Amazon warehouse workers to begin historic vote to unionize
On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board rejected Amazon’s attempt to delay a union vote set to begin on Monday, February 8. For many, the online giant’s bid was...
Harry Stebbings is leaving Stride, the VC firm he founded with Fred Destin
Harry Stebbings, the podcaster-turned-VC, is stepping down as a partner of Stride.VC, the London-based venture capital firm he co-founded with Fred Destin, formerly of Accel.
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The SAFE TECH Act offers Section 230 reform, but the law’s defenders warn of...
The first major Section 230 reform proposal of the Biden era is out. In a new bill, Senate Democrats Mark Warner (D-VA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)...
Amazon, Google pay the piper
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inneapolis police tapped Google to identify George Floyd protesters
olice in Minneapolis obtained a search warrant ordering Google to turn over sets of account data on vandals accused of sparking violence in the wake of the police killing of...
Big upgrade for new Samsung flagship smartphones in South Africa
The performance of the latest Galaxy flagship smartphones being sold in South Africa should no longer differ as much from their US counterparts from previous generations.
Samsung uses a dual-SoC...
Teraco gets R2.5 billion to build the biggest data centre in Africa
Teraco has secured R2.5 billion in financing for the construction of its new 38MW data centre in Ekurhuleni, South Africa.
The facility is called JB4 and will be the largest...
Facebook asks iPhone users to opt into activity tracking
Facebook has started showing certain users of its app on iPhone and iPad a notification which requests them to allow the company to track their activity across apps and...
Elon Musk tells his 44.8 million Twitter followers he’s stepping away from the platform...
Billionaire Elon Musk, whose tweets have impacted the stock market over the past week, announced Tuesday that he was taking a break from Twitter.
"Off Twitter for a while," Musk tweeted to...
Facebook is trying to pre-empt a big Apple update by asking users for permission...
Facebook is trying to outflank Apple in a privacy battle that's been raging for six months.
Facebook announced on Monday it would be sending a pop-up notification to users, asking...
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