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Investors in breached software firm SolarWinds traded $280 million in stock days before hack was revealed

The timing of the trades raises questions about whether major shareholders used inside information to avoid stark losses after the attack. The company’s share price has plunged roughly 22 percent since its role in the breach was revealed. Investors in breached software firm SolarWinds traded 0 million in stock days before hack was revealed Source:

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Facebook and Twitter represent v1 of social networking, a bad copy of the analog world, whereas v2 is something unique to digital and a lot more promising (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Facebook and Twitter represent v1 of social networking, a bad copy of the analog world, whereas v2 is something unique to digital and a lot more promising  —  It’s a rather motley crew.  One is a nurse, another a lawyer, a third an investment adviser.  There are three programmers, a soldier,

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Microsoft is rolling out native M1 support for many Microsoft 365 for Mac apps, iCloud account integration in Outlook, and updated collaboration capabilities (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft is rolling out native M1 support for many Microsoft 365 for Mac apps, iCloud account integration in Outlook, and updated collaboration capabilities  —  Microsoft’s new ‘Universal’ Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps for Mac will work on both Apple’s M1 Arm silicon and Intel processors. Microsoft is rolling

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Sources: ecommerce site Wish priced its IPO at $24 a share, at the top of its range, raising $1.1B to give the company an implied market cap of $14B (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: ecommerce site Wish priced its IPO at $24 a share, at the top of its range, raising $1.1B to give the company an implied market cap of $14B  —  Ecommerce site launches on Nasdaq after Airbnb and DoorDash experienced first-day trading pops  —  The ecommerce site Wish sold shares … Sources: ecommerce

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Google says service is starting to be restored after a significant number of Gmail users saw "error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior" (The Verge)

The Verge: Google says service is starting to be restored after a significant number of Gmail users saw “error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior”  —  Stadia issues are supposed to be fixed  —  Google says that a “significant subset” of Gmail users are running into errors with the service right now. Google says

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GoDaddy buys payments processor Poynt for $320M to expand its commerce and payments services offerings; Poynt's chief executive will join GoDaddy (Tiernan Ray/ZDNet)

Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: GoDaddy buys payments processor Poynt for $320M to expand its commerce and payments services offerings; Poynt’s chief executive will join GoDaddy  —  The Web hosting firm said Poynt’s technology will let it offer businesses a “complete suite of commerce and payment services”; Poynt CEO Bedier will run a newly created commerce

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