Live events startup Hopin, valued at $7.75B in August 2021, is laying off 242 employees, 29% of its staff, after cutting 12% of its staff in February 2022
- Live events startup Hopin is laying off 242 staff, the equivalent of 29% of its workforce. — The startup said it had made the … Tweets: @johnwilson Tweets: John Wilson / @johnwilson : One would thi...
As the EU prepares its third landmark tech law in the past few years, the US has enacted only two narrow federal tech laws in the past 25 years
one for children's privacy and the other for ridding sites of sex-trafficking content —in the past 25 years.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Chris O'Brien / @obrien : EU policymakers, while not perfect, ...
Experts say Apple's and Google's policies against location data brokers are insufficient, as brokers shift to tactics like buying directly from app developers
There is an estimated $12 billion market of companies that buy and sell location data collected from your cellphone. Tweets: @johnwilson Tweets: John Wilson / @johnwilson : This is absurd. They expect...
Apple won the Epic battle but is too arrogant to see that it still has to make some major App Store changes to both appease the courts and please developers
I hadn't seen one part and will modify the post accordingly. https://twitter.com/... Jens-Fabian Goetzmann / @mrjefago : Here's another, more in-depth analysis why the Epic vs Apple injunction doesn't...
Apple's plan to find CSAM should have centered around scanning images on iCloud servers, not on users' devices, where there is a greater expectation of privacy
including a number of non-obvious but critical ones. It's also why hypos as a threat assessment tool will only get you so far. https://twitter.com/... Greg Howell / @g_howell : @matthew_d_green If @Ap...
Profile of Praveen Khandelwal, leader of a network of ~80M SMBs in India with deep ties to Modi, who evokes British colonial looting in his fight against Amazon
Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World : Tweets: @nilchristopher , @nilchristopher , @caitindia , @restofworld , and @johnwilson Tweets: Nilesh Christopher / @nilchristopher : Meet the Indian merchant wa...
WhatsApp is testing the ability to easily migrate chat history between iOS and Android devices
here's how it works Steve Vegvari / iPhone in Canada Blog : WhatsApp Testing Chat Migration Between iOS and Android Vanshika Malhotra / BGR India : WhatsApp might soon allow for easy chat transfer bet...
Apple's App Store brings in users because it is the only choice, not because it offers some kind of exceptional distribution and marketing to developers
Today, Apple's stance seems … Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1335: Tiktokers v Trump, Apple and ARM and the App Store, the mystery of Tether's growth … Stuart Dredge / Music Ally : More c...
TED talk details the targeted disinformation on Facebook ahead of Brexit and the dark money that likely funded it, as Zuckerberg keeps refusing to testify in EU
or, rather, sold—for the profit of Facebook. http://www.theguardian.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Anyway I'm sure that Facebook has been shaken to its very core now that someone has dared to c...