After Facebook and Twitter suspended Trump's account, activists and human rights groups have urged the companies to apply their policies evenly around the world nytimes.com · 5 days ago
Computational diagnostics startup Paige raises $100M Series C led by Casdin Capital and Johnson & Johnson Innovation finsmes.com · 5 days ago
IBM says it will acquire Taos, an IT firm that helps companies migrate from in-house servers to cloud infrastructure; terms of the deal were not disclosed wsj.com · 5 days ago
Facebook says it has filed a suit against the makers of four malicious Chrome extensions used for scraping user data and other info from Facebook's website bleepingcomputer.com · 5 days ago
Source: Sequoia Capital recently bought shares of online automation firm Zapier from its founders on the secondary market, with the sale valuing Zapier at $4B+ theinformation.com · 5 days ago
Samsung debuts the Galaxy Book Flex2 5G, its first 5G laptop, featuring a 2-in-1 design, 11th-gen Intel CPUs, S Pen stylus, for preorder in the UK from £1,649 digitaltrends.com · 5 days ago
Netflix diversity report: women make up 47.1% of its global workforce; 8% of US staff are Black, more than 2x the share in 2017; 8.1% of employees are Hispanic bloomberg.com · 5 days ago
Accolade, a health care service for employees to manage benefits, is buying telemedicine startup 2nd.MD for up to $460M, in a split cash and stock deal cnbc.com · 5 days ago
The Trump admin adds Xiaomi, along with 8 other Chinese firms, to a blacklist of alleged Chinese military companies, forcing US investors to divest by Nov. 11 reuters.com · 5 days ago
Apple has removed a controversial feature in macOS 11.2 beta 2 that allowed its own apps to bypass third-party firewalls, security tools, and VPNs zdnet.com · 5 days ago
The far-right is flocking to MeWe, a privacy-focused Facebook alternative that has Tim Berners-Lee on its board, with membership growing to 15M in recent months onezero.medium.com · 5 days ago
Cisco says it has struck a new deal to buy Acacia Communications for around $4.5B, boosting the original purchase price by 64% wsj.com · 5 days ago
Israeli startup Carbyne, which is developing a cloud-based service to improve emergency response times, raises $25M Series B1 techcrunch.com · 5 days ago
TSMC says it will raise capital expenditures to between $25B and $28B in 2021, an increase of at least 47% YoY wsj.com · 5 days ago
Medium is acquiring Glose, a digital platform for buying, reading, and discussing books; Glose's 20 employees, most of whom are based in Paris, will join Medium cnn.com · 5 days ago
Researchers: Telegram, which had 11.9M downloads the week of the Capitol riot, began shutting down public white supremacist groups for the first time Wednesday t.co · 5 days ago
Samsung confirms Galaxy S21 series and future devices will not support MST for Samsung Pay, which enabled it to be used with legacy magnetic strip terminals androidpolice.com · 5 days ago
Samsung announces Galaxy Buds Pro with a new design, active noise cancelation, an Ambient mode, and 360 Audio, available now for $200 cnet.com · 5 days ago
Samsung's Galaxy S21 Ultra has a 6.8" 120Hz AMOLED screen, a quad-rear camera with dual telephoto lenses for 100x zoom, and supports S Pen stylus engadget.com · 5 days ago
Harness, a continuous app delivery and integration platform for engineering and DevOps teams, raises $85M Series C led by Alkeon at a $1.7B valuation techcrunch.com · 5 days ago
Samsung's entire lineup of Galaxy S21 phones will not include a power adapter in the box; Samsung reduces the price of its 25W adapter to $20, down from $35 engadget.com · 5 days ago
Axios says it will launch AxiosHQ, which lets companies write internal memos styled like Axios newsletters, next month, starting at $10K a year wsj.com · 5 days ago
Ring says it has fixed a security flaw in its Neighbors app that was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app techcrunch.com · 5 days ago
BMW announces Digital Key Plus, a keyless access system that uses the UWB chip in iPhones to let users unlock select BMW cars without taking out their phones theverge.com · 5 days ago
LendingPoint, which provides lending software tools for e-commerce, merchants, lending institutions, and other customers, raises $125M from Warburg Pincus finledger.com · 5 days ago
A leak of a near-final version of Windows 10X shows a strong similarity to Chrome OS, with the Start button centered on the taskbar, lack of Live Tiles, more theverge.com · 5 days ago
Customer service software provider LiveVox to go public through a merger with a SPAC in a transaction valued at $840M bloomberg.com · 5 days ago
Poshmark opens up more than 130% on its first day of trading, valuing the company at more than $3B, after raising $277M in its IPO cnbc.com · 5 days ago
Sources: TPG invested $47M in HR software startup Greenhouse and spent around $450M buying shares from existing investors including Benchmark and Thrive Capital forbes.com · 5 days ago
A group of health and tech companies, including Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle, says it is developing a digital COVID-19 vaccination "passport" cnbc.com · 5 days ago
Norway's consumer protection agency details how Amazon riddles the process of canceling Prime with "dark patterns," calls on regulators to investigate bloomberg.com · 5 days ago
Silicon Valley's leading lobby, the Internet Association, is struggling to manage the competing interests of member companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon axios.com · 5 days ago
Internal docs: in hours ahead of Capitol riot, user reports of violent content on Facebook jumped 10x, and false news surged to ~40K reports/hour, 4x daily peak wsj.com · 5 days ago
Experts say widespread adoption of RISC-V, which was partly developed with DARPA's backing, could help China reduce its dependence on Western chip technology wsj.com · 5 days ago
Microsoft Cloud for Retail opens for preview, combining services and features from Microsoft Advertising, Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power Platform zdnet.com · 5 days ago
Ontario-based Prodigy Education, which offers an e-learning platform and math-focused games for elementary and middle school students, raises $159M CAD Series B betakit.com · 6 days ago
What to expect from Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event: Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra, with S Pen support, Galaxy Buds Pro, SmartTag, and more theverge.com · 6 days ago
Asus announces Chromebook Flip CX9 for enterprises, with Titan C security, and CX5 for students, both equipped with Intel 11th-gen Core i7 and Iris Xe graphics androidauthority.com · 6 days ago
Jack Dorsey says Trump ban was the right decision for Twitter, but reflects a "failure" to promote healthy conversation and sets a dangerous precedent washingtonpost.com · 6 days ago
Telehealth startup NeuroFlow, which uses applied AI to treat patients with behavioral health conditions, raises $20M Series B led by Magellan Health venturebeat.com · 6 days ago
Grab raises $300M led by Hanwha Asset Management for its financial services business, which spun out of Grab in 2018 and is now valued at $3B t.co · 6 days ago
Report: VC funding in the US reached a record high of $130B in 2020, up 14% YoY, but the total number of deals fell to 6,022, down for the second year in a row bloomberg.com · 6 days ago
Google says it will pause political ads, and those referencing "impeachment, inauguration or protests at the US Capitol" on all its platforms starting Jan. 14 cnbc.com · 6 days ago
Snapchat says it will permanently ban Trump's account on January 20 in the interest of public safety and based on repeated violations of Snapchat's guidelines axios.com · 6 days ago
Facebook says it's removing posts of fliers promoting events leading up to Biden's inauguration, echoing warnings from law enforcement about another attack bloomberg.com · 6 days ago
Japan-based SODA, which operates sneaker reselling marketplace SNKRDUNK, raises $22M Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia techcrunch.com · 6 days ago
UK-based Weezy, whose grocery delivery app claims delivery in 15 minutes, raises $20M Series A led by Left Lane Capital techcrunch.com · 6 days ago
Sources: Poshmark is pricing its IPO at $42 per share, raising $277M, up from its $35-$39 price initially noted in an earlier filing bloomberg.com · 6 days ago
In an interview, Parler CEO John Matze says he is not sure whether the social network will ever return after being cut off by service providers reuters.com · 6 days ago
Profile of Russian online retail giant Wildberries, owned by Russia's richest woman, which grew by catering to low-income shoppers via offline collection points restofworld.org · 6 days ago