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SCOTUS sides with Facebook, ruling that its text alerts on suspicious logins do not qualify as robocalls, in what experts say is a major win for telemarketers — - The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Facebook in a case about robocalls on Thursday. — The court ruled that Facebook's text alerts …
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Casio launches its first G-Shock smartwatch with Wear OS, available in May for $700 — Big focus on sports tracking and 200m water resistance — Casio has launched its first G-Shock smartwatch with Wear OS - the G-Squad Pro GSW-H1000 - aimed at sports and outdoors fanatics.| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
TSMC says it plans to spend $100B over the next three years to expand its chip fabrication capacity — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to spend $100 billion over the next three years to expand its chip fabrication capacity, the company said Thursday.
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Amazon says it expects some employees to start coming back to the office as early as this summer and most of its staff to be back at the office this fall — - Amazon said it expects some employees to begin transitioning away from remote work this summer, with most of its staff back at the office by the fall.
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Several Microsoft services, including Teams, Azure, Office 365, and Bing, are experiencing outages, potentially due to underlying DNS issues — If a Bing goes down and no one is around, did it even happen? — What you need to know — Several Microsoft services, including Teams …
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Sources: Myanmar's military has ordered ISPs to shut down mobile internet services until further notice — (Reuters) - Myanmar's military rulers have ordered internet service providers to shut down wireless broadband services until further notice, several telecoms sources said on Thursday.
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Dish complains to FCC that T-Mobile, its partner for wireless services, plans to shut down the CDMA network used by millions of Dish's Boost Mobile users — Dish Network sent a letter to the FCC on Thursday, complaining that T-Mobile — its partner for wireless services …
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Sensor Tower: US iPhone users spent an average of $138 on apps in 2020, up 38% YoY, the greatest annual growth since 2016, with spending on games growing 43% — U.S. consumers spent an average of $138 on iPhone apps last year, an increase of 38% year over year, largely driven by the pandemic impacts …
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Q&A with “Real Facebook Oversight Board” members Carole Cadwalladr and Yael Eisenstat on tech criticism, the role of Facebook's Oversight Board, and more — The two join Big Technology to discuss tech criticism, Cambridge Analytica, and how Facebook can begin to right its wrongs| Zack Seward / CoinDesk: |
Massachusetts court supports a request from the IRS to obtain the records of all Circle customers who had $20K+ in crypto transactions between 2016 and 2020 — A Massachusetts court is supporting a request from the IRS to obtain the records Circle customers, the Department of Justice said.
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Holler, which makes branded stickers and GIFs and uses AI to suggest such content to users, raises $36M Series B, bringing its total raised to $51M — Holler, described by founder and CEO Travis Montaque as “a conversational media company,” just announced that it's raised $36 million in Series B funding.| Mandy Zuo / South China Morning Post: |
Report: Chinese hackers have stolen videos from thousands of home security cameras in the country and are selling them as “home video packages” via social media — Videos can cost as little as US$3 and the perpetrators offer ‘set meal’ packages with multiple live streams … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Compass, which runs an online marketplace for buying, selling, and renting real estate, closes up ~12% in its trading debut, after raising $450M in an IPO — While several tech companies are opting to delay their IPOs in the face of less-than-enthusiastic market demand for their shares …
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