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Amateur digital sleuths have joined massive crowdsourcing efforts on social media to track violent Capital rioters, passing the evidence to authorities — The digital sleuths take to their computers in the moments when they can peel away from their real-world responsibilities — jobs … | Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Samsung Electronics heir Jay Y. Lee was sentenced to 30 months in prison over bribery charges; Lee still faces a second prosecution related to succession — - Lee sentenced to two and a half years in jail after court case — Samsung succession scandal has rocked South Korea for years
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| Reuters: |
Sources: in a flurry of parting actions against China, Trump's admin has notified Huawei suppliers including Intel that it's revoking licenses to sell to Huawei — NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration notified Huawei suppliers, including chipmaker Intel …
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Social media algorithms amplify the reach of incendiary, misinformation-filled, conspiracy theories, and users have no control over them — What you see in your feeds isn't up to you. What's at stake is no longer just missing a birthday. It's your sanity—and world peace.
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
GitHub apologizes to the employee it fired for using the term “Nazis” on January 6, offers him his job back, and says the company's head of HR has resigned — The company is offering the employee his job back — GitHub is admitting that a Jewish employee was fired in error and is offering him his job back.
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| Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk: |
Maps.me, an offline mobile map for travelers, raises $50M seed led by Alameda Research, aims to launch “yield earning” DeFi tools inside the app — The funding will go toward the launch of a multi-currency wallet on Maps.me, enabling decentralized finance (DeFi) features for 140 million users.
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| Medium: |
A look at the shady aspects of Tether, the stablecoin being probed by SDNY for over a year, widely used to buy BTC and other cryptocurrencies on many exchanges — This is the story of a Bitcoin trade — the most financially impactful trade I've ever made in my life.
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| Anshuman Daga / Reuters: |
Sources: Southeast Asian ride-hailing and food delivery giant Grab is considering an IPO in the US this year that could raise at least $2B — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Southeast Asian ride-hailing and food delivery giant Grab is exploring a listing in the United States this year … | New York Times: |
A look at the incentives, like guaranteed auction win percentages, that Facebook got from Google in the ad partnership that is now a focus of an antitrust suit — Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.
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The Keyword, HotHardware.com News, phonearena.com, CNBC, Android Headlines, Engadget, and ZDNet
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
All-in-one HR service Personio raises $125M Series D at a $1.7B post-money valuation co-led by Index Ventures and Meritech — With the last year changing how (and where) many of us work, organizations have started to rethink how well they manage their employees, and what tools they use to do that.
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Tech.eu, EU-Startups, SiliconANGLE, Tech.eu, Silicon Canals, and Personio
| Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T, Verizon, and other bidders have spent a record $80.9B during the 5G spectrum auction, expected to lead to a wave of borrowing for the indebted sector — AT&T, Verizon expected to turn to bond markets and banks to finance bids in record-setting FCC airwaves auction
Tweets: @natesafety
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
proSapient, a research service helping customers gather insights from experts via interviews and surveys, raises $10M Series A led by Smedvig Capital — For several years there has been talk about how to leverage ‘experts’ online. How do you ‘suck their brains’ for information in an efficient manner … Sponsor Posts
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Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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