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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at corporate raider tactics requiring 51% of a company's stock, which tend to treat remaining minority shareholders poorly, amid Twitter's “poison pill” — Poison pills — Here are some things you could do 1 : — Buy 51% of the stock of a public company …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
To unlock its vast potential, Twitter should go private and split into two companies: one for the service and social graph and one for its apps and ad business — Elon Musk wrote in a letter to Twitter's board: … The vast majority of commentary about the Musk-Twitter saga has focused … | Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
Experts say open sourcing Twitter's algorithm will not increase transparency because recommendation engines are complex and use an immense fire hose of data — Conservatives have long claimed discrimination by the social network, but there's no one algorithm that could prove it, researchers say
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| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
An in-depth investigation into the $12B spyware industry, dominated by Israel's NSO Group, as Citizen Lab finds Pegasus infected a device in the UK's No. 10 — The inside story of the world's most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.
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An investigation finds 65+ Catalans were targeted by Pegasus or Candiru, likely by Spanish authorities, and details Homage, a new iOS zero-click used by NSO — Key Findings — The Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with mercenary spyware.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A US appeals court reaffirms that scraping publicly accessible content on the internet is legal, ending a landmark case LinkedIn brought against rival Hiq Labs — Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Report: Microsoft is working on a program to let select brands advertise within free-to-play Xbox games, such as on a billboard, and won't take a revenue cut — The ads supposedly wouldn't disrupt gameplay — Microsoft is reportedly working on a program that will let brands showcase …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Code on Twitter's site reveals how an upcoming Edit button could work: by making a new tweet with the updated content and listing the old tweets before the edit — This month, Twitter announced the ground-shaking news that it was actually going to offer users a way to edit tweets — a longtime user request.
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
a16z unveils Start, an accelerator that offers early-stage founders up to $1M in capital from its seed fund, after quietly piloting the program for over a year — For more than a year, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has quietly piloted its own take on an accelerator for early-stage entrepreneurs …
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TechCrunch and Andreessen Horowitz
| Stacey Higginbotham / Stacey on IoT: |
Smart home and IoT company Insteon seemingly shuts down as home hubs suddenly stop working and LinkedIn profiles of top executives show their roles have ended — Is your Insteon smart home system down? I'm getting reports from dozens of Insteon users that as of Friday their smart home hubs have stopped working.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Clipboard Health, an app-based marketplace that matches nurses with nearby open shifts, announces a $50M Series B and a $30M Series C at a $1.3B valuation — Clipboard Health, an app-based marketplace that matches nurses with open shifts at nearby healthcare facilities … | Nick Kostov / Wall Street Journal: |
French music streaming service Deezer plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a €1.05B valuation and says it has 9.6M subscribers and had €400M in 2021 revenue — French music streaming service is merging with a special-purpose acquisition company, aiming to go publicSponsor Posts
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