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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Twitter bans sharing private images and videos without consent, with exceptions for newsworthiness and public figures, and will remove content that users report — Twitter has expanded its private information policy to include media, banning users from sharing photos or videos of a private individual without their permission.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
David Marcus, the co-creator of Diem and head of Novi, will leave Meta at the end of the 2021; current Novi VP of Product Stephane Kasriel will lead Novi — Marcus, who joined the tech giant in 2014, has struggled to get the Diem currency off the ground — David Marcus, one of the top executives …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches its ARM-based Graviton 3 processor, claiming it will be 25% faster than Graviton 2 and three times faster for ML workloads — At its annual re:Invent conference, AWS today announced the newest generation of its Arm-based Graviton processors: the Graviton 3.
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AWS News Blog, The Register, InfoWorld, TechRadar, VentureBeat, and TechRadar
Tweets: @awscloud, @_msw_, @caseynewton, and @lizthegrey
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
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Tweets: @dhschoolar, @peterrojas, and @brianroemmele
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
UK's CMA orders Meta to sell Giphy, after finding the deal could harm rival platforms by denying access to GIFs, social media users, and UK advertisers — After its investigation found it could harm competition — The UK's competition regulator has officially ruled that Facebook parent …
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| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Adobe: US consumers spent $10.7B online on Cyber Monday, below expectations and down 1.4% from $10.8B in 2020, as many shoppers returned to physical stores — - Consumers logged online Monday and spent $10.7 billion, marking a 1.4% decrease from year-ago levels, according to data from Adobe Analytics.
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Tweets: @weaponoutfitter, @laurenthomas, @cnbc, @ourmaninchicago, @ron_miller, @cortessteve, and @ritholtz
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to Vice Chair of the Board and co-CEO alongside Marc Benioff, effective immediately — - Bret Taylor will be co-CEO alongside Marc Benioff, who built Salesforce into one of the world's largest enterprise software companies. — Taylor was quickly promoted …
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| Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: |
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Twitter should consider changing its business model as its ad revenue remains weak, despite its locked-in userbase, indispensability, and impenetrable moat — From CNBC: … On one hand, congratulations to Twitter for its first non-messy CEO transition in its history; on the other hand … | Jamie Feltham / UploadVR: |
Oculus rolls out v35, adding a mixed reality camera feature that requires an iPhone XS or above, Messenger Calling in VR, a new cloud backup system, and more — An upcoming update to the Oculus Quest and Meta Quest 2 will add mixed reality capture via iPhone and calling via Messenger, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed.
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| CNBC: |
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey resigns, CTO Parag Agrawal takes over effective immediately; Dorsey to quit the board in 2022, Salesforce's Bret Taylor to become chair — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief of the social media company, effective immediately.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @russellbrandom, @csmap_nyu, @mattwridley, @francoolivera, and @madmanweb
| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Bitcoin mining firm Griid says it will go public via a SPAC in Q1 2022 at a valuation of around $3.3B, including debt — Bitcoin mining firm Griid is preparing to become the latest company in the crypto market to go public, the Ohio-based firm announced Tuesday.
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GlobeNewswire News Room, Blockworks, Cointelegraph, CryptoPotato, Bitcoin Magazine, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @treykelly3
| Lee Mathews / Liliputing: |
The Amazon Appstore and apps downloaded from it are broken on Android 12, despite the new OS version launching over a month ago — As much as we'd like it to be, Installing a major operating system update isn't always the most trouble-free process. Even if everything does go well with the update itself …
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Android Authority, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup, Android Central, Phandroid, and Pocketables
Tweets: @epro and @somospostpc
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
SEC filing: Satya Nadella last week sold half his Microsoft stock, worth over $285M, before Washington state implements its new capital gains tax on January 1 — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sold half of his stake in the company in a series of transactions last week, divesting about 840,000 shares …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft's inclusion of buy-now-pay-later app Zip in Edge is seen by some as heavy-handed, adding bloatware that may lessen the browser's privacy and security — “This all feels extremely unnecessary for a browsing experience,” one user says. — Microsoft is taking a lot of flak …
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| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Privacy-focused cryptocurrency startup Iron Fish, which launched its IRON coin in April 2021, raises a $27.6M Series A led by a16z — Elena Nadolinski grew up in Volgograd, Russia playing on the shells of abandoned tanks and decommissioned battleships, following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Tweets: @eladgil, @tomcoates, @forbescrypto, @zoink, @delrayman, and @a16z
| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Jana Partners urges Zendesk to abandon its plans to acquire Momentive, which owns SurveyMonkey, rather than wait for a shareholder vote; Zendesk closed up 7.36% — New York activist investor has big stake in Zendesk, wants it to terminate Momentive Global acquisition
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| Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Box reports Q3 revenue of $224M, up 14% YoY, vs. $218.6M est., and billings of $231.5M, up 25% YoY, and a net retention rate of 109%, up from 103% YoY — The cloud content management firm's net retention rate came to 109%, up from 106% in Q2. — Cloud content management firm Box published …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, with improved camera and AI processing and up to 20% more performance and 30% more power efficiency over the Snapdragon 888 — Faster performance, better cameras, improved AI, and more — Qualcomm has a new flagship smartphone processor …
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Tweets: @sadlyitsbradley and @tech_edgete
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft shareholders approve a proposal asking the company's board to publish a workplace sexual harassment report, in a rare win for activists — - Microsoft shareholders voted for the proposal, backed by Arjuna Capital, at the company's annual general meeting.
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| Nicolas Parasie / Bloomberg: |
Dubai-based iMile, which offers cross-border e-commerce logistics services for emerging markets, raises a $40M Series A at a $350M valuation — TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. has invested in Dubai-based iMile Delivery LLC as part of the first major fundraising by the courier startup …
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