WeChat says it facilitated ~$250B in annual transactions through its third-party "mini programs", double the value of transactions in 2019 (Rita Liao/TechCrunch) admin January 19, 2021 Daily Updates
Intel is in more danger than its profits suggest and should spin off its manufacturing business unless the US can subsidize it, ideally with purchase guarantees (Ben Thompson/Stratechery) admin January 19, 2021 Daily Updates
Researchers detail seven flaws in Dnsmasq, a popular open-source DNS forwarding and management suite; 1M+ networking devices are exposed online, patch available (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) admin January 19, 2021 Daily Updates
Brave becomes the first major browser to natively support IPFS protocol, useful for accessing censored content; Wikipedia and other sites offer IPFS versions (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet) admin January 19, 2021 Daily Updates
Survey of 1,900 Facebook users: 12 political groups were among the top 100 recommended by Facebook in Jan., despite saying it would not recommend "civic groups" (The Markup) admin January 19, 2021 Daily Updates
FireEye releases a free tool that audits networks to determine whether certain techniques, known to be employed by SolarWinds hackers, were used (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet) admin January 19, 2021 Daily Updates
China approves Cisco's purchase of telecom equipment maker Acacia, but says they must fulfill contracts with Chinese clients and keep supplying certain products (Stephanie Yang/Wall Street Journal) admin January 19, 2021 Daily Updates
Bold Commerce, which offers tools for e-commerce including checkout, subscriptions, and more, raises $27M Series B led by OMERS Ventures (Douglas Soltys/BetaKit) admin January 19, 2021 Daily Updates
Quali, which offers tools to automate cloud management and deployment, raises $54M co-led by Greenfield Partners and JVP, bringing its total raised to ~$100M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat) admin January 19, 2021 Daily Updates
Forbes to launch a newsletter service that will let journalists start their own paid newsletters and split the revenue, while also getting a salary and benefits (Sara Fischer/Axios) admin January 19, 2021 Daily Updates