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Meta says a global community development head, who spoke about inappropriate communications with a 13 year old in a viral sting video, is no longer an employee — Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has confirmed to TechCrunch that Jeren A. Miles, who had been a manager of global community development … | Avi Asher-Schapiro / Thomson Reuters Foundation News: |
Internal documents: 400+ Salesforce employees signed an open letter objecting to its NFT plans, including helping other companies create and sell NFTs — After Salesforce announced a foray into the NFT market, hundreds of workers revolted, raising environmental and fraud concerns
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| Berber Jin / The Information: |
Source: Tiger Global told investors earlier this month that it will no longer focus on large, late-stage startups preparing to go public — Responding to a steep sell-off in technology stocks, some hedge funds and other investment firms with large public stock portfolios have been turning away …
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| Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg: |
Meta drops out of the top 10 most valuable companies globally, dropping five places since September 2021 as its market value declined by $513B to $565B — Meta Platforms Inc. has tumbled out of the world's 10 largest companies by market value, hammered by its worst monthly stock decline ever.
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| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Whistleblower Aid, representing Frances Haugen, files two SEC complaints claiming Meta misled investors about its work to fight misinfo on COVID-19 and climate — A pair of new whistleblower complaints filed the with the Securities and Exchange Commission in February allege Facebook misled investors …
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| Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day: |
A look at the decline of MySpace, which flailed around for over a year as it was overtaken by Facebook, and parallels with Meta as TikTok surges — Read to the end for the anti-NFT anthem — I want to open today's email with an apology!! I wrote about the map-based Wordle game Worldle on Monday and I …
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Sources: some US Apple Store employees are working to unionize, with groups in at least two stores preparing to file paperwork with the NLRB in the near future — Employees at several Apple Stores across the country are quietly working to unionize, according to people familiar with the efforts …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Source: Helium, a decentralized network of 500K+ cryptocurrency-mining hotspots that offer free p2p networking, raises a $200M Series D at a $1.2B valuation — The existential question of crypto “utility” continues to roil the tech community, pitting some Web 2.0 icons against their web3 cousins.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Windows 11 Pro's initial setup phase will require a Microsoft Account and an internet connection, like for Windows 11 Home — It's one of the new build's smaller changes—but also one of the most annoying. — Now that Windows 11's first major post-release update has been issued …
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| James Hibberd / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix announces four comedy specials to be hosted and produced by Dave Chappelle; the comedian's last special led to Netflix employee protests — The controversial comic will host and produce four comedy specials focusing on other veteran comedians.| Wall Street Journal: |
How advertisers are dealing with Facebook ad price increases prompted by Apple's ATT changes, with some shifting their ad budgets to Google, Amazon, and TikTok — Privacy features prompt e-commerce businesses to slash ad spending; ‘Apple has changed the game’ — Facebook was long one of the surest bets in digital advertising.
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| Kirsten Grind / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: federal and state regulators have widened their investigation into how Activision Blizzard CEO and its board handled workplace misconduct allegations — SEC subpoenas more current and former executives; California agency seeks additional information on CEO Bobby Kotick and board's handling of workplace misconduct allegations
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| Parmy Olson / Bloomberg: |
Nick Clegg's promotion reduces Mark Zuckerberg's responsibility for tackling uncomfortable policy issues and obscures his enduring grip over voting shares — Facebook has always been good at telling a story. After a whistle-blower revealed astonishing harm caused by the company's products …
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China asks food delivery services to cut fees for restaurants; Meituan's stock fell 15%+ to a 19-month low, wiping $26B off its market value, now at ~$148B — Shares of online delivery giant Meituan slide to a 19-month low — Chinese authorities on Friday said the country's online food-delivery platforms … | Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel Xeon roadmap: Emerald Rapids, based on Intel 7 process, coming in 2023, Granite Rapids and new Efficient-core Sierra Forest in 2024, both built on Intel 3 — It's no secret that Intel's enterprise processor platform has been stretched in recent generations.
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