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Ant Group says its IPO has been suspended in both Shanghai and Hong Kong, after Chinese regulators summoned Jack Ma and other executives of the company — The Shanghai Stock Exchange postponed the offering one day after regulators summoned Jack Ma and other executives of the financial technology giant.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Some Instagram users see a banner that says Election Day is tomorrow, not today; Facebook says it was cached for a “small group” of users — On Election Day, a subset of Instagram users woke up to a message at the top of their Instagram feeds that read, “Tomorrow is Election Day.”
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Spotify begins rolling out support for streaming audio from its standalone Apple Watch app — Back in September, we saw Spotify finally start testing streaming support for its Apple Watch app, something we've seen arrive with other third-party services like Pandora months ago.| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Study: YouTube's recent efforts to fight misinfo by cutting recommendations to fringe channels worked but made Fox News the most recommended for election videos — To battle false information, YouTube cut its recommendations to fringe channels and instead promoted major networks, especially Fox News.
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
US Cyber Command and the NSA say they took actions against Iranian hackers in recent weeks to deter election interference, but did not specify actions taken — U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency have taken recent actions to ensure that foreign actors do not interfere in the 2020 election …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Snapchat now lets creators display their subscriber counts, the first time Snapchat has given users any public-facing metric of their audience or followers — Great for brand deals — Snapchat is now allowing creators to publicize how many subscribers they have.
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Internal Facebook survey shows only 51% believe Facebook was having a positive impact in the world, down 23% from May and down 5.5% from last year — Less than 24 hours before a historic US presidential election day, Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president of global affairs and communications …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Indonesian online marketplace Bukalapak raises $100M from Microsoft and others at a $2.5B-$3B valuation; Microsoft says it has partnered with Bukalapak — - Existing backers GIC and Emtek Group are also joining funding — Microsoft says in a statement it'll make strategic investment
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Semiconductor manufacturing has further shifted to Asia in recent years from US and EU, with many US chip companies contracting out to Asian producers like TSMC — More semiconductors are now manufactured in Asia than anywhere else. A chart-filled look at how that happened and what it means| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal CEO says that, by end of H1 2021 starting in US, users will be able to pay with cryptocurrency at 28M PayPal merchants without any new “incremental fees” — PayPal this week laid out its vision for the future of its digital wallet platform and its PayPal and Venmo apps.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
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| The Information: |
Two senior executives at Lyft, in charge of strategic initiatives and design, respectively, are leaving the firm on the eve of California's vote on Prop 22 — Two senior executives at Lyft, in charge of strategic initiatives and design, are leaving the ride-hailing firm, The Information has learned.| Meredith Whittaker / The Boston Globe: |
People who are most affected by AI decision-making should be allowed to play a central role in shaping conversations about algorithmic governance and regulation — The people who bear the risks of algorithmic systems should get to determine whether — and how — they're used.
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| R.T. Watson / Wall Street Journal: |
Looking to improve their AR and VR offerings, tech companies are hiring Hollywood's visual artists, who are tired of their industry's working conditions — From ‘Star Wars’ to Animoji, visual effects gurus create digital worlds meant to advance computing — Silicon Valley's biggest companies …
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