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Robinhood

Robinhood Raises $1 Billion From Its Investors: NYT

Robinhood Raises $1 Billion From Its Investors: NYT Via Reuters: Trading platform Robinhood Markets is raising an infusion of more than $1 billion from its existing investors, having been strained by high volumes of trading this week, according to a New York Times report nyti.ms/2YrxsnD early on Friday. The company contacted its investors, including venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Ribbit Capital, who then came together on Thursday night to […]

today01/29/2021 14

Reddit

After Plunge, GameStop And AMC Remain Reddit Darlings

After Plunge, GameStop And AMC Remain Reddit Darlings Via Reuters: GameStop and AMC Entertainment Holdings remained overwhelmingly favored stocks on Reddit’s top trading forum on Thursday, even as they and other companies at the core of a retail trader frenzy plummeted after online brokerages imposed trading restrictions. Data about posts and comments on Reddit’s Wallstreetbets, aggregated on swaggystocks.com, showed GameStop and AMC were by far the most discussed stocks on […]

today01/29/2021 41

Google

Google Says North Korea-Backed Hackers Sought Cyber Research

Google Says North Korea-Backed Hackers Sought Cyber Research Via AP News: Google says it believes hackers backed by the North Korean government have been posing as computer security bloggers and using fake accounts on social media while attempting to steal information from researchers in the field. Google didn’t specify how successful the hackers were or what kind of information could have been compromised. Experts say the attacks reflect North Korean […]

today01/27/2021 28

Union Alliance

Google Workers To Form Global Union Alliance

Google Workers To Form Global Union Alliance Via Reuters: Google employees from across the globe are forming a union alliance, weeks after workers at the search engine giant and other units of parent company Alphabet Inc formed a labor union for U.S. and Canadian offices. UNI Global Union, that represents about 20 million workers globally, said on Monday it helped form Alpha Global, Google's union alliance that includes multiple countries […]

today01/26/2021 6

Fact-Checking

Twitter Launches Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking Project

Twitter Launches Crowd-Sourced Fact-Checking Project Via AP News: Twitter is enlisting its users to help combat misinformation on its service by flagging and notating misleading and false tweets. The pilot program unveiled Monday, called Birdwatch, allows a preselected group of users — for now, only in the U.S. — who sign up through Twitter. Those who want to sign up must have a U.S.-based phone carrier, verified email and phone […]

today01/25/2021 7

Russian Hack

Russian Hack Of US Agencies Exposed Supply Chain Weaknesses

Russian hack of US agencies exposed supply chain weaknesses Via AP News: The elite Russian hackers who gained access to computer systems of federal agencies last year didn’t bother trying to break one by one into the networks of each department. Instead, they got inside by sneaking malicious code into a software update pushed out to thousands of government agencies and private companies. It wasn’t surprising that hackers were able […]

today01/25/2021 9

EU

EU Lawmakers Want Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google CEOs At Feb. 1 Hearing

EU Lawmakers Want Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google CEOs At Feb. 1 Hearing Via Reuters: EU lawmakers have invited the chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Alphabet to a Feb. 1 hearing in Brussels as they try to crack down on the powers of U.S. tech giants. The European Parliament will in the coming months provide input into proposals by the European Commission to force the companies to play fairly […]

today01/25/2021 6

Italy

Italy Tells TikTok To Block Users After Death Of Young Girl

Italy Tells TikTok To Block Users After Death Of Young Girl Via Reuters: The Italian data privacy watchdog ordered video app TikTok on Friday to block the accounts of any users in Italy whose age it could not verify following the death of a 10-year-old girl who had been using the Chinese-owned app. In a statement, the regulator said that although TikTok had committed to ban registration for children aged […]

today01/23/2021 13

Big Tech

Poll: Over 80% Of Voters Favor Limiting Power Of Big Tech In The U.S.

Poll: Over 80% Of Voters Favor Limiting Power Of Big Tech In The U.S. Via Just The News: The vast majority of U.S. voters think that government should rein in the powers of Big Tech companies in the U.S., according to a new Just the News Daily Poll with Scott Rasmussen. Just 8% disagreed, while 11% were unsure.  Tech companies such as Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter have come under increasing scrutiny about censuring third-party content — especially […]

today01/22/2021 13

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