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Recording of House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on platform misinformation with Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey — The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce of the Committee on Energy and Commerce …
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| Brian Fung / CNN: |
In the hearing, lawmakers accused CEOs of being smug, evasive, and condescending; CEOs appeared barely to restrain their own exasperation with yes/no questions — Washington (CNN Business)The chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter faced withering criticism from members of Congress …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
House tech hearing revealed unorganized lawmakers who conflated issues of competition, privacy, and moderation, and were unable to move past personal grievances — It's time to move past listening and into legislating — This story is part of a group of stories called
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| Ken Klippenstein / The Intercept: |
Internal Amazon documents show Amazon was aware of the practice of employees using pee bottles, identifying it as a “Tier 1” infraction that can lead to firing — In anticipation of Sen. Bernie Sanders's scheduled trip to Bessemer, Alabama, to support the unionization drive …
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Amazon drivers share photos of pee bottles after the company tweets “you don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” to a congressman — “You don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” Amazon tweeted. Drivers say they're being gaslit. — Lauren Kaori Gurley
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft is in exclusive talks to acquire Discord for $10B+ and could complete the deal next month — Deal valuing chat app at $10 billion or more could be completed next month — Microsoft Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire messaging platform Discord Inc. for $10 billion or more …
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| Owen Thomas / Protocol: |
Stewart Butterfield says Slack will introduce audio messages and a Clubhouse-like feature that will allow users to drop into rooms without an invitation — Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said on Clubhouse that Clubhouse-like additions will soon be coming to the app.
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Text routing firm Aerialink says that all major US cell carriers have closed an SMS loophole that allowed hackers to easily reroute a target's text messages — All the mobile carries have mitigated a major SMS security loophole that allowed a hacker to hijack text messages for just $16. — Joseph Cox| GlobalData: |
Apple bought the most AI companies globally from 2016 to 2020, with 25 acquisitions; Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook collectively bought 60 AI companies — - US tech giants are leading the AI companies acquisition race — Four FAAMG companies feature in the list of top five acquirers …
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| Reuters: |
Source: Biden EO draft would require many software vendors to notify their federal govt. clients of cybersecurity breaches and preserve accompanying data logs — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A planned Biden administration executive order will require many software vendors to notify … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
AWS announces the general availability of Lookout for Metrics, a service for businesses that uses machine learning to analyze metrics and performance indicators — Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. — Amazon today announced …
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| Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: |
Sensor Tower: PUBG Mobile has earned $5.1B in lifetime sales, $2.7B of it in 2020 alone; Tencent says the game surpassed 1B accumulated downloads outside China — PUBG Mobile has earned $5.1 billion in lifetime sales, according to market analyst Sensor Tower.
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Sources: Robinhood is building a platform to let its users directly buy into IPOs of companies, including its own, in order to “democratize” IPOs — (Reuters) - Robinhood Markets Inc is building a platform to “democratize” initial public offerings (IPOs), including its own … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
H&M removed from Chinese e-commerce sites and mapping apps after its statement last year on forced labor in Xinjiang resurfaced and caused a backlash on Weibo — - H&M faced backlash on Chinese social media service Weibo over a statement reportedly from last year in which the retailer said it was …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Xiaomi is in talks with Great Wall Motors to manufacture EVs under its own brand, a partnership could be announced as early as next week — HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Xiaomi Corp plans to make electric vehicles (EVs) using Great Wall Motor Co Ltd's factory …
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| Hamish McKenzie / Substack Blog: |
Substack offers further clarity on its content moderation guidelines, detailing its stance on harassment, doxxing, hate, and more — In December, we published a statement about our philosophy on content moderation. In the time since, content moderation policies across all platforms have become only more consequential and debated.| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Chrissy Teigen, who had 13.7M Twitter followers and was once called “unofficial mayor of Twitter” by the company, quits the platform after years of harassment — The former model and media personality was a prolific tweeter — Chrissy Teigen, a prolific tweeter the company once called …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Android Ready SE Alliance to drive adoption of features like digital car keys and mobile IDs in Android phones through tamper-resistant hardware — Smartphones have already obviated single-purpose gadgets like point-and-shoot cameras and MP3 players.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Budget TV maker Vizio slides 9% in NYSE debut, closing at $19.10 per share, after raising $257M in its IPO — - Vizio started trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday under ticker symbol “VZIO.” — The seller of high-definition TVs previously filed to go public in 2015 …
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| Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: |
Filing: China-based Linklogis, which focuses on supply chain finance technology, is seeking to raise $1.1B in Hong Kong IPO — - Company is selling shares at HK$16.28 to HK$18.28 each — Linklogis aims to price offering March 31; debut on April 9 — Chinese fintech company Linklogis Inc. …
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