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Sources detail the efforts by Facebook executives to accommodate Trump's posts, starting in 2015 with a Trump video calling for a ban of Muslims entering the US — Starting as early as 2015, Facebook executives started crafting exceptions for the then-candidate that transformed the world's information battlefield for years to come.
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Interviews and documents shed light on Amazon's warehouse policies, exposing inconsistent health and safety protocols and tactics used to quell rising tensions — “I feel like I'm risking my life for a dollar” — what the struggle Amazon workers face during the pandemic says about the future of work in America.
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Just Eat Takeaway's Grubhub acquisition rests on the belief that restaurants should handle delivery, offering an order platform while avoiding associated costs — Bid by Dutch giant Just Eat Takeaway would join two companies that have avoided building their own delivery fleets
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Amazon says it has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across its 50+ fulfillment centers in India, replacing bubble wraps with paper cushions — Amazon said on Monday it has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across its fulfillment centers in India … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Apple's decision in Feb. to limit HTTPS certs' lifespan to 398 days in Safari has been mimicked by Chrome and Firefox to the dismay of Certificate Authorities — Apple, Google, and Mozilla reduce the lifespan for HTTPS certificates to 398 days, against the wishes of Certificate Authorities.| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Even as many companies adopt work from home policies during the pandemic, history shows that such initiatives have consistently failed and were abandoned — As the coronavirus keeps spreading, employers are convinced remote work has a bright future. Decades of setbacks suggest otherwise.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Confidential Computing Consortium, which wants to standardize the way data is encrypted while in use, adds 10 members, including AMD, Facebook, and Nvidia — An industry group called the Confidential Computing Consortium, which aims to standardize the way that data is encrypted while in use … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Mixer co-founder Matt Salsamendi on Microsoft shutting Mixer down, Twitch's market power, the need for low latency streaming, and his own startup journey — Matt Salsamendi was barely old enough to drive when he and James Boehm founded a game-streaming startup called Beam Interactive … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Pinterest has hired an outside law firm to investigate its workplace culture, reporting to its board, following public complaints of racial discrimination — - WilmerHale to review employee compensation, internal practices — Two former Pinterest employees allege racial discrimination
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
As Republicans flock to Parler, its CEO says its user base has grown 50% to 1.5M in about a week, and it is trying to pay liberals on Twitter to join — - Parler's user base has grown to 1.5 million from 1 million in about a week, CEO John Matze said. — Republican politicians …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Facebook expands its fan subscription program, launched in early 2018, to any creator in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and Thailand — Facebook is expanding the availability of the tools it offers to help game streamers and other online creators make money.
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Online used car marketplace Shift says it will go public through a reverse merger with Insurance Acquisition in Q3, raising $185M and valuing Shift at $415M — Shares of Carvana and Vroom soared with temporary closing of bricks-and-mortar dealerships — Online used-car seller Shift … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple will not include earbuds or charger in iPhone 12 box, instead introducing a 20W power adapter to be sold separately — Apple is set to be significantly slimming its packaging for its upcoming iPhone line. The analyst previously said that Apple will no longer include wired earbuds …
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