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Oracle says it is moving its corporate headquarters from Redwood City, CA to Austin, TX and will implement “a more flexible employee work location policy” — - Oracle is the latest tech company to relocate from California to Austin, Texas. — HPE announced its move to Houston earlier this month.
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Public records show school districts across the US are purchasing phone hacking tools from companies like Cellebrite to search students' personal devices — In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by one of the district's school resource officers.
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Four key Facebook staffers who dealt with hateful or violent speech have left in recent weeks, calling out leadership for lack of action in their farewell posts — On Wednesday, a Facebook data scientist departed the social networking company after a two-year stint, leaving a farewell note for their colleagues to ponder.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it has acquired screen-sharing social app Squad whose team will join Twitter, and it will shut down the app tomorrow — Today, Twitter announced that it is acquiring Squad and that the team from the screen-sharing social app will be joining Twitter's ranks.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Some iPhone users say iOS 14 is not showing notifications when receiving SMS texts and iMessages — An iOS 14 bug doesn't show notifications when some new messages arrive — If you've noticed that you're receiving SMS texts and iMessages from people but aren't getting any notifications about them, you're not alone.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Filing: California is seeking to join the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Google, making it the first Democratic state to request to join 11 GOP AGs in the suit — - California is seeking to join the Justice Department in its antitrust lawsuit against Google, according to a court filing the state submitted on Friday.
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| Kyunghee Park / Bloomberg: |
Hyundai buys an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics in a deal that values the robot company at $1.1B — - SoftBank, affiliates to retain 20% interest in U.S. company — South Korean group develops robots for practical use — Hyundai Motor Group agreed to buy a controlling stake …
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| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Some restaurants listed as Black-owned on Uber Eats appear to not be owned by Black people, as Uber lets restaurants self-identify through a form — Several restaurants listed as being Black-owned on Uber Eats appear to not be owned by Black people. — Uber and other delivery apps … | Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Norman Abramson, the wireless network pioneer known for leading the development of Hawaii's ALOHAnet, died last week at 88 — His ALOHAnet, designed a half-century ago in Hawaii, was a precursor to the technology used in today's smartphones and home WiFi networks.| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Sources: Israeli surveillance vendors like Bsightful, backed by the US public company Verint, hook into ad exchange systems to siphon app location data — This year has seen a rush amongst government snoops for a new and sometimes contentious data set: location data grabbed by smartphone popular apps.
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| Sarah Harford / Silicon Republic: |
Ireland-based Immedis, whose software is used to process payroll in 150+ countries, raises $50M from Lead Edge Capital and is now valued at more than $575M — Irish tech company Immedis has secured $50m in investment from Lead Edge Capital, a growth-stage investment fund based in New York and California.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft: “Adrozek” malware campaign is distributing an ad-injecting browser modifier which changes security settings; Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Yandex at risk — Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Yandex are all affected in widespread ad-injection campaign.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Disney's stream of Disney+ announcements on Thursday finally delivered on ~$100B worth of acquisitions over 15 years of widely adored billion dollar franchises — Disney's big streaming event showed what Disney Plus will be — By the end of Disney's four-hour event … | Geoffrey Fowler / Washington Post: |
Senator Klobuchar, alarmed by the “intrusive” nature of Amazon's Halo health tracker, writes letter to HHS asking it to safeguard users' private health data — The $65 wearable contains an always-on microphone and asks users to strip down for 3-D body scans| Bloomberg: |
Innoviz, a lidar company backed by auto suppliers Magna and Aptiv, is going public via a SPAC merger expected to close in Q1 2021 at a valuation of $1.4B — - Startup supplies laser sensors for BMW's iX model due in 2021 — Innoviz is fourth lidar company in 2020 to go public via SPAC
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| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Internal memo: Roblox, citing soaring market debuts of Airbnb and DoorDash, says it is too difficult to price its shares and will delay its IPO until next year — Videogame company, citing Airbnb and DoorDash market debuts, says it is too difficult to price its shares| Nickie Louise / Tech Startups: |
Wisconsin-based Fetch Rewards raises $80M Series C led by ICONIQ Growth for its consumer loyalty and retail rewards app, bringing its total raised to $118M — Late last month, we wrote about the 50 most funded tech startups in the United States in 2020. Little did we know that Fetch Rewards …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Bionic, which helps businesses manage applications via automated app analytics, has come out of stealth with $17M in Series A and seed funding — App analytics startup Bionic today emerged from stealth with $17 million, a combination of series A and seed funding.| FinSMEs: |
Graphiant, a stealth startup working on next generation computer networking tech, raises $33.5M Series A co-led by Sequoia Capital and Two Bear Capital — Graphiant Inc., a Palo Alto, CA-based computer networking company, raised $33.5m in Series A funding.
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| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Members of Spotify unions at Gimlet, The Ringer, and Parcast stopped working for two hours on Friday, demanding fairer contracts and better working conditions — Spotify has only recognized one union, but they've all been fighting for a better contract this past year. — EOSponsor Posts
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