Apple launches Time to Walk for Apple Watch and Fitness+, offering 25 to 40 minute episodes of original audio from influential people, available today
Apple has officially unveiled its new Time to Walk feature for Apple Watch and Apple Fitness+ subscribers.
Google workers across the world announce Alpha Global, an international union alliance comprising 13 unions representing workers in 10 countries
Alpha Global includes workers from 10 countries, including the United States and Germany — Google workers across the world are coming together to form a global union alliance.
Google pledges $150M in grants to promote COVID-19 vaccine distribution and converts some of its facilities into vaccination sites
Google will convert some of its facilities into COVID-19 vaccination sites starting in New York City, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and Kirkland, Washington.
Sources: Huawei is in early stage talks to sell its premium smartphone brands P and Mate to a Chinese consortium led by state-backed investment firms
(Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is in early-stage talks to sell its premium smartphone brands P and Mate …
Clubhouse raises Series B led by a16z, says it has 180+ investors, and will test options for paying creators and begin work on an Android app soon
When I first met Paul Davison, it took about 10 seconds to realize … Tae Kim / Bloomberg : Forget TikTok. Clubhouse Is Social Media's Next Star. Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch : Clubhouse announces ...
Microsoft confirms it halted all donations of its PAC while it decides by Feb. 15 whether to suspend donations to those who voted against election certification
Microsoft confirmed publicly today, as it announced internally on Jan. 8, that it has halted all donations of its PAC …
Apple warns magnets in iPhone 12 models and MagSafe devices may affect pacemakers and should be kept at least 6" away from medical devices or 12" while charging
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A look at r/WallStreetBets, a 2M-member subreddit that helped push GameStop's stock to record highs and is now facing allegations of harassment
The denizens of the WallStreetBets subreddit helped push the flailing stock to dizzying heights—while a short seller alleged an accompanying harassment campaign.
Content recommendation company Taboola says it has agreed to go public via a SPAC, valuing the company at $2.6B and raising $545M
Taboola, the content recommendation company known best for the chum box ads at the bottom of publishers' websites, has agreed to merge with special purpose …
Google details its work on a privacy-conscious cookie substitute, called Federated Learning of Cohorts, claims ~95% effectiveness compared to cookie-based ads
Google on Monday said new test results show promising signs that the technology it's hoping will replace cookie-based ad targeting is working.
German startup Wingcopter, which develops fixed-wing drones capable of vertical take-off and landing, raises $22M Series A led by Xplorer Capital
After bootstrapping for four years, this drone startup is ready to scale fast — German drone technology startup Wingcopter has raised …
Research shows that hundreds of SPACs are looking to acquire tech companies in the coming months, heating up competition for startups and inflating deal values
‘Blank check’ firms known as SPACs are in pursuit of America's hottest startups. Is the invasion a sign of a market euphoria that can't last?
NBCUniversal and Twitter announce a multi-year global content partnership to bring live, trending content, like sports highlights, to Twitter
- Comcast's NBCUniversal and Twitter on Monday announced a multi-year global content partnership. — The deal is an effort to expand …
In an interview, Waymo CEO dismissed Tesla as a competitor and argued that Tesla's current strategy, without lidar, wouldn't produce a fully self-driving system
for capital. Not joking. Tesla technology may be objectively, measurably inferior. But it's ability to raise low cost capital from believers who will tithe at the money offerings is currently UNSURPAS...
Italy tells TikTok to block all unverified user accounts after a 10-year-old girl dies while allegedly participating in the “blackout challenge” on the app
Wolt, a Helsinki-based online ordering and delivery company, raises $530M led by Iconiq Growth
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Smart lock maker Latch says it will go public by merging with a SPAC at a $1.56B valuation, expecting to raise ~$450M in cash
Deal between startup and SPAC sponsored by property firm values Latch at $1.56 billion — Latch Inc., a maker of smart locks and building-management software …
Research: GPT-3 frequently creates sentences associating Muslims with shooting, bombs, murder, and violence; OpenAI acknowledged the bias while announcing GPT-3
After Huawei spinoff, Honor confirms partnerships with key chip suppliers such as AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and MediaTek, launches new smartphone and notebooks
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Source: Clubhouse raised around $100M from a16z at a $1B post-money valuation
Clubhouse, a San Francisco-based audio social network, raised around $100 million led by existing investor Andreessen Horowitz at a $1 billion post-money valuation, Axios has learned.
Source: Kuaishou Technology, ByteDance's main rival in China, is seeking to raise as much as $5.4B through an IPO in Hong Kong and is slated to list on Feb. 5
Bloomberg :
As platforms race to purge harmful content after the Capitol attack, police race to gather evidence, showing the need for international data preservation laws
Melio, a B2B payments startup focused on small businesses, raises $110M Series C2, following an $80M Series C in Sept. 2020, at a $1.3B valuation
Christine Hall / Crunchbase News :
Hacker leaks data of 2.28M+ users of dating site MeetMindful, including real names, Facebook user IDs, email addresses, and geolocation information
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Uber laid off ~185 Postmates staff, about 15% of the division's workforce; sources: most Postmates execs including CEO Bastian Lehmann will leave the company
A look at the current state of industrial and service robotics, a century after the Czech play “R.U.R.” introduced the word “robot” to the English language
Autonomous driving startup Uisee raises $150M from investors including Chinese state-backed National Manufacturing Transformation and Upgrade Fund
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
Brigit, a personal finance app offering overdraft coverage, emergency loans, and budgeting tools, says it raised $35M Series A in early 2020 led by Lightspeed
Eliza Haverstock / Forbes :
What's in store for Amazon during Biden admin: more unions, labor protection and oversight, antitrust actions, privacy and facial recognition regulations, more
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.