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In response to Trump's travel ban, tech execs, investors, and firms including Lyft and Google pledge donations to ACLU as well as other non-profits, initiatives — Tech executives are offering to match donations to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) following the enactment …
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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.
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| Matthew Dessem / Slate: |
Kalanick's work with Trump and tepid travel ban response prompt #DeleteUber backlash after company suspends surge pricing at JFK Airport amid taxi work stoppage — There are a lot of reasons to not use ride-hailing app Uber: shoddy labor practices; attempts to strong-arm local governments …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Fitbit to cut six percent of its staff, or about 110 jobs, following a disappointing Q4 with 6.5M devices sold — As anticipated, wearable leader Fitbit kicked off the week by announcing a six-percent reduction in global work force, following disappointing fourth quarter financials.| Clarence Williams / Washington Post: |
123 of 187 of Washington DC police CCTV network video recorders were infected with ransomware, unable to record between January 12 and 15 — Hackers infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump's inauguration …
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| Corin Faife / CoinDesk: |
Cisco, Foxconn, Bosch, Gemalto, blockchain startups, and others form an alliance to develop blockchain-based security protocol for IoT devices — The Internet of Things (IoT) - the vast web of connected devices which is becoming a fundamental part of the technological infrastructure that surrounds us …
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| Ted Johnson / Variety: |
ISPs, studios, and record labels end the four-year-old copyright alert system that sent warnings to users over P2P downloads of pirated content — Major internet providers are ending a four-year-old system in which consumers received “copyright alerts” when they viewed peer-to-peer pirated content.| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Crowdfunding advocates express concern about crowdfunded startups failing to comply with the 2012 Jobs Act — SAN FRANCISCO — Ryan Feit left behind his lucrative career at a private equity firm to chase the dream of crowdfunding. — Mr. Feit, a 33-year-old graduate of the Wharton School … | Sebastian Anthony / Ars Technica: |
Browser makers express frustration with invasive third-party antivirus software, which can make PCs less secure — Update your software and OS regularly instead, practice skeptical computing. — Former Firefox developer Robert O'Callahan, now a free agent and safe from the PR tentacles …
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Hugo Barra played a key role in Xiaomi's India expansion, a business that now accounts for $1B/year revenue, but other global efforts he oversaw largely stalled — Barra departs Beijing smartphone maker to lead Facebook VR — Xiaomi struggled with global expansion, competition at home| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
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.| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
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