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Sources: Microsoft's board decided in 2020 Gates should leave the board as it probed claims Gates sought to initiate an affair with a Microsoft engineer in 2000 — Company's board members began investigation in 2019 into woman's allegations of prior sexual relationship with Bill Gates …
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Sources: long after his marriage, Bill Gates would pursue women at Microsoft, at times creating an uncomfortable workplace environment — Melinda French Gates voiced concerns about her husband's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and a harassment claim against his money manager.
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AT&T to spin off WarnerMedia and combine it with Discovery in a $43B deal; the new company will be run by Discovery CEO David Zaslav — New York (CNN Business)The streaming TV race is about to get even more competitive. — On Monday morning AT&T (T) and Discovery, Inc. (DISCA) …
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Survey: over 60% of 1,400 CISOs in 14 countries expect a damaging cyberattack in the next 12 months, due to massive shift to remote work since the pandemic — Proofpoint surveyed 1,400 CISOs across the globe about the current cybersecurity landscape. — More than 1,000 CISOs around …
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Q&A with Rick Klau, an ex-Google product manager and California's new CTIO responsible for building apps and services for various departments across the state — When Rick Klau joined the California government, he expected a culture shock after 13 years at Google.| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Pine Labs, which makes POS software for payments terminals as well as invoicing tools, raises $285M at a $3B valuation, up from $2B in a round last December — Pine Labs, a startup that offers merchants payments terminals, invoicing tools and working capital, said on Monday it is raising $285 million …
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Ride-hailing giant Gojek and e-commerce marketplace Tokopedia say they have merged to form GoTo Group, the largest tech group in Indonesia — Ride-hailing giant Gojek and marketplace Tokopedia said on Monday they have combined their businesses to form GoTo Group, the largest technology group in Indonesia.
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Jon Prosser leaks what he claims are Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro renders, as well as a promo video and images of Android 12, ahead of Google I/O — Google is rumored to be revamping Wear OS this year and the update is said to be so substantial that even Samsung is on board with the plans.
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Pandemic-induced rise in app ordering has given birth to the “appuccino”, a phenomenon driven by TikTok, where customized Starbucks drink suggestions go viral — Stomachs churned and food service workers broke out in a cold sweat when a photo of a long, complicated custom Starbucks order went viral on Twitter.
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Insurer AXA is suffering ransomware and DDoS attacks on its Asia-based branches, a week after saying it would no longer reimburse ransoms paid by French clients — Branches of insurance giant AXA based in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines have been struck by a ransomware cyber attack.| The Economic Times: |
Indian B2B e-commerce marketplace Moglix raises $120M Series E at a $1B valuation, bringing its total raised to $220M — Business-to-business (B2B) commerce platform Moglix has raised $120 million in a new financing round led by Falcon Edge and Harvard Management Company at a valuation of $1 billion.| Parmy Olson / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Foxglove, a tech-activism group famous for pushing UK into reassessing its use of algorithms, that's challenging Facebook and Uber on worker rights — Foxglove successfully pushed back on government tech tools and now is looking into bigger corporate targets
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