Robinhood says an unauthorized party obtained a list of email addresses for ~5M users, full names for another ~2M users, and more info on ~310 others
Late in the evening of November 3, we experienced a data security incident. An unauthorized third party obtained access to a limited amount …
US charges a Ukrainian suspect, arrested in Poland last month, and a Russian citizen over REvil attacks, and says it seized $6M in ransom payments
(CNN)Law enforcement officials have seized an estimated $6 million in ransom payments, and the US Justice Department is expected to announce Monday …
Europol has arrested seven people suspected of helping REvil and GandCrab with over 7,000 cyberattacks since early 2019, in a Romanian-led investigation
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Netflix for iOS is rolling out Kids Clips, a TikTok-like feature that shows new daily short videos from its children's library
- Company to test ‘Kids Clips’ on iOS in U.S., other countries — Feature is similar to ‘Fast Laughs’ comedy offering for adults
Samsung unveils 14nm, 16GB LPDDR5X DRAM chip for mobile devices, claims data transfer speeds of 8.5Gbps, 1.3x faster than the LPDDR5 and consumes 20% less power
Samsung today announced the world's first LPDDR5 DRAM chip for mobile devices. The new memory module is fabricated using …
Ex-Israeli soldiers say the country built a “Facebook for Palestinians” over the last two years to monitor Palestinians through facial recognition tech
HEBRON, West Bank — The Israeli military has been conducting a broad surveillance effort in the occupied West Bank …
Niantic launches Lightship, a platform to build “real-world metaverse” AR iOS and Android apps, and commits $20M to fund companies building AR apps
The maker of Pokémon Go wants to power future AR glasses. — Niantic is releasing a platform for building what it calls “real-world metaverse” apps.
Clubhouse rolls out Replay on iOS and Android, letting users record live rooms and share them as a podcast or a clip on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok
Clubhouse hosts and moderators will have a fresh tool in their kit today. The company is pushing a new feature live on both its iOS …
Unpacking some key aspects of what constitutes a metaverse, such as making and owning virtual property, 3D telepresence in a persistent world, and more
Will we all live in the metaverse soon? Or is the idea just Second Life redux? — These days it seems like everybody …
AMD touts Meta as a data center chip customer, as it targets Nvidia with new chips like MI200, a family of server accelerators to boost ML and other workloads
Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD.O) on Monday said it has won Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) as a data center chip customer …
PayPal reports Q3 revenue of $6.18B, up 13% YoY, vs $6.23B est., Venmo payment volume up 36% YoY to $60B, says Venmo users can make Amazon purchases next year
- PayPal reported a 13% increase in year-over-year revenue for the third quarter. — The company issued a fourth-quarter forecast …
A deep dive into how Discord, an authentic, at-scale user-generated community, has a chance to become the metaverse's natural social infrastructure
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You.com, an AI-powered open source search engine, launches in beta with $20M in funding led by Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff
You.com, which bills itself as the world's first open source search engine, today announced its public beta launch along with $20 million in funding led …
Crypto exchange WOO Network closes a $30M Series A from various investors, including Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital
WOO Network is betting on deep liquidity to break into the crypto exchange landscape. — Crypto exchange WOO Network closed a $30 million Series A round from various investors …
Neon Labs, which aims to create an Ethereum-compatible environment on Solana, raises $40M via a private token sale led by Jump Capital
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The global chip shortage has bolstered the influence of lesser-known chipmakers like Microchip Technology, as market power shifts from buyers to manufacturers
Low-profile chip makers with aging factories have become surprisingly powerful, leading to industry changes that may outlive the pandemic-fueled supply crunch.
Nvidia unveils Riva Custom Voice, a toolkit which companies can use to create custom, “human-like” voice assistants with only 30 minutes of speech data
At its fall 2021 GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Nvidia unveiled Riva Custom Voice, a new toolkit that the company claims …
AMD says chips with new 3D-stacked L3 cache tech, allowing up to 768MB of L3 cache per chip, will arrive in Q1 2022 and are in preview now on Azure
Palantir beats expectations with Q3 revenue of $392M, up 36% YoY, and expects full year revenue of ~$1.53B, up 40% YoY
- Palantir reported third-quarter earnings on Tuesday that beat analyst expectations on revenue and met earnings estimates. — The company said it expects revenue …
Nvidia makes Omniverse, a real-time collaborative design tool, generally available, and now allows developers to create hyper-realistic, interactive AI avatars
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Apple will continue accepting App Store submissions throughout the holidays for the first time, though reviews may take longer from Nov. 24-28 and Dec. 23-27
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Nextdoor closes its first day on the NYSE at $13.01, up 17%, after going public via a SPAC merger which raised $674M and valued it at ~$4.3B
Shares of the social-networking platform for local neighborhoods jump 17% — Shares in Nextdoor Inc. surged Monday in their first day of trading …
Socure, a cloud-based identity verification and fraud prevention startup, raises a $450M Series E led by Accel and T. Rowe Price at a $4.5B valuation
Socure, a company that uses AI and machine learning to verify identities, announced today that it raised $450 million in funding for its Series E round led by Accel and T. Rowe Price.
How Christie's and Sotheby's are bringing in crypto-rich NFT buyers; NFTs now account for about 5.5% of contemporary art sales at the world's top auction houses
Little could James Christie have known some 240 years ago, as he sold masterpieces by Rembrandt and Rubens to Catherine the Great …
Helsing, which uses AI to integrate data and create live maps of battlefields, raises €100M from Daniel Ek's European tech investing group
Defence start-up will use AI to build live battlefield maps in ‘ethical, responsible and transparent’ way — A year after launching …
AMD unveils Zen 4 CPU roadmap, including a 96-core Genoa chip in 2022 and a 128-core chip in 2023, both using a 5nm TSMC process that doubles power efficiency
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware :
Microsoft launches Visual Studio 2022, its first 64-bit version, with Hot Reload for making code changes while an app is running, and .NET 6, with Arm64 support
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Collibra, which provides tools to find, understand, access and analyze data, raises a $250M Series G at a post-money valuation of $5.25B
As more data moves to the cloud, it often still lives in multiple places on a business' network, making it difficult for organizations to understand …
Contrast Security, which offers app security and embedded code analysis tech, raises a $150M Series E led by Liberty Strategic Capital, valuing it at $1B+
Contrast Security, a Los Altos, California-based company developing app security and embedded code analysis technologies …
Researchers and journalists in Ethiopia say Meta has done little to stop hate speech amid Ethiopia's civil war, claiming moderation often falls to volunteers
which Facebook has designated its highest risk level and repeatedly made assurances it is dedicating resources to monitoring — researchers and journalists say that hate is still spreading unabated and...
Reprise, a service used to create product demonstrations and tours, raises a $62M Series B led by Iconiq Growth
Reprise, a platform used by software companies such as Cloudera and ZoomInfo to create product demonstrations and tours, has raised $62 million in a series B round of funding.
Google appears to be using its Business Profile rebranding to solicit SMB opposition to possible antitrust legislation
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Zynga reports Q3 revenue of $705M, up 40% YoY, bookings of $668M, up 6% YoY, says it hired a former Coca-Cola game executive as new head of blockchain gaming
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Draper Esprit, a London-based venture capital firm, rebrands to Molten Ventures
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu :
US broadband provider Viasat acquires UK satellite fleet operator Inmarsat in a $7.3B deal to expand orbital internet offerings; Viasat stock down 15%+
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OpenWeb, formerly Spot.IM, used by 1,000+ publishers to manage comments and user interactions, raises a $150M Series E with NYT investing, valuing it at $1.1B
OpenWeb, a platform used by publishers to manage comments and user interactions, has raised $150 million in a series E financing round … See also Mediagazer
Tripadvisor announces CEO Steve Kaufer will step down in 2022 after 20+ years at the company; stock is down 9%+ after hours
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Roblox reports Q3 revenue of $509.3M, up 102% YoY, 47.3M DAUs, up 31% YoY, average bookings per DAU of $13.49, 11.2B hours engaged, up 28% YoY; stock up 25%+
Profile of virtual events startup Hopin, which rode the pandemic-led videoconferencing wave to a $7.8B valuation in August and six acquisitions in the past year
Valued at roughly $8bn, the software start-up is one of Europe's biggest success stories in the Covid era Tweets: @hopin Tweets: @hopin : @FT identified this year's Tech Champions - companies, includi...
Documents show LAPD's new predictive policing effort is similar to surveillance programs PredPol and Operation Laser that were shut down amid public outcry
Johana Bhuiyan / The Guardian : Tweets: @fairtrials , @jmbooyah , @jmbooyah , and @jmbooyah Tweets: Fair Trials / @fairtrials : 📢Predictive policing tools rely on flawed datasets. They don't predict ...
Source: Chinese social e-commerce app Xiaohongshu has raised a new funding round of $500M, led by Temasek and Tencent at a $20B valuation
Tracy Qu / South China Morning Post :
Qupital, a Hong Kong-based startup offering cross-border e-commerce financing, raises a $150M Series B, including a credit securitization facility from Citi
Eudora Wang / DealStreetAsia :
Bangalore-based car rental marketplace Zoomcar raises $92M led by SternAegis Ventures, bringing its total funding to $207M, and says its service has 10K+ cars
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
HawkEye 360, which sells data and insights from its satellites that identify and geolocate a broad set of radio frequency signals, raises a $145M Series D
Aria Alamalhodaei / TechCrunch :
Berlin-based Razor Group raises a $125M Series B at a $1B+ valuation to buy and scale up e-commerce merchants, says 12% of its revenue is “non-Amazon”
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
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
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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.