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LG Electronics says it is terminating its smartphone business, which has lost money for years — South Korea group faced lack of in-house chip supply and rise of Chinese rivals — SEOUL — LG Electronics said Monday that its board decided to terminate the company's loss-making smartphone business …
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| Aaron Holmes / Insider: |
Personally identifiable data of 533M Facebook users has been posted online; Facebook says the data comes from a leak that was reported on and fixed in 2019 — - The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
The National Labor Relations Board finds Amazon illegally retaliated against two prominent internal critics when it fired them last year — The two employees had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How Big Tech firms rely on the interplay of collaboration and competition between each other in order to protect their market position — How the tech giants are both cooperating while competing in hardware, software and technology services — Once upon a time, Amazon. com Inc. only sold books …
Tweets: @caseynewton, @paul__armstrong, @rmac18, @ritapanahi, @wamika_kapur, and @wsj
| Megan Rose Dickey / Protocol: |
A deep look at the experiences of Asian Americans in tech, including going unheard, getting passed over for promotions, and stereotyped as passive and diligent — Going unheard. Getting passed over for promotions. Stereotyped as “passive” and “diligent.”
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| Sarthak Haribhakti / SarHaribhakti's Newsletter: |
Interview with Semil Shah, founding GP of Haystack, on getting rejected from jobs at VC firms, innovation in the VC industry, Miami as a “tech hub”, and more — Some real talk — Semil Shah has been a prolific writer for a decade. He has done a lot of interviews over the years.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Byju's acquires Aakash Educational Services, which operates 200+ physical coaching centers in India, for “close to $1B” in cash and equity — Why did Byju's raise over $1 billion last year and is already inching closer to securing another half a billion dollars? We are getting some answers today.| Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Experts say parents posting their kid shaming or kid punishment videos as a joke on platforms like TikTok have the potential to cause actual harm — Joke or no joke, child-punishment videos are a growing genre online, and child-safety experts say it's not OK| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Cresta, which offers a service that uses AI to mentor customer service agents in real time, raises $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Cresta, an AI-powered platform that gives real-time support …
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| Financial Times: |
A record 76 companies suspended their IPO applications for Shanghai's Star Market in March, more than doubling since February, as tech regulatory scrutiny rises — Companies cancel plans to sell shares on Shanghai's Star Market as regulatory scrutiny rises
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| The Guardian: |
Investigation into Palantir's activities in Europe amid COVID raises concerns over Palantir's work with public agencies and whether it can operate under EU laws — Daniel Howden, Apostolis Fotiadis, Ludek Stavinoha, Ben Holst — The 24 March, 2020 will be remembered by some for the news …
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
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