Spotify’s new HiFi subscription tier. Clubhouse has security concerns. Apple is king of the smartphone hill once again. Maybe the biggest survival story of the Covid-19 era is about the IPO. And is the Facebook news ban pushing Australians into the arms of the news publishers themselves?

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Links:

• Spotify HiFi is a lossless streaming tier coming later this year (The Verge)
• Clubhouse Chats Are Breached, Raising Concerns Over Security (Bloomberg)
• Apple Surpassed Samsung as World's Largest Smartphone Maker in Fourth Quarter (MacRumors)
• Restaurant-Software Provider Toast Prepares for IPO (WSJ)
• Google fires another AI ethics leader (Axios)
• Australia’s ABC News shot to the top of the App Store charts following Facebook’s news ban (The Verge)

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