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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Current and former Google execs say the company suffers from both its size and Sundar Pichai's leadership, marked by delayed decisions and raging culture fights — Despite record profits, a number of them are worried that the company is suffering from both its size and leadership from its C.E.O., Sundar Pichai.
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| Global Times: |
China's Sichuan Province closes crypto mines, following Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Yunnan; an estimated 90% of China's mining capacity has now been shut down — Many Bitcoin mines in Southwest China's Sichuan Province - one of China's largest cryptocurrency mining bases - were closed as of Sunday …
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| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
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| Ian Hamilton / UploadVR: |
Resolution Games says it won't move forward with a Facebook VR ad test in its paid VR game Blaston, but will consider testing ads in its free fishing game Bait! — Resolution Games won't be moving forward with a Facebook advertising test in its paid VR game Blaston.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook rolls out Live Audio Rooms, available to verified public figures and select Groups, and its podcast service, available to select partners, in the US — In April, Facebook announced a series of planned investments in new audio products, including a Clubhouse live audio competitor as well as new support for podcasts.
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| Bloomberg: |
Filing: Amazon has ordered 1,000 autonomous driving systems from self-driving truck startup Plus and acquired the option to buy up to a 20% stake in the startup — - U.S. e-commerce giant could buy up to 20% of Plus shares — Plus is planning SPAC listing via merger with Hennessy Capital
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
TikTok launches TikTok Jump to let creators enhance their videos by adding mini-app integrations from select partners including Whisk, Wikipedia, Quizlet, more — TikTok creators may no longer need to add a “link in bio,” at least to certain kinds of content. Today,
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
A timeline of Google's long list of mostly-defunct messaging apps and services, starting in 2004 with Gmail and progressing to Google Talk, Hangouts, and Allo — What a decade and a half of confusing services can tell us about the future — Over the past 15 years, Google has introduced …
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| Richard Pallot / ITV: |
Investigation finds Amazon has been destroying thousands of unsold goods at its UK-based Dunfermline warehouse; source says 130K items are destroyed per week — Exclusive: Watch footage showing the ‘destruction zone’ in Amazon's Dunfermline warehouse where millions of unsold items are destroyed every year
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| Katharine Schwab / Fast Company: |
Survey of 37 tech giants: $3.8B committed to diversity efforts in 2020 and 2021, ~2/3 had made some kind of DEI policy change after the summer 2020 protests — One year after protests against police brutality shook much of the corporate world awake to the problems of racial equity in the workplace …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google quietly pushed Massachusetts' MassNotify COVID tracking app to Android phones in the state; after debuting last week, the app has 1M to 5M installs — Massachusetts launched a COVID tracking app, and uh, it was automatically installed?! — Over the weekend, Google and the state …
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The Verge, 9to5Google, The Boston Globe, Reclaim The Net, Android Police, MUO, Android Central, Input, TechRadar, and SlashGear. Tweets: @grummz
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
HPE says it has acquired Determined AI, which is developing an open source platform for building machine learning models; terms of the deal were not disclosed — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it has acquired Determined AI, a San Francisco, California-based startup developing …
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Silicon Republic, cloudpro.co.uk, Business Wire, EnterpriseAI, insideHPC, Channel Futures, SiliconANGLE, CRN, ZDNet, and HPCwire. Tweets: @hpe_news. Thanks:@colegarry2
| TechCrunch: |
Vienna-based GoStudent, which connects K-12 students with online tutors, raises $244M Series C led by DST Global at a $1.7B valuation — Online teaching came into the spotlight for many students and parents in the last year, and today one of the companies that saw a big lift during that rush … Sponsor Posts
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