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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
How one disgruntled person destroyed the online reputations of 145+ people, aided by “complaint sites” in the US and platforms like Google that rarely intervene — Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock's online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined.
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| Under the Hood: |
Robinhood explains why it placed restrictions on certain securities over the past week, says its clearinghouse-mandated deposit for equities increased tenfold — With the extraordinary market activity this week, and the temporary restrictions we put in place on certain securities …
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| Jesse Westbrook / Bloomberg: |
SEC says it “will closely review actions taken by regulated entities that may disadvantage investors” in trading certain securities — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, making its most specific comments about the recent mania in the stock market … | Tom Hals / Reuters: |
Legal experts say Robinhood is not legally bound to carry out every trade and is protected from lawsuits by its user agreement — (Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc's user agreement is likely to protect the brokerage app from a barrage of lawsuits filed by customers after it blocked …
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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Google has reinstated federated chat app Element on the Play Store after briefly pulling it over abusive content, which is now removed, on Element's servers — Element is a popular client for the federated chat protocol Matrix, and we highlighted it in our roundup of the best open-source alternatives …
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| Cat Ferguson / MIT Technology Review: |
VAMS, a CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M to manage rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, has been abandoned by states due to bugs and problems — The CDC ordered software that was meant to manage the vaccine rollout. Instead, it has been plagued by problems and abandoned by most states.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Experts say Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature will damage Facebook's core business; the feature will limit Facebook's data collection from 85K+ iOS apps — New feature on iPhones will limit Facebook's ability to collect data from apps and prove that ads work
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Canalys: a record 11.2M Chromebooks were shipped in Q4 2020, up 287% YoY, with Lenovo Chromebooks up 1,766%; in 2020, 30.7M Chromebooks were shipped, up 109% — COVID-19 has had a lot of negative effects on the market, but it's been great for the PC market as millions of people transitioned to working and learning from home.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Canalys: smartphone shipments in China fell 4% YoY to 84M in Q4 2020 and shipments for 2020 fell 11% YoY to 330M, as iPhone's share jumped from 15% to 18% YoY — The impact of United States government sanctions on Huawei is continuing to hurt the company and dampen overall smartphone shipments in China …
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Alphabet Workers Union members in the US say they were blindsided by the announcement of an international alliance and are considering disaffiliation from CWA — Members say they were blindsided by the news, and some are considering a push to disaffiliate from the Communications Workers of America
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| Bloomberg: |
Current and former staff say much of Amazon's struggles in gaming rest with the leadership of its gaming division, which reportedly has a budget of $500M/year — Mike Frazzini had never made a video game when he helped start Amazon Game Studios. Eight years later, he has released two duds …
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
ELSA, an app that helps non-native English speakers improve pronunciation and speaking skills, raises $15M Series B, says its revenue increased by ~300% in 2020 — - Founder draws on her experience for English-language app — ELSA's backers led by Vietnam Investments Group, SIGSponsor Posts
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