The FCC proposes a record-breaking ~$300M fine against an auto warranty scam robocall campaign that made 5.1B+ calls to 550M+ US phone numbers in Q1 2021
probably you too. That's because they made 6 billion spam phone calls in just 90 days. https://www.cyberscoop.com/... Thanks: @tonyajoriley
US tech companies laying off employees serves as a wake-up call for Ireland, a longtime European hub for Big Tech, which has added 24,000 IT jobs since Q1 2021
Jude Webber / Financial Times :
Facebook publishes its first quarterly Oversight Board update, noting it fully or partially implemented 14 of 18 board recommendations across 6 cases in Q1 2021
When we launched the Oversight Board, we committed to consider and transparently respond to all of the board's recommendations.
How dating apps are increasingly used to start platonic friendships, with average time spent on Bumble's BFF growing 83% for men and 44% for women in Q1 2021
Millennials and members of Generation Z increased their use of dating apps to make platonic friends during the pandemic; ‘now we all have these big life moments together’ Tweets: @sebaldus_ , @bad_tak...
Zynga to acquire Chartboost, a mobile programmatic ad service reaching 700M+ MAUs, for $250M in cash; Zynga says deal will help it grow as IDFA changes roll out
CFO says will pressure Q2 and Q3 somewhat and reflected in guidance, expects continued advertising growth regardless $ZNGA Rich Greenfield / @richlightshed : My overall takeaway from #IDFA is that it ...
Robinhood says 9.5 million customers traded crypto on its platform in Q1 2021 compared to 1.7 million in Q4 2020, an increase of 458%
The online brokerage service Robinhood said on Thursday that 9.5 million of its customers traded cryptocurrency on its platform in Q1 of 2021.
Crunchbase data: global venture funding reached $125B in Q1, up 94% YoY, with an average of nearly two unicorns created every working day
In the first quarter of 2021, global venture investments reached $125 billion, a 50 percent increase quarter over quarter and a whopping 94 percent increase year over year, Crunchbase data shows. Twee...
App Annie: users spent $32B on apps across iOS and Play Store globally in Q1 2021, up 40% YoY and the largest quarter on record; iOS beat Android $21B to $11B
the Biggest Quarter Since Records Began Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : Record spend on apps during pandemic continues into this year Joe Wituschek / iMore : Consumers spent $32 billion on apps in the first q...
App Annie: users spent $32B on apps across iOS and Play Store globally in Q1 2021, up 40% YoY and the largest quarter on record; iOS beat Android $21B to $11B
the Biggest Quarter Since Records Began Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : Record spend on apps during pandemic continues into this year Liam Tung / ZDNet : We are spending more on smartphone apps than ever befo...
Innoviz, a lidar company backed by auto suppliers Magna and Aptiv, is going public via a SPAC merger expected to close in Q1 2021 at a valuation of $1.4B
Bloomberg :