Sources detail the efforts by Facebook executives to accommodate Trump's posts, starting in 2015 with a Trump video calling for a ban of Muslims entering the US
Starting as early as 2015, Facebook executives started crafting exceptions for the then-candidate that transformed the world's information battlefield for years to come.
With top 100 brands contributing only an estimated 6% of Facebook's revenue and Zuckerberg's voting control over the company, ad boycott's impact may be limited
Facebook held a cross-team meeting *within 24 hours* of just the boycott's announcement to discuss how to handle it. https://twitter.com/... Bob Pickard / @bobpickard : This ‘PR ploy’ conjecture about...
Interviews and documents shed light on Amazon's warehouse policies, exposing inconsistent health and safety protocols and tactics used to quell rising tensions
Courtney Bowden, 30, in front of the Amazon flex warehouse in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, on June 14. Bowden was fired in March.
Starbucks says it's pausing ads on “all social media platforms”, but isn't joining #StopHateForProfit boycott campaign, will continue to advertise on YouTube
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Organizers of “Stop Hate for Profit” Facebook ad boycott say they plan to take the campaign global, starting with Europe, after the campaign's success in the US
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Kuo: Apple will not include earbuds or charger in iPhone 12 box, instead introducing a 20W power adapter to be sold separately
this won't be included Adamya Sharma / Android Authority : How do you feel about Apple dropping the in-box charger for iPhone 12? Oliver Haslam / iMore : Analyst Kuo also says we shouldn't expect a ch...
Indian government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser, WeChat, and Clash of Kings, citing national security and maintaining public order
Govt bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok as border tensions simmer in Ladakh — As tensions along the Line of Actual Control …
Even as many companies adopt work from home policies during the pandemic, history shows that such initiatives have consistently failed and were abandoned
As the coronavirus keeps spreading, employers are convinced remote work has a bright future. Decades of setbacks suggest otherwise.
Amazon workers at six German warehouses start a 48 hour strike on Monday after staff at several logistics centers tested positive for COVID-19
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Google brings free product listings to Search results, after adding them to its Shopping tab in April, to help businesses during the pandemic
Back in April, Google announced that all merchants can have their goods appear for free in the Shopping tab. Those free product listings …
As Republicans flock to Parler, its CEO says its user base has grown 50% to 1.5M in about a week, and it is trying to pay liberals on Twitter to join
- Parler's user base has grown to 1.5 million from 1 million in about a week, CEO John Matze said. — Republican politicians …
Amazon says it has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across its 50+ fulfillment centers in India, replacing bubble wraps with paper cushions
Amazon said on Monday it has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across its fulfillment centers in India …
Apple's decision in Feb. to limit HTTPS certs' lifespan to 398 days in Safari has been mimicked by Chrome and Firefox to the dismay of Certificate Authorities
Apple, Google, and Mozilla reduce the lifespan for HTTPS certificates to 398 days, against the wishes of Certificate Authorities.
Just Eat Takeaway's Grubhub acquisition rests on the belief that restaurants should handle delivery, offering an order platform while avoiding associated costs
Bid by Dutch giant Just Eat Takeaway would join two companies that have avoided building their own delivery fleets Tweets: @carnage4life and @paulpage Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Grubhub's...
Mixer co-founder Matt Salsamendi on Microsoft shutting Mixer down, Twitch's market power, the need for low latency streaming, and his own startup journey
Matt Salsamendi was barely old enough to drive when he and James Boehm founded a game-streaming startup called Beam Interactive …
Confidential Computing Consortium, which wants to standardize the way data is encrypted while in use, adds 10 members, including AMD, Facebook, and Nvidia
An industry group called the Confidential Computing Consortium, which aims to standardize the way that data is encrypted while in use …
Online used car marketplace Shift says it will go public through a reverse merger with Insurance Acquisition in Q3, raising $185M and valuing Shift at $415M
Shares of Carvana and Vroom soared with temporary closing of bricks-and-mortar dealerships — Online used-car seller Shift …
Codefresh, which provides Kubernetes DevOps tools, raises $27M led by Red Dot Capital Partners, bringing its total raised to $42M
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Researchers who flagged TikTok and 55 other iOS apps for clipboard snooping in March say the majority of apps they identified still continue the practice
despite it being inconspicuous to the naked eye—can be regularly accessed by apps that in many cases aren't even installed locally on the device.” https://arstechnica.com/... Steven Bellovin / @steveb...
Artlist, which provides royalty-free libraries of music, sound effects, and video clips to creators on platforms like YouTube, raises $48M led by KKR
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How Telegram, using Google and Amazon's cloud services, humiliated and outmaneuvered Russia's state telecom regulator, Roskomnadzor, and survived the ban
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Facebook expands its fan subscription program, launched in early 2018, to any creator in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and Thailand
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Chinese online learning app Zuoyebang raises $750M Series E led by Tiger Global and PE firm FountainVest Partners, bringing its total raised to $1.33B
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Memo: Pinterest has hired an outside law firm to investigate its workplace culture, reporting to its board, following public complaints of racial discrimination
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg : Tweets: @kurtwagner8 Tweets: Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : A few weeks after former employees acccused Pinterest of racial discrimination, CEO Ben Silbermann says the company...
Airports are introducing robot janitors and thermal cameras amid the pandemic, while accelerating the adoption of biometric authentication
Courtney Linder / Popular Mechanics : Tweets: @popmech Tweets: @popmech : From relatively tiny regional airports like PIT to behemoths like ATL, practically every airport on the planet has felt the c...
Area 1 Security, which offers AI-based protection against phishing attacks, raises $25M led by ForgePoint Capital, bringing its total raised to $80M+
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Apple says it has declined to implement 16 new Web APIs in Safari because they posed a threat to user privacy by opening new avenues for user fingerprinting
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @filipnest , @carnage4life , @jwildeboer , @icanzilb , @usbcguy , and @elliottz Tweets: Filip Hnzdo / @filipnest : Translation: Apple is as usual scared of losing ap...
Sources: Chinese grocery delivery startup Xingsheng Youxuan raises ~$300M from investors including Tencent and Primavera Capital at a $3B valuation
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Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
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