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A look at corporate raider tactics requiring 51% of a company's stock, which tend to treat remaining minority shareholders poorly, amid Twitter's “poison pill” — Poison pills — Here are some things you could do 1 : — Buy 51% of the stock of a public company …
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Sources: Twitter is expected to rebuff Elon Musk's bid in the coming days, as Apollo Global considers participating in a bid; Morgan Stanley is also interested — Elon Musk's $43 billion pitch has put the social-media company in play — Apollo Global Management is considering participating …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
To unlock its vast potential, Twitter should go private and split into two companies: one for the service and social graph and one for its apps and ad business — Elon Musk wrote in a letter to Twitter's board: … The vast majority of commentary about the Musk-Twitter saga has focused …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A US appeals court reaffirms that scraping publicly accessible content on the internet is legal, ending a landmark case LinkedIn brought against rival Hiq Labs — Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple employees unionizing at Grand Central Terminal store want a $30/hour minimum pay, tuition reimbursement, more vacation time, and better retirement options — - Workers organizing a union at Apple's Grand Central Terminal store are seeking minimum pay of $30 per hour.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
A new study that specifically looked at political speech suggests Twitter's content moderation is biased against misinformation, not conservatives — from the if-you-don't-want-to-get-banned-stop- sharing-bullshit dept — Behold! An actually interesting academic study exploring whether …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Code on Twitter's site reveals how an upcoming Edit button could work: by making a new tweet with the updated content and listing the old tweets before the edit — This month, Twitter announced the ground-shaking news that it was actually going to offer users a way to edit tweets — a longtime user request.
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Stacey on IoT: |
Smart home and IoT company Insteon seemingly shuts down as home hubs suddenly stop working and LinkedIn profiles of top executives show their roles have ended — Is your Insteon smart home system down? I'm getting reports from dozens of Insteon users that as of Friday their smart home hubs have stopped working.
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| Apoorva Mittal / The Economic Times: |
India-based cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX raises a $135.9M Series D co-led by Steadview Capital and Pantera Capital at a $2.15B valuation — Mumbai: Crypto trading exchange CoinDCX has raised $135.9 million (about Rs 1,000 crore) from investors led by Pantera Capital and Steadview Capital …
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Amazon discloses that it will conduct a racial equity audit led by former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in response to a shareholder proposal — - Amazon said it will conduct a racial-equity audit, led by former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. — The company disclosed the audit … | Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
a16z unveils Start, an accelerator that offers early-stage founders up to $1M in capital from its seed fund, after quietly piloting the program for over a year — For more than a year, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has quietly piloted its own take on an accelerator for early-stage entrepreneurs … | Jessica Lyons Hardcastle / The Register: |
Microsoft says it will pay up to $26K more, an increase of 30% in some cases, in bug bounties for “high-impact” bugs in its Office 365 products — Plus: HP fixes critical Teradici flaws, Karakurt may be a Conti side hustle, and info-stealing malware set free| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
An in-depth investigation into the $12B spyware industry, dominated by Israel's NSO Group, as Citizen Lab finds Pegasus infected a device in the UK's No. 10 — The inside story of the world's most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.
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