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Facebook Ends Australia News Blackout After Striking Deal With Local News Publishers

Feb 26, 2021 · 2:25am PST
Facebook lifted the week-old news ban a week after Australia made changes to a law that allowed the social network more time to negotiate with news outlets for content deals.
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ByteDance OKs $92 Million Settlement of Lawsuit Claiming It Violated Teen Users’ Privacy

Feb 26, 2021 · 2:05am PST
A judge has yet to sign off on the agreement, which would close the class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of minors as young as 8 years old.
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Former Kuaishou Executive Arrested for Alleged Corruption

Feb 25, 2021 · 8:10pm PST
The news comes after the Chinese video app's hugely successful Hong Kong IPO earlier this month.
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Startup Otter.ai Raises $50 Million, Hires Chief Marketing Officer

Feb 25, 2021 · 4:53pm PST
With work meetings now happening online, Otter.ai has emerged as a popular way for people to document important details.
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VC Firm Bessemer Hires Amazon Veteran Jeff Blackburn

Feb 25, 2021 · 3:17pm PST
Blackburn first joined Amazon in 1998.
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Salesforce Revenue Grows 20%, Benioff Says Online Sales Paying Off

Feb 25, 2021 · 3:00pm PST
Revenue growth this quarter was the same as last quarter, illustrating why the subscription sales model has become popular with investors.
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DoorDash Reports Strong Growth But Cash Burn in Q4

Feb 25, 2021 · 2:13pm PST
The results showed that DoorDash's marketing costs continued to tick up, raising questions about how the company will fare once the pandemic ends.
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U.S. Travel Helps Airbnb Beats Expectations in First Quarterly Earnings

Feb 25, 2021 · 2:01pm PST
The company's full-year results demonstrate how the year didn't turn as dire for its business as Airbnb feared during the early days of the pandemic.
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AT&T Confirms Sale of 30% of DirecTV to TPG

Feb 25, 2021 · 1:19pm PST
The deal is the first step toward AT&T disentangling itself from the disastrous DirecTV purchase, made in 2015.
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House Lawmakers Renew Antitrust Pressure on Big Tech

Feb 25, 2021 · 12:20pm PST
Bipartisan agreement could overcome Congressional gridlock.
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Stripe Hires Former Google PR Exec as Comms Chief

Feb 25, 2021 · 9:42am PST
Peter Barron started his career on British news channels ITV and BBC.
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Cisco Taps Former AWS Exec to Lead Webex Sales

Feb 25, 2021 · 7:33am PST
Cisco's collaboration leadership has been in flux for the past couple of years, but a recent sales hire could bring stability.
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Twitter Aims to Double Revenue by 2023

Feb 25, 2021 · 6:57am PST · 1 comment
“We agree we haven’t been innovative,” CEO Jack Dorsey said, adding that the company has been “working ourselves out of a significant deficit for years."
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Coinbase Files to Go Public

Feb 25, 2021 · 5:54am PST
Coinbase's filing revealed its revenue more than doubled to nearly $1.3 billion last year, and the company made a significant profit.
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Facebook Bans Myanmar Military Accounts After Coup

Feb 25, 2021 · 1:47am PST
The move comes as Facebook increasingly moderates content that could lead to violence after previously taking a more hands-off attitude.
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Hong Kong Tycoon Li Ka-Shing Plans to Launch SPAC

Feb 24, 2021 · 10:50pm PST
The SPAC boom is spreading to Asia, where the richest tycoons and influential dealmakers are launching blank-check companies for U.S. listings.
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ViacomCBS Debuts Paramount+

Feb 24, 2021 · 2:27pm PST
The question now is how the service will do in a very crowded market.
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Camera App Dispo Valued at $200 Million

Feb 24, 2021 · 11:15am PST · 1 comment
The startup co-founded by David Dobrik has raised $20 million in Series A funding
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Didi Chuxing Seeks Possible European Expansion

Feb 24, 2021 · 9:29am PST
The Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing is plotting an expansion in Europe in the first half of this year.
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Europe Sets Sights on Gig Worker Conditions

Feb 24, 2021 · 9:13am PST
Europe's main antitrust enforcer is making the labor conditions of gig workers a new target in its regulatory push against global tech companies.