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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A Facebook software engineer publicly resigned in protest over the social network's 'propagation of weaponized hatred'
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Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest Trump posts
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Intel buys Rivet Networks, the maker of Killer Wi-Fi
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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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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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Stay home if you want, Musk tells Tesla workers as Fremont plant stays open
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French antitrust watchdog fines Apple 1.1 billion euros for anti-competitive coordination with wholesalers
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Bill Gates has stepped down from Microsoft's board
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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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Waymo has raised $2.25 billion from external investors
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Printing’s Not Dead: The $35 Billion Fight Over Ink Cartridges
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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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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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DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected
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Which tech company is really the most evil?
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Opera’s short-term loan business now accounts for over 42% of the company’s revenue
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Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue
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8tracks, a site for sharing music playlists, is shutting down on Dec. 31 - The story of their 11-year journey from launch to shutdown
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LogMeIn (owner of LastPass, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, OpenVoice and join.me) is being acquired by private equity firms for $4.3 billion
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Coolest Cooler, which raised $13M on Kickstarter in 2014, announces they are shutting down with about 20,000 (1/3) of their backers not having their $200 pledge fulfilled
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How big and diversified is the Samsung group of companies?
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Google Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepping down at Alphabet. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai will become CEO of Alphabet
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Why I voted to sell .ORG
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Big calculator: How Texas Instruments monopolized math class
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Ethos Capital has acquired the Public Interest Registry, manager of the .org top-level domain
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SoftBank-controlled Yahoo Japan agrees to merge with Line Corp., creating a combined company worth about $30 billion
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1Password has raised $200 million from Accel
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