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Twitter bans sharing private images and videos without consent, with exceptions for newsworthiness and public figures, and will remove content that users report — Twitter has expanded its private information policy to include media, banning users from sharing photos or videos of a private individual without their permission.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
UK's CMA orders Meta to sell Giphy, after finding the deal could harm rival platforms by denying access to GIFs, social media users, and UK advertisers — After its investigation found it could harm competition — The UK's competition regulator has officially ruled that Facebook parent …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
David Marcus, the co-creator of Diem who spent the last few years building the Novi wallet, is leaving Meta at the end of 2021 to pursue other projects — Marcus, who joined the tech giant in 2014, has struggled to get the Diem currency off the ground — David Marcus, one of the top executives …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to Vice Chair of the Board and co-CEO alongside Marc Benioff, effective immediately — - Bret Taylor will be co-CEO alongside Marc Benioff, who built Salesforce into one of the world's largest enterprise software companies. — Taylor was quickly promoted …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon touts “record-breaking Black Friday through Cyber Monday sales”, in sharp contrast to reports of lackluster sales for the broader e-commerce industry — - Amazon said it rang up record-breaking sales between Black Friday and Cyber Monday.| Charity L. Scott / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Twitter should consider changing its business model as its ad revenue remains weak, despite its locked-in userbase, indispensability, and impenetrable moat — From CNBC: … On one hand, congratulations to Twitter for its first non-messy CEO transition in its history; on the other hand …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS says four of its cloud-based analytics services, Redshift, EMR, MSK, and Kinesis, are now available as serverless and on-demand services in public preview — At its re:Invent conference, AWS today announced that four of its cloud-based analytics services, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Amazon unveils AWS Private 5G, a service providing hardware, software, and SIMs for deploying private mobile networks, without upfront or per-device charges — At Amazon's AWS re:Invent conference this morning, the company announced the preview of “AWS Private 5G,” which is a new service …
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey resigns, CTO Parag Agrawal takes over effective immediately; Dorsey to quit the board in 2022, Salesforce's Bret Taylor to become chair — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief of the social media company, effective immediately.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches its ARM-based Graviton 3 processor, claiming it will be 25% faster than Graviton 2 and three times faster for ML workloads — At its annual re:Invent conference, AWS today announced the newest generation of its Arm-based Graviton processors: the Graviton 3.
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| Lee Mathews / Liliputing: |
The Amazon Appstore and apps downloaded from it are broken on Android 12, despite the new OS version launching over a month ago — As much as we'd like it to be, Installing a major operating system update isn't always the most trouble-free process. Even if everything does go well with the update itself …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
SEC filing: Satya Nadella last week sold half his Microsoft stock, worth over $285M, before Washington state implements its new capital gains tax on January 1 — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sold half of his stake in the company in a series of transactions last week, divesting about 840,000 shares … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon unveils SageMaker Canvas, which lets business users build ML prediction models with a point-and-click UI, following similar offerings by Azure and others — AWS today announced a new machine learning service, Amazon SageMaker Canvas. Unlike its existing machine learning services …
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| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
Privacy-focused cryptocurrency startup Iron Fish, which launched its IRON coin in April 2021, raises a $27.6M Series A led by a16z — Elena Nadolinski grew up in Volgograd, Russia playing on the shells of abandoned tanks and decommissioned battleships, following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Tweets: @a16z, @tomcoates, @zoink, @eladgil, @forbescrypto, and @delrayman
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft's inclusion of buy-now-pay-later app Zip in Edge is seen by some as heavy-handed, adding bloatware that may lessen the browser's privacy and security — “This all feels extremely unnecessary for a browsing experience,” one user says. — Microsoft is taking a lot of flak …
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Twitch rolls out support for SharePlay on iPhones and iPads, allowing up to 32 participants to watch and move between streams together — Twitch has rolled out another feature designed to bring viewers closer together. The livestreaming service now supports SharePlay on iPhone and iPad … | Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
South Korean company Naver, which runs the popular Zepeto metaverse platform with 3D avatars, raises a $150M Series B at a $1B valuation from Vision Fund 2 — Naver's Zepeto, boasting a base of young female users, attracts $150 million SoftBank investment, valuing it at more than $1 billion| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft shareholders approve a proposal asking the company's board to publish a workplace sexual-harassment report, in a rare win for activists — - Microsoft shareholders voted for the proposal, backed by Arjuna Capital, at the company's annual general meeting.| Jonathan Greig / ZDNet: |
Box reports Q3 revenue of $224M, up 14% YoY, vs. $218.5M est., and billings of $231.5M, up 25% YoY, and a net retention rate of 109%, up from 103% YoY — The cloud content management firm's net retention rate came to 109%, up from 106% in Q2. — Cloud content management firm Box published …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitch unveils a new tool for streamers and moderators called Suspicious User Detection, which uses ML to detect people attempting to evade bans — Suspicious User Detection will be turned on by default — Twitch is furthering its efforts to reduce harassment with a new tool …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces AWS IoT TwinMaker to help developers create digital twins of real-time systems like buildings, factories, equipment, and product lines — Amazon today announced Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT TwinMaker, a new service designed to make it easier for developers to create digital twins …
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
HPE reports Q4 revenue of $7.35B vs estimates of $7.38B, Compute unit revenue of $3.2B, up 1.1% YoY, and Storage revenue of $1.3B, up 3% YoY — HPE reiterated its full-year forecast for profit, cash flow and share buybacks, and a multi-year outlook for recurring revenue.
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| Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg: |
Finland is working to stop millions of text messages with links to the FluBot malware, which started spreading late last week — Finland is working to stop a flood of text messages of an unknown origin that are spreading malware. — The messages with malicious links to malware called FluBot number … Sponsor Posts
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