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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple pauses all product sales in Russia, removes RT News and Sputnik News from the App Store outside Russia, and disables Apple Maps' live traffic in Ukraine — Apple today confirmed that it has stopped all product sales from its online website in Russia, which means customers in Russia …
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Google will remove RT and Sputnik apps from the Play Store, after removing Russian state outlets from its news features, following a similar move by Apple — Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Tuesday that it has blocked mobile apps connected to RT and Sputnik from its Play store … | Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: |
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| Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: |
Meta releases its Q4 Widely Viewed Content report, showing the most viewed Facebook Page comes from a banned account; Meta would not reveal the account — Safe to say that Meta's efforts to refute the idea that Facebook amplifies divisive political content are not going exactly as it would have hoped.
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
SOTU: Biden asks Congress to pass new rules to enhance child safety on social media, including banning targeted ads to, and data collection of, children — He wants to ban targeted advertising to kids — President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass new rules to enhance child safety …
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Google Maps is removing newly added user content, like pins, in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, amid claims of its use in coordinating Russian military activity — Responding to claims that its Maps were being used to coordinate Russian military activity in Ukraine, Google …
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| Stephen Harrison / Slate: |
How Russia's war with Ukraine is playing out on Wikipedia; Russian Wikipedia editors decided to call an invasion what it is, rejecting the Kremlin's narrative — On Thursday, President Vladimir Putin issued the order for Russian forces to invade Ukraine. Since then, Russians …
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| Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: |
Netflix acquires Finnish game developer Next Games for around $72M; the studio specializes in games based on entertainment franchises, such as Stranger Things — Next Games had released ‘Stranger Things: Puzzle Tales’, a role-playing game based on the streaming giant's hit 80s horror drama series in October last year.
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
US CPSC and Fitbit recall Fitbit Ionic smartwatches, after receiving 118 reports of burn injuries; Fitbit sold ~1M units in the US and 693K internationally — Fitbit has issued a voluntary recall for Ionic smartwatches that it manufactured and sold from 2017 through 2020.
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| J. Clara Chan / Hollywood Reporter: |
Snap halts ads in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, pledges $15M to relief orgs in Ukraine, and is helping relocate 300+ Ukrainian staff of its AR platform Looksery — Three hundred Snap employees are from Ukraine, according to a message shared on Tuesday.
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| Washington Post: |
Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking program Birdwatch remains a small pilot project 13 months after launch, with only 359 contributors flagging tweets in 2022 — With the Ukraine war unfolding on social media, parsing fact from fiction has never been trickier — or, for those involved, more urgent.
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| Washington Post: |
A profile of Mykhailo Fedorov, one of Ukraine's deputy prime ministers, who is using his Twitter account to pressure tech giants into standing up to Russia — Six months ago, Mykhailo Fedorov, one of Ukraine's deputy prime ministers, made a pilgrimage to Silicon Valley to discuss his country's digital transformation.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Connecteam, which helps employers manage their deskless workforce, raises a $120M Series C led by Stripes and Insight, source says at an $800M+ valuation — After years of being overlooked, front-line employees and others who do not sit at desks all day are taking center stage in a new wave of workplace productivity apps.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Sanctuary, which is attempting to build general-purpose humanoid robots, raises a $58.5M Series A led by Bell — Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp., a startup that's attempting to build general-purpose robots with a humanlike appearance and intelligence, said today it has raised $58.5 million in an early-stage funding.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue of $7.33B, up 26% YoY, including $6.8B from subscription and support, up 25%; platform and other, which lumps in Slack, was up 53% — The CRM giant beat top and bottom-line estimates, with every segment of its Subscription and Support business bringing in more than $1 billion in quarterly revenues.
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| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel, AMD, Arm, TSMC, Samsung, and others introduce the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) consortium, seeking to standardize die-to-die designs — A broad range of blue-chip industry promoters, like Intel, AMD, Arm, TSMC, and Samsung, among others, introduced … | Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Mexico City-based 99minutos, a logistics service for Latin American e-commerce vendors, raises an $82M Series C led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its funding to ~$129M — 99minutos, a logistics service company for e-commerce vendors across Latin America, is making fast work out of attracting funding.| Kyle Alspach / VentureBeat: |
Bright Security, formerly NeuraLegion, which offers tools for dynamic app security testing, raises a $20M Series A led by Evolution Equity Partners — Depending on who you ask in the cybersecurity world, there's a big shift happening right now in the area of application security.
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| Jo Constantz / Bloomberg: |
OpenSpace, which uses head-mounted cameras and AI to visualize construction sites, raises $102M led by PSP Growth at a $902M valuation — OpenSpace, a startup that develops technology for the construction industry, raised $102 million in a new funding round that the company said gives it a valuation of $902 million.| Bloomberg: |
Singapore-based gaming and e-commerce company Sea has lost $132B in market value from its October peak, including $11B in recent days after weak forecasts — Sea Ltd., once the hottest stock in the world, has lost more than $130 billion in market value from its peak last year …
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