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Legal experts say FTC and state AGs will find it challenging to prove their allegations against Facebook because the standards of proof are formidable — The U.S. and states cases against the social network are far from a slam dunk because the standards of proof are formidable.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Airbnb closes at $144, up from its $68 IPO price, on its first day of trading after raising $3.5B at a valuation of $47.3B — - Airbnb opened at $146 per share on its first day of trading on Thursday, more than doubling the $68 per share price set for its IPO the day before.
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Cydia, a once-popular app store for jailbroken iOS devices, sues Apple, alleging the company used anti-competitive tactics in clearing the way for the App Store — Cydia, one of the first app stores on iPhone, is suing Apple, alleging anti-competitive behavior
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Disney introduces a new bundle offering Disney+, ESPN+, and ad-free Hulu for $18.99 a month — It's a new variant of its traditional bundle. … You want to skip the ads on Hulu? There's a Disney Bundle for that. — The company said it would launch a new bundle that includes Disney Plus … | Jennifer Surane / Bloomberg: |
Mastercard says it won't allow its cards to be used on Pornhub after the payment network's review of the site uncovered unlawful content — Mastercard Inc. said it won't allow its cards to be used on Pornhub.com after the network's review of the website uncovered unlawful content.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Germany launches an antitrust probe into Facebook tying Oculus use to possession of a Facebook account — Facebook's bad week just got worse: It's being investigated in Germany for linking usage of its VR product, Oculus, to having a Facebook account. — The tech giant raised the hackles …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter says iOS users can now add tweets to Snapchat Snaps as stickers, and it will soon test sharing tweets to Instagram Stories — Twitter continues to take over all social networks — Twitter is making it even easier to spread your tweets far and wide to every social media platform imaginable.
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| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
Biden staffers say their experiences in dealing with Facebook during the election left them concerned that the company is a threat to the electoral process — Inside the battle between Biden and Facebook. — Opinion Writer at Large — In the days after the election … | Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it will let users limit the alcohol and gambling ads they see, starting with YouTube in the US — The new feature will launch on YouTube in the U.S. first. — Google is adding new user controls for alcohol and gambling ads. The new feature, announced Thursday …
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| Washington Post: |
Review of Amazon's $100 Halo Band, a health tracking bracelet: excessively invasive without offering much in return for the data — The Halo Band asks you to strip down and strap on a microphone so that it can make 3-D scans of your body fat and monitor your tone of voice.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Google launches knowledge panels in search results to show accurate information about coronavirus vaccines, starting with the UK — - Google has launched new knowledge panels to show people accurate information about coronavirus vaccines. — The feature is only available in the U.K …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with ex-Google AI ethics co-lead Timnit Gebru, who says Sundar Pichai's “de-escalation strategies” language in his memo paints her as an “angry Black woman” — In a companywide memo to employees Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he's sorry …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google, Dell, Intel, Slack, Zoom, and others form The Modern Computing Alliance to tackle security, remote work, and other enterprise issues — The Modern Computing Alliance also includes Slack, Zoom, and others — Google, Dell, Intel and a handful of other major tech companies … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q2 revenue of $9.8B, rising 2% YoY and beating analyst estimates, with cloud services and license support driving growth, up 4% YoY to $7.1B — - Oracle's quarterly results beat expectations, and quarterly guidance came in above estimates. — The company's deal to become … | BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook insiders say it is prioritizing revenue over user safety by its lax approach to stopping scammers, hackers, and disinfo peddlers from buying ads — Facebook is on track for record ad revenue this year. That's partly due to its lax approach to stopping scammers, hackers … | Washington Post: |
National Weather Service says it has an Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting users to 60 connections/minute, which could hurt weather apps and sites — Agency floats a solution to problems that could hobble private companies and affect popular weather apps.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Shopping in Instagram Reels, rolling out globally starting today, letting businesses and creators tag products when they create Reels — Instagram today is launching Shopping in Reels, its TikTok competitor. The new feature was announced in October as something the company …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Spotify says it has reset an undisclosed number of user passwords after fixing a bug in its systems that exposed users' account data to its business partners — Spotify said it has reset an undisclosed number of user passwords after blaming a software vulnerability in its systems …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
UserLeap, which builds tools to give product managers more qualitative data, raises $16M Series A led by Accel — Product managers can only be successful if they can make effective use of both quantitative and qualitative data. But mapping the former to the latter, and collecting high-quality data … | The Daily Beast: |
Source: at an all-hands meeting, Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook employees they will not be required to get vaccinated before returning to work in their offices — The Facebook founder told his more than 50,000 employees that they will not be required to get vaccinated before heading back to the office.
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