Sources: Facebook is building an Android-based smartwatch with health and fitness capabilities, which it aims to launch in 2022
Facebook is building a smartwatch it hopes to start selling next year, according to people with direct knowledge of the device.
Maryland approves the Digital Advertising Gross Revenues Tax, the first tax in US on digital ads revenue, creating a 10% tax on firms with $15B+ global revenues
Analysts estimate that the tax will generate up to $250 million for schools in the state in the first year.
Sources shed light on the increasingly personal battle between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, who in private reportedly said “we need to inflict pain” on Apple
Animosity between CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook erupts over privacy and dueling visions of internet
After researchers raised data privacy concerns, Clubhouse says it is taking steps “to prevent Clubhouse clients from ever transmitting pings to Chinese servers”
The audio chat app “Clubhouse” went viral among Chinese-speaking audiences. Stanford Internet Observatory examines …
Jack Dorsey and Jay-Z create ₿trust endowment with 500 bitcoin, worth $23M+, to fund teams working on Bitcoin development, initially in Africa and India
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey and rapper Jay Z have created an endowment to fund bitcoin development initially in Africa and India, Dorsey said Friday.
Sources: Qualcomm has told regulators around the world, including the FTC and UK's CMA, that it is against Nvidia's $40B acquisition of Arm
Qualcomm is not happy about it Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Microsoft, Google, and Qualcomm are reportedly nervous about Nvidia acquiring Arm Derrek Lee / Android Central : Qualcomm is trying to pit r...
Minneapolis City Council unanimously approves an ordinance banning the use of facial recognition, including Clearview AI's software, by its police department
Minneapolis voted Friday to ban the use of facial recognition software for its police department, growing the list of major cities …
The founder of Joker's Stash, one of the most popular marketplaces for stolen credit card and identity data, has allegedly retired with a fortune of $1B+
Elliptic's Co-founder and Chief Scientist discusses cryptocurrency forensics, investigations, compliance, and sanctions.
House committee says Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, and YouTube streamer Keith Gill will testify at GameStop hearing on February 18
On February 18th, the House Financial Services Committee will hold a virtual hearing to look into how GameStop's shares
Sources: Google, Microsoft, and Qualcomm are among companies asking US to intervene in Nvidia's Arm acquisition, and at least one company wants the deal killed
Some of the world's largest technology companies are complaining to U.S. antitrust regulators about Nvidia Corp.'s acquisition …
Sources: US investigators say hardware and firmware of Supermicro servers were tampered with as late as 2018, via chips with backdoors sending data to China
It has been two and a half years since … John Gruber / Daring Fireball : Bloomberg, at Long Last, Follows up on ‘The Big Hack’, and It's Nothing but a Pile of Sophistic Horseshit Thom Holwerda / OSnew...
Spotify says it is adapting a Work From Anywhere model and will provide co-working space memberships for employees who choose to work remotely
No Office Required Joan E. Solsman / CNET : Spotify will let employees work wherever they want, even after pandemic Lisa Ardill / Silicon Republic : ‘The nine-to-five workday is dead’ for Salesforce s...
Data privacy management company WireWheel raises $20M Series B led by ForgePoint Capital, bringing its total raised to $45M
Led by ForgePoint Capital, this new financing will go toward expanding the data protection company's SaaS platform and adding to its product engineering, sales and marketing teams.
Microsoft's quantum computing ambitions suffer a setback after its researcher, who claimed to have found the Majorana particle, prepares to retract his findings
In a 2018 paper, researchers said they found evidence of an elusive theorized particle. A closer look now suggests otherwise.
A look at the making of Facebook's Oversight Board, its members, Zuckerberg's rationale for its existence, and criticisms of the endeavor
one that's also an obvious part of @Facebook's PR strategy. https://www.newyorker.com/... Alex Kozak / @alexkozak : Such amazing reporting here from @Klonick. She manages to capture a lot about tech c...
Google resumes updating its major iPhone and iPad apps, starting with YouTube; Google did not update the apps since before Apple's Dec. 8 privacy label change
The vast majority of Google's iOS apps have not been updated since early December. A trio of smaller Google applications saw …
Sources: ByteDance is exploring a sale of India operations of TikTok to rival unicorn Glance, in talks initiated by SoftBank, a backer of Glance's parent InMobi
- TikTok banned in India amid poor relations with China — Talks are early and complex, according to people familiar
Apple launches its first standalone Apple TV+ AR app, with a For All Mankind backstory and exclusive content for the latest iPad Pro and iPhone 12 Pro models
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac :
AT&T installs fiber for a 90-year-old after his WSJ print ad complaining of slow AT&T Internet service speeds goes viral
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Amazon sues NY state AG, seeking to prevent her from penalizing Amazon for alleged retaliation against staff and failures in its safety response to the pandemic
Matt Day / Bloomberg :
Amazon drivers say Mentor, the company's app to track drivers and score their driving, is invasive and its bugs can lead to unfair disciplinary action
here's what they say about it - by @annierpalmer https://www.cnbc.com/... Kif / @kifleswing : Amazon outsources the development of an app that tracks its contract delivery drivers and their driving ha...
Bumble closes up 63.5% on its first day of trading, giving it a valuation of about $13B, after raising $2.15B in its IPO
after ending some awkward relationships Aaron Pressman / Fortune : Bumble IPO makes CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd a billionaire The Economic Times : ETtech Evening Briefing on Feb 12, 2021: Meesho to join un...
Report: African startups raised $1.43B in 2020, down 29% YoY, declining for the first time in almost a decade
- Pandemic related slowdowns make investors wary of big deals — Funding rounds increased in Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa — Funding for African startups slowed …
Microsoft's Edge extensions store is hosting unofficial copies of games like Mario Kart 64, Pac-Man, more; Microsoft and Nintendo say they are investigating
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Yandex says it caught an employee selling access to user email accounts for personal gains, and is in process of notifying 4,887 affected mailbox owners
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Settlement agreements for the copyright dispute between French media and Google show Google will pay $22M annually in total to 121 publications for three years
Mathieu Rosemain / Reuters :
Hyperfine Research raises $90M Series D from GV, Nextrans, Axiom Associates, and others for its portable AI-powered MRI scanner
Conor Hale / FierceBiotech :
A look at Valuables, a service from crypto company Cent that lets users sell their tweets as non-fungible tokens in exchange for Ethereum
Scott Chipolina / Decrypt :
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US and other countries should adopt Australia's proposed media rules, which require tech firms to pay for news content
South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang filed for a US IPO, reporting $12B in revenue in 2020 vs. $6.3B in 2019; source says the company aims for a $50B valuation
In order to address the global chip shortage, Nvidia is releasing stock of two older GPUs, the RTX 2060 and GTX 1050 Ti, to its board partners
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LinkedIn announces the formation of a global creator management team, led by its EIC Dan Roth, aiming to support and grow content creators on the platform
Sara Fischer / Axios : Tweets: @danroth , @nick_dewilde , @sarthakgh , @changeist , @sarafischer , @axios , and @ljin18 Tweets: Daniel Roth / @danroth : We're building out our creator management team...
Facebook says it is limiting the distribution of all content posted by Myanmar's military, which has been using the platform to spread misinformation
Zocdoc, which pivoted from patient scheduling to offering telehealth services during the pandemic, raises a $150M growth round from Francisco Partners
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.