Trump adviser Jason Miller says Trump is having meetings with “numerous companies” to return to social media with his own platform in two to three months
Jason Miller tells Fox News' ‘#MediaBuzz’ the platform will ‘completely redefine the game’
Sources: Apple's HomePod mini has a sensor, currently disabled, that measures temperature and humidity; Apple is working on new speakers with screens, cameras
Apple Inc.'s HomePod mini speaker launched last November with new features such as a home intercom system.
Spark Capital decides to “sever all ties” with Dispo after claims of sexual assault against a former Vlog Squad member; David Dobrik departs from Dispo
Dobrik departs from Dispo board and leaves company — Venture capital firm Spark Capital has decided to ‘sever all ties’ with Dispo …
Court filing: Tim Cook, Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi, Eddy Cue, and ex-iOS software chief Scott Forstall are among witnesses to testify in Epic vs Apple trial
Long time Google VP Caesar Sengupta, who was in charge of Next Billion Users, Google Pay, and oversaw Chrome OS, is leaving the company after 15 years
One big focus for Google today is making products for what it dubs the Next Billion Users in countries just coming online.
Source: Epic Games is finalizing a $1B round at a ~$28B valuation, following a $1.78B round at a $17.3B valuation in July 2020
Epic Games, which also owns the video chat app Houseparty, is close to concluding another $1bn fundraising, Sky News can reveal. — City editor @MarkKleinmanSky
Texas jury finds Apple infringed a DRM patent held by Personalized Media, and orders Apple to pay $308.5M to the company
Apple must pay $308.5 million to closely held Personalized Media Communications after a federal jury in Marshall, Texas, decided on Friday that the tech giant infringed …
Instead of convincing people merely to buy things that they don't need, NFTs are convincing them to buy imaginary optimism based on a mass enchantment and FOMO
Photographers, filmmakers, and digital artists are falling over themselves to mint NFTs in a get-rich-quick scheme …
Microsoft says it will begin a limited reopening of its Redmond HQ on March 29 and plans a future focus on hybrid workplaces
Microsoft is letting some employees back into the office — Microsoft is planning to start reopening its Redmond, Seattle headquarters later this month.
Deliveroo prices shares at £3.90 to £4.60 ahead of its London IPO, implying a market cap of £7.6B to £8.8B
- Deliveroo set a price range of between £3.90 and £4.60 per share for its upcoming IPO. — That implies an estimated market cap …
Japanese chip maker Renesas says a fire at one its plants has halted production for at least a month, impacting automakers, and estimates losses at $160M/month
Shares of Toyota, Nissan and Honda fell Monday — TOKYO—A fire at a factory of one of the world's leading auto chip makers …
Facebook says it took down 1.3B fake accounts from October-December and 12M pieces of COVID-19 misinformation; Facebook has 35,000 staff tackling misinformation
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Monday it took down 1.3 billion fake accounts between October and December …
SCOTUS declined to hear Facebook's appeal to stop a proposed $15B class action lawsuit that accused Facebook of secretly tracking users via the “like” buttons
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Facebook Inc's bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit accusing …
ByteDance says its Nuverse video game unit has acquired Shanghai-based gaming studio Moonton Technology, sources say for around $4B
(Reuters) - ByteDance said on Monday its video games unit Nuverse has agreed to acquire Shanghai-based gaming studio Moonton Technology, as it seeks to further expand into the video games business.
Zoom announces an SDK to help developers build Zoom video services into other apps, a central developer portal, analytics, and other tools
One clear sign of a maturing platform is when the company exposes the services it uses for its own tools to other developers.
Berlin-based Camunda, which makes open source process automation tools, raises €82M Series B led by Insight Partners and says it has 400 enterprise customers
It's clear that automated workflow tooling has become increasingly important for companies.
Brazilian state of São Paulo fines Apple $2M for selling iPhones without a charger, allegedly misleading customers about the water resistance of iPhones, more
Rep. Cicilline says he's crafting around 10 smaller antitrust bills, to be ready in May, instead of a one huge bill that would be easier for Big Tech to defeat
MS IE was *totally* dominant 2000-2011, >80-90% most of decade, see https://visualcapitalist.com/ ... Q: how the hell do u drop the ball on IE & lose the battle for internet developer mindshare?!? cc ...
Sources: UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak will delay a decision over an online sales tax until fall, in a bid to see whether US supports OECD tax reform efforts
Financial Times :
Twitter says it will set up a legal entity in Turkey to comply with the country's social media law that took effect in October 2020
Flex Logix, which designs AI chips for edge enterprise applications, including medical imaging equipment, raises $55M Series D led by Mithril Capital
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch :
JD.com says it will invest $800M in Chinese on-demand delivery service Dada Group for a 51% stake
Eva Mathews / Reuters :
Misinformation and historical revisionism are widespread on some non-English editions of Wikipedia, such as Japanese, which is the most visited after English
A list of questions that experts think CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google should be asked during the March 25 House committee hearing on misinformation
By eroding Section 230, Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act risks silencing marginalized communities and will make the internet less safe for sex workers
Cathy Reisenwitz / OneZero : Tweets: @cathyreisenwitz and @ozm Tweets: Cathy Reisenwitz / @cathyreisenwitz : The SAFE TECH Act would force small websites to spend $1 m+ to prove to courts that users ...
REvil ransomware gang says it had breached Acer, sharing leaked images of internal docs on the dark web, and is demanding $50M; Acer says it is investigating
How Pinduoduo leads China's adoption of social e-commerce by putting social media first, and gamifying the shopping experience so people win deals and discounts
Clarify Health, which uses social determinants of health data to inform decision making as part of its healthcare analytics service, raises $115M Series C
Anuja Vaidya / MedCity News :
Google's plan to remove third-party cookies from Chrome does little to change the underlying dynamics of the surveillance-based behavioral advertising industry
White House discloses ties between tech companies and its staff, including national security advisor Jake Sullivan, who was a paid Microsoft adviser until 2020
Chad Day / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @alexthomp and @vmsalama Tweets: Alex Thompson / @alexthomp : Susan Rice listed almost $638,000 in speaking fees earned during 2020, including more than $128,...
São Paulo-based Nuvemshop, which has developed a marketplace for merchants to connect more directly with their consumers, raises $90M Series D led by Accel
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
Software has eaten the world, fading into the background like electricity or cars before, and is now secondary to conventional industry differentiation concerns
Benedict Evans : Tweets: @chanezon , @josephflaherty , @eric_seufert , @eric_seufert , @hkanji , @craigmod , @benedictevans , @helgeklein , and @dwellington Tweets: @chanezon : “this year's MBA class...
Evidation Health, which helps aggregate health data from wearables and other sources for virtual clinical trials, raises $153M, source says at a $1B+ valuation
John Tozzi / Bloomberg :
Interview with CEO of DocuSign, whose sales grew 57% YoY to $431M in Q4, on its plans to expand beyond e-signatures as the market heated up during the pandemic
Adobe's co-founder invented the PDF! https://www.protocol.com/... @protocol : Electronic signatures have been legal since President Bill Clinton signed off on legislation in 2000. But it took a pandem...
Sources: South Korea's largest travel booking app Yanolja is in talks for a dual IPO listing in Seoul and overseas, aiming for a $4B+
Sohee Kim / Bloomberg :
Flowspace, an on-demand logistics and fulfillment startup that offers integrations for Shopify, Amazon, Walmart to power 2-day shipping, raises $31M Series B
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat : Tweets: @ycombinator Tweets: Y Combinator / @ycombinator : On-demand warehousing fulfillment startup Flowspace (YC S17) says the round will “enable it to expand its netwo...
Sources: Indian food delivery startup Zomato is planning to file for an IPO in Mumbai next month, which could raise about $650M
Baiju Kalesh / Bloomberg :
Happify Health, which lets users manage chronic conditions via a telehealth service and an AI assistant, raises $73M Series D, bringing total raised to $123M
Christine Hall / Crunchbase News : Tweets: @crunchbasenews Tweets: @crunchbasenews : New York-based @Happify, a software-enabled health care platform to improve mental and physical health, brought in...
ironSource, which makes user acquisition tech for app devs, will go public through a merger with Thoma Bravo's SPAC that values the combined business at $11.1B
Bloomberg :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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