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Sources: a Meta probe that began in Fall 2021 is investigating Sandberg's use of corporate resources for personal projects, including her Lean In foundation — Review focuses on the extent to which staffers worked on her personal projects — The lawyers investigating Facebook operating …
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Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin venture TBD plans to launch a “Web 5” platform, using the Ion network, focused on decentralized identity and data storage for applications — TBD, the Bitcoin-focused venture first announced last spring, unveiled an ambitious effort Friday to build a decentralized Web platform dubbed “Web 5.”
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| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
As Axie Infinity's economy and the value of its tokens crumbled, and gamers' earnings crashed, Sky Mavis started downplaying financial aspects of the game — Over the course of his life, Alejo Lopez de Armentia has played video games for a variety of reasons.
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| Ariel Shapiro / The Verge: |
CEO Daniel Ek: Spotify plans to use the freemium model for audiobooks; the DOJ is reviewing Spotify's yet-to-close acquisition of audiobook distributor Findaway — This story is part of a group of stories called — This article first ran in Hot Pod Insider, The Verge's audio industry newsletter.
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The UK's CMA plans a market investigation into Apple's cloud gaming restrictions via its App Store alongside Apple and Google's market power in mobile browsers — Apple and Google “hold all the cards” with interventions needed to give innovators and competitors a fair chance to compete in mobile ecosystems
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
AT&T says it is the first operator in the world to achieve 20 Gbps download and upload speeds with a production fiber network — Back in January, AT&T launched impressive speeds up to 5 Gbps with its fiber internet service in over 70 US cities. Now AT&T fiber is out with the news … | Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Pixalate study: of the 1,000 most popular apps used by children, 67% in Apple's App Store and 76% in the Google Play Store send the ad industry location data — Apple and Google just look the other way. Here's how we stop it. — Imagine if a stranger parked in front of a child's bedroom window to peep inside.
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Sources: some US news outlets prepare for shortfalls as Meta weighs ending fees for news; annual fees averaged $20M+ for NYT, $15M+ for WaPo, and $10M+ for WSJ — Social-media company pays more than $10 million a year to a handful of news organizations to feature their content on its news tab
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Arduino, maker of open-source microcontrollers for hardware developers, raised a $32M Series B from Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Arm, Renesas, and Anzu — Best known for its open source microcontrollers that have been wildly embraced by the developer community, Arduino now has its sights firmly set on the enterprise world.| Dave Lee / Financial Times: |
Recruiters say hiring in some tech sectors is holding firm; Indeed.com: US developer job postings are up 120% on an early 2020 pre-coronavirus pandemic baseline — Despite job cuts and slowing growth in some parts of the sector, recruiters say others are holding firm
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Experts say Amazon's encrypted messaging app Wickr Me is full of child sex abuse images and the company is not taking basic safety measures to prevent sharing — Court records show that Wickr Me has become part of a toolkit used by people who exploit children.
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| Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: |
Sources: delivery startup Gorillas, which raised $1B in October 2021, is cutting staff, reducing free-spending policies, and considering closing four warehouses — After Germany's rapid food delivery startup Gorillas Technologies GmbH closed a $1 billion funding round last October …
Tweets: @eliotwb, @aggichristiane, @mhbergen, @cdanuloff, @aulia, and @shiraovide
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