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NFTs, the digital bits of anything that sell for millions of dollars, explained. Artists, influencers, and the NBA are making millions from non-fungible tokens. https://buff.ly/30roZSJ

Jeff Bezos will spend $1 billion a year to fight climate change. https://buff.ly/3vqvp2D

Makers of ‘kid’s first virtual world’ Animal Jam targets Gen Z teens with feral debut. https://buff.ly/2OzR2N2

McAfee sells enterprise biz to Symphony Technology Group for $4B. It should pair well with RSA, another enterprise-focused security company the private equity firm purchased last February for $2 billion. https://buff.ly/30llJbi

PayPal to acquire cryptocurrency security startup Curv. Israeli newspaper Calcalist originally reported the move. And PayPal has now made an official announcement. https://buff.ly/2PMFBlF

Twitter Shares Fall 7% Following Permanent Trump Ban. https://buff.ly/38waZf0

On Friday, after dozens of this claim is disputed labels and more than a few international incidents, Twitter finally banned President Donald Trump, permanently. https://buff.ly/2Xx64nO

Slack was struggling after the holidays. https://buff.ly/3rQUimj

Why we’re posting about misinformation more than ever. Neither the media nor fact-checkers controlled the online conversation surrounding misinformation this year. https://buff.ly/2M5eoZC

The pandemic could have crushed WeWork. It may have saved it instead. https://buff.ly/34BiUoS

You can now embed Apple Podcasts on the web. The company announced today an Apple Podcasts embed web player is now available, allowing anyone including creators, listeners or marketers to generate embed codes for the over 1.5 million shows available across the Apple Podcasts service. https://buff.ly/3f4M9og

Congratulations to Steam Whistle Brewing (Tim Mclaughlin, Greg Taylor) on their innovative "What is Canada's Premium Beer?" Google Voice Search Campaign! Thank you for letting us take part in this exciting implementation. https://buff.ly/32voGaQ #heygoogle #digitaladvertising #marketing

Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back. GitHub raises its bar for DMCA takedown requests, and creates $1M legal defense fun to help open source devs fight takedowns. https://buff.ly/2IKjqc5

Zoom settles with FTC after making ‘deceptive’ security claims. Earlier this year Zoom claimed video calls were protected by end-to-end encryption, a way of scrambling calls that makes it near-impossible for anyone even Zoom to listen in. But those claims were false. https://buff.ly/35bf1ru

Silicon Valley leaders celebrate the Biden win and send a message to Trump. Biden’s relationship with the tech industry will be closely watched and could grow tense if his administration aggressively polices misconduct by Big Tech companies. But it is all smiles for now. https://buff.ly/35aKXMS