Sources: at least 30K US organizations have been hacked by an aggressive Chinese espionage group exploiting unpatched flaws in Microsoft's Exchange Server
At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns …
US indicts John McAfee for fraud and money laundering over an alleged $13M cryptocurrency “pump-and-dump” scheme
Antivirus software mogul John McAfee, who has been awaiting extradition from Spain on tax evasion charges since late last year, just had his legal woes compounded …
Jack Dorsey has listed his original tweet, “just setting up my twttr”, as an NFT on auction site Valuables
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Apple has removed all build-to-order configurations of iMac Pro from its store, signaling discontinuation; only base model is available “while supplies last”
The iMac Pro does not seem to be long for this world as the Apple Store on Friday removed all build-to-order configurations for the product.
Tim Wu, an outspoken critic of Big Tech, is joining the National Economic Council as a special assistant to President Biden for tech and competition policy
Tim Wu's appointment to the National Economic Council would signal a confrontational approach by the Biden administration.
Apple confirms it'll discontinue iMac Pro after supplies end, says 27" iMac introduced in August is the preferred choice for the vast majority of pro iMac users
Apple on late Friday evening added a “while supplies last” notice to its iMac Pro product page worldwide …
Online learning provider Coursera files its S-1, reports 2020 net losses widened to $66.8M, up 46% YoY, on revenue growth of $293.5M, up 59% YoY
- Coursera filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “COUR.”
Leaked interface shows that Twitter is testing an “undo send” feature which may be a button that doubles as a progress bar
A newsletter a day keeps the FOMO at bay. Sign up now! Shruti Shekar / Yahoo News : Twitter underwhelms with “undo send” button Amritanshu Mukherjee / BGR India : Twitter Undo Send timer button comin...
With Tidal, Square may give artists more control over the revenue streams they create, offer advances, royalty processing, and more traditional label services
It was a big week for Jack Dorsey, who started by turning heads in Wall Street, and then went Hollywood with an unexpected music-streaming deal.
Screenshots of a beta version of Fireside, Mark Cuban's podcasting app, suggest it will be a hybrid between Spotify's Anchor and Clubhouse
The app is in beta on iOS — Last month, The Verge broke news of Mark Cuban and Falon Fatemi's new app Fireside, which promises to deliver a …
Bitcoin mining startup Bitfury merges with a SPAC to create a US-based company called Cipher Mining, raising $595M at a valuation of $2B
The mining SPAC has an expected value of $2 billion. — Cipher Mining Technologies, a newly formed U.S.-based bitcoin mining operation formed …
A look at Tim Wu's work on tech policy issues, from coining the term “net neutrality” to stints at NY AG's office, the FTC and Obama's NEC, and more
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Q&A with Twitter's senior director of curation Joanna Geary on how her team decides which trends to summarize and how to contextualize them, more
‘Twitter description guy’ isn't a guy. It's Twitter's curation team, and I talked to the woman who runs it. Tweets: @ozm , @thedextriarchy , @mediasmarts , @michellemanafy , @risj_oxford , @willoremu...
Oppo becomes the top smartphone brand in China, reaching a market share of 21% in January, followed by Vivo at 20% and Huawei, Apple, and Xiaomi at 16% each
A slide from Ignite session video shows that Microsoft is working to move Edge to a common codebase for the desktop, Android, and iOS versions later this year
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Eco, a personal finance app that offers yields of 2.5% to 5% and cash back for shopping at Amazon, Uber, and DoorDash, raises $26M led by a16z crypto
One of the challenges in any new industry — crypto being no exception … MK Manoylov / The Block : Personal banking startup Eco raises $26 million from investors Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk : Rewards-Focu...
Sources: digital imaging company Shutterfly has held talks to go public via SPAC at a valuation between $4B-$5B, including debt
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Report: 96.9% of Bay Area tech startups remained in the region in 2020; of those that moved, 21% moved to New York, 21% to other parts of CA, and 12% to TX
- A survey from Telstra Ventures shows that the majority of startups stayed in San Francisco in 2020. Tweets: @producercities , @jaycuthrell , and @abrams Tweets: Jim Russell / @producercities : Pitts...
Sources: India threatened to jail Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter employees if the companies don't comply with takedown requests related to farmer protests
Profile of Tencent, China's most valuable company at ~$900B, with a powerful ecosystem including WeChat, and local and overseas startup investments worth ~$259B
The tech giant has investments worth an estimated $259 billion in Chinese and overseas startups Tweets: @bluff_capital , @jodixu , @jchengwsj , @jingyanghk , and @jchengwsj Tweets: @bluff_capital : $T...
Internal email: Google has told customers in France and Spain that it will raise ad rates 2% from May, to help offset costs of digital taxes in those countries
Google has told customers that it will raise the rates for advertisements on its French and Spanish platforms by two percent … Tweets: @sarthakgh and @martinsfp Tweets: Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : P...
A look at surveillance apps Shadowtrack and SmartLink, which are used by states and ICE as parole apps replacing GPS ankle bracelets
Todd Feathers / The Guardian : Tweets: @migradetention and @hypervisible Tweets: @migradetention : “It is not a substitute for detention, but allows ICE to exercise increased supervision over a porti...
Facebook's AI model SEER was designed to exclude Instagram images from the EU in its dataset, likely to avoid GDPR violations
Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : Tweets: @histoftech , @samgregory , @kimcrayton1 , and @profcarroll Tweets: Mar Hicks / @histoftech : Facebook's earliest iteration, Facemash, also scraped (stole) pics Zuc...
Pitchbook: the median pre-investment valuation for a Series A round in the US has increased sixfold to $37M since 2010
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