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Backlash against the push for gender equality in tech grows among some men who see it as “a witch hunt” — After revelations of harassment and bias in Silicon Valley, a backlash is growing against the women in tech movement. “It's a witch hunt,” they say.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: on Nov. 19, 9 days after Zuckerberg downplayed fake news' role in election, Obama appealed to him to take threat of political disinformation seriously — Nine days after Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the idea that fake news on his company's social network played … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Walmart partners with smart lock maker August to test in-home delivery of packages and groceries in Silicon Valley — Walmart announced today it will begin testing a new service that will allow customers with August smart home devices, like the August doorbell and security cameras … | Sam Shead / Business Insider: |
UK-based food delivery startup Deliveroo raises $385M led by Fidelity and T Rowe Price, now valued at $2B+ — Deliveroo has raised $385 million (£285 million) from investors in a huge funding round that values it at over $2 billion (£1.48 billion) and makes it one of the most valuable tech companies in the UK.
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Reacting to dissatisfaction in the open source community, Facebook moves React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js from BSD + Patents license to the MIT license — Hybrid BSD pact will be replaced by MIT deal for some projects — Faced with growing dissatisfaction about licensing requirements …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Behind the chart-topping iOS app tbh, which lets users send compliments to friends anonymously by answering positively-framed multiple-choice questions — “If we're improving the mental health of millions of teens, that's a success to us" says Nikita Bier, co-founder of tbh.
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| Bloomberg: |
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's political awakening, which led to his current US tour and significant changes in Facebook features, especially Groups — Technically speaking, Mark Zuckerberg has been on paternity leave. In late August his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave birth to their second child, a girl.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
SAP to acquire identity management firm Gigya, sources say for $350M — SAP, the German enterprise software giant, today announced an acquisition to strengthen its hybris e-commerce division. It has acquired Gigya, a firm that helps online properties manage customer identities and profiles.
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
DC Court of Appeals rules that warrantless use of a cell-site simulator (stingray) violated the Fourth Amendment as an unlawful search — DC Court of Appeals: Even if you know the police can track you doesn't mean they should. — The District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Southeast Asian gaming and e-commerce firm Sea, formerly Garena, files for $1B US IPO — Southeast Asia-based games and e-commerce firm Sea, formerly known as Garena, has officially filed for its much-anticipated U.S. IPO. The company, which is valued at over $3.75 billion …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is testing a Twitter Lite Android app, first in the Philippines — Twitter today has nearly four times as many monthly active users outside the U.S. as it does in its home market — 260 million versus 68 million — and this week it quietly launched a new app in an effort to boost those numbers further.| Brian Jackson / IT World Canada: |
Manifold, which enables developers to find, buy, and manage several cloud services without being locked into a single cloud platform, announces $15M Series A — As public cloud infrastructure providers have become more popular, on-premises vendors like to joke that they are like Hotel California for your data: you can never leave.
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| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
In an interview, Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew and Blockchain's Peter Smith claim a big driver of ICOs are early bitcoin millionaires who want to diversify — - A large portion of ICOs are funded by people who got rich buying Bitcoin. — They need to diversify their exposure to the volatile cryptocurrency.| Tim Swanson / Great Wall of Numbers: |
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