Gartner: in Q4 2020, Apple sold 80M new iPhones globally, overtaking Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor, increasing its market share by ~15%
Apple overtook Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2020, a feat not achieved by Apple since 2016 …
Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website
- The app's creators had been warned user data was vulnerable — An unidentified user streamed audio chats to their own website
Researchers discover macOS malware dubbed “Silver Sparrow” on at least 30K Macs, which includes a native M1 version and leverages the Installer JavaScript API
and this one is dangerous Matthew Humphries / PCMag : Silver Sparrow Malware Discovered on 30K Infected Macs Joe Rice-Jones / KnowTechie : Mysterious malware was found on nearly 30,000 Macs - here's w...
Russian investigative journalism is flourishing alongside “probiv”, the buying of data on phone calls, cell location, or air travel off Telegram or the dark web
A new wave of news outlets has used conventional, and unconventional, methods to pierce the veil of Putin's power. Tweets: @albertwenger , @benweinthal , @andrew__roth , @rasmus_kleis , @jaycuthrell ,...
Microsoft says it will work with Europe's four largest news publishing lobbying groups to “mandate payments” for content used by “gatekeepers”
Seattle-based company aligns with press industry and exploits difficulties of rivals — Microsoft has joined forces …
Spotify says it will launch a subscription later this year called HiFi that will offer “CD-quality, lossless audio”; Spotify currently tops out at 320kbps audio
Your turn, Apple Music — Spotify is going hi-fi. Well, “HiFi.” It's taken longer than competitors like Tidal …
Russian officials are trying to lure people onto social networks tied to the government, in an attempt to keep dissent from going viral at moments of crisis
The Kremlin has constructed an entire infrastructure of repression but has not displaced Western apps. Instead, it is turning to outright intimidation.
Researchers say a change in iOS 14.5 beta, which improves how iOS handles pointers, makes sandbox escapes and “0-click” attacks much harder to pull off
Multiple exploit developers tell Motherboard an upcoming change in iOS could make zero-click exploits harder to pull off.
Google tells ad partners that it will lift its ban on all political ads starting Wednesday, after banning them following the Capitol riot
Google informed its advertising partners Monday that its platforms will resume accepting all political ads starting Wednesday, after banning them following …
Boston-based Creatio, which offers low-code customer relationship and process management tools, raises $68M, its first outside funding since launching in 2014
Boston-based Creatio has received its first outside funding, a $68 million minority stake the company hopes to use to allow …
Accellion's file transfer software hack, which affected Jones Day, also impacted New Zealand's central bank, 1M unemployment benefits applicants in WA, and more
Sources: Zuckerberg's personal intervention to reduce the severity of Alex Jones' ban in 2019 slowed down Facebook's efforts to deal with dangerous content
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China finalizes rules on banks' internet loan businesses, affecting Alibaba and others, setting new capital requirements, must be complied with by July 17, 2022
Twitch replaced the audio for Metallica's “For Whom The Bell Tolls” with folk music during the band's BlizzCon livestream, presumably to avoid a DMCA notice
A look at Xiaomi, known to copy others and skimp on traditional R&D, as it successfully undercuts rivals on everything from smartphones to pens and backpacks
Xiaomi has been launching low-cost, occasionally half-baked tech for years. Now it's time everyone took it seriously Tweets: @basil_knows and @neiltwitz Tweets: Basil Kronfli / @basil_knows : The Xia...
Facebook deletes the main page of the Myanmar military for “repeated violations of Community Standards prohibiting incitement of violence and coordinating harm”
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, TikTok, Twitter, and Redbubble adopt Australia's misinformation code and will release annual transparency reports
Code will not apply to government content, political advertising, satirical work, or other journalistic pieces that are governed by an existing Australian law.
Deep dive on CALERA, the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act unveiled by Sen. Klobuchar, that would effectively revamp US antitrust enforcement
When it's railroading time, you get railroads. — When the railroads turn into the personal satrapies of rail-barons, you get trustbusters. Tweets: @doctorow , @doctorow , @doctorow , @doctorow , and...
Seattle-based Highspot, which makes software for training and managing sales employees, raises $200M led by Tiger Global at a $2.3B valuation
New investments from Tiger, Bain value the sales software maker at $2.3 billion — Salesforce.com Inc.-backed Seattle startup Highspot …
Profile of Youyang Gu, a 27-year-old data scientist whose ML model most accurately predicted COVID-19 death totals, which the CDC put on its forecasting website
and impressive—work throughout the pandemic. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
Sources: Toast, a cloud-based restaurant management software provider, is planning an IPO that could value it at ~$20B; in Feb. 2020 it was valued at $4.9B
Wall Street Journal :
Israel-based Earnix, which helps banks and insurers provide personalized real-time offers to clients, raises $75M at a $1B pre-money valuation
Facebook's Australia ban is acute for people in places like Fiji, who rely on phone plans with cheap Facebook access as going to news websites costs more data
Titan, which offers online investment management services to both accredited and unaccredited investors, raises $12.5M Series A led by General Catalyst
Splice, which makes tools for musicians and offers royalty-free samples, raises $55M at a ~$500M valuation, bringing its total raised to $150M
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg : Tweets: @lucas_shaw , @brooke , @mpinc , and @lucas_shaw See also Mediagazer Tweets: Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw : Some news in the latest newsletter: @splice has raised $55M at...
Apple's new Platform Security user guide follows the industry trend of growing vertical hardware, software, and cloud integration to improve ecosystem security
Ageras, which offers accountancy software and a marketplace for businesses to find accountants, raises $73M from Lugard Road Capital
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Synthetix, which develops a DeFi protocol for trading derivatives, raises $12M after three VC firms purchased its native tokens directly from its DAO treasury
Sources: Twitter recently explored buying Indian social media startup ShareChat for $1.1B and had committed to an $900M additional investment
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
EU, with <10% of global chip production, has had its industries hit hard by chip shortages and is seeking “strategic autonomy” via new fabs and alliances
Abound, a wholesale marketplace for both e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers that launched in Oct. 2019, raises $22.9M Series A led by Left Lane Capital
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
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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