Facebook's refusal to pay a misguided media tax, pushed by Rupert Murdoch, is a defense of the open web and criticizing it for rejecting a link tax is bizarre
None of this should have been a surprise. Back in September we wrote about Facebook publicly saying that if Australia went forward …
UK Supreme Court rules that Uber drivers should be classified as workers not independent contractors, concluding an almost five-year legal battle
- The U.K.'s Supreme Court upheld a ruling that Uber's drivers should be classified as workers rather than independent contractors.
Sources: Apple is working on a magnetically attached battery pack for iPhone 12 that would wirelessly charge the handset
- Accessory has faced development issues related to software — Wireless charging unit may be popular with frequent users — Apple Inc. is working …
As news disappears from Facebook in Australia, while leaving plenty of conspiracy theories, many Australians are outraged but remain divided over what to do
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Google releases Android 12 developer preview, available for Pixel devices, with under-the-hood changes adding security, support for more media formats, and more
The big, consumer-facing changes will come later this year — Google is releasing a developer preview for the next version of Android …
Microsoft announces new standalone versions of Office: Office 2021, available for Windows and macOS later this year, and Office LTSC for commercial customers
Microsoft Office LTSC is also arriving for businesses — Microsoft is announcing two new versions of Office today …
Nvidia announces dedicated crypto mining GPUs and says RTX 3060 GPU will detect the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm and limit the hash rate by 50%
NVIDIA has finally conceded to the overwhelming mining demand facing the GPU market right now and launched a lineup …
Ahead of proposed media law, Facebook bans Australians from sharing or viewing news and all users from sharing and viewing news on Australian news Pages
Microsoft completes its probe into its SolarWinds-related breach, finds hackers stole some source code but no evidence that they abused its internal systems
Microsoft says it has completed its investigation into its SolarWinds-related breach. — Microsoft's security team said today …
Bitcoin's market capitalization passes $1T as its price surges above $53K
Bitcoin's market capitalization has crossed the $1 trillion milestone for the first time after over a decade's development as it gains increasing mainstream attention. — Bitcoin's price set new reco...
WhatsApp says it will offer users the ability to review its new privacy policy through a banner inside its app, ahead of the update's May 15 launch
The company is trying to set the record straight on private messages and what's changing — WhatsApp has a new plan to explain …
Sources: Huawei notifies suppliers that it plans to order components for 70M to 80M smartphones this year, down over 60% from the 189M it shipped last year
China's largest handset maker suffers from US sanctions Biden appears to back — TOKYO — Huawei Technologies has notified …
Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says he will hold talks with Zuckerberg to “see if there's a pathway forward”, but says news legislation will go ahead
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Australian authorities in public health, weather, and other areas say Facebook has removed posts from their feeds following Facebook's news ban
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey are scheduled to testify at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on platform misinformation on March 25
The hostility toward Big Tech that had taken hold in Washington has intensified after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol
An early analysis of Birdwatch, Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking pilot with about 1,000 users, shows partisan rhetoric and a lack of source citations
A Poynter analysis found that less than half of Birdwatch users include sources and many fact-checking notes contain partisan rhetoric.
Thursday's House Committee hearing focused very little on social media's role in the GameStop squeeze and instead focused on Robinhood's influence
Can't Stop, Won't Stop, GameStop!!!! — Stonks for the long run. Tim Alper / Cryptonews : BitMEX Founder Arthur Hayes Returns to Tout The Crypto Game Steve Muchoki / coinspeaker.com : Congress Brands...
EU regulators start the process of approving data-sharing arrangements with the UK, adopting a pair of “adequacy decisions” endorsing UK privacy protections
- EU commission announcement paves way for ‘adequacy decisions’ — EU readies measures in case of any ‘problematic development’
Australia's proposal for media compensation, which covers raw link sharing, is presented as a competition case when it's actually a tech tax and media subsidy
House Republicans introduce the CONNECT Act, which aims to expand broadband connectivity and competition, but would limit government-run municipal networks
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Google adds the Apple TV app to its newest Chromecast device with Google TV and has made it available on Sony and TCL smart TVs that have Google TV
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Torii, which helps businesses automate the management of third-party SaaS tools, raises $10M Series A led by Wing Venture Capital
Today, that software is offered as a cloud service should be pretty much considered a given. Certainly any modern tooling is going to be SaaS …
Anthony Levandowski closed his AI-focused church, Way of The Future, in 2020 and donated the church's ~$175K funds to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
Sweden-based podcast host and ad network Acast says it is acquiring RadioPublic; RadioPublic's podcast app will remain live and its team will stay in the US
Ashley Carman / The Verge :
Sources: LinkedIn is developing a new service called Marketplaces to let its 740M users find and book freelancers, with plans to launch as soon as September
LinkedIn is developing a new service called Marketplaces to let its 740 million users find and book freelancers … Tweets: @amir Tweets: Amir Efrati / @amir : Exclusive: Microsoft developing digital wa...
App Annie: Clubhouse grew from over 3.5M global downloads on February 1, 2021, to reach 8.1M by February 16, 2021
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Roku beats with Q4 revenue of $650M vs $615M expected, up 58% YoY, net profit of $65.2M vs an expected loss; 14.3M active accounts were added for FY2020
(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter) … (408) 556-9040 Roku : Roku Q4 — Roku had both a strong Q4 and 2020. For both periods we achieved record revenue … Sean Burch / The Wrap : Ro...
The Internet Association, whose members include Facebook and Google, joins a lawsuit from the US Chamber of Commerce challenging Maryland's digital services tax
and stop other local governments from following its lead. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : (Mostly) unsnarky question: Is it a sound strategy for every company confronte...
Dropbox beats Q4 expectations with revenue of $504.1M, up 14% YoY, vs estimates of $498M, says it has 15.48M paying users, up from 14.31M YoY
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
State-level data privacy laws, proposed in Virginia, Washington, and others, may cause headaches for companies like online stores operating in multiple states
Data protection bills in Washington and Virginia come as the pandemic pushes life further online
Google will restructure its Responsible AI teams to centralize them under a single Black executive, Marian Croak, in wake of Timnit Gebru's departure
Bloomberg :
A look at how Clubhouse is being received in Japan, India, Nigeria, and Hong Kong, regions where Clubhouse usage has spiked
Rest of World : Tweets: @wongmjane , @jangles , @lmatsakis , @restofworld , @anupkaphle , @quadrisultan3 , and @restofworld Tweets: Jane Manchun Wong / @wongmjane : Clubhouse helps me discover the co...
Microsoft releases version 1.0 of Dapr, one of its open-source projects to simplify app development for Kubernetes
Tim Anderson / The Register :
Court filing says a Facebook manager warned that the company reported revenues it “should have never made” by overstating how many users advertisers could reach
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times :
Sources: Apple is lobbying to participate in a new scheme to boost India's computer exports, as part of plans to bring iPad manufacturing to the country
Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters :
Facebook adds multi-user support and app sharing to Oculus Quest, so that purchases from one account can be shared with the rest of the users on the same device
João Carrasqueira / Neowin :
Docs: Oracle has been marketing its data analytics tools to Chinese police, touting its ability to mine DNA, vehicle records, and facial recognition databases
Facebook says it will expand its program to fight climate lies to other regions, will debunk climate change myths, adds labels to climate change posts in the UK
Ben Geman / Axios :
Census, which lets businesses sync their customer data with business tools like Salesforce and Marketo, raises $16M Series A led by Sequoia Capital
Webull, the Chinese-owned brokerage that runs one of the fastest-growing retail trading platforms in the US, raises $150M, sources say at a $1B+ valuation
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