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Facebook asks employees to preserve internal docs and communications related to its business since 2016, as governments and legislative bodies begin inquiries — Facebook has told employees to “preserve internal documents and communications since 2016” that pertain to its businesses … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: FTC staff are investigating whether Frances Haugen's documents show Facebook violated a 2019 privacy settlement that included a record $5B fine — Lawmakers want agency to determine if Facebook engaged in deceptive conduct; company says internal research is mischaracterized
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Insider, CNN, Telegraph, Securities and Exchange Commission, CNET, WRAL TechWire, The Hill, Protocol, and Reuters
Tweets: @martyswant, @sarafischer, @wsj, and @donie
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Ex-Facebook integrity member says articles on Haugen leaks are based on internal posts and comments, making it hard to assign credibility as names are redacted — A former integrity worker on Facebook's internal “posting culture” and why it's easy to misread the Haugen leaks| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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Gizmodo, Protocol, Galaxy Brain, Financial Times, CNN, and Pixel Envy
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Instagram rolls out link stickers to all users, expanding on verified and high-follower accounts — They can add links in Stories posts but not your feed — Instagram's link stickers, which let you include hyperlinks in Stories in the form of stickers, will now be available to everyone on the platform … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify cites Edison Research and its own internal data to claim it “recently became” the most-used podcast platform in the US and says it has 3.2M podcasts — In September, analysts at eMarketer predicted Spotify was poised to overtake Apple Podcasts in U.S. listenership sometime this year.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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Wall Street Journal, New York Post, RAIN News, The Verge, and Finbold
Tweets: @sarafischer, @lucas_shaw, and @sarafischer
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google unveils Android 12L update focused on tablets, foldables, and Chromebooks, which tweaks big screen UI layouts, adds a taskbar, more, coming early 2022 — Android 12L brings tablet-focused features, like a dock and dual-pane interfaces. — Have you heard about the new version of Android?
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The Verge, Windows Central, Android Developers, CNET, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Android Developers Blog, XDA Developers, Pocket-lint, MSPoweruser, Android Headlines, Wccftech, Android Central, and Droid Life
Tweets: @mishaalrahman, @backlon, @ronamadeo, and @suka_hiroaki
| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Internal docs show Netflix tried to minimize public backlash to the film Cuties by stopping it from appearing in some search results and recommendations — In September 2020, Netflix was in turmoil as the company battled its most significant PR scandal to date.
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CNET and Variety
| Nancy Scola / New York Magazine: |
Interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan on leading the agency, its regulatory failures and avoiding future missteps, Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and more — Lina Khan was an associate professor at Columbia Law, working remotely from Texas, when she found out that President Joe Biden wanted her on the Federal Trade Commission.
Tweets: @kvnweb, @_vectorist, @ryanjtracy, @viacristiano, @sarahmillerdc, @nancyscola, @nancyscola, @jenhoward80, @jenhoward80, and @nymag
| David McCabe / New York Times: |
A look at online age verification checks being implemented by countries, including the UK, EU, Japan, and China, and companies, such as Facebook and YouTube — To protect children online, more companies and governments are forcing users to prove how old they are.| Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Microsoft sets a goal to reduce data center water consumption by 95% by 2024, building on broader 2030 climate commitments — It's turning to new technology to cool servers without using water — Microsoft ramped up its commitments today to conserve water and energy in its data centers …
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Tweets: @satyanadella and @bradsmi
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Intel launches its 12th-gen Alder Lake chips, led by the flagship Core i9-12900K CPU with 16 cores for $589, shipping November 4 — A new era for Intel begins — Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake chips have finally arrived, ushering in a new era of the company's chips, lead by the flagship Core i9-12900K CPU …
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AnandTech, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, HotHardware.com News, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, Forbes, XDA Developers, SemiAccurate, VentureBeat, Engadget, BGR India, and WikiChip Fuse. Tweets: @starfire2258
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC orders China Telecom Americas to stop providing services in the US within 60 days, says the US unit is subject to Chinese government control and influence — China Telecom Americas ordered to stop providing service in US within 60 days. — The Federal Communications Commission today voted …
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Tweets: @karlbode and @jacobhelberg
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Amid harassment fallout, Blizzard says it will pause plans for next year's BlizzCon event to focus on supporting its teams and game development — Feb. show nixxed in favor of “supporting our teams and progressing development...” — Following an online-only BlizzCon earlier this year …
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Tweets: @ethangach, @stylosa, and @forcestrategy
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn launches its freelance services marketplace globally after picking up 2M users in a quietly run US beta, to compete with the likes of Fiverr and Upwork — LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned platform for those connecting with others in their fields of work and those looking for work …
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Fellow, which offers meeting management tools, raises a $24M Series A led by Craft Ventures, bringing its total funding to $30.5M — As more people venture back into the office, meetings have become more hybrid, with people at both home and in the office. Fellow aims to help managers … | The Economic Times: |
Snap says it has 100M MAUs in India and partners with Flipkart, Zomato, and others to boost e-commerce offerings — Bengaluru: Snap Inc., which houses Snapchat, has hit 100 million monthly users in India for the first time, the US-based company announced on Wednesday adding …
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TechCrunch, BGR India, Livemint, and NDTV Gadgets 360
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft reports overall gaming revenue of $3.6B in Q1, up 16% YoY, with hardware revenue up 166% YoY on continued demand for Xbox Series X and S consoles — Microsoft's overall cloud revenue has jumped by 31 percent — Microsoft posted the first quarter of its 2022 financial results today …
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PCWorld, Windows Central, HotHardware.com News, Gizchina, CRN, Thurrott, Laptop Mag, TweakTown, GameSpot, Twinfinite, IGN, Video Games Chronicle, and Reuters
Tweets: @colteastwood, @tomwarren, and @tomwarren
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU opens an investigation into Nvidia's planned Arm acquisition on competition grounds, the latest setback for the deal — Nvidia (NVDA.O) suffered a setback on Wednesday as EU antitrust regulators opened a full-scale investigation into its $54 billion bid for British chip designer ARM …
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Windows Central, The Verge, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, European Commission, Tech Xplore, and CNBC
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Brazilian neobank Nubank files for a US IPO and plans to “negotiate a program of Brazilian Depositary Receipts”; Nubank raised $750M at a $30B valuation in June — This morning Brazilian neobank Nu, better known as Nubank, announced that it has filed to go public.
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Sources: DOJ is investigating whether Visa used financial incentives to keep Square, Stripe, and PayPal from using other card networks or payment systems — Antitrust investigators are scrutinizing financial incentives Visa gave to Square, Stripe and PayPal
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
New York-based Extend, which helps financial institutions offer virtual cards, raises a $40M Series B led by March Capital — We've written a lot about fintechs that aim to help other fintechs and traditional banks launch products and services. — But it feels like we have written far less …
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PYMNTS.com, Business Wire, FinLedger, and Finextra
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
AWS launches EC2 instances powered by AI accelerators from Intel's Habana, claiming 40% better price-performance to train ML models over last-gen GPU instances — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud services division, today announced the general availability of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) DL1 instances.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Adobe announces Photoshop and Illustrator web apps to improve collaboration, make quick edits, and more — Adobe has announced that it's taken “a major step forward for collaboration” by bringing its Photoshop and Illustrator apps to the web. The idea is not to do let you do complex work from a web page …
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Adobe Blog. More:
web.dev, TechRadar, iDownloadBlog.com, Adobe Blog, Adobe Press Releases, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, CNET, MacRumors, and The Verge
Tweets: @kottke, @ftrain, @betchaboy, @sulco, @ow, @davatron5000, @firt, @timsoret, and @chromiumdev
| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Truepill, which offers telehealth and prescription delivery services, raises a $142M Series D at a $1.6B valuation, bringing its total funding to $256M — After developing a network of telehealth, diagnostics and pharmacies for consumers, digital health company Truepill is targeting healthcare incumbents …
Tweets: @adamnash
| Reuters: |
Source: Paytm plans to price shares at ~$27.70-$28.70, raising $2.44B and valuing the company at around $20B — Indian digital payments leader Paytm has boosted the size of its initial public offering to 183 billion rupees ($2.44 billion) from 166 billion rupees, as existing shareholders look …
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TechCrunch, The Economic Times, Livemint, Livemint, Inc42 Media, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Abacus.AI, which helps companies manage AI models, raises a $50M Series C led by Tiger Global, bringing its total funding to over $90M — Abacus.ai wants to build an AI platform that simplifies machine learning model creation, while still leaving room for power users.
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