Sources: Microsoft is testing a browser-based version of its xCloud game streaming service, currently for Chromium browsers like Chrome and Microsoft Edge
This is what Xbox looks like in a browser — Microsoft has started testing its xCloud game streaming through a web browser.
Parler says it is now accessible for existing users and will accept new signups starting next week, announces Tea Party activist Mark Meckler as interim CEO
An Amazon suspension shut it down in January — The alternative social network Parler has reopened after a month offline.
Microsoft's unified Office mobile app, which combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single application, is now available on iPad
A tablet-friendly version is finally here — Microsoft has updated its unified Office mobile app to work on Apple's iPad devices.
Clubhouse, which centralizes creation and consumption into a feedback loop, will do for audio what Twitter, Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video
To what extent are new companies, particularly those in new spaces, pushed versus pulled into existence? Last week I wrote about how Tesla is a Meme Company:
UK filing: OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei's new venture Nothing has acquired Essential, Andy Rubin's now-defunct smartphone brand
After a series of launch teasers and little information on upcoming product lines, Carl Pei's flegling technology brand Nothing is now the sole owner of the one-time smartphone brand Essential.
Amazon partners with Foxconn to establish its first device manufacturing line in India, operational later this year, to make Fire TV sticks locally
Bengaluru: Amazon.com Inc. is setting up its first device manufacturing line in India to make Fire TV sticks locally. The facility will become operational later this year.
TikTok has been hit with a volley of complaints from Europe's consumer protection watchdogs over “misleading” privacy practices and “ambiguous” terms
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Bitcoin briefly crossed the $50K mark today, up ~73% YTD, while Ethereum hit a record $1,785, up ~140% YTD
- Rival cryptocurrency Ether hit a record of its own on Friday — Morgan Stanley is considering Bitcoin for investment fund — Bitcoin blew through another milestone …
France is pushing for changes to EU's upcoming tech regulations so that member states will have expanded powers to punish bad behavior and police more content
Paris wants member states to have more power to act against illegal content — France is pushing for the EU's upcoming regulations …
Trend Micro details an unpatched remote code execution bug in the Android version of SHAREit, an app with 1B+ Play Store downloads that lets users share files
The vulnerabilities impact SHAREit, an app used for sharing files between users and their devices. Source: Trend Micro .
Investigation finds ten websites offering fake Amazon reviews from £5 each; five of the websites claimed to have 702K+ “product reviewers” on their books
Fake reviews for products sold on Amazon's Marketplace are being sold online “in bulk”, according to Which? Source: Which? Press Office .
France says Russia-linked Sandworm hacking group breached several French entities running the Centreon IT monitoring software in a three year operation
a disturbingly long time, considering the chaos Sandworm has created in the past. https://www.wired.com/... @wired : Today, the French information security agency ANSSI published an advisory warning t...
Some AI researchers are increasingly worried about the lack of ethical oversight, with the job often falling to peer reviewers, a stark contrast to other fields
At artificial-intelligence conferences, researchers are increasingly alarmed by what they see. Tweets: @silverjacket , @mathewjschwartz , @bhecht , @vdignum , @mkearnsupenn , and @sh_reya Tweets: Matt...
Ahead of EU recommendations on platform workers, Uber CEO says it is ready to improve social protections for gig workers but new legislation is needed
Early 0-day exploit brokers, some active in the late 90s, share stories about a nascent industry that became key to espionage, organized crime, and war planning
The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing
Source: Palo Alto Networks acquires Israeli startup BridgeCrew, which develops and delivers security as code, for $200M
This is the seventh Israeli company purchased by the Silicon Valley cyber powerhouse — Israeli-founded cyber company Bridgecrew Technologies has been acquired by Palo Alto Networks …
Revelations from government investigations have paved the way for private antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook brought by publishers and advertisers
Government antitrust lawsuits have created openings for numerous private cases against Big Tech, with more expected to come. Tweets: @nytimestech , @blmohr , @nytimesbusiness , and @dmccabe See also M...
Matillion, which provides enterprise cloud data integration tools, raises $100M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat :
KreditBee, which offers personal loans and loans for consumer products, raises $75M Series C from Azim Premji's PremjiInvest and others
Strata Identity, which helps unify identity management in multi-cloud environments, raises $11M Series A led by Menlo Ventures
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Research: $1.3B or 55% of all money laundering in cryptocurrency in 2020 was driven by just 270 deposit addresses owned by five illicit fund receiving services
[Thread] A breakdown of significant issues with Bloomberg's recent Supermicro story, which may have relied on misunderstandings of an FBI briefing by a source
@pwnallthethings :
Palantir reports Q4 revenue of $322M, up 40% YoY, and FY2020 revenue of $1.1B, up 47% YoY; Q4 adjusted loss was $156.6M, missing estimates; stock drops 9%+
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg :
Personetics, which uses AI to help banks issue personalized advice and insights to customers, raises $75M from Warburg Pincus
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
France says Google Ireland and Google France have agreed to pay €1.1M after an investigation found Google's hotel rankings could be misleading for consumers
Pex, a royalty attribution startup that scans social networks for rightsholders' content, raises $57M from Tencent and others, bringing its total raised to $64M
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Zomentum, which provides sales acceleration tools for IT channel partners, raises $13M Series A, bringing its total raised to $17.1M
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Q&A with Unity CFO Kim Jabal, about the impact from Apple's upcoming IDFA changes, the tug of war between targeted ads and privacy, competition with Epic, more
London-based Solidatus, which helps clients like HSBC and Citi visualize, manage, and monetize their data, raises £14M Series A led by AlbionVC
Nymbus, which helps roll out full-service digital banking in under 45 days for financial institutions, raises $53M Series C led by Insight 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.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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