Truth Social, like Parler and Gettr, looks to be structured for mostly one-way communication, broadcast primarily to an audience of Trumpist dead-enders
Conservative alternative social networks keep making the same mistakes — I. — Today, let's talk about some of the less obvious ways …
Trump's Truth Social has been almost entirely inaccessible in its first few days due to technical glitches, a 13-hour outage, and a 300,000-person waitlist
Former president Donald Trump, a longtime critic of how Democrats debuted Healthcare.gov, is facing a bungled website launch of his own.
As Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and other right-wing commentators sour on Google, some push DuckDuckGo as an alternative, arguing Google suppresses COVID-19 results
The embrace by some conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists is part of a broader effort to shift people away from Big Tech. Tweets: @stuartathompson , @dancow , @jessepesta , @alicetiara , @...
DappRadar: OpenSea's seven-day trading volume is down 37%, as active traders dropped 19% to 227,272, after a hacker used a phishing attack to steal 254 NFTs
Activity on OpenSea, the world's largest marketplace for digital collectibles, likely dropped precipitously after a phishing attack …
The EU unveils the Data Act, setting rules on how companies and individuals can access anonymized data; AWS and Azure would be forced to make switching easier
The European Union unveiled new rules that will make it easier for users to transfer data generated from products like Amazon.com Inc.'s Alexa or a Tesla Inc. vehicle.
Microsoft expands its Defender for Cloud tool to Google Cloud, three months after adding AWS support
Microsoft Corp. is expanding its product for finding and monitoring security weak spots in cloud-computing to include rival Alphabet Inc.'s Google Cloud Platform.
Intel rolls out its 12th-Gen Alder Lake P-series and U-series CPUs for thinner and lighter laptops, claiming 70% better multi-thread performance over 11th-Gen
Laptop P-series and U-series chips teased at CES 2022 will arrive in March — Intel launched the first wave of its 12th …
Despite letting some employees permanently work from home, tech companies are spending billions of dollars expanding their office spaces across the US
Even as they allow some employees to change how often they come into the office, tech companies are rapidly buying and leasing properties around the country. Tweets: @paulg , @anitakissee , @janetheee...
With Meta handicapped by Apple's ATT privacy changes, Shopify should step up to provide substitute functionality and build its own advertising network
Tobi Lütke, who famously started Shopify when he realized that the software he built to run his snowboard shop was a much bigger opportunity … Tweets: @cramforce , @modestproposal1 , @nayutsitachitt ,...
A look at nine Android spyware apps, installed on ~400K phones, which connect to servers controlled by Vietnam-based 1Byte and share a critical security flaw
A fleet of spyware apps share the same security flaw — Much of the spyware you hear of today are the powerful nation-state backed exploits …
Amazon sues AppSally and Rebatest, alleging the sites had their combined 900K+ users post fake Amazon reviews to boost third-party sellers' product rankings
- Amazon on Tuesday filed lawsuits against two companies that allegedly acted as fake review brokers.
A court grants Waymo a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the California DMV, letting it keep autonomous vehicle tech and safety details secret
Waymo, the autonomous driving arm of Alphabet, was granted a win on Tuesday when a California court ruled it could keep certain details regarding its AV technology secret.
Sony reveals the PlayStation VR2's design: lighter, with a lens adjustment dial, new vent layout, and similar white-and-black color scheme
how Sony is tackling the most annoying VR headset issue Mathew Olson / The Information : Sony's PlayStation VR2 Headset Design Sports New Comfort Features Michael Gariffo / ZDNet : Sony reveals first ...
BlueVoyant, which provides managed security and threat intelligence services to SMBs, raises a $250M Series D at a $1B+ valuation
Cybersecurity continues to be a pernicious and complex problem, for enterprises, and today a company that's building a multi-faceted toolkit to help them address …
SEC filing: Activision CEO Kotick gets $15M if Microsoft fires him without cause; Phil Spencer began acquisition talks three days after WSJ's damaging exposé
There are big potential payouts ahead for controversial Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, according to an extensive SEC filing …
Researchers used a generative adversarial network to produce images of synthesized faces that survey participants found more trustworthy than real human faces
and more trustworthy—than real faces.” https://singularityhub.com/...
Canada-based eSentire, which provides a managed threat detection and response service, raises $325M at a $1B+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $411.2M
Canadian managed detection and response startup eSentire Inc. today said it has raised $325 million in new funding to invest in research and development and hire more people.
Backbone, which makes game controllers for the iPhone, raises a $40M Series A led by Index Ventures
Amy Schumer and Sean “Diddy” Combs also backed the fundraise, along with top tech CEOs including Discord's Jason Citron and Rec Room's Nick Fajt.
Meta rolls out Facebook Reels to over 150 countries, following the feature's US launch in September 2021, alongside new creative tools and ad formats
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Secureframe, which helps companies comply with HIPAA, SOC 2, and other standards, raises a $56M Series B led by Accomplice
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Milan-based BNPL startup Scalapay raises a $497M Series B led by Tencent and Willoughby, bringing its total funding to $1.2B, becoming Italy's first unicorn
It's been a long time coming, but Italy now has its first unicorn in Scalapay as the buy-now-pay-later company raises $497 million in a Series B round.
Redpanda, a data streaming service formerly known as Vectorized, raises a $50M Series B led by GV
Today, Redpanda Data, the data streaming platform formerly known as Vectorized, announced a successful $50 million series B round. The company's main product offers a simpler mechanism …
Spotify says Car Thing is now on sale in the US for $90, after its April 2021 announcement; in a few weeks, a software update will add Audible support and more
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Luna Foundation Guard raises $1B in a sale of LUNA, the native token of Terra's blockchain, to form a BTC-denominated forex reserve for Terra's UST stablecoin
Bloomreach, which provides e-commerce search and website creation tools, raises $175M led by Goldman Sachs at a $2.2B valuation, up from $900M in January 2021
Bloomreach said it has raised $175 million in a funding round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, giving the e-commerce software business a $2.2 billion valuation.
Alloy Automation, a no-code service for e-commerce companies that automates workflows across applications, raises a $20M Series A led by a16z
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Israeli cybersecurity startup Astrix Security, which provides access management for third-party app integrations, emerges from stealth with $15M
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Tel Aviv-based Aporia, a full-stack machine learning monitoring service, raises a $25M Series A led by Tiger Global
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Analysis: 43% of West Coast tech company job listings were posted in Texas, Virginia, NY, Georgia, and others outside the region in 2021, up from 30% in 2019
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Sources: Mark Cuban's live video and audio app Fireside is in talks to raise a $25M Series A at a $125M valuation and plans NFTs and metaverse tools in Q2
Mark Cuban's interactive platform Fireside, which helps creators reach audiences through live and virtual shows … Tweets: @refsrc Tweets: Manish Singh / @refsrc : Scoop: Mark Cuban's Fireside in talks...
Sources: Amazon has shipped at most a few hundred Astros since the home robot's September 2021 debut; Amazon says Astro is “our first robot, not our last”
London-based fintech Weavr, which offers online businesses preconfigured financial services APIs, raises a $40M Series A led by Tiger Global
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New York-based Timescale, which develops the open-source TimescaleDB time series database, raises a $110M Series C at a $1B+ valuation led by Tiger Global
Nashville-based Phosphorus, which helps businesses monitor and patch IoT devices, raises a $38M Series A led by SYN Ventures and MassMutual Ventures
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Anecdotes, which helps Unity, Fiverr, and other companies with compliance using its Compliance OS, raises a $25M Series A led by Red Dot Capital
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London-based identity verification startup OCR Labs raises a $30M Series B to expand in North America and Europe, bringing its total funding to $46M
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New York-based Minded, a psychiatry-focused telehealth startup that specializes in managing mental health medication for consumers, raises a $25M seed
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Funnel, which offers CRM software and online property management tools for apartment operators, raises a $36.5M Series B led by RET Ventures
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Berlin-based Zenjob, which offers a marketplace that connects students looking for a side job with over 2,500 companies, raises a $50M Series D led by Aragon
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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