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A roundup of how technology companies and executives are reacting to President Trump's executive orders on immigration — “People across the company are freaking out.” — On Friday, President Trump signed an executive ordered temporarily halting the US refugee program for 120 days.
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LinkedIn, Travis Kalanick, Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, Meta Stack Overflow, Daring Fireball, Recode, MacRumors, The Verge, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Reed Hastings, BuzzFeed, Stanford News, Forbes, The Verge, jeffiel, Axios, CNBC, VentureBeat, CNNMoney, USA Today, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Business Insider, CNET, MSPoweruser, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Washington Post, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, AOL, Loic Le Meur, Mashable, Fortune, Engadget, GeekWire, Neowin, International Business Times, CNNMoney, Reuters, On MSFT, ACLU, France 24, New York Times, Politico, Vox, and The Guardian
Tweets: @bchesky, @kellyannepolls, @stewart, @elonmusk, @twitter, @jack, @anildash, @karaswisher, @levie, @rmac18, @tim_cook, @cwarzel, @valaafshar, @satyanadella, @johnpaczkowski, @scottmaustin, @mlevchin, @priyasideas, @sundarpichai, @bijan, @logangreen, @jack, @aclu, @backlon, @benioff, @jeffweiner, @dickc, @anildash, @paulg, @mkapor, @mims, @davemcclure, @kateconger, @mgsiegler, @markpinc, @anildash, @mikeisaac, @gruber, @mikeisaac, @johnpaczkowski, @jeffiel, @jguynn, @johnpaczkowski, @spolsky, @frankquattrone, @travisk, @drewhouston, @mcuban, @johnpaczkowski, @tvietor08, @levie, @anildash, and @stevesi
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai slams Trump's immigration executive order in internal memo, says 100+ company staff travelling abroad with valid visas are affected — Memo from CEO Pichai says more than 100 employees impacted — Pichai says President's move caused painful ‘personal costs’
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Sam Altman, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Verge, ProPublica, Windows Central, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Mashable, Engadget, TechCrunch, CNET, Axios, BuzzFeed, USA Today, The Verge, BBC, Android Central, Neowin, 9to5Mac, ABC News, Business Insider, VICE News, Patently Apple, Android Authority, Slate, The Hill, 9to5Google, Bloomberg, Washington Post, AOL, Wired, CNN, Addicted to Digital Media, Seeking Alpha, Fortune, New York Daily News, Vox, and The Guardian
Tweets: @bchesky, @greene, @kantrowitz, @jeffjarvis, @carnage4life, @mims, @liamstack, @nycsouthpaw, and @liamstack
| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
Mark Zuckerberg says he's “concerned” about President Trump's executive orders on immigration, affirms support for “Dreamers” — My great grandparents came from Germany, Austria and Poland. Priscilla's parents were refugees from China and Vietnam.
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TechCrunch, New York Times, The Verge, Recode, iMore, Washington Post, GeekWire, Newser, CBS San Francisco, VentureBeat, Business Insider, CNNMoney, Tech Times, The Guardian, The Hill, Axios, Breitbart, CNET, The Next Web, Quartz, BuzzFeed, CNBC, International Business Times, TechCrunch, Mashable, Engadget, Fortune, Reuters, and AOL
Tweets: @daveleebbc, @anildash, @mikeisaac, @ashleyfeinberg, @steve228uk, @mekosoff, @mcwm, and @ajs
| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook making rounds in DC: dinner Thursday night with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, meeting Friday with Sen. Orrin Hatch — Apple CEO Tim Cook has apparently been sharpening his political skills. — Politico reported that Cook had dinner Thursday night …
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Recode, Politico, BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, Business Insider, Patently Apple, The Hill, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, and The Hill. Tweets: @padmasree
| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: Snap to publicly file for IPO late next week, which likely means a March IPO — The social communications company's current valuation is $25 billion, said sources. — According to sources, Snap Inc. plans to publicly file for its much-anticipated initial public offering late next week.| Elizabeth Banker / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter discloses two NSLs after lifting of FBI gag order; next hearing for its lawsuit against US government over disclosure of NSLs is February 14 — Today, we're able to speak openly about two national security requests for the first time, specifically two national security letters (NSLs).
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Reuters, VentureBeat, International Business Times, Techdirt, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Verge, Tech Times, TechCrunch, The Hill, Fortune, CNET, Mashable, and Axios. Tweets: @allthingsopsec
| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
Book excerpt: how Uber and Airbnb, now worth a total of $99B, won customers, fought regulators, and figured out the sharing economy — In January 2009 the three founders of a little-known website called Airbedandbreakfast.com decided at the last minute to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama.| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg breaks post-election silence to speak out against global gag rule on abortion — Sheryl Sandberg spoke out on Thursday against President Donald Trump's anti-abortion executive order. — The Facebook COO published a post on her Facebook page that chronicles …
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Pando, USA Today, Fortune, The Verge, The Daily Dot, Mercury News, Daily Mail, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, VentureBeat, BuzzFeed, The Hill, Fortune, TechCrunch, Vanity Fair, International Business Times, Axios, SiliconBeat, CNNMoney, and New York Times
Tweets: @kenroth, @scottmcgrew, and @sarahcuda
| Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair: |
New audio and video technologies that can easily recreate any person's likeness will make fake stories harder to detect — What we saw in the 2016 election is nothing compared to what we need to prepare for in 2020. — Less than a month after Donald Trump was improbably elected …
Tweets: @emilybell
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Google has accelerated efforts to forge ties with Trump administration post-election, but denies a change in strategy, saying it has long had GOP lobbyists — WASHINGTON — Few companies have been as intimately tied to the Democratic Party in recent years as Google.| New York Times: |
Recent small moves by Google and Facebook, such as tweaking Trending topics, highlight how hard it is to limit misinformation online — SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Facebook have been taking steps to curb the number of false news articles propagated across their sites.| New York Times: |
Russian media reports say two Russian intel officers who worked in office linked to US election hacking have been charged with treason for providing info to US — WASHINGTON — Ever since American intelligence agencies accused Russia of trying to influence the American election …
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