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| Jeff Bezos / About Amazon: |
In letter to employees, Bezos says his transition is not a retirement and he'll use his time to focus on the Day 1 Fund, Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, and WaPo — Fellow Amazonians: — I'm excited to announce that this Q3 I'll transition to Executive Chair of the Amazon Board and Andy Jassy will become CEO.
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| Amazon Investor Relations: |
Amazon reports Q4 net sales of $125.6B, up 44% YoY, net income of $7.2B, up from $3.3B YoY, with full year net sales increasing to $386.1B, up 38% YoY — Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will transition to role of Executive Chair in Q3, Andy Jassy to become Chief Executive Officer of Amazon at that time
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| Bloomberg: |
Report: Apple plans $3.6B investment in Kia, with a deal on Feb. 17, and aims to start making cars in Georgia, US in 2024, with initial target of 100K cars/year — - Local media report says deal may be signed later this month — Hyundai last month confirmed then backed away from Apple talks
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Sony says it shipped 4.5M PlayStation 5 units worldwide in 2020, and reports revenue of $8.4B in Q3, up 40% YoY, operating profit of $763.3M, up 50% — A similar figure to the PS4 launch — Sony shipped 4.5 million PlayStation 5 units worldwide in 2020, as revealed by information published alongside …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Box says it has acquired Dutch cloud-based e-signature startup SignRequest for $55M and plans to launch Box Sign in summer 2021 — Cloud storage and collaboration giant Box has announced plans to acquire SignRequest, a cloud-based electronic signature (e-signature) startup based in the Netherlands, in a deal worth $55 million.| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
SolarWinds CEO says hackers had breached the company's Office 365 email system for at least nine months starting December 2019 — Investigators still don't know how the company was breached in attack that will cost millions — The newly appointed chief executive of SolarWinds Corp …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook says it will try to protect posts that criticized Myanmar's military and its coup and will remove content that praises or supports the coup — After failing to stem the hate speech and misinformation that fueled a genocide in Myanmar, Facebook now says it plans …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Jack Ma's Ant Group has reached an agreement with Chinese regulators to turn Ant into a financial holding company, subject to bank capital requirements — - Ma's fintech giant will become a financial holding company — Ant is still exploring a potential IPO, but timeline unclear
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
TikTok will prompt users to seek credible information if they try to share videos flagged as misleading, and disincentivize creators from uploading such content — TikTok will begin asking users to seek credible information about a topic if they try to share a video that carries … | Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India warns Twitter to comply with its order to block content related to a farmer protest and not “assume the role of a court and justify non-compliance” — India has issued a notice to Twitter, warning the American social firm to comply with New Delhi's order to block accounts …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google rolls out an update for Android TV with a refreshed UI that is similar to Google TV on Chromecast — A fresh look for Google's (other) smart TV software — Google is rolling out a new update for Android TV that gives its smart TV OS a fresh new look — one that's almost identical …
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| Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
Biden's administration signals it is open to a deal on taxing US tech companies globally, after EU-Trump clashes, as OECD plans an agreement by summer — Hey all, it's Natalia. Tech giants including Alphabet Inc., Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc. could soon be hit with higher taxes around …
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify reports Q4 results: 345M MAUs, up 27% YoY, as paying subscribers grew to 155M, up 24% YoY, topping expectations; revenue was up 17% YoY to €2.17B — But streaming giant offers conservative outlook for the current year as new sign-ups could ebb
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| Jesse Pound / CNBC: |
GameStop's shares closed at $90, down from a peak of $483 last week, as other Reddit-fueled stock trades like AMC suffer similar reversals — - Shares of GameStop skidded further before Tuesday's opening bell, with shares of the volatile retail-trader favorite sliding more than 40%, and then extended those losses during market hours.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Online grocery delivery service Good Eggs raises $100M led by Glade Brook Capital Partners — Grocery delivery startup Good Eggs is announcing that it has raised $100 million in new funding, and that it's planning to launch in Southern California in either the summer or fall of this year.
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| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
Facebook rolls out Messenger for Oculus Quest, as well as App Lab, letting developers distribute apps outside the Oculus Store without needing to sideload — Facebook is continuing to stitch its services more closely together — it's now rolling out Messenger on Oculus.
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| Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.vc: |
Apple's iOS is inhibiting the growth of the future internet but regulators can remedy that by forcing Apple into competition in app distribution and payments — Chapter One: The Creation of Today's Internet and the Needs of Tomorrow's — One of the neat things about the internet is who created it, why, and how.
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| Reuters: |
Microsoft says it supports Australia's proposed new laws forcing Google and Facebook to pay for news content and it would be “willing to live by these rules” — (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it fully supported proposed new laws in Australia that would force internet giants Google … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Wine recommendation and marketplace app Vivino raises $155M Series D led by Sweden's Kinnevik, bringing its total raised to $221M, and says it now has 50M users — If you're at all interested in wine, chances are you've turned to Vivino at least a few times for recommendations.
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| Jay Greene / Washington Post: |
As Alabama warehouse workers prepare to vote on unionization, Amazon is sending workers 5 texts/day and putting flyers in bathrooms urging them not to unionize — The stakes couldn't be higher for the e-commerce giant, which is fighting the biggest labor battle in its history on U.S. soil
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| Samantha Cole / VICE: |
Pornhub announces new measures to address abuse on its platform: expanding human moderation, a transparency report, and verifying uploaders via “biometric” tech — Following bans from payment processors and mass deletion of most of its content, Pornhub announced new details on its improved trust and safety polices.| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
A look at Visual Studio Code, Microsoft's open source cross-platform code editor, which has gained 5M new users in 2020 and now has 14M users worldwide — With 14 million users, Microsoft's open source cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code is one of its key tools for keeping developers engaged with its future in the cloud.| Jill Lepore / New Yorker: |
Nations are engaging in a cyberweapons arms race, with agencies like the NSA prioritizing offensive capabilities over defense, fueling a lucrative 0-day market — Amid a global gold rush for digital weapons, the infrastructure of our daily lives has never been more vulnerable.
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