Trump signs an executive order that seeks to thwart foreign use of cloud computing products or services for malicious cyber operations against the US (Alexandra Alper/Reuters) admin January 20, 2021 Daily Updates
ByteDance says it has suspended development of its own smartphone under Smartisan, and will fold Smartisan's R&D team into ByteDance's educational hardware unit (Tracy Qu/South China Morning Post) admin January 20, 2021 Daily Updates
A look at a16z's communication efforts over the years, as the firm expands its own media operations and has largely stopped cooperating with reporters (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer) admin January 20, 2021 Daily Updates
Spanish delivery app Glovo raises $121M from Swiss real estate firm Stoneweg to build out delivery-only convenience stores for sub-30 minute delivery times (Macarena Munoz Montijano/Bloomberg) admin January 20, 2021 Daily Updates
Sources: Andreessen Horowitz to launch an opinion section on its website that will publish articles related to technology and business from outside contributors (Zoë Bernard/The Information) admin January 20, 2021 Daily Updates
Biden picks former CFTC chairman Gary Gensler, who taught courses on cryptocurrencies and blockchain at MIT, to head the SEC (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios) admin January 20, 2021 Daily Updates
Douyin, ByteDance's Chinese version of TikTok, has launched e-wallet "Douyin Pay" to compete with China's dominant e-payment services WeChat Pay and Alipay (Rita Liao/TechCrunch) admin January 20, 2021 Daily Updates
Malwarebytes says it was hacked by group that breached SolarWinds, via Azure and Office 365 exploits, but attackers only accessed a subset of internal emails (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet) admin January 20, 2021 Daily Updates
YouTube says it will extend its suspension of Trump's channel for another week over "ongoing potential for violence" (Richard Nieva/CNET) admin January 20, 2021 Daily Updates
South Korean search engine company Naver Corp. has acquired online self-publishing platform Wattpad for an estimated ~$600M (Meagan Simpson/BetaKit) admin January 19, 2021 Daily Updates