constructing a new campus there, and no layoffs come with the move |
| 4:25 PM • | Dave Lee / Financial Times: Amazon unveils Monitron, a service that uses ML and low-cost sensors to monitor industrial machinery, as it looks to push into the industrial sector |
| 4:11 PM • | TechCrunch: Salesforce announces it's buying Slack in a $27.7B deal |
| 4:05 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Roku hires Brian Pinkerton, who was Apple's chief architect of Siri until November and was previously the CTO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative |
| 3:40 PM • | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: AWS launches a range of new services for contact and call centers, including Amazon Connect real-time analytics, customer profiles, and machine learning tools |
| 3:30 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: AWS announces Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL, which aims to make it easier and cheaper for Microsoft SQL Server users to migrate to the AWS cloud |
| 3:25 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Amazon unveils DevOps Guru, which spots and recommends fixes for issues that might cause outages, such as missing or misconfigured alarms and code changes |
| 3:10 PM • | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: AWS unveils an appliance called AWS Panorama, which can transform existing on-premises cameras into computer vision-enabled surveillance devices |
| 2:55 PM • | John Cook / GeekWire: Tanium, a cybersecurity company valued at $9B+, is moving its HQ from just outside Oakland, CA to Kirkland, WA near Seattle, after going remote first in June |
| 2:40 PM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: AWS debuts Lambda functions with access to up to 10GB of memory and 6 virtual CPUs, ability to deploy Lambda functions as container images, millisecond billing |
| 2:30 PM • | Jon Porter / The Verge: Wyze unveils a $20 smartwatch with nine-day battery life and heart rate and blood oxygen tracking but no GPS support, slated to ship in February 2021 |
| 2:10 PM • | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: AWS adds natural language search capabilities, now in preview as QuickSight Q, to its business intelligence service QuickSight |
| 2:00 PM • | Simon Sharwood / The Register: AWS releases statement saying that it remains Zoom's preferred cloud provider, after Oracle boasted it would meet Zoom's core infrastructure needs in April |
| 1:40 PM • | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: Voi, the Stockholm-headquartered micromobility company known for e-scooter rentals, raises $160M in new funding, about two thirds equity and one third debt |
| 1:28 PM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Microsoft will remove user names from Productivity Score feature after a privacy backlash, says Microsoft 365 will only aggregate data at the organization level |
| 1:25 PM • | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: AWS launches preview of its Proton container management service for infrastructure provisioning and code deployment for serverless and container-based apps |
| 12:55 PM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google debuts Android Enterprise Essentials device management service geared at SMBs, which can enforce policies like device encryption and ban app sideloading |
| 12:50 PM • | Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: AWS unveils new compute instances like the compute heavy C6gn powered by Arm-based Graviton2 that it says performs 40% better on price vs comparable x86 options |
| 12:25 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: AWS unveils its new custom ML training chip Trainium with support for TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet, coming 2021; AWS claims it outperforms rival cloud chips |
| 12:15 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft Teams adds support for answering calls via Apple CarPlay, transferring calls between mobile and desktop, and adding call recordings to OneDrive |
| 11:45 AM • | Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: Olive, which says 600+ hospitals use its AI-powered bots to automate healthcare admin tasks, raises $225.5M led by Tiger Global, valuing it at $1.5B |
| 11:35 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Flock Freight, an AI-driven marketplace helping shippers and SMBs find freight truckers, raises $113.5M Series C led by Softbank, after a $50M Series B in Feb. |
| 11:15 AM • | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: BlackBerry shares jump 50%+ on news that it will partner with AWS to jointly develop and market its vehicle data integration and monitoring platform, IVY |
| 10:45 AM • | Shara Tibken / CNET: Qualcomm unveils its upcoming flagship chipset Snapdragon 888, including a 5G modem with both mmWave and sub-6GHz 5G support and an AI engine capable of 26 TOPS |
| 10:15 AM • | Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Libra Association changes its name to the Diem Association, distancing itself from Facebook, plans to launch the “Diem dollar” when the new entity is licensed |
| 10:10 AM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Scale, which helps companies label data for use in artificial intelligence models, raises $155M led by Tiger Global at a $3.5B+ valuation |
| 10:00 AM • | BBC: Facebook's Oversight Board details its first six cases, from 20K submitted, opens them to public comment, and announces the appointment of five more trustees |
| 9:45 AM • | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Flexe, which operates a marketplace to buy warehousing space on demand, raises $70M Series C led by T. Rowe Price, bringing its total raised to $134M |
| 9:30 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: SoftBank takes a $690M stake in Sinch, which provides cloud-based “omnichannel” voice, video, and messaging services to help businesses communicate with users |
| 9:05 AM • | CNBC: Amazon says 2020's holiday shopping season has been its biggest ever, with independent sellers reaching $4.8B+ in worldwide sales over the weekend, up 60% YoY |
| 8:50 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Databand, a developer of AI-based observability software for data pipelines, raises $14.5M Series A led by Accel, bringing its total raised to ~$18.5M |
| 8:40 AM • | James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: Report: 3.1M professionals are needed to bridge the global cybersecurity talent gap; experts urge companies to adjust hiring requirements for cybersecurity jobs |
| 8:25 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: GoSite, which helps small and medium enterprises build websites and run other business functions online, raises $40M Series B led by Left Lane Capital |
| 8:10 AM • | Steve Kovach / CNBC: Filing: Airbnb seeks to raise ~$2.5B in its IPO at a valuation of up to $35B, after pricing its shares at $44 to $50 |
| 8:00 AM • | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Vivenu, which offers an event ticketing API for venues and promoters, customized to their needs, raises $15M Series A led by Balderton Capital |
| 7:55 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Samsung may discontinue Galaxy Note next year, reflecting the sharp drop in demand for high-end smartphones due to the pandemic |
| 7:45 AM • | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Sources: India-based CRED, which helps users improve their financial behavior, raises $80M Series C at a $800M valuation, up from $450M in August 2019 |
| 7:35 AM • | Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: Reddit says it averaged 52M DAUs in October, up 44% YoY, disclosing the metric for the first time; ad revenue hit $100M+ in 2019, on track to rise 70%+ in 2020 |
| 7:25 AM • | Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: French startup Ankorstore, which is building a wholesale marketplace connecting independent shop owners with brands, raises $29.9M Series A |
| 5:50 AM • | New York Times: E-commerce is in a flux for luxury brands, with Amazon on one side and a new alliance, including LVMH, Kering, Farfetch, and Richemont, on the other |
| 4:05 AM • | Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: Report: in the past six months 79% of US consumers played a video game, with time spent playing games up 26% YoY, and user spending up 33% YoY |
| 2:15 AM • | Matt Richtel / New York Times: Members of rehab groups like Alcoholics Anonymous say moving meetings online was helpful due to the convenience of virtual sessions, which feel more intimate |
| 11:55 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Amazon launches EC2 Mac instances, bringing Intel-based Mac minis to its cloud for $1.083 per hour billed by the second |
| 10:25 PM • | Nickie Louise / TechStartups.com: Totum Labs, which is developing low earth orbit nanosatellites for global IoT connectivity, raises $13M Series A led by Heroic Ventures and Space Capital |
| 9:50 PM • | Lee Clifford / Fortune: Mursion, which offers VR training to practice conflict resolution and emotional intelligence in the workplace, announces $20M Series B led by Leeds Illuminate |
| 9:15 PM • | Wall Street Journal: S&P Global has agreed to acquire IHS Markit for about $44B in an all-stock deal, which would merge two of the biggest providers of financial data and analysis |
| 8:10 PM • | Ari Levy / CNBC: Sources: GitLab is letting employees sell equity in a secondary share sale that values the company over $6B, up from a valuation of $2.7B in September 2019 |
| 7:45 PM • | Jim Waterson / The Guardian: Facebook to launch Facebook News in the UK in Jan. 2021, says it will pay publishers for news not already on its platform; most big UK publishers have signed up |
| 5:48 PM • | Eric Geller / Politico: SCOTUS worries about CFAA's sweeping nature, with Justice Gorsuch saying that the US government's view of the law risks “making a federal criminal of us all” |
| 5:43 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Zoom reports Q3 revenue of $777.2M, up 367% YoY, vs. $694M est., and customers with 10+ employees rose to ~433,700, up 485% YoY, higher than Q2's 355% growth |
| 4:35 PM • | Ana Swanson / New York Times: Sources: Apple suggested edits to a draft of Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, extending some deadlines, limiting release of some info to the public, and more |
| 4:20 PM • | Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Infogrid, which uses AI to help plan the retrofitting of buildings with IoT sensors, raises $15.5M Series A led by Northzone |
| 3:05 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple hires Josh Elman, former VC at Greylock Partners and ex-VP of product at Robinhood, to work on app discovery in the App Store |
| 1:55 PM • | Surojit Chatterjee / The Coinbase Blog: Coinbase says that, starting in early 2021, it will begin supporting Ethereum 2.0, letting users convert ETH into ETH2 and earn staking rewards |
| 1:35 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Gartner: global Q3 smartphone sales dropped 5.7% YoY to 366M; Samsung led with 80.8M units, Huawei fell 21% to 51.8M, and Xiaomi grew ~35% YoY, surpassing Apple |
| 12:50 PM • | Alex Konrad / Forbes: Vista Equity Partners is acquiring a majority stake in CRM startup Gainsight, valuing it at $1.1B; Gainsight says it's on pace to hit $100M in ARR this year |
| 12:25 PM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Facebook says it has agreed to acquire Kustomer, which specializes in customer service tools and chatbots, reportedly for $1B+ |
| 11:32 AM • | Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: Bitcoin price sets a record, passing $19,783, with more investors seemingly in it for the long haul, unlike 2017's boom driven by Asian investors new to crypto |
| 11:16 AM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Ajit Pai, the Trump-appointed Republican chairman of the FCC, announces he will leave the agency on Jan. 20, when president-elect Joe Biden is sworn into office |
| 11:00 AM • | Cade Metz / New York Times: Alphabet's DeepMind says it has solved the key “protein folding problem”, cutting the job down from months to hours, which could speed up drug discovery |
| 10:50 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Facebook to Acquire Startup Valued at $1 Billion |
| 10:45 AM • | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: Materialize, a SQL streaming database built atop the open source Timely Dataflow project, raises $32M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins |
| 10:35 AM • | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Aurora Solar, which combines lidar sensors, computer vision, and computer-assisted design to streamline solar panel installations, raises $50M Series B |
| 10:25 AM • | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: SCOTUS heard oral arguments that may lead to changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, signed in 1986, a law critics say is outdated and vague |
| 10:20 AM • | Nikkei Asia: Japan says it will partner with India to let Japanese companies build 5G networks and submarine fiber-optic cables |
| 10:05 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Cloud-based IT services company ServiceNow is acquiring Montreal-based Element AI, which helps companies use AI to improve operations |
| 10:00 AM • | Michel Rose / Reuters: France says Google, Facebook, and Microsoft agreed to principles like paying their fair tax share; sources say Amazon declined and Apple is negotiating |
| 9:40 AM • | Dylan Loh / Nikkei Asia: While OECD works on digital taxation framework with 130+ countries, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore implemented their own digital tax rules in 2020 |
| 9:22 AM • | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Sources: Salesforce's deal to buy Slack is expected to be announced on Tuesday after markets close; Salesforce reports Q3 earnings on Tuesday |
| 9:10 AM • | John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: Sources: US federal and state authorities are preparing as many as four antitrust cases targeting Facebook and Google by the end of January 2021 |
| 8:55 AM • | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Italy's antitrust watchdog fines Apple €10M for alleged misleading iPhone water resistance claims in its promotional messages |
| 8:45 AM • | Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: Filing: DoorDash is looking to raise up to $2.8B in its IPO, at a valuation of up to $32B, and plans to list shares at $75 to $85 |
| 8:10 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: in its IPO this week, Airbnb will target a valuation of $30B-$33B, up from the expected $30B |
| 7:45 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: HungryPanda, which develops a Mandarin-language food delivery app for overseas Chinese consumers, raises $70M Series C led by Kinnevik |
| 7:10 AM • | Ars Technica: Best 2020 Cyber Monday deals on gaming consoles, laptops, monitors, Apple, Sonos, and Amazon devices, smartphones, headphones, speakers, and more |
| 5:25 AM • | Bill Bostock / Business Insider: A look at several clinically effective apps that treat mental illness directly with CBT and other therapy courses, as the FDA expedites the app approval process |
| 4:20 AM • | Shakeel Hashim / Protocol: Q&A with CEO of Ocado Solutions on selling its grocery delivery tech to retailers like Kroger, the pandemic's impact on Ocado, plans for robotic pickers, more |
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