Meta debuts Verified in the US for $12/month on the web or $15/month on Android/iOS, with a blue badge, proactive impersonation protection, and customer support
Meta's paid verification program is available in the US starting today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his Instagram channel.
YouTube lifts its restrictions on Donald Trump's channel, imposed after the January 6 insurrection, after evaluating the “continued risk of real-world violence”
YouTube will lift its restrictions on former President Trump's channel Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.
Sources: some lawmakers and tech executives like Peter Thiel are mobilizing against China's involvement in US tech, ahead of the TikTok CEO's US House testimony
Group to meet ahead of TikTok's testimony before Congress — A group of Silicon Valley executives, including investor Peter Thiel …
SVB Financial Group, the holding company for SVB Capital and SVB Securities, files for Chapter 11 and “believes it has approximately $2.2B of liquidity”
One week after trading was halted for SVB Financial and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank …
Microsoft is testing a built-in, non-custodial Ethereum crypto wallet for Microsoft Edge to let users send and receive cryptocurrency and NFTs
Microsoft is working on a non-custodial built-in Ethereum crypto wallet for Microsoft Edge to allow users to send and receive cryptocurrency and NFTs.
After SVB froze its deposits, HR software startup Rippling raised a $500M Series E at an $11.25B valuation, same as Series D, taking its total funding to $1.2B
As a serial entrepreneur who has famously endured some ups and downs, Parker Conrad has nearly seen it all. Or so he might have thought until last week.
Sources: Coinbase is exploring setting up a crypto trading platform overseas for institutional clients outside of the US, amid increased US scrutiny of crypto
Institutional clients of Coinbase Global Inc. have been contacted by the firm about plans to potentially set …
Source: TikTok is paying dozens of creators to visit DC next week and lobby lawmakers against a forced sale, ahead of CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony on March 23
Hailey Fuchs / Politico :
The FBI arrested a New York man who allegedly ran BreachForums, a dark web site that hosted stolen databases of ~1K companies, under the alias “pompompurin”
Federal agents have arrested a Peekskill, New York, man they say ran the notorious dark web data-breach site “BreachForums” under the name “Pompompurin.”
Google's Project Zero finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Exynos modems, affecting some Samsung, Vivo, and Google phones as well as wearables and vehicles
do this before you're next Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Google discovers 18 vulnerabilities in multiple Samsung chips Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : Baseband RCE flaws in Samsung's Exynos...
Sources: Twitter explored licensing music rights from three major labels but negotiations stalled after Elon Musk's takeover and were abandoned due to costs
Twitter didn't move forward with the music licensing deals because of costs, people with knowledge of the matter said.
A look at four publishers' lawsuit against the Internet Archive, which hinges on defining the legal ownership of ebooks, ahead of oral arguments on March 20
Maria Bustillos / The Nation :
Some investors are concerned SVB's collapse and its rescue by the US government, after Silicon Valley investors' lobbying, could lead to tougher tech regulation
Late last Saturday night, Jason Calacanis, a prominent internet entrepreneur and investor, hit the caps button on his keyboard …
How tech from Synthesia, an AI startup backed by Kleiner Perkins and GV, is being used to make deepfake news videos promoted by Venezuela's government
UK tech company developed software used in fake news videos promoted by authoritarian government — As Venezuela prepared for carnival season …
Sources: Twitter has downranked accounts from its rivals like Instagram, Snap, and TikTok since December 2022, plus accounts like the US Department of Health's
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Around 20 investors and founders detail how some solo investors and small VC firms helped startups during the SVB crisis while many big VC firms disappointed
its failure will have a large impact Tia Bot / Tech in Asia : These are the most active investors in Singapore's startups Alexa Mikhail / Fortune : ‘You can lose everything’: How founders' mental heal...
A look at YouTube and TikTok “hustle gurus” claiming to teach followers how to earn passive income through dropshipping, crypto schemes, AI companies, and more
YouTube and TikTok are plagued with 20-something “passive income” bros who want your attention — and your money.
The FTC finalized a $245M fine for Epic Games on March 14 over tricking users into making unintended Fortnite purchases and bans Epic from using dark patterns
Andy Brown / NME :
A skilled workers shortage is impeding Micron's plan to invest $100B to build a chip manufacturing campus in Syracuse, New York, and hire 9K employees there
they want cheaper indentured foreign labor. https://twitter.com/... Alec Stapp / @alecstapp : All the stuff in here about worker training & eduction programs is very good! But the companies receiving ...
Q&A with two Meta security experts about the company's Online Operations Kill Chain, a framework for responding to threats like election influence operations
Alexander Martin / The Record :
Q&A with Dina Srinivasan, author of The Antitrust Case Against Facebook, on Meta and Google's ad duopoly, the US antitrust cases, concerns about Apple, and more
Patrick McGee / Financial Times : LinkedIn: Patrick McGee . Tweets: @rasmus_kleis , @dinasrinivasan , @paultang , @patrickmcgee_ , @anshublog , @simonjharris , and @spignal See also Mediagazer Linked...
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