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Jeff Bezos says he and his wife will give $33M in scholarship money to DACA students — A day after Trump rejected a deal to preserve DACA, Jeff Bezos said he would make a major charitable donation to support DREAMers. — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced Friday that he would give $33 million …
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A look at how Jeff Bezos and Amazon's participation in the public sphere grew alongside the company, Bezos' other investments, and his personal wealth — Jeff Bezos is the world's richest person and can afford virtually any luxury. But obscurity is no longer among them.
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Facebook's News Feed changes are good for media industry in the long term; journalism engineered to be picked by an algorithm is not journalism, it's marketing — Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the New York Times that the social network will revamp its news feed to emphasize …
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| Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg: |
Disney cites conflicts of interest with Facebook, Twitter as reason for Sandberg, Dorsey not seeking board re-election; Oracle co-CEO Safra Catz joining Feb. 1 — Disney cites difficulty avoiding conflicts of interest — Smith, Matschullat also leaving because of age, term limits
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Kraken, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, said it would shut down for several hours of scheduled maintenance on Wednesday; 40+ hours later, it is still down — Kraken users have expressed frustration and anger on social media as a scheduled upgrade went from two hours to more than a day.| Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: |
SCOTUS to review 1992 Quill decision that states can collect sales tax only if retailer has physical presence in the state; Quill is used in taxing online sales — South Dakota says 1992 ban on many tax collections is obsolete — States could have collected $13 billion more in 2017: GAO
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Facebook signs licensing deals with Global Music Rights, HFA/Rumblefish, and Kobalt, allowing users post music and music videos on Facebook, Instagram, Oculus — The partnerships followed similar deals with Universal Music Group and Sony/ATV — Music continued to fill the air in Menlo Park … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Sources: online bulk-order wholesaler Boxed has received acquisition interest of up to $500M from Kroger and some other major retailers — One of the highest-profile e-commerce startups is in talks to sell. — Online bulk-order wholesaler Boxed has received acquisition interest … | Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
Ex-Google engineer claims senior Google execs pressured him to stop discussing pro-diversity initiatives on company forums, which motivated him to quit — A memo written by a former Google engineer claims that the company's human resources department and a senior vice president pressured …
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Sensor Tower data shows 83% of App Store reviews are critical of Snapchat's redesign in countries where the redesign is widely available — Confusingly jamming Stories in between private messages has sparked backlash amongst the first users of Snapchat's sweeping redesign.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In an email to users, Google says it is deprecating Chrome Supervised Users, its parental controls feature for Chrome, starting this week — Google is preparing to launch a new set of parental control features for users of its Chrome browser. The announcement was made in an email sent … | TechCrunch: |
Source: Verizon is working on a new OTT video content service based on Oath content and a connected home product to manage smart devices — Jan 12, 2018, 4:23 amJan 12, 2018, 8:39 am — At CES, the big consumer electronics show underway this week in Las Vegas (when the lights are working) …
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