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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 … | Katanga Johnson / Reuters: |
The US CFPB orders online payday lender LendUp to shutter lending operations after finding it repeatedly lied to and illegally cheated its customers — WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - (This December 21 story corrects date of LendUp wind-down from 2020 to 2022)
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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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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| The Economic Times: |
India bans 20 YouTube channels and two websites for alleged “anti-India” propaganda from Pakistan, invoking its new IT Act's emergency powers for the first time — India banned 20 YouTube channels and two websites on Monday for allegedly running anti-India propaganda from Pakistan … | 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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| 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 …
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The US NHTSA opens an investigation to evaluate the driver distraction potential of Tesla's Passenger Play gaming feature, covering 580K cars 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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HyperScience, which uses AI to extract data from business forms, raises a $100M Series E led by Global Founders, Tiger, Stripes, and Bessemer — Hyperscience, a NYC-based human centered automation company, raised $100m in Series E funding. — The round was led by existing investors Global …
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A Discord announcement bot for Justin Kan's NFT platform Fractal was hacked by a scammer who made off with about $150K, before the platform even launched — 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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| 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 …
Tweets: @naterethorn, @fghori, @davezatz, @reckless, and @reckless
| 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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| 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
| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Retool, a low-code tool for creating enterprise apps, raises a $20M Series C from Stripe's 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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