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Apple pauses all product sales in Russia, removes RT News and Sputnik News from the App Store outside Russia, and disables Apple Maps' live traffic in Ukraine — Apple today confirmed that it has stopped all product sales from its online website in Russia, which means customers in Russia …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
SOTU: Biden asks Congress to pass new rules to enhance child safety on social media, including banning targeted ads to, and data collection of, children — He wants to ban targeted advertising to kids — President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass new rules to enhance child safety …
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
SOTU: Biden urges Congress to pass the Chips Act to provide $52B in subsidies to advance US chip manufacturing and praises Intel's $20B investment in Ohio fabs — The president praises Intel's $20 billion investment in Ohio fabs to make semiconductors during his State of the Union address.| BuzzFeed News: |
Google Maps is removing newly added user content, like pins, in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, amid claims of its use in coordinating Russian military activity — Responding to claims that its Maps were being used to coordinate Russian military activity in Ukraine, Google …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
Meta will demote content linking to Russian state media outlets on Facebook and Instagram globally and rolls out encrypted Instagram DMs in Ukraine and Russia — Meta is ramping up efforts to crack down on Russian propaganda and keep users in Russia and Ukraine safe, including …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue of $7.33B, up 26% YoY, including $6.8B from subscription and support, up 25%; platform and other, which lumps in Slack, was up 53% — The CRM giant beat top and bottom line estimates, with every segment of its Subscription and Support business bringing in more than $1 billion in quarterly revenues.
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Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking program Birdwatch remains a small pilot project 13 months after launch, with only 359 contributors flagging tweets in 2022 — With the Ukraine war unfolding on social media, parsing fact from fiction has never been trickier — or, for those involved, more urgent.
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| J. Clara Chan / Hollywood Reporter: |
Snap halts ads in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, pledges $15M to relief orgs in Ukraine, and is helping relocate 300+ Ukrainian staff of its AR platform Looksery — Three hundred Snap employees are from Ukraine, according to a message shared on Tuesday.
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| Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: |
Netflix acquires Finnish game developer Next Games for around $72M; the studio specializes in games based on entertainment franchises, such as Stranger Things — Next Games had released ‘Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales’, a role-playing game based on the streaming giant's hit 80s horror drama series in October last year.| Catherine Wang / Forbes: |
Shanghai-based Inceptio, which is developing autonomous trucks, raises a $188M Series B extension co-led by Sequoia Capital China and Legend Capital — Autonomous driving truck startup Inceptio Technology has raised a $188 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital China and Legend Capital … | Chris Stokel-Walker / Wired: |
Russia's invasion of Ukraine shows that TikTok's design and algorithm are ideal for sharing videos of war, but present a challenge for its moderation system — As Russia's invasion of Ukraine plays out online, the platform's design and algorithm prove ideal for the messiness of war—but a nightmare for the truth.
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| Corin Faife / The Verge: |
Web host Namecheap ends services for users registered in Russia over Russia's “war crimes”, with exceptions for anti-regime media, protest resources, and expats — Exceptions will be made for anti-regime media, protest resources, and Russians no longer living in the country
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