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Elon Musk names ex-NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's CEO, to focus on business operations; Musk will focus on “product design & new technology” — - Former NBCUniversal advertising chief Linda Yaccarino will be Twitter's next CEO.
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A profile of Linda Yaccarino, who has vast experience in ad partnerships and has praised Musk publicly, telling colleagues people get hung up on his tweets — Twitter has struggled to generate revenue since Musk took over as CEO, as advertisers have fretted over his sweeping rollbacks of content moderation.
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Oppo closes its chip design unit Zeku due to global economic uncertainty; Zeku developed the MariSilicon X image-processing chip used in Oppo's flagship devices — Oppo, China's biggest domestic smartphone maker, is closing its chip design business as the global smartphone market extends a prolonged decline.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google Bard is now available in 180 countries but not in the EU or Canada; Google says the chatbot will be made available “consistent with local regulations” — Yesterday at Google I/O 2023, it was announced that Google Bard would be undergoing a massive expansion, bringing the AI chatbot experiment to 180 countries.
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Toyota says the vehicle data of 2.15M users in Japan, or almost all of its cloud service customers, has been public since November 2013, due to a human error — Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Friday the vehicle data of 2.15 million users in Japan, or almost the entire customer base … | Reuters: |
The UK extradites Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch to the US to face wire and securities fraud charges over HP's $11B acquisition of the software company in 2011 — Mike Lynch, co-founder of UK software firm Autonomy, has been extradited to the United States to face criminal charges …
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A profile of Swedish politician and EU Home Affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson, who has become a divisive figure in the vitriolic debate over CSAM and privacy — Ylva Johansson is on a personal mission to make the internet safer for children. Her opponents say her plans would wreck online privacy.
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A look at China's plans to “de-Americanize” its chip industry, nearly seven months after the US unveiled curbs, with billions from local investors and companies — Seven months after Washington unveiled tough curbs, Chinese companies are doubling down on homegrown supply chains … | Aidan Ryan / The Information: |
Sources: Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao are exploring ways to reduce Zhao's majority company stake, hoping to improve Binance.US' standing before US regulators — Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao, the crypto exchange's founder, majority owner and chair, have been exploring ways to reduce his stake … | Rosie Perper / CoinDesk: |
NYC-based Tessera, the collective NFT ownership and governance service that launched as Fractional with $20M from Paradigm and others, plans to shut down — Co-founder Andy Chorlian tweeted that the decision was made after “carefully analyzing possible market scenarios, our company structure and our financial situation.”| Financial Times: |
Doc: the EU plans to lay a €45M internet cable in the Black Sea to improve connectivity to Georgia and reduce its “dependency” on lines running through Russia — Move to improve connectivity to Georgia amid global concerns over spying and sabotage| New York Times: |
An ex-ByteDance exec in the US sues for wrongful termination, accusing it of stealing rivals' content and giving the Chinese Communist Party “supreme access” — The former executive sued ByteDance, which owns TikTok, for wrongful termination and accused the company of lifting content … Sponsor Posts
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