Sources: Stripe will no longer process payments for Trump's campaign website and fundraising efforts, after violations of policies against encouraging violence
Financial-technology company's move follows last week's riot at the Capitol — Stripe Inc. will no longer process payments …
Parler CEO confirms that Amazon will suspend Parler's AWS account on Jan. 10 at 11:59PM PST, says Parler may be unavailable on the internet for up to a week
from apps down to infrastructure — the higher the bar for banning content/users. Amazon booting Parler off AWS > Apple/Google banning Parler from app stores > Twitter banning Trump Would be more worri...
Apple has suspended Parler from the App Store, saying Parler “has not taken adequate measures” to address threats to people's safety on its platform
similar to how a TestFlight app expires after 90 days. I imagine they revoke certificates frequently in markets where piracy is rampant. They revoked Facebook's internal cert that time Mark Gurman / @...
Parler CEO says the company has been dropped by “every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers”, which could end the business
Parler CEO Mark Matze said today that his company have been dropped by virtually all of their business alliances after Amazon …
A list of platforms that banned or limited Trump-affiliated accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Apple, Snapchat, TikTok, Shopify, Pinterest, and more
The first inkling I had that something was very wrong … Cameron Peters / Vox : Every online platform that has cracked down on Trump Will Chamberlain / New York Post : Rein in abusive Big Tech republic...
Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, as a source says the president will spend the final days of his term railing against Big Tech
I heard the news last week that Twitter had permanently banned Trump and thought “oh my.” New York Post : Big Tech's assault on Parler proves it's gone full cartel Tweets: Brian Bergstein / @brianberg...
A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon took the service offline
In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump's supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue …
Twitter stock fell 7%+ in first trading since permanently banning Trump; one analyst says Twitter could be inviting regulation by making editorial decisions
- Platform confirmed move in blog post after Capitol violence — Ban shows Twitter is making editorial decisions, says analyst
A list of things pundits are getting wrong about “precedent-setting” events like deplatforming Trump, QAnon purge, Parler ban, and no #1984 hashtag on Twitter
not by a long shot. I would suggest that that occurred two years ago, when Twitter kicked off more than a million alleged ISIS accounts with zero transparency and the “freeze peach” galaxy brains didn...
LG says Google Stadia and Nvidia's GeForce Now are coming to its latest TVs in the second half of 2021
Game streaming comes natively to the TV screen — LG has announced that it's bringing two of the leading cloud gaming services, Google Stadia and Nvidia's GeForce Now, to its newest TVs later this ye...
Obit of @realDonaldTrump, infamously used to fire officials, spread baseless conspiracies, and, during Trump's presidency, sometimes post 100+ tweets in a day
Associated Press :
After Amazon staff called on the company to stop providing services to Parler, Amazon told Parler it would no longer provide it with cloud services
don't let the virtual format fool you Michael Grothaus / Fast Company : Parler got destroyed this weekend: a timeline James Bourne / Cloud Computing News : AWS and Twilio cut ties with Parler after US...
After years of dodging the issue, Twitter and others finally seem to acknowledge that social media is not just a communication space but a conflict space
Peter W. Singer / Defense One :
As CES kicks off, a look at how the mammoth trade show pivoted to a virtual event this year with ~1,900 exhibitors participating, far shy of 2020's 4,500
This week's show will be held online—and exhibitors and attendees aren't quite sure what to expect — CES, the world's largest tech show, is quite something to behold.
After Parler's ban, a social app called Parlor, which connects users following similar topics, got at least as high as #2 in the Play Store and iOS App Store
Rachel Kraus / Mashable :
HP unveils an HP Elite Folio 2-in-1 tablet with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx 5G chipset, a $999 HP Envy 14 laptop with 11th-gen Intel chips, HP Elite earbuds, more
- At CES 2021, HP launched some new laptops, including the much-anticipated HP Envy 14. — It also launched a new entry …
Intercontinental Exchange says its crypto venture Bakkt will go public via a SPAC merger at a $2.1B valuation
ICE's Bakkt crypto venture plans to roll out an app for trading and making payments with digital assets — Intercontinental Exchange Inc., or ICE, will take its cryptocurrency venture public …
Baidu announces it has formed a strategic partnership with Chinese automaker Geely to create a standalone electric vehicle company
- Chinese internet giant Baidu has formed a strategic partnership with automaker Geely to create a standalone electric vehicle company.
On January 6, Parler became the number one app on Apple's App Store in the US; Gab claimed its service was seeing 10,000+ new users sign up every hour
Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt, which helps people control their data, has raised ~$20M to date and is piloting projects with UK's National Health Service and others
Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data. He has technology and a start-up pursuing that goal. Tweets: @gilestremlett , @tprstly , @snazzyazzy , @donelson52 , @mikemongo ...
Amazon, Walmart, and others are using AI to decide whether it makes economic sense to skip returns and let customers keep the products, which is often cheaper
In some cases, it's cheaper for the retailers to refund the purchase price and let customers keep or donate the products
Lenovo unveils ThinkReality A3 Smart Glasses with up to five virtual 1080p displays and an 8MP camera and two fish-eye cameras for room-scale tracking
The Most Versatile Smart Glasses Ever Designed for the Enterprise Firstpost Tech : CES 2021: Lenovo launches ThinkReality A3 AR glasses with 1080p displays that let you work on multiple screens simult...
Report: Hyundai and Apple plan to sign a partnership deal on autonomous electric cars by March and start production in the US as early as 2024
Turkey starts an antitrust investigation into Facebook and WhatsApp over new data sharing terms that have sparked privacy concerns
Bloomberg :
Facebook says it's freezing all contributions from its PAC through at least Q1 as it reviews its political spending, joining other companies including Microsoft
Facebook is halting political spending for at least the first quarter of 2021 following last week's deadly attack on the Capitol.
[Thread] A look back at the state of tech and mobile industries during the first iPhone keynote 14 years ago, the importance of which took years to sink in
Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : Tweets: @stevesi , @cblatts , @danrose999 , @richminer , @stevesi , @ednutting , @raztweets , @ravithinkz , @kushaanshah , @grady_booch , @gassee , @ziiyuuaan , @tfadell ...
Italian grocery delivery service Cortilia raises €34M Series C led by Red Circle Investments
Airbnb, often forgotten in the Section 230 debate, has relied on the law to avoid responsibility for some listings and is lobbying to reshape it
Home-rental site is caught up in political push to change internet shield even as its efforts to use law haven't always worked
Facebook says it has shut down a slew of accounts run by Ugandan government officials accused of seeking to manipulate public debate ahead of elections
France 24 : Tweets: @sfrantzman , @jilliancyork , @markc_anderson , @anthonyloveace , and @jude_mugabi Tweets: Seth Frantzman / @sfrantzman : Museveni's online account is still active but many govern...
China's most popular workout app Keep raises $360M Series F led by SoftBank's Vision Fund with Tencent among investors, as sources value it at ~$2B post funding
Bloomberg :
Sources: China will push tech giants, including Ant Group, Tencent, and JD.com, to share consumer credit data in a bid to prevent excess borrowing and fraud
Julie Zhu / Reuters :
Chinese government data shows domestic smartphone shipments dropped to 296M in 2020, down 20.4% from 372M in 2019
[Thread] Former exec describes Amazon's transition from Sun to HP/Linux servers in early 2000s, that risked bankrupting the company and laid foundations for AWS
Dan Rose / @danrose999 : Tweets: @raifshareef_ , @corry_wang , @det_conan_kudo , @jan_eeckhout , and @ericdungan Tweets: Raif Shareef / @raifshareef_ : “The best companies look at every challenge as ...
GoFundMe says it is returning funds to the donors of campaigns that were meant to cover the travel costs of Trump supporters to the January 6 rally in DC
Venessa Wong / BuzzFeed News :
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