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LG Electronics says it is terminating its smartphone business, which has lost money for years — South Korea group faced lack of in-house chip supply and rise of Chinese rivals — SEOUL — LG Electronics said Monday that its board decided to terminate the company's loss-making smartphone business …
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
On a podcast, Tim Cook says he's “not focused on Facebook”, Apple is confident in its case against Epic Games, AR is critically important for Apple, and more — In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times' Kara Swisher, on her podcast “Sway,” Apple CEO Tim Cook talks …
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
The National Labor Relations Board finds Amazon illegally retaliated against two prominent internal critics when it fired them last year — The two employees had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Byju's acquires Aakash Educational Services, which operates 200+ physical coaching centers in India, for “close to $1B” in cash and equity — Why did Byju's raise over $1 billion last year and is already inching closer to securing another half a billion dollars? We are getting some answers today.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Internal memo: Swiggy raised ~$800M, bringing its total raised to ~$2.2B; source says Swiggy is now valued at $4.8B — Swiggy has raised about $800 million in a new financing round, the Indian food delivery startup told employees on Monday, as it looks to expand its business in the country quarters … | Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal: |
Experts say parents posting their kid shaming or kid punishment videos as a joke on platforms like TikTok have the potential to cause actual harm — Joke or no joke, child-punishment videos are a growing genre online, and child-safety experts say it's not OK| Wall Street Journal: |
How Big Tech firms rely on the interplay of collaboration and competition between each other in order to protect their market position — How the tech giants are both cooperating while competing in hardware, software and technology services — Once upon a time, Amazon. com Inc. only sold books …
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| Aaron Holmes / Insider: |
Personally identifiable data of 533M Facebook users has been posted online; Facebook says the data comes from a leak that was reported on and fixed in 2019 — - The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.
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| Andrew Tarantola / Engadget: |
An adapted excerpt from the book “Your Computer Is on Fire”, on how voice assistants like Siri and Alexa alienate non-native and non-standard English speakers — The age of being able to speak to our computers just as we do with other humans is finally upon us but voice-activated assistants … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian social commerce startup Meesho raises $300M Series E led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation from Facebook and others, at a $2.1B valuation — Meesho said on Monday it has raised $300 million in a new financing round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 as the Indian social commerce startup works …
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| Maxim Rodionov / Reuters: |
Russia says it will extend a punitive slowdown of Twitter until May 15, after talks on April 1, and acknowledged faster deletions of banned content by Twitter — MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Monday it would extend a punitive slowdown of Twitter until May 15 though it acknowledged …
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| Janko Roettgers / Protocol: |
Profile of Tipatat Chennavasin, GP of Venture Reality Fund, which has backed Rec Room and Facebook-acquired Beat Games, on changes in the VR industry — Tipatat Chennavasin was not surprised when VR metaverse startup Rec Room raised $100 million at a reported $1.25 billion valuation last week.
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