Spotify is removing Neil Young's music after he gave the company an ultimatum between his music and Joe Rogan's podcast with COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
Folk-rock star had over six million monthly listeners on the service, which he blames for spreading fake info about vaccines
Sources: Apple is working to let businesses accept payments on their iPhones without extra hardware, thanks to tech from Mobeewave, which it acquired in 2020
Apple Inc. is planning a new service that will let small businesses accept payments directly on their iPhones without any extra hardware …
Source: Meta-backed Diem Association is selling its technology to California bank Silvergate Capital, which serves crypto companies, for ~$200M
Diem Association is selling its technology to crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital for $200 million — Facebook's ambitious effort to bring cryptocurrency to the masses has failed.
Ipsos: Apple News was the most widely used UK news app in December 2021 with 13.2M users and 1.2B minutes spent; BBC News had 12.5M users and 2.2B minutes spent
The Apple News app narrowly beat BBC News to take the spot of most popular news app in the UK in December, according to data from Ipsos iris.
Intel reports Q4 revenue of $19.5B, up 4% YoY vs. estimates of $18.31B, Data Center Group revenue of $7.3B, up 20% YoY, IoT Group revenue of $1.1B, up 36% YoY
- Intel reported fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday. — Intel's largest business, its Client Computing Group …
Samsung reports Q4 operating profit of ~$11.6B, up 53% YoY, on revenue of ~$63.8B, up 24% YoY, but misses with ~$8.9B net income, below the ~$9.2B expected
Samsung Electronics Co. is stepping up spending on advanced chipmaking technology as it sees growing demand for its smartphones, displays and memory products.
Fanhouse, an OnlyFans-like platform, introduces a 50% surcharge for iOS IAP's, after pushing back in 2021 on Apple's 30% commission on creator earnings
Fanhouse previously tried to push back against Apple's fees and was granted a six-month extension to come into compliance
Reddit is conducting a “small, internal test” of a feature that lets users set any NFT they own as their profile picture
Reddit is testing a feature that would allow its users to set any NFT they own as their profile picture — not only its own Ethereum-based NFTs, called …
Valve will release the Steam Deck on February 25 and says reservations will be filled in weekly batches, after supply chain issues delayed its launch last year
You'll need a reservation — Valve announced that the Steam Deck will go on sale starting February 25th.
YouTube permanently bans Fox News' Dan Bongino for trying to evade a previous suspension; the pro-Trump pundit previously said he planned to leave the platform
YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino from the platform, saying he attempted to evade a previous suspension.
Adobe-led tech coalition finalizes standard for digital content provenance, identifying the source and edits of photos and videos, to help catch deepfakes
As part of its effort to fight deepfakes, a coalition of tech companies led by Adobe has finalized the details for a standard …
CoinTracker, which helps crypto investors track their tax liabilities and earnings, raises a $100M Series A led by Accel at a $1.3B valuation
With a fresh $1.3 billion valuation, CoinTracker has achieved unicorn status right before tax time. — In brief — CoinTracker is crypto tax software.
Sources: Putin plans to tax and regulate crypto mining, confining it to regions with electricity surpluses, rejecting a central bank proposal to ban mining
President Vladimir Putin backs a Russian government proposal to tax and regulate mining of cryptocurrencies, rejecting …
Apple says it is rolling out a fix for a bug in CloudKit's backend that for months intermittently prevented third-party apps from syncing with iCloud
Apple is rolling out a fix for the months-old issue — Apple has identified and is rolling out a fix for the bug that intermittently …
Sources: SoftBank COO Marcelo Claure is leaving as soon as today; reports said Claure wanted $2B in compensation and clashed with Son over his responsibilities
- SoftBank COO Marcelo Claure is leaving SoftBank today, sources say. — Claure took over running WeWork after founder Adam Neumann stepped down.
WeRock, which runs WeTransfer, pauses its Amsterdam IPO, slated for January 28 and seeking to raise €629M-€716M, citing market volatility
The company that owns the WeTransfer file service is cancelling its initial public offering (IPO), Europe's first prominent tech flotation of the year …
Washington's AG orders Amazon to pay $2.25M and to shut down its third-party “Sold by Amazon” program over price fixing and unreasonably restraining competition
Amazon is shutting down its “Sold by Amazon” program after an investigation from Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson found …
A growing number of US mayors are embracing crypto and blockchain tech, hoping to create revenue streams with NFTs or mining, attract tech talent, and more
This new political breed accepts paychecks in Bitcoin. The mayors also want to use buzzy new tech like NFTs to raise money for public projects. Tweets: @rhhackett , @mayorconger , @brfreed , @billyco...
Analysis: funding for early-stage Latinx-founded startups in the US has stalled; $205M was invested in angel, pre-seed, and seed in 2021, up from $185M in 2018
Editor's note: This article is part of Something Ventured, an ongoing series by Crunchbase News examining diversity and access …
Apple releases iOS 15.3 and macOS Monterey 12.2 with a fix for the IndexedDB API bug in Safari, as well as iPadOS 15.3, watchOS 8.4, tvOS 15.3, and HomePod 15.3
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ID.me backtracks and admits to using “1:many facial recognition” across large databases, which last week it called more “problematic” than “1:1 face matching”
Identity verification company ID.me uses a type of powerful facial recognition that searches …
China's market regulator conditionally approves AMD's $35B all-stock deal for Xilinx, announced in October 2020
China's market regulator said on Thursday it had conditionally approved Advanced Micro Devices Inc's (AMD.O) $35 billion all-stock deal for peer Xilinx (XLNX.O).
Fireblocks, which lets users store, transfer, and issue digital assets, raises a $550M Series E at an $8B valuation, after raising $310M in July 2021
Quick Take — The Series E round brings Fireblocks' total funding to date to over $1 billion. — Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov …
Reddit's r/antiwork, the fastest-growing non-default subreddit with over 1.7M members, suddenly went private on Wednesday, citing “ongoing brigading”
The popular subreddit forum called r/antiwork suddenly went private on Wednesday. — The forum has more than 1.7 million members …
Discord experienced a widespread API outage, preventing many users from joining calls or chatting; Discord says services are back online after over two hours
Servers on Discord, including Illuvium's, were inaccessible due to a widespread Discord API outage starting at 2:45 ET in the US. Discord has tweeted that everyone's connection should be fully restore...
As Congress works towards regulating Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Alphabet, filings show at least 95 lawmakers own shares in one or more of the companies
At a December press conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked her opinion of proposed restrictions on stock trading by members of Congress.
Sigfox, a French startup that raised $300M+ to build a communications network for IoT devices, files for bankruptcy, citing slow sales and supply chain issues
We are continuing to see fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the tech industry, with one of the latest developments coming out from France.
Researchers find a 12-year-old vulnerability in Polkit that local attackers can use to gain root privileges on all major Linux distributions; an exploit is out
NLRB says Amazon workers in Staten Island have enough signatures for a vote; the union, which withdrew a petition in November, says it has 2,500+ signatures
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Oslo-based PortalOne, which is building a “hybrid” gaming platform, raises a $60M Series A led by Tiger Global, following a $15M seed in April 2021
Gaming has been one of the most popular entertainment categories in the last two years of pandemic living.
Swiss bank UBS to acquire robo-adviser Wealthfront, which has 470K+ US clients, for $1.4B in cash, as it aims to use AI to pitch services to the world's wealthy
Berlin-based Mayd, which offers rapid pharmacy deliveries, raises a €30M Series A led by Lightspeed, following a €13M seed in October 2021
Berlin-based Mayd, a startup that's building an on-demand medicine delivery platform in Europe, has fast followed a chunky seed raise last fall …
The European Commission unveils Digital Decade Principles to define EU's vision of the global digital economy abiding by values such as democracy and privacy
Politico : Tweets: @aspi_icpc , @_johannaweaver , and @clothildegouj Tweets: @aspi_icpc : 2️⃣ ‘The text reiterates what the bloc has tried to do using laws and proposals in past years: putting privac...
Disney says Disney+ will launch in 42 countries and 11 territories this summer, including South Africa, Turkey, Poland, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE
Substack plans to launch a native video player in beta next week that will let creators upload or record a video and embed it directly in a Substack post
Writers can chose to make videos available to everyone or only paid subscribers only. Substack authors More on @axios : https://www.axios.com/... Erick Schonfeld / @erickschonfeld : In other news, I h...
Dallas-based o9 Solutions, which offers analytics, marketing, and planning to help companies manage their supply chains, raises $295M at a $2.7B valuation
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Domestika, an online learning community that offers video tutorials and courses, raises a $110M Series D led by Zeev Ventures at a $1.3B valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Sam Altman ridicules the startup fundraising process, joking that OpenAI raised a $250M series A on the back of six other rounds
Sam Shead / CNBC : Source: @sama . Tweets: @sam_l_shead Source: Sam Altman / @sama : After our pre-friends-and-family round in 2016, our F&F round in 2017, our angel round in 2018, our pre-seed round...
Polly, whose tools automate customer workflows for the mortgage industry, raises a $37M Series B led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $50M
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Indian social commerce startup DealShare raises a Series E of around $130M led by Tiger Global at an estimated $1.62B post-money valuation
Harsh Upadhyay / Entrackr :
Qualtrics reports Q4 revenue of $316M, up 48% YoY vs. est. $298M, subscription revenue of $259M, up 61% YoY, closing its first fiscal year with $1B+ revenue
Seattle-based Logixboard, which provides software to help freight forwarding companies manage their operations, raises a $32M Series B led by Insight Partners
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Filing: Credo, a high-speed connectivity provider in the data infrastructure market, raises $200M in its US IPO at a ~$1.4B valuation
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DigitalOwl, which uses NLP tech to analyze medical records to let insurers combat fraud, underwrite health plans, and execute claims, raises a $20M Series A
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
France-based Stonly, which offers tools to let companies offer self-service onboarding and trouble-shooting, raises a $22M Series A led by Northzone
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
Singapore-based Cialfo, which helps international students apply to hundreds of colleges in one form, raises a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
Slim.AI, which simplifies securing and optimizing containers for developers, raises a $31M Series A co-led by Insight Partners and StepStone Group
Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat :
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
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
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.