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Instacart hires Fidji Simo, the head of Facebook's app and one of the highest-ranking female executives at Facebook, as its new CEO starting August 2 — - Simo will succeed Instacart founder Apoorva Mehta on Aug. 2, and Mehta will transition to executive chairman of the board.
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Book excerpt shows how Zuckerberg and Sandberg's partnership deteriorated during the Trump era, as Zuckerberg increasingly made the biggest policy decisions — The company they built is wildly successful. But her Washington wisdom didn't hold up, and neither did their close working relationship.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Square announces it will build a hardware wallet for bitcoin, after Jack Dorsey had discussed the possibility of creating one in June — CEO Jack Dorsey said the company was considering one in June — Square is going to make a hardware wallet for bitcoin, the company's hardware lead, Jesse Dorogusker, announced on Thursday.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Anger grows among some Google staff about “hypocritical” remote work decisions and transfers as senior exec Urs Hölzle announces plans to work from New Zealand — As Google employees around the world make plans for post-pandemic work at the tech giant, Laura de Vesine won't be among them.
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| Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: |
A look at Peacock as it enters its second year, considers expansion abroad, and tries to grow paid subscriptions; sources: 20% of Peacock's 14M MAUs pay for it — Inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York last month, NBC executives revealed their long-awaited plan to use the Olympics to supercharge their streaming service, Peacock.
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| Ray A. Smith / Wall Street Journal: |
How dating apps are increasingly used to start platonic friendships, with average time spent on Bumble's BFF growing 83% for men and 44% for women in Q1 2021 — Millennials and members of Generation Z increased their use of dating apps to make platonic friends during the pandemic; ‘now we all have these big life moments together’
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Internal memo shows Microsoft is giving a $1,500 pandemic bonus to all eligible employees in the US and internationally — Most non-executive employees are eligible — Microsoft is gifting its employees a $1,500 pandemic bonus. In an internal memo seen by The Verge …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
Microsoft says it paid $13.6M to 341 security researchers in the past 12 months as part of its bug bounty programs, down slightly from $13.7M it paid a year ago — Microsoft said it awarded more than $13.6 million as monetary rewards to security researchers through its public bug bounty programs over the past 12 months.| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
How a years-long cybercrime investigation by FBI, Russia, and Ukraine was undone by corruption, rivalry, and stonewalling, resulting in the hackers going free — Russia and Ukraine promised to cooperate and help catch the world's most successful hackers. But things didn't quite go to plan.
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| Sascha Segan / PCMag: |
Qualcomm and Asus partner to launch the “Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders”, a $1,499 handset with Snapdragon 888, a glowing Snapdragon logo, and more — The Asus-made phone will showcase features that Qualcomm has been promoting but hasn't added to other prominent devices in the US.
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| Zack Seward / CoinDesk: |
Crypto financial services company Circle says it is going public via a SPAC merger at a $4.5B valuation — The deal values Circle at $4.5 billion. — Circle is going public in a deal that values the crypto financial services firm at $4.5 billion, the firm said Thursday.
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| Financial Times: |
Sens. Bill Hagerty and Chris Van Hollen have called on the SEC to investigate whether Didi Chuxing misled American investors ahead of its IPO last week — Two members of powerful banking committee say SEC must examine whether company misled investors — Two senior members of Congress … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
AG suit alleges Google tried to “preemptively quash” Samsung's Galaxy app store by offering to pay Samsung, stopping OEMs from offering other stores, and more — ‘Competition in app distribution is a virus to be eliminated’ — Google used anticompetitive practices in an attempt to …
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| CNBC: |
Donald Trump sues Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, as well as Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and Pichai, claiming the companies have violated his First Amendment rights — - Former President Donald Trump announced he is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google, as well as their respective CEOs Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai.
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