December 1, 20210CommentsMicrosoft announces Teams Essentials, a $4/month standalone version of Teams for small businesses with a simplified UI, focus on meetings, and no Office apps (Tom Warren/The Verge)
December 1, 20210CommentsReddit announces real-time features, including live upvote, downvote, and comment counts, typing indicators, and viewership figures for posts (Jay Peters/The Verge)
December 1, 20210CommentsCrypto trading volume in Indonesia this year reached ~$50B by October, up over 10x YoY, despite the government and the Ulema Council forbidding crypto payments (Rest of World)
December 1, 20210CommentsResearch: Amazon revenue from third-party sellers will reach $121B in 2021, up from $60B in 2019, as seller fees reach 34%, up from 30% in 2018 and 19% in 2014 (Stacy Mitchell/Institute for Local …)
December 1, 20210CommentsMatch Group says it will pay $441M to settle claims by Tinder founders and execs that Match undervalued the app to avoid paying up to $2B in mid-2017 (Matt Grossman/Wall Street Journal)
December 1, 20210CommentsTel Aviv-based Frontegg, which helps SaaS companies track user data, raises a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
December 1, 20210CommentsMeta selects AWS as its “long-term strategic cloud provider”, a partnership that includes improving helping AWS customers run Pytorch framework (Tom Krazit/Protocol)
December 1, 20210CommentsUK crowdfunding service Seedrs will be acquired by US investing platform Republic for $100M, after UK’s CMA blocked a planned Seedrs-Crowdcube merger (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)