Robinhood explains why it placed restrictions on certain securities over the past week, says its clearinghouse-mandated deposit for equities increased tenfold
managed by obscure entities at the center of the stock market called clearinghouses — kicked in Thursday, forcing Robinhood to find emergency cash to continue to be able to trade.” $GME https://www.ny...
Google has reinstated federated chat app Element on the Play Store after briefly pulling it over abusive content, which is now removed, on Element's servers
Element is a popular client for the federated chat protocol Matrix, and we highlighted it in our roundup of the best open-source alternatives …
VAMS, a CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M to manage rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, has been abandoned by states due to bugs and problems
The CDC ordered software that was meant to manage the vaccine rollout. Instead, it has been plagued by problems and abandoned by most states.
Reddit's uncommon qualities as a community platform, inspiring nihilism and humor, may explain why r/WallStreetBets' growth feels reminiscent of r/The_Donald
John Herrman / New York Times :
Profile of the trader known as DeepFuckingValue on r/WallStreetBets, who began investing in GameStop and explaining why in YouTube videos starting in mid-2019
How one disgruntled person destroyed the online reputations of 145+ people, aided by “complaint sites” in the US and platforms like Google that rarely intervene
Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock's online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined. Tweets: @kashhill , @zoeschiffer , @dabeard...
Canalys: smartphone shipments in China fell 4% YoY to 84M in Q4 2020 and shipments for 2020 fell 11% YoY to 330M, as iPhone's share jumped from 15% to 18% YoY
The impact of United States government sanctions on Huawei is continuing to hurt the company and dampen overall smartphone shipments in China … Source: Canalys.com .
Canalys: a record 11.2M Chromebooks were shipped in Q4 2020, up 287% YoY, with Lenovo Chromebooks up 1,766%; in 2020, 30.7M Chromebooks were shipped, up 109%
COVID-19 has had a lot of negative effects on the market, but it's been great for the PC market as millions of people transitioned to working and learning from home.
Experts say Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature will damage Facebook's core business; the feature will limit Facebook's data collection from 85K+ iOS apps
New feature on iPhones will limit Facebook's ability to collect data from apps and prove that ads work
Current and former staff say much of Amazon's struggles in gaming rest with the leadership of its gaming division, which reportedly has a budget of $500M/year
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Legal experts say Robinhood is not legally bound to carry out every trade and is protected from lawsuits by its user agreement
(Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc's user agreement is likely to protect the brokerage app from a barrage of lawsuits filed by customers after it blocked … Tweets: @anthony Tweets: Anthony DeRosa / @an...
Chinese self-driving startup AutoX announces that its robotaxi service, with no safety drivers on board, is now available to the general public in Shenzhen
AutoX, a Chinese self-driving startup funded by Alibaba BABA and others has announced that its Robotaxi service, with no safety drivers on board …
Mozilla's 2020 Internet Health Report spotlights racial injustice of algorithms, lax data rights for gig workers, and accountability of social media firms
In a challenging year for the world, the internet helped us and harmed us like never before. With 2020 in the rearview, we combine research and stories about what can be done.
The pandemic has increased the adoption of AR in automotive and other industries, where it is being used to provide remote assistance for employees in real time
Whether to fix cars or apply makeup, companies hamstrung by the pandemic found immediate uses for the distanced expertise AR technology can provide
Alphabet Workers Union members in the US say they were blindsided by the announcement of an international alliance and are considering disaffiliation from CWA
Zoe Schiffer / The Verge : Tweets: @reckless and @zoeschiffer Tweets: Nilay Patel / @reckless : Big scoop from @ZoeSchiffer: some members of the Alphabet Workers Union are considering leaving the l...
A look at Bilibili, the “YouTube for China”, as it balances competition and cooperation with Alibaba and Tencent, both of which invested in the video platform
“Should Bilibili keep expanding and become a larger player, their relationship with Tencent will surely deteriorate.”
ELSA, an app that helps non-native English speakers improve pronunciation and speaking skills, raises $15M Series B, says its revenue increased by ~300% in 2020
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg : Tweets: @technology Tweets: @technology : ELSA, a mobile app that helps non-native English speakers improve pronunciation and speaking skills, secured $15 million in a fundin...
Analysis: investors have pumped $7.3B into ~730 US-based fitness apps and services over the past five years, with $2.4B coming just in 2020 across 187 deals
Sometimes the best way to know something works is by trying it out yourself. — Health and fitness-related goals are commonly …
Verizon Media says it is planning personalized features for Yahoo Mail, and around 500K users watched NFL streams in the Yahoo Mail app in tests in Q4 2020
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider : Tweets: @michaelbarthel , @carnage4life , @caseynewton , @sarthakgh , @larakiara , @digitalshields , @reckless , @hkanji , and @jason_kint See also Mediagazer Tweet...
Profile of ShareChat, an India-centric social network which lacks English language support and has 160M MAUs, 100M of which signed up in the last year
Shubham Agarwal / Fast Company : Tweets: @harrymccracken . Thanks: @phonesoldier Tweets: Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken : ShareChat is a homegrown social-media hit in India, and a bunch of U.S. co...
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.