In August, internal research at Facebook showed that ~70% of the platform's most active civic Groups were considered too toxic to recommend to users
The giant struggled to balance Mark Zuckerberg's free-expression mantra against findings that rabid partisanship had overrun a feature central to its future
Apple releases an iCloud Passwords browser extension for Chrome on Windows
Besides iTunes, Apple's biggest offering on Microsoft's operating system is the iCloud sync client for files, photos, and mail. Apple is now extending its presence on Windows with an iCloud Passwords...
Network data indicates the onset of widespread internet disruptions in Myanmar amid reports of a military uprising and the detention of political leaders
Network data from the NetBlocks Internet Observatory indicate the onset of widespread internet disruptions in Myanmar on Sunday 31 January 2021 …
Nintendo reports April-December results: ~$3.6B profit on revenue of $13B, 24M Switches sold, and forecasts $3.8B profit for the fiscal year ending March 2021
TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo Co. reported Monday that its profit for the first three fiscal quarters nearly doubled as people around …
Facebook is testing a notification for Facebook and Instagram iOS app users globally that encourages opting in to tracking for a “better ads experience”
Facebook is testing a notification that notifies Apple iOS users about ways the tech giant uses their data to target personalized ads to them.
Robinhood reduces the number of companies with trading restrictions from 50 to 8, according to its website; GME, NOK, and BB are still among those restricted
Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg :
A recap of Elon Musk's Clubhouse appearance, which broke the 5,000 participant limit, pushing some to YouTube, and included an interview with Robinhood's CEO
Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, SpaceX, and many other companies, has mastered the art of using Twitter to harness fans …
EU is seeking to overturn Apple's victory in $15.8B tax dispute saying the judges used “contradictory reasoning” when deciding the Irish tax case
- Regulators are challenging court view of Apple's Irish units — Vestager has warned case has larger consequences for tax fight
Robinhood eases trading restrictions on GameStop, AMC, Express, and some other stocks; users can now buy four shares of GameStop, up from one
Maggie Fitzgerald / CNBC :
Australian PM Scott Morrison says Microsoft is confident Bing can fill the gap created by Google if it pulls its search services over news payment disputes
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Software giant Microsoft Corp is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls …
Sources: Robinhood raised another $2.4B from shareholders, just days after raising ~$1B
The $3.4 billion raised since last Thursday is more than the company has raised in its entire prior existence — Robinhood Markets Inc. raised another $2.4 billion from shareholders …
Twitter restricts a number of high-profile accounts in India, citing a “legal demand”, including investigative news outlet Caravan and two politicians
Twitter blocked access to dozens of accounts in India, including some that belonged to high-profile individuals in the country …
Google has discontinued Pixel Slate, its first flagship tablet announced in October 2018, as the company focuses on laptops like Pixelbook Go
The Pixel Slate was announced in October 2018 as Made by Google's first tablet and flagship, touch-only Chrome OS device. Tweets: @sportaphile , @redletterdave , @dcseifert , and @dcseifert Tweets: @s...
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
mission comes second, profit comes first. And that comes at a cost: vaccines delayed, loved ones lost. https://twitter.com/... Lawrence Mower / @lmower3 : Unreliable registration, problems that lock s...
SolarWinds hackers who breached US federal court system likely gained access to sealed documents containing trade secrets, espionage targets, and more
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Trial lawyer Robert Fisher is handling one of America's most prominent counterintelligence cases, defending an MIT scientist charged with secretly helping China. Tweets: @kimzetter...
Cybersecurity company Rapid7 acquires Kubernetes security startup Alcide for $50M; Alcide had raised ~$12M to date according to Crunchbase data
Rapid7, the Boston-based security operations company, has been making moves into the cloud recently and this morning it announced …
More than 2,000 police and fire departments in the US have now partnered with Amazon's Ring, with 1,189 new departments added over the past year
Dave Lee / Financial Times :
A now-fixed 10-year-old bug in Sudo used in several versions of Linux allowed any local user to gain root access
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Many elderly people in the US aren't getting scheduled for COVID-19 vaccinations due to a lack of familiarity with navigating the internet and web-based signups
Bloomberg : Tweets: @ophirgottlieb , @cnbcjulianna , @sub8u , @dinabass , @trengriffin , @sabrinatessep , @argonaut , and @angelicalavito Tweets: Ophir Gottlieb / @ophirgottlieb : As more and more pe...
UK-based Rockley Photonics, a developer of integrated photonics chipsets, raises $65M in growth funding, bringing its total raised to over $290M
Local operators and companies like Google and Facebook scramble to upgrade digital infrastructure in Africa, home to less than 1% of global data center capacity
Joseph Cotterill / Financial Times : Tweets: @trafficbutter and @sub8u Tweets: @trafficbutter : VIA @GWarrander: https://www.ft.com/... According to GSMA forecasts, average African mobile data traffi...
The pandemic has exacerbated the brutal conditions of workers at e-commerce and delivery companies in Asia even as average earnings per delivery declined
those who pack and deliver the parcels — are overworked and stretched thin. https://asia.nikkei.com/...
Yotta Savings raises $13.2M Series A for its savings account app that instead of interest offers depositors a chance to win prizes ranging from 10 cents to $10M
Igor Bosilkovski / Forbes :
Sources: US CFIUS is scrutinizing past Chinese startup investments, even ones that closed years ago, for national security risks
National-security panel that gained powers under Trump to become even sharper weapon under Biden — A national-security panel on the hunt for Chinese involvement … Tweets: @heathersomervil Tweets: He...
Profile of Chegg, which is valued at $12B, employs 70,000+ freelance tutors in India, and faces the issue of students using it to cheat by getting test answers
Susan Adams / Forbes : Tweets: @forbes , @eric_mazur , @shorterpearson , @ibd_ecarson , @forbes , @sub8u , and @melissakorn Tweets: @forbes : Forbes interviewed 52 students who use Chegg Study. Aside...
Ula raises $20M Series A led by Quona Capital and B Capital Group to expand its food-focused e-commerce marketplace in Indonesia currently serving 20K+ stores
Manish Singh / TechCrunch : Tweets: @quonacapital Tweets: @quonacapital : Quona is proud to co-lead Ula's $20M Series A & continue to back @nipunmehra & team! @uladotapp is working to revamp & digiti...
Australian cloud data analytics company Phocas Software raises AU$45M led by Ellerston Capital to accelerate its growth in the US and UK
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat :
Microsoft says revenue from its various cybersecurity offerings crossed $10B over the past 12 months, up 40% YoY and ~7% of its total revenue for the year
Daniel Howley / Yahoo Finance :
SetSail raises $26M Series A for its service that recommends when to pay salespeople, by monitoring the progress of sales across CRM, email, and other systems
Ron Miller / TechCrunch : Tweets: @insightpartners and @setsailco Tweets: @insightpartners : We are also excited to announce our Series A investment in @SetSailCo! The company is on a mission to help...
Riverlane, which spun out of Cambridge University, raises $20M Series A led by Draper Esprit to build Deltaflow, its operating system for quantum computers
Silicon Canals :
League of Legends teams in the US recruited 40+ superstar players from Asia since 2016, with an average salary of $460K for a player in a team's starting five
Kellen Browning / New York Times :
A look at the criticism in DC directed at CSET, a State Dept. bureau focused on cybersecurity and emerging technologies formed in the last days of Trump's admin
Maggie Miller / The Hill :
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.