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January 29, 2017, 5:45 PM

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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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Matthew Dessem / Slate:

Kalanick's work with Trump and tepid travel ban response prompt #DeleteUber backlash after company suspends surge pricing at JFK Airport amid taxi work stoppage — There are a lot of reasons to not use ride-hailing app Uber: shoddy labor practices; attempts to strong-arm local governments …

More: BuzzFeed, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, Axios, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, The Verge, BetaNews, GeekWire, The Hill, USA Today, Mashable, Fortune, The Huffington Post, CNBC, Hollywood Reporter, MarketWatch, BuzzFeed, Motherboard, New York Times, POPSUGAR, Business Insider, Adweek, Gizmodo, CNNMoney, Fortune, Business Insider, The Next Web, and Newser

Tweets: @travisk, @teroterotero, @travisk, @marketingland, @travisk, @recode, and @mdudas

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.

More: Quartz. Thanks:@ericnewcomer

Ted Johnson / Variety:

ISPs, studios, and record labels end the four-year-old copyright alert system that sent warnings to users over P2P downloads of pirated content — Major internet providers are ending a four-year-old system in which consumers received “copyright alerts” when they viewed peer-to-peer pirated content.

More: Multichannel News, TechSpot, Good E-Reader, Yahoo, Engadget, and Broadcasting & Cable

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.

More: The Pondering Primate, Digital Trends, Tech Times, Android Authority, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, Mashable, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Axios, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @sbyrnes

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Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica:

Browser makers express frustration with invasive third-party antivirus software, which can make PCs less secure — Update your software and OS regularly instead, practice skeptical computing. — Former Firefox developer Robert O'Callahan, now a free agent and safe from the PR tentacles …

More: ZDNet, Neowin, Digital Trends, and Softpedia News

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Hinge is testing a personal assistant service called Audrey to help you get more dates — Dating app Hinge recently pivoted from swiping to “stories,” in order to help people find real relationships. That focus on authenticity, however, seems to stand in contrast to a project the company has been testing …

More: Business Insider and Gizmodo

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).

More: Reuters, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, International Business Times, Techdirt, The Hill, Tech Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, CNET, Mashable, and Axios. Tweets: @allthingsopsec

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 …

More: Recode, Business Insider, Politico, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, The Daily Caller, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, Patently Apple, Business Insider, The Hill, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, and The Hill. Tweets: @padmasree

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.

More: The Guardian and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @nytimes

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

FBI posts redacted Gamergate investigation report; Brianna Wu, a target of Gamergate trolls, says report shows how little the FBI cared about the investigation — The FBI has posted a heavily redacted report of its threat investigations during the Gamergate controversy in 2014 and 2015.

More: VentureBeat, Engadget, The Register, Digital Trends, and Gizmodo

Tweets: @martinsfp, @unburntwitch, @unburntwitch, and @spacekatgal

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 …

More: Pando, VentureBeat, CNET, USA Today, Fortune, AOL, The Verge, The Daily Dot, Mercury News, The Hill, Daily Mail, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, BuzzFeed, The Hill, Fortune, TechCrunch, Vanity Fair, Mashable, Engadget, International Business Times, Axios, SiliconBeat, and CNNMoney

Tweets: @kenroth, @scottmcgrew, and @sarahcuda

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