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| Katie Abel / Footwear News: |
Zappos co-founder Tony Hsieh, who stepped down as CEO earlier this year, has died at age 46, reportedly from injuries sustained in a house fire in Connecticut — Tony Hsieh, the brilliant and big-hearted Zappos.com luminary who revolutionized the shoe business and built one of the most innovative companies in modern history, has died.
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
A tribute to Tony Hsieh, a notable figure on the startup scene since 1996, and whose life recalls a friendlier and less polarized Internet era — Tony Hsieh, an Internet entrepreneur and former CEO of Zappos, an Amazon company, died from injuries incurred during a house fire when visiting family in Connecticut on November 27, 2020.
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Interviews with tech leaders on Tony Hsieh's legacy, his student life at Harvard, his unconventional business approach, and the culture he built at Zappos — Tony Hsieh, bestselling author and longtime former CEO of ecommerce pioneer Zappos.com, died at age 46 on Friday.
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| Peter Steinberger / steipete's blog: |
Most developer tools aren't ready yet for M1 Macs, but next gen Mx Macs should be fully capable main development machines when Apple launches them next year — The excitement around Apple's new M1 chip is everywhere. I bought a MacBook Air 16GB M1 to see how viable it is as main development machine …
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[Thread] A look at the “black magic” that lets Apple's M1 chip achieve extraordinary performance and efficiency gains — 1/ In case you were wondering: Apple's replacement for Intel processors turns out to work really, really well. Some otherwise skeptical techies are calling it “black magic”. It runs Intel code extraordinarily well.
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| Anna Kramer / Protocol: |
Profile of Christine Su, Twitter's senior PM for conversational safety, who is a queer Asian-American “activist-entrepreneur” with an MBA and MA in agriculture — About six months ago, Twitter quietly hired someone to become the head of product for conversational safety on the platform.
Tweets: @neerajka, @martinsfp, @anna_c_kramer, @protocol, @anna_c_kramer, and @jcbcp
| Nikkei Asia: |
Report: China accounted for 23% of cross-border data flows in 2019, nearly twice the share of the US, which ranked second with 12%, followed by the UK and India — Asian ‘data sphere’ gives the country twice the information flows of the US — People view laptop computers from Chinese tech firm Huawei at an expo in Beijing.| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
HMBradley, a Santa Monica-based banking startup which offers up to 3% interest on savings accounts, raises $18.25M Series A led by Acrew Capital — As consumers look for ways to make their money earn more money, digital banking platform HMBradley is developing programs to reward savers.
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| Hannah Natanson / Washington Post: |
A report on student grades from Virginia reveals that online learning has led to a sharp drop in students' academic performance — A report on student grades from one of the nation's largest school districts offers some of the first concrete evidence that online learning is forcing … | Foreign Affairs: |
Big Tech threatens democracy and one solution may be to take away their role as gatekeepers of content and let users choose the information presented to them — Among the many transformations taking place in the U.S. economy, none is more salient than the growth of gigantic Internet platforms.| Wall Street Journal: |
Pandemic has deepened the digital education divide in India, where ~38% of households with students had no smartphone in the house, according to a recent survey — Children across India are struggling to keep up because they don't have the tech tools for online classes
Tweets: @asanwal, @scurve, @wsj, and @storonimithu
| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
As Facebook and Google continue to ban political ads, Republican super PACs are spending millions on other platforms that offer no advertiser transparency — Facebook and Google are still banning political ads on their platforms, but that hasn't stopped Republican super PACs from spending millions …
Tweets: @issielapowsky, @brendan_fischer, and @digiphile
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