Section 230, Snap backing Apple, and Zucks on Clubhouse
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 230


👉 Democratic senators' SAFE TECH Act will strip #Section230 immunity for any ads or posts violating civil rights, antitrust, cyberstalking, human rights laws 🔗


👉 #Snap says #Apple's changes to #IDFA will interrupt demand; Unity says IDFA changes will affect how mobile game developers “optimise lifetime customer value” 🔗


👉 While #Trump was in office, the #TrumpOrg negotiated a 40% stake in #Parler in exchange for making it his main social network; the deal never finalised 🔗


👉 #MarkZuckerberg made a surprise appearance on #Clubhouse on Thursday, discussing #VR, #AR, #Facebook's Reality Labs group, and remote work 🔗


👉 #TikTok's launch on #AndroidTVs in #France, #Germany, and the #UK yesterday is part of its push to diversify its audience and bring its stars into the mainstream 🔗


🤝 Miami mayor says #ElonMusk will tunnel under the city for just $30 million 🔗


🎶 #UniversalMusic pulls its catalog from music video app #Triller 🔗


🚀 Three countries (🇦🇪🇨🇳🇺🇸) are due to reach #Mars in the next two weeks 🔗


🇮🇳 #India is restoring #4G internet in Jammu and Kashmir after 18 months 🔗


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​​Elon’s taking Dogecoin to the moon, Reddit’s Super Bowl ad, and Internet shut down in Myanmar amid protests
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 231


🚀 After a flurry of tweets from #ElonMusk in recent weeks, #DogeCoin, which launched in 2013 as a joke, has jumped in price from half a cent on Jan. 1 to ~8 cents 🔗


👉 Leaked cellphone data from the siege at the #US #Capitol demonstrates how advertising IDs can be used to identify and track the movement of specific individuals 🔗


🇨🇳 #China issues new anti-monopoly rules putting more pressure on its local tech giants like #Alibaba, #Tencent, and #JD 🔗


🇲🇲 As protests grow in #Myanmar, #NetBlocks says the country's internet connectivity fell to 16% of ordinary levels, indicating a near-total internet shutdown 🔗


💪 #Intel tries to take down #AppleSilicon M1 chip with a flurry of benchmarks 🔗


🏈 #Reddit bought a five-second #SuperBowl spot celebrating #GameStock 🔗


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​​Bitcoin’s surge, Twitter’s subscription, and Clubhouse’s run in China
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 232


🤯 #Bitcoin surges after #ElonMusk’s #Tesla announces $1.5-billion investment 🔗


👉 #Facebook will now take down posts claiming vaccines cause autism 🔗 #disinfo


👉 #Twitter is building subscription products to ease its dependence on ads, including “tipping” for exclusive content and charging for #TweetDeck 🔗


🇨🇳 #Clubhouse is now blocked in #China after an uncensored period during which it grew rapidly 🔗


👉 #Zoom adds facial effects so you can look your weirdest during meetings 🔗


👉 #Fitbit's latest tracking feature reminds you to log your blood glucose levels 🔗


🎶 #TikTok now has access to #UniversalMusic's full catalog of artists 🔗


👉 #Apple’s former hardware leader reportedly now overseeing #AR & #VR devices 🔗


🎙 #MarkCuban is co-founding #Fireside, a #podcast app where hosts can talk to fans live and monetise their conversations, with plans to launch this year 🔗


🎧 In the #iOS 14.5 beta, #Apple has finally added the ability to set a default music streaming service, including #Spotify, when using #Siri to play songs 🔗


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The first look Android 12, Instagram’s TikTok problem, and police playing music — but not for fun
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 233

👀 This may be our first look at #Android12, #Google’s next #Android OS 🔗


👮 #Police officers in Beverly Hills have played licensed music while being filmed by citizens, seemingly in an effort to trigger social networks' copyright filters 🔗


🥲 #Instagram says its algorithm won’t promote #Reels that have a #TikTok watermark 🔗


💰 #Reddit raises $250 million in Series E funding 🔗


👉 #FacebookMessenger update makes it easier to handle unwanted messages 🔗


👉 #Shopify expands its payment option, #ShopPay, to its merchants on #Facebook and #Instagram 🔗


🇦🇪 The #UAE reaches #Mars for the first time with its Hope probe 🔗


🎮 #Sony patent hints at Back Button Attachment for the #PS5’s DualSense controller 🔗


🎧 #Spotify confirms it’s (finally) testing a lyrics feature in the U.S. 🔗


👉 #Amazon is developing a wall-mounted #Echo device with a large touchscreen that serves as a #SmartHome control panel, video chat device, and media player 🔗

👉 #Twitter’s #JackDorsey wants to build an app store for #SocialMedia algorithms 🔗


🇮🇳 #Twitter says it won't block activists, journalists and politicians in #India 🔗


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

💲 #Twitter Q4: revenue of $1.29B, up 28% YoY; average monetisable daily active usage growth of 27% YoY to 192M, net income of $222M, up from $119M YoY 🔗


💲 #Cisco Q2: revenue of $11.96B, nearly flat YoY; Security revenue of $822M, up 10% YoY; Infrastructure Platforms revenue down 3% YoY to $6.39B 🔗


💲 #Lyft Q4: revenue of $569.9M, down 44% YoY, but slightly higher than Q3, as FY 2020 net losses narrowed to $1.8B from $2.6B thanks to aggressive cost cuts 🔗


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​​Facebook’s less political feed, Clubhouse’s rapid growth, and Facebook’s Clubhouse clone — obviously!
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 234

👉 #Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to #Clubhouse — obviously 🔗


👉 #Facebook will test cutting back on political posts in the News Feed 🔗


📊 #Apptopia: #Clubhouse has been downloaded 4.7M times since its launch, growing rapidly from 1M downloads at the end of 2020 🔗


👉 #Instagram to impose stricter penalties, including removing accounts, to prevent abusive messages in DMs, after racist abuse was directed at footballers 🔗 #racism


👉 #TikTok’s forced sale to #Oracle is put on hold 🔗


👉 #Twitter’s #Trump ban is permanent, even if he runs for office again 🔗


📰 #Google now pays 450 sites to bring you free news, including some paywalled stories 🔗


👉 #Google is teasing us with #DarkMode for desktop search 🔗


☠️ Security researcher finds a way to run code on #Apple, #PayPal, and #Microsoft’s systems 🔗


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Clubhouse getting aggressive, Microsoft backing Australian’s approach, and Apple’s push for more privacy
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 235

👋 #Clubhouse employs an unusually aggressive user onboarding process, pressuring users to upload contacts before ranking those contacts based on total connections 🔗


🇦🇺 #Microsoft President #BradSmith says the #US and other countries should adopt #Australia's proposed media rules, which require tech firms to pay for news content 🔗


👉 Starting with #iOS 14.5, #Apple will proxy the Safe Browsing service in Safari through its own servers instead of #Google's to protect user data 🔗 #privacy


👉 #Twitter expands government account labels to more countries 🔗


👉 #Uber and #Lyft are getting less unprofitable, but #COVID19 is still a drag on their business 🔗


👉 #Facebook #OversightBoard says other social networks ‘welcome to join’ if project succeeds 🔗


👉 #Apple launches a new #AR experience tied to ‘For All Mankind’ 🔗


👉 #Mastercard will support #cryptocurrency payments later this year 🔗


👉 #Google’s own #iOS apps are now literally begging for updates that don’t exist 🔗


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Nvidia’s Arm acquisition, Facebook’s smartwatch, and Elon Musk’s carbon tax pitch
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 236

👉 #Google, #Microsoft, and #Qualcomm are among companies asking #US to intervene in #Nvidia's #Arm acquisition, and at least one company wants the deal killed 🔗


👉 #Facebook is building an #Android-based #smartwatch with health and fitness capabilities, which it aims to launch in 2022 🔗


💰 #JackDorsey and #JayZ create ₿trust (#BitcoinTrust) endowment with 500 bitcoin, worth $23M+, to fund teams working on #Bitcoin development, initially in #Africa and #India 🔗


👉 #Apple launches its first standalone #AppleTV+ #AR app, with a #ForAllMankind backstory and exclusive content for the latest #iPadPro and #iPhone12Pro models 🔗


👎 #ElonMusk says the #Biden administration shot down his #CarbonTax pitch 🔗


👉 #Spotify to let employees keep working remotely (#WFH) and now choose what country they work from 🔗


🔒 #GoogleChrome for #iOS will soon keep incognito tabs even more secret with #FaceID 🔗


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​​Mark Zuckerberg wants to “inflict pain” on Apple, Elon Musk wants to Clubhouse with Putin, and Apple Car
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 237

👉 Sources shed light on the increasingly personal battle between #TimCook and #MarkZuckerberg, who in private reportedly said “we need to inflict pain” on #Apple 🔗


👉 Out of about $150B raised by #US companies in #VC funding in 2020, only $1B went to Black or African-American startup founders 🔗


📱 #Apple's next #iPhone might boast an always-on display 🔗


🍎🚘 #Nissan says it’s not in #Apple car discussions 🔗


👋🇨🇳 #Clubhouse says it will improve security after researchers raise #China spying concerns 🔗


🇷🇺 #ElonMusk wants #Putin on #Clubhouse 🔗


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Microsoft’s xCloud, Clubhouse’s Inevitability, and Parler’s return!
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 238

👉 #Microsoft is testing a browser-based version of its #xCloud game streaming service, currently for #Chromium browsers like #GoogleChrome and #MicrosoftEdge 🔗


👉 #Clubhouse, which centralizes creation and consumption into a feedback loop, will do for audio what #Twitter, Stories, and #TikTok did for text, images, and video 🔗


👉 #UK filing: #OnePlus co-founder #CarlPei's new venture #Nothing has acquired #Essential, #AndyRubin's now-defunct #smartphone brand 🔗


👉 #Parler is back online after a month of downtime 🔗


🚘 #Tesla ordered to recall 12,300 Model X EVs over a loose trim issue 🔗


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​​Bitcoin breaking barrier, Epic lost in ND, and Microsoft unified
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 239

📈 #Bitcoin briefly breaks the $50,000 barrier as #Coinbase’s direct listing looms 🔗


👉 #LastPass Free users must choose between mobile or computers for unlimited device access starting March 16 🔗


🇺🇸 North Dakota state Senate blocks bill that would have required app stores to allow devs to use their own payment systems; #Epic lobbied in favour of the bill 🔗


👉 #Microsoft begins testing a Kids Mode for #MicrosoftEdge 🔗


👉 #Apple’s adjusting emoji in #iOS14.5 to promote helmet use and sell headphones 🔗


👉 #Facebook users rarely saw voting misinformation labeled ‘false,’ says study — especially if it came from #Trump 🔗


👉 #Microsoft's unified #MicrosoftOffice experience comes to #iPad 🔗


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Facebook in Australia, Hackers from North Korea, and Epic’s fight in Europe
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 240

🇦🇺 Ahead of proposed media law in Australia, #Facebook bans Australians from sharing or viewing news and all users from sharing and viewing news on Australian news Pages 🔗


🇺🇸🇰🇵 #US DOJ charges three suspected #NorthKorea-n #hackers for allegedly conspiring to steal and extort over $1.3B in cash and #cryptocurrency from banks and businesses 🔗


🇪🇺 #EpicGames files a formal #antitrust complaint against #Apple with the European Commission, claiming that Apple imposes commercially unviable burdens on rivals 🔗


💰 Sources: #Coinbase facilitated #Tesla's $1.5B #bitcoin purchase during the first week of Feb.; source says Coinbase has over five #Fortune500 companies as clients 🔗


👉 #Reddit publishes its 2020 transparency report: 233M pieces of content were removed out of 3.4B total; 82,858 subreddits were removed, up 4x from 2019 🔗


👉 #ChromeOS market share passed #macOS for the first time in 2020, up 4.4 points YoY to 10.8%; #Windows fell 4.9 points to 80.5%, macOS rose 0.8 points to 7.5% 🔗


👉 #Facebook will add a new label to some #ClimateChange posts in the #UK 🔗


👉 #WhiteHouse now says 100 companies hit by #SolarWinds hack, but more may be impacted 🔗


👉 #Facebook's hosting live influencer 'meet and greets' on its #Cameo clone 🔗


👉 #GoogleMaps will now let you pay for public transportation and parking through its app 🔗


🎙 #Twitter’s voice DMs arrive in #India 🔗


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Facebook fighting media tax, Android 12’s preview, and Perseverance lands on Mars
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 241

💸 #Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by #RupertMurdoch, is a defence of the open web and criticising it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre 🔗


👉 #Google releases #Android12 developer preview, available for Pixel devices, with under-the-hood changes adding security 🔗


🇺🇸 #MarkZuckerberg, #SundarPichai, and #JackDorsey are scheduled to testify at the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on platform misinformation March 25 🔗


👉 #Perseverance lands safely on #Mars and sends back its first images of the surface 🔗


🇸🇦 #SaudiArabia has invested billions in #Activision, #EA and #TakeTwo 🔗


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

💲 #Baidu Q4: revenue of $4.64B, up 4.8% YoY, driven by a 52% increase in its non-ad businesses, and forecasts sales of $4B-$4.4B for Q1, topping estimates 🔗


💲 #Roku Q4: revenue of $650M vs $615M expected, up 58% YoY, net profit of $65.2M vs an expected loss; 14.3M active accounts were added for FY2020 🔗


💲 #Dropbox Q4: revenue of $504.1M, up 14% YoY, vs estimates of $498M, says it has 15.48M paying users, up from 14.31M YoY 🔗


💲 #Twilio Q4: revenue of $548.1M, up 65% YoY, vs. $454.7M est.; says it now has 221,000 active customer accounts, up from 179,000 at the end of 2019 🔗


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Google fired another AI ethics leader,Bitcoin’s new market cap record, and Uber’s case in the UK
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 242

👉 #MargaretMitchell, co-lead of #Google's Ethical #AI team, says she has been fired; Google says an employee conduct review confirmed multiple policy violations 🔗


📈 #Bitcoin's market capitalisation passes $1T as its price surges above $56K 🔗


👉 #Apple is working on a magnetically attached battery pack for #iPhone 12 that would wirelessly charge the handset 🔗


🧑‍⚖️ #UK Supreme Court rules that #Uber drivers should be classified as workers, not independent contractors, concluding an almost five-year legal battle 🔗


🍎🚘 Sources: #Apple is in talks with suppliers for next-gen #lidar sensors for self-driving cars, that will be considered cutting edge four to five years from now 🔗


🍎🇮🇳 #Apple reportedly negotiating to build #iPad in #India 🔗


📺 The #YouTube #Android app can now play 4K HDR videos 🔗


🚀 #Linux has made it to #Mars 🔗


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Zuck’s intervention, New malware discovered, and Metallica’s least metal music — ever!
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 243

👉 #MarkZuckerberg's personal intervention to reduce the severity of #AlexJones' ban in 2019 slowed down #Facebook's efforts to deal with dangerous content 🔗


🪱 Researchers discover #macOS #malware dubbed #SilverSparrow on at least 30K Macs, which includes a native #AppleSilicon M1 version and leverages the Installer JavaScript API 🔗


😒 #WhatsApp says users who haven't accepted its new #privacy policy by May 15 can receive calls and notifications “for a short time”, but not read or send messages 🔗


🤦 #Twitch replaced the audio for #Metallica's “For Whom The Bell Tolls” with folk music during the band's BlizzCon livestream, presumably to avoid a #DMCA notice 🔗


🛬 #UnitedAirlines flight safely lands after dramatic engine failure caught on camera 🔗


🇰🇷👋 #SouthKorea’s prime minister has joined #Clubhouse 🔗


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Spotify’s lossless audio, Apple’s lead in smartphone market, and Google finally adds iOS’s privacy labels
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 244

💿 #Spotify to launch a subscription later this year called HiFi that will offer “CD-quality, lossless audio”; Spotify currently tops out at 320kbps audio 🔗


👉 #Spotify to launch an audio advertising marketplace, the #SpotifyAudienceNetwork, and plans to offer #podcasts on its self-serve ad platform #SpotifyAdStudio 🔗


📱 #Gartner: in Q4 2020, #Apple sold 80M new #iPhones globally, overtaking #Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor, increasing its market share by ~15% 🔗


📧 #Google has finally added #iOS’s #privacy labels to #Gmail 🔗


🇺🇸 Filings: #Google, #Microsoft, #Amazon, #Apple, and #Facebook made up the biggest sources of #Biden campaign contributions among corporate employees, who gave $15.1M+ 🔗


👉 Researchers say a change in #iOS14.5 beta, which improves how #iOS handles pointers, makes sandbox escapes and “0-click” attacks much harder to pull off 🔗


👉 #Epic will give #Fortnite and #RocketLeague players who have bought loot boxes ~$8 worth of credits and set aside $26M+ for claims to settle a class action suit 🔗


👋 #Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website 🔗


🍎🪱 #Apple says it has revoked certificates for dev accounts used by the creator of the #SilverSparrow #malware, effectively preventing new Macs from being infected 🔗


👉 #Instagram is adding easier access to support for eating disorders 🔗


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Australia and Facebook becoming friends again, Android’s new features, and someone bought $170M worth of Bitcoin
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 245

🇦🇺 #Australia says #Facebook agreed to reinstate news content in Australia in the coming days after the government promised amendments to its proposed media bill 🔗


👉 #Google announces new features for #Android, including a way to schedule texts and a Password Checkup tool to notify users of compromised credentials 🔗


🍪 New #Firefox update adds support for multiple picture-in-picture windows and “Total Cookie Protection”, to prevent the use of cookies to track users across sites 🔗


👉 #Square announces it spent $170M to acquire 3,318 #Bitcoin-s at an average price of $51,236, following its earlier $50M bet on the #cryptocurrency 🔗


👉 #Star’s launch means lots of new content for #DisneyPlus — but not in the #US 🔗


🇷🇺 #Twitter bans 100 accounts linked to Russian troll farms 🔗


👉 #Google struggles to fix its new #Stadia game after shutting down own studios 🔗


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

💲 #Square Q4: revenue of $3.16B vs estimates of $3.10B, up from $1.31B a year earlier, with $1.76B revenue from bitcoin and #CashApp revenue of $416M 🔗


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​​Clubhouse’s latest celeb, Australia & Facebook, and Bitcoin
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 246

♣️🏠 #BillGates was on #Clubhouse last night 🔗


🇦🇺 #Australia passes law requiring #Facebook and Google to pay for news content. The law has the support of #Microsoft 🔗

👉 #Facebook defends its stance in #Australia, says it invested $600M since 2018 to support the news industry and plans at least $1B more over the next three years 🔗


👉 #HP says it is acquiring gaming peripheral company #HyperX for $425M, giving the company a major foothold in the gaming accessory market 🔗


💰 Business intelligence firm #MicroStrategy buys 19,452 #Bitcoin, worth $1.0261B, and now holds ~90K Bitcoin, worth ~$4.5B at current prices 🔗


🇺🇸 #TikTok removed more than 300,000 videos for #USElection misinformation 🔗 #disinfo


👉 #Zoom adding automatic closed captioning for all free accounts 🔗


📈 #GameStop stock just jumped 100%, and #WallStreetBets is ecstatic, 🔗 but then #Reddit goes down for many 🔗


🤦 #Twitter’s new hacking label has already been hacked 🔗


📌 You can now embed #Pinterest Pins in #MicrosoftWord and #MicrosoftOneNote 🔗


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

💲 #Nvidia Q4: revenue of $5B vs. $4.8B expected, up 61% YoY, data centre revenue of $1.9B, up 97% YoY, and gaming revenue of $2.5B, up 67% YoY 🔗


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​​Twitter’s new features, ByteDance to settle, and Coinbase to go public
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 247

🐦 #Twitter announces Super Follow feature to let users charge for tweets, and a Communities feature to let users create and join groups based on specific interests 🔗


❤️ #Telegram update adds auto-delete option to all messages, expiring invites, and more 🔗


💰 #Coinbase files its S-1, reveals profit of $322M in 2020 on $1.2B in revenue, up from a loss of $30M in 2019 on $533M in revenue 🔗


👉 #ByteDance has agreed to a $92M class action settlement over data privacy claims from some #US #TikTok users, according to court documents 🔗


🏹 #Robinhood says it has added 6M new crypto customers so far in 2021; Robinhood averaged ~200K new crypto customers a month in 2020 🔗


🍎🇫🇷 #Apple forced to add #iPhone and MacBook repairability scores to comply with the laws in #France 🔗


🦠 #Facebook says it won’t loosen #COVID19 policies after #OversightBoard request 🔗


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​​Stadia’s failure, Facebook’s Bars, and the next Batman comic series
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 248

🎮 Inside #Google #Stadia's failure as sources say it missed targets for controller sales and MAUs by hundreds of thousands after spending tens of millions on games 🔗


🇪🇺📱 European #smartphone market shrank by 14% YoY in 2020, with #Xiaomi up 85% and #Huawei down 62%; #Apple hit record market share of 30% in Q4 helped by #iPhone 12 🔗


🎶 #Facebook’s new app #Bars will let you rap over pre-made beats 🔗


🦇 #Batman’s next comic series is a #Fortnite crossover 🔗


🔈 #Apple, #Google, and #Amazon are training their voice assistants to better understand people with speech disorders such as stutter 🔗


🏹 #US regulators probe #Robinhood over trading curbs 🔗


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SolarWinds CEO goes “it wasn’t me; it was the intern” and Facebook’s privacy settlement
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 249

💨 In a hearing with #US lawmakers, ex-SolarWinds CEO blamed an intern for the “solarwinds123” password leak discovered in 2019 that had exposed a #SolarWinds server 🔗


🧑‍⚖️ Judge approves $650 million #Facebook privacy settlement over facial recognition feature 🔗


🎤 #Facebook's #BARS is an experimental #TikTok-like app for rappers 🔗


👉 The #Wikileaks-style group #DDoSecrets claims that #Parler-like site #Gab has been breached and is now set to share 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more 🔗


👉 #Skydio raises $171M led by #a16z at a valuation of $1B+, the first significant fundraising by a #US-based drone maker after #China's #DJI was blacklisted by the US 🔗


📺 #Netflix dominates the #GoldenGlobes with help from 'The Crown' 🔗


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​​Foldable iPhone, Instagram’s Live Rooms, and Volvo’s EVs
Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — issue no. 250

🍎📱 #Kuo: #iPhone13 to have smaller notch, larger battery; Pro models to use 120Hz displays; #iPhone mini to return; he has “no visibility” of power button Touch ID 🔗


👉 #Instagram launches #LiveRooms for live broadcasts with up to four creators, up from two, and says it will roll out new audio features in coming months 🔗


🍎 Every #Apple Store in the #US is open for the first time since March 2020, with many starting to offer in-store shopping after operating as Express storefronts 🔗


🔋🚘 #Volvo says it will only sell electric cars by 2030 and only sell cars online 🔗, meanwhile its first #EV is stuck on cargo ships waiting for a software update 🔗,


🐦💉 #Twitter is tweaking its approach to vaccine misinformation 🔗


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

💲 #Zoom Q4: revenue of $882M, up 369% YoY, vs. $812M est., 467K customers with 10+ employees, projected Q1 revenue of $900M-$905M, vs. $829M est. 🔗


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