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Meta plans to reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks with “new guardrails to deter repeat offenses”, after a two-year ban — - “We've always believed that Americans should be able to hear from the people who want to lead the country,” Clegg told Axios.
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IBM plans to cut ~1.5% of its global workforce, or a “ballpark” of 3,900 jobs, focusing on workers who stayed after IBM spun off Kyndryl and Watson Health — International Business Machines Corp. delivered an upbeat annual sales forecast while announcing it would eliminate …
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Twitter reinstates some Hindu nationalist accounts popular in India, including some denigrating Muslims, and blocks links to a BBC documentary on Narendra Modi — Human-rights groups say they have seen a rise in anti-Muslim material on the platform — Twitter Inc. under Elon Musk …
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Sources: Elon Musk's team has been exploring selling up to $3B in potential new Twitter shares to help repay some of the $13B in debt tacked on for the buyout — Elon Musk's team has held talks with investors about raising up to $3 billion to repay some of the $13 billion in debt tacked onto Twitter Inc …
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CNET's EIC reflects on the outlet's AI use and lessons learned, like ensuring that bylines and disclosures are visible and plagiarism checks are done properly — New tools are accelerating change in the publishing industry. We're going to help shape that change.
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Sources: Accel and Tiger Global are in talks to sell their remaining Flipkart stakes, around 1% and 4%, respectively, to parent company Walmart for ~$1.5B — Happy 74th Republic Day! — Two early backers of Flipkart - venture fund Accel Partners and New York-based investment firm Tiger Global … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Lam Research, one of the three biggest US chip manufacturing equipment makers, plans to cut ~7% of its workforce, or ~1,300 jobs worldwide, to reduce expenses — Lam Research Corp., one of the three biggest providers of chip-manufacturing equipment in the US, is cutting about 7% of its workforce …
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Sources: Meta pays BuzzFeed to generate creator content for Facebook and Instagram and to train online creators to grow, as part of a ~$10M deal reached in 2022 — Partnership marks latest iteration of yearslong relationship between digital publisher and social-media giant
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Analysis: SoftBank's new startup bets hit a record low in Q4 2022, with eight investments totaling $2.1B; a source says Vision Fund investments were below $350M — SoftBank Group Corp.'s new startup bets hit a record low last quarter as valuations continued to slide, chilling an already frosty startup winter.
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Dell acquires Tel Aviv-based Cloudify, a platform for cloud orchestration and infrastructure automation, sources say for ~$100M; Cloudify raised less than $8M — Dell is making an acquisition to beef up its cloud services business, specifically its offerings in DevOps: the company is buying Cloudify …
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Using automation, Trellix patches nearly 62K open-source projects susceptible to a Python path traversal flaw first disclosed in 2007, affecting ~350K projects — The Trellix research team said they have patched nearly 62,000 open-source projects that were susceptible to a 15-year-old path …
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New Jersey-based AtomicJar, which is building a cloud version of its co-founders' open-source microservices testing tool Testcontainers, raised a $25M Series A — Working with, microservices-based development environments presents a unique set of testing challenges.| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
London-based crypto exchange Luno, owned by DCG, lays off 35% of its global workforce, citing market “turbulence”; Luno has a ~960 headcount per its LinkedIn — - London-based crypto exchange Luno informed employees of the redundancies at 12 p.m. GMT on Wednesday in a live-streamed town hall.
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After an antitrust order in India, Google plans to add third-party billing for apps and games in February, revise phone maker and partner agreements, and more — Google is revising its business agreements with phonemakers and other partners in India and making a series of other changes …
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| Anastassia Gliadkovskaya / Fierce Healthcare: |
Angle Health, a service that helps its clients' employees navigate telehealth, behavioral, and insurance benefits, raised a $58M Series A led by Portage — Angle Health, a payer serving employers, has raised $58 million to expand to new markets. By bundling telehealth and behavioral benefits …
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