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Ahead of proposed media law, Facebook bans Australians from sharing or viewing news and all users from sharing and viewing news on Australian news Pages — In response to Australia's proposed new Media Bargaining law, Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing …
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| ABC: |
Australian authorities in public health, weather, and other areas say Facebook has removed posts from their feeds following Facebook's news ban — Facebook has restricted access to news in Australia, and so far the tech giant seems to have taken a pretty broad definition of news.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Banning Australian news makes sense for Facebook and may prompt people to visit news sites directly; Google's payoffs, though, will invite global shakedowns — But Google gives in. What's next? — Yesterday, I wrote that Australia's News Media Bargaining Code threatened to splinter the internet.
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| News Corp: |
News Corp announces a multi-year, global partnership with Google to provide content from its news sites “in return for significant payments by Google” — Long-term Deal Involves Payment For Premium Content For Google News Showcase; — Will Yield Substantial Benefits For Journalism And Society
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| Noam Bardin: |
Former Waze CEO reflects on his time at Google and the impact of the acquisition on autonomy, the brand, hiring and firing, distribution, compensation, and more — It's been two weeks since I left Google and I keep getting asked “why did I leave now”? I think the better question is “why did I stay for so long”?
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| Bloomberg: |
YouTube says YouTube Kids app now has 35M weekly active users and launches new tools for creators to make money from their fans, including an applause feature — - Company says feature called Shorts still in testing stage — Google unit also introduces new revenue tools for creators| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches over 50 new features for its education products, including Classroom, Meet, and Workspace, with a focus on meeting educators' and admins' needs — Google today introduced a suite of updates for its online education tools whose adoption and further development have been accelerated …
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| Ben Geman / Axios: |
Facebook says it will expand its program to fight climate lies to other regions, will debunk climate change myths, adds labels to climate change posts in the UK — Facebook is expanding the geographic reach of its recently launched online portal to counter misinformation about climate change … | Allana Akhtar / Insider: |
Ahead of Congressional hearing on GameStop, Vlad Tenev denies Robinhood colluded with hedge funds, asks for revision of SEC rule so trades settle in real-time — - Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev released his testimony ahead of Thursday's Congressional hearing. — The House asked Tenev …
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Sources: Google will restructure its Responsible AI teams to centralize them under a single Black executive, Marian Croak, in wake of Timnit Gebru's departure — - Company seeks to stabilize department amid internal rancor — Responsible AI teams to be centralized under single executive
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Beyond Search. Tweets: @nicoagrant, @dinabass, @timnitgebru, @timnitgebru, @coflowco, and @tursiae_
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Job listings show Apple is looking to hire engineers to start work on 6G, indicating it wants to be a leader in the technology — - Company wants to rely less on others for new technology — Job listings posted for positions in San Diego, Silicon Valley| Karl Bode / VICE: |
FCC launches the Broadband Data Task Force to collect data and develop more precise maps of US broadband availability, which currently rely on ISP-provided data — You can't fix a problem you don't understand. And for decades the US has refused to accurately measure the full scope of US broadband market failure.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Recent deals like the iHeart Media's purchase of Triton Digital suggest that ad tech, not exclusive content, will be the key to long-term success in podcasting — iHeart Media acquires Triton Digital for $230 million — iHeartMedia, the company behind podcasts like Stuff You Should Know and hundreds … | Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Court filing says a Facebook manager warned that the company reported revenues it “should have never made” by overstating how many users advertisers could reach — Lawsuit cites product executive's qualms over figures provided to advertisers — A Facebook employee warned …
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
Amazon announces Build It, a Kickstarter-like program that lets customers vote on products and says it will build those that get enough support within 30 days — - A new program from Amazon called Build It lets customers choose to back a new product, and if it gets enough support within 30 days, Amazon will build it.| Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters: |
Sources: Apple is lobbying to participate in a new scheme to boost India's computer exports, as part of plans to bring iPad manufacturing to the country — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Apple Inc is angling to participate in a new scheme to boost India's exports of computer products …
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9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, and Patently Apple. Tweets: @reutersbiz
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Artie, a startup pivoting from AR avatars to mobile games playable inside social media apps without any additional app downloads, raises $10M seed — Artie has raised $10 million to make instant mobile games that can be played directly inside social media, video and messaging platforms …
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| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu reports Q4 revenue of $4.64B, up 4.8% YoY, driven by a 52% increase in its non-ad businesses, and forecasts sales of $4B-$4.4B for Q1, topping estimates — - Search giant has sought to transform itself into an AI company — Baidu shares climb in after-hours trading following earnings| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Grip, which enables networking across virtual, hybrid, and live events, raises $13M Series A led by Kennet Partners, bringing its total raised to $14.5M — With offline events now firmly moved to online for the foreseeable future, startups in the networking space had to pivot fast in the face of the pandemic.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Twilio reports Q4 revenue of $548.1M, up 65% YoY, vs. $454.7M est.; says it now has 221,000 active customer accounts, up from 179,000 at the end of 2019 — Twilio says it now has 221,000 active customer accounts, up from 179,000 at the end of 2019. — Twilio delivered better … | Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
US federal judge rules that Citibank isn't entitled to be returned $500M it accidentally sent to creditors early via Flexcube software, which had a confusing UI — Citibank was trying to make $7.8M in interest payments. It sent $900M instead. — A federal judge has ruled that Citibank …
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| Balaji S. Srinivasan: |
India banning crypto is technically, socially, and politically infeasible; instead, India should use its remittance-friendly regulations to legalize crypto — India already has a regulatory regime for crypto. It's called the Foreign Exchange Management Act. — Previously, I detailed why India should buy Bitcoin.
Tweets: @jrtechlaw, @bvsrinivasan, @smtgpt, @bharadwajseeks, @gautamchhugani, and @freedommaximal
| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
How the success of California's Prop 22, driven by gig economy companies, is affecting negotiations between unions and businesses across the US — The tower of aging Manila envelopes, stacked in a corner of Rome Aloise's cluttered Bay Area home office, is a monument to five years of failure.
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
DOJ charges three suspected North Korean hackers for allegedly conspiring to steal and extort over $1.3B in cash and cryptocurrencies from banks and businesses — The Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed charges against three North Korean hacker spies accused of conspiring to steal …
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us-cert.cisa.gov, Krebs on Security, Wired, and CNBC
Tweets: @ericgeller, @isaacstonefish, and @jessmarindavis
| Sean Burch / The Wrap: |
Triller CEO now says the company never inflated user numbers and that Triller should even be valued at over $10B based on claims made in a Billboard report — CEO Mike Lu said the company has “never” padded its user count, one day after Billboard said the app had half the 50 million users it claimed
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