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Investigation shows how Facebook and Google fund misinformation globally by paying millions of dollars in ad revenue to the operators of clickbait pages — A month after the fall of the democratic government. — In 2015, six of the 10 websites in Myanmar getting the most engagement … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
The Apple Podcasts app's review score went from 1.8 to 4.6 stars after Apple began prompting users for ratings, confusing some into rating individual podcasts — Apple Podcasts rises above bad reviews, but at what cost? — You pissed off people by somewhat breaking your app, and they're leaving angry reviews.
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NY city council passed a bill that bans employers from using AI hiring tools unless a yearly bias audit shows they won't discriminate based on race or gender — Job candidates rarely know when hidden artificial intelligence tools are rejecting their resumes or analyzing their video interviews.| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Executives at Disney, Qualcomm, Coinbase, and other companies tried to weave their unrelated businesses into the metaverse discussion on their Q3 earnings calls — - The concept of the metaverse is still vague. — That didn't stop dozens of executives from speaking about their metaverse strategies.
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| Dan Ennis / Banking Dive: |
Berlin-based neobank N26, which was recently valued at $9B, to exit the US on January 11 after over two years, following its UK departure in April 2020 — Dive Brief: — German neobank N26 is shutting down its U.S. operations to focus on expanding in Europe, the company said Thursday.| Conor Hale / FierceBiotech: |
France-based Owkin, which helps medical researchers build and train AI models, raises $180M from pharmaceuticals company Sanofi — Artificial intelligence developer Owkin scored a major collaboration with Sanofi to help bring its digital clinical research platform to bear …
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Square's TBD division releases a white paper detailing tbDEX, a new decentralized protocol for exchanging digital and other assets — Payments giant Square released a white paper on Friday detailing a new decentralized protocol for exchanging digital and other assets known as tbDEX.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
A voter turnout group says Facebook served 36.8% of their conversion ads to iOS users after Apple's ATT change, down from 63.6% — Tatenda Musapatike is as familiar as anyone with the way Facebook's political ad system works. During the 2016 election and the 2018 midterms …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Sao Paulo-based social commerce marketplace Facily raises a $250M Series D at an $850M valuation, bringing its total funding to $366M — Facily, a São Paulo-based social commerce marketplace, has quietly raised over $366 million in funding across four different rounds over the last year.
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| Steve Knopper / Billboard: |
Profile of Berlin-based Ableton, whose music production software changed the way recordings are produced and how DJs perform by eliminating cumbersome equipment — Gerhard Behles and his partners wrote the code that makes modern pop sing — and makes investors drool. But they're not selling.
Tweets: @henrikberggren, @mattetti, @brigidnz, @markkilborn, and @edmacovaz
| Kelly Crow / Wall Street Journal: |
ConstitutionDAO, which crowdfunded over $40M, loses Sotheby's US Constitution auction to a $43.2M bid from Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin — The 53-year-old billionaire paid $43.2 million for the historic document, plans to lend it to Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas
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| Zoe Schiffer / NBC News: |
In a note to 80,000 hourly and salaried US employees, Apple affirms their right to discuss working conditions and pay, internally and externally — Following months of internal controversy about how much workers make at one of the highest valued companies in the world …
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