Apple confirms it removed several Wordle clones from the App Store, after some app developers capitalized on the online guessing game's popularity
Apple Inc. removed several Wordle games from its App Store after users confused them with another word-play title popularized by Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities.
Apple says no changes were made in iOS 15.2 that would've toggled iCloud Private Relay off and that no carriers have blocked its users from using the feature
Some iPhone users this week noticed that iCloud Private Relay suddenly stopped working with their cellular connections.
Over 260 health professionals call on Spotify to create a misinformation policy, after a discredited scientist spread COVID-19 misinfo on Joe Rogan's podcast
More than 260 doctors, nurses, scientists, health professionals and others have signed an open letter calling … Source: An Open Letter to Spotify .
Fortnite returns to iOS and iPadOS through a closed beta in Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service that is designed to run in Safari and other browsers
Nvidia's GeForce Now is finally bringing Fortnite back to the iPhone — Fortnite is back on iOS today... sort of.
Microsoft hires veteran semiconductor designer Mike Filippo from Apple; sources say Filippo will work on developing homegrown chips for Azure servers
Microsoft Corp. lured away a veteran semiconductor designer from Apple Inc. as it looks to expand its own server-chips efforts, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
US Cyber Command says malware group MuddyWater is tied to Iranian intelligence, the first time the US government has publicly linked the threat actor to Tehran
U.S. Cyber Command on Wednesday revealed that a hacking group reputed for its cyberespionage campaigns is actually part of Iran's intelligence apparatus. Source: U.S. Cyber Command .
Canalys: worldwide PC shipments grew 15% YoY in 2021 to 341M, the highest annual number since 2012; Apple shipped 28.3% more units, Acer 21.8%, and Dell 18%
It would be easy to think PC sales dropped worldwide last year amid chip shortages, but that conventional thinking would be wrong. Source: Canalys .
TSMC reports Q4 revenue rose 24.1% YoY to $15.74B as net profit reached $6.01B; capex will reach $40B to $44B in 2022, up from $30B in 2021
Taiwanese chip firm TSMC expects strong growth to accelerate in coming years due to booming semiconductor demand, as the tech giant on Thursday reported …
Coinbase says it is acquiring FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, and plans to bring crypto derivatives to its US customers
Coinbase is acquiring FairX, a CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange. — The exchange company announced the move on Wednesday, saying …
Austria's data protection watchdog upholds a decision that a local website using Google Analytics violates GDPR, a potential issue for US cloud services
A decision by Austria's data protection watchdog upholding a complaint against a website related to its use of Google Analytics does …
Krafton, which makes PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, sues Apple and Google, arguing that neither company removed a game that allegedly copies PUBG
(Reuters) - The maker of the popular game “PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds” says in a new U.S. lawsuit that a Singapore-based company …
Nigeria will lift its ban on Twitter after suspending it on June 4, 2021; Twitter decided to open an office in Nigeria, among other agreements
Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter (TWTR.N) from midnight after the social media platform agreed to open a local office, among other agreements …
China's state-backed Blockchain Services Network (BSN) will roll out infrastructure to support NFTs; the NFTs will not be linked to cryptocurrencies
The BSN-Distributed Digital Certificate does not support crypto-transacted NFTs, and will allow businesses and individuals to build apps …
Second Life founder Philip Rosedale says he is returning to its parent company to help it expand into the metaverse
Philip Rosedale is coming back to the digital world he created to help inject growth — The founder of Second Life, one of the earliest digital-reality worlds, is returning for a second stint to take...
FCC proposes stricter data breach reporting rules, including a mandate to notify customers of “inadvertent” breaches, scrapping a one-week wait period, and more
The Federal Communications Commission is the next US regulator hoping to hold companies more accountable for data breaches. Source: Federal Communications … .
T-Mobile says it has “not broadly blocked” iCloud Private Relay, blaming a bug in iOS 15.2, but says customers with content filtering plans won't have access
Privacy advocates criticize police in the German city of Mainz for commandeering data from the Luca contact-tracing app for an investigation
Authorities in Germany are under fire for tracking down witnesses to a potential crime by using data from a mobile phone app that was intended …
Analysis: El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has likely lost $10M on his bitcoin purchases, after spending $71M on 1,391 BTC at ~$51K
- Government's process for buying Bitcoin is shrouded in secrecy — Nation's Bitcoins worth 14% less than average acquisition cost
Researchers report that a record 2,240 third-party WordPress plugin vulnerabilities were disclosed in 2021, up 142% YoY, of which 77% have known public exploits
Last year brought forth much more than a Ben Affleck-Jennifer Lopez reunion - analysts found the number of exploitable WordPress plugin vulnerabilities exploded.
Twitter's “work from anywhere” policy helped increase Black employees in the US to 9.4% in 2021, up from 6.9% in 2020; women are 44.7% of its global workforce
Twitter Inc.'s early shift to a “work from anywhere” model during the pandemic as well as implementation of a requirement …
Analysis of 2021 VC investments: Vision Fund 2, with $35.2B, and Tiger Global, with $29.6B, led or co-led the most rounds; YC was the busiest with 642 deals
In a wild year for startup funding, one variable stayed constant: The most active investors and biggest check writers are familiar names who've been at this a long time.
Samsung, after announcing a Jan. 11 event for the Exynos 2200, didn't show up to the product's launch and says it will unveil the new chip with a new smartphone
Jack Dorsey and others propose a legal defense fund for Bitcoin developers, citing “multi-front litigation” and “threats”
Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk : Source: bitcoin-dev mailing list .
Buy now, pay later service Accrue Savings, which aims to help customers save money, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global
Buy now, pay later has grown to be an alternative to credit cards, with the trend generating $100 billion in sales last year, more than four times 2020.
DeFi Alliance, the incubator of Olympus DAO and other Web3 projects, rebrands as Alliance DAO and says it raised $50M from Jake Paul and others
What the new moniker means for the newly minted decentralized autonomous organization is somewhat TBD. — A top crypto accelerator is DAOifying itself to the tune of $50 million.
The FTC's suit against Meta comes too late to really matter, but its scrutiny of Meta's VR acquisitions shows it's determined not to make the same mistake twice
Observable, which offers cloud-based tools to visualize and analyze data, raises a $35.6M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $46.1M
Observable Inc., the developer of a cloud-based platform for visualizing and analyzing data, today announced that it has raised …
London-based Checkout.com, which offers payment processing tools, raises $1B in a share sale at a $40B valuation
Seattle-based Highspot, which makes software for training and managing sales staff, raises a $248M Series F at a $3.5B valuation, bringing its funding to $600M+
Taylor Soper / GeekWire :
Locket, an iOS app and widget for sharing photos to friends' homescreens, hits #1 on the App Store after debuting on New Year's Day and going viral on TikTok
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Cologne-based SoSafe, a cybersecurity startup aiming to reduce human error, raises a $73M Series B led by Highland Europe and says it has over 1,500 customers
As we've learned in the last few years, ‘human error’-led cyber security breaches are the ones companies often find it hardest to guard against.
A look at Line's sticker economy, made up of over 4M hobbyist and professional designers; Line's revenue from direct sticker sales was $200M+ in 2020
Andrew Deck / Rest of World : Tweets: @decka227 , @restofworld , @mvzelenks , @dlberes , and @anupkaphle Tweets: Andrew Deck / @decka227 : LINE is host to a sticker marketplace that is 4 million arti...
Chicago- and Bengaluru-based TheMathCompany, which offers data analytics tools, raises $50M led by Brighton Park Capital
Shashank Pathak / Entrackr :
Finland-based no-code game creation platform Yahaha Studios raises $50M, bringing its total funding to $81M
Dan Taylor / Tech.eu :
A look at the Buy Nothing Project, which grew via Facebook Groups of neighbors gifting unwanted items and which now has 7K communities across 44 countries
Mia Sato / The Verge : Tweets: @russellholly Tweets: Russell Holly / @russellholly : Every Buy Nothing group I've ever been a part of has been super positive and supportive, it would be interesting t...
HR software company Justworks postpones its $260M IPO, which could have valued it at up to $2B, citing “market conditions” amid a tech stock sell-off
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Sensor Tower: Instagram became the world's most downloaded app in Q4 2021, its best quarter since 2014 with installs up 10% QoQ, followed by TikTok and Facebook
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Source: Sensor Tower Blog .
Research: London-based startups raised $25.5B in 2021, ahead of all other European cities, with most rounds over $100M; UK-based startups raised $40B in 2021
Ivan Levingston / Bloomberg :
Conduit, which offers APIs for DeFi services, raises a $17M seed led by Portage Ventures
Anita Ramaswamy / TechCrunch :
Q&A with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on the global chip shortage, competing with Apple's A-series and M-series chips, Snapdragon's new naming scheme, and more
and tells me he thinks the chip shortage will abate by summer. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Boosted.ai, which offers machine learning tools for investment portfolio managers, raises a $35M Series B led by Spark Capital and Ten Coves Capital
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DeepScribe, which automates medical record transcription and digitization for doctors, raises a $30M Series A led by Index Ventures
Dublin-based Flipdish, which provides tech for creating food ordering apps to ~7K restaurants in 25 countries, raises $96M led by Tencent at a $1.25B valuation
Alice Hancock / Financial Times :
India-based LEAD School, which is helping digitize affordable private schools, raises a $100M Series E at a $1.1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $170M
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
BigPanda, an IT management startup that uses AI to detect and resolve outages, raises $190M led by Advent and Insight at a $1.2B valuation
Merit, which lets governments issue digital credentials that link back to a government license database, raises a $50M Series B led by Rose Park Advisors
Ron Miller / 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.
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.