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Amazon partners with Foxconn to establish its first device manufacturing line in India, operational later this year, to make Fire TV sticks locally — Bengaluru: Amazon.com Inc. is setting up its first device manufacturing line in India to make Fire TV sticks locally. The facility will become operational later this year.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's unified Office mobile app, which combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint into a single application, is now available on iPad — A tablet-friendly version is finally here — Microsoft has updated its unified Office mobile app to work on Apple's iPad devices.| David Meyer / Fortune: |
TikTok has been hit with a volley of complaints from Europe's consumer protection watchdogs over “misleading” privacy practices and “ambiguous” terms — Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Parler says it is now accessible for existing users and will accept new signups starting next week, announces Tea Party activist Mark Meckler as interim CEO — An Amazon suspension shut it down in January — The alternative social network Parler has reopened after a month offline.
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
UK filing: OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei's new venture Nothing has acquired Essential, Andy Rubin's now-defunct smartphone brand — After a series of launch teasers and little information on upcoming product lines, Carl Pei's flegling technology brand Nothing is now the sole owner of the one-time smartphone brand Essential.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
Revelations from government investigations have paved the way for private antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook brought by publishers and advertisers — Government antitrust lawsuits have created openings for numerous private cases against Big Tech, with more expected to come.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Trend Micro details an unpatched remote code execution bug in the Android version of SHAREit, an app with 1B+ Play Store downloads that lets users share files — The vulnerabilities impact SHAREit, an app used for sharing files between users and their devices.
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| Olivia Raimonde / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin briefly crossed the $50K mark today, up ~73% YTD, while Ethereum hit a record $1,785, up ~140% YTD — - Rival cryptocurrency Ether hit a record of its own on Friday — Morgan Stanley is considering Bitcoin for investment fund — Bitcoin blew through another milestone …
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Investigation finds ten websites offering fake Amazon reviews from £5 each; five of the websites claimed to have 702K+ “product reviewers” on their books — Fake reviews for products sold on Amazon's Marketplace are being sold online “in bulk”, according to Which?
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Source: Palo Alto Networks acquires Israeli startup BridgeCrew, which develops and delivers security as code, for $200M — This is the seventh Israeli company purchased by the Silicon Valley cyber powerhouse — Israeli-founded cyber company Bridgecrew Technologies has been acquired by Palo Alto Networks …
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| Matthew Hutson / New Yorker: |
Some AI researchers are increasingly worried about the lack of ethical oversight, with the job often falling to peer reviewers, a stark contrast to other fields — At artificial-intelligence conferences, researchers are increasingly alarmed by what they see.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Clubhouse, which centralizes creation and consumption into a feedback loop, will do for audio what Twitter, Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video — To what extent are new companies, particularly those in new spaces, pushed versus pulled into existence? Last week I wrote about how Tesla is a Meme Company:
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