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Airbnb closes at $144, up from its $68 IPO price, on its first day of trading, giving it a market cap of about $86.5B and more than doubling its IPO valuation — - Airbnb opened at $146 per share on its first day of trading on Thursday, more than doubling the $68 per share price set for its IPO the day before.
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Sources: SVP of hardware tech Johny Srouji told staff that Apple has started working on its own cellular modem for future devices, to replace Qualcomm chips — - Component would eventually replace mobile chips from Qualcomm — Srouji describes in-house design efforts in town hall meeting
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Sources: Tim Cook says it “seems likely” that the majority of teams at Apple won't be back to work in office before June 2021 — - CEO discusses work through pandemic in meeting with employees — Cook suggests company may be more flexible about remote work| New York Times: |
Legal experts say FTC and state AGs will find it challenging to prove their allegations against Facebook because the standards of proof are formidable — The U.S. and states cases against the social network are far from a slam dunk because the standards of proof are formidable.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Germany launches an antitrust probe into Facebook tying Oculus use to possession of a Facebook account — Facebook's bad week just got worse: It's being investigated in Germany for linking usage of its VR product, Oculus, to having a Facebook account. — The tech giant raised the hackles …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Disney introduces a new bundle offering Disney+, ESPN+, and ad-free Hulu for $18.99 a month — It's a new variant of its traditional bundle. … You want to skip the ads on Hulu? There's a Disney Bundle for that. — The company said it would launch a new bundle that includes Disney Plus …
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Cydia, a once-popular app store for jailbroken iOS devices, sues Apple, alleging the company used anti-competitive tactics in clearing the way for the App Store — Cydia, one of the first app stores on iPhone, is suing Apple, alleging anti-competitive behavior| Washington Post: |
Review of Amazon's $100 Halo Band, a health tracking bracelet: excessively invasive without offering much in return for the data — The Halo Band asks you to strip down and strap on a microphone so that it can make 3-D scans of your body fat and monitor your tone of voice.
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Mastercard says it won't allow its cards to be used on Pornhub after the payment network's review of the site uncovered unlawful content — Mastercard Inc. said it won't allow its cards to be used on Pornhub.com after the network's review of the website uncovered unlawful content.
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Twitter says iOS users can now add tweets to Snapchat Snaps as stickers, and it will soon test sharing tweets to Instagram Stories — Twitter continues to take over all social networks — Twitter is making it even easier to spread your tweets far and wide to every social media platform imaginable.
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| The Daily Beast: |
Source: at an all-hands meeting, Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook employees they will not be required to get vaccinated before returning to work in their offices — The Facebook founder told his more than 50,000 employees that they will not be required to get vaccinated before heading back to the office.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Brave introduces Brave Today, a news reader designed around privacy, powered by Brave's new CDN which delivers feeds anonymously to users — By design, Brave Today doesn't let the company or third parties build user profiles. — Brave Software, maker of the Brave Web browser … | Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases a preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel — All your apps should now run on ARM — Microsoft is finally releasing x64 emulation on Windows for ARM to testers today, after announcing that the feature was coming back in September.
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| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google says it will let users limit the alcohol and gambling ads they see, starting with YouTube in the US — The new feature will launch on YouTube in the U.S. first. — Google is adding new user controls for alcohol and gambling ads. The new feature, announced Thursday …
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| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
Biden staffers say their experiences in dealing with Facebook during the election left them concerned that the company is a threat to the electoral process — Inside the battle between Biden and Facebook. — Opinion Writer at Large — In the days after the election … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber's CEO sent a letter to all 50 US governors asking them to prioritize giving drivers and delivery workers the vaccine as essential workers — Given how reliant many people have become on rideshare drivers and especially delivery workers during the pandemic, Uber is pushing for them to get priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Google launches knowledge panels in search results to show accurate information about coronavirus vaccines, starting with the UK — - Google has launched new knowledge panels to show people accurate information about coronavirus vaccines. — The feature is only available in the U.K …
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The Keyword, ZDNet, Mashable, MobiHealthNews, Android Central, 9to5Google, and Business Insider
Tweets: @mantzarlis and @google
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with ex-Google AI ethics co-lead Timnit Gebru, who says Sundar Pichai's “de-escalation strategies” language in his memo paints her as an “angry Black woman” — In a companywide memo to employees Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said he's sorry …
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Facebook insiders say it is prioritizing revenue over user safety by its lax approach to stopping scammers, hackers, and disinfo peddlers from buying ads — Facebook is on track for record ad revenue this year. That's partly due to its lax approach to stopping scammers, hackers … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google, Dell, Intel, Slack, Zoom, and others form The Modern Computing Alliance to tackle security, remote work, and other enterprise issues — The Modern Computing Alliance also includes Slack, Zoom, and others — Google, Dell, Intel and a handful of other major tech companies … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
French data protection agency CNIL fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M for placing tracking cookies without consent — France's data protection agency, the CNIL, has slapped Google and Amazon with fines for dropping tracking cookies without consent. — Google has been hit with a total …
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Reuters, The Economic Times, Yahoo Finance, Android Central, CNBC, Input, ComputerWeekly.com, and International Business Times. Tweets: @mikebutcher. Thanks:@riptari
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Facebook launches Shopping in Instagram Reels, rolling out globally starting today, letting businesses and creators tag products when they create Reels — Instagram today is launching Shopping in Reels, its TikTok competitor. The new feature was announced in October as something the company …
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