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In an internal memo, John Matze says he has been terminated as Parler's CEO by its board of directors — “The future of Parler is no longer in my hands,” Matze wrote — EXCLUSIVE - Parler has terminated CEO John Matze, according to a memo Matze sent to staffers that has been obtained by Fox News.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Jeff Bezos departs as perhaps the best CEO in tech history, having created three huge businesses: Amazon.com, AWS, and Amazon's marketplace/fulfillment services — It's the refunds that blow my mind. — You may be surprised to know that, despite the fact I live in Taiwan, I have an Amazon Prime account.
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| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
Jeff Bezos's surprise resignation feels natural and even inevitable; the walls of his highly compartmentalized empire have been crumbling for some time — Jeff Bezos has a formulation about one-way doors and two-way doors—decisions that are irreversible and permanent and those that can always be unwound.
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Facebook says it will try to protect posts that criticized Myanmar's military and its coup and will remove content that praises or supports the coup — After failing to stem the hate speech and misinformation that fueled a genocide in Myanmar, Facebook now says it plans …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Myanmar's new military government has ordered local telecoms to block Facebook and its family of apps within the country until February 7 — Myanmar's new military government has ordered local telecom firms to temporarily block Facebook in the Southeast Asian nation days after the military seized power …
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon has started deploying AI-powered Netradyne cameras, which are always on and automatically upload footage, in its US delivery vehicles to monitor drivers — - Amazon has begun rolling out AI-enabled cameras from Netradyne in vehicles at a handful of contracted delivery partners across the U.S., CNBC has learned.
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| CNBC: |
Sources: Apple and Hyundai-Kia close to a car manufacturing deal; first “Apple Cars” will be “designed to operate without a driver and focused on the last mile” — - Apple is close to finalizing a deal with Hyundai-Kia to manufacture an Apple-branded autonomous electric vehicle …
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| Bloomberg: |
Report: Apple plans $3.6B investment in Kia, with a deal on Feb. 17, and aims to start making cars in Georgia, US in 2024, with initial target of 100K cars/year — - Local media report says deal may be signed later this month — Hyundai last month confirmed then backed away from Apple talks
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
TikTok will prompt users to seek credible information if they try to share videos flagged as misleading, and disincentivize creators from uploading such content — TikTok will begin asking users to seek credible information about a topic if they try to share a video that carries …
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| Bloomberg: |
In an email to staff on February 1, Andy Jassy reaffirmed his commitment to making video games, following a scathing Bloomberg profile of Amazon Game Studios — One day before he was named the next chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., Andy Jassy reaffirmed his commitment to making video games …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Box says it intends to acquire Dutch cloud-based e-signature startup SignRequest for $55M and plans to launch Box Sign in summer 2021 — Cloud storage and collaboration giant Box has announced plans to acquire SignRequest, a cloud-based electronic signature (e-signature) startup based in the Netherlands, in a deal worth $55 million.
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
SolarWinds CEO says hackers had breached the company's Office 365 email system for at least nine months starting December 2019 — Investigators still don't know how the company was breached in attack that will cost millions — The newly appointed chief executive of SolarWinds Corp …
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| Marc Andreessen / Andreessen Horowitz: |
a16z names Sriram Krishnan as its newest GP, after roles at Facebook, Snap, Twitter; Krishnan has been consulting for nine months on an a16z “community project” — Welcome, Sriram Krishnan, our newest general partner, to Andreessen Horowitz! — Sriram is a well-known …
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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
India's IT ministry orders Twitter to block the recently restored accounts of dissidents and The Caravan magazine, or Twitter staff could face fines or jail — India's government has threatened to punish employees at Twitter with fines and jail terms of up to seven years for restoring hundreds … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google rolls out an update for Android TV with a refreshed UI that is similar to Google TV on Chromecast — A fresh look for Google's (other) smart TV software — Google is rolling out a new update for Android TV that gives its smart TV OS a fresh new look — one that's almost identical … | Reuters: |
Microsoft says it supports Australia's proposed new laws forcing Google and Facebook to pay for news content and it would be “willing to live by these rules” — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it fully supported proposed new laws in Australia that would force internet giants Google … | Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify reports Q4 results: 345M MAUs, up 27% YoY, as paying subscribers grew to 155M, up 24% YoY, topping expectations; revenue was up 17% YoY to €2.17B — But streaming giant offers conservative outlook for the current year as new sign-ups could ebb
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Several Apple services are facing outage, including iCloud Backup, iCloud Drive, iCloud Notes, Photos, Calendar, Mail, Keychain, and Bookmarks — Several of Apple's services are experiencing an outage at the current time, with Apple noting service interrupts for iCloud Backup, iCloud Drive … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Jack Ma's Ant Group has reached an agreement with Chinese regulators to turn Ant into a financial holding company, subject to bank capital requirements — - Ma's fintech giant will become a financial holding company — Ant is still exploring a potential IPO, but timeline unclear| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Report: in Q4 2020, Intel clawed back QoQ desktop PC and notebook CPU market share from AMD for the first time in 3 years amid AMD's ongoing supply chain issues — The Mercury Research CPU market share results are in for the fourth quarter of 2020, with the headline news being that Intel … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Sony says it shipped 4.5M PlayStation 5 units worldwide in 2020, and reports revenue of $8.4B in Q3, up 40% YoY, operating profit of $763.3M, up 50% — A similar figure to the PS4 launch — Sony shipped 4.5 million PlayStation 5 units worldwide in 2020, as revealed by information published alongside …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google and its partner SubCom say the Dunant subsea cable between US and France is now operational; the 4,000-mile cable can carry 250 terabits/second — Google's second fully privately owned subsea cable is now open for business. The announcement comes shortly after the company recorded … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Wine recommendation and marketplace app Vivino raises $155M Series D led by Sweden's Kinnevik, bringing its total raised to $221M, and says it now has 50M users — If you're at all interested in wine, chances are you've turned to Vivino at least a few times for recommendations.Sponsor Posts
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