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Marc Andreessen blocked Jack Dorsey on Twitter following his tweets critical of a16z and Web3; Dorsey then tweeted “I'm officially banned from web3” — The venture capitalist blocked the former Twitter CEO, and Dorsey said he's now ‘banned from Web3’
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Internal docs show Amazon is struggling to retain Alexa device users; in some years between 2018-2021, 15%-25% of new users were no longer active after one week — Each holiday season since 2015, Amazon.com Inc. has counted on selling a lot of its Alexa voice-controlled smart speakers.
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Amazon reaches a nationwide settlement with the NLRB to let its warehouse employees more easily organize, likely affecting over 1M current and former workers — The agreement's national scope and its concessions to organizing go further than any previous settlement that the e-commerce giant has made.
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Intel apologizes, following a backlash in China, for telling Chinese suppliers to avoid Xinjiang labor, saying it only did so to “ensure compliance” with US law — - Brand ambassador Wang Junkai cuts ties with the U.S. chipmaker — Intel asked suppliers not to use labor, products from Xinjiang| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
As Bakkt's stock drops from $50 to ~$9 two months after its SPAC merger, president and founding executive Adam White says he is leaving the company next week — Adam White, a founder and President of the digital assets and rewards platform Bakkt, took to Twitter on Thursday to say he is moving on from the company.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Huawei debuts P50 Pocket, a clamshell-style folding device with a circular 1" outer display and 6.9" inner display, available now in China starting at ~$1,400 — The phone launches in China today, but won't be coming to the US — Huawei has officially announced the P50 Pocket …
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How Tobi Lütke led Shopify to become an e-commerce giant, helping ~2M merchants run stores as its market cap rose from $46B in early 2020 to $177B today — Tobi Lütke transformed the Canadian upstart into an e-commerce giant by being the anti-Bezos. How long can the formula keep working?
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Sources: Intel plans to open an R&D center in France, a test and assembly factory in Italy, and a major wafer production fab in Germany — - Chipmaker is seeking to restore its technological edge — Germany could get major wafer factory as part of the push| Reuters: |
Tencent plans to issue nearly all its JD.com shares, worth $16.37B, to shareholders as a dividend, reducing its stake from 17% to about 2.3% — Chinese gaming and social media company Tencent (0700.HK) will hand a $16.4 billion JD.com (9618.HK) stake as a dividend to its shareholders …
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In a note to employees, Andrew Bosworth envisions Meta offering “deep compatibility with the blockchain” and working “with entrepreneurs in the web3 space” — Meta, Facebook's parent company, is aiming for “deep compatibility” with blockchain technology …
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| Steven Bertoni / Forbes: |
Profile of Airbnb's technical co-founder Nate Blecharczyk, often tasked with the company's trickiest projects, like giving away $250M to 4M hosts in 2020 — Nate Blecharczyk, Airbnb's technical cofounder, created the $100 billion home-share phenom's software and marketplace blueprints.
Tweets: @ycombinator, @alexrkonrad, and @dhaber
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Research: decentralized exchanges reported $1T+ in 2021 trading volumes as of December 23, up 858% from $115B in 2020; monthly volume peaked in May at $162.8B — Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) reported more than $1 trillion in trading volumes in the year 2021, according to The Block Research.| FinSMEs: |
China-based TandemAI, which uses AI to speed up the design and optimization of drug candidates, raises $25M in seed and pre-Series A funding — TandemAI, a Suzhou, and Shangai, China-based provider of a computational platform to accelerate the design and optimization of drug candidates, raised $25m in Seed and pre-Series A financing.
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