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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Parler is not down due to a single company but because the market chose not to do business with it because it's toxic, which is the nature of a free market — I've delayed writing deeper thoughts on the total deplatforming of Parler, in part because there was so much else happening …
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
GitHub apologizes to the employee it has fired for using the term “Nazis” on Jan. 6 and offers him his job back, says the company's head of HR has resigned — The company is offering the employee his job back — GitHub is admitting that a Jewish employee was fired in error and is offering him his job back.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: in a flurry of parting actions against China, Trump's admin has notified Huawei suppliers including Intel that it's revoking licenses to sell to Huawei — NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration notified Huawei suppliers, including chipmaker Intel …
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| Washington Post: |
Dating apps like Tinder and Bumble are banning users identified in photos from the Capitol riot, and some users are relaying incriminating evidence to the FBI — Bumble, Tinder and others are freezing out rioters with help from law enforcement — and, in some cases, their own photos.
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| New York Times: |
A look at the incentives, like guaranteed auction win percentages, that Facebook got from Google in the ad partnership that is now a focus of an antitrust suit — Facebook was going to compete with Google for some advertising sales but backed away from the plan after the companies cut a preferential deal, according to court documents.
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Due to Apple's security limitations and additional work required, few developers are bothering to port Chrome extensions to Safari, despite WebExtensions API — At WWDC 2020, Apple announced it was going to support Chrome-style browser extensions (the WebExtensions API) in Safari.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
DuckDuckGo surpassed 100M daily search queries for the first time on Jan. 11; since August 2020, the search engine began seeing over 2B search queries per month — DuckDuckGo reaches historic milestone in a week when both Signal and Telegram saw a huge influx of new users.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Citrix is in advanced talks with Vista Equity Partners to buy Wrike for $2B+, after the PE firm acquired the work-management service for ~$800M in 2018 — - Deal for work-management platform could be reached this week — Vista invested in Wrike at an $800 million valuation in 2018
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Surging demand for laptops and 5G chips, alongside a boom in car sales, is fueling chip shortages and pushing prices higher, with older chips affected the most — Surging appetite for 5G smartphones, rebounding car sales squeeze semiconductor makers — Semiconductor companies are asking … | Kevin C. Tofel / Stacey on IoT: |
CES 2021 demonstrated that the smart home industry is at a pause after moving a little too rapidly for several years without understanding what consumers want — Although the Consumer Electronics Show 2021 event is technically only half over, most of the big news typically lands in the first half of the week.
Tweets: @iotwatcher
| Alex Danco: |
A critique of Canada's tech startup ecosystem, whose growth is being held back by the mindset of angel investors, the government's SR&ED tax credits, and more — Toronto is not the next great startup scene. Neither is Waterloo, or Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada. — I'm sorry that I have to write this.
Tweets: @ianhathaway, @soundboy, @timkastelle, @sebangelist, @philmorle, @prashanth_krish, @constantijn14, @hkanji, and @julien
| Miriam Berger / Washington Post: |
Iran blames legal and illegal crypto mining for massive blackouts in the country, shuts down a large, licensed Chinese-Iranian mining operation — Massive blackouts and smog have hit cities across Iran. It's a toxic mix as the country, already under economic duress and suffocating U.S. sanctions … | Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Interviews with more than two dozen tech execs and workers who have left San Francisco for other parts of the US over the last year amid a rise in remote work — As a tech era draws to an end, more workers and companies are packing up. What comes next? — SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area struck a hard bargain with its tech workers.
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| Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle: |
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