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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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| 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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| 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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Gizmodo, The Economic Times, The Guardian, Engadget, BBC, Sydney Morning Herald, news.com.au, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Sydney Morning Herald, and NDTV.com
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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.| 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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hunterwalk.medium.com and PC Gamer
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| 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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The Keyword, The Keyword, The Economic Times, The Keyword, The Keyword, The Keyword, Android Central, Pocketnow, TechSpot, XDA Developers, and Neowin
Tweets: @hypervisible, @googleforedu, and @ampressman
| 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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U.S. Department of Justice, us-cert.cisa.gov, Krebs on Security, U.S. Department of Justice, Wired, CNBC, Reuters, Politico, Dark Reading, Federal Computer Week, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @ericgeller, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, @briankrebs, @isaacstonefish, @ericgeller, @jessmarindavis, @jvagle, @ericgeller, and @ariehkovler
| 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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| 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.
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About Amazon, The Verge, TechCrunch, Trusted Reviews, Mashable, and phonearena.com
Tweets: @dcseifert, @amazonnews, and @ow
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Waymo says it has begun testing its autonomous robotaxi service with employee volunteers in San Francisco, its first expansion beyond the Phoenix metro area — Waymo today announced that it has begun limited rider testing with employee volunteers in San Francisco to gather feedback and improve its robo-taxi technology.
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Waymo and SiliconANGLE
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Google Maps now lets users pay for public transportation and parking by integrating Passport and ParkMobile services into its app, available in 400+ US cities — Fill your meter or get a train ticket — Google Maps is adding a couple of new useful features: the ability to pay for parking or buy a train ticket right from the app.
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The Keyword, CNBC, Android Headlines, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, and iMore
Tweets: @davidzipper, @rakeshlobster, and @epro
| 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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Federal Communications …, Federal Communications Commission, and CNET
Tweets: @barbmaclean, @jrosenworcelfcc, @motherboard, @fcc, and @jrosenworcel
| Bloomberg: |
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
Tweets: @nicoagrant, @timnitgebru, @timnitgebru, and @dinabass
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Profile of Corey Quinn, a “cloud economist” who consults for AWS clients like WaPo and Epic on cloud computing costs and often lampoons Amazon on Twitter — Corey Quinn has made it his business to understand Amazon's cloud-computing charges and have some fun at the company's expense.
Tweets: @daiwaka, @quinnypig, @quinnypig, @mike_julian, @mattdrange, @petecheslock, @jaycuthrell, and @tomkrazit
| 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| 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.
Tweets: @josheidelson, @econ_marshall, @gigworkersrise, @josheidelson, @josheidelson, @josheidelson, and @alexnpress
| 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 …
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Twilio, CNBC, Investor's Business Daily, Barron's Online, and MarketWatch. Tweets: @mattrosoff
| 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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Recent deals like the iHeart Media's purchase of Triton Digital suggest that ad tech will be key to the long term success in podcasting, not exclusive content — iHeart Media acquires Triton Digital for $230 million — iHeartMedia, the company behind podcasts like Stuff You Should Know and hundreds … | Babu Mohan / Android Central: |
Twitter starts testing voice DMs, which can be up to 140 seconds long, on iOS in India, Brazil, and Japan — Twitter is giving its users “more options to express themselves” in conversations. — What you need to know — Twitter is testing a voice messaging feature for direct messages.
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SlashGear. Tweets: @twitterindia, @film_girl, @alyssam_infosec, @iancoldwater, @amywilson, @pwnallthethings, @mainframed767, @cardoso, @yuris, @buzzilinear, @admore, @ndcnn, @dixie3flatline, @mathewi, @danawessel, and @aimeepearcy_
| Bloomberg: |
JD.com plans to list its shipping business in Hong Kong through an IPO that sources say could raise approximately $5B and value JD Logistics at about $40B — - An IPO is said to value the logistics arm at about $40 billion — JD built one of China's largest shipping operations over years| Bloomberg: |
Biden admin says SolarWinds attack was executed from within the US, though Russia was responsible, and nine federal agencies and ~100 companies were compromised — A sprawling cyber-attack that compromised popular software created by Texas-based SolarWinds Corp. was executed from within the U.S. …
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CyberScoop. Tweets: @natashabertrand, @whitehouse, @ericgeller, @kylieatwood, @kevincollier, @ericgeller, @elistokols, and @b_fung
| 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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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Epic Games files a formal antitrust complaint against Apple with the European Commission, claiming that Apple imposes commercially unviable burdens on rivals — Filing is latest shot in escalating feud between ‘Fortnite’ developer and Silicon Valley giant — Epic Games has filed …
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Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, MUO, and Loup TV
| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Internal docs: Amazon India has secretly favored big sellers, misrepresented its ties with them, and used them to circumvent tough foreign investment rules — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - It was early 2019, and senior Amazon.com Inc executive Jay Carney was preparing for an important meeting.
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