Venessa Wong / BuzzFeed News:GoFundMe says it is returning funds to the donors of campaigns that were meant to cover the travel costs of Trump supporters to the January 6 rally in DC — Trump supporters used GoFundMe to fund travel and other costs to attend Wednesday’s Trump rally in Washington, DC …
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority:HP unveils an HP Elite Folio 2-in-1 tablet with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx 5G chipset, a $999 HP Envy 14 laptop with 11th-gen Intel chips, HP Elite earbuds, more — – At CES 2021, HP launched some new laptops, including the much-anticipated HP Envy 14. — It also launched a new…
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Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:Baidu announces it has formed a strategic partnership with Chinese automaker Geely to create a standalone electric vehicle company — – Chinese internet giant Baidu has formed a strategic partnership with automaker Geely to create a standalone electric vehicle company.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:Tim Berners-Lee’s Inrupt, which helps people control their data, has raised ~$20M to date and is piloting projects with UK’s National Health Service and others — Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal.
Rachel Kraus / Mashable:After Parler’s ban, a social app called Parlor, which connects users following similar topics, got at least as high as #2 in the Play Store and iOS App Store — Online spaces in which one can freely talk of overthrowing the government in the name of Q and white supremacy are getting…
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Bloomberg:China’s most popular workout app Keep raises $360M Series F led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund with Tencent among investors, as sources value it at ~$2B post funding — – The workout app owner gets $360 million in new funding round — Tencent, Hillhouse are also among investors in latest round
Wall Street Journal:Sources: Stripe will no longer process payments for Trump’s campaign website and fundraising efforts, after violations of policies against encouraging violence — Financial-technology company’s move follows last week’s riot at the Capitol — Stripe Inc. will no longer process payments …
Bruce Haring / Deadline:Parler CEO says the company has been dropped by “every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers”, which could end the business — Parler CEO Mark Matze said today that his company have been dropped by virtually all of their business alliances after Amazon …
Mariella Moon / Engadget:Lenovo unveils ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses that can show up to 5 virtual 1080p displays, come with 8 MP camera and 2 fish-eye cameras for room-scale tracking — Lenovo has launched a new ThinkReality device for CES 2021, and the company says it’s “one of the most advanced and versatile” smart glasses…
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Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi:[Thread] A look back at the state of tech and mobile industries during the first iPhone keynote 14 years ago, the importance of which took years to sink in — Today is the 13th anniversary iPhone announcement—easily one of the greatest launch events and moments of technology change in history. What was…
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