Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: Spotify says it is adapting a Work From Anywhere model and will provide co-working space memberships for employees who choose to w[...]

Kate Klonick / New Yorker: A look at the making of Facebook's Oversight Board, its members, Zuckerberg's rationale for its existence, and criticisms of the en[...]

Cassandra Brooklyn / Ars Technica: Internet access across Cuba rose from an estimated 5-10% in 2015 to 40-50% in 2020, largely due to a ~5x increase in public[...]

Mariella Moon / Engadget: Facebook says it is limiting the distribution of all content posted by Myanmar's military, which has been using the platform to spre[...]

Bloomberg: Sources: US investigators say hardware and firmware of Supermicro servers were tampered with an extra chip loaded with backdoor code to send data t[...]

David Pierce / Protocol: Interview with Vimeo's CEO Anjali Sud, who oversaw the streaming service's transition to a B2B SaaS company offering tools for making[...]

Bloomberg Law: Judge rules Facebook must supply records to RI's public employee pension fund, which is investigating whether FB overpaid the FTC to legally pr[...]

Adam Tempkin / Bloomberg: SEC filing: Figure, which uses blockchain to provide loans and is led by Mike Cagney, ex-CEO of SoFi, plans to raise $250M via a SPA[...]

Neil Cybart / Above Avalon: According to an estimate Apple Watch reached 100M users in December, 30M of which came in 2020; 35% of US iPhone users wear an App[...]

Poynter: Clubhouse presents a major challenge for fact checkers as the app does not keep old posts or audio files and doesn't allow users to record conversati[...]

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple launches its first standalone Apple TV+ AR app, with a For All Mankind backstory and exclusive content for the latest iPad Pro and i[...]

TechCrunch: Russian content on TikTok is becoming increasingly political as free speech advocates and government actors have turned to the app to spread their[...]

Brad Chacos / PCWorld: In order to address the global chip shortage, Nvidia is releasing stock of two older GPUs, the RTX 2060 and GTX 1050 Ti, to its board p[...]

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint filed a countersuit against Facebook after Facebook forced Namecheap to hand over phishing awareness UR[...]

Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: Sources: federal prosecutors are talking to social media companies to find out whether market manipulation fueled the ris[...]

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: Twitter's Spaces is well positioned to challenge Clubhouse as it's intuitive, a logical fit for Twitter, and adds a meaningf[...]

Stephanie Chan / Sensor Tower Blog: Global consumer spending in top 100 non-game subscription apps grew 34% in 2020 to $13B; spending in App Store grew 32% to[...]

Juli Clover / MacRumors: US House Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to Apple raising concerns over reports that App Privacy labels offer “mislead[...]

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: Facebook's Oversight Board co-chair says if the project is a success, other platforms and tech companies would be “more than wel[...]

Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: Bumble closes up 63.5% on its first day of trading, after raising $2.15B in its IPO, at a valuation of about $8.6B  —  - Shares of[...]

Sarah Whitten / CNBC: Disney says it now has 94.9M Disney+ subscribers  —  - Disney+ now has more than 94.9 million subscribers.  — Last quarter, the company [...]

Kim Lyons / The Verge: Twitter changes its position and says it will add labels to the personal accounts of heads of state from next week  —  It's also adding[...]

Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Google adds some of its Pixel-exclusive photo editing features to Google Photos, but they are paywalled behind Google One  —  Pr[...]

William Turton / Bloomberg: Some Black medical professionals who are voluntarily countering misinfo on Clubhouse about COVID-19 and its vaccine say they have [...]

Kerry Flynn / CNN: Staffers at Medium in editorial, engineering, design, and product units say they're unionizing; a majority of about 140 employees signed un[...]

Jenny Leonard / BloombergQuint: Biden administration says it is working to address the global chip shortage; Biden is expected to sign an EO directing a supply[...]

Adi Robertson / The Verge: Facebook says bullying and harassment takedowns reached 6.3M in Q4 2020, up from 2.8M in Q4 2019, due to increased reviewer capacit[...]

Sara Fischer / Axios: Microsoft president says US and other countries should consider adopting rules like Australia's proposed laws forcing tech companies to [...]

Diep Tran / Backstage: SAG-AFTRA approves an influencer agreement, extending its coverage to anyone who is paid to advertise products via their social media p[...]

Jeremy B. Merrill / The Markup: Google says it will update its ad policies after an investigation found advertisers could exclude people who identify as “unkn[...]

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Immunai, which uses AI to analyze the human immune system, raises $60M Series A led by Schusterman Foundation and others  —  Immun[...]

Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post: Biden administration asks a federal appeals court to halt Trump's attempted WeChat ban pending a review, following a similar [...]

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Microsoft patches a 12-year-old Windows Defender bug that could potentially let an attacker run malicious code, after researchers dis[...]

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Source: Amazon Connect, its cloud call center software, had $175M in sales during 2020, up ~150% YoY, and the company expe[...]

Will Oremus / OneZero : Clubhouse employs an unusually aggressive user onboarding process, pressuring users to upload contacts before ranking those contacts b[...]

Naman Ramachandran / Variety: HBO Max to launch in Latin America and the Caribbean in June; existing HBO-branded streaming services in Europe will shift to HB[...]

Bloomberg: Sources: EU is considering a deal with TSMC or Samsung to build an advanced semiconductor factory in Europe in an attempt to avoid relying on the U[...]

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Modern Health, whose app helps employers provide digital mental health care to employees, raises $74M at a valuation of $1.17B, bringi[...]

Sami Fathi / MacRumors: Starting with iOS 14.5, Apple will proxy the Safe Browsing service in Safari through its own servers instead of Google's to protect us[...]

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Labelbox, which develops data annotation and labeling software, raises $40M Series C led by B Capital Group, bringing its total ra[...]

Mordechai Rorvig / VICE: Researchers unveil the Ramanujan Machine, a software-based automated conjecturing system that develops new formulas for universal con[...]

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft to launch its foldable Surface Duo in the UK, France, Germany, and Canada on Feb 18, the first time it has been available ou[...]

Amy Lewin / Sifted: Dublin-based food ordering service Flipdish raises €40M round from Tiger Global Management  —  Pre-Covid, says McCarthy, lots of restauran[...]

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: Sweden-based digital bank Northmill raises $30M led by M2 Asset Management  —  Northmill Bank, the Sweden-based challenger that has[...]

Elena Schneider / Politico: Political campaigns are shifting marketing dollars after ad bans by Facebook and Google, with email lists, influencers, and other [...]

Financial Times: Banks hope to persuade Biden admin that Big Tech and fintech startups should not be able to offer services that compete with banks without fa[...]

Bobby Allyn / NPR: Interview with Rob Monster, CEO of Epik, on serving sites like Gab, why his company severed ties with 8chan and The Daily Stormer, Parler s[...]

Dave Gershgorn / OneZero : CBP scanned 23M+ people with facial recognition tech at airports, seaports, and pedestrian crossings in 2020, and reveals it caught[...]

Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: Copenhagen-based Labster, which sells virtual STEM lab software to educational institutions, raises $60M Series C led by a16[...]

Varsha Bansal / MIT Technology Review: India's COVID-19 vaccine management system, Co-WIN, has multiple technical glitches of different kinds, resulting in si[...]

Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: California's Fair Political Practices Commission proposes to fine Lyft $3,371 for failing to properly disclose what it paid for ads [...]

Daniel Goldblatt / The Wrap: Facebook says Instagram has removed Robert F Kennedy Jr's account for making false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines  —  Move co[...]

Financial Times: Sources: Microsoft made an offer to acquire Pinterest in recent months; talks are not active right now  —  Exclusive: Software group looked a[...]

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Users report that some Google iOS apps warn them the apps are out of date, yet Google has not updated many apps since before Apple's [...]

The Information: Sources: Stir Money, whose software helps video and audio producers, writers, and performers manage their income, raises Series A led by a16z[...]

Bloomberg: Ahead of its debut Thursday, Bumble raises $2.15B in its IPO with shares priced at $43 each, up from the previous range of $37-39  —  - Listing up[...]

The Information: Internal data shows only 11.3M US households regularly watch NBCU's Peacock; sources: NBCU has pitched ViacomCBS about bundling their streami[...]

Patrick Clark / Bloomberg: Zillow says it will acquire ShowingTime, which makes software to arrange home showings, for $500M, and announces record Q4: Zillow [...]

Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting Cable: Shares of ad tech company Viant, which acquired Myspace in 2016, jumped 90% in its Nasdaq debut after the company raised $[...]

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Uber reports mixed Q4 results: revenue drops 16% YoY to $3.2B, net loss narrows to $968M from $1.1B YoY; net loss in 2020 was $6.77B, dow[...]

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Nobl9, which helps speed up feature development using software-defined Service Level Objectives, raises $21M Series B led by [...]

David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg: Biden administration asks a federal judge to put litigation over Trump's proposed TikTok ban on hold while it undertakes a re[...]

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Europol, working with US, UK, and others, says 10 people have been arrested for allegedly stealing $100M in cryptocurrency from celeb[...]

Justine Calma / The Verge: Tesla's $1.5B bitcoin purchase conflicts with its environmental goals, as mining the cryptocurrency consumes massive amounts of ene[...]

Ben Miller / New York Business Journal: NYC-based lottery ticket app Jackpocket, available in nine US states, raises $50M Series C, bringing its total raised [...]

Michael Novinson / CRN: Cybersecurity vulnerability management service Tenable says it will acquire French startup Alsid, which helps protect Microsoft Active [...]

Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources: Facebook is building an audio chat product, currently in the earliest stages of development, that is similar to Clubhous[...]

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: AccessiBe, which provides an accessibility overlay to help companies become ADA compliant, raises $28M Series A  —  If you want t[...]

Owen Williams / OneZero: Australia's media law is right to challenge Facebook and Google but is problematic, burdening smaller platforms and misunderstanding [...]

Bloomberg: Satya Nadella says social media platforms need clearer laws to help decide whether controversial accounts, like Donald Trump's, have a place on the[...]

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: French startup Powder, which helps users share video clips of their favorite games, raises $14M Series A led by Serena, bringing i[...]

Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: Mobile blockchain payments startup Celo, which is built on Ethereum, raises $20M from a16z and others, bringing its total raise[...]

Axios: Apptopia: Clubhouse has been downloaded 4.7M times since its launch, growing rapidly from 1M downloads at the end of 2020  —  Recent appearances from M[...]