Survey of 1,058 US internet users: 72% distrust Facebook, 63% TikTok, 60% Instagram, 53% WhatsApp, and 53% YouTube; 53% trust Amazon, 48% Google, and 44% Apple
You'll find all the usual technology suspects inside Mary Veselka's Pearland, Tex., home. There's her iPhone …
Amid COVID-19 concerns, Meta, Amazon, Ring, and Twitter cancel in-person CES plans, T-Mobile and AMD plan a limited presence, and others monitor conditions
- Google, HTC, Samsung and Sony still currently plan to go — Host of CES conference remains steadfast in moving forward
Jack Dorsey's tweet sparks uproar: “You don't own ‘web3.’ The VCs and their LPs do. It will never escape their incentives. It's ultimately a centralized entity”
Fresh off relinquishing the chief executive reins of Twitter Inc., Bitcoin enthusiast Jack Dorsey … Source: @jack .
TikTok.com was the most popular domain globally between August and December 2021, after passing Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon this year
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The UK's ad regulator bans two ads by Arsenal FC promoting its Socios-based Fan Tokens, saying the soccer club “failed to illustrate the risk of the investment”
A web page and a Facebook post by Arsenal football club promoting crypto-based fan tokens broke advertising rules, a watchdog has ruled.
Sources detail how a 2019 NSO deal to sell Pegasus services to Uganda, followed by an attempt to hack US diplomats in Uganda using Pegasus, led to NSO's decline
For years, the Israeli spyware maker thrived through scandal. Then, US diplomats in Uganda got hacked by Pegasus
Chinese state media says regulators suspended an info-sharing partnership with Alibaba Cloud over accusations it failed to promptly report a Log4j vulnerability
Chinese regulators on Wednesday suspended an information-sharing partnership with Alibaba Cloud Computing …
US NHTSA opens an investigation into Tesla's “Passenger Play” in-car gaming feature covering 580,000 vehicles from 2017 to 2022
ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. has opened a formal investigation into Tesla allowing drivers to play video games on a center touch screen while its vehicles are moving.
An announcement bot for Justin Kan's NFT platform Fractal was hacked by a scammer who made off with about $150K, before the startup even launched its platform
Despite billions in VC investment, many web3 crypto platforms are still pretty hostile places for users new to the crypto world.
Intel faces criticism in China after asking suppliers not to use Xinjiang labor or products, with a Weibo hashtag on the topic drawing over 250M views
- Chipmaker says it doesn't use labor or supplies from Xinjiang — Western nations have accused China of forced labor in region
Delivery Hero says it will exit its food delivery business in Germany after seven months and divest its Japanese operations
- Company scales back after re-entering home market this year — Japan business divestment planned for first quarter of 2022
Online training service Skillsoft acquires edtech company Codecademy for $525M in cash and stock; Codecademy raised $40M in February
Acquisition is Skillsoft's largest deal since going public in June — Skillsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire rival U.S.-based educational technology company Codecademy …
India says it expects domestic chip production to start in the next 2-3 years; its $10B semiconductor incentive scheme begins taking applications on January 1
- Government to accept applications from chipmakers from Jan. 1 — India currently imports 100% of its chip requirements
LA-based Triller agrees to merge with adtech company SeaChange, taking the TikTok rival public at a $5B valuation, up from $1.25B in a recent round
Triller, a social-video platform, agreed to a merger with Seachange International Inc. in a move that will take the smaller rival to TikTok public.
AT&T plans to sell its Xandr programmatic advertising marketplace to Microsoft; the deal would not include the ad sales business supporting DirecTV
Was one of the most botched and mismanaged assets I've ever covered — Deal likely came in under $1 billion — Xandr brings in roughly $300-$380m in revenue annually and loses between $50-$90m https://w...
Q&A with Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell on meeting pandemic demand, relationships with Apple and Amazon, killing the Harmony remote line, USB-C, and more
Logitech is one of those ubiquitous companies — it's been around since 1981, selling all kinds of important things that connect … Tweets: @fghori , @naterethorn , @davezatz , @reckless , and @reckless...
Kraken acquires non-custodial staking platform Staked and claims it's “one of the largest crypto industry acquisitions to date”, but doesn't disclose a price
Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk :
OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely steps down as CEO, naming head of communications and marketing Ami Gan as his replacement; Stokely will remain as an adviser
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg :
CEO of OSOM, a privacy-centric smartphone company founded by ex-Essential employees, teases OV1, the company's first handset slated for launch in summer 2022
Ryne Hager / Android Police :
Apella, which collects data via sensors in hospital operating rooms and analyzes the information using AI to improve surgical quality, raises a $21M Series A
> https://apella.io/ https://twitter.com/... @crunchbasenews : Surgery startup Apella has raised $21M in a Series A. The SF-based company collects data from operating rooms in hospitals via sensors, u...
Retool, a low-code tool for creating enterprise apps, raises a $20M Series C from Stripe founders and others at a $1.85B pre-money valuation
Covering venture capital, software and startups — When Retool CEO David Hsu set out recently to raise fresh funding for his low-code software startup …
TCL resumes selling its Google TVs after recently pulling the entire lineup from Best Buy and rolling out software updates to fix performance issues
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Meta says it acquired ImagineOptix, a North Carolina-based startup specializing in liquid crystal lenses, which could help reduce the size of VR headsets
Mathew Olson / The Information :
McDonald's is selling Dynamic Yield, a startup it acquired for $300M+ in 2019 that helps retailers offer personalized digital promotions, to Mastercard
Kimberly Chin / Wall Street Journal :
Interview with Automattic's Matt Mullenweg on working from his always-connected RV, making “the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet”, and betting on open systems
@photomatt, quoting Camus https://www.protocol.com/... While others go searching for “the decentralized web”, we'll be over here w/ DNS, HTML, & open source. David Pierce / @pierce : Over the last few...
The UK's National Centre for Gaming Disorders, opened in 2019 in London, says ~70% of those treated were aged 18 or under and ~90% were male
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times :
MongoDB has hired eight senior AWS executives in the past two years, making them CTO, VP of developer relations, head of partner marketing, and more
Joe Williams / Bloomberg : Tweets: @business Tweets: @business : Database vendor MongoDB has poached eight senior leaders from Amazon Web Services, which is both a competitor and one of its closest p...
Overjet, which offers AI-powered software for identifying dental disease, raises a $42.5M Series B led by General Catalyst and Insight at a $425M valuation
Christine Hall / TechCrunch :
Canadian legal software maker Dye & Durham will acquire Australian data and back office services provider Link Group for about $2.5B
Harry Brumpton / Bloomberg :
Australian startup Vivi, whose wireless tech enables tutors to display teaching material on students' own devices in classrooms, raises $20M from Quad Partners
Annie Njanja / TechCrunch :
Meta says over half of its Bulletin newsletter platform's 115 creators have over 1,000 free subscribers, “with many having more than 5,000 or 10,000”
and eventually hopes to open it up more widely. Spoke with a few Bulletin writers who described an initially spare platform that has gotten better, but still has a ways to go https://www.businessinsid...
Sources: Bolt, which offers a one-click checkout service, is seeking to raise ~$400M at a $14B valuation, after raising $393M at an $11B valuation in October
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Render Network, a P2P network that offers remote rendering power for 3D visuals, raises $30M led by Multicoin Capital, bringing its total funding to $50M
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