Following Trump's ban on Facebook and Twitter, alternative social apps and private messengers top the app stores, including Signal, Telegram, MeWe, and CloutHub
A handful of unelected tech executives have tremendous influence on public discourse. Tweets: Evan Greer / @evan_greer : i know no one wants to hear this but it is a short path from Apple, Google, and...
Angela Merkel says social media's ban of the president's accounts is “problematic” and rules governing speech should happen by law, a sentiment echoed by France
I heard the news last week that Twitter had permanently banned Trump and thought “oh my.” Associated Press : Germany's Merkel: Trump's Twitter eviction ‘problematic’ Fortune : Trump's Twitter ban prom...
Parler is suing Amazon after its AWS suspension, leveling far-fetched antitrust allegations, including that Amazon hoped to reduce competition for Twitter
Parler has sued Amazon after the beleaguered conservative social media site was expelled from AWS, filing a fanciful complaint alleging …
A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon took the service offline
They're Blaming Amazon Instead Alison Durkee / Forbes : Parler Sues Amazon After Company Forces Social Media Site Offline Bernard Meyer / CyberNews : Data collection cheat sheet: how Parler, Twitter, ...
Twitter says it has suspended over 70K accounts involved in spreading harmful QAnon-associated content since Friday
Following the horrific events in Washington, DC, last week, here are some of the steps we've taken to protect the conversation on our service from attempts to incite violence …
Facebook should refer its decision to indefinitely block Trump to its Oversight Board, even though the board typically reviews individual pieces of content
Evelyn Douek / Lawfare :
Facebook says it is now removing content containing the phrase “stop the steal”, under Facebook and Instagram's Coordinating Harm policy
We began preparing for Inauguration Day last year. But our planning took on new urgency after last week's violence in Washington, D.C. …
Intel previews 14nm Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K, its next consumer flagship processor, coming in Q1, promising up to 50% better integrated graphics performance
Spending five generations on the same base microarchitecture is a long time. The excitement can be sustained through optimizing a process node …
Samsung unveils the Exynos 2100 flagship SoC, produced on a 5nm process node, touting 19% better single core and 33% better multi-core performance than last gen
Today, Samsung LSI took the virtual stage to announce the new Exynos 2100 flagship SoC. The new chip is quite special …
Memo: following its Trump ban, Facebook has told employees to avoid wearing company-branded apparel in public as it might put staff at risk
Facebook on Monday told employees to avoid wearing or carrying company-branded clothing and other items in public following the company's suspension …
House Democrats plan to investigate the role of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media in the Capitol riot as part of broad inquiry into disinformation
Tony Romm / Washington Post :
Amazon says it will begin removing QAnon products from its site and third-party merchants attempting to list QAnon goods may have selling privileges revoked
The e-commerce company will block sales in the coming days of products that reference the baseless conspiracy theory whose adherents …
Intel unveils four chip families, including Intel Core H-series for laptop gaming and Core vPro focused on hardware-based security, for the enterprise market
11th Gen CPUs are coming to Intel Evo Chromebooks Usman Pirzada / Wccftech : Intel Core i9-11900K ‘Rocket Lake’ Flagship 8-Core CPU Benchmarks: Beats AMD's 12-Core Ryzen 5900X At Cyberpunk 2077 And Mo...
Roundtable interview with Intel CEO Bob Swan on ramping up 10nm production, possibly sub-licensing leading process node technology from other foundries, more
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Salesforce said it had “taken action” against RNC from sending emails that may lead to violence; RNC says it has stopped fundraising on all digital platforms
The Donald Trump campaign has not used its millions-strong email list since the riots at the Capitol.
Parler CEO says the company has been dropped by “every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers”, which could end the business
North Idaho ISP Your T1 WIFI will block Facebook and Twitter for customers that request it after it received complaints over censorship
Your T1 WiFi, an internet service provider based in northwestern Idaho, will implement firewalls that restrict access to Facebook and Twitter at its customers' requests.
Spanish gamer David “TheGrefg” Martínez had 2M+ concurrent viewers on Twitch to watch him reveal Icon series Fortnite skin, breaking the previous record of 635K
Smashing all previous records — Spanish streamer and EU Heretics team owner David “TheGrefg” …
AT&T, Verizon, Airbnb, Comcast, and others are halting donations to lawmakers who opposed certifying election results, such as Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley
A large and growing number of tech and telecom companies are freezing their political contributions to Washington lawmakers …
Walmart says it will launch a fintech startup, with Ribbit Capital owning a minority share in the new company
- Walmart said Monday that it will launch a fintech start-up with Ribbit Capital, one of the investment firms behind Robinhood. — The retail giant interacts with millions of customers …
Workato, provider of app integration and workflow automation services for businesses, raises $110M Series D at a post-money valuation of $1.7B
Workato, a company that offers an integration and automation platform for businesses, today announced that it raised $110 million at a post-money valuation of $1.7 billion.
AirSlate, which automates repetitive business processes, raises $40M, bringing its total raised to $80M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Aptiv announces its next-gen self-driving platform, which it claims could save up to 20%-30% of costs for carmakers compared to its earlier system
LONDON (Reuters) - Auto supplier Aptiv PLC on Monday unveiled its next generation technology platform for automated driving …
Facebook says it's freezing all contributions from its PAC through at least Q1 as it reviews its political spending, joining Microsoft and Google
Memo: Uganda has blocked all social media in the country ahead of its election; source says ban is retaliation for Facebook removing pro-government accounts
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda ordered internet service providers to block all social media platforms and messaging apps …
LG says Google Stadia and Nvidia's GeForce Now are coming to its latest TVs in the second half of 2021
Chinese startup Socialarks leaked 400GB of scraped data of 200M+ Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn users
High-flying and rapidly growing Chinese social media management company Socialarks has suffered a huge data leak leading to the exposure of over 400GB of personal data including several …
Modern Treasury, which develops software to help integrate direct banking services with online services, raises $38M led by Altimeter Capital
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Video-sharing site Rumble, popular among conservatives, sues Google, accusing it of diverting traffic to YouTube
Video-sharing site Rumble, citing a Wall Street Journal investigation, alleges Google diverted traffic away from it toward YouTube — Video-sharing site Rumble Inc. accused Google …
Facebook hires Roy L. Austin, Jr., a renowned civil rights attorney and advocate, to establish a new civil rights organization inside Facebook
from the courtroom to the White House. Roy will establish Facebook's new civil rights team. Welcome Roy! https://about.fb.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : This feels like the kind of move that Face...
IDC: PC shipments for 2020 were up 13.1% YoY, the most annual growth in the market since 2010's 13.7% increase
Tom Warren / The Verge :
CEO of London-based payments company Checkout.com says it raised $450M in funding led by Tiger Global at a $15B post-money valuation, up from $5.5B last year
- London-based fintech's funding round led by Tiger Global — Propels payment company's value above Global Switch, Klarna
JumpCloud, a cloud-native directory service for enterprises, raises $100M Series E led by BlackRock, bringing its total raised to $191M
JumpCloud, a cloud-native directory service for enterprises, has closed its BlackRock-led series E round of funding at $100 million following …
Lenovo announces ThinkPad X1 Titanium Yoga: less than half an inch thick, 2K touch display with 450 nits of brightness, 11th-gen Intel i7 vPro, starts at $1,899
Monica Chin / The Verge :
Intercontinental Exchange says its crypto venture Bakkt will go public via a SPAC merger at a $2.1B valuation
A closer look at blank-check offerings for Bakkt and SoFi Helen Partz / Cointelegraph : Bakkt has no plans to support XRP, says CEO Jeffrey Gogo / Bitcoin News : Crypto Futures Exchange Bakkt Going Pu...
Muslim prayer app Salaat First, with 10M+ Android downloads, tracks users' location in the UK, Germany, France, and Italy and sells it to data broker Predicio
this one called Salaat First with more than ten million downloads on Android — was also selling its data to contractors. One of those contractors works with ICE. https://www.vice.com/...
Cockroach Labs, which develops the cloud-native SQL database CockroachDB, raises $160M Series E at a $2B valuation led by Altimeter Capital
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Livestreaming report: Twitch had 17B watch hours in 2020, up 83% YoY, and Facebook Gaming had 3.59B, up 166%; YouTube had 100B watch hours across live and VOD
Jellyfish, which develops software engineering management tools, raises $31.5M Series B led by Insight Partners
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Qualcomm announces the next generation of its ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor, saying it's 77% larger and 50% faster than the previous gen
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge :
Critics say Indian edtech startups, which raised $2.2B in 2020, are recruiting gig teachers with little training to meet demand fueled by the pandemic
mostly women, the preferred gender for South Asian companies — has skyrocketed But the hyper growth gig model has some serious trade offs https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : People with little ...
Jedox, which develops financial modeling and analytics software, raises $100M+ led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to ~$150M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Jobber, which makes management software for home services professionals, raises $60M led by Summit Partners
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Indonesia-based BukuKas raises $10M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India to digitize SMBs with an “end-to-end software stack”, bringing total raised to $22M
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Mobileye announces autonomous vehicle pilot programs in Tokyo, Shanghai, and Paris for early this year, after commencing in Detroit and Munich last year
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese companies, including contract electronics manufacturers, are moving away from China over trade tensions and rising costs
Curve, which combines all of a customer's debit and credit cards into one app and a linked “smart” card which they can use for payments, raises $95M Series C
Ryan Browne / CNBC :
Study: Asia's online video market passed $30B in 2020 as subscription revenue overtook ads for the first time; avg. growth/year is projected at 12% until 2025
Patrick Frater / Variety : See also Mediagazer
As tensions rise, China has found a subtle way to make life difficult for US tech companies: slowing down regulatory approval for acquisitions and other deals
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal :
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