Zuckerberg says he's redirected Facebook teams to serve young adults over older users, and that significant changes to Instagram will lean into video and Reels
Expect changes to Instagram to highlight Reels — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's redirected teams within his company to …
Facebook says Q3 ad revenue grew 33% YoY to $28.28B but warns of “continued headwinds” in Q4 due to Apple's ATT changes in iOS
remember that FB missed rev expectations too, by almost $600MM). FB acknowledged ATT pain last Q which served its interests this Q Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : Sheryl on Apple's privacy changes: ...
Apple M1 Pro and Max review: CPU and GPU improvements offer an unparalleled combination of raw performance, unique acceleration, and power efficiency
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Adobe announces Photoshop and Illustrator web apps to improve collaboration, make quick edits, and more
Adobe has announced that it's taken “a major step forward for collaboration” by bringing its Photoshop and Illustrator apps to the web. The idea is not to do let you do complex work from a web page …
Facebook misses on Q3 revenue, $29.01B vs $29.57B expected, and monthly active users, 2.91B vs 2.93B expected, but beat on EPS of $3.22 vs $3.19 expected
and reason to believe that Facebook will get worse. If Facebook's core business isn't growing as quickly anymore, it will be even more inclined to manipulate users and to use its massive war chest to ...
Facebook reports Q3 revenue up 35% YoY to $29.0B, profit of $9.2B, up 17% YoY, DAUs up 6% to 1.93B, headcount up 20% to 68,177, and ups share buybacks by $50B
macOS 12 Monterey review: automation on Mac is revitalized with Shortcuts, Low Power Mode is nice, and it's packed with tons of small tweaks like AirPlay to Mac
An iterative update to Big Sur that has a little something for everyone. — Big Sur was a landmark release of macOS, in ways both technical and symbolic.
Adobe announces Content Credentials for Photoshop, letting NFT sellers link their Adobe ID to authenticate the artwork using IPFS, coming soon in preview
Adobe is looking to fight NFT art theft with Content Credentials — Adobe is launching a system built into Photoshop that can …
Facebook documents show its News Feed algorithm treated emoji reactions as 5x more valuable than Likes starting in 2017, amplifying controversial content
Five years ago, Facebook gave its users five new ways to react to a post in their news feed beyond the iconic “like” thumbs-up: “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad” and “angry.”
Frances Haugen's documents have been useful to groups opposing Facebook and the press, but reporting should now expand to explore Haugen and her backers' goals
At the end of 2019, the group of Facebook employees charged with preventing harms on the network gathered to discuss the year ahead.
Facebook plans to spend $10B+ on AR and VR this year, including metaverse apps and related hardware, and report FRL segment separately starting in Q4
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Docs: Facebook tested turning off News Feed ranking for 0.05% of users in Feb. 2018 and found engagement dropped, Groups content rose, and ad views increased
New leaked Facebook documents show what happened when Facebook tried to remove feed ranking. It didn't go well.
Study: the top 10K individual bitcoin investors control about one-third of the cryptocurrency in circulation and ~50 miners control 50% of the mining capacity
- Research shines light on Bitcoin's elusive ownership structure — Top 10,000 investors control over one-third of supply Source: NBER .
Sources: Amazon signs a contract with UK's GCHQ, MI5, and MI6 to host top-secret material, with data stored in the UK; the deal is worth £500M-£1B over a decade
Cloud contract for GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 with US tech group aims to speed analysis but likely to ignite sovereignty fears
Verizon partners with Amazon to use its Kuiper satellite network to expand 4G and 5G coverage to rural and remote locations globally
They still have to launch the satellites first — Amazon's ambitious satellite venture, called Kuiper, is teaming up with Verizon to further expand 4G/LTE …
A look at the Integrity Institute, a think tank formed by two former Facebook employees that wants to bring together tech integrity workers studying tech misuse
Shortly before he left Facebook in October 2019, Jeff Allen published his last report as a data scientist for the company's integrity team …
Internal presentation details Amazon's “Project Mic”, a live audio app that lets users host radio shows, complete with music, focused on the US initially
A new app is in the works — Amazon is next on the list of companies getting into the live audio game.
Stripe partners with Klarna to let retailers in the US, UK, and Europe more easily offer a buy now, pay later option
Tie-up will allow retailers easily to add option for customers to pay in instalments at checkouts — Online payments processor Stripe has entered a strategic partnership with …
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition review: better display, monthslong battery, and USB-C, but poor support for non-Amazon books and no physical buttons
The most popular Kindle gets its biggest update in nearly a decade — It's been nearly three years since Amazon has updated its best …
Mastercard partners with Bakkt to let banks offer cryptocurrency rewards on credit and debit card purchases; Bakkt's stock closes at $30.60, up 234.43%
Mastercard Inc. is making it easier for banks to offer cryptocurrency rewards on their credit and debit cards as part of the payment network's recent embrace of digital currencies. Source: Business Wi...
Facebook docs detail issues with moderating non-English speech, leading to inflammatory language in Afghanistan, bans on common words in Palestine, and more
but Facebook doesn't have people who speak all those languages to adequately monitor for hate speech and harassment. https://www.cnn.com/... DK Shivakumar / @dkshivakumar : This is absolutely disturbi...
Biden names Jessica Rosenworcel to officially lead the FCC, nominates Gigi Sohn as third Democratic commissioner, but it's unclear if Senate will confirm soon
And progressive Gigi Sohn as a third Democratic commissioner — President Joe Biden named acting Federal Communications …
CoinList, which helps crypto companies raise money via token sales, raises $100M at a $1.5B valuation led by Accomplice VC and Agman Partners
Following a $100 million funding round, the token sale platform is planning to invest heavily in two of its newer business lines.
A look at Facebook's lobbying operation, which spent $20M last year, as it struggles to hire and retain key Democratic staff, with a top job open since January
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jameshohmann , @emilyglazer , @emilyglazer , @andrewrestuccia , @emilyglazer , @jameshohmann , @jameshohmann , @emilyglazer , @llerer , @emilyglazer , @joshsternberg , ...
Apple releases iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1 with SharePlay, iPhone 13 ProRes video capture, a toggle for automatic macro mode, vaccine cards in Wallet, and more
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Sources: Tiger Global raises $8.8B for its PIP 15 fund, focused on tech startups in US, China, and India, with a $10B target by March
- The PIP 15 fund will invest in internet technology companies — Firm assets have more than tripled to $95 billion since 2018
Devo, which offers cloud-based logging and security analytics tools, raises a $250M Series E at a $1.5B valuation led by TCV, bringing total raised to $400M+
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based cybersecurity firm Devo Technology has closed a $250 million Series E as the company hopes to ride …
Frances Haugen told UK MPs that Facebook is “unquestionably making hate worse”, and warns that Instagram is “more dangerous than other forms of social media”
Internal Facebook docs: employees touted its scale and dominance in presentations, including showing 78% of US adults and nearly all US teens use its services
Internal docs show staff misgivings about Facebook's lobbying and government relations operation led by Joel Kaplan, which regularly weighs in on speech issues
Microsoft says Russia-backed Nobelium, behind the 2020 SolarWinds hack, is still targeting the global IT supply chain with 14 providers breached since May 2021
AirPods (third-gen) review: less conspicuous design, IPX4 water resistance, and improved sound quality, but spatial audio is inconsistent and no ANC
Sequoia Capital will establish the Sequoia Fund, which will hold all of its US and European investments, including stakes in public companies
Sequoia Capital, one of the world's oldest and most successful venture capital firms, is forming a single fund to hold all of its U.S. and European investments … Tweets: @xavierhelgesen , @katie_roof ...
Pixel 6 Pro review: an impressive flagship with excellent cameras, all day battery, and charging speeds up to 30W, but fingerprint sensor is “not super quick”
Sources: US Treasury to give the SEC considerable concessions for regulating stablecoins like Tether in a report later this week
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Comparing Pixel 6, iPhone 13, and Galaxy S21 pictures of people with darker skin tones, most felt Pixel's were accurate but preferred Samsung's
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @nicnguyen Tweets: nic noooOOOoooyen / @nicnguyen : another 🆕: we took portraits of people with the pixel 6 which claims to have the “world's most inclusive camera,” the...
Pipefy, which offers low-code workflow management tools, raises a $75M Series C led by SoftBank Latin America Fund, bringing its total raised to $138.7M
Pipefy, a “low-code” workflow management SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series C funding. Tweets: @bayareawriter Tweets: Mary Ann Azevedo / @bayareawriter : .@Pipefy r...
Crossbeam, which helps companies build sales partnerships and map their overlapping customer accounts, raises a $76M Series C led by a16z
Crossbeam founder and CEO Bob Moore founded his startup to help companies building sales partnerships understand their overlapping accounts, using a process called account mapping.
Uber and French grocery chain Carrefour partner to launch rapid grocery deliveries from nine micro-fulfillment centers across Paris
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Amazon launches a center for quantum computing at Caltech, joining the US, China, IBM, Microsoft, Google, and other rivals in researching the topic
Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post : Source: Amazon Web Services .
Fabric, which offers AI-powered “microfulfillment” robots for warehouses, raises $200M Series C led by Temasek at $1B+ valuation, taking total funding to $336M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
New York-based Sonrai Security, which helps companies manage cloud data, raises a $50M Series C led by Istari, bringing total funding to $88M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Switzerland-based Yokoy, which offers AI tools to manage travel expenses, raises $26M led by Left Lane Capital, source says at a $100M valuation
Eyk Henning / Bloomberg :
QuintessenceLabs, which improves data security by employing quantum random number generators, raises a $25M Series B led by Main Sequence and Telus Ventures
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Nine UK schools pause plans to use facial recognition to take payments for lunches, following criticism from the UK's ICO
Nigerian startup Autochek, which offers a marketplace for car sales, raises a $13.1M seed, following a $3.4M pre-seed in November 2020
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch :
HiveWatch, which uses sensors and AI to help companies improve physical security, raises a $20M Series A led by Dick Costolo and Adam Bain
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Redbox, the DVD rental and streaming company, goes public on the Nasdaq after a $590.3M SPAC merger, surging ~24% on its debut; shares are up ~34% after hours
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