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Amid COVID-19 concerns, Meta, Amazon, Pinterest, and Twitter cancel in-person CES plans, T-Mobile and AMD plan a limited presence, and others monitor conditions — - Google, HTC, Samsung and Sony still currently plan to go — Host of CES conference remains steadfast in moving forward
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| Washington Post: |
Survey of 1,058 US internet users: 72% distrust Facebook, 63% TikTok, 60% Instagram, 53% WhatsApp, and 53% YouTube; 53% trust Amazon, 48% Google, and 44% Apple — You'll find all the usual technology suspects inside Mary Veselka's Pearland, Tex., home. There's her iPhone …
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| Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal: |
Skillsoft, which makes training software for businesses, acquires edtech startup Codecademy for $525M in cash and stock; Codecademy raised $40M in February — Acquisition is Skillsoft's largest deal since going public in June — Skillsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire rival U.S.-based … | Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times: |
Sources detail how a 2019 NSO deal to sell Pegasus services to Uganda, followed by an attempt to hack US diplomats in Uganda using Pegasus, led to NSO's decline — For years, the Israeli spyware maker thrived through scandal. Then, US diplomats in Uganda got hacked by Pegasus
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| Reuters: |
Chinese state media says regulators suspended an info-sharing partnership with Alibaba Cloud over accusations it failed to promptly report and fix a Log4j flaw — Chinese regulators on Wednesday suspended an information-sharing partnership with Alibaba Cloud Computing …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
An announcement bot for Justin Kan's NFT platform Fractal was hacked by a scammer who made off with about $150K, before the startup even launched its platform — Despite billions in VC investment, many web3 crypto platforms are still pretty hostile places for users new to the crypto world.
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| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Triller agrees to merge with adtech company SeaChange, taking the TikTok rival public at a ~$5B valuation; PitchBook: Triller's most recent valuation was $1.25B — Triller, a social-video platform, agreed to a merger with Seachange International Inc. in a move that will take the smaller rival to TikTok public.
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| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Jack Dorsey's tweet sparks uproar: “You don't own ‘web3.’ The VCs and their LPs do. It will never escape their incentives. It's ultimately a centralized entity” — Fresh off relinquishing the chief executive reins of Twitter Inc., Bitcoin enthusiast Jack Dorsey …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell on meeting pandemic demand, relationships with Apple and Amazon, killing the Harmony remote line, USB-C, and more — Logitech is one of those ubiquitous companies — it's been around since 1981, selling all kinds of important things that connect …
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| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Retool, a low-code tool for creating enterprise apps, raises a $20M Series C from Stripe founders and others at a $1.85B pre-money valuation — Covering venture capital, software and startups — When Retool CEO David Hsu set out recently to raise fresh funding for his low-code software startup …
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| Tom Krisher / Associated Press: |
US NHTSA opens an investigation into Tesla's “Passenger Play” in-car gaming feature covering 580,000 vehicles from 2017 to 2022 — ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. has opened a formal investigation into Tesla allowing drivers to play video games on a center touch screen while its vehicles are moving.
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| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
The UK's ad regulator bans two ads by Arsenal FC promoting its Socios-based Fan Tokens, saying the soccer club “failed to illustrate the risk of the investment” — A web page and a Facebook post by Arsenal football club promoting crypto-based fan tokens broke advertising rules, a watchdog has ruled.
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| David Pierce / Protocol: |
Interview with Automattic's Matt Mullenweg on working from his always-connected RV, making “the Berkshire Hathaway of the internet”, and betting on open systems — In the early days of the pandemic, Matt Mullenweg didn't move to a compound in Hawaii, bug out to a bunker …
Tweets: @protocol, @protocol, @benpimentel, @amontalenti, @pierce, @protocol, @karynelevy, @jboogie, @gavreilly, @automattic, and @glynmoody
| Joe Williams / Bloomberg: |
MongoDB has hired eight senior AWS executives in the past two years, making them CTO, VP of developer relations, head of partner marketing, and more — - The database provider has hired eight senior AWS leaders — AWS, Microsoft and Oracle have rival database products
Tweets: @business
| The Markup: |
Amazon warehouse workers in Oregon say they saw a spike in COVID-19 cases this fall after the company started rolling back pandemic safety protocols — Two Oregon warehouses have been in an active outbreak for nearly 19 months. Elsewhere in the country, warehouse workers report continual cases| Bloomberg: |
Intel faces criticism in China after asking suppliers not to use Xinjiang labor or products, with a Weibo hashtag on the topic drawing over 250M views — - Chipmaker says it doesn't use labor or supplies from Xinjiang — Western nations have accused China of forced labor in region
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