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A roundup of how technology companies and executives are reacting to President Trump's executive orders on immigration — “People across the company are freaking out.” — On Friday, President Trump signed an executive ordered temporarily halting the US refugee program for 120 days.| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai slams Trump's immigration executive order in internal memo, says 100+ company staff travelling abroad with valid visas are affected — Memo from CEO Pichai says more than 100 employees impacted — Pichai says President's move caused painful ‘personal costs’| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
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Apple CEO Tim Cook making rounds in DC: dinner Thursday night with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, meeting Friday with Sen. Orrin Hatch — Apple CEO Tim Cook has apparently been sharpening his political skills. — Politico reported that Cook had dinner Thursday night … | Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: Snap to publicly file for IPO late next week, which likely means a March IPO — The social communications company's current valuation is $25 billion, said sources. — According to sources, Snap Inc. plans to publicly file for its much-anticipated initial public offering late next week.| Elizabeth Banker / The Twitter Blog: |
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Book excerpt: how Uber and Airbnb, now worth a total of $99B, won customers, fought regulators, and figured out the sharing economy — In January 2009 the three founders of a little-known website called Airbedandbreakfast.com decided at the last minute to attend the inauguration of Barack Obama.| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg breaks post-election silence to speak out against global gag rule on abortion — Sheryl Sandberg spoke out on Thursday against President Donald Trump's anti-abortion executive order. — The Facebook COO published a post on her Facebook page that chronicles … | Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair: |
New audio and video technologies that can easily recreate any person's likeness will make fake stories harder to detect — What we saw in the 2016 election is nothing compared to what we need to prepare for in 2020. — Less than a month after Donald Trump was improbably elected … | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Google has accelerated efforts to forge ties with Trump administration post-election, but denies a change in strategy, saying it has long had GOP lobbyists — WASHINGTON — Few companies have been as intimately tied to the Democratic Party in recent years as Google.| New York Times: |
Recent small moves by Google and Facebook, such as tweaking Trending topics, highlight how hard it is to limit misinformation online — SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Facebook have been taking steps to curb the number of false news articles propagated across their sites.| New York Times: |
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