The TikTok war - How TikTok exposed Facebook's blindspot, and why its Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern
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Amazon orders employees to remove TikTok from phones, then backtracks
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The Walkman, forty years on
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Pressure mounts as Starbucks, Coca-Cola join Facebook ad boycott; Facebook updates policy
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Apple and Facebook—a contrast of corporate strategies
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Microsoft to permanently close all of its retail stores, with locations in NYC, London, Sydney, and Redmond being converted to "experience centers"
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Google blew a ten-year lead
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Employees at Crisis Text Line tried telling the board about a pattern of racial insensitivity at the company — but when that didn’t work, they went to Twitter
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Apple doubles down on its right to profit from other businesses
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IBM exits facial recognition business, calls for US police reform
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Reddit names Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian’s replacement on its board of directors
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Changing the world with drones – Helena Samsioe is widely known as the 'Drone Queen' since founding GLOBHE in 2015
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Several subreddits have posted a open letter "Open Letter to Steve Huffman and the Board of Directors of Reddit, Inc– If you believe in standing up to hate and supporting black lives, you need to act"
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Alexis Ohanian (site co-founder) resigns from Reddit's board, urging them to fill his seat with a black candidate and pledging future gains on his stock to serve the black community
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AWS and Slack join forces
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Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest US President Donald Trump posts
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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou loses key court battle as British Columbia judge rules extradition bid should proceed
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GE switches off light bulb business after almost 130 years
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We have to talk about failed streaming app Quibi
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Will Facebook’s oversight board actually hold the company accountable?
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Tech companies are pretending to be on their best behavior: Big tech is watching its step and trying to appear ethical during coronavirus. Don’t be fooled
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Facebook to buy Giphy for $400 million
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Zoom acquires Keybase and announces goal of developing the most broadly used enterprise end-to-end encryption offering
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Uber-Grubhub: How the pandemic is launching the era of online platform regulation
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Internet giants to staff: Plan to work from home for the year
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Leaving Amazon - Tim Bray (former VP) on whistleblowers, climate strikes, sexism, and racism at Amazon
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Oracle wins cloud computing deal with Zoom as video calls surge
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Magic Leap cuts half of jobs (about 1000) in major restructuring, plans to focus on enterprise business instead of consumer
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Facebook invests $5.7 billion in India's Jio Platforms, becoming the largest minority shareholder in the telecommunications company
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Stripe raises $600M at $36B valuation in Series G extension
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Google to slow hiring for rest of 2020, CEO tells staff
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Apple has acquired the Dark Sky weather app - Android version and website will shut down on July 1, API active through end of 2021
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Google will move its summer internship program to a virtual format this year
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O’Reilly laid off all their conference staff and is shutting down their conference business for good
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Telstra pauses job cuts for six months, will hire 1000 extra call centre staff
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Tesla’s Fremont factory will reduce its workforce from 10,000 to 2,500 workers
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Facebook is giving $1,000 to all of its 45,000 employees
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French antitrust watchdog fines Apple 1.1 billion euros for anti-competitive coordination with wholesalers
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Supporting Google's extended workforce through the COVID-19 outbreak
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Sophos has received an offer to be acquired for $3.9 billion by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo
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Printing’s not dead: The $35 billion fight over ink cartridges
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Why Amazon knows so much about you
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The Waterfox browser has been acquired by System1, the company that purchased a majority stake of Startpage in September 2019
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HQ Trivia, the top trivia game on the app store in early 2018, is ceasing operations and terminating all staff today
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Spotify is acquiring The Ringer to boost its podcast and sports content
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The FTC is investigating the last 10 years of acquisitions by Alphabet (including Google), Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft
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An Update from Essential: "we have made the difficult decision to cease operations and shutdown Essential"
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How are there so many small search engines?
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Will Spotify ruin podcasting?
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Cards Against Humanity has purchased ClickHole, the satire site created by The Onion
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