Snap says Apple's changes to IDFA will interrupt demand; Unity says IDFA changes will affect how mobile game developers “optimize lifetime customer value”
- Snap and Unity Software, which reported fourth quarter earnings after the bell Thursday, both warned of the upcoming impact …
Google has patched an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in its Chrome 88 update
Google Chrome 88.0.4324.150 released with a fix. Users advised to update. — Google has released today version 88.0.4324.150 of the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Google says Pixel users will be able to use their phone cameras to measure pulse and breath rates through the Google Fit app, starting next month
Like many of us, Google is getting more interested in our health. The company is announcing today new features that will allow …
Q&A with mobile marketing analyst Eric Seufert on the Facebook-Apple conflict, Apple's real motives for iOS privacy changes, and potential harm to businesses
I've given up, it just looks like a poisoned equilibrium to me Tom Lee / @tjl : The other piece that feels like it needs development is the lamentation about removing a tool small businesses can use t...
Snap says its TikTok competitor Spotlight had 100M MAUs in January, two months after its launch, and receives an average of 175K video submissions per day
A surprisingly successful debut — Snap says its TikTok competitor, Spotlight, had 100 million users in January 2021, just two months after it launched.
PayPal says it will wind down its domestic payment operations in India by April 1 and focus on its existing cross-border trade business
Mumbai: PayPal Inc. will wind down its payment operations in India this year, a spokesperson said on the condition of anonymity.
Google delists the popular Chrome extension The Great Suspender for containing malware and is disabling the extension for those who installed it
This afternoon, Google has delisted the popular extension The Great Suspender for containing malware and is proactively disabling the extension for those who have it.
Shares of Kuaishou jumped 161% in its Hong Kong debut, valuing the company at $159B, after the main rival of ByteDance in China raised $5.4B in an IPO
- Tencent-backed short-video startup raised $5.4 billion in IPO — Debut performance is second best globally after Alibaba.com
Google starts rolling out Google News Showcase in Australia, paying local and regional publishers, amid an ongoing dispute over Australia's proposed media rules
Google has a $1 billion plan to pay publishers for content that appears in a cross-service “News Showcase” product.
In a NLRB filing, the Alphabet Workers Union accuses Google vendor Adecco of violating US labor law by forbidding contract workers from discussing their pay
- New labor group accuses Google vendor of violating labor law — Worker says Facebook post got her suspended by contractor
Facebook's claims about the size of losses small businesses will suffer due to iOS 14 privacy changes don't hold up under scrutiny and are likely exaggerated
by - Bart de Langhe and - Stefano Puntoni — Summary. — Apple will soon require consumers to opt in if they want to allow businesses …
Snap beats with Q4 revenue of $911M, up 62% YoY, vs $857.4M est., DAUs were up 22% YoY to 265M
“We're grateful for the opportunity to serve our community and partners through … Christopher Zara / Fast Company : Snapchat built a TikTok competitor, and it already has 100 million users Todd Spangl...
Apptopia: since Trump was banned from Twitter, daily use of Twitter has remained remarkably consistent
Trump's presence on Twitter had no impact on how much people used it, contrary to the popular narrative. … For as long as Donald Trump was president, there was a common misconception that Twitter's fa...
Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance on Clubhouse on Thursday, discussing VR, AR, Facebook's Reality Labs group, and remote work
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on a Clubhouse talk show on Thursday evening. — Zuckerberg appeared on The Good Times Show, a talk show on the buzzy new social networking app.
Users in mainland China are flocking to Clubhouse, a rare space outside the country's firewall where they can speak freely with people from Hong Kong and Taiwan
Audio-based social-media platform becomes free-speech haven for mainland users — The Clubhouse app had two million users globally as of Jan. 24. Tweets: @joshschoen , @harry_jerry , @loh , @charlesm...
Amazon is quietly transitioning its US warehouse workers to 10-hour graveyard shifts; labor experts say the move is to cut costs and pay for fewer benefits
Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE :
Source: Apple is planning a $3,000+ mixed-reality headset with 8K displays, eye-tracking tech, and 12+ cameras to track hand movements and show the real world
Metalenz, a Boston-based Harvard spinout developing meta-optic lens chips, raises $10M Series A from 3M Ventures, Intel Capital, and others
Metalenz, a developer of meta-optic technologies for new lenses, has secured a $10 million Series A as the company looks to exit stealth …
Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act will strip Section 230 immunity for any ads, and posts violating civil rights, antitrust, cyberstalking, human rights laws
Three top Democratic senators added to the stack of proposed Section 230 reforms Friday, introducing their own bill …
Wikimedia Foundation announces CEO Katherine Maher will step down as of April 15, says its annual budget doubled to estimated $140M in 2021 under her leadership
Felix Salmon / Axios :
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter took coordinated action to take down top members of account hijacking forum OGUsers and seized hundreds of accounts
who hack, SIM swap, extort to get high value usernames—and has sent them legal letters demanding they stop. Also disabled their accounts. Twitter + TikTok too https://www.vice.com/... @briankrebs : To...
Incoming head of Senate antitrust subcommittee Amy Klobuchar introduces an antitrust bill that would raise the bar for tech acquisitions
Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal :
Activision Blizzard reports Q4 net revenue of $2.41B, up 21% YoY, driven by a record year for Call of Duty, which had full year premium unit sales up 40% YoY
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Ford will increase its investment in autonomous vehicles to ~$7B over 10 years through 2025, $5B of that from 2021 onward, as part of its Ford Mobility efforts
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
Substack co-founder says Facebook and Twitter getting into paid newsletters is a positive thing for writers and the media ecosystem, implores them to go all in
Hamish McKenzie / Substack Blog :
Biden's nominee for Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says she sees “no reason” Huawei, ZTE, and other Chinese companies should be removed from US blacklist
Eric Martin / Bloomberg :
23andMe to go public through a merger with VG Acquisition Corp., a SPAC founded by Richard Branson, at a valuation of $3.5B
Kristen V Brown / Bloomberg :
Unity reports Q4 revenue of $220.3 million, up 39% YoY, on net loss of $83.5M
Jordan Novet / CNBC :
TikTok's launch on Android TVs in France, Germany, and the UK yesterday is part of its push to diversify its audience and bring its stars into the mainstream
The app's arrival on smart TVs is part of a plan to diversify its audience - and bring its stars further into the mainstream
Pinterest reports Q4 revenue of $706M, up 76% YoY and beating estimates of $645.6M, and 459M global MAUs, up 37% YoY and above estimates of 449.4M; stock up 7%+
Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC :
Sources: Google is exploring a less-stringent Android alternative to Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature, resembling planned Chrome changes
Infinitus, which provides a machine-generated voice calling service for healthcare companies contacting customers, has come out of stealth with $21.4M Series A
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Twitter will move its offline analytics, data processing, and ML workloads to Google's Cloud after agreeing to an expanded multiyear partnership
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Profile of Maimai, a Chinese site modeled after LinkedIn with a Glassdoor-like forum where users can post anonymously, as it fights China's tech firms in court
your go-to gossip place to learn about China's tech companies, which has resulted in the company standing in court against Baidu, Bilibili & more. This is also where the news of a PDD worker's death w...
Myanmar's new military government has ordered local telecoms to block Facebook and its family of apps within the country until February 7
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Chinese-founded Agora, which a source says provides back-end communications tools for Clubhouse, rose 30% on Monday to $73.60 as Elon Musk joined Clubhouse
Five high-ranking Google engineers propose new rules for developers working on “critical” open source projects, including no unilateral code changes
Liam Tung / ZDNet :
Mexican neobank Flink raises $12M Series A led by Accel
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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