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Blizzard president calls sexual harassment lawsuit “extremely troubling” in internal memo while a VP says it presents a “distorted and untrue” view of company — Blizzard president J. Allen Brack called the allegations ‘extremely troubling.’
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| Kim Zetter / Zero Day: |
Uncertainty about the nature of the list of 50K potential Pegasus targets created confusion and controversy, but doesn't negate the investigation's key findings — A series of blockbuster stories published this week around a leaked list of 50,000 phone numbers have created confusion …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Facebook announces the Passthrough API, which allows Oculus Quest 2 developers to use real-world images collected via sensors to create mixed reality apps — Developers will get the experimental feature with Oculus' next SDK — Facebook announced a new API that will let developers incorporate video …
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Experts working with companies affected by the Kaseya ransomware attack say Kaseya is requiring companies to sign NDAs before providing access to decryption key — Washington (CNN)On Thursday, the software company Kaseya announced that it could help unlock any of its customers' systems …
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Sendlane, which helps e-commerce companies automate email and SMS marketing, raises $20M Series A; CEO says Sendlane, which is seeing $7M+ in ARR, is profitable — Sendlane, a San Diego-based multichannel marketing automation platform, announced Thursday it raised $20 million in Series A funding.| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
Event management software company Cvent is going public by merging with a SPAC at a valuation of $5.3B; Cvent was taken private in 2016 by Vista Equity Partners — (Reuters) -Event management software company Cvent will merge with a blank-check firm in a deal that gives it an enterprise value …
| Chad Bray / South China Morning Post: |
PropertyGuru, which runs real estate rental and sale listing sites in Southeast Asia, is going public on the NYSE via a SPAC merger at a valuation of ~$1.8B — PropertyGuru is Southeast Asia's biggest property technology company Singapore company is the first acquisition … | Joanna Tan / CNBC: |
China's antitrust authorities order Tencent Music to end its exclusive music licensing deals with global record labels within 30 days and impose a fine of ~$77K — - The State Administration for Market Regulation on Saturday ordered Tencent to give up its exclusive music licensing rights … | The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare accuses AWS of massive markups on egress bandwidth fees per region, estimating North American and European customers pay 80x the operational costs — Loading... When web hosting services first emerged in the mid-1990s, you paid for everything on a separate meter: bandwidth, storage, CPU, and memory.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google Drive is rolling out the ability for users to block other accounts from sharing files with them, to prevent potential harassment and spam on the service — The new feature is rolling out over the next couple of weeks — Google Drive is adding the ability for users to block …
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BGR, Gizmodo, MUO, Google Workspace Updates, Ars Technica, Chrome Unboxed, PCMag, and Laptop Mag. Tweets: @dcseifert
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Alphabet announces Intrinsic, a new company to build software for industrial robots, as part of its “other bets” that includes Waymo, Wing, and Verily — Intrinsic is one of Alphabet's other bets, like Waymo and Wing — Google's parent-company Alphabet has a birth to announce …
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| Joseph Pisani / Associated Press: |
A look at Amazon's Key For Business program, launched in 2018 to let drivers unlock apartment buildings via an app, which it is encouraging landlords to adopt — NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is tired of ringing doorbells. — The online shopping giant is pushing landlords around the country …
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