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Livestream of House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on platform misinformation with Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey — The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce of the Committee on Energy and Commerce …
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Interviews with 14 current and former Medium employees portray a dysfunctional company; sources say Medium has 700K paid subs, suggesting $35M+ in revenue — Last week, a partnerships manager at Medium working with the White House found that there was a strange problem with the platform: President Joe Biden was being served porn.
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Amazon drivers share photos of pee bottles after the company tweets “you don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” to a congressman — “You don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” Amazon tweeted. Drivers say they're being gaslit. — Lauren Kaori Gurley
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Samsung announces 512GB DDR5 memory, still in verification stage, that delivers over twice the performance of DDR4 at up to 7,200 Mbps, for advanced workloads — As we inch closer to Intel's Alder Lake and AMD's Zen 4 architectures (late this year and/or early next, barring any delays) …
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Chrissy Teigen, who had 13.7M Twitter followers and was once called “unofficial mayor of Twitter” by the company, quits the platform after years of harassment — The former model and media personality was a prolific tweeter — Chrissy Teigen, a prolific tweeter the company once called … | Asha Barbaschow / ZDNet: |
Apple tells Australia's consumer watchdog that iOS developers have alternative channels to reach users as “distribution is far from limited” to App Store — Telling the ACCC that users of iOS can go to a website to purchase and consume digital content or services …
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Facebook briefly advertised The Re-Entry App, aimed at people transitioning from prison back into society, at the top of some Instagram feeds — Facebook Inc. is building a service for people who are transitioning from prison back into society, part of an apparent effort within the company … | Paul Tamburro / GameRevolution: |
Reddit says it has cut ties with a controversial UK activist who it had recently hired, after 200+ subreddits, like r/Music, went private to protest — UPDATE: Reddit has now confirmed that it has fired Aimee Knight from her position with the company. In a statement posted …
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Insider and Metro.co.uk
Tweets: @jessesingal, @broderick, @debbiehayton, @johnwilson, @antisocialjw2, @alexrubner, and @sinincx
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Arizona Senate skips vote on bill HB2005, which would have forced Apple and Google to let apps in their app stores use alternative in-app payment systems — The bill went poof — The Arizona State Senate was scheduled to vote an unprecedented and controversial bill on Wednesday …
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Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Patently Apple, and CNET
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| Rebecca Szkutak / Forbes: |
Notarize, which lets users sign and notarize official documents digitally, raises $130M Series D at a $760M valuation, says revenue grew 600% since March 2020 — This time last year, Pat Kinsel, founder and CEO of electronic notary startup Notarize, was fielding 3,000 calls a week … | Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Berlin-based Gorillas, a same-day grocery delivery service, raises $290M Series B at a $1B+ valuation led by Coatue Management, DST Global, and Tencent — Gorillas, the Berlin-HQ'd startup that promises to let you order groceries and other “every day” items for delivery in as little as ten minutes …
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Facebook says it has disrupted a network of China-based hackers using its platform to target the Uyghur community abroad and draw them to malicious websites — Facebook on Wednesday announced new actions to disrupt a network of China-based hackers leveraging the platform to compromise targets in the Uyghur community.
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Deliveroo is facing a revolt from investors and riders concerned about the way it treats the latter; hundreds of couriers plan a strike next week — - Fund managers Aberdeen and Aviva say they won't buy shares — IWGB says hundreds of riders expected to participate in strike
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Tweets: @mikebutcher, @furiousaffects, @itvjoel, @itvjoel, and @fttechnews
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UK's CMA finds that Facebook's acquisition of Giphy raises competition concerns about digital ads and “supply of GIFs”, gives them five days to address concerns — The competition watchdog has given Facebook and Giphy five working days to address concerns their merger could harm … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
During an event announcing Intel Foundry Services, CEO Pat Gelsinger said it would pursue Apple as a client; Apple currently relies on TSMC as its sole supplier — Apple in November started releasing Macs with Apple-designed M1 chips, and the Apple silicon technology will eventually replace …
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Yahoo Finance, ZDNet, HotHardware.com News, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iPhone Hacks
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