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Social Capital founder and CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says the “ugly truth” is “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghurs in China, himself included — - Chamath Palihapitiya said “nobody cares about what's happening” to Uyghur Muslims in China.
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Game publishers' plans to add NFTs to games have sparked a fierce backlash from gamers, who have long resented the growing number of micro transactions in games — Game publishers are offering NFTs, but skeptical gamers smell a moneymaking scheme and are fighting back.| Kirsten Grind / Wall Street Journal: |
Activision Blizzard says 37 employees have “exited” and 44 have been disciplined since July as part of its investigation over workplace misconduct allegations — Company's actions have come in the wake of pressure from investors, business partners and employees to address complaints over its handling of misconduct issues
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Apple clarifies it will still collect a commission from Dutch developers using third-party payments; Google will too in South Korea, just lowering its fee by 4% — On December 24th of last year, the Netherlands' competition regulator, the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) …
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Samsung unveils 4nm Exynos 2200, its new SoC with Xclipse GPU based on AMD's RDNA 2 architecture, offering features such as hardware-accelerated ray tracing — The processor packs Samsung's own Xclipse GPU based on AMD RDNA 2 architecture that the South Korean company says will offer a console-level gaming experience in smartphones.
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Tech Oversight Project, mainly funded by Pierre Omidyar and Chris Hughes's organizations, launches Tuesday to push for Big Tech antitrust regulations — Organizations with ties to eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes are the primary funders of the Tech Oversight Project
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In February, Spain will start requiring influencers and sponsors promoting cryptocurrencies to pre-notify authorities and warn of investing risks or face fines — Watchdog imposes landmark restrictions amid concerns for investors in unregulated sector — Spain is imposing restrictions …
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India-based agritech startup Arya, which helps farmers in South Asia store and sell their produce and secure credit, raises a $46M Series C and $14M as debt — Indian agritech startup Arya, which reaches hundreds of thousands of farmers in the South Asian market and helps them store and sell …
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How Netflix succeeded in South Korea, including by developing ideas considered too risky for broadcasters and licensing local content overseas — It took “Squid Game” just four weeks this past fall to become the most-watched Netflix Inc. show ever released in any language.| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
South Korean startup flex, which makes tools for automating HR processes and workflows, raises a $32M Series B led by Greenoaks at a $287M valuation — South Korea-based human resources management platform flex announced today it has closed a $32 million Series B round at a valuation of $298 million.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
BitPay says Bitcoin use by its merchants fell to ~65% of crypto payments, down from 92% in 2020, as Ether purchases rose to 15% and stablecoins grew to 13% — Consumers and businesses are increasingly starting to use digital tokens other than Bitcoin for purchases, according to BitPay Inc. …
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Amazon reverses its plan to ban the use of Visa credit cards in the UK, set to start on January 19; the company had cited high transaction fees — Amazon.com Inc. has emailed U.K. customers to say that a planned ban on Visa credit cards will no longer take place.| Max Seddon / Financial Times: |
Ukraine's digital transformation ministry says “all evidence points to Russia being behind the attack”, which took down about 70 government websites — Proof of involvement could meet threshold for west to impose sanctions but incident yet to be formally attributed
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