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Marc Andreessen blocked Jack Dorsey on Twitter following his tweets critical of a16z and Web3; Dorsey then tweeted “I'm officially banned from web3” — The venture capitalist blocked the former Twitter CEO, and Dorsey said he's now ‘banned from Web3’
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Amid COVID-19 concerns, Google, GM, and Waymo cancel in-person plans for CES, following Meta, Amazon, Twitter, and others, while Intel scales back its presence — The world's biggest technology show may not be — CES, the world's largest technology show, appears to be in jeopardy due to rising COVID-19 cases in the United States.
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Amazon reaches a nationwide settlement with the NLRB to let its warehouse employees more easily organize, likely affecting over 1M current and former workers — The agreement's national scope and its concessions to organizing go further than any previous settlement that the e-commerce giant has made.
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| Priya Anand / Bloomberg: |
Internal docs show Amazon is struggling to retain Alexa device users; in some years between 2018-2021, 15%-25% of new users were no longer active after one week — Each holiday season since 2015, Amazon.com Inc. has counted on selling a lot of its Alexa voice-controlled smart speakers.
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| Neal E. Boudette / New York Times: |
Tesla agrees to release a software update that blocks its Passenger Play gaming feature while the vehicle is in motion, after the NHTSA opened an investigation — Tesla has agreed to modify software in its cars to prevent drivers and passengers from playing video games on the dashboard screens …
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As Bakkt's stock drops from $50 to ~$9 two months after its SPAC merger, president and founding executive Adam White says he is leaving the company next week — Adam White, a founder and President of the digital assets and rewards platform Bakkt, took to Twitter on Thursday to say he is moving on from the company.
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Intel apologizes, following a backlash in China, for telling Chinese suppliers to avoid Xinjiang labor, saying it only did so to “ensure compliance” with US law — - Brand ambassador Wang Junkai cuts ties with the U.S. chipmaker — Intel asked suppliers not to use labor, products from Xinjiang
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Automation Anywhere says it will buy FortressIQ, a process discovery startup that uses AI to automate internal processes mapping; FortressIQ has raised $46M — Automation Anywhere, which is best known for its robotic process automation (RPA) software, plans to expand the platform.| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Ant Money, which operates three finance apps, including micro-income app ATM and gamer savings app Blast, raises a $20M Series A — Serial fintech entrepreneur Walter Cruttenden founded Acorns with his son, Jeff, in 2012 with the goal of helping low- and middle-income households to invest and save responsibly.
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Huawei debuts P50 Pocket, a clamshell-style folding device with a circular 1" outer display and 6.9" inner display, available now in China starting at ~$1,400 — The phone launches in China today, but won't be coming to the US — Huawei has officially announced the P50 Pocket …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
The Coalition for App Fairness loses its best advocate as Horacio Gutierrez, Spotify's Chief Legal Officer, leaves for The Walt Disney Company — Yesterday I saw on LinkedIn that Horacio Gutierrez is leaving Spotify. He served as Spotify's Head of Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer …
| Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information: |
Meta brings back Kevin Martin, a Republican, as its head of US public policy, after failing to find a Democrat to lead its lobbying team — Meta Platforms is throwing in the towel on a plan to hire a top Democrat to lead its lobbying team after searching in vain for almost a year for a candidate from the party.
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| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Sources: amid budget woes, the US DOJ has delayed deciding whether to sue Apple or file a new suit against Google over antitrust concerns until at least March — The Justice Department is still months away from deciding whether to sue Apple or file a new suit against Google over antitrust concerns … | Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
How Tobi Lütke led Shopify to become an e-commerce giant, helping ~2M merchants run stores as its market cap rose from $46B in early 2020 to $177B today — Tobi Lütke transformed the Canadian upstart into an e-commerce giant by being the anti-Bezos. How long can the formula keep working?
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