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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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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Determined AI, Business Wire, EnterpriseAI, Channel Futures, insideHPC, SiliconANGLE, CRN, HPCwire, and ZDNet. Tweets: @hpe_news. Thanks:@colegarry2
| Katherine Anne Long / The Seattle Times: |
Internal docs: Amazon tries to push 6% of its office staff out of the company each year, calling the loss of low-ranked office workers “unregretted attrition” — Amazon systematically attempts to channel 6% of its office employees out of the company each year … | The Information: |
Sources: Shopify is rolling out a service that will let BuzzFeed and other content publishers link to merchants in exchange for a cut of transaction revenue — Shopify, which has become a major force in e-commerce by providing online tools to merchants, is rolling out a new service … | BBC: |
How North Korean hackers nearly stole $951M from Bangladesh Bank's New York Fed account in 2016, only to be stopped at the last moment after transferring $81M — In 2016 North Korean hackers planned a $1bn raid on Bangladesh's national bank and came within an inch of success …
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