Fastly, which was hit by a major outage on Tuesday, says the problem was caused by a bug that was triggered by a customer configuring their service
LONDON (AP) — Fastly, the company hit by a major outage that caused many of the world's top websites to go offline briefly this week …
El Salvador becomes the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after lawmakers voted by a “supermajority” in favor of its new Bitcoin Law
- El Salvador's has become the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. — Lawmakers in the South American country's Congress voted …
Ad-supported and subscription-only newsletters both have ways to understand audiences without the tracking pixels blocked by Apple's Mail Privacy Protection
How Mail Protection Privacy will force the email economy to adapt — Today, let's talk about one of Apple's many announcements …
Biden admin announces steps to bolster US supply chains, including for chips and rare earth metals, and a “strike force” to combat unfair trade practices
- The Biden administration announces new actions designed to strengthen critical U.S. supply chains. Source: The White House .
In the first of a series of blog posts, Instagram explains how it ranks Feed, Stories, Explore, and Reels, and addresses “shadowbanning” accusations
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Apple Music debuts Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio and adds Spatial Audio playlists, says Spatial Audio support is “coming soon” for Android devices
Last month, Apple announced it would soon add lossless audio streaming and Spatial Audio with support for Dolby Atmos to its Apple Music subscription at no extra charge.
Biden signs an EO revoking the Trump-era bans on TikTok and WeChat and says his commerce secretary will investigate any risks to national security and privacy
But the apps still aren't out of hot water — President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday revoking the Trump-era bans on TikTok and WeChat.
Facebook and Instagram will now reward influencers with cash bonuses for hitting certain milestones, like selling a set number of badges in an Instagram stream
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In a huge sting operation, FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat service AN0M for 3+ years to intercept messages between criminals globally
The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform and intercepted secret messages between criminal gang members …
Apple's changes to notifications on phones and the addition of Mail Privacy Protection could hurt publishers, including solo newsletter publishers on Substack
A jam-packed, if muted, WWDC 2021 — I sat on it for a day. Kimberly Huang / Litmus : Email Client Market Share in May 2021: The Recovery of Mobile and More David Nield / Wired : How to Tell Which Em...
An inside look at how Google's Ethical AI team fell apart following the contentious departure of Timnit Gebru and then Margaret Mitchell
She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?
Many large websites went down Tuesday, including Amazon, Twitch, BBC, NYT, Spotify, Reddit, and FT, due to an issue at the Fastly CDN, which has now been fixed
As Uber and Lyft aim to become profitable this year, it seems like a golden era of VC-subsidized services, from Uber to Bird and MoviePass, is coming to an end
The price for Ubers, scooters and Airbnb rentals is going up as tech companies aim for profitability.
In iOS 15 and macOS Monterey betas, Apple has quietly included a new audio feature called Spatialize Stereo that simulates Spatial Audio for non-Dolby content
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Google is building a subsea cable called Firmina, after a Brazilian abolitionist, to handle data surge between US, Brazil, and Argentina, due to launch by 2023
Google is building a new subsea cable to get your megabits from Boston to Buenos Aires and back.
Solana Labs, which wants to develop a blockchain that is faster and cheaper than Ethereum, raises $314.15M in a private token sale led by a16z and Polychain
Quick Take — Solana Labs has raised $314.15 million in a private token sale round. — The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Polychain Capital.
Instagram's Adam Mosseri says Facebook plans to help creators avoid Apple's 30% cut by “facilitating transactions that happen in other places”
- Facebook is setting its sight on the creator economy, hoping to allow millions of people to make a living off its family of apps.
How modern ransomware attacks work and a breakdown of their double extortion tactics, using the Nefilim ransomware as a case study
Modern ransomware actors identify and target valuable data, often exfiltrating it from a victim's network organization rather than simply encrypting it.
DoorDash launches in Japan, marking the company's first foray into Asia, starting in Sendai, a city north of Tokyo with a population of ~1M
Group enlists ‘hundreds’ of restaurants to take advantage of pandemic-driven demand — The US food delivery app DoorDash has launched in Japan …
End-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail launches a design refresh, offering a clearer look and customizable UI, after passing 50M global users in May
End-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail has refreshed its design, updating with a cleaner look and a more customizable user interface …
Apple's tight integration is how it creates great experiences like SharePlay, but the advantage is imperiled by anticompetitive App Store rules like the 30% cut
Apple acquired Dark Sky, the popular weather app and weather API provider, in March of 2020; the Android version was shut down in July, and the API in December.
Privacy-focused Vivaldi 4.0 browser launches with built-in email and calendar clients, RSS reader, and a translator service hosted on the company's own servers
Vivaldi has always been one of the more interesting of the Chromium-based browsers, in no small part thanks to its emphasis …
Start-Up Nation: Israeli startups have raised $10.5B so far this year, already surpassing 2020's record, with 30 rounds raising $100M+, up from 21 last year
Israeli startups have raised $10.5 billion so far this year, surpassing the record set in 2020, as investors continue to pour cash …
iPhone apps on iPadOS 15 can now, finally, run in landscape, in addition to portrait orientation
Sinch acquires MessageMedia, which provides SMS and other messaging services for businesses, for $1.3B, to compete with Twilio in business SMS services
Sinch — the Swedish company that provides a suite of services for companies to build communications and specifically “customer engagement” …
Scalable Capital, a Germany-based neo-broker and wealth management service, raises $180M Series E led by Tencent at a $1.4B valuation
The round is led by Tencent, continuing a trend of Chinese funds investing in European fintech. — Scalable Capital fundraise gives Germany its sixth fintech unicorn
Ohio's AG files lawsuit with Delaware County Court alleging that Google's search business is anticompetitive and asks court to declare Google a public utility
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Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti review: much faster than the 2070 Super, better memory performance than the 3070, but runs hotter than 3070 and faster 3080 is only $100 more
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Google will show more mobile search apps to choose from on new Android phones in Europe and make participation free for search providers
On August 2, 2019, following the European Commission's July 2018 … Jonathan Keane / Silicon Republic : Google to allow other search engines on Android for free Kris Holt / Engadget : Google will let r...
Adobe launches M1 Mac-native versions of more Creative Cloud apps including Lightroom Classic and Illustrator, claims 80%+ faster performance than Intel Macs
MaintainX, which develops mobile tools for industrial and frontline workers, raises $50M across $11M Series A in 2019 and $39M Series B in 2021
San Francisco-based MaintainX announced $50 million in new funding — including $11 million from a Series A in 2019 — as the company looks …
Research: cost per click for Amazon search ads was $1.16 in May, up from $0.75 YoY; eMarketer says Amazon's ad revenue in the US will cross $20B this year
- Rates in May rose 50% from a year earlier, signaling profits — Merchants look to raise prices to cover cost of visibility
Facebook says it fixed a proxy error in its Discover app after researchers found it removed images from other websites more frequently than Facebook's services
Chainalysis: American bitcoin traders made $4.1B in profits last year, 3x more than Chinese traders, followed by Japan, UK, Russia, and Germany
Data analytics startup Amplitude raises $150M led by Sequoia Capital at a $4B valuation, up from $1B last year
- Company expects to go public, possibly via direct listing — $150 million in new financing led by Sequoia Capital — Data analytics startup Amplitude reached a valuation of $4 billion in a new fu...
Apple opens up the ShazamKit framework to third-party apps, including on Android, allowing them to use Shazam's audio recognition tech
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Grabango, which develops computer vision-based check-out free tech for existing grocery and convenience stores, raises $39M Series B led by Commerce Ventures
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Under G7's proposed tax rules, tech giants like Facebook and Apple would still be unlikely to shift bases from Ireland, which has perks like a low 12.5% rate
After its April IPO, UiPath reports Q1 revenue of $186.2M, up 65% YoY, ARR of $653M, up 64% YoY, and a loss of $239.7M, vs ~$53M YoY; stock down ~10%
As Twitch turns 10, a look at how the service pioneered the patronage system that is prevalent across the internet's creator economy today
Overhaul, whose software allows companies to have full visibility of their supply chain in real time, raises $35M Series B led by Macquarie Capital
Sources: Sequoia Capital is considering changing how it distributes investment returns in a bid to avoid tax increases proposed by Biden's administration
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg : Tweets: @bitinn , @thestalwart , and @danprimack Tweets: David Frank / @bitinn : TIL: “Sequoia's investors, largely endowments and nonprofit organizations that aren't subj...
Blockdaemon raises $28M Series A to scale up enterprise blockchain infrastructure, with BlockFi Lending, Goldman Sachs, Greenspring Associates among investors
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SoftBank is launching its diversity-focused Emerge accelerator in Europe, in partnership with SpeedInvest and other VC investors
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ChartHop, which helps companies create org charts and analyze their staff data, raises $35 Series B led by a16z, sources say at a $300-$400M valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Bangalore-based Refyne, which works with employers to let workers access their earned salaries in real-time, raises $16M Series A after a $4.1M seed in Dec.
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Contentstack, which offers a headless content management system, raises $57.5M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total raised to $89M
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Marc Benioff says he expects 50% to 60% of Salesforce employees to work from home even after the pandemic ends, up from about 20% before the pandemic hit
Ari Levy / CNBC : Tweets: @amydiehl Tweets: Amy Diehl, Ph.D. / @amydiehl : “The past is gone”: Expecting 50-60% of employees to work remotely, @salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is downsizing office needs....
A look at the legal fight between Amazon and Reliance over Indian retail company Future Group, which has agreed to sell its retail assets to Reliance for $3.4B
Aman Sethi / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimes , @raju , @dealbook , and @dealbook Tweets: @nytimes : A grocery chain in India is at the center of a battle between Amazon and one of the world's riche...
An open letter with 170 signatories in 55 countries calls for a ban on biometric recognition tech, after EU proposes AI rules that critics say have loopholes
Sources: Amazon and US delivery app Gopuff explored competing takeover bids for Berlin-based grocery delivery app Flink, which raised $240M last week
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Russia has been pressuring social media platforms like YouTube and Twitter to remove anti-government content and police its critics, and it seems to be working
PE firm Carlyle acquires London-based 1e, which helps companies enable hybrid working and manage endpoints, for $270M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ingridlunden Tweets: Ingrid / @ingridlunden : Really enjoy stories like this: the anti-startup, doing brilliantly and quietly building lots of groundbreaking tec...
Sources: in a major leadership shakeup at Magic Leap, its CTO, COO, and chief patent officer are all set to leave, while its former CMO is being hired back
Chinese grocery delivery app Dingdong Maicai, which is backed by Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global Management, has filed for a US IPO; it has raised $1B+ total
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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.