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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 …

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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 …

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Tweets: @kenroth, @scottmcgrew, and @sarahcuda

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