WeWork is selling the social network Meetup to AlleyCorp and other private investors, sources say at a fraction of the $156M that WeWork paid for Meetup in 2017
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Sources: Amazon changed its search algorithm last year to boost items that were more profitable for it, overriding internal dissent from lawyers and engineers
Jeff Bezos opened his 2016 letter to Amazon shareholders like this: Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : WSJ: Amazon changed search results to boost profits despite internal dissent Victoria Song / Gizmodo : ...
8chan struggles to stay up after Cloudflare quit servicing it; 8chan appears to have switched domain registrars to Epik, now hobbled by one of its own vendors
"It's DNS. It's always DNS." Matt Binder / Mashable : Inside the fight to keep 8chan offline Oscar Gonzalez / CNET : 8chan owner says El Paso shooter didn't post manifesto Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :...
San Francisco Pride says Google can still participate in parade after ~100 Googlers petitioned it to drop Google as a sponsor over handling of LGBTQ+ issues
and successful April Glaser / Slate : The Wayfair Walkout Is a Different Kind of Tech Worker Protest Christine Fisher / Engadget : Google employees petition to ban the company from SF Pride Alyssa New...
Mozilla's free encrypted file sharing service Firefox Send is now available to all Firefox users and has its own Send Android app in beta
Free Encrypted File Transfer Service Now Available For All Firstpost : Mozilla's self-deleting online link sharing service Firefox Send is now live Thomas Claburn / The Register : This is the Send, en...
In European Parliament, Zuckerberg was barraged with questions on Facebook's power and conduct, but the format let him cherry-pick the ones he wanted to answer
WELCOME to Connected Rights … YouTube : Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Discusses Data Privacy With European Parliament President | … Rebecca Hill / The Register : Zuckerberg gets a night off: Much-hyped...
Sources: Donald Trump did not invite Jack Dorsey to his tech summit in NYC tomorrow despite his love for Twitter
but that doesn't mean he's walking away with a deal Aarti Shahani / NPR : Tech Leaders To Meet With President-Elect Trump Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac : Tim Cook & other tech leaders meet Trump today, report...
Twilio stock closes at $28.53, jumping more than 90% in first day of trading
but its CFO downplays it as just ‘gravy’ Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Twilio stock climbs more than 90 percent in opening day of IPO Renae Merle / Washington Post : The $200 million this CEO made today m...
117M LinkedIn user emails and passwords from 2012 hack offered for sale on dark web marketplace; LinkedIn is contacting affected users
LinkedIn.com was hacked in June 2012 and a copy … Brian Krebs / Sydney Morning Herald : LinkedIn breach affected more than 100 million users, site confirms MacNN : LinkedIn breach of 2012 found to be ...
Facebook releases Bot Engine to help developers build more complex, machine-learning enabled bots, a further development from last year's Wit.ai acquisition
Today we are releasing the first step of our vision … Selena Larson / The Daily Dot : Bots are about to invade Facebook, and they might make your life easier Nate Swanner / The Next Web : Dropbox file...