Twitter placed sharing restrictions on Trump tweets alleging election theft while Facebook added labels warning election night results might not be final
Facebook warns tonight's results might not be final, Twitter limits spread — After a night in which President Donald Trump falsely claimed victory …
Ant Group says its IPO has been suspended in both Shanghai and Hong Kong, after Chinese regulators summoned Jack Ma and other executives of the company
China Suspends Jack Ma's Ant Group Shanghai IPO After Warning https://www.bloomberg.com/... Subrahmanyam Kvj / @sub8u : “Ant has faced scrutiny in Chinese state media in recent days after Ma criticize...
California sides with Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and others on Prop 22, exempting the companies from having to reclassify workers as employees
Gig economy giants including Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and DoorDash Inc. have won their effort to pass a hotly contested ballot measure …
Study: YouTube's recent efforts to fight misinfo by cutting recommendations to fringe channels worked but made Fox News the most recommended for election videos
and boosted Fox News at the same time, new research has found Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing : Oopsie! Facebook's Instagram is telling users the election is tomorrow Axios : Facebook to rely on election ...
Some Instagram users see a banner that says Election Day is tomorrow, not today; Facebook says it was cached for a “small group” of users
On Election Day, a subset of Instagram users woke up to a message at the top of their Instagram feeds that read, “Tomorrow is Election Day.”
Sources: China says Ant Group can't proceed with IPOs until it complies with new capital requirements and reapplies for licenses to operate nationwide
- Listing of Jack Ma's fintech giant was halted on Tuesday — Ma criticized regulators for stifling innovation last month
Sources: Comcast and Walmart to develop and distribute smart TVs together; TVs will run Comcast software and Walmart will promote them with a revenue split
Under the terms being discussed, the retail giant would promote TV sets running Comcast software and receive share of recurring revenue
Two senior executives at Lyft, in charge of strategic initiatives and design, respectively, are leaving the firm on the eve of California's vote on Prop 22
Two senior executives at Lyft, in charge of strategic initiatives and design, are leaving the ride-hailing firm, The Information has learned.
Facebook clarifies its rules and says it will allow premature victory declarations in individual states but not for the presidential election
Facebook Inc. has clarified its rules and said it won't flag President Trump or any other individual who declares victory for a candidate in battleground states before votes are counted.
PayPal reports Q3 revenue of $5.46B, up 25% YoY, as it adds 15.2M net new active accounts; Venmo's total processed payment volume rises 61% YoY to $44B
PayPal said it processed a record-setting $247 billion in total payment volume during the quarter. — PayPal on Monday delivered …
Facebook and Instagram add large pop-ups atop feeds telling users that no presidential election winner has been declared, after Trump prematurely claims victory
Facebook and Instagram are running notifications in their respective apps informing U.S. users that the winner …
DHS and the FBI are investigating a robocall and text campaign warning US voters to “stay safe and stay home”
Despite scattered reports … New York Times : Despite Fears of Violence, Election Day Proceeds Smoothly as Millions Line Up to Vote Kate Cox / Ars Technica : “Stay Home” robocalls to voters prompt FBI,...
Spotify begins rolling out support for streaming audio from its standalone Apple Watch app
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Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, and other tech stocks rally in pre-market trading with Nasdaq up 3.4% as election result narrows to swing states
On the back of sizable gains posted yesterday, tech stocks are once again rising sharply in pre-market trading today.
US Cyber Command and the NSA say they took actions against Iranian hackers in recent weeks to deter election interference, but did not specify actions taken
including very recent actions against Iran. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... @dnvolz : Confirming @nakashimae's reporting here, via a senior intelligence official with knowl...
FCC says T-Mobile will pay a $200M fine to settle claims Sprint was illegitimately drawing excess subsidies from the Lifeline phone program for low-income users
T-Mobile will pay a $200 million civil penalty to the U.S. Treasury to resolve an investigation into whether Sprint …
Intel acquires Israel-based Cnvrg.io, which operates a platform for data scientists to build and run ML models; Intel says Cnvrg.io will remain independent
Intel continues to snap up startups to build out its machine learning and AI operations. In the latest move, TechCrunch has learned …
Google to close its Audience Measurement program on Dec. 2, which let participants use the Screenwise Meter app to record their web browsing habits for rewards
Google has wrapped up its Audience Measurement program, one that operated in a similar way to how a ratings company like Nielsen tracks media consumption.
NASA says AST & Science's plan to build a broadband network via a constellation of satellites carries an unusually high risk of causing an orbital collision
and other spacefaring nations around the world—need to do a better job ensuring that low Earth orbit remains as debris-free as possible.” https://twitter.com/...
Q&A with Casey Newton on Spotify's need to articulate a content policy after the latest Rogan-Jones episode and its transition from infrastructure to publisher
I've been following Casey Newton's work for closely quite some time now, particularly over the past few years as he's zeroed … See also Mediagazer
Source: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok were each fined $1.2M by Turkey for failing to appoint a local representative as required by a new law
Firat Kozok / Bloomberg :
Internal Facebook survey shows only 51% believe Facebook was having a positive impact in the world, down 23% from May and down 5.5% from last year
BuzzFeed News :
Snap now lets creators display their subscriber counts, the first time Snapchat has given users any public-facing metric of their audience or followers
Ashley Carman / The Verge :
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde says the ECB is now seeking public comments on a potential digital euro
Kevin Reynolds / CoinDesk :
Sources: Indonesian online marketplace Bukalapak raises $100M from Microsoft and others at a $2.5B-$3B valuation; Microsoft says it has partnered with Bukalapak
Bloomberg :
Swedish startup inRiver, whose product information management software helps retailers sell items online, raises $32M to expand North American operations
Nona Tepper / Built In Chicago :
Semiconductor manufacturing has further shifted to Asia in recent years from US and EU, with many US chip companies contracting out to Asian producers like TSMC
Presumably Taiwan intervenes to keep the TWD weak for a reason (Korea has been less active in recent years, but it also has a history of hefty intervention) https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com...
PayPal CEO says that, by end of H1 2021 starting in US, users will be able to pay with cryptocurrency at 28M PayPal merchants without any new “incremental fees”
Looking to improve their AR and VR offerings, tech companies are hiring Hollywood's visual artists, who are tired of their industry's working conditions
R.T. Watson / Wall Street Journal :
Udacity raises $75M in debt funding as it says it is profitable following a pivot to enterprise services, with its education business bookings up 120% YoY in Q3
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Twitter says, in a new filing, that a board committee formed this spring recommended that current management structure remain in place with Jack Dorsey as CEO
Glassnode: Ethereum users paid $57.5M in transaction fees in October, down from September's record of $166.4M, amid a drop in the volume of DeFi transactions
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