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A look at Google's history with tablets; Android co-founder Rich Miner's LinkedIn page says he has been working as Google's Android tablets CTO since March 2021 — This wild Android tablet concept could have completely changed the way we interact with our devices. Ready to pop the red pill?
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Meta says it has paused new users from joining its social media tracking tool CrowdTangle as it works “through some staffing constraints” — Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) has paused new users from joining its social media tracking tool CrowdTangle due to staffing constraints.| Daniel Dale / CNN: |
Twitter says it stopped enforcing its civic integrity policy in March 2021 regarding lies about the 2020 US election as Biden had been president for over a year — (CNN)Twitter quit taking action to try to limit the spread of lies about the 2020 election, the company said on Friday …
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| Claire L. Evans / The Verge: |
Profile of Susan Headley, an influential hacker of the 1980s, who specialized in social engineering and now leads a quiet life in a large US Midwestern city — She was known, back then, as Susan Thunder. For someone in the business of deception, she stood out: she was unusually tall … | Frank Holland / CNBC: |
Visa says customers made $2.5B in payments with its crypto-linked cards in its fiscal Q1 of 2022, which was 70% of its crypto volume for all of FY 2021 — - Visa said during its recent earnings call that customers made $2.5 billion in payments with its crypto-linked cards in its fiscal first quarter of 2022.| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How Lina Khan's FTC is using the concept of “monopsony”, a market where one buyer is pre-eminent, to push for Big Tech antitrust regulation — Federal Trade Commission chief Lina Khan has developed an innovative way to frame the issue. Whether she has the tools to see it through remains to be seen.
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| Shashank Pathak / Entrackr: |
Bengaluru-based Vyapar, which offers accounting, invoicing, and inventory management software to SMBs, raises a $30M Series B led by WestBridge Capital — Business accounting software Vyapar has raised $30 million in its Series B round led by WestBridge Capital.
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| John Gapper / Financial Times: |
An in-depth look at the ongoing patent battle over warehouse automation between Norwegian robotics company AutoStore and UK supermarket giant Ocado — In the village of Nedre Vats, on the edge of a 700m-deep fjord in the west of Norway, there is a white wooden house with a small red barn.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: |
DeFi service Qubit Finance says a hacker stole ~$80M in Binance coins on January 27 and offers them a bug bounty in exchange for returning the cryptocurrency — A threat actor has used an exploit to steal approximately $80 million from Qubit Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) …
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| James Hale / Tubefilter: |
YouTuber Hank Green compares TikTok's creator fund, which pays creators less as more creators join, unfavorably to YouTube, which pays 55% of ad revenue — In 2020, TikTok established a creator fund that distributes $200 million annually to creators based in the U.S.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple adds unlisted app distribution to the App Store, letting developers publish an app that can only be installed via a direct link and not found via search — Apple has deployed an interesting new App Store feature called ‘unlisted app distribution’. This means a developer can now publish …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: Diem Association was shuttered due to internal dispute, leaders' departure, and regulatory pushback, but a team of ~50 remains to run a pilot overseas — The social media giant's shuttering of the Diem project followed clashes over its direction and sustained opposition in WashingtonSponsor Posts
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The Levels of Experience Orchestration — What's your vision for the future of customer experience? See how AI can transform your business - and take you to the next level.
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Zoho Workplace gets yet another security boost: The addition of Zoho Vault — Information is the new currency. More than ever, safeguarding sensitive data is now paramount. A data breach can not only damage …
Zoho Workplace gets yet another security boost: The addition of Zoho Vault — Information is the new currency. More than ever, safeguarding sensitive data is now paramount. A data breach can not only damage …
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