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| Nick Clegg / About Facebook: |
Facebook is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend Trump's accounts to the Oversight Board and says the accounts will remain suspended in the meantime — Today, Facebook is referring its decision to indefinitely suspend former US President Donald Trump's access to his Facebook …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Alphabet says that it is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon project, calling it “a successful experiment” — Plus: The moonshot's launch, health care for the mask-less, and a new era's inaugural meme. — DO you detect something missing? Like that unease in your gut that everything has gone to hell?
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's first VR headset, planned for 2022 with a focus on gaming, video, and communication but with limited AR features, faces development hurdles — Apple Inc.'s first crack at a headset is designed to be a pricey, niche precursor to a more ambitious augmented reality product …
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| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
Instacart cuts 1,877 jobs, including its only union roles, as it shifts to new models, like selling its tech to retailers to have their staff prepare orders — Instacart Inc. plans to terminate about 1,900 employees' jobs, including the only unionized positions in the U.S., representing a fulsome embrace of the gig economy.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 Pico, a tiny microcontroller for hardware projects that uses Raspberry Pi's own RP2040 chip — Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico, a tiny little microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects with some code running on the microcontroller.
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| April Glaser / NBC News: |
Profile of Jessica Rosenworcel, the second woman to lead the FCC as acting chair and a big proponent of net neutrality and expanding broadband access — President Joe Biden has picked Jessica Rosenworcel to run the Federal Communications Commission in an interim position.| Margaret Harding McGill / Axios: |
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q4 revenue of $20B, down 1% YoY, Data Center Group revenue of $6.1B, down 16% YoY, as new CEO commits to manufacturing, stock down ~5% after hours — - Intel's earnings report on Thursday is the last with Bob Swan in the CEO role. — Former VMWare CEO Pat Gelsinger takes over as Intel CEO in February.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Federal judge rejects Parler's demand to be reinstated on AWS — Ruling calls Parler's antitrust evidence ‘dwindlingly slight’ — A Washington judge has denied social network Parler's demand to be reinstated on Amazon Web Services. Following a hearing last week, Judge Barbara Rothstein declined …
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Tweets: @politics1com, @karaswisher, @thedextriarchy, and @maggiejordanacn
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Pebble founder launches Beeper, a $10/month universal chat app promising to bring 15 chat services, including iMessage on Android and Windows, into a single UI — Beeper brings 15 chat apps together into one interface — Beeper is a new universal chat app that's an attempt …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Google signs an agreement with French publishers to create a framework of payment for snippet reuse and has reached agreements with three major newspapers — Google has reached an agreement with an association of French publishers over how it will be pay for reuse of snippets of their content.
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Le blog officiel de …, CNBC, CNN, Engadget, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Android Headlines, Social Media Today, Android Central, and EURACTIV.com
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| Alex Kantrowitz / OneZero : |
Internal memo: Facebook's Andrew Bosworth told staff in Dec. to build products prioritizing privacy, as the public's expectations around privacy have shifted — Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth tells colleagues that privacy matters more than the product experience
Tweets: @rmac18, @antonhand, and @martinsfp
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Bluesky, Twitter's decentralized social networking project, releases a review of the existing decentralized web ecosystem, says it still seeks a project lead — Bluesky is still seeking a project lead — Bluesky, Twitter's decentralized social networking effort, has announced its first major update since 2019.| Kim-Mai Cutler / Initialized: |
Survey of portfolio companies: 40% of founders say remote or decentralized is best for a new startup, most with offices will have 2 or 3 days in office per week — Where are tech companies going to go once the pandemic subsides as vaccines reach more and more Americans?
Tweets: @kimmaicutler, @kimmaicutler, @coryweinberg, @brianmcc, @garrytan, @kimmaicutler, @sandofsky, and @rwsimonetti
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra review: beautiful screen with high refresh rate and a great camera system but let down by software with ads and subpar Bixby — Samsung's “Ultra” phones are meant to be the absolute pinnacle of the company's (non-folding) mobile technology.
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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
In an Australian Senate hearing, a Google executive said that a law forcing Google to pay news outlets for links could prompt it to stop offering Search — As Google and Facebook face Senate committee, poll finds three in five Australians agree social media companies should prioritise news in feeds| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Podcasters say Anchor's sponsorship feature seems to be seriously lacking in sponsors, and they've received few, if any, ads beyond Anchor or Spotify itself — John Newman is the type of person companies like Spotify want to get involved in podcasting. He has a niche interest …
Tweets: @thebyroncraig, @jake_k, @quinnypig, @mattnavarra, and @ashleyrcarman
| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Plaid to seek financing that could triple its valuation to ~$15B according to a source, amid a surge in investor interest following Visa's abandoned acquisition — Normally CEOs that opt to sell their companies aren't happy when the government blocks the deal over antitrust concerns.
Tweets: @amir, @villi, @digitallawyer, @iankar_, @kateclarktweets, and @henrylmcnamara
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Omnipresent, which helps companies hire remote workers in 150 countries, raises $15.8M Series A, five months after raising a $2M seed round — Omnipresent, which helps companies employ remote-working local teams worldwide, has closed a $15.8 million Series A funding round.
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