Twitter code shows it is developing Flock, which lets users create tweets for up to 150 close friends, after teasing the feature in July 2021
Twitter is developing a feature called Flock that will allow users to curate a list of people to send certain tweets out to, reminiscent of Instagram's Close Friends feature.
Sources: Nvidia is planning to abandon its Arm acquisition, as regulators scrutinize the deal; source says SoftBank is preparing an IPO for Arm
Nvidia Corp. is quietly preparing to abandon its purchase of Arm Ltd. from SoftBank Group Corp. after making little to no progress in winning approval …
Google shutters FLoC, its controversial replacement for cookies, and details Topics, which organizes browsing into 300+ topics
FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts), Google's controversial project for replacing cookies for interest-based advertising by instead grouping users into groups of users with comparable interests, is d...
Meta unveils AI Research SuperCluster, a supercomputer for ML training, claiming it will have 16K GPUs and be the world's fastest upon completion in mid-2022
Designed to train the next-generation of machine learning systems — Social media conglomerate Meta is the latest tech company to build an …
In a YouTube creator update, Susan Wojcicki defends hiding dislikes, discusses adding NFT support, says creators making >$10K/year increased 40% YoY, and more
YouTube is touting the explosive popularity of its TikTok-style short-form Shorts video feature — and says it's going to test …
Some developers who use Apple's CloudKit have complained about an iCloud syncing bug for months; some are resorting to adding iCloud status pages to their apps
A number of developers are upset with an increasingly problematic iCloud server issue that is causing some apps …
John Lennon's son Julian plans to auction off memorabilia as NFTs, including handwritten notes from Hey Jude; Lennon will retain the physical counterparts
“Lennon Connection: The NFT Collection” is presented by NFT marketplace YellowHeart and Julien's Auctions.
The Ethereum Foundation renames Eth1 as “execution layer” and Eth2 as “consensus layer” to “save all future users from navigating this confusing mental model”
Ethereum is a protocol undergoing significant changes. Client teams are upgrading the protocol …
As Microsoft acquires Activision, a look at the state of the gaming industry, which generated $180B in 2021 revenue, double that of the movie industry
Microsoft's audacious $75bn move on games publisher Activision Blizzard has detonated a bomb under the games industry.
Scratchpad, a Salesforce-based productivity workspace, raises a $33M Series B, following a $13M Series A in February 2021
Scratchpad, a company that has built a modern productivity workspace on top of Salesforce, has raised $33 million in a series B round of funding.
District of Columbia, Texas, Washington, and Indiana AGs sue Google for allegedly deceiving users to gain access to their location data from at least 2014
it's actually one of several state lawsuits that all contend Google's privacy settings are purposefully confusing, all under different consumer protection laws https://www.theverge.com/... @nytimesbus...
A look at Orange DAO, a crypto collective made up of 1,000+ YC founders that has closed an initial fund and invested in ~30 Web3 startups
A crypto collective backing web3 startups is seeking new members. The only condition for joining? Applicants must be alumni of the Y Combinator accelerator. Tweets: @maxwellstrachan , @onchainmonkey...
Union officials say nearly half of the 6,143 Amazon workers eligible to vote in Bessemer, Alabama are new; ballots are due on March 28
Nearly half of the 6,143 Amazon.com Inc. warehouse workers eligible to vote in a union re-do election in the coming weeks in Bessemer, Alabama … Tweets: @basche42 , @spencersoper , and @josheidelson T...
Hackers say they hit a Belarusian rail system with ransomware to stop Russia's military buildup against Ukraine; many Belarus Railway services appear offline
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
US Commerce Department says the global chip shortage will stretch into at least H2 2022, based on information from 150+ companies in the supply chain
The Biden administration has concluded that a global semiconductor shortage will persist until at least the second half of this year …
Research: an OpenSea bug is being exploited to purchase NFTs at below-market rates before flipping them, netting $1M+ across at least eight NFTs in 12 hours
a contract you agreed to without having a lawyer look it over first. Very smart https://twitter.com/... Tom Robinson / @tomrobin : A bug on NFT marketplace OpenSea is currently being exploited to purc...
Indian smartphone shipments reached a record 162M in 2021, up 12% YoY, led by Xiaomi with 40.5M, Samsung with 30.1M, Vivo with 25.7M, and Realme with 24.2M
Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Monday, 24 January 2022
The Netherlands fines Apple €5M, saying Apple's IAP changes “failed to satisfy the requirements”; the fine rises €5M/week to €50M until Apple complies
London-based BCB Group, which offers financial services to Coinbase, Kraken, and others, including for payments and custody, raises a $60M Series A
BCB Group has announced a $60 million Series A investment co-led by Foundation Capital in what it claims is the largest Series A investment for a UK blockchain startup to date.
Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company Starship Technologies raises €50M from the European Investment Bank, following a $40M Series A in 2019
Starship Technologies, one of the bigger names in the world of autonomous delivery robots — those little caboose-like …
Tencent fires 70 people and bans 13 companies for bribery and embezzlement, as China continues oversight of its technology sector
- Chinese internet giant Tencent fired 70 people and blacklisted 13 firms last year as part of anti-graft campaign. — The latest internal investigation comes …
Hyderabad-based Darwinbox, which offers cloud-based HR management software, raises a $72M Series D led by TCV at a $1B+ valuation
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Coinbase adds a tax center to its app and website that aggregates taxable crypto transactions to help US users figure out how much they may owe the IRS
Jon Porter / The Verge :
Hundreds of German advertisers and publishers, including Axel Springer, say Google is breaking EU law by phasing out third-party cookies from Chrome by 2023
and all the Very Serious People™ writing about this are yet to explain how small businesses are supposed to grow; or what happens when hundreds of businesses around the world can't any longer. Jonatha...
IBM reports Q4 revenue of $16.7B, up 6% YoY, and net income up 72% YoY to $2.3B, after spinning off of its managed infrastructure services unit Kyndryl
covid, markets, crypto, ukraine, china, even NFL playoffs this wknd gave me a heart attack every 5m. damn kids get off my #@%! lawn. 👴🏼😠🙈 https://twitter.com/... Patrick Moorhead / @patrickmoorhead : ...
Tunis- and London-based InstaDeep, which offers decision-making AI for businesses to solve problems, raises a $100M Series B, following a $7M Series A in 2019
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch :
Sources: Apple is readying the widest array of new hardware products in its history for this fall; LinkedIn profile shows Apple car exec Joe Bass left for Meta
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg :
Brazil-based Creditas, which offers insurance, loans, and runs a used-car marketplace, raises $260M at a $4.8B valuation, after raising $255M in December 2020
Michael Pooler / Financial Times :
Sources: Savvy Gaming Group, backed by the Saudi Arabian government's Public Investment Fund, acquires esports companies ESL and FACEIT for a combined $1.5B
Kevin Hitt / Sports Business Journal :
Australian PM Scott Morrison lost control of his official WeChat account months ago, and a Chinese tech company now uses it to promote Chinese life in Australia
Internal docs: Meta's “free” low-data service for developing countries has led to unexpected charges for users, totaling millions of dollars per month
China is supporting thousands of “little giants”, startups taking on Silicon Valley in robotics, quantum computing, semiconductors, and other strategic sectors
Bloomberg : Tweets: @gaoyuan86 , @hancocktom , and @jorge_guajardo Tweets: @gaoyuan86 : China is nurturing 4,700-some “little giants” for indigenous technologies from #chip making to robotics. State ...
Dremio, which creates tools to help companies streamline and curate data, raises a $160M Series E, following a $135M Series D in January 2021
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch : Tweets: @dremio Tweets: @dremio : 🔥 🔥 Dremio Doubles its valuation to 2 billion within a year🔥 🔥 #2billionstronger We want to thank our customers, partners, and empl...
A look at Amazon's impact on Darlington in northern England, where the company's warehouse employs 1,300 full-time, as locals rue e-commerce but love new jobs
meanwhile centuries-old pubs & markets can't find staff the pro-amazon quotations read like hostage statements. https://www.wsj.com/... Kathryn Anne Edwards / @keds_economist : Interesting read. It no...
A look at the piracy issues plaguing blockchain-based music streamer Audius, as users easily find unlicensed albums from Kanye West, Drake, Nas, and others
Micah Singleton / Billboard : Thanks: @applefanbear
Soona, which helps e-commerce merchants with product photo and video shoots virtually, raises a $35M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Deliverect, which integrates online orders from various food delivery services into restaurants' POS systems, raises a $150M Series D at a $1.4B+ valuation
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