Twitter acquires social podcasting app Breaker, team to help build Twitter Spaces — TechCrunch Apple App Store customers spent $1.8 billion in apps during the week of Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, driven largely by games. And App Store customers also hit a new single-day spending record on New Year’s Day of over $540 […]
Is Hopin echt 2.1 mia EUR waard? – Sifted “Hopin has the market, product and opportunity to become a hugely successful business. Given its unprecedented growth rates, investors felt confident that it would grow into its valuation rapidly.” ‘It’s a silent epidemic’: Mental health in newsrooms needs more attention — Digiday “In April, Crowley surveyed […]
Social media companies all starting to look the same. — Axios “Tech platforms used to focus on ways to create wildly different products to attract audiences. Today, they all have similar features, and instead differentiate themselves with their philosophies, values and use cases.” Facebook News to launch in U.K. in January: “Facebook said Monday that […]
Stripe haalt opnieuw kapitaal op. Er is sprake van een waardering van 100 mia USD The Unusual Signs of a Billion Dollar Company. Het gaat niet goed met Nikola. Metromile gaat naar de beurs (via een SPAC) — TechCrunch Wie zit er achter Parler? — Business Insider
Deze week kondigde het bedrijf Inrupt, opgericht door Berners-Lee, de versie 1.0 aan van de Enterprise Solid Server (ESS). Met die software kunnen organisaties gevoelige data veilig beheren in een systeem waar de klant beslist over het gebruik van zijn data. — Tijd “Solid lets people store their data securely in decentralized data stores called Pods. Pods […]
The European Commission on Tuesday announced that it’s filing formal preliminary antitrust charges against Amazon over the way the tech giant uses data from third-party sellers. — Business Insider Spotify koopt Megaphone voor 235 mio USD. Online events startup Hopin hits $2.1bn valuation just 8 months after launch — Sifted
PayPal Launches New Service Enabling Users to Buy, Hold and Sell Cryptocurrency — Paypal The Central Bank of the Bahamas has officially launched its national digital currency. “The Sand Dollar is backed 1:1 to the Bahamian dollar (BSD), which, in turn, is pegged to the U.S. dollar.” — Coindesk “CBDC” : Central Bank Digital Currency. […]
“Twelve years ago today, on Halloween 2008, exactly 491 years after Martin Luther nailed his theses to the door of Wittenberg Castle Church, the idea of Bitcoin was born” — Nick Carter Te herlezen: The Bullish Case for Bitcoin en The Case for $500K Bitcoin
Apple bouwt een eigen zoekmachine — Business Insider “Google has described losing the Apple deal as a “code red” scenario, the DOJ lawsuit, filed October 20, claimed. The deal brings in around half of Google’s US site traffic, the DOJ said – and as much as 20% of Apple’s profit.” Politieke campagnes en TikTok: “”Youth activism […]
Brighteye Ventures investeert in EdTech. — Tech.eu Bollinger Motors kan via een SPAC naar de beurs maar houdt de boot af. — Bloomberg Google en AI: “Google today announced a number of improvements to its core search engine, with a strong focus on how the company is using AI to help its users. These include the ability […]