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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Stripe will no longer process payments for Trump's campaign website and fundraising efforts, after violations of policies against encouraging violence — Financial-technology company's move follows last week's riot at the Capitol — Stripe Inc. will no longer process payments … | Axios: |
A list of platforms that banned or limited Trump-affiliated accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Apple, Snapchat, TikTok, Shopify, Pinterest, and more — Platforms are rapidly removing Donald Trump's account or accounts affiliated with pro-Trump violence and conspiracies, like QAnon and #StoptheSteal.
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| Washington Post: |
Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, as a source says the president will spend the final days of his term railing against Big Tech — Twitter's decision to ban President Trump mere days before the end of his term sparked a fierce political backlash among …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Parler CEO confirms that Amazon will suspend Parler's AWS account on Jan. 10 at 11:59PM PST, says Parler may be unavailable on the internet for up to a week — Amazon notified Parler that it would be cutting off the social network favored by conservatives and extremists …
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| Bruce Haring / Deadline: |
Parler CEO says the company has been dropped by “every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers”, which could end the business — Parler CEO Mark Matze said today that his company have been dropped by virtually all of their business alliances after Amazon …
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| New York Times: |
Apple has suspended Parler from the App Store, saying Parler “has not taken adequate measures” to address threats to people's safety on its platform — The companies pulled support for the “free speech” social network, all but killing the service just as many conservatives are seeking alternatives to Facebook and Twitter.
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| Rachel Kraus / Mashable: |
After Parler's ban, a social app called Parlor, which connects users following similar topics, got at least as high as #2 in the Play Store and iOS App Store — Online spaces in which one can freely talk of overthrowing the government in the name of Q and white supremacy are getting harder to come by.
Tweets: @futureshift
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
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| Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters: |
Report: Hyundai and Apple plan to sign a partnership deal on autonomous electric cars by March and start production in the US as early as 2024 — SEOUL (Reuters) - Hyundai Motor and Apple Inc plan to sign a partnership deal on autonomous electric cars by March and start production as early …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Lenovo unveils ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses that can show up to 5 virtual 1080p displays, come with 8 MP camera and 2 fish-eye cameras for room-scale tracking — Lenovo has launched a new ThinkReality device for CES 2021, and the company says it's “one of the most advanced and versatile” smart glasses for enterprise customers.
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| Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: |
[Thread] A look back at the state of tech and mobile industries during the first iPhone keynote 14 years ago, the importance of which took years to sink in — Today is the 13th anniversary iPhone announcement—easily one of the greatest launch events and moments of technology change in history. What was the “world” like at the time? When something changes the world so much it seems obvious in hindsight. That was not at all the case. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
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| Dan Rose / @danrose999: |
[Thread] Former exec describes Amazon's transition from Sun to HP/Linux servers in early 2000s, that risked bankrupting the company and laid foundations for AWS — I was at Amzn in 2000 when the internet bubble popped. Capital markets dried up & we were burning $1B/yr. Our biggest expense was datacenter -> expensive Sun servers. We spent a year ripping out Sun & replacing with HP/Linux, which formed the foundation for AWS. The backstory:
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| Bloomberg: |
China's most popular workout app Keep raises $360M Series F led by SoftBank's Vision Fund with Tencent among investors, as sources value it at ~$2B post funding — - The workout app owner gets $360 million in new funding round — Tencent, Hillhouse are also among investors in latest roundSponsor Posts
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Intel:
Intel Delivers powerful CPUs for AI and Networking — With the onset of AI, businesses demand powerful and efficient CPUs. Explore new Intel Xeon 6 processors, for the broadest set of workloads with leadership performance and lower TCO.
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Zoho:
Planned India Data Center Maintenance on 5th and 6th April 2025 from 09.00 AM to 09:30 AM IST for Zoho Payments — Dear customers,Our bi-annual infrastructure maintenance for our India Data Center is scheduled for April 5 & 6 …
Planned India Data Center Maintenance on 5th and 6th April 2025 from 09.00 AM to 09:30 AM IST for Zoho Payments — Dear customers,Our bi-annual infrastructure maintenance for our India Data Center is scheduled for April 5 & 6 …
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