Samsung says it is considering skipping launch of a new Note this year to streamline its line-up and warns of a “serious imbalance” in semiconductors globally
- It's seeing a ‘serious imbalance’ in global semiconductors — The warning suggests shortages may spread beyond autos
Uber's thinking on UK driver rights has evolved and worker flexibility “should not come at the expense of social protections”
Dara Khosrowshahi / London Evening Standard :
A Florida teen who hacked well-known Twitter accounts last summer and used them to ask for BTC, netting $100K+, was sentenced to three years in a plea deal
Graham Ivan Clark, 18, agreed to plea guilty to fraud charges for a hack of several Twitter accounts last summer.
SEC filing: Uber will reclassify its UK drivers as “workers”, granting them vacation pay, minimum wage, and pension plan access, but not full employee benefits
- Uber will reclassify all U.K.-based drivers as workers. — Under the new designation, more than 70,000 drivers …
Sensor Tower: if a 15% commission was in place in 2020, Apple would have missed out on an estimated $595M, or 2.7%, and Google $587M, or 5%, in app store fees
- Apple and Google have announced changes to app store fees that impact app makers making less than $1 million per year.
Samsung updates its mid-range Galaxy lineup: 6.5" A52 and A52 5G, from ~$415, and 6.7" A72, from ~$535, with 90Hz or 120Hz displays, better cameras, and more
The A-series phones will also include IP67 ratings, brighter screens, and expandable microSD storage
[Thread] Why Clubhouse will fail: most of the content is “meh” and users will struggle to find interesting live content, leading to low user retention
So... everyone seems to think clubhouse is the “next big thing” - but I think it's going to fail. Here's how I think it all goes down.. Tweets: @shaanvp , @marcelweiss , @serrels , @katzish , @sruhle ...
France says Apple's upcoming IDFA ad privacy changes are not abusive but will investigate if Apple has stricter rules for third-party apps than for its own apps
French competition authority says Apple's changes 'don't appear to be abusive' — France's competition regulator rejected …
Facebook outlines multiple changes for Groups: probation for rule-breaking users, limiting civic and political groups' reach, and requiring more moderation
Ultimately culminating in a ban — Facebook is trying to clean up its Groups experience and limit the reach of potentially problematic users and communities.
Apple says it has generated 1.2 GW of clean energy and removed an average of 921K metric tons of carbon emissions annually, as part of its $4.7B Green Bond
In a press release today, Apple touted the significant progress it has made as part of its $4.7 billion Green Bond.
Amazon says it will expand Amazon Care, a telehealth service piloted on its employees in Seattle, to other companies and the rest of its US employees this year
Amazon.com Inc. is expanding digital medical consultations to its employees across the U.S. and says it will start offering the service to other companies later this year.
A profile of Clubhouse co-founder Paul Davison, who previously had built social apps like Highlight and Shorts that nudged people to share more by default
“He's got more momentum than force,” says a former colleague. “Paul is just always moving forward.” Tweets: @ellenhuet , @business , @dearsarah , @dearsarah , and @hkanji Tweets: Ellen Huet / @ellenh...
Facebook says it will publish an annual report detailing its impact on human rights, and will establish a fund to support human rights activists and journalists
- Social media giant to give board formal updates on the issue — Company has been criticized for role in Myanmar, Sri Lanka
McAfee researchers detail a Chinese cyberespionage campaign targeting at least 23 telcos in the US, Europe, and SE Asia to steal data, including for 5G tech
Cybersecurity researchers at McAfee detail an ongoing cyber espionage campaign which is targeting telecoms companies around the world.
Stripe's Patrick Collison, Microsoft's Brad Smith, Google's Thomas Kurian, and Cloudflare's Matthew Prince discuss moderation in internet infrastructure
Manage your Stratechery subscription. — It was Patrick Collison, Stripe's CEO, who pointed out to me that one of the animating principles … Tweets: @tomgara , @mathewi , @mattzeitlin , @seanrose , @...
Leaked audio from a February 8 meeting reveals Parler's chief policy officer saying: “We are not going after misinformation in any way”
Leaked recordings of meetings detail role of Rebekah Mercer at social-media platform — Conservative donor Rebekah Mercer has been writing checks …
Facebook's interest in newsletters stems from its shift in product development to focus on private messaging and Groups, not the News Feed
Hint: it's all about Groups. PLUS: Substack fumbles — Today let's talk about platforms' growing interest in building newsletter tools …
Pinduoduo's founder and chairman has stepped down; its 788.4M annual active buyers in 2020 exceeded Alibaba's 779M, making it China's largest e-commerce company
Mr. Huang's departure comes as Pinduoduo overtakes Alibaba as China's biggest e-commerce company
Google announces second-generation Nest Hub with sleep tracking, powered by a Soli radar chip, for $100, shipping on March 30
France's data protection watchdog says it has opened a probe into Clubhouse to assess whether EU's GDPR applies to the app
- Probe aims to confirm whether GDPR applies to Clubhouse — German regulator also looking at how app protects user privacy
Stack Overflow says it will add a free tier to its Teams service, limited to 50 users, and it has 1,500 Teams customers, including Microsoft and Box
Stack Overflow is the default Q&A site for programmers (though the overall Stack Exchange network goes well beyond helping you answer your basic PHP questions).
For the first time, Netflix details its carbon footprint using DIMPACT tool, claiming one hour of streaming equates to a 75W ceiling fan running for four hours
Streaming platforms finally have a tool to evaluate the size of their carbon footprint. Now they need to take action and go green
Intel's 11th Gen desktop chips launch, with the flagship Core i9-11900K sporting eight cores, two less than last gen, and boosted clock speeds of up to 5.3GHz
Coalition, which offers security tools and cybersecurity insurance against data breaches, raises $175M led by Index Ventures
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Coalition, an enterprise-grade cybersecurity platform that specializes in insurance …
Wikimedia Foundation debuts Wikimedia Enterprise, a premium service for delivering Wikipedia content to companies like Google, but a free option will remain
Translate this page; This page contains changes which are not marked for translation. Liam Wyatt / Diff : Introducing the Wikimedia Enterprise API Eric Hal Schwartz / Voicebot.ai : Wikipedia Will Star...
Squarespace raises $300M in a round valuing it at $10B, two months after it filed confidentially to go public via a direct listing or an IPO
Squarespace has raised $300 million in a round of funding that values the company at a staggering $10 billion valuation.
How Stripe became Silicon Valley's most valuable private company by being capital efficient at scale and having a self-sustaining core payments business
Underpinning $95bn valuation is investors' belief that payments digitisation still has some way to run Tweets: @financialtimes , @tim , @benedictevans , @carnage4life , @patrickc , and @katie_roof Twe...
Dropbox says Dropbox Passwords, a management tool introduced in 2020 for businesses, will be free for Basic accounts starting in April, with a 50 password limit
Incredibuild, a developer of grid computing software, raises $140M from Insight Partners, and says it has seen a 55% increase in revenue over the past year
Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Incredibuild, a developer …
A group of 15 AGs update their antitrust complaint against Google, taking aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox and other privacy updates related to ad targeting
it puts Google's Chrome browser at the center of tracking and targeting.'” https://www.theverge.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : In the Facebook and Google collusion charges summary, there is a ment...
Micron says it is ceasing all R&D on its 3D XPoint memory, which it developed with Intel, and has listed its fab in Lehi, Utah for sale
Billy Tallis / AnandTech :
Health care referral service Grand Rounds, which was last valued at $1.34B, is merging with Doctor On Demand, last valued at $875M, in an all-stock deal
Ari Levy / CNBC :
Seattle-based OctoML, an ML acceleration service built on the open source Apache TVM compiler framework, raises $28M Series B, after $15M Series A in April 2020
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
CB Insights: education tech startups raised $12.58B globally in 2020, up from $4.81B in 2019; as in-person teaching returns, remote services may see usage drop
Start-ups hope there's no turning back for online learning, even as more students return to the classroom.
Olo, a provider of food-ordering software, has raised $450M in an IPO, above its marketed range, giving it a market value of $3.55B ahead of its trading debut
Sources: Alibaba plans to offer its Taobao Deals service on Tencent's WeChat platform, a major concession to Chinese regulators cracking down on monopolies
Bloomberg :
Chinese streaming service Bilibili will start a secondary listing in Hong Kong on March 29, expected to raise $2.8B, after listing on the Nasdaq in March 2018
Joanne Chiu / Wall Street Journal :
GoPro refreshes its main smartphone app, now called Quik, and adds new features, including a private feed for organizing media
Sources: Baidu is set to raise $3.1B in its Hong Kong secondary listing, after pricing its shares at ~$32.45 each
Financial Times :
SEC charges a California trader for allegedly using misleading claims to promote penny stocks on Twitter to his ~13K followers and then selling his holdings
PatSnap, which offers an AI-powered service to help R&D teams analyze the intellectual property landscape, raises $300M Series E led by Tencent and SoftBank
TikTok says most users will be unable to opt out of personalized ads starting April 15; users in the European Union will be exempted due to GDPR
Profile of Katie Moussouris, a pioneer of the bug bounty model, who sees her failed lawsuit against Microsoft as a test case for pay equity claims in tech
Russell Brandom / The Verge : Tweets: @jwgoerlich , @verge , @_noid_ , and @webjedi Tweets: J Wolfgang Goerlich / @jwgoerlich : “We are trying to achieve pay equity across all genders and races in th...
France-based PayFit, which offers a payroll and HR SaaS service, raises $107M Series D led by Eurazeo Growth and Bpifrance's Large Venture Fund
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch :
Filing: Coinbase investors, including a16z, registered for 114.9M shares to trade during its direct listing; shares traded at $200-$375 in private transactions
Bloomberg :
Oregon-based Dutchie, an e-commerce platform for cannabis dispensaries, raised $200M Series C at a $1.7B valuation, up nearly eight times from last August
Torch.AI, which develops AI-based tools that unify disparate enterprise data, raises $30M Series A led by WestCap Group
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Research: startups in Latin America raised $4.1B across 488 deals in 2020, a new annual record for the total number of venture capital deals there
and in some cases due to — the pandemic. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Daniel Cancel / @dancancel : LatAm startups signed record number of funding deals in 2020. Nubank now worth $25B, Rappi at least ...
Machine learning data management startup SafeGraph raises $45M Series B led by Sapphire Ventures and says it is used by over 7,000 data scientists
Docker raises $23M Series B led by Tribe Capital as a new developer focus takes shape for the company after it sold its enterprise business in 2019
A book excerpt provides a look at how Google edged out Baidu, Microsoft, and DeepMind to acquire DNNresearch, which was founded by AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton
that is until now. https://www.wired.com/... Ankur Handa / @ankurhandos : “The bids quickly climbed to $40M, $41M, $42M, $43M. “It feels like we're in a movie,” he said. One evening, close to midnight...
Interview with co-CEO of Atlassian Scott Farquhar on Australia as a test bed for tech regulation, the media bargaining code, running a global company, and more
tech companies do not like to admit that they employ lobbyists, and lobby governments furiously. But it's starting to come out into the open now. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/... N...
Socure, a cloud-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup, raises $100M led by Accel at a $1.3B valuation
How Shopee and ShopeePay became leaders in e-commerce and digital payments across Southeast Asia, making their parent Sea the most valuable public company there
Nikkei Asia :
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.