Sources: after NYSE said it wouldn't delist China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom, it now mulls reverting to original plan following Mnuchin criticism
- Possible reversal follows Mnuchin call to NYSE's Cunningham — Exchange's surprise announcement caught White House off guard
Google plans to add privacy labels across its iOS app catalog this week or next, after a report claimed none of Google's iOS apps have been updated since Dec. 7
Contrary to reports, Google is not delaying updates to its iOS apps because it doesn't want to comply with Apple's recently announced App Store Privacy Labels policy.
Trump signs an executive order banning transactions with Ant Group's Alipay, Tencent's WeChat Pay and QQ, and five other Chinese payment apps
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese software applications, including Ant Group's Alipay.
OpenAI introduces two new GPT-3 models: CLIP, which classifies images into categories from arbitrary text, and DALL·E, which can generate images from text
With GPT-3, OpenAI showed that a single deep-learning model could be trained to use language in a variety of ways simply by throwing it vast amounts of text.
WhatsApp updates its Terms and Privacy Policy to mandate data sharing with Facebook, including transaction data, mobile device information, IP address, and more
WhatsApp users are receiving an in-app notice today regarding the service's new terms and privacy policy.
FBI, CISA, and ODNI, with support from NSA, say an APT “likely Russian in origin” is responsible for all or most of the recently discovered hacks of US agencies
Joint statement from the FBI, CISA, ODNI, and NSA says SolarWinds hack was “likely Russian in origin.”
In a reversal, NYSE says it will go ahead with its plan to delist China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom, following Mnuchin criticism
The New York Stock Exchange will delist three Chinese telecommunication giants after all. — The stock exchange will remove U.S.-traded shares of China Telecom …
Apple says App Store users spent $1.8B on goods and services between December 24 and New Year's Eve and $540M on New Year's Day alone; Books has 90M MAUs
Apple has announced today that App Store customers spent a record amount throughout the holiday season.
Microsoft says it will shut down Minecraft Earth, which let users play Minecraft in real life through AR, on June 30, due to the pandemic
The ambitious project to cover the world in blocks is over — Microsoft is closing down its Minecraft Earth mobile game in June, due to the ongoing pandemic.
CIRP: iPhone 12 mini made up 6% of total iPhone sales in US during Oct. and Nov., while the 6.1" iPhone 12 garnered 27% and 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max each took ~20%
A new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) today seen by 9to5Mac highlights the continued success of the iPhone 12 lineup.
Facebook updates Pages with a cleaner design, tools for hosting text-based Q&As, a dedicated News Feed, removes the total amount of “likes”, and more
The social network will also remove the total amount of “likes” a Page receives.
Open source developer David Recordon named Biden's director of technology, returning to the White House after serving as its first director of IT under Obama
With a background in open source, open standards, and security, Recordon may be ideal for President Joe Biden's White House.
As Democrats are poised to win Georgia's Senate seats, a look at potential tech legislation under a unified government, including a federal privacy bill
As of Wednesday morning, Democrats looked poised to win both Georgia Senate seats, taking back control of the Senate after five years of Republican leadership.
Facebook says it will resume its political ad ban in Georgia after the polls close in the Georgia runoff elections
Following the Georgia runoff elections, the Facebook ban that restricts ads on social issues, elections and politics nationwide will be reimplemented in the state, the company said on Tuesday.
Amazon commits $2B+ over five years to create and preserve affordable housing in three of its employment hubs, Seattle, Arlington, VA, and Nashville, Tenn.
Tech giant to make investments over next five years in and around Seattle, Arlington, Va., and Nashville, Tenn.
Sources: China's regulators aim to force Ant Group, which owns Alipay, to share its consumer-credit data with China's central bank or an entity controlled by it
Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal :
IBM names Gary Cohn, former Goldman Sachs executive and economic adviser to Trump, as its vice chairman and member of its executive leadership team
Past Goldman Sachs president named vice chairman as tech icon develops stronger growth strategy — International Business Machines Corp …
Study of 58 Facebook users' feeds in Georgia found partisan content elbowed out traditional news sites after Facebook reversed its political ad ban
“partisan content quickly elbowed out news sites.” @corintxt's first for The Markup, built on the Citizen Browser project (see credits!) https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/... Adrianne Jeff...
UK's competition authority launches an investigation into Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm, after rivals raised concerns
CMA probe comes after rivals raised concerns over acquisition — The UK's competition regulator is preparing to launch a probe of Nvidia's $40bn acquisition of UK chip designer Arm …
Sources: Alibaba is planning to raise $5B to $8B in a USD-denominated bond sale this month, as China increases scrutiny of Jack Ma's empire
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd plans to raise at least $5 billion through the sale of a U.S. dollar-denominated bond this month …
Atlanta-based SalesLoft, which provides AI-based tools to help salespeople run their sales process virtually, raises $100M at a $1.1B post-money valuation
The Covid-19 pandemic and specifically need for social distancing to slow the spread of the virus have continued to keep many of us away from the office.
EU makes its first direct equity investment in startups, with €178M invested across 42 companies, from a new European Innovation Council Fund
Under the new European Innovation Council Fund, each of the companies will receive between €500,000 and €15m, with €178m invested overall.
Amazon says it is buying 11 used Boeing 767-300 planes from Delta and WestJet, the first time the company has purchased aircraft for its air cargo operation
Matt Day / Bloomberg :
To help creators avoid burnout, platforms like Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok need to explore new ideas like rate limiting of posts and paid time-offs
Creator Wellness Will Be A Key Goal of New Products — Being a modern creator is, for many, exhausting.
Facebook's Andrew Bosworth says its smart glasses, built in partnership with Ray-Ban, will arrive “sooner than later” in 2021 without AR features
- Company has more than 6,000 staff on AR, VR and hardware tasks — Zuckerberg seeking the next computer platform after smartphone
Dremio, which offers tools for companies to help streamline and curate data, raises $135M Series D led by Sapphire Ventures at a $1B post-money valuation
Dremio, a startup offering tools to help streamline and curate data, today announced that it raised $135 million in series D funding at a post-money valuation of $1 billion.
Verizon says that it will indefinitely delay the shutdown of its 3G network, after pushing the shutdown from the end of 2019 to the end of 2020
at least for now Brad Linder / Liliputing : Lilbits: 3G isn't dead yet Eli Blumenthal / CNET : Verizon will keep its 3G network running for now, as planned shutdown is pushed off Evan Selleck / iDownl...
Roku says it now has 51.2M active user accounts, up by about 14M in 2020, and users streamed 58.7B hours in 2020
Anthony Wood / Roku Blog :
GitHub says it has secured a license from the US government to offer GitHub to developers in Iran, after it was forced to block them in 2019 due to sanctions
As Brexit progresses, 81K .eu domains registered by 50,000 UK citizens are suspended, with three months given to transfer domains or demonstrate EU citizenship
Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet :
OCC says banks and savings associations can now run crypto nodes and use associated stablecoins for “permissible payment activities”
Kahoot, a game-based online learning service, says it had revenues of $45.2M in 2020, up 247% YoY, and plans to list on the main Norwegian stock market
- Kahoot is a game-based online learning service that lets players create and engage in multiple-choice quizzes. Thanks: @ryan_browne_
2021 is shaping up to be a challenging year for the Wikimedia Foundation, which is finalizing a code of conduct that aims to diversify its community of editors
women, people of color, and queer people—by having them speak out publicly against their abusers and risk retaliation.” https://www.wired.com/... Raju Narisetti / @raju : A challenge in timely impleme...
Source: Tile is aiming to launch a new tracker this year that includes ultra wideband technology and will add the ability to find items in AR in its app
Q&A with Frank Pasquale on his new book “New Laws of Robotics”, engaging with science fiction, ethics in AI, big tech, professionalism, and more
Evan Selinger / Pando : Tweets: @pandodaily , @iethics , @evanselinger , and @allison_pugh Tweets: Pando / @pandodaily : Physicians can lose their licenses if they push the interest of a pharmaceutic...
Hackers breached Ho Mobile, an Italian telco owned by Vodafone, stealing 2.5M customers' personal info; Ho offers to replace SIM cards of affected customers
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
India's Udaan, which operates a B2B marketplace, adds $280M to its $585M Series D, bringing its total raised to $1.15B, source says at a valuation of $3.1B
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Indian startup boAt, which makes hardware accessories for phones, raises $100M Series B from Warburg Pincus, to shift more of its production from China to India
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
UK-based autonomous vehicle startup Oxbotica raises $47M Series B led by BP Ventures, bringing total raised to $80M, to deploy its tech in industrial use cases
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Indonesian digital investment service Bibit raises $30M led by Sequoia Capital India, bringing its total funding to $45M
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Cameo hires new CTO, CFO, COO, CPO and says it sold 1.3M personalized videos in 2020, had ~$100M in video transactions, and 150 personalities earned $100K+/year
Sources: Amazon is working on a contactless Alexa-enabled device that can track and monitor sleep apnea, primarily using millimeter-wave radar
Eugene Kim / Business Insider :
Chronosphere, the cloud native monitoring tool launched in 2019 by two former Uber engineers, raises $43.4M Series B, bringing its total raised to $54.4M
Veo Technologies, which makes cameras that use AI to record and analyze football and other team sports, raises €20M Series B, source says at a $100M+ valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Italian court rules a “reliability index” algorithm used by food delivery app Deliveroo to rank riders was discriminatory, ordering €50K paid to suing parties
Gabriel Geiger / VICE : Tweets: @hypervisible , @bigblackjacobin , @casuallaw , @bmleejr , and @merbroussard Tweets: @hypervisible : “...the court determined that even if an algorithm unintentionally...
Enflame Technology, which makes chips designed to process huge amount of data to train AI systems, raises $278.5M Series C from Tencent and others
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC :
Boston-based iboss, which helps companies securely manage their networks and edge point devices, raises $145M led by NightDragon and Francisco Partners
iLobby raises $100M from Insight Partners to help enterprises manage on-site visitors, including mail management that uses AI to streamline package handling
French startup TagPay, which provides core banking system tech for financial service providers, raises €25M led by Long Arc Capital
Charlotte Tucker / EU-Startups :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.