Twitter announces Super Follow feature to let users charge for tweets, and a Communities feature to let users create and join groups based on specific interests
It's also planning a groups feature — Twitter announced a pair of big upcoming features today: the ability for users to charge …
Facebook is rolling out an opt-in feature, allowing “Hey Facebook” to be used as a wake word for its Portal displays and Oculus Quest platform
Available on Portal smart displays and rolling out on Oculus Quest headsets — Facebook has introduced a new “Hey Facebook” …
Twitter says it is planning a safety mode that would let users automatically block and mute accounts that “might be acting abusive or spammy”
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Apple begins showing a repair index for devices like the iPhone and Mac in France, due to local regulations set by the Minister of Ecological Transition
Apple surprisingly began to show a repair index for devices like the iPhone and Mac in the Apple Store app and the Apple Online Store in France this week.
Facebook's Andrew Bosworth told staff that Facebook is considering building facial recognition into future smart glasses products, weighing legal implications
Facebook is discussing building facial recognition into its upcoming smart glasses product and has been weighing the legal implications …
Apple, Google, and Amazon are training their voice assistants to better understand people with speech disorders such as stutter
Voice assistants like Alexa and Siri often can't understand people with dysarthria or a stutter; their creators say that may change
ByteDance has agreed to a $92M class action settlement over data privacy claims from some US TikTok users, according to court documents
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - ByteDance has agreed to a $92 million class-action settlement to settle data privacy claims from some U.S. TikTok users …
Study finds video chats fatigue humans due to the intense up-close eye contact, constant self-view in real time, reduced mobility, and increased cognitive load
It's not just Zoom. Popular video chat platforms have design flaws that exhaust the human mind and body. But there are easy ways to mitigate their effects.
Biden revokes Trump's freeze on green cards for immigrants and temporary work visas for skilled workers in H-1B and other categories
President Biden on Wednesday revoked a freeze that his predecessor had put on many types of visas due to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the order …
FCC approves a $50/month high-speed internet subsidy for low-income households and a one-time discount of up to $100 on a computer or tablet for eligible homes
The money, aimed at low-income households, is part of an effort to bridge the access gap to broadband connectivity amid the pandemic.
European smartphone market shrank by 14% YoY in 2020, with Xiaomi up 85% and Huawei down 62%; Apple hit record market share of 30% in Q4 helped by iPhone 12
Boston, Toronto, London, New Delhi, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul - February 26, 2021 — 2020 was a rollercoaster year for the European smartphone market.
Robinhood says it has added 6M new crypto customers so far in 2021; Robinhood averaged ~200K new crypto customers a month in 2020
Since we launched nearly three years ago, Robinhood Crypto has been central to our efforts to expand access to financial services and democratize finance for all.
Microsoft confirms it has fixed a five-hour Xbox Live outage which prevented some users from signing in or making purchases
Microsoft's gaming network went down worldwide — Microsoft's Xbox Live service went down for more than five hours today, preventing users from signing in to the service.
Google debuts Sleep API which uses a phone's light and motion sensors and on-device AI to generate data which developers can use to build wellness apps
Android has long offered an Activity Recognition API that processes device sensor data with machine learning models in a battery-efficient manner.
Security researcher finds seven embedded trackers in the Android app for LastPass password manager; its maker says users can opt out if they want
Third-party code in security-critical apps is obviously suboptimal, but company says you can opt out — A security researcher has recommended …
In reply to Oversight rulings, Facebook says it won't loosen COVID-19 misinfo policy, but will test letting users know whether a post was removed by a human
It will test telling people whether a human or robot deleted their post — Facebook has decided whether to adopt recommendations …
Researchers detected mass scanning activity targeting VMware vCenter servers vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability; VMware has issued a patch
Thousands of servers running vCenter server could be in for a nasty surprise. — Hackers are mass-scanning the Internet in search …
Facebook responds to the Oversight Board's 17 recommendations and commits to action on 11 of them, most of which focus on increasing transparency
very few places where Facebook says it “has done X,” lots of places where they vaguely gesture toward “ing” something https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/... Matt / @mattk : Being selective s...
AT&T and PE firm TPG reach a deal to make DirecTV a standalone company with TPG owning 30%; the deal is valued at $16.25B, includes DirecTV, AT&T TV, U-verse
> DirecTV to Become Standalone Company Through AT&T, TPG Capital Pact https://variety.com/... via @Variety https://twitter.com/... Rob Pegoraro / @robpegoraro : It's as if AT&T's entire media strategy...
As part of Epic lawsuit, judge orders Valve to tell Apple how much money 436 Steam games made but narrows the amount of info Valve has to provide overall
it's not publicly-traded. It doesn't owe anyone any information about its business. And yet, it now has to share its sales data because the info might help Apple's case against Epic. https://twitter.c...
Airbnb posts a $3.9B loss in Q4 in first quarterly report since IPO, with revenues of $859M, down 22% YoY, blames much of the loss on charges related to the IPO
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC :
More than a dozen current and ex-Amazon corporate employees say its Black staff often face direct and insidious bias that harms their careers and personal lives
Interviews with diversity managers and internal data obtained by Recode indicate that Black Amazon employees are promoted less frequently … Tweets: @jordanweyenberg , @delrey , @delrey , @delrey , @de...
Facebook launches a TV, radio, and digital ad campaign in support of personalized ads called Good Ideas Deserve to be Found, ahead of Apple's IDFA changes
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Salesforce reports Q4 revenue of $5.82B, beating estimates of $5.68B, subscription and support revenues of $5.48B, up 20% YoY, and 14K net new paid customers
Stephanie Condon / ZDNet :
Coinbase files its S-1, reveals profit of $322M in 2020 on $1.2B in revenue, up from a loss of $30M in 2019 on $533M in revenue
This summary highlights selected information that is presented … Jeff Kauflin / Forbes : Coinbase Cofounders And Investors Poised To Rake In Tens Of Billions From IPO Ian Allison / CoinDesk : Coinbase...
Amazon-owned Twitch bans Amazon's anti-union ads, saying they should never have been allowed to run on the service
Matthew Gault / VICE :
DoorDash reports Q4 revenue of $970M, up 226% YoY, in its debut earnings report, with a loss of $312M, up from $134M YoY
Lauren Feiner / CNBC :
Cision, a media monitoring company that is the parent of PR Newswire, buys online consumer intelligence and social media analytics service Brandwatch for $450M
Online consumer intelligence and social media listening platform Brandwatch has been acquired by Cision, best known … Tweets: @zelkovavc and @znh . Thanks: @mikebutcher See also Mediagazer Tweets: Jay...
First House antitrust hearing of the new Congress saw bipartisan agreement on antitrust reforms, including on reforming burden of proof in merger cases
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Eleven current and ex-Mailchimp employees say company executives knew about allegations of racism and sexism at the company, some as early as 2014
is anyone listening? https://www.theverge.com/... @alex : a classic dodge https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Here's @ZoeSchiffer with a deep investigation i...
Newsela, a SaaS platform for K-12 educational content, raises $100M Series D at a $1B valuation led by Franklin Templeton and TCV
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HP Inc. beats with Q1 revenue of $15.65B, up 7% YoY, and says its personal systems revenue was $10.6B, up 7% YoY, with consumer devices revenue up 34%
Australia passes news bargaining code that requires Facebook, Google, and other digital platforms pay local media outlets and publishers for their content
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Smart TVs running Google TV will come with a Basic mode that strips smart features from the TV
Sources: China's Tencent-backed trucking startup Full Truck Alliance has confidentially filed for an IPO that could raise at least $1B
Bloomberg :
Stori, which offers credit cards in Mexico through its app, raises 32.5M Series B led by Lightspeed, bringing its total raised to $50M
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Sorare, an ethereum-powered marketplace for creating and trading NFTs related to soccer, raises $50M Series A led by Benchmark
Autodesk says it will acquire Innovyze, which makes a SaaS product for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of water infrastructure, for $1B
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
Hyas, which maps the “command and control” structure and communication patterns of bad actors to intercept cyberattacks, raises $16M Series B
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat :
Cybersecurity experts and US lawmakers criticize Amazon for a lack of public transparency about the SolarWinds hack, which was likely launched using AWS
Payments startup Klarna reports 2020 results: operating income rose 40% YoY to $1B, net loss widens to $167M; 18M app MAUs and 87M shoppers used its services
BetterUp, which helps clients provide employees with career coaches and mental health counseling, raises $125M Series D at a $1.73B valuation
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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