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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
A look at corporate raider tactics requiring 51% of a company's stock, which tend to treat remaining minority shareholders poorly, amid Twitter's “poison pill” — Poison pills — Here are some things you could do 1 : — Buy 51% of the stock of a public company …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
To unlock its vast potential, Twitter should go private and split into two companies: one for the service and social graph and one for its apps and ad business — Elon Musk wrote in a letter to Twitter's board: … The vast majority of commentary about the Musk-Twitter saga has focused … | Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
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| Ronan Farrow / New Yorker: |
An in-depth investigation into the $12B spyware industry, dominated by Israel's NSO Group, as Citizen Lab finds Pegasus infected a device in the UK's No. 10 — The inside story of the world's most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.
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An investigation finds 65+ Catalans were targeted by Pegasus or Candiru, likely by Spanish authorities, and details Homage, a new iOS zero-click used by NSO — Key Findings — The Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with mercenary spyware.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A US appeals court reaffirms that scraping publicly accessible content on the internet is legal, ending a landmark case LinkedIn brought against rival Hiq Labs — Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple employees unionizing at Grand Central Terminal store want a $30/hour minimum pay, tuition reimbursement, more vacation time, and better retirement options — - Workers organizing a union at Apple's Grand Central Terminal store are seeking minimum pay of $30 per hour.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Code on Twitter's site reveals how an upcoming Edit button could work: by making a new tweet with the updated content and listing the old tweets before the edit — This month, Twitter announced the ground-shaking news that it was actually going to offer users a way to edit tweets — a longtime user request.
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TechRadar, Gizchina, Input, MSPoweruser, and XDA Developers
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Stacey on IoT: |
Smart home and IoT company Insteon seemingly shuts down as home hubs suddenly stop working and LinkedIn profiles of top executives show their roles have ended — Is your Insteon smart home system down? I'm getting reports from dozens of Insteon users that as of Friday their smart home hubs have stopped working.
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Ars Technica, Techhive.com, AppleInsider, CNET, Android Police, and iClarified
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Report: Microsoft is working on a program to let select brands advertise within free-to-play Xbox games, such as on a billboard, and won't take a revenue cut — The ads supposedly wouldn't disrupt gameplay — Microsoft is reportedly working on a program that will let brands showcase …
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
a16z unveils Start, an accelerator that offers early-stage founders up to $1M in capital from its seed fund, after quietly piloting the program for over a year — For more than a year, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has quietly piloted its own take on an accelerator for early-stage entrepreneurs … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon discloses that it will conduct a racial equity audit led by former US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, in response to a shareholder proposal — - Amazon said it will conduct a racial-equity audit, led by former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. — The company disclosed the audit …
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| Nick Kostov / Wall Street Journal: |
French music streaming service Deezer plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a €1.05B valuation and says it has 9.6M subscribers and had €400M in 2021 revenue — French music streaming service is merging with a special-purpose acquisition company, aiming to go publicSponsor Posts
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